• Rewind Episode | Sean Carrillo on Being Beck's Step Dad

  • Jul 26 2024
  • Length: 32 mins
  • Podcast

Rewind Episode | Sean Carrillo on Being Beck's Step Dad

  • Summary

  • Still riding the high of seeing Beck perform with a live orchestra (and getting the rare chance to say hello to him post-show), Adam chose to resurface our 2021 interview with Beck's step-dad, the multi-talented Sean Carrillo, for this week's Rewind episode. Sean's story of marrying into a family with two kids who were only 10 and 12 years his junior, is a wonderfully unique tale of a blended family of artists which, at times, felt more like a group of peers hanging around, inspiring each other.

    At 60 years old, Sean Carrillo's career has taken him from the performing arts to commercial and film production, directing, and editorial, to curating live events... and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Sean has been a stepfather for 40 years, and his family dynamic is far from typical. His wife Bibbe Hansen is a performance artist and actress, a protégé of Andy Warhol when she was young. Bibbe’s late father is Al Hansen, the renowned Fluxus artist. And his stepchildren are artist Channing Hansen, and musician Beck—a longtime favorite of Adam’s.

    Sean shares about growing up in Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s, meeting Bibbe while a member of the performance art group ASCO, and marrying her in the early 1980s when Beck and Channing were 12 and 10 years old, respectively. In a particularly unique step-parenting situation, Sean found that hanging with Bibbe and the boys, along with Rain Whittaker, a family friend who they took under their wing, felt more like hanging out with a group of peers than a traditional parents/kids dynamic. Topics include:

    • The idea of marrying someone with kids close to you in age
    • Beck and Channing’s biological father David Campbell
    • Los Angeles’ Troy Cafe, owned by Sean and Bibbe
    • Did being a stepfather change when Beck and Channing began seeing commercial success?
    • Beck and Channing as fathers
    • And more

    LINKS:
    Sean Carrillo
    Bibbe Hansen
    Beck
    Channing Hansen
    Beck and Al Hansen: Playing With Matches
    Troy Cafe
    Red Vault Audio
    Caspar Babypants
    Spencer Albee

    #moderndadhood #fatherhood #parenthood #parenting #parentingpodcast #dadding #dadpodcast

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