This one has been over a year in the making! I had the opportunity to sit down with Mark and Dan Gooday of Ashdown Engineering to chat at GearFest and we had an absolutely incredible chat! Ashdown is a UK based amplifier company that is most widely known for their…
I have seen a handful of folks with the title “AI Music Producer” or “Artificial Intelligence Musician” in their Instagram bios and I really do not get it. I’m not anti-AI necessarily, but it is bizarre to me that this is a title one might give themselves. Isn’t that just…
Kyle Bull, the High-Gain Chugmeister of YouTube fame, is on the podcast this week! We dive headfirst into his backstory, and he explains how he got into the content creation game in the first place. We also explore what he has planned for the future, how creators often find themselves…
On this episode I sit down in person in The Shred Shed with local legend Scott Rivera of Scotties Pizza Parlor. Scott is not only a Portland pizza mainstay, but a dude straight out of the music scene that I came up in during the early 2000s. We discuss dangerously…
This is a super rad, and super unique episode of the podcast! I met Gretchen Menn and Daniele Gottardo at the Breedlove booth at Gearfest. All of us being primarily electric guitar players hanging out at the booth of an acoustic guitar manufacturer prompted a question: What is it about…
Has a human body ever been implemented into guitar pedal design? Does Josh Scott have an enclosure made of bones in his collection? Can volleyball save your life? Should fuzz pedals be integrated into chorus effects? When you die, will you become a tree? The answers to all of this…
This is a super rad, and super unique episode of the podcast! I met Gretchen Menn and Daniele Gottardo at the Breedlove booth at Gearfest. All of us being primarily electric guitar players hanging out at the booth of an acoustic guitar manufacturer prompted a question: What is it about…
Summer School Electronics sent me this new fuzz to check out and while he didn’t explicitly say I couldn’t scream into it… He didn’t tell me I couldn’t. So I definitely decided that the best course of action was indeed to scream through the new Pep Rally fuzz! It’s a…
While I was at GearFest, I kept hearing some very respectable guitar players refer to somebody named “Trey”. I wasn’t aware who they meant, until I swung by the Martin Guitars booth and found out for myself. It turns out, Trey Hensley is who they meant and this dude absolutely…
Way back in 2016 when I was very new to podcasting and being a part of the guitar world, I attended my first Winter NAMM show. The very first thing I did was march up to the PRS Guitars booth to have an interview with none other than Paul Reed…
Way back in 2016 when I was very new to podcasting and being a part of the guitar world, I attended my first Winter NAMM show. The very first thing I did was march up to the PRS Guitars booth to have an interview with none other than Paul Reed…
I think you can probably figure out what this episode is about. It is all right there in the title. Ben Dudley is the director of Free Guitars For Kids which is a non-profit that, you guessed it, provides free guitars for kids! On this episode we discuss how that…
Not very many people get into international arms dealing, get busted by the Government, have a BIG Hollywood movie made about their life, and THEN start a successful effects pedal company. But that is exactly what happened to David Packouz of Singular Sound. You may have heard about David from…
Hello everyone! On this episode, I present to you one of the wildest stories I've ever heard on the podcast. You listeners know that there have been some crazy tales told on this show, but this one ranks up there with the scariest of them all. Eyal is a founding…
This is a pretty special episode of the podcast! Today I'm talking to my friend Daniel G. Harmann, who I actually collaborated on a song with! Daniel is a singer-songwriter out of Seattle, WA who came up in the punk scene and has honed his skills over the years in…
Gunstreet has brought a cult classic pickup back from the grave! The Roadhouse Kingston has been a personal favorite pickup of mine for many years now. The problem was... I felt kind of bad whenever I suggested it because it had not been available for years as well. (Outside of…
Is it possible to predict what guitars are going to explode in value? Is it possible to "time" the guitar gear market as you might the stock market? What pedals/amps/guitars are going to appreciate in value in the future? Matt Knight from the Guitar Nerds comes back on the podcast…
On this episode I am talking to Chris Wiseman of the band's Currents and Shadow of Intent. We dive in headfirst to talk about what it is like building a band in a very "Ship Of Theseus" type of way, and how that occurred with Currents. We also talk pretty…
If you are anything like me, you might be a former Warped Tour kid. We grew up with emo, "screamo", and very abrasive, emotionally charged forms of hardcore tinged punk rock influenced music. What most of us didn't realize at the time was that what we were experiencing was an…
Rob Nobile is one of the founding members of NYC hardcore stalwarts Incendiary. On this episode we talk about how powerful it can be to support yourself OUTSIDE of doing music, while still taking your musical project very seriously. It is a hidden superpower that a lot of musicians sometimes…
I love it when I get to have fellow podcasters on the show, but it is even better when that podcaster happens to be in a successful band! Casey has been a member of The Wonder Years for almost 20 years. In that time he's developed his skills as a…
From being told he was "too small to play guitar", to leading one of the most popular musical acts on the planet, Pete Anderson has seen almost every angle of the music industry. Pete and I go over his career from the moment he started guitar, to working in music…
The other night I was feeling kinda tired, but the buzzy version of tired. You know what I mean? I plugged in an old favorite compressor pedal, the Ground Control Serpens. And wow. This FUNK came out of me. I didn’t even know I had this kind of thing in…
As the 2023 NAMM Show was closing somebody handed me a few of these picks from Dave and said “Hope you like them!” I have no idea who this person was or what their affiliation with Dave is, but thank you whoever you are! Anyhow, if you are somebody who…