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Standing Out In A Crowded Market w/ Blair of Eastside Music Supply
Starting a guitar store is really hard. Keeping a guitar store alive is even harder. Having a SUCCESSFUL guitar store when you are in a hyper-competitive and saturated market like Nashville is an insane task. Blair White is one of the founders of Eastside Music Supply in Nashville, TN and his team has managed to…
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Hunting For ‘Bursts w/ John Shults of True Vintage Guitar
Imagine your are flying to Africa on a hot tip. And that hot tip is that there is The Holy Grail of vintage Gibsons waiting for you there. Thats right. You are flying to Africa to acquire a ‘Burst Les Paul for Joe Bonamassa. For John Shults, that is a part of his reality. John…
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What You Are Really Paying For w/ Matt Holl of Wren & Cuff
On this episode I sat down with my dude Matt Holl from Wren & Cuff to chat about… Well… Big Muffs of course! But we didn’t stop there! We dove deep down the rabbit hole of all things music. Including the somewhat controversial subject of paying for expertise. Whether that be a professional Mastering Engineer,…
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Before You Start A Guitar Store, Listen To This! w/ Jeremie & Geoff of Five Star Guitars
“We can’t be everything to all people, or we’ll end up being not anything to anybody.” – Jeremie Murfin If you EVER thought about starting a guitar or musical instrument store, you really need to listen to this episode. Geoff and Jeremie are two of the partners in an epic independent guitar store called Five…
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From 0 to World Tour in 3 Months w/ Nicole Papastavrou of Kallias
Nicole Papastavrou has been a part of the hardcore/death metal/progressive metal/heavy music community since she was a teenager. She is currently playing guitar and fronting the band Kallias. She has had a pretty wild musical journey that has taken her all across the globe, found her learning how to perform harsh vocals, and writing original…
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Does Country of Origin Matter? w/ Kyle Bull
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 in a content “crisis”, the…
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“Failure Was NOT An Option.” w/ Scott Rivera of Scottie’s Pizza Parlor
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 modified home ovens, how your…
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Death & Applesauce w/ Ryan of Fuzzrocious Pedals
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 and more on Ryans FOURTH…
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Why Do You Need An Acoustic Guitar? w/ Gretchen Menn and Daniele Gottardo
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 acoustic guitars that draws us…
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