Two Old Guys and a Middle-Age Guy Talk About Guitars and Gear and Stuff: Recent Episodes
Bill Evans
We have a fun conversation with Quint Randall, the musical serial entrepreneur behind GIG Magazine, and Drums On Demand, co-author (with the Rev.) of Making Money Making Music: The Musician's Guide To Cover Gigs and songwriter/bass player/singer for Joshua Creek. Plus, he's like a journalism professor and stuff. We even get a little time to talk about his '80s band, The Bings.
The boys and their social guest, Riley Wilson, listen to some ostensibly new music from acts including Ambrosia, Marshall Tucker, the Outlaws, and the Strawbs. This would be all well and good if the Strawbs did really bad hip hop and Marshall Tucker and the Outlaws had traded in their soaring guitars for farting synths and if Ambrosia wrote songs about... Well, you'll see.
Ronny knows a thing or 500 about NAMM having played at like very show for the past 20 years. We talk about why–and if–making the pilgrimage to Anaheim makes sense for the average musician.
The Two Old Guys (Scott and the Rev.) and the Middle-Age Guy (Tim) compare notes on the music that made them want to, well, you know, play music in the first place.