Art Media NW Podcast

Brandon is the real deal! I mean, sure... he's played with Metallica, auditioned for Marty Friedman in Japan, who subsequently mentored him, and he plays in a dozen or so bands currently at the pro level... but can he play guitar? Yes! But he's more than a guitar player, his songwriting and vocals are top notch and he is a fellow human inhabiting this planet with the rest of us. He hasn't lost sight of what's important in life as many do, he speaks of ethics, parenting and work ethic! I'm honored to call him a friend of many years and I'm excited to share this interview with fellow musicians and people who are trying to make it! His website and contact information are linked below. The Loyal Order and Metalmorphosis have music available on iTunes as well. http://brandoncookmusic.com/ https://www.facebook.com/brandoncookmusic https://www.facebook.com/AppetiteForDeception/ https://www.facebook.com/JukeBoxHeroes.ForeignerTribute/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/15472416835/ https://www.facebook.com/theloyalordermusic/ https://www.facebook.com/metalmorphosisband/ https://music.apple.com/us/album/volume-1/1398584385 https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/ready-for-dead/1447703337?fbclid=IwAR22RxpcCW2UvEQTDnr8HxR9G3aDtsn5nFBi3L2-88QerQB-6PuGvN5-UdA

A talented artist, teacher and thoughtful human, Corinne has studied architecture, helped build a tiny house, lived on a tug boat, and studied art in New York City. From fashion design to doodling she has made a significant amount of art and impact on the creative arts community! She does have original works available for purchase last I knew, and much of her work will soon be available in digital soon. Please enjoy this wide ranging conversation with the fierce hippie, Corinne Dermond! https://www.facebook.com/FierceHippie https://www.instagram.com/fiercehippie/ https://www.facebook.com/leaveitbetterthanyoufoundit/

Chris started PDS, Property Damage Solutions about 7 years ago with a great deal of experience in drafting, project management, restoration and a degree in architecture from Portland State University. He is a family man with a wife and 3 children. He is one of the most enthusiastic music listeners I have ever met, and the biggest Smashing Pumpkins fan that I know! Other than the squeaky chair we had a great conversation, and it's easy to see why there are so many parallels between arts and business! https://propertydamagesolutions.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-nestlerode-78b94a10/

Art Media NW is proud to present this interview with Ron and Maddie Hurst! Ron has played with Steppenwolf since 1984. He grew up playing drums in school concert bands and studied with legendary teacher Joe Sefcik who taught famous Jazz drummer Joe Morello. He has played with Chuck Berry, John Kay, Ort, and done performances with The Guess Who, Three Dog Night, the Doobie Brothers and the Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam Band. Maddie, has been a musician all her life, and currently sings with the band Audio Spectrum. She started in musical theater when she was 4 years old, she played with an all girl band named Why Joe-Y for a couple years. She has opened for Jack Russell's Great White and sung duets with Micky Dolenz from the Monkees. She plays multiple instruments including bass, drums guitar and keyboard. https://steppenwolf.com https://mirmusic.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Audio.Spectrum.PDX/ https://hashtagen.com/people/mlhurst6 https://www.pictosee.com/Audio._.Spectrum/

Supporting young talented songwriters and artists makes the world a better place! JoJo Scott is a 17 year old singer songwriter from Portland, Oregon. She grew up immersed in music, taking lessons through Five Star Guitars and with Austin Randle. She was part of Camp Amp through Hillsboro Parks and Recreation. She is one of the lucky few that clearly knows she wants to make music for her career! She has worked hard to bring her music to the world! Check out her brand new EP called Growing Up! Here are some links so you can follow and continue to support her music, she has some more singles coming out this year as well! https://www.facebook.com/JoJoScottMusic/ https://open.spotify.com/album/2KsFv4CUbuR8vbIoAUI2Y9 https://www.instagram.com/jojoscottmusic/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdLNcfzKlo

Part 2 of 2 Interview with musician/ teacher Michael Callaway. Michael is a graduate of Oregon State University, and teaches full time at Five Star Guitars in Beaverton, Oregon. https://www.facebook.com/michael.callaway.165 https://www.fivestarguitars.com/pages/lessons https://www.facebook.com/mrpinkpdx/ https://open.spotify.com/album/5BtkJL49hc6jhe3cpmIroT

Michael teaches guitar at Five Star Guitars. He has played in several original bands and is likely to do a solo album in the next few years! We had a great conversation that will be posted as a 2 part podcast! He collaborates regularly and graduated from Oregon State University with a music degree! He is a big part of the Five Star team and student concert series! You can say hi and find out what he's up to in the following places. https://www.facebook.com/michael.callaway.165 https://www.instagram.com/callawaymrpink/

Eric has been a musician for most of his life! In the early years he played trombone and eventually bass in school bands, transitioning to playing bass with the bands: Not Very Good and The Dolomites. The Dolomites were a touring band for a couple years, and wait until you hear the Detroit story! Eric currently plays dobro and guitar, and records with the band The Heritage with his wife Jenn Dashney. Eric has a gift for learning music, he gives some sage advice and tells some fantastic stories in this! The Heritage has won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and are an American Songwriting Academy ASA Awards nominee for their song Other Lives, which is also the title of Jenn's recently published book, coming very soon! Note** There is a bit of language for those who need to know that. You can find Eric in the following places: https://www.theheritage.co/ https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=the%20heritage https://www.facebook.com/mrlongbine https://www.instagram.com/mrlongbine/

Josh is well know in the Portland area for guitar and vocals in the band Love Sloth. lovesloth.com He is from a musical family, and started with the piano at age 5. He has played venues from coffee shops and dive bars to the main stage in front of 12,000 people at the Blues Festival! He is a musical force with the guitar, and can comfortably play across genres from rock to soul, blues and r&b and more! It is a joy to hear him play! He's working hard and playing often with multiple bands! http://lovesloth.com/ https://www.facebook.com/loveslothband/ https://www.instagram.com/loveslothpdx/

Parental Advisory for language, Geoff is a busy man in the music industry on many fronts! From speaking to congress in Washington D.C. to co-owning the award winning Five Star Guitars, to playing & recording with Metts, Ryan & Collins, and playing regularly with the band Ants In The Kitchen! He is an accomplished musician and front man, and his band Western Aerial has done some movie sound track work, and recorded multiple albums as well as recording a rock version of the Portland Trailblazers theme song that was played at NBA games for several years! He works with Oregon Music Hall of Fame to help fund music in the schools and more! Find out more by clicking the links below. https://www.fivestarguitars.com/ https://mettsryancollins.com/band-2/ https://j-fell.com/antsinthekitchen/?q=1 http://westernaerial.com/ https://www.omhof.org/ #geoffmetts, #fivestarguitars, #mettsryancollinsband, #westeraerial, #omhof, #oregonmusichalloffame, #artistshelpingartists, #music, #rock, #musician, #danyoakes, #artmedianw, #northwest

Part 2 of 2. Paul Brown, a photographer and musician is this week's featured artist for the podcast! He is well known in the region for live band photography, but has also done a great deal of wedding, senior photos and more! He is the bassist with two NW bands: Bad Ellie and Breaking the Chains, a Dokken tribute band. We had a very in depth conversation about photography and music. For those who like to "nerd out" about such things, this will be right up your alley. Here are a few places you can find Paul online, check out his bands, and hire him to photograph your band live! This interview has a part 2, coming soon. https://www.facebook.com/PaulBrownPhoto https://www.instagram.com/pbrownphotography/?hl=en http://www.badellieband.com/ https://www.facebook.com/breakingthechainstribute/ #PaulBrown, #pbrownphotography, #badellie, #breakingthechains, #pictures, #photography, #portlandmusician, #bandphotography, #artmedianw, #artmedianw.com, #danyoakes, #artistshelpingartists, #nwart, #artcommunity

Stuart is a musician with 3 albums out, but he recorded the first of them when he was 60 years young! Beyond being a musician, songwriter and visionary, he is a philosopher, world traveler and photographer! His documentary film 'A New End' won an international film festival in 2017 in Milan Italy! He is president and CEO of Nia, a 2,500 person international business, and mind, body, spirit fitness technique, transforming lives around the world! A fantastic storyteller with a rich life of experience that goes well beyond what we were able to cover in this interview! He is a good friend and a mentor, I greatly admire his honesty and willingness to answer hard questions, to dig deep and put everything out there! Music, videos, the documentary film and more can be found at. http://Stuart.fm https://www.facebook.com/StuartFM/ https://www.instagram.com/stuart.fm/ His label, and albums can also be found at http://niasounds.com/

Part 1 of 2. Paul Brown, a photographer and musician is this week's featured artist for the podcast! He is well known in the region for live band photography, but has also done a great deal of wedding, senior photos and more! He is the bassist with two NW bands: Bad Ellie and Breaking the Chains, a Dokken tribute band. We had a very in depth conversation about photography and music. For those who like to "nerd out" about such things, this will be right up your alley. Here are a few places you can find Paul online, check out his bands, and hire him to photograph your band live! This interview has a part 2, coming soon. https://www.facebook.com/PaulBrownPhoto https://www.instagram.com/pbrownphotography/?hl=en http://www.badellieband.com/ https://www.facebook.com/breakingthechainstribute/ #PaulBrown, #pbrownphotography, #badellie, #breakingthechains, #pictures, #photography, #portlandmusician, #bandphotography, #artmedianw, #artmedianw.com, #danyoakes, #artistshelpingartists, #nwart, #artcommunity

Gyuszi grew up in Communist Romania, Transylvania and has a rich history of learning languages, education and teaching. This book comes from his love for family, and trying to mend the strife that he has seen. There is a warmth and kindness to the feeling in the books which are beautifully illustrated by Liza Danila. Gyuszi is a renaissance man in the truest sense of the word. He is an artist, mathematician, woodworker, inventor, engineer, Karate instructor and 3rd degree black belt, a skier, a windsurfer, a photographer, a guitar player, a singer, a polyglot who speaks: Hungarian, English, Romanian, German, Russian and more... A gifted story teller, a father, grandfather, husband, friend, brother, boss, uncle, teacher and a patron of the arts. He also developed a gift for bird whistles or calls, while waiting in line for hours at a time for bread or potatoes when he was a child. you can hear some examples late in the podcast. He and his wife climbed both Mount Kilimanjaro and mount Fuji in the same year. Check out current book: The Siblings and Other Stories. https://www.amazon.com/Siblings-Other-Stories-Gyuszi-S%C3%BCt%C5%91/dp/1629015911 #author, #gyuszisuto, #creativearts, #artmedianw.com, #artistshelpingartists, #family, #stories, #tellyourstorybuildyourbrand, #marketing, #book, #dany, #danyoakes

Nate shares his story to date, playing music in bands, studying at Oregon State University, growing up in San Diego, California and more! Nate is also an integral part of the Five Star Guitars team and the podcast 'A Guitar Shop's Guide to...' The Mr. Pink EP Lip service is available for download right now! His guitar playing is very rhythmic and reminiscent of, but not limited to the Black Crowes and the Rolling Stones style of blues based rock and roll. https://www.facebook.com/mrpinkpdx/ https://www.facebook.com/nathan.mayers1 https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/mrpink1 https://twitter.com/MrPinkMusic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLpvzX9Zz_4b-3zHLvaWDJw #Artmedianw, #Natemayers, #Nathanmayers, #Mr.Pink, #guitarist, #artist, #music, #musician, #northwestmusic, #artistshelpingartists, #Lovesloth, #independentmusic, #indy, #artistcommunity, #rock, #creativearts, #marketing, #danyoakes, #artmedianorthwest, #artmedianw.com, #portlandbands, #band, #marketing

Thom Moot has a brand new album in the spring of 2019 entitled Moot Points! He is a gifted musician, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist with diverse and eclectic roots! From 1960s psychedelic sounds and elements of world music to modern rock sounds. I believe Thom is just getting started in a way, and I'm glad to have been able to interview him on his first full album! Here are some of the places you can check out his music, buy his album and support his work! Enjoy! You may notice that the audio quality is different from other podcasts in this series. This is the first remote podcast I've been able to record. Thom was in Las Vegas and I was in the Portland area while this was recorded over skype. Thom has a cool voice and a rich sense of musicality rhythm and hooks in his music! https://thommoot.bandcamp.com/ https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/thommootmusic https://open.spotify.com/album/4tzHsGbciPCE0CxAtjyqby https://www.discogs.com/Thom-Moot-Moot-Points/release/13536800 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/moot-points/1458209155 https://soundcloud.com/thommoot https://www.facebook.com/ThomMoot/ #thommoot, #indyartist, #singersongwriter, #musician, #album, #mootpoints, #artmedianw, #danyoakes, #music, #tellyourstorybuildyourbrand, #artistshelpingartists,

Other Lives is Jenn's new novel coming out in September 2019! She is an accomplished musician, a wife, a mother and a writer and a recruiter. Jenn is a creative person through and through! Her process from the genesis of the book to publishing is fascinating! While her novel fits into the YA, young adult, genre; She had a deep understanding that most readers of YA are adults. The Heritage, nominated for the ASA (American Songwriting Awards) is Jenn's current band. Their song Other Lives won grand prize in the John Lennon songwriting contest, giving added another layer of senses to the story.They are a top notch Americana group with deep roots in a variety of styles! Her parents, both songwriters, helped her find her voice and creativity at a very young age. Enjoy! https://www.jenndashney.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jenndashneyofficial/?hl=en https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=jenndashneyofficial https://www.theheritage.co/ #jenndashney, #otherlives, #author, #youngadultbook, #Music, #Musician, #Artistshelpingartists, #writer, #creative, #artmedianw, #danyoakes, #songwriter, #singer, #vocalist, #magic

Al has a long history as a musician! From learning Elvis songs and surf music in the 60s to co-founding Valley Arts with his partner Mike McGuire to working with Gibson guitars west of the Mississippi, to running a Music store in Nashville and now playing guitar with the Sun City Players. He has a tremendous story, and understanding of the music business over the years in addition to being a vintage guitar expert, in my opinion! I am so grateful to have been able to spend some time with Al and to be able to share his story here! Guitars#SunCityPlayers, #ValleyArtsGuitars, #Gibsonguitars, #Music, #Musician, #AlCarness, #danyoakes, #NW artistshelpingartists, #ArtMediaNW, #danyoakes

...#"being the cultivator of culture to your group of friends is the best way to support any artist." -#Trinh Youngman 2019. Trinh is a prolific songwriter, a classical guitarist finishing up his Masters Degree in music at Portland State University. #Weary Bones and Witchcraft is the third studio album for #The Jack Maybe Project. Enjoy this glimpse into a real #musician's life, #writing, #recording, #learning, #sharing , #marketing and more! Hosted by #Dany Oakes #Art Media NW

Kamina is "always an artist" and, in my opinion, a treasure to the art world! She is a cancer survivor, nanny, and multifaceted artist including photography, fantasy art, watercolor, and crochet patterns to name a few! Find links in the show notes to learn more and support Kamina's art! Thank you for listening! #Kaminakapow.com, #Kamina, #kapow, #Art, #Photography, #Fantasy Art, #Watercolor, # Crochet, #Cancer Survivor, #Crochet, #Music, #Artist, #Dany # Oakes

The Next Rock Voices Portland show is almost here! May 5th is coming soon, so get your tickets to hear the "Sounds of joy" as one review called it. Mark Barstow has been a musician for most of his life. He is now leading the Rock voices Portland Choir. Mark is a cancer survivor as well, his gives us a glimpse of some of the challenges he has faced as an artist, and as a person, a father, a community leader and so much more! The Rock voices choir is such a cool community of people who love to sing with a live rock band! You will get chills hearing people sing some of your favorite, feel good songs from across the decades! Follow their journey, even join the choir for the next concert! It is a perfect example of the transforming, healing power of music!

Enjoy this wide ranging conversation with Chad Youngman! Chad is a top notch Northwest, Portland area, musician conversant on the bass, drums, guitar and ukulele! He is a recording engineer, and producer with a studio, multiple bands including the Jack Maybe Project who just released their third studio album! And he's a hell of a nice guy to boot! I would like to dedicate this Podcast to the memory of the late Drew Norman, an incredibly talented musician, singer and songwriter! Chad played in several bands with Drew before ALS aggressively took him onward. I was fortunate to hear him play a few times and have some conversations with him. He is missed, but his music lives on with the bands: The Cow Trippers and Professor Gall.

Great businesses are built to fill a need. The is the story, in brief, of Art Media NW a new art, multimedia and marketing organization as of 2019. Tell your story, build your brand. Dany talks about his story, growing up, music, art, photography, video and the vision for Art Media NW from the beginning. Thanks for listening. Most episodes will be in interview form with a featured guest. Episode 2 is with Chad Youngman. Enjoy! Constructive feedback is welcome. dany@artmedianw.com