A podcast dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of vintage and boutique guitars and amps with builders, players, dealers and more. Hosted by Doug Myer from Mountain cat guitars.
 Welcome to the new season of the MCG podcast. WE shot this one in our new podcast studio in the "Jam Room" In Suffern New York, We had a great time with Rob discussing pickups, and particularly PAFs, and the world of pickups in general!!! Hope you enjoy!!
WE had a great time as always shooting this podcast at The Guitar Shop NYC in Brooklyn with our usual cast of fun guitar buddies!!! WE checked out some really cool new guitar projects and just had our usual guitar chat!!!!!
WE had a great time catching up with our old friend Eric Bradley. Eric is an institution in the NYC guitar world as one of the city's best vintage amp techs, He learned his craft Under the legendary Harry Kolby, and worked in some of New Yorks best vintage Guitar shops. As always we were joined by Josh Grove from Protocaster Guitars, and James Carbonetti from Carbonetti Guitars!!!
We had a great time at Retrofret Guitars in Brooklyn with Peter Kohman. Peter is one of the great scholars of vintage instruments and 60's rock and roll!!!! We had a great talk covering tons of topics!!! We were also joined by our usual cast of James Carbonetti from The Guitar Shop NYC and Carbonetti Guitars, and Josh Grove from Protocaster Guitars
this podcast was supposed to be a conversation with our good friend, NYC Guitar playing and Guitar shop legend Chris Kush, also known as Chris Such, and even Chris Mojo due to his ownership of the legendary Mojo Guitars in the city East Village!!! Due to the train problems in NYC, Chris could not get out to Brooklyn in time, but we will have him as a guest next time, instead we took the opportunity to catch up with James Carbonetti from Carbonetti Guitars and The Guitar Shop NYC, and Josh Grove from Protocaster Guitars.
Our first podcast since the virus, we wanted to catch up with all the folks at The Guitar Shop NYC, Jimmy Carbonetti, Eric Coco, And Josh from Protocaster came by with a bunch of things He has ben working on. Great to be back, hope to be getting back on a regular schedule!!!!
This is the second half of our talk with Shira Goldberg from Retrofret Guitars, we are joined by Nitebob, Mas Hino, and Josh from Protocaster Guitars for a lively discussion!!!
We sat down with Adam Grimm for a casual talk, We have had Adam on an earlier podcast, so we had lots if friends come and join the fun!!!!!
After s short break we are back with a fun, informal podcast shot at The Guitar Shop NYC, we caught up with Josh from Protocaster Guitars, James Carbonetti from Carbonetti Guitars, reviewed some new products we are going to be carrying, and had Chris "Mojo"Kush drop in!!
We were really psyched to sit down for a chat with NYC guitar repair and building legend Mas Hino!!!! Mas had some amazing insights into the guitar business, having worked at Rudys on 48th Street in Manhattan, the famous guitar row during its heyday!!!!
We are really psyched to have been able to sit down and talk with Lance Keltner!!! Lance has been a friend for many years and we had a great time talking about his past as well as his current line of boutique amps, Smart Belle Amps!!!!!
We met up with our old friend, classical guitar builder Matt Rubendall, at The Guitar shop NYC in Brooklyn to talk about his amazing handmade classical guitars and his handmade kitchen knives, Ruby Knives!!!!!
WE did this podcast at our new Satellite location in Sunset Park Brooklyn with our good friends who are the guys behind this amazing space!!!! We are really excited to be partnering up with them to bring boutique guitars and amps to NYC!!!!
The second half of our talk with Adam, We got further into his line of amps and the history and thinking behind them, and some fun, amusing, and very informative stuff!!!!!!
We sat down with Adam Grimm, the man behind Satellite Amps and had a great conversation about his amazing amps and pedals,
we sat down for a chat with Eric Cocco from La Bella strings, we learned so much about his families history and all the amazing things going on currently at La Bella!!!!
Part two of our chat with James Carbonetti, we had a great time catching up and seeing all the great stuff "Cobra" is working on
this is part two of our lively talk with Josh Grove from Protocaster Guitars. We had a lot of fun with Josh, we do quite a bit of work with Josh so there was plenty to talk about, and Josh is a really pleasant, and funny guy so we had a lot of laughs along the way!!!!
Part one of our talk with Josh Grove. We do lots of stuff with Josh so we had a lot of ground to cover, and we had a lot of laughs along the way!!!!!
Part two of our talk with Nitebob, we got into some really cool stuff in the second half, like Bobs various stints with Aerosmith and his close association with Walter Becker and Steely Dan!!!
I sat down for an amazing talk with Nitebob, Bob has been in the music business doing so many different and interesting things for many years. We wanted to focus on his work relating to guitars but of course we covered more ground than just that!!!!!
We had a really great talk with Alex about his shop, vintage acoustic guitars, how he got started in the business and a whole range of topics.
Jamie Simpson from Booya Amp Services stopped by "The Lounge" for a really nice chat about his work repairing amps and all sorts of other musical gear, his custom builds, music, and lots of other topics!!!
We had a great time on our first podcast talking with Jeff Kadlic about guitar building, music, and all sorts of guitar related topics!!!!