Podcasts about Musical Instrument Museum

The MusicaNova Orchestra presents its "Laughing with Prokofiev, Stravinsky & Haydn" concert May 18th at the Musical Instrument Museum....

As we face growing political tensions in the U.S. and unprecedented government interference in arts and culture programming, sustaining our commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility (DEIBA) is more critical than ever. Recent executive actions have limited resources for our industry and further silenced historically excluded voices in our field. As these challenges mount, we must find new ways to advocate, collaborate, and ensure our work remains inclusive. This episode revisits a powerful conversation with Dr. Evelyn Carter from June 2023 about what it takes to uphold DEIBA commitments when the going gets tough. Dr. Carter shares heartening advice and actionable strategies for arts and cultural administrators to meet this moment with purpose and resilience. --- SEGMENTS: CI to Eye Interview (3:00) - Dan sits down with social psychologist Dr. Evelyn Carter to discuss the unique DEIBA challenges and opportunities we face in the arts and entertainment industry. Dr. Carter shares expert tips for living our values, creating welcoming environments, and addressing implicit bias in the workplace and beyond. CI-lebrity Sightings (54:10) - Dan recaps his favorite stories of CI clients in the news. This month's newsmakers include Detroit Symphony Orchestra, NYU Skirball, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Musical Instrument Museum, Los Angles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Pittsburgh Symphony. --- LINKS: NPR | 'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency CBS News | How Trump is reshaping the Kennedy Center, moving away from "woke culture" CI to Eye | Sustaining DEIBA Commitments WHYY | From a childhood dream to leading orchestras: The power of music education New York Times | 'How Did I Get Here?' 7 Days in the Life of a Busy Arts Programmer USA Today | 10 best music museums in the US that will rock your world Symphony | 2025 Classical Grammy Award Winners

The Neighborhood News Welcome to Boulder Mountain, a charming neighborhood nestled in North Phoenix AZ. Located just south of the Loop 101 and situated between the 51 and the 17 freeways, Boulder Mountain offers convenient urban accessibility. Discover the fascinating Musical Instrument Museum, a must-visit destination for music lovers. Enjoy the natural beauty and outdoor activities at the Cave Creek Regional Park, and explore the recreational opportunities at Coyote Basin Park. Musical Instrument Museum: https://mim.org/ Cave Creek Regional Park: https://www.maricopacountyparks.net/park-locator/cave-creek-regional-park/ Coyote Basin Park: https://maps.app.goo.gl/natCZzxg3ihppayE8 We'll also delve into a bit of local history, sharing interesting facts about the development of the Loop 101 freeway. Plus, stay tuned for important updates on current freeway construction too. For our local featured business: Meet Diana Pequeno, the dynamic force behind Icre8me, a premier service dedicated to empowering business owners. With her innovative approach and passion for helping entrepreneurs succeed, Diana has become a trusted name in the local business community. Icre8me offers personalized strategies and solutions designed to elevate businesses, streamline operations, and drive growth. Diana's commitment to excellence and her deep understanding of the challenges faced by business owners make her an invaluable partner in achieving success. Connect with her here: https://rb.gy/o80qz8 Join us as we uncover what makes Boulder Mountain a great place to live, work, and play. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more neighborhood tours and real estate insights! Browse available homes for sale in Boulder Mountain in Phoenix AZ here: https://myre.io/0xcc4C1jcwZk Search new build homes anywhere in the Phoenix, AZ Metro area: https://www.showingnew.com/evoaz Research Schools in any area: https://www.greatschools.org/ Contact https://EvoAZ.com to buy or sell your home! Brought to you by Real Estatie Katie of Team EvoAZ at eXp Realty The information given in this video and/or any of our videos is not intended to promote the buying and/or selling or abstaining from buying and/or selling of any real estate. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform on a very specific market. This information should not be construed as advice. Please consult your attorney, CPA, real estate agent, or wealth manager directly in regard to any specific sale, purchase, or financial decisions you make based on the information provided in our videos.

The MusicaNova Orchestra presents "Dead Elvis and Other Gems" Sunday, March 24 at the Musical Instrument Museum. The program includes works by Joseph...

In this episode, we discuss various topics including the Super Bowl Nickelodeon broadcast, the Apple Vision Pro, and a visit to the Musical Instrument Museum. Then we discuss various aspects of air travel, including packing strategies, airport security, and gate rituals. Picks of the week: Aiko (Dan Miller) dontpanic.io Twitter: @dontpanicshow Proud member of the Coffee & Beer family of podcasts, streaming at coffeeandbeer.tv.

Conductor Warren Cohen (pictured) and the MusicaNova Orchestra present Finished Unfinished, a concert at the Musical Instrument Museum on Monday,...

Dr. Richard D. Walter is a dynamic curator whose expertise lies in the preservation and celebration of musical instruments at the Musical Instrument Museum in Arizona. With a background in ethnomusicology and folklore, Richard brings a deep understanding of the cultural significance of music and its instruments. His passion for learning about people and the objects they hold dear led him to pursue a career in curating, where he can explore the rich tapestry of musical traditions from around the world. Richard's commitment to showcasing authentic instruments and their stories is evident in the unique exhibitions he curates at the museum. Through his work, he invites visitors to not only appreciate the craftsmanship of the instruments but also to connect with the people and cultures behind them. With his expertise and enthusiasm, Richard plays a pivotal role in preserving and sharing the diverse musical heritage housed within the Musical Instrument Museum. Music taps into emotion and identity and sentiment and so many really deep human things. - Richard D. Walter Timestamped summary of this episode: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:30 - Remembering James Reams 00:06:14 - The Purpose of MIM 00:08:50 - Richard's Background . 00:10:54 - Acoustic America Exhibition 00:17:14 - The Power of Music History 00:18:23 - Curating the Exhibition 00:22:35 - Preservation and Care 00:24:57 - Goals of the Exhibition 00:34:23 - Introduction 00:34:54 - Venue Information 00:35:35 - Website Features 00:36:04 - Podcast Commercial SUPPORT: If you love this episode, please share it with someone you know will also enjoy it! Not for us, but for our guests, leave a review on iTunes. While you are listening, post a screenshot on social media and make sure to tag @FindingArizonaPodcast so we can thank you!  Leave us a five star review!  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finding-arizona-podcast/id969100902?mt=2   Want to be a guest or a sponsor of the show? Send us a message on the https://www.findingarizonapodcast.com/contact  SPONSORS:  Craving a perfect snack? Enjoy 20% off all products at Perfect Bar using this special link: http://perfectbar.refr.cc/brittanyacevedo?t=tg. Treat yourself to perfection! Revitalize your self-care routine with Earth Based Body! Get 20% off your first online purchase at https://earthbasedbody.com/discount/FINDINGARIZONA. Embrace the goodness of nature for radiant skin! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/finding-arizona-podcast/message

Richard Walter, Senior Curator of Phoenix's incredible Musical Instrument Museum, joins us to talk about MIM's new exhibition, 'Acoustic America: Iconic Guitars, Mandolins, and Banjos.' This exhibit, running from November 10, 2023 - September 15, 2024, features a staggering array of legendary instruments owned by the likes of David Grisman, Elizabeth Cotten, Mississippi John Hurt, Earl Scruggs and others.   Read all about it here: https://mim.org/special-exhibitions/acoustic-america/ Rich tells us about how he landed his position at MIM, how he and his team care for these priceless instruments, the guitars that are closest to his heart, and so much more.  The Fretboard Journal is planning on having a meetup at MIM sometime in early 2024. Reach out to us at podcast@fretboardjournal.com if you'd like to join us.  If you enjoy this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and consider joining the Fretboard Journal's new Patreon page. Subscribe to the Fretboard Journal: https://shop.fretboardjournal.com/products/fretboard-journal-annual-subscription Get a discounted digital subscription and get our 52nd issue immediately:  https://shop.fretboardjournal.com/collections/downloads/products/fretboard-journal-digital-subscription-offer Our podcast is sponsored by Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar, Peghead Nation (use the promo code FRETBOARD and get your first month free or $20 off any annual subscription); and Stringjoy Strings (get 10% off your order with the FRETBOARD discount code). This episode is also sponsored by iZotope. Use the discount code FRET10 to save 10% off off your Izotope order. You can also get 10% off your Native Instruments software at Native-Instruments.comwith code RUIN10. Some restrictions apply.

This secluded museum beats the drum for the preservation of Nepal's musical heritage.  READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nepali-folk-musical-instrument-museum

MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global. Realizing most musical museums featured historic, primarily Western classical instruments, MIM's founder Bob Ulrich (then CEO of Target Corporation) was inspired to develop a new kind of museum that would focus on the kind of instruments played every day by people worldwide. A focus on the guest experience shaped every aspect of the museum's development. From the beginning, our goal has been to deliver a musical experience that is enriching, inspiring, interesting, and fun. Today, MIM has a collection of more than 8,000 instruments from more than 200 world countries. The galleries reflect the rich diversity and history of many world cultures. But music and instruments also show us what we have in common—a thought powerfully expressed in our motto, music is the language of the soul. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/loren-alberts/message

On this episode of Big Blend Radio, travel writer Debbie Stone talks about her adventures in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona including Taliesin West, Musical Instrument Museum, and Wrigley Mansion & Geordie's. Read her stories on these Arizona Attractions: * TALIESIN WEST: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/experience-a-visual-conversation-between-wright-and-chihuly-at-taliesin-west/ * MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/explore-the-world-of-music-at-mim/ * WRIGLEY MANSION: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/tour-historic-wrigley-mansion-then-dine-in-style/ Debbie Stone appears on Big Blend Radio every 4th Tuesday. 

On this episode of Big Blend Radio, travel writer Debbie Stone talks about her adventures in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona including Taliesin West, Musical Instrument Museum, and Wrigley Mansion & Geordie's.Read her stories on these Arizona Attractions:* TALIESIN WEST: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/experience-a-visual-conversation-between-wright-and-chihuly-at-taliesin-west/* MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/explore-the-world-of-music-at-mim/* WRIGLEY MANSION: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/tour-historic-wrigley-mansion-then-dine-in-style/Debbie Stone appears on Big Blend Radio every 4th Tuesday.

On this episode of Big Blend Radio, travel writer Debbie Stone talks about her adventures in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona including Taliesin West, Musical Instrument Museum, and Wrigley Mansion & Geordie's. Read her stories on these Arizona Attractions: * TALIESIN WEST: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/experience-a-visual-conversation-between-wright-and-chihuly-at-taliesin-west/ * MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/explore-the-world-of-music-at-mim/ * WRIGLEY MANSION: https://blendradioandtv.com/listing/tour-historic-wrigley-mansion-then-dine-in-style/ Debbie Stone appears on Big Blend Radio every 4th Tuesday. 

This month's KTAR Community Spotlight is the Musical Instrument Museum presented by PNC Bank. Tune in to hear all about the good the MIM is doing for the community. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Another wonderful conversation with Brett Leonard. We talk about anechoic chambers, recording, mixing, and all things audio; including tips for setting up a new audio studio. http://www.blpaudio.com/ Brett Leonard is a recording engineer, audio researcher and audio educator.  Currently, Dr. Leonard serves as the director of music technology programs at the University of Indianapolis.  Dr. Brett Leonard began his musical career as a percussionist, playing any and every genre and instrument he could get his hands on.  While in college, Dr. Leonard discovered the joys of the recording studio.  Shortly after, he received his bachelor's from California Lutheran University with a focus in music technology.  While attending CLU, he also spent time at the Aspen Music Festival, studying under such luminaries as John Eargle, Stephan Peus, and Ron Streicher.  After college, he moved to New York to pursue a Master's of Music Technology at New York University's Steinhardt School. Dr. Leonard has also served as lecturer at McGill University, where he recently completed a PhD in Music in the area of Sound Recording, and served the coordinator of music technology and assistant professor of music at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.   Dr. Leonard is also an active freelance recording engineer.  He has worked on projects ranging from orchestras to progressive jazz, hip-hop to classic rock, including projects with artist such as Lenny Pickett, Matt Haimovitz, Jerry Douglas, Cecile McLorrin Salvant, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and producers such as Russ Titelman, Bob Belden, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Devo Springsteen.  Dr. Leonard currently serves as the chief recording engineer for the Chelsea Music Festival in New York.  In 2007, he began BLPaudio, a company providing recording services, acoustical consulting, system design and equipment rental.  BLPaudio has since provided consulting services to numerous private studios, event spaces, performance venues, and institutions including the United National International School, the Musée de Beaux Arts Montréal, the Musical Instrument Museum and others.   As a researcher, Dr. Leonard focuses on spatial audio and the interplay between acoustics, instruments, and the recording process.  His work in spatial audio has included collaborations with Sennheiser, NHK, Swissaudec, and Skywalker Sound and has been published in more than 35 papers.  Dr. Leonard is active in the Audio Engineering Society (AES) as a member of the education committee, and as a member of the organizing committee for numerous conventions and conferences.

This secluded museum beats the drum for the preservation of Nepal's musical heritage.   READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/nepali-folk-musical-instrument-museum See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Notes Show Highlights (0:11:38) The concept of generations in Kathak (0:13:05) How Rachna Di Teaches Differently (0:21:50) How Gurus used to teach (0:27:02) Starting Teaching (0:32:23) Balancing being an active performer and teaching (0:34:15) The responsibility of education (0:40:07) Dance Critics (0:46:04) Pride and South asian culture (0:52:56) Compensation in the arts (1:06:47) The concept of Endowments in the Arts (1:25:41) The story of Rachna di and the Harmonium Bio RACHNA NIVAS (@rachnanivas) is an artist, choreographer, educator, and activist in Indian classical dance, bringing a relevant voice to kathak. Deemed “charismatic” and “revelatory” by the San Francisco Chronicle and featured in 2021 by Dance Magazine, she is one of the most sought-after kathak artists and educators of her generation. A distinguished torchbearer of legendary master Pandit Chitresh Das' treasured lineage .Rachna is a fierce and passionate performer, a technical powerhouse with masterful creativity and infectious charm. She is a founding artist and artistic director of Leela Dance Collective, a nationally-based women-led and artist-led collective, producing powerful works by forward-thinking trailblazers in kathak dance. Rachna's original works include her collaboration SPEAK, which brings together leading women in kathak and tap, bridging Indian and African-American art and heritage along with co-creators Rina Mehta, Michelle Dorrance, and Dormeshia. Some notable SPEAK _tour stops have been Broad Stage in Los Angeles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Mumbai Royal Opera House in India, Maui Arts and Cultural Center and University of Hawaii. Rachna is also co-creator of the large scale dance ballad, _Son of the Wind, featuring 20 dancers and a live orchestra. Tour highlights include Ford Theater in Los Angeles, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and Bhramara Festival in Mumba, India. Her original solo work, Meera, was featured at the ODC Walking Distance Festival in San Francisco and at Salvatore Capezio Theater in New York City. Her original work Stir, choreographed for Leela Youth Dance Company, was featured at the WorldWideWomen's Girls Festival. Her works have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, California Arts Council, and Zellerbach Family Foundation. Prior to work with Leela Dance Collective, Rachna was principal dancer with the Chitresh Das Dance Company for 15 years and received two nominations for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award while performing worldwide in productions such as Shiva, Sita Haran, Pancha Jati, Darbar, Shabd and many more. Some notable venues she performed at with CDDC, include Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater in Los Angeles, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts in Arizona, National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai, Birla Sabhagar in Kolkata, National Institute of Kathak Dance in New Delhi, and Shaniwarwada Festival in Pune, India. Rachna was also instrumental in building the Chhandam School of Kathak in San Francisco (founded by Pandit Chitresh Das in 1980). Pandit Das himself appointed Rachna to be Co-Director of the Chhandam School in 2009 (along with Seibi Lee). Rachna worked tirelessly under Pandit Das to institutionalize curriculum, build infrastructure, train teachers, direct school-wide dance dramas, and flourish the school into one of the world's leading and most influential academies of North Indian classical dance. Her passion and commitment to her own journey of the art and to building pride of Indian classical art amongst the South Asian community led her to emerge as a powerful role model amongst the Indian diaspora. In particular, Rachna has exceptional talent in teaching and training youth, making the art relevant, inspiring, and empowering to girls. Rachna was the successor to Pandit Das as Co-Artistic Director of the Chhandam School and Artistic Director of the Chhandam Youth Dance Company (now the Leela Youth Dance Company), shepherding excellence, leadership, and creative discovery amongst teens. Rachna has also taught numerous kathak workshops, after-school programs, and outreach events/residencies to communities of all backgrounds, including at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Treme Center of New Orleans, Conservatory of Arts in Miami, Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, LA Tap Fest at Debbie Allen Dance Academy, National Center for Kathak Dance in New Delhi, and many more. Currently, Rachna is leading and directing Leela New York, the newest chapter of Leela Institute of Kathak, bringing the teachings of her lineage for the first time to the greater New York Metro area. Title Track Audio Credit: Doug Maxwell | Bansure Raga

Scottsdale is known for so many beautiful things. The trails, mountains, cars and even the people who live here. So when I found Michelle from Scottsdale_AF online, I had to learn more about her apparel line and what the AF actually stands for. You'll be reaching out for your own garments after listening to this week's episode. Calendar of Events Kitten Pop Up Adoption Shophttps://www.experiencescottsdale.com/event/kitten-pop-up-%5badoption%5d-shop/366842/ Get your kitten snuggles and take home a new furry friend at The Kitten Pop Up [Adoption] Shop at Scottsdale Quarter! Every summer (also known as “Kitten Season”) more than 1,200 kittens come through the Arizona Animal Welfare League and now is our time to find them loving homes. Join us to find your purrrrfect kitten match! You can find the AAWL Pop Up on the second floor of building 15279, located near the public restrooms on 72nd Place between North Street and Quad Drive. Take the elevators up and follow the signs!  Concerts at the MIMhttp://mim.org/concerts/upcoming-concerts/ If you're like me and love some live music, check out the Musical Instrument Museum for their weekend concert series. Something for everyone to enjoy. 

Scottsdale is known for so many beautiful things. The trails, mountains, cars and even the people who live here. So when I found Michelle from Scottsdale_AF online, I had to learn more about her apparel line and what the AF actually stands for. You'll be reaching out for your own garments after listening to this week's episode. Calendar of Events Kitten Pop Up Adoption Shophttps://www.experiencescottsdale.com/event/kitten-pop-up-%5badoption%5d-shop/366842/ Get your kitten snuggles and take home a new furry friend at The Kitten Pop Up [Adoption] Shop at Scottsdale Quarter! Every summer (also known as “Kitten Season”) more than 1,200 kittens come through the Arizona Animal Welfare League and now is our time to find them loving homes. Join us to find your purrrrfect kitten match! You can find the AAWL Pop Up on the second floor of building 15279, located near the public restrooms on 72nd Place between North Street and Quad Drive. Take the elevators up and follow the signs!  Concerts at the MIMhttp://mim.org/concerts/upcoming-concerts/ If you're like me and love some live music, check out the Musical Instrument Museum for their weekend concert series. Something for everyone to enjoy. 

They say parenting is the hardest job you'll ever have. And the teenage years, well, let's just say it's hard for parents and kids. Luckily we have Gen Z Life Coach, Tracey Martin to help us and our kids navigate through it. Tracey and her teenage daughter, Marina Martin join Alicia to talk about getting through to teens during this day and age. Simple answer, communicate.  Kitten Pop Up Adoption Shophttps://www.experiencescottsdale.com/event/kitten-pop-up-%5badoption%5d-shop/366842/ Get your kitten snuggles and take home a new furry friend at The Kitten Pop Up [Adoption] Shop at Scottsdale Quarter! Every summer (also known as “Kitten Season”) more than 1,200 kittens come through the Arizona Animal Welfare League and now is our time to find them loving homes. Join us to find your purrrrfect kitten match! You can find the AAWL Pop Up on the second floor of building 15279, located near the public restrooms on 72nd Place between North Street and Quad Drive. Take the elevators up and follow the signs!  Concerts at the MIMhttp://mim.org/concerts/upcoming-concerts/ If you're like me and love some live music, check out the Musical Instrument Museum for their weekend concert series. Something for everyone to enjoy.

I had the opportunity to attend the Musical Instrument Museum here in Phoenix, Arizona and it was LIFE CHANGING!! Below is a link to an AWESOME video of Thomas Roth shredding it on the Nyckelharpa! I talk about a number of instruments in the podcast but this one is a treat! You're welcome :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfBcWvVUbs --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anna-summers/support

This week I’m sharing a story from Korea. The Magic Gem tells the tale of a magic green gem that can bring you anything you wish for, but if you lose it everything you wished for will vanish. Find out how a sweet, but poor fisherman came to own the green gem and how he lost it. Will he and his wife get it back? The retelling of this timeless tale based on Kim So-un’s Three Korean Folktales: Beloved Stories and Legends. Welcome to the Global Storytime Podcast! Every two weeks I will bring a story from a different corner of the world so that we can get a glimpse into another place and culture. I will do my best to explain the potentially unfamiliar to provide context and will end each episode with some information about the country so we can get to know it better! Comments or critiques are sooo welcome. You can email the show at globalstorytimepodcast@gmail.com. All sound effects and music fall under a Creative Commons 0 license and were found on freesounds.com or the Youtube Free Library. Intro Song: A recording of a traditional Korean folk music concert at the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels, Belgium. Transition Song: 'Ishikari Lore', unknown artist Closing Song: 'Forgiveness', Patrick Patrikios

The latter portion of the sixties was a gymnasium of live venues which permeated sounds of acoustic instruments like Fritz Richmond's washtub base or Paul Harris' ivory for the evening. An even dozen sophisticated white musicians trying to play authentic roots music with their mentors. Through these live venues you saw the visceral qualities of Tim Hardin, Sivuca, Odetta and my guest all in one week. The differentiation the non conformity in a non violent way all the while playing music that was made live and not manufactured. My guest today was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame at the turn of the century but he is more roll than rock. Sure he appreciated Beatle mania and some of the world culture they brought to the states but my guest wanted to plant the American flag in the heart of the country with a blending of Native American, folk, classical blue ridge mountains cooking burning instrumentals and singing his way out of prison in some back road Georgia town looking for Doc Watson or a Lovin Spoonful of the Tarzana Kid. He has been able to maintain and stay true to his art which can be hard in the " biz." He is an old folkie like Dave Van RONK and a conveyer of authenticity like Bob Dylan. He cares about community- he lives in an artist enclave that sells nostalgia t-shirts but still has a freshness from the Catskills, near the Berkshires because your a big boy now. My guest is playing Friday November 17th at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix and the show sold so fast they added the 18th as well. John Sebastian welcome to the JFS --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

  I sat down with my dear friend, the great Hammond B3 organist, Papa John DeFrancesco. When I first starting exploring the music scene in Phoenix, AZ after moving here in 2004, I came across this cool club called Bobby C's near downtown Phoenix. On Sundays, they would serve the most amazing Southern food and they had Papa John and band playing jazz that I hadn't heard since I left New York City. Papa John, if you haven't already guessed, is the father of the great organist Joey DeFrancesco. Papa John and I took to each other right away and he used to let me sit in and we became life long friends. When the drum chair opened up with his band, I got the call and we've been playing together ever since. I hope you enjoy this conversation with this beautiful person and amazing jazz organist. He's a treasure and I'm honored to call him a friend and mentor. Connect with Papa John DeFrancesco: Personal Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/john.defrancesco3 Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/Papa-John-DeFrancesco-101631944618/ Papa John's CDs: "Desert Heat" - https://amzn.to/2BXx9JF "All in the Family" - https://amzn.to/39V5aH2 "Comin' Home" - https://amzn.to/3ibVnj4 "Big Shot" - https://amzn.to/33oo5sJ "A Philadelphia Story" - https://amzn.to/2XrsFm6 "Hip Cake Walk" - https://amzn.to/3fC4nfH "Walkin Uptown" - https://amzn.to/3keUMyz "Jumpin'" - https://amzn.to/33ooiw1 "Doodlin" - https://amzn.to/3ftpmB2 Podcast Music By: Andy Galore, Album: "Out and About", Song: "Chicken & Scotch" 2014 Andy's Links: http://andygalore.com/ https://www.facebook.com/andygalorebass If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. 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I have a very special dear friend, special guest, amazing jazz musician, my dear friend, Papa John DeFrancesco. Welcome, Papa John. How are you doing, man? Papa John: Yes, I'm doing good, I'm talking to you. Joe: So Papa John: My Joe: Nice Papa John: Main Joe: To see your Papa John: Man. Joe: Face there. Papa John: Good to see you, Joe. Joe: Yeah, man, so how are you doing? Papa John: Then. Joe: How are you doing? Papa John: I'm doing good, Joe. Every day is a better day. Man. Joe: That's good, yeah. Papa John: I got the say Angel me so she's Joe: I Papa John: Like. Joe: Know, I know Papa John: Putting up with my crap Joe: You Papa John: The. Joe: And you're doing Papa John: The. Joe: Some swimming, right? You're staying cool. Papa John: Yeah, in the past, we had Joe: Yeah, Papa John: A big bathtub Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Man, Joe: Is it warm? Papa John: The pool was like ninety seven man eighty nine the other day. Joe: Oh, my gosh. Papa John: I know you when you first go in, you cool off Joe: Yeah, Papa John: And then you get warm. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: And then you come out and you're cool for about 30 seconds. Joe: Welcome to Arizona. Papa John: Is beautiful that. Joe: Yeah, so, man, I'm really excited, I want to give my own quick sort of history of you and I and and then and then I want to kind of go back to where you started and how we both actually had similar influences with our our fathers being Papa John: I Joe: Musicians Papa John: Saw that Joe: And stuff. Papa John: In. Joe: Yeah. Yeah. So for me, so I moved to I moved to Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona in two thousand four, didn't really know what the scene was, did and didn't play much, didn't go out to do anything. And then all of a sudden I heard about this cool place called Bobby C's Papa John: Oh, my God, that was the place, man. Joe: Yeah, and I walk in the door and it's just all Southern cooking and you're behind the B3 and you have all these great musicians playing with you. And I just say, WOW!. And I think we started making it a Sunday ritual that we would go there every Sunday Papa John: Yeah, Joe: And hang out. Papa John: You Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Were there Joe: Yeah. Papa John: With Joe: And Papa John: Their Joe: Then Papa John: Brother. Joe: And everybody was nice enough to some point I got to sit in and then I got to got to sit in a little bit more and Papa John: We Joe: Then Papa John: To talk. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: And Joe: We Papa John: You Joe: Had. Papa John: Would never say you were a drummer when I found that out. Get your butt off your back. Joe: I was keeping it on the down low, there was a lot of Papa John: Yeah. Joe: Great players there. I didn't want to, you know, Papa John: Your Joe: I wanted Papa John: Great Joe: That Papa John: Player, Joe: Just Papa John: Joe. Joe: Thanks man. That means a lot coming from you, as you know. Papa John: Now we play, I tell you what, I enjoy working with the. Joe: Well, thank Papa John: You're Joe: You. Papa John: You're you're one of the very few people you played music with that listen. Joe: Well, thank Papa John: You Joe: You. Papa John: Know that deal, you get up there and nobody is listening Joe: Yeah, well, Papa John: Everybody Joe: I appreciate Papa John: Playing in Joe: It. Papa John: A different place played a different band Joe: Yeah, Papa John: And. Joe: Yeah, well, Papa John: Well, let's Joe: That Papa John: Go, let's go, Joe: I Papa John: Let's Joe: Appreciate Papa John: Go. Joe: That and yeah, and I feel the same way because literally I didn't know many people around town but you and you and I've said this to you before and but I don't think it has sunk into your thick skull that you literally gave me like a chance and a more opportunity Papa John: Oh, Joe: Than Papa John: My God. Joe: Most people have ever given me in my musical career. Papa John: Oh, Joe: And that's Papa John: My Joe: The truth. Papa John: God, Joe: It's the truth. Papa John: You're going to make me cry live Joe: No, Papa John: In. Joe: No, no, it's the truth, I was nobody I was in and after sitting in for a while and you would always let me sit in and then and then we started playing together, like, regularly. Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Right. And Papa John: Yeah. Joe: That was cool. I was like, wow, I'm playing with one of the jazz greats on the B3. And it means a lot to me. And my father Papa John: Na Joe: Was proud. Papa John: Na Joe: My parents Papa John: Na, Joe: Were Papa John: Then Joe: Proud. Papa John: Your Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Dad was cool man Joe: Yeah, it meant a lot. So Papa John: We had a Joe: Yeah, we had a blast. Papa John: Mutual man like we got into some nice grooves. Joe: Yeah, we did, Papa John: Now, Joe: Yeah, we Papa John: Boy, Joe: We had some nice gigs. Papa John: Nice, nice gig, Joe: Well, Papa John: Good Joe: Hopefully, Papa John: Music. Yeah. Joe: Hopefully there'll be more coming up once the world gets back to some sort of Papa John: And. Joe: Whatever. I don't know what it's going to be, but. Right. Papa John: God help us to get back, Joe: All right, Papa John: It Joe: Cool. Papa John: Always does by then I'll be one hundred and forty cases of that. Joe: They long as you're here with us, that's cool. We Papa John: Ah Man Joe: Don't care, so. Papa John: Beautiful Joe Joe: So let's go back and tell me how this started for you, because I know besides music, like I said, we we talked about what what part of this you want to talk about. And if it's all Papa John: Would Joe: Music Papa John: Anyone? Joe: Or you want to you want to talk about anything else. So tell me about your father or how this music started for you. Papa John: It's very similar, I guess, here, but I was I wanted to play man, and so he said I told him I wanted to play the saxophone. I was about six five. He said it's too big for you, so he started me out on clarinet. I started playing clarinet and then I heard this guy named Louis Armstrong. Trumpet player. I saw I play trumpet. He said I got 15 million saxophones in there. You want to play trumpet? Though he got when I bought me a trumpet, I was about 10 years old i guess. He taught me how to play. And. Next person I saw that kind of play school band in school, and there is a lot of good friends I met when I was a junior in high school and Joe: And where was Papa John: The next. Joe: This, was this all Philadelphia? Papa John: Niagara Falls, New Joe: Oh, Papa John: York. Joe: That's right, I totally forgot Niagara Papa John: And Joe: Falls. Papa John: A New York woman, we're Joe: That's Papa John: Both from Joe: Right. Papa John: New York Joe: I know, Papa John: State. Joe: But I forgot that's where you started out. Papa John: Niagara Falls, New York, man, it was a real beautiful city at one time. And I was always but I dug it,  I love airplanes and cars Joe: I know Papa John: And Joe: You like cars. Papa John: Yeah, and music was right at the top three. I love and you know, it was cool about the music my dad taught me, but it would also take me to all these air shows because, you know, I, liked airplanes my mom about you coming Jen, Jenny my mom. Where, to look at airplanes and I go shopping or something. So but most of my my life is the music that you go out and you hear somebody and you go nuts. And then my next biggest thing was in 1959 when I saw Jimmy Smith Joe: Where was that? Papa John: That was in Buffalo, Kleinhans Music Hall, The Trio too, Donald Bailey and Kenny Burrell, Joe: WOW! Papa John: Stanley Turrentine came later. But I saw, man those cats were dealing. Holy Cow!, that organ, ya know, it's spiritual side. And it just grabbed me, but Joe: That was Papa John: I Joe: Fifty Papa John: Didn't get. Joe: Nine, you said. Papa John: Yeah, and I didn't do nothing till the 60's with the organ, but I was playing trumpet the whole time. Big band singing, all that, you know the deal. Then, I got married and the kids started coming, so I was still playing. But not the full-time I was like, well, not for three or four nights a week. Places were jumping then, you know. Joe: And this was all still Niagara Falls. Papa John: Niagara Falls, the left Niagara Falls in 1967, went to Philly, went to Philly in '57. Joe: What made you go there? Papa John: I was I was my uncle has got to get a job at Boeing aircraft, and he asked me for Niagara Falls is starting to go down and. It was on the ground, and so, yeah, I worked on airplanes and cars, so, you know, it got that bad. I met a bunch of horn players down there. Right. I was in town for two months and I met a guy at work, Am I talking to much Joe? Joe: No, this is what you're here to do. You're here to tell your story, I want to hear it in this. This is all at Boeing. Papa John: Now and I wish you could play organ man. Absolutely. I know you went downtown one time for a session and in Chester you can't get an organ player with him and said this cats gotta go. If you go, you've got to come up here, man. And then we did a lot of road thing at that time. They had Cabaret's they use to call them Cabaret's I did a ton of those Joe: So Papa John: Other people, man. Joe: So when did you start the organ? Papa John: Nineteen sixty three, wait, sixty four Joe: Sixty four. Papa John: I come home from work day and  my wife had one,  she got it for me. Joe: Oh, wow. And this is still Niagara Falls because you didn't go to Philly Papa John: No. Joe: Until 67. Papa John: Yeah, it was still there. She thought of all of this, too bar in organ called My house was never the same since man. Joe: And are you completely self-taught? Papa John: Yes, and the organ yeah, on my dad, I had a basic knowledge of me, but, you know, horn, not chords you're playing chords like, I was trying to transfer all that Joe: Right. Papa John: And it was tough, but. Joe: Well, then the tough part, too, especially for the B3 players, is the independence in the left hand right playing the base line and then being able to solo over it. Papa John: Split your brain in half man. And you thinking and you do it too. Joe: Explain to me how the organ ended up in, I know you said Laurene bought one, but was it because you saw like were you listening people like Jimmy Smith? Papa John: Oh, Joe: Was that after Papa John: Man. Joe: You saw him? You were just bit by the bug. And that was Papa John: Not Joe: That. That was it. Papa John: Every album that would come out, I get from Jimmy and then I tell Jack McGuff and there was a lot of burner's out there Ganpati. I mean there was a ton then, you know, Charles Earling and I met all these guys so now we're out doing some serious. I learned so much. Joe: So what was that first organ that was in the house? Papa John: Or the spin it. Joe: He has no say couldn't have been a full B3. I like Laurene. Papa John: Now, it was a Spinet Joe: Ok. Papa John: And then I bought Leslie. But it still wasn't a B man. And I found a B for sale, so I sold all my stuff, but B and then that's how I really learned how to play like on this thing man [plays organ] Joe: Exactly. So what was your first real gig on it? It was somewhere in Philadelphia with this when you met these guys. Papa John: On the organ?, on the B?, back in Niagara Falls, I had the organ in Niagara Falls, yeah. Once I got to B3, I got out and started playing, I love a man, I was still learning. I mean, the coordination, the coordination is tough Joe Joe: The coordination is tough, the hauling the thing around is tough. Papa John: Well, that's why I had to get surgery on my back. No, that wasn't much but you're hauling that son of a gun man, Joe: Yeah. Papa John: You know, I bought vans. I bought my old van, used to be rented trailer, mostly with trailer till I came out with vans and got a van. You know, it was it was funny, man. You go, well, I've got to move organ, the drummer said "I go get a pack of cigarettes." Joe: Exactly. Papa John: I'll be right back because I get to go get a loaf of bread. I'll be right back. Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Yeah. Papa John: But it was quite experience lugging that monster. Joe: Yeah, so did you bring so you had a B3 in Niagara Falls, did you bring that with you to Philly? Papa John: Yes. Yeah, Joe: And then Papa John: That's. Joe: Where is that where is that now? Papa John: And at the Musical Museum. Joe: That's the original one. Papa John: Yes, the one that we played that night when we when we did the gig. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: At my first box man. Joe: Oh, my gosh, I didn't even realize that. Papa John: Nineteen sixty six by. Joe: Wow. Papa John: That's Joe: Yes, Papa John: My Joe: So Papa John: Yeah. Joe: So everybody for everybody listening in here in Phoenix, Arizona, there's the Musical Instrument Museum. It's called The MIM for short. Papa John's original B3 is there on display. They probably move it in and out on display. Right. Sometimes they'll do it's not permanent. Papa John: Yeah, Joe: They keep it there. Papa John: There, but it was Joey's first organ too ya know Joe: That's Papa John: That. Joe: Really cool. Papa John: Yeah, well, my fathers horns there at one time now playing them, yeah, was that was the first to go that the number one man we had redone. It was like. From being out on the road, being banged around, we had a guy redo it, that's the one man. Joe: Well, I didn't know that, so that that night we did that concert there, that was your we literally play it on your very first B3 organ. Man, Papa John: We're going, yeah, Joe: Oh man, Papa John: Man. Yeah. Joe: I didn't know that. I just thought that was just one of them. I didn't know that was THEE one. Papa John: That's the one I never got rid of it, never. Joe: Wow, Papa John: Never, Joe: That's incredible. Papa John: I would not you know, I could have sold that, that's Daisy, we had a name and we know what the name was, "Oh, boy." Joe: Oh, boy, Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Nice. Papa John: Come on, we had to go Ol Boy Joe: That Papa John: Mad, Joe: Is Papa John: Matt. Joe: So funny, so in those days when you weren't playing out, that was, was it always inside the house the way yours is now in your house, like you're literally sitting behind your B3 three now at your house? Papa John: And I am. It was Joe: Or. Papa John: Either in the house or in the van. Joe: Ok. Papa John: You know, one or the other, and mostly if if it was along, never had much time to take it out of the van, you know, Joe: And Papa John: It was Joe: A lot, Papa John: A go. Joe: Right? Papa John: Yeah, the only time I'd bring it down would be maintenance. You replace tubes, do the wiring and it was traveling. Joe: Did you work on it yourself, because I know a lot of you B3 organ players, man, you know Papa John: They're. Joe: You know that instrument because you can't trust that anybody else in the room is going to know what's going on. Papa John: That's right, Joe: Right, we've had Papa John: The. Joe: A member of Bobby C's, we had like something weird happen one day. Papa John: And try to remember what? Joe: And I remember you just you took off the front lid and people were in there and not people, Papa John: Yeah. Joe: But but you were kind of telling somebody, hey, just try this or whatever, and next thing you know, it's working again. Papa John: That's from years and years and years of that, putting that instrument through its bad. I mean, patience. I got a story we were playing upstairs, so we took the organ upstairs. We were taking it up. So we put two by fours on each side so we could slide it up Joe: Oh, Papa John: And Joe: Like. Papa John: A rope and the leg and the guys up front in the back pushing and all of a sudden the rope broke. I said, what? So I run down, jump. It was like lined up with a door outside door, so I jumped out the door, jumped out the door. I heard it coming down, breaking all there was Joe: Oh, Papa John: There was lights on the sides Joe: Oh, Papa John: Broke every one. Joe: My God. Papa John: Everyone came flying out almost out the door on its back. Joe: My gosh, that's like those those cartoons, that piano like it's like the Three Stooges move in a piano. Papa John: It is, it is, Joe: Oh, Papa John: And Joe: My gosh. Papa John: Flipped it over, put the tubes back in they were all loose and brought it back and went right to work, Joe: I'm sure Papa John: Played a Joe: It's Papa John: Delayed. Joe: Amazing, it's amazing. Papa John: Now it's cursing everybody, Joe: Oh, Papa John: man. Joe: Gosh. So when you you started playing in Niagara Falls on Papa John: Right, Joe: The organ and Papa John: Right. Joe: You were still playing trumpet at the same time. Papa John: Yes. Joe: Ok, and then were you also maybe while you were playing organ in a band on stage, did you ever actually pull out the trumpet, play a trumpet solo also? Papa John: Yes, yes, Joe: You did. It's called. Papa John: Because I was still learning to organ man that and I said, man, I, I've got to do something else, throw me out the gate. Joe: Oh, my Papa John: So Joe: Gosh. Papa John: I was vocalizing and playing hard, but little by little. Left, left, left. the B captured my soul, man. I just I love the instrument man. Joe: So when you were first starting to play and you had to deal with the whole left hand independence and then laying down the chords and then potentially even soloing with your right hand over the left hand bass, Papa John: They Joe: Did you? Papa John: Move in all the time. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Yeah. Joe: Did you have in your early groups that you played in, were there bass players in those groups where you Papa John: With Joe: Didn't have Papa John: The Joe: To worry? Papa John: organ. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Not when I got the organ man. Joe: Really? So you never. Papa John: Even with that, even with the Spinet of playing the pedal, playing the pedal. Joe: Really? Papa John: So I thought that's how you played the B3 until I got hip. I never once I got the organ. Maybe a couple times in the beginning. Yeah, I have to admit, it was a couple few gigs, man. Yeah, couldn't Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Play it, I mean. Joe: I would think you'd want that safety net in the beginning when Papa John: I Joe: You're not. Papa John: Did. You brought it back, you brought it, you just brought that guy had a base electric base, he had like a fender, I guess. Yeah, because I was like sloppy Joes and, you know. Not you Joe: No, no, no, no. Papa John: Might think my hands were going like the bottom is trying to play with the top and it can I tell you, if you lay off of this a while, your coordination takes a minute to come back. Joe: That instrument will kick your ass. Papa John: Oh, double time. And. Joe: So these gigs early on in Niagara Falls, where they were a trio gigs, were they like organ Papa John: Quartet. Joe: Or organ guitar, drums or what was the combo? Papa John: That mostly that, and then it got to Jack's one word that good, I saw it again man, you know, so then it was Jack's trio with the guitar and then we got the sax it was a quartet Joe: Ok, so let's go ahead now back to Philly and you're there, you're you're working for Boeing, right? And you are working on airplanes and helicopters. Wow, OK. Papa John: Chinooks. Joe: And then and your playing out at night, about four or five nights a week. Papa John: Yeah, but yeah, but it got very hectic, they were it was during Vietnam that. Now, where they started working 12 hour days, 6 days a week 7. So I still played on the weekends and I have to keep playing, I would be I'd be kind of mental, Joe: Yeah, now I hear Papa John: You Joe: You Papa John: Know. Joe: And at this point, do you have any kids yet? Papa John: Yeah, have two. Joe: So you had did you have any before you left Niagara Falls? Papa John: Cheryl and Johnny Joe: You did so they were born in Niagara Falls and then was Papa John: Joey Joe: Joey Papa John: You're was born here. Joe: In Philly. Got Papa John: Yeah. Joe: It. OK. All Papa John: And Joe: Right. Papa John: then then reality started to coming around Joe: Yeah, yeah. Papa John: Oh, I got to do this traveling, babies. You know what I got to say? This man, my wife never gave ultimatums. I've been blessed a lot. So I just feel so blessed man. Go through all this stuff and the kids all turned out great. Lucky, I'm blessed! people say they're lucky and blessed and lucky. Joe: We're in Philly, you're working really hard for Boeing because the Vietnam War is happening, you Papa John: Yeah. Joe: Have you have two children. I know Johnny is the oldest or Papa John: Cheryl. Joe: The Cheryls's the oldest. Papa John: Johnny Second. Joe: Then Johnny is the middle. That's why Johnny and I get along, because we're both middle Papa John: Those middle Joe: See! Ballbusters Papa John: Aged. Joe: Both of us just Papa John: Now, Joe: Right in the middle. Papa John: What about the baseball bat boy? He Joe: And Papa John: Was Joe: Then Papa John: A big Joe: And Papa John: Bob. Joe: Then Joey enjoys the youngest. Papa John: We did just go. You're going to be 50 this year. Joe: Wow. Papa John: Johnny is fifty five and Cheryl's fifty eight. Joe: So she and I are the same age. Papa John: Yeah, 1962. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Now, October, she was born. Joe: Yeah, I was February, so Papa John: There Joe: I'm even Papa John: Is a Joe: I'm even older than her see Papa John: Couple months, and you could have been my kid man! Joe: Yeah, there you go. Papa John: Now lighting up! Joe: All right, sorry. Papa John: Nah man Joe: So we're there, we're in Philly, you're working, playing Papa John: Yeah. Joe: A little bit, but works, you know, a lot of work going on. So you're busy. Do you remember who was the first, most famous person you played with? Papa John: You try to think of, well, I played with Jimmy Smith, we played together Bobby C's to do what we did, an organ thing man. That was to me, that's my favorite. That was my. Joe: So that was Papa John: I Joe: Like, Papa John: Love the cat and Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Then George Benson and Steve Gadd. Now all them guys, I dug all those guys other cats too Jack McDuff God, he was a neat person, man. We did a lot jams, me, Jack, Gene Ludwig. Joe: I used to go see Jack McDuff up in Harlem when I lived in New York. Papa John: You were going to the right spot man that cat, what a soulful player he was. A lot of the guys that come up and play, you know, Bobby C's, we would cats come there and once they tell me name, Oh, Joe: I know Papa John: We Joe: It was. Papa John: Get a lot of cats came in like there was a guitar player there one day that played with Miles Davis . Joe: Now, we used to get a lot of incredible Papa John: Yeah, Joe: People, it was, you know, Papa John: It was a great spot. Joe: Yeah, we need another another place like that. Papa John: But that would be that wouldn't that be fun Joe: Yeah, Papa John: To Joe: But Papa John: Trade bands in and out Joe: But you played with a bunch of people like well before you came to Arizona, I mean, you're with all those Papa John: The. Joe: Heavyweights in Philly and you were telling me how even Dennis Chambers and you were really good Papa John: Dennis. Joe: Friends, right? Yeah, Papa John: Yeah, yeah, it's a real good. Joe: Right. Papa John: Your Joe: And Papa John: Good friends. Joe: And I remember when I was at the NAMM Show out in Anaheim, you had that residency gig during the week of the NAMM Show at Steamers. Papa John: Yeah, I did. Yeah, we just played the. Joe: Arturo Sandoval was on it, Papa John: Yeah, and Joe: Right, Ramon Papa John: No, Joe: Banda right? Papa John: He passed away, man. Ramone played, yeah, there was a guitar player can't think of his name, but he was a heavyweight too Joe: Oh, yeah, Papa John: Like Joe: Yeah. Papa John: We all get our shots. How about Joe Pesci? Joe: That's right, he sang, he Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Sang that night I was there sitting Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Right in front. Papa John: Yeah, Joe: That's a Papa John: Joe. Joe: Night that actually you let me sit in that night. So I got to play with Arturo and the rest of the guys. Yeah. Papa John: get your as up! Joe: Yeah, yeah, that was fun because there are a lot of I think I think that night, to be honest with you, I think if I remember correctly, Marcus Miller was sitting in the audience. Papa John: Yeah he was Joe: So Papa John: Were. Joe: Like when you pointed and I was already looked around the room and Joe Pesci was singing with you and I'm like, whoa, wait a second. But it was fun. I had it was a good time. Papa John: Joey too. Joe: That's right, Joey was on stage to right? Papa John: Yeah, yeah, what a night everybody was up there. That place is closed man. Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Is Joe: Yeah, Papa John: damn shame Joe: I know. Papa John: damn shame Joe: Yeah, so when you were in Philly, did you get up to New York, much to play. Papa John: Played a little bit in New York. Yeah, not not a lot, but a lot. I met a lot of cats in New York, I a lot of good players, but I did play there trying to think of some of the rooms. Joe: I know Philly had such a strong scene that, you know, Papa John: Ah man Joe: You probably Papa John: It Joe: Never Papa John: Was. Joe: Had to leave there to go play New York because it had its own. Papa John: We had and then I played to shore. I played in Atlantic City, I played at the Club Harlem with Manny Cambell and the Fiestas, and it was great man the ban was good too. He Be played vibes. We had a conga drummer, drummer, a horn player and a woman singer man, and in the back room there was a front room. We were playing in front of the bar, the back room, Sammy Davis Jr. playing with big band back there. Yeah, I mean, Club Harlem, Kentucky Avenue man. Across the street, Gracie,  Wild Bill Davis was there. Joe: And this was a separate room from any of the casinos. Papa John: Yeah, there was no casinos man this is 1966, '67 Kentucky was like all the clubs, like you went to Harlem or Buffalo and all that, that that's what Kentucky Avenue was all, had all the bands and mostly organ groups that was hot thing, man I got pictures, my wife and I got picture with her of people coming around and get a picture,  remember that? Yeah, you got a picture taken, Joe: Oh, you mean Papa John: There were. Joe: Like at the table, like they would do that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. It's also. Papa John: Back in the old days man, the old days man, let's see, you were just a baby because you were my daughter's age, I use to take the kids. I could get them into places. I'd take um. Joe: Yep, yeah, my father would do the same. Papa John:  Yeah man people would look, he was cool, he knew? He Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Knew. Joe: Yeah, it's the only way, right? It's the exposure. Papa John: Now, the kids loved it, Johnny played, Joey played, Cheryl played for a while, Joe: What she Papa John: You Joe: Play. Papa John: Know, Alto sax yeah in junior high. Joe: Yeah, and it was Johnny always drawn to the guitar. Papa John: Yeah, in fact he played trumpet for awhile. Yeah, and my dad was my dad was living with us, and then he got guitar and my dad could play his ass off too my dad, one of those old time musicians man Joe: Yeah, did he play in the in the army or the in the war during the war time or. No. Papa John: Too old man. He played with all the big bands like back, and he played with the Dorsey Brothers before the were famous when they were together, he told me they would argue from morning till night. I said, you sure they Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Weren't Italian? Joe: Exactly. Oh, nobody has seen anything until they see you and Joey and Johnny together in the same room. That right Papa John: Up Joe: There, that is gold reality TV right there, if I if I can produce that show. Papa John: Get a show, get one! Joe: Oh, Papa John: The. Joe: My gosh. Papa John: You are. Joe: Oh, my gosh. Papa John: We have to make you a part of it that you couldn't just sit out there and produce. Joe: So let's talk about your CDs, because I want to make sure I have the count right, but I count nine. Papa John: Nine. Joe: Yeah, Papa John: You Joe: That's Papa John: Got Joe: What I. Papa John: It, I got it, my wife put him in a picture frame. Joe: So do you have nine too is that, is that the count you have? Papa John: I that's that's what I have nine Joe: Yeah, because I have Papa John: That's on my own. Joe: So if I go from 19, so the first one I have is 1990 for "Doodlin". Is that correct? Papa John: That's it. That's the one that Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Was ninety Joe: It says nine. Papa John: Nine, Joe: It says Papa John: Yeah. Joe: 94. And then "Comin' Home" was released in 95. Papa John: That's the next one. Joe: And then "All in the Family" was ninety eight, and then I have "Hip Cakewalk", which was Papa John: That's Joe: Two thousand Papa John: It Joe: Two Papa John: For Joe: Thousand Papa John: Us, Joe: One. Papa John: Right? Joe: Right, and then I have "Walking Uptown" two thousand four. Papa John: That's one of my favorite one to go. Joe: And then there's two in two thousand six. There Papa John: "Jumpin'", Joe: Is. Papa John: "Jumpin'". And dadaji. Joe: "Desert Heat". That's correct, and then then we have two thousand nine, which is "Big Shot." Papa John: "Big Shot". Yeah, Joe: And then Papa John: I Joe: The Papa John: Forgot Joe: "Philadelphia Papa John: About that, Joe: Story" in 2011. Papa John: Yeah. That's the last one. Joe: That's the last one you put up a post, I think, on Facebook that that cool album cover. Does that mean there's something in the works? Papa John: I did that, I did that picture, by the way, I have an app that said, I'm going to go out here and start, man. I must have got a million hits. Joe: I know, Papa John: One day I'm coming out. We'll get it. Joe: See? Papa John: I just that's what I was doing, that somehow this is our clock. Joe: Oh, I see it moving in the background. Papa John: Yeah, my sister-in-law got it for us. I forgot about it. I would I would have turned it off and we had we had a dog and it's got all the Joe: That's Papa John: It's Joe: Also. Papa John: Got all the seasons on it Christmas. I don't know what that is pretty but I got them all memorized Joe: Yeah, Papa John: [scats] Joe: Yeah, how it Papa John: It's Joe: Long ago Papa John: Over. Joe: How long is that going to play? You know, we Papa John: It's Joe: Only Papa John: Over right now. Joe: We only have an hour. Papa John: There it goes. Hey, man, we only have an hour. Lighten up, take a break, you Joe: It's Papa John: Union Joe: Take a break. Papa John: Take a break? Joe: Is there any thoughts of, I mean or any conversation of a new new CD? Papa John: Yeah, I talked to Clark, Clark calls me about once a month. Wants to know how you feelin' and then he says, well, "When you come in the studio, Pop?", I got a bunch of stuff too I could do. I mean, I've been I don't you get ready now and have your ass in there. Unless you don't have time for. Joe: I always whataya kiddin' me...it would would be an Papa John: I Joe: Honor. Papa John: Love Joe: I'm Papa John: The. Joe: Looking at the names of all these people on these CDs and I'm like, damn, my name's not on that one, wait a second, my name's not on that one, no I'm only, kidding. Papa John: They were all done on the East Coast except Desert Heat and was with the Banda Brothers. Joe: Yeah, yeah, that Papa John: That Joe: Was special. Papa John: Was yeah, that was 05, I think, wasn't it, '06 Joe: In desert, he was '06, Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Yeah, Papa John: That's when I moved here Joe: Oh, that's when it was so it was two years after I moved here. Got it. Papa John: Yeah, that's right. You know how happy I am for you when I see all the stuff you're doing, man, I pray for this stuff for you. Joe: I'm just hustling, man, I got Papa John: Now, Joe: To just keep Papa John: Why Joe: I Papa John: You Joe: Don't Papa John: Got Joe: Like Papa John: The right? Joe: I don't like I don't like letting any grass grow under my feet. Papa John: And Joe, that's why you're going to do it, man. Joe: Yeah, well, you know what, it's I'm Papa John: That's Joe: Getting pretty Papa John: Why you're Joe: Old Papa John: Going to do Joe: If Papa John: It. Joe: Something doesn't happen soon. Papa John: Well, you can't go by now, what's going on, you knowthe epidemic or whatever the hell it is that's messed up, and the politicians, they're Joe: Yeah, Papa John: All nuts. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: I mean, so. And you're still making it. You're still doing it, man. So Joe: Well... Papa John: This is like a piece of cake after everything's straightens out. Joe: Let's hope so. We got to get back to playin' is what we had to do. Papa John: Love to man Joe: It's like Papa John: Our. Joe: Oxygen for us, you know, taking this away from us is this brutal. Papa John: You know, come here and playin' myself, and after a minute, like I tried a drum machine and I want to throw it through the window. Yeah, I try I just want to have something to play with somebody just. Joe: That's what we should do. I just throw my stuff in the car, come down there, we'll just do a little Sunday pasta dinner, but we'll Papa John: Yeah. Joe: We'll work up an appetite before that. Papa John: That would be fun Joe, I'm in! Joe: Swim a little bit. Papa John: It is our masks mandatory? Joe: No, I haven't been anywhere, you haven't been anywhere, right? Papa John: I feel like cabin fever, man, but I want to stick it out Joe: Yeah, you just Papa John: I'm Joe: Got to stay Papa John: Going Joe: Safe. Papa John: Nowhere. Joe: Yeah, both of you just need to stay safe. And Papa John: Yeah, Joe: How are Papa John: You, Joe: You going Papa John: Too. Joe: Out? Are you going out to get groceries and things like that or you having them delivered or what are you doing? Papa John: Laurine calls ahead and she goes, they throw him in the car in Joe: Good, Papa John: The back and Joe: Good, Papa John: Then she drives off Joe: Good. Papa John: Right now. Everybody out there that masks everybody Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Down here. Joe: Now Papa John: So. Joe: We wear it wherever we go, so Papa John: So do we... Joe: We'll cold, so did I miss anything that you wanted to talk about? I mean. Papa John: Well, just talking about my time on the railroad, Amtrak. Joe: Amtrak, that's right, that was after Boeing. Papa John: Way after I was playing in between all of that and then I went to Amtrak was the big one...I started as an electrician man, I start I had to learn, you have to go to school and stuff. And we needed I had my kids all grown up. And you're, like starting to go through grade school and middle school as Laurene and I are going to hang out, man. The railroad had a friend she had friends, lot of people on the railroad, and I got the job on the railroad in nineteen seventy seven. Joe: And there was a gap in between Boeing and that, so why did you leave Boeing? Just tired Papa John: Layoffs Joe: Of it. Papa John: Every 10 minutes. Government, government job and I went to Seven-Up for a while to the district sales manager and playing constantly, playing down the shore six nights. At Amtrak I became a supervisor at a big job, kept movin' and I was there 20, almost 30 years. Joe: As an electrician for Amtrak? Papa John: Let's do it in the beginning and end with electrical supervisor. We built substations, took care of all the new construction, but I was still playing Joe. I mean, my job, I was playing constantly. I had to come in to work, Saturday morning, we had to work every once in a while and I come in. Where are we? What is this? Where you go to get playin' and go to have breakfast or have a cup of coffee? So by the time you got home... Joe: Time to go right to the job. Papa John: Great. The music never stopped me, but thank God I went to the railroad because the railroad retirement is ridiculous. Joe: Yes, Papa John: So Joe: Something to be said for that, right? You know. Papa John: Yeah. I mean I never expected that. Never. That was so far from any of my thoughts. My Joe: Help. Papa John: Dad used to say when your dad said go to school, put something in that back pocket Joe: That's Papa John: What do Joe: Right, Papa John: You mean, good news, right? Joe: Yeah. Papa John: I was at your school, Fredonia, man. Joe: Yeah, because you were right out there, right? Papa John: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I, Joe: Yeah. Papa John: I worked, I did gigs there, I played yeah, well, I knew the guy who ran the station WBZ or something Joe: We forget what it is now. Papa John: Yeah, Fredonia is when I was out there, Don Menza was there, all cats who played with big bands, but that's a great music school man. Joe: Yeah, it was good when when I went, we were we were at at the peak of of what was happening with, you know, we had a student run jazz ensemble and competed at the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, and those were run by the school. And we ran it ourself, you know. Papa John: The students you guys had a couple Joe: Yeah, it was fun. Papa John: You had some good players there, singers, players, if you wanted have somebody, go to the school, you had a great reputation Joe: Yeah, I got Papa John: And Joe: To play Papa John: Then. Joe: At the Tralfamadore Papa John: But Joe: Or. Papa John: Tralfamadore? Joe: Right. Papa John: The Tralf?. Joe: Isn't that what it was, The Tralf? That's what we called it. Right. For short, The Tralf. Yeah. Papa John: That's something man! Joe: And I spent when I was at Fredonia, I spent a summer in the Canadian side of Niagara Falls Papa John: Oh, Joe: Playing Papa John: Yeah, Joe: At that Papa John: We're. Joe: Amusement park that's right on the other side. Papa John: Right on the other side, I know, right off Lundie's Lane Joe: Yeah, and we played this little we did this doo wop show, it was Papa John: Of Joe: All Papa John: The. Joe: This company came and auditioned people at all the music schools for summer Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Jobs. Papa John: And Joe: So Papa John: You Joe: We Papa John: Got Joe: Got to hire. Papa John: Your. Joe: We got hired as a band. So it was my buddy on trumpet and a bass Papa John: The. Joe: Player friend, the sax player friend. And then we went there and played and we backed up these these two couples, that guy and girls Papa John: Right. Joe: That were doing this doo wop dancing and singing on the stage. Papa John: Ha Joe: We were Papa John: That's cool! Joe: The backup band behind them. We played a place called Lilly Langtry's Papa John: I know that is, oh Lilly...that's on Lundie's Land, you go up Lundie's Lane, the wax museum and. Joe: Correct, That's right. We actually were friends, so when we were when we were there because we lived there for the summer and these little apartments, the I think it was the either the tallest man in the world or tallest woman in the world. We Papa John: The woman. Joe: Literally yeah, we became friends with her and we would actually hang out at her apartment. And Papa John: She was cool man Joe: That's so Papa John: Or Joe: Funny. Papa John: That boy or girl, rah Joe: Yes, Papa John: Rah Joe: Yes. Yes, Papa John: Is just great Joe: Yes. Papa John: To leave it to me, to remember that stuff. Joe: It's so funny. Papa John: Remember the yard of beer? You went to the Yard In The Park when you had a yard of beer. Joe: I don't I don't know if I remember that. Papa John: The glass was a yard long filled it up. Joe: It's like those things that they walk around Atlantic City with, I mean, Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Las Papa John: Where Joe: Vegas, Papa John: They get Joe: Those huge. Papa John: Yard In The Park, it was called, Joe: That's so funny. Papa John: I played all over the place and Toronto, but you had a good gig. Joe: I don't know about that, but Papa John: It was a good gig. Joe: It was it was OK for at the time we had some fun. So. Papa John: What year was that Joe, do you remember? Joe: It had to be eighty two or three. Papa John: Oh, you are young. You're like my daughter. Joe: Yeah, I yeah, I'm surprised, I remember that I don't remember stuff that far back, but. Papa John: I remember not if it's if I want to remember that Joe: Yeah, Papa John: This done that, then  Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Railroad, I retired. The pension is crazy. Joe: And what was this what year was that, Papa John: '05 Joe: And then literally a year later, you moving out to Arizona? Papa John: Yes Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe:  Papa John:  Joe: There's our organ guitar trio once Johnny gets out here and a couple of years, Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Right. Papa John: We'll have some serious fun when. Joe: Hopefully we won't run out of places to play once we get kicked out of each one for being crazy. Papa John: Hopefully we WILL get kicked out. No, no, no, gigs are special you know,  we keep maintain part of the business man. You don't want to screw that up. Joe: So cool. So 2006, you retire Amtrak two thousand five, you pack up, move out two thousand six Papa John: Sold Joe: And Papa John: The crib back home, I Joe: You're. Papa John: Had a nice I had a nice crib too, that. Joe: But then you come out here and then and then we finally get to meet at one point, and then we play a bunch of gigs around town and. Yeah. Papa John: Yeah, we did. We played a lot man. You have to gigs you were getting gigs left and right. I went out there and start hustling your ass off. Joe: Hey, you have to, right? Papa John: Yeah. Joe: Can't sit by the phone. Papa John: No, what!? Joe: That's the that's the one thing that I just Papa John: Is Joe: Can't sit Papa John: All Joe: By the phone. Papa John: We'd be dead now you can use got to go out after man, but if you wait for the apple to drop off the tree, you'll starve to death, you got to go up and get it. His big thing was education and save your money Joe: And Papa John: To Joe: Save your money, well, you made Papa John: Get Joe: Him Papa John: An Joe: Proud Papa John: Education. Joe: Because you listen, you got yourself a nice a nice retirement package, right? Papa John: Well, I got lucky on that one man God, Thank Joe: You still Papa John: You. Joe: You still were able to maintain playing, Papa John: Yeah, Joe: You got an education Papa John: Oh, Joe: In the electrical field. Papa John: But Joe: What kind of car you have now? Papa John: Oh. Thirty nine Pontiac Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Hot Rod Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Yeah, man's got a big motor in three fifty chevy. All reworked, everything, everything's new and it's like a new car. Joe: How many times you get it out? Papa John: Well, right now, Johnny comes out, we take it out to terrorize the neighborhood, him and I put that car together. Joe: Oh, yeah. Papa John: Yeah, cut the frame off for a new frame underneath, it has disc breaks, power steering, Joe: What is Papa John: Big Joe: It again? Papa John: Motor, a thirty nine, nineteen thirty nine Pontiac, two door sedan. It's just it's a duplicate of a thirty nine Chevy. Joe: What is it like, is it blue or purple, one of the two, Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Which Papa John: Blue. Joe: One? Blue. Papa John: Yeah, Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Well, when you come down, will have to go out for a cruise man Joe: Yeah, I'd love to take that thing out. Papa John: It's fun man Joe: All right, Papa John: It's. Joe: We'll do it. We have a plan now. So we have a Papa John: Yeah. Joe: We have a Sunday pasta dinner. Papa John: A Sunday dinner, baby. Joe: But we jam first. And then we hop in the pool, get cooled off, then we come in and we eat our faces off. Papa John: Right, Joe: And then we Papa John: And. Joe: Go out for a little cruise when it gets Papa John: That's Joe: Cool Papa John: Right, Joe: Out, there Papa John: That's Joe: You go. Papa John: Well when we get done eating, we might not be able to move. Joe: That's true. So you might want to get everything done before we wat. Papa John: That one day you were making something, what was braciole that you make braciole? Joe: I have Papa John: You Joe: No. Papa John: Were cooking something, man. I don't know what it was Joe: I have no idea. I just made a killer designer for Jo Ellen's birthday Papa John: That. Joe: A couple of weeks ago. Yeah. Oh, maybe that's what it was. I put up Papa John: Yeah, Joe: The pot of the Papa John: I Joe: Sauce, Papa John: Love that Joe: The sauce boiling or the gravy, as we call it. Papa John: You call gravy. Joe: Yeah. I don't know if Papa John: You Joe: We're Papa John: Sauce Joe: Not Papa John: Tomato, Joe: Sure Papa John: Tomato, potato, potato, Joe: Exactly. Papa John: But some. Joe: You got to let us know if you're going to do a new recording so we can make sure we let everyone know. And like I said, as soon as all this pandemic stuff Papa John: No. Joe: Disappears, we see if we can get ourselves a gig or a concert somewhere again and get going. Papa John: Concert, Joe: Right. Papa John: I'd like to do that, yeah. Joe: We should get back at The MIM. Do another show up Papa John: I Joe: There. Papa John: Like the yeah, man, we could Joe: Yeah. Yeah. Papa John: Get a yeah, it was okay last time with nice man. Joe: Is there anything else that I missed? Papa John: Yeah, the gig in Albuquerque, wherever we were. Joe: Oh, my gosh. Papa John: Should have made a left turn at Albuquerque Joe: Oh, my gosh. Papa John: The Las Cruces Joe: Right, then we drive all the way there, we set up and then it poured Papa John: It rained Joe: And we couldn't play, right? We couldn't Papa John: That Joe: Play Papa John: They paid and Joe: And Papa John: We got Joe: They play. Papa John: Paid. Joe: So it was basically like a paid little two day trip. Papa John: Two day trip with pay Joe: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, Papa John: That was terrible. I wanted to play. Joe: No, I know. Papa John: Well, I know we weren't going to play when a guy took the B3. He said it's raining, you guys aren't playing, put it in a van. They left. I guess we're not playing. Joe: Remember, we tried to even talk one of the bars around that outdoor stage to let us play. Papa John: Across the street, yeah. Joe: Yeah, it's like we're already got paid, so just move it all into your place in play inside. Oh, gosh. Papa John: We didn't get. Joe: We can't say we didn't try. Papa John: That's where I met that trumpet player, he's on the East Coast now. Joe: Cool! Papa John: This has been a nice pod... Joe: Thanks, Papa John: Of Joe: Man. Papa John: Spaghetti meatballs. Joe: They go Papa John: And little braciole Joe: Right? Papa John: Yeah, Joe: I'm Papa John: My Joe: Really Papa John: Wife Joe: Excited Papa John: Made Joe: That you Papa John: It. Joe: Came on what'd she say. Papa John: My wife made angel hair bolognese Sunday Joe: Nice. Papa John: Scrambled meat. Joe: Yeah. Papa John: I'm glad I came on too Joe Joe: Yeah, man, it's nice Papa John: I Joe: To Papa John: Love Joe: See your face Papa John: That you Joe: That Papa John: Like that and I like Joe: I Papa John: Your face too Joe. Joe: Haven't seen you in so long, so. Papa John: I know there Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Has been a year!? Joe: I don't know. Could be, gosh. Papa John: No Joe: Like Papa John: Time. Joe: I said, my brain doesn't go backwards too well, so Papa John: Time man time Joe: I know Papa John: Is. Joe: I hear Papa John: Time Joe: Yeah. Papa John: Is on my mind, yes it is Ya know what, we should do all that stuff, do I get all those coveres I Joe: Yeah, Papa John: Love doing it to. Joe: Yeah, Papa John: My favorite Joe: Well, Papa John: Was Sly, Sly and the Family Stone. Joe: Um. Papa John: I use to love those...cover that stuff Joe: Yeah, Papa John: [sings] You might have... Joe: Well, we'll we'll have a chance again. Papa John: I hope so, man. Joe: We will. So, listen, man, I really appreciate you doing this. Papa John: Anything for, you know, you're the man, you're my friend, one of my best friends. Joe: It's nice to see you. It really is, it's nice to talk with you. Papa John: Nice to talk to you, too, man Joe: Yeah, man. All right. Well, again, thank you. You you're one of the best. And Papa John: No. Joe: You you've you've been incredible to me. So I appreciate you and I love you. And I thank you for being here. Papa John: Thank you, Joe, Joe: Ok, Papa John: And Joe: Man. Papa John: I love you, too, brother. Joe: All right, and we'll talk soon and we'll play soon Papa John: Hopefully has, God Bless! Joe: All right, man, thank you. Papa John: All right, bye bye... Joe: Bye...

75th Anniversary of VE-Day ~ European Organs Start Name Artist Album Year Comments Put On A Happy Face Simon Gledhill The Mighty Wurlitzer 1937 [AAOCCC CD] 2017 3-8 Wurlitzer, College Claparade, Geneva, Switzerland; ex-Granada Cinema, Clapham Junction, London 3:31 Boum! Tommy Desserre EP Lumen LD 1-601 4-15 Christie, Gaumont Palace Theatre, Paris, France 5:06 Flirtation Waltz Gilbert LeRoy Avant La Disparition Du Plus Grand Cinéma D'Europe [Arion ARN 33171] 4-15 Christie, Gaumont Palace Theatre, Paris, France 9:08 Eye Level (Theme from TV series Van Der Valk) Carol Williams Theatre Live! [Melcot MCT006] 1993 4-10 Wurlitzer-Strunk-Noterman, Tuschinski Theatre, Amsterdam; Concert Saturday 16 January, 1993 12:04 Uno per tutte Cor Steyn Op Het Radio Concertorgel [Imperial ILX 5003] 1966 5-27 Moller, Tesselschade Church, Hilversum, Holland 14:26 The Dream Of Olwen Pierre Palla Avro Concertorgel 1961 4-19 Hybrid: Standaart, Gottfried and Stinkens pipework with Standaart console & Compton mechanics; AVRO Studio 1, Hilversum, Holland 17:04 Sousa: Liberty Bell; Semper Fidelis; Manhattan Beach Joop Walvis EP Imperial IPE 5013 3-10 Standaart, Passage Theatre, Schiedam (Rotterdam), Holland 20:32 De Snelwandelaar (The Fast Walker) Bernard Drukker Romantiek En Ritme Op Het Radioconcertorgel [Delta DELP 062] 1969 5-27 Moller, Studio 1 Netherland Radio, Hilversum, Holland 22:57 Give me that old time religion; Nobody knows the trouble I've seen Piet van Egmond Bespeelt het Radio Concert Orgel [EMI SXLPH 1034] 5-27 Foort Moller, Tesselschade Church, Hilversum, Holland pietvanegmond.nl 28:00 Abends in der Taverne Heinrich Riethmueller Zwei in einer grossen Stadt [Teldec 6.26412 AS] 1987 4-15 Wurlitzer, Musical Instrument Museum, Berlin 31:26 Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day Jean-Charles Ablitzer Au Rendez-Vous des Poètes [Stil 1711 SAN 01] 2001 3-11 Moller, Organbuilders Laukhuff, Weikersheim, Germany; Opus 7432 (1947); originally residence of Leslie Wenman, Westcliff, South Africa 34:43 Elite Syncopations Fraser Gartshore Jazz auf der Möller-Kinoorgel 3-11 Moller, Organbuilders Laukhuff, Weikersheim, Germany; Opus 7432 (1947); originally residence of Leslie Wenman, Westcliff, South Africa 38:33 The Greatest Show On Earth Robert Ducksch The Mighty Wurlitzer 1990 4-16 Wurlitzer, National Institute for Music Research, Berlin (1982); ex-residence of Werner Ferdinand von Siemens, Berlin (1929) 40:32 No Matter What Bernd Wurzenrainer Wurlitzer - Legende in Dur und Moll [PSALLITE CD 60471] 2003 2-6 Wurlitzer, Orgelbau Friedrich Fleiter, Munster-Nienberge, Germany; ex-Pig and Whistle Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA (1924) 45:10 Kleiner Wiener Marsch (Little Vienna March) Gerhard Gregor Gerhard Gregor und die grosse Welte-Funkorgel [Klassik Edition Extra] 1963 3-23 Welte-Funkorgel, NDR Studios; 1948-1979 47:46 It's Magic Dudley Savage A Touch Of Romance [DS 1] 1995 3-7 Compton plus Melotone & Solo Cello, Compton House (Ralf Krampen) Brey-am-Rhine, Germany; ex-Regal, Putney (3-6) 50:15 Japanische Puppenspiele (Japanese Puppet Shows) Paul Mania Electrola EG 2285 1931 2-7 Wurlitzer, op. 2015, style 165X SP [1929], 'Die Kamera', Berlin W8, Germany 53:29 Steig in das Traumboot der Liebe (Get Into The Dreamboat Of Love) Fritz Seidel Plays Evergreens (Private CD) 1955 2-7 (?) Hupfeld, Schauburg Cinema (1000 seats), Dresden (1927 to 1960s). Organ has disappeared. 58:46 Radetzky-Marsch Kevin Morgan Sommer In Weikersheim [Laukhuff CD] 3-11 Moller, Organbuilders Laukhuff, Weikersheim, Germany; Opus 7432 (1947); originally residence of Leslie Wenman, Westcliff, South Africa

At times in life you feel adrift. Unable to harness the love and the passion that reins inside. When you begin to evolve in any art you start on that far away Oregon Hill with a Hawk flying overhead. Knowing that John Mclaughlins guitar might swoop up and under and around my guests bass lines. Slowly you build security in your own voice and sound so that your called upon to bluegrass country, to the Fillmore West, to Bearsville, to Europe, to a land of sunshine. My guest today is a master of all trades when it comes to music. A cat who burns creation and passion and urgency into an amalgamation of paradigms that provide a natural high. The live experience of playing three sets of music night after night after night with Miles Davis. My guest was also a prolific studio musician at a time when identities were created, linear notes were written, pictures were taken and barriers had not gone up. My guest Has played with Bonnie Raitt and Phil Wilson, Maria Muldaur, Nick Brignola, Roland Hannah and and with the perfect balance of mathematics and soul. Powerhouse Jazz or chasing Colin Walcott's dancing tables or hitting the Nashville Skyline with bluegrass fiddlers or counting off one, two free with Eric Kloss and Pat Martino. My guest remains a tour De force playing with George Cables, Jon Abercrombie Chick Corea or or at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ On October 4th for two sets of music with his band Prism. Bassist Dave Holland welcome to the JFS...... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jake-feinberg/support

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Guests: Matt Stead, Andy Andrews Hosts: Stuart Yoshida, Doug Brown It’s a fun-filled episode with first time guest Matt Stead of the Uke Room, and regular guest Andy Andrews of PUKA joining Doug Brown and me to  talk about creating an ukulele experience, looking at ways of inspiring us, creativity traps, ways of using the ukulele to connect people and end loneliness, and a whole bunch more! YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRWKuVjsJKQUHYXaXXfmGtA/ Shoutouts: • Greg Simpson • Tom Towle • Beverly Wood • Don Hatelstad • Ben • Jodie Lee • Matt Williams • Abe Deshotel Links:  • The Uke Room (Matt Stead): https://theukeroom.com/  • Fender Custom Andy Summers Strat reproduction: https://andysummers.com/news/fender-guitar/  • Phil Doleman: https://www.phildoleman.co.uk/  • Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._B_The_Gentleman_Rhymer  • Charlie Beer Ukulele: https://www.facebook.com/Charliebeerukulele/  • Andydan - Uke Planet: https://www.ukeplanet.co.uk/tag/andydan/  • GNUF: https://northernuke.com/  • Matt Stead on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoAMOtbORqibSDsxBCVFZlw  • Andy Andrews on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ukeandy  • Sulfur dioxide (volcanic emission): https://www.environment.gov.au/protection/publications/factsheet-sulfur-dioxide-so2  • Wonderstruck Ukulele Academy: https://www.wonderstruckukuleleacademy.com/  • Forest Ukulele Retreat 2020: https://theukeroom.com/events/retreat/  • Tunes in the Dunes: https://tunesinthedunes.com/  • Musical Instrument Museum: https://mim.org/  • London Ukulele Project: https://londonukuleleproject.co.uk/london-youth-ukulele-orchestra/tutors  • Gabby Pahinui: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Pahinui  • Feed to meters conversion: https://www.metric-conversions.org/length/feet-to-meters.htm • Doug Brown and the Denver Ukulele Community: https://den-uke.com/ Recorded on November 17, 2019.

David & Joe speak with acclaimed spoken word artist Marshall Davis Jones about his groundbreaking work Touchscreen, the intersection of tech & humanity, and the power of voice and paralanguage. Marshall Jones is a celebrated spoken word artist whose work is exploding around the world. His unique gift runs deep into the human experience, exploring universal themes that run the gamut from identity and culture to connection and technology. Marshall, who has performed for TED audiences in Montreal, Hollywood, and at the Scott Air Force Base, showcases his incredible work for audiences, collaborates with clients on incredible customized material, and speaks with passion about the creative process–something he understands like no one else. As a professional spoken word artist and dramatic performer, Marshall has been featured in two TEDx conferences, and has shared the podium with the likes of Marc Lamont Hill, Ambassador Andrew Young, Henry Louis Gates, and Simon Sinek. He has also performed at the Musical Instrument Museum, the Omega Institute, and at BBC World Service. --- Get in touch with Funny as Tech! Our relationship with tech is messy...let's discuss. On Funny as Tech, a comedian (Joe Leonardo) teams up with a tech ethicist (David Ryan Polgar) to tackle how emerging tech is upending the human experience. FunnyAsTech.com DavidRyanPolgar.com JoeLeonardo.com Info@FunnyAsTech.com

Richard Walter, curator for Phoenix, Arizona’s amazing Musical Instrument Museum, joins us on this week’s Fretboard Journal Podcast. We talk about his background, his role at the museum and, most importantly, about MIM’s current exhibit, The Electric Guitar: Inventing an American Icon. The exhibit, which closes on September 15, 2019, gathers a wide array of historic and legendary instruments, including Speedy West’s Bigsby (profiled in a recent Fretboard Journal) and guitars from Alvino Rey, Bo Diddley and Les Paul. This episode is sponsored by Mono Cases with special thanks to FJ presenting sponsors Carter Vintage, Martin Guitars and Gibson.   Want to support the show? Get a discounted one-year digital subscription to our magazine for just $30. 

USModernist took 25 fans of the podcast to tour Phoenix, Arizona last November. Phoenix is the home of the Chimichanga, which Tucson disputes, but more importantly for us, the city is home to some really great Modernist architecture.  We saw the Musical Instrument Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West, Paulo Soleri’s Cosanti and Arcosanti, Wright’s First Christian Church, and the David and Gladys Wright House, among many other amazing buildings.  One of these was Phoenix Central Library, designed by Arizona’s Will Bruder. Largely self-trained, Bruder apprenticed with Paolo Soleri in woodwork, metal work, and masonry and contributed to Soleri's book Arcology. After graduating from college in 1969, Bruder apprenticed with Gunnar Birkerts, assisting in design of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. He opened his first studio in 1974 and in 1987 was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome.  Host George Smart interviewed Bruder in the lobby of the Embassy Suites right off Central Avenue, just a few blocks up from his Phoenix Central Library.

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Guest: EP Davis Hosts: Stuart Yoshida, Doug Brown Can you hear it? It’s the call of the wild ukulele that wants to be captured and brought home to be tamed and made part of your ukulele collection. That’s right, we’ve got EP Davis here to talk about the Ukulele Acquisition Syndrome - what it means, and how to begin. Plus, there’s a bunch of shoutouts to ukulele groups, ideas for starting your own ukulele Podcast, and part 4 of the Subversive Ukulele. Support the Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ooktown Make a one-time donation: https://ooktown.com/donate References on the Subversive Ukulele: The Righteous Mind - http://righteousmind.com/ Shout-outs to: Gisborne Ukulele Underground - https://www.facebook.com/Gisborne-Ukulele-Underground-607416402694238/ Biggest Little Ukulele Ensemble (B.L.U.E.) in Reno, NV - https://www.facebook.com/events/1021436854642871/ Sons of the Beach - http://sonsofthebeach-santacruz.com/ Links: 10th Annual Denver Ukefest - http://swallowhillmusic.org/events-and-festivals/denver-ukefest/ Na Hoku Hanohano voting - http://www.nahokuhanohano.org/favorite2017 Musical Instrument Museum - https://mim.org/ The Podcasters' Studio - http://thepodcastersstudio.com/ Podcasting mic - https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATR2100-USB-Cardioid-Dynamic-Microphone/dp/B004QJOZS4/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1493505632&sr=1-1&keywords=atr2100 Grand Northern Ukulele Festival (GNUF) - http://northernuke.com/ EP Davis: Website - http://www.hanaleiep.com/Hanaleiep/EP_Davis.html Doug Brown: Website - http://den-uke.com/

Chapter 22 of the Frederic Henry Balfour translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion. Intro chime credit: theveryrealhorst, Solfeggio Wind Chimes, MI 528 Hz Single Cut #2, freesound.org Ending credits:  stomachache, Apollonia organ (Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona), freesound.org

Brett Berhoff invites us for an exclusive backstage experience in his Legends of Music series, where he brings you the most intriguing conversations with the most inspiring minds from around the globe! Today I'm spending time with the world famous Paul Reed Smith, founder of PRS Guitars. PRS Guitars is one of the largest electric guitar manufacturers in the United States of America.  These incredible instruments are found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Guitar Museum, Musical Instrument Museum, and the Smithsonian. Continue The Experience at BrettBerhoff.com/PRS PRS Guitars are played by countless Rockstars including John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Blake Shelton, Neal Schon (Journey and Bad English), John McLaughlin(Top ranked in Rolling Stone Magazine's Greatest Guitars of All Time), Linkin Park, Orianth (Michael Jackson and Alice Cooper), Mark Tremonti (Creed and Alter Bridge),  Zach Meyers and Eric Bass of Shinedown, Ricky Skaggs, Martin Simpson, Tony McManus, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks(The Allman Brothers Band), Alex Lifeson (Rush),  Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake), Brent Mason, Dave Navarro (Janes Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers), David Grissom, Dusty Waring, Gary Grainger (Rod Stewart), Mark Holcomb, Martin Simpson, Jose Rios, Boscoe Fance, Brandon Autry, Matt Brooks, Justin Lyons, Tom Johnston and Michael Carter.   This list of exceptional musicians only represents a portion of the PRS artists.  Over the years, these artist have been involved with or have one themselves Grammy Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Brit Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, VH1 Big, Radio Music Awards, American Music Awards, Billboard Century Awards, CHCI Medallions of Excellence, Grammy Hall of Fame Award, Guinness Book of World Records, Hollywood Walk of Fame Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and many more!   Please visit BrettBerhoff.com or the TheBBEnetwork.com for more information on this and other great shows!   You can find more on PRS Guitars at PRSGuitars.com Other PRS Artists include: Aaron Marshall - Intervals Ace - Skunk Anansie Adam Gontier - Saint Asonia Adam Hall - Another Lost Year Adam Hawley - Jennifer Lopez Adam Smith - Superbob AJ Larsen - Madison Rising Al Di Meola - Al Di Meola Al Schnier - Moe Alan Price - Madam Adam Alex Bruno - XY Alex Gaskarth - All Time Low Alex Grossi - Quiet Riot Alex Huston - Dead Beggars Alexandria Reyes - My Elysian Alexi DiPippo - Rome In A Day Andrea Braido Andres Osorio Andrew Synoweic Andy Davis - The Band Perry Andy Guerrero - Flobots Angel Fernandez - Marc Anthony Angel Paz - Rock Of Ages Angelo Bruchini - Massive Attack Anthony Armstrong - Red Anthony Rankin Anton Cosmo - Waking The Parade Antonio Bernardini - Sober Ariel Pozzo - Miguel Mateos Art Alexakis - Everclear Artie Renkon - Scott Stapp Band Artur Gadowski - Ira Barry Graul - Mercy Me BC Kochmit - Nonpoint Beau Tackett - Blake Shelton Bernard Gann - Liturgy Bernie Godwin - The Stick People Bill Nershi - The String Cheese Incident Bob Britt - Wynonna Judd Bob Minner - Tim McGraw Bob Weir - Ratdog / The Grateful Dead Bobby Ingram - Molly Hatchet Boscoe France - Boscoe France Band Boscoe France Brad Delp - Boston Brad Delson - Linkin Park Brandon Autry Brandon Mills - Decyfer Down Brendan Bayliss - Umphrey's McGee Brendan Steineckert - The Used Brent Poe Brent Rowan Brent Wilson - Sara Evans Bret Gerringer - Laws of Average Brett Campbell - Pallbearer Brett Danaher - Pat Green Band Brian Bassett - Foghat Brian Bunn - Thomas Rhett Brian Craddock - Daughtry Brian DeNeeve Brian Franklyn - Kenny Rogers Brian Nutter - Keith Urban Brian Olson - Fall From Grace Bruce Kulick - Grand Funk Railroad Bryan Ewald - Jarflys / Starbelly Bryan Laurenson - Copeland Bryan Olesen - Vota C.J. Pierce - Drowning Pool C.T. Fields - Lovebettie Cailyn Lloyd Calvin Nichols - Jimmie Van Zant Carl Heiman - Righteous Vendetta Casey Callahan-Hean - Jimmie's Chicken Shack Casey Newsome - Screaming For Silence Cesar Ramirez Chad Wilkinson - Crimson Fool Chan Kinchla - Blues Traveler Charlie Colin - Train Charlie Crowe Charlie Simpson - Fightstar Chen Balbus - Orphaned Land Cheska Zaide - A+ Dropouts Chris Anderson - The Outlaws Chris Babbitt - Gemini Syndrome Chris Haskett - Rollins Band Chris Henderson - 3 Doors Down Chris Kelly - Galactic Empire Chris Lee - Moogatu Chris Loocke Chris Mandra - Telesma Chris Robertson - Black Stone Cherry Chris Rodriquez - Keith Urban Chris Shucosky - Cinder Road Chris Wrate Chrissy Paolillo - KLIK Christopher Goodwin - American Fangs Christopher Goodwin - American Fangs Chuck Jacobs - Kenny Rogers Clayton Cagle - Apothesary Clint Lagerberg Clint Lowery - Sevendust Clinton Cunanan - Another Lost Year Cody Canada - Cross Canadian Ragweed Cody Kilby Cole Phillips - Cole Phillips Corey Lowery - Saint Asonia Cosmin Lupu Craig Defalco - Laidlaw Craig Morgan Curtis Chambers - Eminem Curtis Wright - Jamey Johnson Dallas Perkins Dameon Aranda - ARANDA Damion Mantle Damon Johnson - Disturbed / Slave To The System Dan Candia - Falling Through April Dan Estrin - Hoobastank Dan Fulmer - Presence Dan Kanter - Fefe Dobson Dan Kinzie - Bottom Line Daniel Lopez - Stereopop Daniel Rego - Demonic Resurrection Danny Irwin - Screaming For Silence Danny Lohner - Nine Inch Nails Darin Smith - Tim McGraw Darran Smith - Funeral For A Friend Daryl Brown - The James Brown Band / Soul Generals Daryl Hall - Hall and Oates Dave Cabrera Dave Delhomme - American Idol Dave Hill - Colouring Lesson Dave Weiner - Steve Vai Dave Young - Devin Townsend Project David Immerman David Wallace - Jake Owen Davy Grahs - Pop Evil Davy Knowles Dean Deleo - Stone Temple Pilots Deborah Hicks - Joan Zen Denis Desloge - He Is Legend Denny Colt - Ven Helsing's Curse / Tang Denny Hemmingson - Tim McGraw Denny Jiosa Denver Dalley - Desaparecidos Derek Mount - Family Force Five Derek Wells Derek Williams - Chasing Saftey Devin Malone Dhruv Ghanekar Dominic Cifarelli Dominik Witczak - Coma Don Carr - Oak Ridge Boys Donavan White - Vertical Horizon Donna Grantis - Prince / 3RDEYEGIRL Drew Goddard - Karnivool Drew Recny - Superbob Driver Williams - Eric Church Dru Decaro - Miguel Dustin Belt - Big Time Rush / Heffron Drive Dustin Lynch Ed Eason - Carrie Underwood Ed Robertson - Barenaked Ladies Eilidh McKellar Elaine Koo Emil Werstler Emmanuel Sotela - Akasha Emrah Demirel - Pitch Black Process Eric Bass - Shinedown Eric Friedman - Tremonti Eric Gunderson - Love & Theft Eric Miker - Decemberadio Eric Varnell Eric Weaver - 12 Stones Ethan Roberts Eugene Pao Evan Taubenfeld Forrest Anderson - Hot Tub Limo Frank Romano - Usher Frank Solari Gabby Alipe - Urbandub Gabriele "Rusty" Rustichelli - KLOGR Gary Kemp - Spandau Ballet Gary Larsen - Royal Teeth Gene Quade - Sam Grow Band George Dolivo - Rhino Bucket George Miadis - Sonar Lights George Pajon - Fergie / Black Eyed Peas George Solonos - Marianne's Wish German Daffunchio - Las Pelotas Gerry Leonard - David Bowie Godfrey Townsend - Alan Parsons Project Grant Mickelson - Taylor Swift Greg Foresman - Martina McBride Greg Hind - Little River Band Greg Paulson - Arkaik Gustavo Cerati - Soda Stereo Hayden Fogle Hayden Maringer Hayley Sales Heath Robinson - Tyler + The Tribe Hector Cervantes - Casting Crowns Henry Kaldre - The Henry Maneuver Howard Leese - The Paul Rodgers Band / Heart Ian Perkins - The Gaslight Anthem Ira Mayfield - Kelly Bell Band Isaac Ellsworth - MoneyPenny Island Styles - Lotus Crush J.R. Bareis - Islander / Love and Death Jack Barakat - All Time Low Jacob Hemphill - SOJA Jake Jones - We As Human Jake Owen James Hedden James Young - Eli Young Band Jamie Hanna - Gary Allan Jana Hunter - Lower Dens Jared Hartmann - Flyleaf Jason Goss - Toothgrinder Jason Hawkins - Grandhour Jason Null - Saving Abel Javier Cazares - Los Pecados de Maria Jay Bartlett - Counterpoint Jean Nascimento Jeff Cook - Alabama Jeff Douglas - The Oak Ridge Boys Jeff King - Reba McEntire Jeffrey Czum - Cute Is What We Aim For Jeremy Schon - Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Jerry Cortez - Tower of Power Jesse Bonds Jessie Covets - True Violet Jim "Moose" Brown - Bob Seger Jim Kimball - Reba McEntire Jim Matheos - Fates Warning Jim McCarty - Cactus Jimmy Buffett Jimmy Dormire Jimmy Herring - Widespread Panic/The Ringers/Aquarium Rescue Unit Jimmy Kwong - SoulSwitch Jimmy Stafford - Train JJ Grey - JJ Grey & Mofro JL Ducroiset - Xplore Yesterday (XY) Jo De Messina Jock Bartley - Firefall Jody Harris - Brad Paisley Joe Don Rooney - Rascal Flatts Joe Smothers - Joe Smothers Joe Walsh - Eagles John Bohlinger - Lee Brice John Frase - Hot Tub Limo John Gibbons - Bardo Pond John Mayer John McDermott - Stroke 9 John McLaughlin John Roberge - Prospect Hill John Sulkowski - Gemini Syndrome John Wesley - Porcupine Tree Johnathan Steingard - Hawk Nelson Johnny Garcia - Garth Brooks Jon Dretto Jon Fadem - Start Making Sense Jordan Lally - Fiction 20 Down Jordan Smith - Diarrhea Planet Jose Rios - Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals José Rios - Anderson Paak José Rios - Anderson Paak Joseph D. Rowland - Pallbearer Josh Gilbert - Wovenwar Josh Hamler - Shaman's Harvest Josh Mix - Casting Crowns Josh Smith - Ashes Remain Josh Waterman - Lansdowne Josh Wilkerson - Green River Ordinance Josiah Prince - Disciple Jules Drucker Junior Marvin Justin Gilman - Diamond Youth Justin Lyons Justin McCain - Emphatic Justin Olmstead - Righteous Vendetta Justin Smith Kat Dyson Kellen McGregor - Memphis May Fire Kellen McGregor - Memphis May Fire Kenji Chan - Bruno Mars Kenny Greenberg Kenyon Saylor White - American Fangs Kerry Marx - Grand Ole Opry Kevin Hearn - Barenaked Ladies Kevin Post - Blake Shelton Kevin Skaff - A Day To Remember Killian Gavin - Boy & Bear Kirk McKim - Pat Travers Band Korey Cooper - Skillet Kris Roberts - Funeral For A Friend Kurt Allison - Jason Aldean Kyle Mathis - Parabelle Larry Paxton - Grand Ole Opry Leo Herrara - Caravanserai Lexii Lynn Frazier Lisa Lim Louie Malpeli - This Is All Now Luke Hemmings - 5 Seconds Of Summer Mac Powell - Third Day Mahesh Tinaikar Marcos Curiel - P.O.D. Mariano Escobedo - Los Pecados de Maria Mario Sebastian - Marc Anthony Mark Hopkins - Mark Hopkins & The Hotel Mark Hosking - Karnivool Mark Lee - Third Day Marshall Stephens - Darkhaus / Pro-Pain Martin Barre - Jethro Tull Marty Friedman Marty Shiff - Martina McBride Massimo Varini Mat Dauzat - Hydrovibe / Kelly Osbourne Band Matt Baird - Spoken Matt Bond - The Dirty Youth Matt Brooks - Like A Storm Matt Klavins - Ne Obliviscaris Matt Scannell - Vertical Horizon Matthew Jones - Cowboy Mouth Matthew Mielke - Toothgrinder Matthew Volkes - People's Blues Of Richmond Melissa Ethridge - Melissa Ethridge Michael Bolton - Michael Bolton Michael Carter - Luke Bryan Michael Clifford - 5 Seconds Of Summer Michael Gibbons - Bardo Pond Michael Martin - All That Remains Michael Sweet - Stryper Miguel Esparza - Arkaik Mikael Akerfeldt - Opeth Mike Adkins - Unkle Kracker Mike Eli - Eli Young Band Mike Kennerty - All American Rejects Mike Mushok - Staind Mike Scott - Justin Timberlake Mike Shinoda - Linkin Park Mike Stacey - Sam Grow Band Miles Gilderdale - Acoustic Alchemy Millo Torres Mitchell Curtis Mordehai Ben Hamo - Negba Myles Kennedy - Alter Bridge Nate Foley Neil Greenhaw Neil Kuhlman - 3 Years Hollow Nick Catanese Nick DePirro - Night Verses Nicky Moroch Nicole Hawkins - Grandhour Noah Henson - Brantley Gilbert Noam “Hargol” Burg Noel Hogan - The Cranberries Okan Ersan Orianthi - Orianthi Pablo Hurtado - Camila Pat Buchanan - Faith Hill Pat Dimitri Pat Travers - Pat Travers Band Patrick Droney Paul Allen - Big & Rich / Cowboy Troy Paul Allender - White Empress Paul Jackson Jr. Paul Phillips - Puddle of mudd Paul Reed Smith - Paul Reed Smith Band Paul Zach - Remedy Drive Paulo Morete - InMune Pav Sharda - Sweet Gorilla Pennal Johnson Pete Provost - Sanctus Real Pete Robinson - Electric Mary Pete Strzelecki - She Said Fire Peter Anthony - Black Summer Phil Hilborne - Phil Hilborne Band Phil Sneed - Story of the Year Philip Manansala - Of Mice & Men Plotr Grudzinski Randy Bowland - 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This week the Two Gay Geeks interview Pia Thrasher, artist and filmmaker, about the upcoming release of The Appointment and other projects. In the second half we have a discussion about Legends of Tomorrow, Musical Instrument Museum, and Arizona Opera. We also have our Birthdays and Listener Feedback segments with a special comment about feedback. Thank you to everyone who leaves us feedback. Check below in this article for important links to items mentioned in the show. As always we welcome your feedback, let us know what you think, good or bad we want to know. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us. Pia Thrasher Our YouTube channel is Two Gay Geeks (audio only):Show Notes / Links: Jessica Jones Season Two Announced TG Geeks Episode 56 Teaser for Pee-Wee’s New Movie Is Here! What Can We Expect From “Robotech: The Movie”? – article by Tom Arild Gulbrandsen Look for an article later this week concerning the January 31st online release of The Appointment, the Horror Comedy short from Pia Thrasher Thank You Phoenix Comicon – check the Guest List, events, and get your memberships for 2016 at a discount until January 31st. Check it out at www.phoenixcomicon.com The Arkle Times Post Dispatch News - @arkle Doctor Who Fancast Guide - Dr Who: Talking Who on Twitter @TalkingWho Thank you to The Lookie Show for their continued support on Twitter. @LookieShow Check them out on Youtube as well here We want to give a special shout out to the Facebook Group “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes to their page. Look for them at www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek. And a special Thank You to Jeremiah Reeves, the moderator, for being such a great guy. Are you a writer? The Two Gay Geeks don’t get to go to every movie that gets released. The PR houses have not deemed us “worthy” yet to be invited to press screenings. So, if you fancy yourself as a movie reviewer and wish to write a review of a new film, get in touch with us using the contact us page and use the subject line of Movie Review Options. We can then contact you and work out the details. Thank you. Social Media We can now be found on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Google +, see the links on the right sidebar. You are Important To UsWe welcome your suggestions. Let us know what you like or don’t like or if you have an opinion or comment on an article or the show. You may email us below, comment on Facebook, or call our listener line at 469.TG Geeks (469.844.3357). Let us know if there is something we should be watching and why, we may just give you a shout-out in a future episode. We will not publish or use your email address to spam you.

A member of the Yaqui people of southern Arizona, Gabriel Ayala is at the forefront ofa new generation of Native Americans making a career performing classical music. He earneda Master's Degree in Music Performance from the University of Arizona in 1997, has taught atall educational levels from elementary through college, and serves as a competition adjudicator.Although Gabriel truly enjoys being a teacher his busy touring schedule allows him to only teachin masterclass settings. Ayala performs regularly throughout the United States and has appeared at the Poway Center for Performing Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Museum for the American Indian, and Oscar Meyer Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2010, Gabriel was honored to perform at the Musical Instrument Museum in a series called “Guitar Masters”. Hehas been recognized by the former State of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, now Directorof Homeland Security, for his musical achievements. In addition, he has also been honored as the Artist of the Month for the Indigenous Internet Chamber of Commerce (IICOC). Not only is Gabriel recognized locally and in the United States but has had the opportunity to be the featured performer at the “Festival Internacional de la Guitarra Academica” in Venezuela with Performances in Caracas, Guarenas, Guatire and on National Public Television throughout Venezuela.

A member of the Yaqui people of southern Arizona, Gabriel Ayala is at the forefront ofa new generation of Native Americans making a career performing classical music. He earneda Master's Degree in Music Performance from the University of Arizona in 1997, has taught atall educational levels from elementary through college, and serves as a competition adjudicator.Although Gabriel truly enjoys being a teacher his busy touring schedule allows him to only teachin masterclass settings. Ayala performs regularly throughout the United States and has appeared at the Poway Center for Performing Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Museum for the American Indian, and Oscar Meyer Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. In 2010, Gabriel was honored to perform at the Musical Instrument Museum in a series called “Guitar Masters”. Hehas been recognized by the former State of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, now Directorof Homeland Security, for his musical achievements. In addition, he has also been honored as the Artist of the Month for the Indigenous Internet Chamber of Commerce (IICOC). Not only is Gabriel recognized locally and in the United States but has had the opportunity to be the featured performer at the “Festival Internacional de la Guitarra Academica” in Venezuela with Performances in Caracas, Guarenas, Guatire and on National Public Television throughout Venezuela.