Podcast appearances and mentions of pearl lion

For over a decade Jared Scharff was the lead guitarist for the Saturday Night Live Band, as he still was when we did this interview during the freewheeling, pre-pandemic Before Times. He has since left the show and relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a songwriter, a session musician, and a solo artist, releasing music under the name Pearl Lion. The move seems to have paid off: on his own and as part of the production team Queen Sixties, Scharff has been a part of four albums that debuted at Number 1 in the past two years, by a diverse range of artists from Da Baby to Machine Gun Kelly.   Jared joined Anthony to discuss Radiohead's iconic 1997 masterpiece Ok Computer. An album of this depth, magnitude, and detail required adequate and appropriate fortification, so Anthony chose two huge names in California Zinfandel, to reflect the album's moody grace and dead-serious themes:  a 2018 Ridge East Bench Zin and a 2015 Ravenswood Big River Zin. Two expressions of the same varietal were chosen to mirror both the album's ethereal, angelic harmonies and its gloomy, deep, and dour dissection of contemporary consumer culture.   Guest: Jared Scharff Album: Radiohead, Ok Computer Wine: Ridge, East Bench Zin 2018 and Ravenswood, Big River Zin, 2015

Saturday Night Live Band Guitarist Jared Scharff joins the show to talk about how he go the gig with SNL, his solo project Pearl Lion, his love for hockey and much more!

Saturday Night Live guitarist JARED SCHARFF plugs in with host Jude Gold in the living room of Maroon 5's James Valentine (who makes cameo appearances in this episode)and shares what it has been like to perform on SNL for nine years and counting. Scharff also discusses the solo songs he releases as PEARL LION, and demonstrates the art of "unnecessary shredding."

Episode 29 features independent artist and Saturday Night Live house band guitarist Jared Scharff. Jared talks about his electronic-based instrumental solo project Pearl Lion, how he got the gig on SNL, and collaborating with Fox Animation Domination Hi-Def on the making of Pearl Lion’s first music video. Songs from Pearl Lion featured in the podcast include Alpha4. Find out more about Jared at facebook.com/JaredScharffOfficial Follow Jared on Twitter @ScharffIsHere

So. For someone having a somewhat difficult time mentally getting past the hurdle of 40, here is the very definition of letting it go: a first take mix of songs I hadn't listened to in their entirety before queueing them for possible release on a mix. I gave them each a very quick skim, threw them in a playlist, and tried to mix them together. And quite by accident, I absolutely assure you, it is 40 minutes, 40 seconds long. It stands among the shortest mixes I have made. Sure, it is not the best mix I have ever done. But it is not the worst. I listened to it 5 times at work. Plus once on the drive there and once again coming home. :-) I don't even love every song, to say the very least. In fact there are a few that would have been cut save for the fact that I was happy with the thought of the whole thing. Spontaneous, short, without judgement. So here it is, barely a few days after I let go of 39.75. It's worth a listen or 2. Please share and enjoy!BiH 40 feat. Vogue Dots, Jose Gonzales (remixed by Filous Mount), Yumi Zouma, Dream Beach, Sound Remedy, Sirena, Kizmet, p-i-x, Grace Mitchell, Pearl Lion, Seoul