Podcast appearances and mentions of Steve Hunter

Send us a message, so we know what you're thinking!Why do you like the music you do?  Is it as simple as “It's what I heard on the radio”? Or something deeper? People with elder siblings may be exposed to music earlier than first children.   Jeff had an older brother, so was exposed earlier to cool music - Beatles, Janis, Hendrix, and so on.  Mick was the eldest in his family and had to find his own taste. (No surprise considering what he listens to!) Were you bullied as a child?  Influence!  Did you share music with your friends?  Influence!  Did you have access to a good radio station?  Or print media?  Influence!! We talk about our early influences – musical & otherwise – and look at how they played a role in what we listen to today.    In Rock News, Ringo has released a country album, and Toto is touring.  Oh well, shouldn't take them long to play their 3 hits. You know Jeff's obsessed with AI, so he asked three AI brands to nominate the greatest albums of 1971.  Not much variation, really.  One day, we may ask them to understand quality, rather than sales figures, and see what they give us.    Our Album You Must Listen to Before you Die is “Blue” by Joni Mitchell - an top grade album that deserves to be here.  Mick references Atlantic Records' sampler called “Very Together” which featured “Carey” from this album, and pointed out a link between Joni Mitchell and Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth. How did YOUR tastes develop?  Drop us a line & let us know. Enjoy! References:  RAM Magazine, Rock Australia Magazine, Countdown, Molly Meldrum, 2DoubleJay, The Magus/Holger Brockman, Chris Winter, Mac Cocker, “Never Mind the Bollocks”, The Sex Pistols, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie, “Five Years”, “Room to Move”, Chris Winter, “Starman”, “Rock'n'roll Suicide”, Birdland, Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, Brian Eno, “Another Green World”, “Zawinul Lava”, “Rock'n'Roll Animal”, Lou Reed, Steve Hunter, “Sweet Jane”, “Heroin”, “Rock'n'Roll”, Berlin, Alice Cooper, Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel, “Car”, “Stranded”, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, “Song for Europe”, “Street Life”, “Psalm”, Sisters of Mercy, XTC, Nico, REM, Television, Patti Smith, “Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band”, The Beatles, "Within You Without You”, “Tomorrow Never Knows”, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Like a Rolling Stone”, Revolver, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel, Pearl, Janis Joplin, Tapestry, Carole King, Slade Alive, Hot August Nigh”, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “Dark Side of the Moon”, “Led Zeppelin IV”, “Silk Degrees”, Box Scaggs, “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, Rick Wakeman, “Woodstock”, “Monterey Pop”, “The Song Remains the Same”, “The Last Waltz”, The Guitar Spa, Redeye Records, John Foy, bootleg records, “His Master's Voice”, “Sheetkeeckers”, Australian electronica/dance music store, Hipgnosis, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Regurgitator, “I like your old stuff better than your new stuff", DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Blue, Joni Mitchell, Henry Lewy, “Very Together”, “This Flight Tonight”, Nazareth  Episode Playlist  The first song played by 2DoubleJay - “You Just Like Me ‘Cos I'm Good in Bed” 

It's a grab bag of topics today! Baby names, hypnosis, ducks, tall people, and writing to celebrities! This MN Goodbye is dedicated to Steve Hunter.

Sean Mooney sits down with Steve Hunter, Managing Director at TM Capital, to discuss the nuanced world of M&A, the key ingredients for creating value in a business, and what both buyers and sellers need to know for a successful deal. Steve offers practical advice for private equity professionals and business owners, sharing timeless insights from his decades-long career and a behind-the-scenes perspective on helping companies achieve transformational outcomes. Episode Highlights: 1:12 - Steve Hunter shares his journey from rural Pennsylvania to a career in M&A, including his early days at Alex. Brown and Robinson Humphrey. 8:11 - Building value in a business: How to de-risk operations, grow strategically, and attract top buyers by focusing on recurring revenue, growth opportunities, and strong teams. 19:02 - Why every seller should prepare their business as though it's “sale-ready” from day one to maximize outcomes. 24:48 - The importance of transparency, top-tier advisors, sell-side QofE, and handling the overwhelming volume of data requests during an M&A process. 32:06 - Steve shares advice for buyers: Avoiding abrasiveness, thoroughly preparing for management meetings, and balancing operational oversight post-acquisition. 40:59 - TM Capital's tailored approach: A Goldilocks strategy with boutique-level customization and deep investment in deal preparation, including advanced data analytics. 44:27 - Steve looks ahead to 2025 and shares why he's optimistic about a strong year for M&A activity. 51:06 - Insights for life and leadership: The importance of asking for what you want and recognizing that anyone can shape the world around them. For more information on Edison Partners, go to https://www.tmcapital.com/ For more information on Casey Myers, go to https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjhunter For more information on BluWave and this podcast, go to https://www.bluwave.net/podcasts

In our final week of Gothtober your fiendish-yet-friendly ghouls bring you an episode all about bands playing other bands songs! These are familiar songs you hear at every HALLOWEEN party this time of year! What vile and twisted interpretations can our rock n' punk n' metal ambassadors make??? Listen if you dare…What is it we do here at InObscuria? Every show Kevin opens the crypt to exhume and dissect from his personal collection; an artist, album, or collection of tunes from the broad spectrum of rock, punk, and metal. Robert is forced to test his endurance and provide feedback, as he has no idea what he will be subjected to weekly. We hope that we turn you on to something that was lost on your ears, or something you've simply forgotten about, or that (in our opinion) should have been the next big thing.Songs this week include:Ronnie James Dio – “Welcome To My Nightmare (Alice Cooper)” from Welcome To The Nightmare – A Tribute To Alice Cooper(2006)Machine Head – “Witch Hunt (Rush)” from Unto The Locust (extra tracks)(2011) The L.I.F.E. Project – “South Of Heaven (Slayer)” from Big F.O.U.R. EP(2022)Ron Keel – “Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath)” from Keelworld (2024)Lizzy Borden – “Pet Sematary (Ramones)” from Best Of Lizzy Borden, vol. 2 (1994)L.A. Guns – “Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult)” from Covered In Guns(2009)Stuck Mojo – “Shout At The Devil (Mötley Crüe)” from Violate This (10 Years Of Rarities 1991-2001) (2007)Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/InObscuria?asc=uCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

Steve was the one “first time, long time” guest in the DealMax extravaganza.  Even so, he is as cool as the other side of the pillow in recounting his activities as TM's head of sponsor coverage and the firm's recent acquisition by Janney Montgomery Scott.   Steve and Andy trade friendly competitive observations on the Braves and Phillies while Charlie – totally not influenced by current Red Sox fortunes – declares baseball passé. 

KPFT UTalk's Steve Hunter discussed the reason that Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to terrorize undocumented immigrants with Politics Done Right's Host Egberto Willies. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/message

This week we offer up the 12th installment of our series called, “Degrees Of Separation…” where we discuss side projects and solo releases from artists we love. We are celebrating the adjacencies to a true rock n' roll icon: ALICE COOPER. Not much to say about the man, the myth, the legend. Capn'n Content suggested that we focus our listening to the gunslinger guitarists that have supported the Coop throughout his long career. So, that's what we are doing! Enjoy.New to InObscuria? It's all about digging up obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal from one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. While we may be talking about an artist that many of you know in this episode, perhaps you are not aware of the depth of the side projects that the guitarists who've supported him over his 50+ years have. Our hope is that we turn you on to something new!Songs this week include:Hollywood Vampires - “The Boogieman Surprise” from Rise (2019)Billion Dollar Babies - “Too Young” from Battle Axe (1977)Electric Angels - “Dangerous Drug” from Electric Angels (1990)Lou Reed - “Vicious” from Lou Reed Live (1975)Kane Roberts - “Rock Doll” from Kane Robers (1987)Tokyo Police Club - “Little Sister (feat. Orianthi)” from 10x10x10 (2011)Avantasia - “The Toy Master (Feat. Alice Cooper & Henjo Richter)” from The Scarecrow (2008)Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/InObscuria?asc=uCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

El pasado sábado 2 de marzo fue el 82 cumpleaños de Lou Reed. No dedicamos el episodio al músico neoyorquino pero sí que vamos a interconectar unos cuantos discos vinculados a él comenzando con una rareza de su legado. “The power of the heart” es una canción que compuso para tocarla en su boda con Laurie Anderson en 2008 y que sirve para bautizar el próximo álbum de tributo que le dedica el sello Light In The Attic.Playlist;LOU REED “The power of the heart” (2008)KEITH RICHARDS “I’m waiting for the man” (The power of the heart; a tribute to Lou Reed)STEVE HUNTER “Sweet Jane” (The deacon speaks, 2024)LUNA “Satellite of love” (single 2023)LOU REED “Foot of pride” (live 1992)Versión y Original; BOB DYLAN “Foot of pride” (inédito 1983)JOHNNY CASINO “Eight miles high” (adelanto del álbum “High Stone”)THE BEVIS FROND “Focus on nature” (Focus on nature, 2024)EELS “Time” (adelanto del álbum “Eels time!”)THE LIMBOOS “Hangin’ up” (Off the loop, 2024)Escuchar audio

Grabado en directo la noche del 23 de diciembre de 1973, en el Howard Stein’s Academy of Music de Nueva York (futuro Palladium), y editado en febrero de 1974. Se cumple medio siglo de “Rock’n’Roll Animal”, uno de los discos que consolidaron a Lou Reed como estrella del rock de su tiempo. Reed se vio arropado por las musculosas guitarras de dos figuras de la escena de Detroit como Dick Wagner y Steve Hunter, junto a la poderosa sección rítmica formada por Prakash John al bajo y Pentti Glan a la batería -ambos compañeros de gira con Steppenwolf-. Al año siguiente se lanzó el disco “Live”, registrado en el mismo concierto y con las canciones que habían sido descartadas para el primer disco.Playlist;(sintonía) LOU REED “Intro-Sweet Jane” (Rock 'n' Roll Animal, 1974)LOU REED “Heroin” (Rock 'n' Roll Animal, 1974)LOU REED “White light, white heat” (Rock 'n' Roll Animal, 1974)LOU REED “Lady day” (Rock 'n' Roll Animal, 1974)LOU REED “Rock’n’Roll” (Rock 'n' Roll Animal, 1974)LOU REED “Vicious” (Live, 1975)LOU REED “Walk on the wild side” (Live, 1975)Escuchar audio

Brandy Grace discusses the statewide challenge of homelessness with Senior Advisor to Gov. Cox Wayne Niederhauser and Steve Hunter, UAC's contract lobbyist for social services and criminal justice issues.

This week we continue the discussion that we started at the end of our last show; with our admiration of the almighty power of the guitar and the guitar hero! This time around we are going to play guitarists, or guitar passages or leads in songs that caught our ears at some point in our lives that made us truly stop and listen. It's not always about the training, finesse, dexterity, or speed a player has or even the style of music or song that is being played. If you are into guitar and the sound of strings being plucked and bent then you know… It's just something you feel deep down that gets to your heart and soul!What's this InObscuria thing? We're a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we discuss all three. Get out your old Guitar World and Guitar Player mags and flip the pages as we discuss some of the most amazing fingers to ever touch a fretboard! Be sure to also check out the Jason Becker documentary “Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet” that we mention.Songs this week include:Anvil Chorus – “Blue Flames” from The Killing Sun (2009)Kirk Hammett – “The Jinn” from Portals - EP (2022)Bruce Kulick – “Ain't Gonna Die” from BK3 (2010)Buckethead – “Welcome To Bucketheadland” from Giant Robot (1994)Tears For Fears – “Broken” from Songs From The Big Chair (1985)Psycho Motel – “Welcome To The World” from Welcome To The World (1997)Cacophony – “Go Off!” from Go Off! (1988) Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shopCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

Hour 2: The guys talk about McDonald's locations in the cities charging 10 cents for paper bags. a caller chimes in with disapproval; Jeff Cohen from Smallman St Deli joins the show to talk about the city's plastic bag ban; The guys talk about a recent Innamorato ad regarding abortion. Sam Demarco calls in to join the conversation; Steve Hunter from AHN joins the show to talk about the reopening of Bellevue Hospital as AHN Suburban.

 Steve Hunter from AHN joins the show to talk about the reopening of Bellevue Hospital as AHN Suburban.

I had a healthy debate with KPFT's UTalk Host Steve Hunter about Elon Musk's false accolades, the failures and abuse that Capitalism causes, and the rebirth of worker unions and strikes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/support

Discussing with KPFT's Steve Hunter on Capitalism, Elon Musk, and worker strikes. Sara Nelson and Ali Velshi nail the union message. Pete Buttigieg discusses the possible government shutdown. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsdoneright/support

The Toronto Blue Jays are fortunate to have a growing and impressive Fan Base in different Countries around the World and today we check in on UK Fan and Blue Jays Podcaster Steve Hunter. We talk about things from the London Series to Shapiro and Atkins to a Tour of Steve's incredible Blue Jays Bobblehead Collection! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Toronto Blue Jays are fortunate to have a growing and impressive Fan Base in different Countries around the World and today we check in on UK Fan and Blue Jays Podcaster Steve Hunter. We talk about things from the London Series to Shapiro and Atkins to a Tour of Steve's incredible Blue Jays Bobblehead Collection! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My jaw dropped when Steve told me he walked 3000km (1864miles) wearing ‘Crocs' (shoe brand).  That includes the Camino de Santiago and a number of other pilgrimages. This information sums up Steve in many ways. He calls himself a pilgrim.  His wisdom drops were “when you get lost, you get found.” And “Travel highlights the complexity of human nature.”. I must say, I agree with both sentiments.  Steve is unconventional. He calls himself a nihilist. Steve is raw in his honesty as a long term traveller or ‘pilgrim' as he calls himself. He shares that life on the road is not always easy. He travelled without a smart phone and used physical maps and asked locals for guidance.  Thus far he has travelled to 80 countries with over 12,000 km hitchhiking.  I think you will get caught up in his energy and daring.  You can also read of his journey in his new book ‘Relishing the Tread'. Available on Amazon & more.

On this week-in-review, Crystal is joined by political consultant and urban farmer, Heather Weiner. They talk about the newly uncovered messages that reveal former Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan allegedly ordered the abandonment of SPD's East Precinct, where the “Blake fix” stands after its failed vote in the legislature, the remaining need to address renter protections after the legislature passed major legislation to address the housing supply and affordability crisis, the success of the King County Crisis Care Centers levy, and the failure of the Kent School District bond underscoring the need for bond reform and for putting school measures on primary and general election ballots. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Heather Weiner at @hlweiner.   Heather Weiner Heather Weiner (she/her) is a political consultant with 30 years of experience on labor, environmental, LGBTQ, racial justice, and reproductive rights issues. She focuses on ballot initiatives, independent expenditures, legislative, union organizing and contract campaigns. She's a recovering lawyer.   Resources Teresa Mosqueda, Candidate for King County Council District 8 from Hacks & Wonks   ““Please Stop on the Teams Chat”: New Records Expose Mayor Durkan's Role and Others in Abandonment of East Precinct” by Glen Stellmacher from The Urbanist   “WA Legislature fails to pass new drug law; special session likely” by Joseph O'Sullivan from Crosscut   “No Clear Path Toward Criminalizing Drugs in Washington” by Ashley Nerbovig from The Stranger   “5 big things Washington's Legislature passed in 2023” by Melissa Santos from Axios   “Final state transportation budget boosts funding for highways, ferries, traffic safety and the Climate Commitment Act” from Washington State House Democrats   “Washington Legislature increases support for free school meals” by Griffin Reilly from The Columbian   “Washington State Rakes In Revenue From Capital Gains Tax” by Laura Mahoney from Bloomberg Tax   “Voters approve King County's crisis center levy” by Michelle Baruchman from The Seattle Times   “Voters turn down Kent School District bond measure” by Steve Hunter from The Kent Reporter   Find more stories that Crystal is reading here   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I am a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Tuesday topical show and our Friday week-in-review delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is to leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. If you missed our Tuesday topical show, I chat with Teresa Mosqueda about her campaign for King County Council District 8 - why she decided to run, the experience and lessons she wants to bring to the County from serving on the Seattle City Council, and her thoughts on the major issues facing residents of the County. Today, we are continuing our Friday shows where we review the news of the week with a co-host. Welcome back to the program, friend of the show, today's co-host: political consultant and urban farmer - who now even has chicks - Heather Weiner. [00:01:26] Heather Weiner: Hi, Crystal - so nice to talk with you again. [00:01:29] Crystal Fincher: Nice to talk with you again. I guess I should clarify - chicks as in mini-chickens. [00:01:32] Heather Weiner: Well, I have had many chicks, but now I'm married. Yeah, I have four baby chicks in my office right now under a heat lamp - getting them settled and we'll move them out to the henhouse probably in about five or six weeks. So you may hear a little bit of baby chirping in the background here. [00:01:48] Crystal Fincher: A little bit of baby chirping. I did hear the chirps - they are adorable. I actually got a sneak peek and now I want some chicks. [00:01:57] Heather Weiner: Everybody does - you can't go back. [00:01:59] Crystal Fincher: Yes, yes, yes. Okay, I guess we'll start out talking with the news that broke yesterday on a long-standing story - stemming from the abandonment of Seattle PD's East Precinct, which happened in the middle of the 2020 protests amid a lot of controversy - sustained abuses and excess physical abuse by police against protesters and residents of the City. And in the middle of that, the abandonment of the East Precinct - which was at first almost tried to, spun as protesters forced them out - lots of hyperbole on Fox News and conservative media, all that kind of stuff. But for quite a long time, they said they had no idea who made the call to abandon the precinct. [00:02:48] Heather Weiner: But you know that Spiderman meme - where the Spiderman is, all the three Spidermans are standing in that triangle pointing at each other? This was a live-action Spiderman meme where we just had all of these high-ranking officials, high-paid officials within Seattle City government and the department pointing at each other and saying - It's your fault. No, it's your fault. No, it's your fault. But look at this news from internal chats that are coming within the Seattle IT department - who know better than to delete their text messages and their chats - saying the order came directly from Durkan, at exactly the same moment that Chief Best, then-Chief Best, was telling reporters there's no order to evacuate the East Precinct building. So liars are lying. [00:03:31] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, so it turns out Jenny Durkan ordered the Code Red and wow, there's been a lot of obfuscation about this. And even in these - in this records request and what was released - it is clear they are bending over backwards to avoid discussing this in a disclosable way, to avoid discussing this in a way that would be illuminated by issues like this. But they didn't get everyone in on the conspiracy in time. However, they did catch someone being like - Hey, hey, hey, hey, don't discuss this on the Teams chat. [00:04:01] Heather Weiner: Right. It literally says - Do not discuss this on the Teams chat - which was revealed in the public disclosure request. [00:04:07] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely, and - [00:04:08] Heather Weiner: I wonder why all those text messages between Best and Durkan were lost forever. [00:04:13] Crystal Fincher: Lost forever. [00:04:14] Heather Weiner: Oops, I dropped my phone in saltwater. [00:04:17] Crystal Fincher: And there's still an ongoing investigation into that. As a reminder, public employees can't delete records, not disclosable records. And this may be something for - we've talked about this before in the program - but for people outside of government, outside of politics, outside of that world may be like - Texts, they're deleted. I delete texts all the time. Everyone in the public sector knows that you don't do this. There are people in positions who handle these. You're constantly getting - Hey, this request came, do you have this document? Or where was this? We're responding to this. This is a regular course of business, and they clearly were trying to hide what was happening. Big controversy - texts from Carmen Best, from Mayor Durkan were deleted. Mayor Durkan is a former federal prosecutor who has been living in this world forever, who had to be retrained even on prior issues when she was with the City. And then those mysteriously deleted texts, which looks more and more like they were intentionally deleted in order to hide this information. [00:05:19] Heather Weiner: And now former Chief Best is now directing security at Microsoft, right? She got a nice hefty landing pad there for when she left. And so despite the fact that her veracity and her transparency are now deeply in question, she is getting paid - I'm going to say a lot of money - [00:05:38] Crystal Fincher: Oh, a ton of money. [00:05:39] Heather Weiner: -working across the water for Microsoft. I saw former Mayor Durkan at LAX a couple of weeks ago walking by and I have to say - [00:05:48] Crystal Fincher: I was about to be like - in Seattle? I could just see her - [00:05:50] Heather Weiner: No, at LAX - she was walking at LAX. [00:05:51] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all. [00:05:53] Heather Weiner: I just kind of stopped and looked at her. Of course, she didn't recognize me - who would? But I just - [00:05:57] Crystal Fincher: I would, Heather Weiner. [00:05:58] Heather Weiner: Ah, thank you - how many five foot tall - anyway, I'm not going to put myself down. So anyway, I did see her walking by and I did almost want to walk up to her and be like - What were you thinking, lady? But I didn't - nobody's happy transferring planes at LAX - even somebody who did that, I don't need to heckle them. It's also super interesting because there are so many lower-level employees, whether they're employees of the Seattle Police Department or Parks Department or wherever, who know that they will lose their jobs if they delete emails, text messages, anything that is subject to public disclosure requests. And so to have your highest ranking people doing that - you know who has not been mentioned in any of this is the current Chief of Police, who was an Assistant Chief at that time. How is, how, I'm always curious about why Diaz somehow was either not included in this chain, or hasn't ever been implicated in what's going on here. Was he just really - just not involved at all? That's crazy to me. [00:06:56] Crystal Fincher: I have no idea. Also haven't seen his name mentioned in this, but - [00:07:00] Heather Weiner: No, I know. I've asked reporters - Is Diaz literally nowhere here, or did he just do a spectacular job of cleaning out his records? [00:07:08] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. [00:07:09] Heather Weiner: Don't know. [00:07:09] Crystal Fincher: Don't know, but this is the saga that won't end. And to your point, this is really about accountability. This is about - do rules apply to everybody, and do people - do public servants have an obligation to the people? [00:07:22] Heather Weiner: You're starting to make a case now about what's happening in the State Legislature with transparency there, and where reporters and open government folks are really putting a lot of pressure on the State Legislature to open up their records. And legislators say - Look, I can't make decisions, I can't go through drafts, I can't do any of this - if I feel like all of it's going to be subject to public scrutiny when it's not final yet. It's legal - involving lawmaking, so therefore it is protected under legal exemptions. What do you think about that? [00:07:52] Crystal Fincher: I wonder why that's different than any of the other legislative bodies, like city councils across the state or county councils, who have more generous and open transparency policies. And again, this is happening on the public dime. There is a measure of accountability here, especially when so consistently through these records requests, we find out such egregious information. Just as a reminder - it wasn't any external investigation, it was a public records request that - in the City of Kent - uncovered that there was a Nazi assistant police chief. And that is a literal statement - literal Nazi, with Nazi symbols, and a Hitler mustache, and literally all of that - that only came to light because of public disclosure requests. And in this time where we have so many fewer reporters covering what's happening across the state and they only make it to the biggest things because they're stretched that thin, transparency becomes even more important. Because there may not be someone there to answer the questions, to cover how something came to be - this is our only record of how it came to be. And people should see who is influencing policy. [00:08:58] Heather Weiner: Right, and how the sausage was made. Listeners, you will be shocked to hear that good and bad politicians out there get around this by using their personal phones. Now, they're not supposed to use their personal phones for official taxpayer funded business, but they do. And so even if we did get a lot of those text message records about what was happening around the East Precinct, one can imagine that probably there was a lot of conversations going on - unrecorded conversations on the phone, in person, undocumented conversations, but also conversations on personal cell phones. Now again, I just want to point out - if any other lower-level employees were caught doing this, they would be fired, right? Cops would be sent to OPA. All kinds of things would happen. But when you're a higher-level political appointee, apparently, you get off scot-free. [00:09:41] Crystal Fincher: You do. [00:09:42] Heather Weiner: Speaking of cops - you want to talk about the Blake - what's happening with Blake, and what's happening there? [00:09:49] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, let's talk about what's happening with the Blake decision. So we just had the end of the legislative session - a lot of bills were passed before then, but some of the most contentious bills took 'til the very last day or two to get decided. [00:10:04] Heather Weiner: Last hour. Oh my - as usual - I just feel for everybody working three in the morning, four in the morning. It must be just absolutely exhausting. [00:10:12] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, when the Legislature does that - just the amount of work that support staff have to do to support the entire operation, to keep information moving under these incredibly tight deadlines. They're working so hard and so long. I think - so the Blake fix, in year's time? Time is an interesting thing for me these days. A few years back - yeah, our State - [00:10:35] Heather Weiner: Not yesterday, but also not 10 years ago. [00:10:37] Crystal Fincher: Yes. More than a year ago, less than 10 years ago - which anything in that zone consistently gets confused for me now. Yes. Our State Supreme Court invalidated - basically said the law about personal possession of substances, of drugs, was invalidated - took the law away. And so it instantly made possession of drugs legal. There was nothing illegal to do with the possession that didn't do with anything with paraphernalia, with selling or distribution, all those other peripheral things still remained in place. But for possession - [00:11:14] Heather Weiner: Personal use possession. [00:11:16] Crystal Fincher: Yes. And so under a certain threshold, or thresholds that come into play sometimes in policy with this. So in year before last, our Legislature - this happened during the legislative session, actually. And so they said - Oh my goodness, we can't let this stand. Even though best practices, sound public policy says that our really expensive and damaging War on Drugs has failed and treating substance abuse issues like a public health crisis and problem is the way to make progress in actually dealing with addiction, actually getting people off of drugs and getting people healthier, and reducing all the impacts surrounding that by crime and different things. But our Legislature basically said - We are not comfortable with that, and so we're going to re-institute a penalty - a misdemeanor - add some diversion in there, fund some kind of diversion-root-cause-drug-court-type things across the state. But they put a sunset clause in that law and said basically - Summer 2023, this is going to sunset, basically expire and terminate on its own. And in the meantime, that'll give us time to figure out something else that we want to do, or stay on the course. But the concern about invalidating that law at the state level was that municipalities, localities, counties, and cities, and towns can make their own laws if they want to in the absence of a state law on that issue. So some have said - Well, it's going to be more confusing to have a patchwork of different drug possession laws across the state, which is not ideal. It's not ideal. But the question is - is that more harmful than what this proposed fix was, which wound up being a gross misdemeanor - which is different than a simple misdemeanor and can come with sometimes financial penalties and jail time that exceeds that of the lowest level felonies. And so from a - we have talked about on this show - but jail, carceral solutions, do not reduce recidivism any more than non-carceral solutions. Throwing someone in jail doesn't reduce their likelihood of committing a crime in the future. And certainly in the case of substance use disorder, it does not address any of the issues about that. And all it does is destabilize and usually throw people further into addiction, further away from being able to rebuild their lives and get healthy again. So this debate is taking place, while evidence and data and lots of people are saying that. But you also have people who really advocate for punitive punishment measures. And even though we have spent decades and billions, if not trillions, of dollars on this War on Drugs, domestically and internationally, it's as bad as it's ever been. [00:14:06] Heather Weiner: Yeah, and it's a war on people who have an illness. It is a disease. And it's a public health issue, not a crime issue. And so to put people in jail who have alcoholism - we've already been shown that does not work. It's the same thing with addictions to other substances. It just doesn't work. And in fact, you're right - it makes it worse. So now we see local folks - Reagan Dunn, three of our City Councilmembers here in Seattle - who are proposing instituting their own gross misdemeanor rules in their jurisdictions. And it's going to cost more in taxpayer dollars to house people in jail - who are going through withdrawal, who are going to have massive health problems, and then are going to get out and not have money and not have support - than it would to put them in housing. [00:14:54] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. And to - [00:14:56] Heather Weiner: And if the real problem here is that we, as the public, don't want to see people suffering on the street - how is it that paying more for them to go into jail than to put them into supportive housing is going to solve the problem? It doesn't make any sense to me. It's not a solution. It is painting over the parts of your house that are disintegrating, that are moldy and disintegrating, and they're trying to paint it over instead of dealing with the leak in the first place. Wow. That was a really stretched out analogy. Not sure that anybody should use that. All right, anyway. So it doesn't make any sense to me - you're right. It's political posturing, coming into election time and municipal election time. Yeah, it's going to be super interesting to see how this is used. And the local news media has been doing this, not just here in Washington state but around the country, has been using this fear around people who have a disease - and they are using that as a fear to other people, but also to cause political dissension in our country. And it is not as bad in Seattle as everybody is saying. Yes, we do have a problem, but it is not as bad as what the news is portraying. It is part of the fear mongering. [00:16:10] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, and I don't think there's anyone who really, who doesn't want to do more to address this problem or doesn't acknowledge that substance use disorder is a problem - that we don't want to be seeing this, that it can lead to other things. We all know and understand that. We just want to do something that actually fixes it instead of landing us in the same place we've been for the last 30, 40 years under this War on Drugs, where we just punitively punish people for that. And - [00:16:38] Heather Weiner: For a disease. [00:16:39] Crystal Fincher: For a disease and I - or, there are also people who just use substances who are not addicted and based on what we classify as an illegal drug or not - there are people who drink alcohol socially. [00:16:53] Heather Weiner: I'm one. [00:16:53] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, that's a drug. [00:16:54] Heather Weiner: I'm one. I have been seen with - the fact that the mayor is now proposing open container rules in certain neighborhoods, where people can walk around with open containers - but they're not allowed to be seen with a different substance? Yeah, just the irony, the inconsistency - call Alanis Morissette. [00:17:10] Crystal Fincher: The irony and inconsistency and - look, drug laws, very punitive drug laws have been a major contributor to mass incarceration, to an incredibly disproportionate impact on Black and Brown people. And what we're seeing now. Yeah, I have some thoughts. So one - [00:17:32] Heather Weiner: Do you? [00:17:33] Crystal Fincher: I do. [00:17:33] Heather Weiner: Maybe you should start a podcast. [00:17:35] Crystal Fincher: This should not be a surprise to a lot of people. But this posturing and grandstanding, just - number one, there is talk of a special session. And they're trying to figure out if they can get to a place on this, where they can agree and do something that's actively being talked about. There may be a special session. This has been reported on. So because they're working on this and because people at the county level are talking about dealing with this - all this talk from mayors and city council members is just premature. It's putting the cart before the horse. And it's grandstanding. And it's so plain to see. Allow the people who are working on this to continue working on this. Notice they didn't have any issue with doing that over the past few years. They just recognize that - Ooh, maybe this is an issue we can capitalize on. But I would caution them that it didn't turn out too well for them last year when they tried to bombard, to flood the zone with all of the voter, direct voter contact, media talking about crime and drugs. And they're gonna try and crack down and make drugs illegal again, all that kind of stuff. [00:18:48] Heather Weiner: Look, let's go ahead and let's blame people who are actually symptoms of the larger problem. And the problem is number one, we don't have enough affordable housing. Number two, we have a ton of people who are suffering from trauma and for all different kinds of way - whether it's in the military, in their own households, in their own family. And one of the ways that the body responds to trauma is to try to find a way to not feel the trauma. And that's a lot of what substance use disorder is. Three, we - the Republicans and some Democrats 12 years ago - cut massive funding from mental health and addiction services. And now we don't have enough places for people to go, as we see where the hospitals are overloaded with people who are suffering from mental health disorders. And now the chickens have come to roost. Look, I brought it back to chickens. [00:19:33] Crystal Fincher: There you go. You have brought it back, we're full circle. [00:19:36] Heather Weiner: Brought it back to chickens, to the chickens. [00:19:39] Crystal Fincher: To the chickens. [00:19:40] Heather Weiner: So these are all symptoms of this massive problem. Inslee tried to do something where he wanted to float a massive bond to raise money for housing - that didn't pay out. Some Democrats at least tried to raise some money from a REET on luxury housing and massive buildings that would fund affordable housing - a tax on real estate sales. The real estate lobby killed, the realtor lobby killed that. We tried to get rental caps this year to make sure that landlords, corporate landlords are not egregiously raising rents and causing economic evictions and destabilizing communities - that didn't pass. So let's just crack down on people and put them in jail. Are the jails empty? Is that what's going on? Is there a massive demand? [00:20:20] Crystal Fincher: Oh, totally empty. We're totally not experiencing issues of overcrowding, suicides, deaths from illness, injuries, understaffing - none of that is a problem that they're actively having to spend millions of dollars to deal with and facing lawsuits. No, not a problem at all. But yes, that whole situation is there. So we'll see how this unfolds. But I also want to - some people have tried to characterize this as a Democrat versus Republican issue - on the drug - it is not. This is an issue where there are a variety of stances on the Democratic and Republican side, really. And Democrats control the Legislature and they came forward with a bill, after all the talk and compromise, that landed at gross misdemeanor. The sky-is-falling argument was - Well, we have to do this because otherwise they're going to really criminalize it locally. So this is good enough. I have noticed that no proposal from conservative or Republican mayors or city councils have gone further than the Democratic legislature did. So were they negotiating themselves down? Again? [00:21:21] Heather Weiner: Fair. [00:21:22] Crystal Fincher: And is what we're actually going to wind up with worse than having that statewide? Would we rather have a significant recriminalization statewide, or have lower penalties and more treatment access across the board, or in more places in the state? That's something that they're going to have to deal with, but - [00:21:41] Heather Weiner: When do we think this special session might be called? It feels like there is a hard deadline, right? Of June. [00:21:47] Crystal Fincher: It feels like it, but I don't know. I have no inside information on those conversations or anything. [00:21:53] Heather Weiner: And when they have a special session, they can only address the issue that the special session has been called for. So there's no sneaking other things in there at the same time, which is good. Although there's a lot of things that were left unfinished. [00:22:04] Crystal Fincher: There is. And also legislators don't like special sessions often because it takes them away from campaigning - because they can't raise money while they're in session. [00:22:14] Heather Weiner: That's another reason why we need a full-time legislature and not a legislature where people have other jobs that they have to go do. They're paid so little, they have to have other jobs. And as a result, they just don't have time to do all the things that need to get done. And they don't have time to do it in a really thoughtful way, unfortunately - that things do get rushed. [00:22:30] Crystal Fincher: And that's why we have a disproportionate amount of wealthy and out-of-touch people in our legislators. [00:22:36] Heather Weiner: And white. Yes. And why we keep losing our legislators of color. [00:22:40] Crystal Fincher: Talking about some of the other things you touched on that we were able to see at the conclusion of the Legislature, of this legislative session - certainly, as we talked about last week, some significant movement on some housing bills. But as you mentioned, no relief for renters, which is a major component of keeping people in housing, preventing displacement, and keeping housing more affordable. [00:23:03] Heather Weiner: Yeah. 40% of Washingtonians are renters - 40%. That's a significant portion. And our rents are skyrocketing. There's articles in Crosscut about Walla Walla - retirees who are getting pushed out, they're having to do all kinds of crazy things in order to keep their housing. And a lot of this is because corporate landlords are using algorithms - kind of like what Airbnb does - to jack up prices in response to how the other corporate landlords are doing things. And so I wouldn't really call it collusion, but they are using these formulas to maximize the amount of profit that they make. And as a result, what we're seeing is massive community destabilization. Single parents with children have to move their kids from school district to school district. Retirees, our elders are leaving their neighbors - they don't know anybody around them, they don't know how to ask for help. Our veterans, who may already be facing a lot of challenges, are also being moved and destabilized. It's not good for communities. It's not good for Washington state. And when I see things like in today's news where they say - Half of people are thinking about moving out of Washington state - they don't really say why, but the reason is the rent is too high. It's time for the State Legislature to do something to provide relief for 40% of the state's residents. And I myself am a landlord - I have a small house that I rent out and I 100%, like many landlords, support rent caps and rent stabilization. [00:24:35] Crystal Fincher: Yeah. I didn't even know you were a landlord. [00:24:36] Heather Weiner: Well, landlady. I don't know. It's kind of gendered. [00:24:40] Crystal Fincher: And yeah - I could talk a lot about that. But there are, we are suffering certainly at the hands of big corporate landlords. And they love nothing more than to try and paint all of the landlords - it's we're just little ma and pa, just we just had an extra house, and we're just out of the kindness of our hearts, just being housing providers. Some lobbyists are calling them housing providers. They're not housing providers. They're housing dealers. [00:25:05] Heather Weiner: I know - it's like job creators, right? [00:25:07] Crystal Fincher: Which is fine, but let's call it what it is. [00:25:10] Heather Weiner: Look, the way that the law was drafted, that was supported by the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance, the way that the law was drafted is for the first 10 years of a building's - that a building is, or a unit, is being rented out - there's no rental cap on there as it adjusts to the market rate, figures out what's going on. And then you could always increase the rent once somebody moves out. But if somebody is living in that unit, you can't raise the rent - according to this law, you couldn't raise the rent more than 7% based on inflation and essentially economically evict them. And there is nothing wrong with that. There were lots of landlords who came out - family, mom and pop landlords, like me - who came out and said - Yeah, that sounds completely reasonable. That's what I would like to do. But it's the big corporate real estate lobby that once again came in and killed it. [00:25:56] Crystal Fincher: Yeah - once again. And so I guess what I would say is - there was a big, broad coalition that was put together by the legislators who sponsored this legislation - by organizations, activists, Futurewise certainly was huge in helping to get this passed. I hope that coalition stands up as strongly over the next year - through the next session - for mitigations, for rent relief, for helping people stay in their homes. Because that is as critical to getting costs in line, to keeping people in the communities where they are and their houses where they are, and reducing homelessness. It is as critical - this isn't an either-or - this is we absolutely need both. And so I hope this coalition continues to show up for the communities that have showed up for them and work to get this passed. Also, just want to talk about a couple other things they were highlighting. The budget was worked on until the very end. Democrats are touting investments in ferries, some modest investments in traffic safety. We had the first allocation of funds from the Climate Commitment Act that came in - still need to dig more into that to see where it's going and if they are living up to their promises to make sure that they are centering communities that are most impacted by climate change and pollution. And also workforce investments, workforce equity investments across the board. They did increase the cap for special education, which does increase funding, but not nearly at the level that is needed. There was a bill that didn't make it through that started off as free lunch for everyone, which we've talked about a few times before on this show, which - was a huge supporter of and thinking that - Of course, that totally makes sense. How is this controversial? Unfortunately it was - there was a trimmed down bill that increased access, that increased the number of people that could get school lunch programs. Basically, I think it's in schools or districts that met a certain threshold - if a kid asked for a free lunch, then it could be given to them in those districts. I want to say that it was 50 - I'm just throwing out numbers, but I'll figure that out and put it in the resources and show notes. But it was a trimmed down bill. A lot of good things happened - like many sessions - a lot of good things happened. A lot of disappointing things happen, and we just move forward and we continue to work and we continue to push and we hopefully continue to hold our legislators accountable for the decisions that they're making. [00:28:29] Heather Weiner: Let's have - let's end on a good note, on a positive note. Here's some good news. So article just came out in Bloomberg Tax - I know you read that every morning, Crystal, I know you do - and the new capital gains tax that was passed about two years ago is now finally being collected. The Washington Supreme Court ruled that it was legal and it's now being collected for the first time. There were estimates by policy experts that it would be, probably in the first year, somewhere around $450, maybe $500 million raised from taxes on the sales of huge stock market gains. Doesn't apply to 99.8% of us. And they thought it would raise maybe $500 million. According to the Department of Revenue, $833 million raised for schools, childcare, preschool, and other education. Amazing amount of money. But here's what you got to think about is how rich are people that they are having stock market gains where a 7% tax on their stock market gains over a quarter of a million dollars is raising nearly a billion. That's a lot of money being moved between stocks over there in rich people land. I couldn't believe it. It blows my mind. [00:29:37] Crystal Fincher: It is - absolutely, and more there. So I also hope that the work of the wealth tax picks up next session because it's absolutely needed and we can see how much of an impact that it does make. Also, we had a special election this week. In King County, there were - depending on where you were at - everyone voted on the Crisis Care Centers Levy, which passed. And so we are going to be having five new regional crisis care centers in the County. There are also provisions for helping to boost the workforce, increase the staffing levels in an area that's already really stressed and really hurting for staff. And what was your take on this? [00:30:18] Heather Weiner: I think it's great, but also people are going to come into these crisis centers and where are they going to send them? There's not any housing. So I think it's a great idea. It's a good first step to get people through. But I'm concerned that you're still in crisis at the end of the day. [00:30:32] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, I feel similarly - a lot is going to be about the implementation. We absolutely need more resources. And if this is done well, and if this is done right, it'll be helpful. We have also heard a ton of stories about challenging care, especially when that care is involuntary - when someone is in a major crisis. And so I think it's going to be really paying attention to the implementation of this and making sure that they are following best practices, and that people are treated with dignity and respect, and really the focus is on their healing over everything else. We'll see how it turns out, but I deem it to be a helpful - these are absolutely resources that we need. And we can do this better than we have done it before. And we should - we owe it to everyone to do that, so we'll see. Also, Kent School District had a bond vote, also on this same ballot, that failed. School bonds raise for buildings, for capital expenditures - those races, elections carry a higher threshold to pass a bond. It's 60% as opposed to 50% - which is a big, big difference between 60% and 50%, when you just look at elections across the board. This one actually didn't even make 50%. And I, once again, am begging school boards, people in school districts to stop putting these ballot measures on special election ballots. Put it on the general election ballot. If you must, put it on the primary ballot. But stick to those, especially in a district like King County, when turnout is everything. When it comes to these school levies, school bonds - having them in higher turnout elections obviously is going to increase the support. In the same way that we know in Seattle - if it's a very high turnout election, that's going to be a more progressive election than a really low turnout election. So let's just stop doing this, please. Do you have any thoughts about special elections and school levies? [00:32:25] Heather Weiner: Look, the big thing is we keep going back to the people over and over again to pass what are essentially regressive taxes, whether it's for the school levies or for the crisis center. I want to point out that one of the major funders of the crisis center levy - which I supported - one of the major funders was John Stanton, who is on the wall of shame for his work to kill the capital gains tax, to hit up the taxpayers to pay for his stadium to the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars. And yet he wants to put a regressive tax on the rest of us. The solution here is not to keep passing, or trying to pass, these little regressive taxes to patch the leaky roof. See, I'm back to that analogy. It is to pass wealth tax and other taxes on the incredibly super rich billionaires and ultra millionaires that we have in this state. [00:33:13] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks on this Friday, April 28th, 2023. The producer of Hacks & Wonks is Shannon Cheng. Our insightful co-host today is political consultant and urban farmer, Heather Weiner. You can find Heather on Twitter @hlweiner, that's W-E-I-N-E-R. You can follow me on Twitter at Hacks & Wonks - that's @HacksWonks. Or you can follow me on Twitter @finchfrii, or on Blue Sky, or basically any platform at finchfrii - that's F-I-N-C-H-F-R-I-I. You can catch Hacks & Wonks on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to get the full versions of our Tuesday topical and Friday week-in-review shows to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at official hacksandwonks.com and in the podcast episode notes. Thanks for tuning in - talk to you next time.

Here we go! It has taken over 100 episodes but we finally interview our first active, believing Latter-day Saint. We could not have conjured up a more genuine, loving human than Steve Hunter, a recent LDS Bishop who was featured in the RollingStone article on The Divine Assembly. Years ago, Steve was led to ayahuasca as an active, believing member of the church. We talk about so much in this episode, including:Steve's Ayahuasca experienceDifficulty putting transcendent experiences into wordsHow psychedelics found usThe intention you bring into a ceremony determines what you get out of itRollingStone articleAndrew Garfield and Under the Banner of HeavenMalcolm X - "When you take on step towards Allah, Allah takes 10 steps towards you"Paul Young and The ShackJesus as an attainable example of how we could live"God cannot use you unless you are at ZERO""You are the key; you are the thing you seek""You left in search of God, I stayed in search of God"And so much more!Steve's humility, authenticity and courage are inspiring and contagious. We can't wait for you to listen!Links:RollingStone Feature - These Mormons Have Found A New Faith in Magic MushroomsAbout MormonpaloozaWebsiteInstagram: @mormonpaloozaMormonpalooza is a reimagining and reclaiming of our Mormon culture and heritage. A full day of celebration, including:Fireside (11am - 3pm):  Discussions on healing, spirituality and the human connection will fill the day.Roadshow (4pm - 8pm):  Comedy and music featuring talented performers and live bands!Stake Dance (9pm - midnight): Dance, party, and play into the night with old friends and new connections. Be authentically who you are, dancing and playing in a way that feels right to you.Location will be at The Clubhouse in downtown SLC. Tickets onsale now! Hurry and get yours before they are all gone (limited to 400 guests).Mormons on Mushrooms – Ways to ContributeOur podcast is supported by our amazing listeners and magical community. If you'd like to energetically contribute to what we're creating, there are several ways to do so:Join our CommunityBecome a PatreonSend a Contribution (buy us a booch)!Purchase Mormons on Mushrooms Merchandise

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Alice Cooper - a story of intrigue, drugs and great stage shows.  While influencing The Sex Pistols, Kiss, Bowie, the movie, “A Clockwork Orange” and Australia's Jimmy and the Boys, Alice Cooper changed from a band to an individual, and left an enormous legacy in today's rock world. This week's “Before You Die” album is Marc Bolan's “Electric Warrior”, which didn't impress the boys at all, despite Bolan's reputation, some great singles and production by Tony Visconti.  References:  1001 Album s You Must Hear before You Die, Robert Dimery, Vincent Damon Furnier, The Earwigs, The Spiders, The Naz, Todd Rundgren, Frank Zappa, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, Glenn Buxton, Steve Hunter & Dick Wagner, alcohol and crack cocaine addiction, Shep Gordon, Bob Ezrin, Welcome to My Nightmare, I'm Eighteen, Under My Wheels, Bowie's “Suffragette City”, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Only Women Bleed, Department of Youth, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, I Never Cry, From the Inside, How You Gonna See Me Now, Stage Props of Live snakes, guillotines, and “dead babies”, Live at Sydney, Pennywise the Clown, Gene Simmons' “Demon” character, Twisted Sister, Malcolm McDowell, Baby's on Fire Alice Cooper Playlist

On this Steve Hunter interview: WOW! Steve opens up about LOADS of cool stuff. Including stories about getting drafted into the Army at 19, and the tremendous benefits he got out of this experience… GREAT story about some dark times and how he got out of them… an unusual conversation he had with BB King, which changed his life… his experiences with Bob Ezrin, Aerosmith, Lou Reed & Jason Becker, top 3 musical experiences (NOT what you're thinking), falling in love at 59 & LOADS more cool stuff. Amazing history from one of the great rock and roll guitarists of our time Cool Guitar & Music T-Shirts!: http://www.GuitarMerch.com   Steve Hunter's responsible for a ton of famous licks with people like Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Aerosmith, Jack Bruce, David Lee Roth, Julian Lennon, Glen Campbell, Dr. John & more. He's also recorded with Joe Satriani, Joe Perry, Johnny Depp, Marty Friedman, Michael Lee Firkins, Tony Levin, Tommy Henriksen, Jason Becker, 2Cellos & Karen Ann Hunter Subscribe & Website:  https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe Support this show: http://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/support

In BDO's latest PErspectives podcast, Todd Kinney speaks with Dan Lory, principal at SK Capital Partners, and Steve Hunter, managing director at TM Capital, about the shifting lifecycle, inflation, deal disruptors, workforce challenges and ESG — the trends and forces defining private equity M&A in 2022.Investment banking products and services within the United States are offered exclusively through BDO Capital Advisors, LLC, a separate legal entity and affiliated company of BDO USA, LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and national professional services firm. For more information, visit www.bdocap.com. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. BDO Capital Advisors, LLC Member FINRA/SIPC.

In this week's episode, we go nuclear with the almighty guitar heroes! The only thing to survive the apocalypse will be metal wires on scraps of wood and the demons will unleash the fiery fury of Shredageddon! What's this InObscuria thing? We're a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we discuss all three. Get out your old Guitar World and Guitar Player mags and flip the pages as we discuss some of the most amazing fingers to ever touch a fretboard! Be sure to also check out the Jason Becker documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet that we mention.Songs this week include:Uli Jon Roth & Electric Sun – “Sundown” from Earthquake (1979)Jason Becker – “Mabel's Fatal Fable” from Perpetual Burn (1988)Guy Mann-Dude – “Shredd'n It Down” from Sleight Of Hand (1989)Liquid Tension Experiment – “Acid Rain” from Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999)John 5 – “Ya Dig?” from The Art Of Malice (2010)Nita Strauss – “The Quest” from Controlled Chaos (2018)Jason Becker & The Magnificent 13 – “Valley Of Fire” from Triumphant Hearts (2018)Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts! Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shopCheck out Robert's amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you'd like to check out Kevin's band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin's band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

Sami Ruokangas käsittelee muutaman vuoden parhaiden levyjen listoilta ulos jääneen julkaisun kuten Deep Purple, Don Airey & Friends, Bernie Marsden, Black Label Society, Alice Cooper, Gojira, Georgia Satellites, Whitesnake, Judas Priest ja Rolling Stones. Jakson Spotify-soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aEuqomdWkP14B2fLI8RST?si=318268854dde4ca6 The Night Flight Orchestra, Phantom Spirits, Burn For Me, Deep Purple, Saxon, Yardbirds, Cream, Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac, Havana Black, Steven Tyler, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Love, Huey ”Piano” Smith, Aerosmith, Ray Charles, Little Feat, Bob Seger, Don Nix, Freddie King, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Spencer Davis Group, Mikko Alatalo, Love Records, Aki Blomberg, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Jethro Tull, Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Phil Spector, Gary Moore, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Colosseum II, Carl Sentence, Nazareth, Ritchie Blackmore, Beethoven, Graham Bonnet, Laurence Cottle, Black Sabbath, Headless Cross, Tony Martin, Simon McBride, Jon Finnigan, Steve Bentley-Klein, Dan McCafferty, Bill Ward, Persian Risk, Motörhead, Phil Campbell, Albert King, B.B. King, Chess Records, Micky Moody, Supersonic Blues Machine, Kim Wilson, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Rory Gallagher, John Mayall, John Gorgon, Jim Russell, Bob Haddrell, Alan Glen, Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne, Ian Gillan, Pride & Glory, Gov´t Mule, The Animals, Nina Simone, Mastodon, Sepultura, Steve Hunter, Peter Gabriel, MC5, Wayne Kramer, Cherry Red Records, Jerkin´ Crocus, Mick Brown, Ian McLagan, Faces, Tony Iommi, Adrian Vandenberg, Jimmy Page, Mokoma, Stoned Statues, Uriah Heep ja Orange Goblin.

Vuosi 2021 oli levyjen ja julkaisujen puolesta antoisa ja monipuolinen. Sami Ruokangas, Juha Kakkuri ja Pauli Kauppila listaavat vuoden parhaita levyjä genrerajoista välittämättä tai ainakin niitä kyseenalaistaen. Lyhyempi Spotify-lista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5YFj3cmzhlAYEvi8MJASIh?si=41926574370a4f36 Pidempi soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HI0Op9DIJTwnrG05vwSZk?si=2a975a084389405e Jakson jutuissa ovat mukana Rolling Stones, Uriah Heep, Mastodon, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood & Friends, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, The Who, Steven Tyler, Billy Gibbons, David Gilmour, Deep Purple, Amoth, Tomi Ihanamäki, Anne Lanttola, Jethro Tull, Iron Maiden, Nick Cave, Joseph Kamga, Måneskin, Blind Channel, Prince, Thomas Raggi, Svart Records, Jinjer, System of a Down, Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Jussi Parviainen, Larkin Poe, Rebecca Lovell, Megan Lovell, Nu Deco Ensmble, Tyler Bryant, Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts, Keith Richards, The Black Keys, Deap Vally, Musiikki & Media, Lost In Music, Kissa, Alice Cooper, Günter Kivioja, Sleepy Sleepers, KISS, The Darkness, New York Dolls, Rick Derringer, MC5, Steve Hunter, Black Country, New Road, Juha Torvinen, Danny, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, T Bone Burnett, Everly Brothers, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, Led Zeppelin, Nyrkkitappelu, Aino & Hajonneet, Kaija Koo, Popeda, Yö, Green Lung, Nigel Taylor, Jon Lord, Ken Hensley, Orange Goblin, Heavy Feather, Jefferson Airplane, Jani Juntunen, Tavastia, Mokoma ja Stoned Statues.

Ron Wikso is a drummer who has toured with Cher, Foreigner, Richie Sambora, David Lee Roth, the Steve Miller Band, the Storm, CCR, Gregg Rolie, & Player (w/ Peter Beckett & Ron Moss) Matt Bissonette is a bass player. He's worked with Ringo Starr, David Lee Roth, Jeff Lynne & ELO, Joe Satriani, Steve Perry, Maynard Ferguson, Brian Wilson, Julian Lennon, Peter Frampton, Ty Tabor, Jason Becker, Steve Hunter, Rick Springfield, Boz Scaggs, & Elton John.

In this episode Neil and David talk to Dr. Steve Hunter, professor of counseling and psychology at Criswell College, on the ups and downs of Christian Counseling and why taking care of your mental health is so important.

Today Crystal is joined by Michael Charles, political consultant and managing partner at Upper Left Strategies. Elections are coming up next Tuesday, November 2nd, and Crystal and Michael break down spending in the Seattle City Attorney's race, how campaigns are spending their money and what the strategies may be behind it, races to watch all around the state, and the importance of paying attention to political races outside of Seattle. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii and find today's co-host, Michael Charles, at @mikeychuck. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com.   References: “The 2021 Seattle Mayor's Race By The Numbers” by Erica C. Barnett from The South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/09/29/the-2021-seattle-mayors-race-by-the-numbers/  “PAC spending in Seattle elections tops $3 million with late surge in real estate, business money” by Daniel Beekman from The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/pac-spending-in-seattle-elections-tops-3-million-with-late-surge-in-real-estate-business-money/  “Seattle mayoral race filled with ads, PAC money, and cash” by David Hyde and Gracie Todd from KUOW: https://www.kuow.org/stories/as-candidates-court-voters-with-campaign-ads-pac-cash-flows-into-seattle-s-mayoral-race  “Poll finds overwhelming support among Seattle voters for JumpStart tax” by Marc Stiles from the Puget Sound Business Journal: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/09/10/seattle-voters-overwhelmingly-support-jumpstart.html  “Gap in strategy, fundraising opens up between Seattle City Attorney candidate” by Nick Bowman from MyNorthwest: https://mynorthwest.com/3096045/seattle-city-attorney-fundraising-gap/  “Fact Check: Ann Davison's Mailer Is Misleading, Full of Inaccuracies, Dumb, and Disqualifying” by Rich Smith from The Stranger: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/07/27/59571999/fact-check-ann-davisons-mailer-is-misleading-full-of-inaccuracies-dumb-and-disqualifying  “Q&A with Kent City Council candidates Cawthorn, Troutner” by Steve Hunter from The Kent Reporter: https://www.kentreporter.com/news/qa-with-kent-city-council-candidates-cawthon-troutner/  “Q&A with Kent School Board candidates Clark, Franklin” by Steve Hunter from The Kent Reporter: https://www.kentreporter.com/news/qa-with-kent-school-board-candidates-clark-franklin/  “Will Local Governments Reflect the Changing Demographics of South King County?” by Phil Manzano from The South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/06/30/will-local-governments-reflect-the-changing-demographics-of-south-king-county/  “King County Conservatives Discredit Progressive POC Candidates as ‘Defund' Extremists” by Nathalie Graham from The South Seattle Emerald: https://southseattleemerald.com/2021/10/28/king-county-conservatives-discredit-progressive-poc-candidates-as-defund-extremists/  “Outside campaign spending on Spokane City Council races grows to unprecedented level” by Adam Shanks from The Spokesman-Review: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/oct/28/outside-campaign-spending-on-spokane-city-council-/  “Northeast Spokane candidates Sherazi, Bingle debate homelessness, public safety” by Adam Shanks at The Spokesman-Review: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/oct/21/sherazi-bingle-debate-homelessness-public-safety/    Transcript: The transcript will be uploaded as soon as possible.

Mikä biisejä yhdistää? -sarjan toisessa osassa Sami Ruokangas ja Pauli Kauppila tuovat levylautaselle artistit Eddie Vedder, Mott The Hoople, Temple Of The Dog ja Blue Öyster Cult. Mitä tekemistä Eddie Vedderillä on Temple Of Dogin kanssa ja Mottilla BÖC:in kanssa? Miten näihin liittyvät Sean Pennin ohjaama elokuva Into The Wild vuodelta 2007 ja F.W. Murnaun mykkäelokuva Nosferatu vuodelta 1922? Kuinka tähän liittyvät The Clash, Brian May ja Billy Idol? Kaikki selviää kuuntelemalla. Jakson soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4m7ZkvvWUgSvPr4aK9ffva?si=1ee40c6a709d4188 Mysteereissä ovat mukana myös Pearl Jam, Christopher McCandless, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers Band, Guy Stevens, Procol Harum, David Bowie, Ian Hunter, Mika Järvinen, Five Fifteen, Kari Pyrhönen, Aki Blomberg, Esa Nieminen, Twisted Sister, Jay Jay French, Primal Scream, Bobby Gillespie, Uriah Heep, Mick Box, Mick Ralphs, Queen, Contraband, Vixen, Michael Schenker Group, Ratt, L.A. Guns, Abdoujaparov, Verden Allen, The Band, The Clash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan, Chris Cornell, Anthony Bourdain, Audioslave, Free, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Faith No More, Martin Popoff, Joe Bouchard, Patti Smith, Ismo Karo, Eric Bloom, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Nosferatu, Pater Gabriel, E Street Band, Steve Hunter ja Generation X

Fortuan, Pan, and returning guest Steve discuss the Legends of the Guild and games they've been playing lately.

Tämänkertaisessa jaksossa Sami Ruokangas ja Pauli Kauppila ovat valinneet soittolistalle kumpikin kolme biisiä, joita yhdistää niillä soitava muusikko. Paulin valinnoissa rumpali Steve Gadd ja Samin biiseissä toinen Steve, kitaristi Steve Hunter. Kiinnostavia yhteyksiä yli genrerajojen! Jakson soittolista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Y2US44YS8hhUW4RP4Kyys?si=700efa05e4bc4759 Menossa ovat mukana myös Steely Dan, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Kate Bush, Michael Blicher, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Wayne Shorter, B.B. King, John Hiatt, Andrew Fairweather Low, Doyle Bramhall II, Carly Simon, Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Allman Brothers Band, David Lee Roth, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, Eddie Van Halen, Bob Ezrin, Alice Cooper, Orianthi, Richie Sambora, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Aerosmith, Jack Douglas, Johnny Burnette, Motörhead, Hanoi Rocks, Steven Tyler, Dick Wagner, Brad Whitford, Joe Perry, Jimmy Page, The Kinks ja Steve Winwood.

This Episode features Steve Hunter - Solo Guitarist for Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel and many more. In the Trenches with Ryan Roxie is a podcast hosted by Alice Cooper Guitarist Ryan Roxie. The show features in depth conversations with the worlds hardest working musicians and entertainers...the ones that grind, the ones that commit, the ones who make their dreams come true...in the trenches. For BONUS episodes visit ryanroxie.com/podcast Ryan Roxie - Host Instagram - @ryanroxie Robby Miller - Research Editor Instagram - @robbyrockmiller Victor Chalfant - Video Editing/Web design/Social Media Instagram - @vicchalfant Dave Rattenbury - Euro Team Instagram - @daveyrocks Gustav Kronfelt - Graphics Instagram - @gustavkronfelt Tess Faber - Intro Voice Instagram - @tess_faber Federica Robba - Social Media Promotion Instagram - @federocknroll77 Mitch Lafon - Executive Producer Instagram - @mitch_lafon Jörn Kleinhans - Executive Producer Special Thanks to : Hughes & Kettner Amps, Beyerdynamic Headphones & Microphones Enjoy the Ride...Support the Podcast...Thanks! Roxie ryanroxie.com

Daz and Steve chat with Steve Hunter, Commentator for Liverpool Football Club and the Man behind the famous words, "corner taken quickly...Origi"! The Liverpool Connection is an LFC podcast that aims to bring the story of our wonderful club to as many fans as possible around the world. The history, the passion, the music, the people, the City – we want to share perspectives on and off the pitch. We're delighted to have you here with us, be sure to Like and Subscribe with Notifications on for our latest podcast.

Season 2: Episode 5 Bob Ezrin Part 2                                This episode features the second half of our conversation with Bob Ezrin.     Few producers have had careers as Bob Ezrin has had. The award-winning producer has worked with some of rock’s biggest acts (Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Green Day, Kiss, Rod Stewart, Jane’s Addiction, and U2).   Bob worked with Jane's Addiction on 2003's Strays album. Photo by Neil Zlowzower   In the first part of our interview, Bob talked about producing The Wall, one of the greatest concept albums in rock history. In fact, he is well known for his work on concept albums, helming such projects as Kiss’s Music From “The Elder,” Lou Reed’s Berlin, Kansas’ In the Spirit of Things, Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile, and Alice Cooper’s Welcome To My Nightmare & Welcome 2 My Nightmare.      Bob in the studio with Kiss in 1976   According to Bob, his love for injecting a sense of theatricality into albums comes from his childhood, and his amusing explanation involves a historic record player, Sir Thomas More, and Spike Jones (the comical 1950s bandleader, not Spike Jonze the filmmaker).   Bob flanked by 2Cellos. Photo by The Canadian Press/Michelle Siu    Producing all those adventurous albums exemplify Bob’s values in record-making, among which that it’s important to see, as well as hear, the music when creating a record. A record is simply another form of theater. His work impressively has covered a broad range of genres: Americana (Jayhawks), New Wave (Berlin), Country (Johnny Reid), Celtic (Natalie McMasters), Classical (2Cellos), Folk (Murray McLauchlan), Jam Bands (Phish), Pop (Air Supply), and Soundtracks (Heavy Metal 2000).   Bob at work with the band Hanggai   The scope of his massively successful work includes recording acts from all over the world, such as Finland (Hanoi Rocks), France (Téléphone), Italy (Andrea Bocceli), Uganda (Geoffrey Oryema), Spain (Héroes del Silencio) and Mongolia (Hanggai).  He also takes on music projects with iconic musician-actors like Tim Curry, Kristen Chenoweth, Jared Leto (30 Seconds To Mars), and Johnny Depp (Hollywood Vampires).     Paul McCartney stopping by a Hollywood Vampires' recording session. Johnny Depp on the far left with Bob, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry on the right side   Bob is also familiar with mixing for live recording projects such asTaylor Swift’s Speak Now World Tour Live, The Alice Cooper Show, and Roger Daltrey’s A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who.   Donovan (far left) visits with Glen Buxton, Alice Cooper, and Bob, circa 1972   Bob’s latest collaboration with Alice Cooper, Detroit Stories, came out shortly after our conversation took place. This project represents a truly special aspect of Bob’s career – his long-running relationships with performers. He’s done over a dozen Alice Cooper albums, going back to 1971’s Love It To Death. His partnership with Kiss spans from 1976’s Destroyer to 2012’s Destroyer Resurrected. It also shows up in his work with Peter Gabriel (Gabriel’s 1977 solo debut and 2010’s Scratch My Back) and Pink Floyd (1979’s The Wall and 1994’s The Division Bells).   The guys behind Detroit Stories Courtesy Detroit Free Press   Notable too is Bob’s lengthy work associations with two revered rock guitarists: Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter. He met each guitarist on two of his earliest production jobs: Hunter was in the Mitch Ryder-fronted band Detroit while Wagner played in the short-lived group Ursa Major. Over the years, Bob tapped Dick and Steve for other many projects, most prominently were the times the two played guitar together in Alice Cooper’s and Lou Reed’s bands. Not surprisingly, Bob also produced solo albums for each guitarist.   Bob with Steve Hunter   In recent years, Bob has helmed two rather unique projects: working for the first time with a veteran group that hasn’t done a studio album in many years. In 2008, he produced Bauhaus’s Go Away White, their first studio album in 25 years. Then, in 2013, Bob did Now What!?!, the album Deep Purple made after an eight-year hiatus. Both projects were well received, and Bob went on to produce Deep Purple’s next two albums.   Bob produced Deep Purple's Now What?!   With his wealth of studio experience, Bob has developed some guiding principles regarding the producer’s role. One involves challenging the musicians to create something they are capable of creating, and he talks about how this “setting the bar” approach played a central role in his collaboration with Peter Gabriel on the former Genesis frontman’s first solo album.    Peter Gabriel doing the recording of his first solo album. Photo by Larry Fast   Bob producing the legendary Canadian band Lighthouse in 2017   Outside of the recording studio, Bob has been involved in many significant multi-media endeavors. Early in the 1990s, he co-founded 7th Level, a pioneering computer software company that put out educational and entertainment CD-ROMs, including many highly successful Monty Python titles. At the end of the 90s, Bob co-founded the innovative internet radio provider Enigma Digital; Clear Channel later purchased the company and Bob served as vice-chairman of Clear Channel Interactive.   Bob being honored with a star for Canada's Walk of Fame. Photo by Michelle Siu/The Canadian Press   A Toronto native, Bob is a member of both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame along with having a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame. Deeply believing in the importance of community service, Bob started the charity organization Music Rising with U2's The Edge and he also is a board member of the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, two non-profits whose work involves providing children the opportunity to make music.   Bob with his Music Rising co-founder The Edge   Louise Goffin with Bob at a MusiCares tribute to Carole King     Please enjoy Part Two of our illuminating conversation with the amazing Bob Ezrin.      

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we discuss all three. Get out your old Guitar World and Guitar Player mags and flip the pages as we discuss some of the most amazing fingers to ever touch a fretboard!Songs this week include:Lou Reed – “Sweet Jane” from Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal (1974)3 – “The End Is Begun” from The End Is Begun (2007)Phil Keaggy – “Route Canal” from Jammed! (2006)Bozzio, Levin, Stevens – “Dark Corner” from Black Light Syndrome (1997)Snowy White – “The Answer” from White Flames (1983)Rick Mals – “Miracle Storm” from Rhythm Museum (1992)Slave – “Volcano Rupture” from Hardness Of The World (1977)Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts!Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shopCheck out Robert’s amazing fire sculptures and metal workings here: http://flamewerx.com/If you’d like to check out Kevin’s band THE SWEAR, take a listen on all streaming services or pick up a digital copy of their latest release here: https://theswear.bandcamp.com/If you want to hear Robert and Kevin’s band from the late 90s – early 00s BIG JACK PNEUMATIC, check it out here: https://bigjackpnuematic.bandcamp.com/

EPISODE #61 - We’ve reached 2021 and who better to kick off the new year than the original ass-kicker Diamond David Lee Roth with a special episode celebrating the 30th anniversary of his 1991 album, “A Little Ain’t Enough.” The Daves do a deep-dive discussion breaking down the album song-by-song plus all the controversies that surrounded it. The dynamic duo then reads an internet Q&A they did with “A Little Ain’t Enough” guitarist Jason Becker plus they conduct an interview with the album’s other guitarist Steve Hunter. VH News and Mailbag round out the month.Download the podcast for free on Spreaker, YouTube, iHeartRadio, Spotify or iTunes. Connect with the Daves on Twitter: @ddunchained, Facebook: Dave & Dave Unchained – A Van Halen podcast, Instagram: ddunchainedpodcast or via email: ddunchainedpodcast@gmail.com

Steve (The Deacon) Hunter is today's guest. We talk about his work with Detroit (Mitch Ryder), Lou Reed, Dick Wagner, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Jack Bruce, Dr. John, Peter Gabriel, Bette Midler, Julian Lennon, Tracy Chapman, David Lee Roth, Karen Ann Hunter, some of his solo records and more! Steve's site: http://www.stevehunter.com/ TBPC site: https://www.tbpcpodcast.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBonesPrimeCuts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tbonesprimecuts --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbpc/support

26 de diciembre de 2020Nada mejor que Alice Cooper que sigue rocking and rolling como cuando empezó en los 70 del pasado siglo. Ahora con una versión de sus coetáneos Velvet Underground (Lou Reed) con el gran Steve Hunter que la conoce al dedillo. Seguimos con The Cadillac Three y su country rock psicodélico y picante que se preguntan ¿dónde hay un bar aquí? Y Matthew Sweet libera otra nueva canción de su futuro disco Catspaw al tiempo que recordamos el homenaje a John lennon de JEM Records con los Weeklings, los Gripweeds o Jonathan Pushkar. JEM también publica a los Bookends que con su portada psicodélica nos devuelve a un tiempo pasado de altas botas. La compositora de Los Ángeles Coco Reilly explora nuestra comprensión a veces defectuosa de nosotros mismos en la nueva canción "Oh Oh My My", de su próximo álbum de debut homónimo. Hayley Mary pop rockera indie australiana, mejor conocida como la líder de The Jezabels, escribió la canción The Chain después de darse cuenta de que la gira que había planeado probablemente estaba condenada al fracaso. Tres canciones más de pop rock power pop con Jonny Polonsky, los Weeklings y los Bookends van a dejar la pista libre para el soul de Devin B. Thompson y el blues del rubio Kenny Wayne Shepherd. ¡Prepárate para mañana, rock and roll!⦁ Alice Cooper, Rock & Roll⦁ The Cadillac Three, Tabasco & Sweet Tea⦁ The Cadillac Three, Bar Round Here⦁ Matthew Sweet, Give A Little⦁ The Weeklings, The Word ⦁ The Weeklings, What's the New Mary Jane? ⦁ The Gripweeds, Strawberry Fields Forever⦁ Johnathan Pushkar, I Call Your Name ⦁ The Bookends, She's Got It⦁ Coco Reilly, Oh Oh My My⦁ Hayley Mary, The Chain⦁ Jonny Polonsky, Completely Surrounded by Love ⦁ The Weeklings, Running Away⦁ The Bookends, Face The Facts⦁ Devin B. Thompson, Read Your Mind⦁ Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Blue On Black

Cynthia Marquez: "Sometimes to begin a new story, you have to let the old one in." Author unknown. I am Cynthia Marquez, and I am a Tri-City Influencer. Paul Casey: One definition of multitasking is messing up two things at once. I love that definition. Speaker 3: Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington, it's the Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast. Welcome to the TCI Podcast, where local leadership and self-leadership expert Paul Casey interviews local CEOs, entrepreneurs, and non-profit executives, to hear how they lead themselves and their teams, so we can all benefit from their wisdom and experience. Here's your host, Paul Casey of Growing Forward Services. Coaching and equipping individuals and teams to spark breakthrough success. Paul Casey: It's a great day to grow forward. Thanks for joining me for today's episode with Rick Dunn. Rick is the general manager of Benton PUD, and I asked him for a fun fact about himself. He said, "It could be quirky. It could be annoying, but it's about the dishwasher." Rick, really quick, tell us about that. Rick Dunn: Okay. I did have to quiz my wife about the things that I did that annoy her, that would be considered quirky, and I guess as we kind of talk a little bit further, you understand where this is coming from, but I've been known to reload the dishwasher after somebody else does it, because it's not done right, and there's an efficient way to do it. Right? Then to kind of add to that, I cannot allow the drinking glasses to go into the cabinet, not being in the proper order. Small, juice glasses then the medium ones and then the big ones. Anyway, that tells you a lot about me. Paul Casey: It does. It does, personality style gone crazy. Rick Dunn: Yes. Paul Casey: Well, we're going to dive in with Rick after checking in with our Tri-City Influencer sponsor. Paul Casey: Mario Martinez, Northwestern Mutual. Mario, what types of services do you offer? Mario Martinez: Hey Paul, thank you for letting me be on here. We run bifurcated practices in that we focus in two areas of a financial plan. The first one is we do protection pieces, which include life insurance, disability insurance, long-term care insurance, really the things that people should be focused on to protect their families, their businesses. On the other side of our practice is, we do investment services. On the investment platforms we do both the brokerage platform and we do the advisory level services. Depending on what someone's looking for as far as guidance on their investment strategies, we can curtail and build a strategy for them that makes sense. Paul Casey: Mario, how can people get in touch with you? Mario Martinez: The easiest way. You can reach out to me directly on my business cell phone. It's (509) 591-5301. You can send me an email at Mario.Martinez@nm.com or you can reach out to us on our social media platforms. The easiest one being Mario Martinez, Northwestern Mutual on Facebook. Paul Casey: Thank you for your support of leadership development in the Tri-Cities. Well, welcome, Rick. I was privileged to meet you. Man, was it? It's been probably 15 years ago. I had your children at Liberty Christian School when I was the principal there, and I hired your wife to teach second grade. That is bizarre. Rick Dunn: I am eternally grateful for that, and it is kind of amazing though. You know how this community works, is that you’ve really got to be careful and make sure you're nice to people. They can come back and intersect with you in a different part of your life. Paul Casey: I like that. Intersect with you. Yes. And more recently being able to do professional development with your awesome team there at Benton PUD. Thanks for hiring me. Rick Dunn: Absolutely. It's been great. Hey, you earned it. All right. It's not just a favor. Paul Casey: Well, so that our Tri-City influencers can get to know you, take us through a couple of career highlights that led you to your current position and why you love what you do. Rick Dunn: Well, I don't think you can really talk about your career highlights unless you give a little bit of background about your personal life. Paul Casey: Yeah. Rick Dunn: I grew up in Benton City, graduated from Kiona High School, went to Washington State University and got an electrical engineering degree, and like most people from small towns wanted to get out of here, and so we did and we moved to Phoenix. I was recruited by a couple of different companies, one in California and one in Phoenix, Arizona. We moved down there, and the reason I tell you that is, is I'm a high voltage power engineer. That's the best summary of my background. Paul Casey: You're electric, man. Rick Dunn: We are really electric. You go where the jobs are, and so the thing that brought us back to the Northwest is we just missed the Northwest. As much as I had a great job down there, I really didn't realize how much I valued just being here in this part of the country. As you leave college, you don't know exactly what you want to do, but we took a risk and we went down, and then came back after two years. A couple of summers of 115 degrees will do that to a guy, but I tell you as a set up, because then you have kids, and we had kids, we lived in Seattle area. That's where I worked. As soon as we had kids, we found ourselves coming over to the Tri-Cities all the time. My wife and I were on our way back to Seattle one time, and it was one of those beautiful summer evenings in the Tri-Cities and the smell of the alfalfa in the fields on the way past Prosser and that area. Rick Dunn: I looked at Marjean and said, "Why are we doing this? We should just try to move back here." Fast forwarding, I tried. I even put my resume in at Benton PUD, and they didn't even get back to me. I give, Steve Hunter's our assistant general manager and director of engineering operations a bad time. I said, "You didn't call me," so isn't that funny? I ended up back in the Tri-Cities and long story short, ended up in Hermiston, in Electric Co-Op, and then ultimately landed a job at Benton PUD. I am about high voltage electricity, and I'm a bit of an engineering nerd when it comes to that, but I think maybe to close it out when I was at the co-operative, I was sent away to training, to do a national training at the University of Nebraska. Rick Dunn: I went back there for a six week, very intensive courses, living in the dorms again. The idea is to train you up to be a general manager, and I remember telling the general manager at the time, "I want nothing to do with this, ever. You can't make me be a general manager. I'm an engineer. This is what I am meant to be in life." He said, "Yeah, but just go anyway, because it'll be good for you," and I just laugh about that now, because even as I'm in this job now, up until about a year ago, I was still saying the same thing. Anyway. I love being in an industry that really makes a difference in people's lives. I mean, not to be cliche or anything, it's just electricity that is kind of something that goes on in the background and when you don't have it, you miss it real quick. Right? Paul Casey: Uh-huh (affirmative). Rick Dunn: I really do love that part of it, but I think as I think about Benton, and this community we live in, it's really about life-work balance and what this community has meant to me. Like you mentioned, that our kids in the school where you were principal. Those are the things that kind of come together in your life and you don't know exactly how they're going to weigh, and I've just been so fortunate to be able to balance all the different dimensions of my life. I look at this job now, that I have at Benton PUD, as somewhat of a getting out of what I might've naturally wanted to do and moving more into more of a service to other people. I'm kind of that stage of my life. Boy, it took me many, many months of thinking about it, but I came to this job really ready to do it, and I'm just so grateful for it. Paul Casey: Why did you resist initially, when you thought about being general manager, like, "Nah, I don't want to go there"? Rick Dunn: Well, I think, engineers naturally want to do design, and they want to create new things, and they want to watch things operate. I think it's a scary prospect to think you might be pulled out of what is really a defining passion. It's why you go put up with getting a bachelor's degree in engineering in the first place, right? All the suffering and late nights, so it feels like to go into "management" is contrary to really what drives a lot of people like myself who are mathematical and scientifically oriented, and liked getting out in the field and seeing things built. So the idea that you would then be locked down into a management job- Paul Casey: Leading people. Rick Dunn: Yes, and have to deal with these annoying people all the time. Right? I think, that's the fundamental issue, and I think also, I've been very fortunate. In the job I was in prior to the GM job was a senior director of engineering and power management, so that was fantastic. I mean, it's like the best job you could have, because I was able to stay close enough to the technical work, to kind of retain that anchor to what kind of defined me as an engineer, but also being at a director level where I could still get involved in some significant decision-making and problem solving, and working on strategic planning and different things, which I also enjoyed. It's kind of a nice balance and I thought, "Okay, well, that's it. I'm getting old and it's time to start heading out to pasture here in a few years. Why would I change now? I'm pretty comfortable." Rick Dunn: I think that's another reason that I kind of resisted, was things were going good. My kids were raised and mostly through college, I've got one left to finish up. He's getting his master's degree down in Colorado right now, but I was kind of looking down the road to just easing into retirement. Why would I go do this job and stretch myself, right, at this late date? Paul Casey: Yeah. You were at a crossroads, and you jumped and it sounds like you reframed it as, "I get to be a servant leader here, I get to pour into people. I'm going to say yes to this opportunity." What advice would you give to our listeners for when they reach a crossroads like that in their life? Rick Dunn: You know what? I do think that you have to be careful, and it's a little bit cliche to say, "Never say never," right? I think as you come to these crossroads in your career that you don't want to put definitive nos on opportunities necessarily. Right? Maybe the timing isn't necessarily right, but I've really listened to what other people have told me about myself and what I maybe mean to them, or maybe mean to the organization. Things that I'm not necessarily seeing or realizing is happening. I've been very fortunate to be, I don't know, an engineer that can get out of the cubicle and actually talk to people, and have a bit of interpersonal skills perhaps, and so I heard that from people. They think, "Oh, well, you're kind of a different engineer. You can actually talk to me and you make things sounded easier, and so I can track with you." I kept hearing that a lot. Rick Dunn: There's that, and then I think as you work for companies for a while, you do gain a sense of loyalty. I mean, we're all kind of team-oriented, and when you're working for a company, and you see a need and maybe your boss is saying, "Man, I have a challenge here. We need someone to step into leadership." I think that you need to be open to the idea that it isn't always about you, so when you talk about servant leadership, I think that's a good term, is you have to look at, well, where are the opportunities that I could serve? I've been actually, really surprised to some degree on how gratifying that can be. Now, I think that if you can balance your passions and the things that drive you with servant leadership, those things in combination, I mean, that's the sweet spot, right? Paul Casey: It is. Rick Dunn: I've just really been fortunate to have those opportunities within the industry that I'm in. I get back to your question, what's the advice I give to people, is just show some passion in your work and listen to what other people say about you. Maybe recalibrate the way you approach things, as you hear that. Don't limit your thinking about what the possibilities might be for you. It may not be the right timing, but there can be at some point in the future where things open up, just like what happened to me with this general manager opportunity. Is that I wasn't planning on it, and... Paul Casey: You should never fully close the door, right? Rick Dunn: I never fully closed the door. Right. Paul Casey: Left it ajar a little bit. Rick Dunn: Exactly, and I think it was around that whole loyalty and kind of serving orientation that I kind of gained over the years. Yeah, I think that's probably the best advice. Paul Casey: Yeah. I love that. Listen to others and how they see you. Paul Casey: Years ago, I had a friend who asked me a series of seven or eight questions about her, and said like, "What do you see most in me as my strengths? What do I talk too much about? What do I need to divest myself of?" It was a fun activity. I thought I'm going to do that with seven or eight of my friends, and people that I knew were really for me, I still have that sheet. It was like 2010 or '11. Now, when I teach on emotional intelligence, I said, "This is one of the ways that you can get feedback on yourself. I mean, go after it from the people who are for you and love you the way you are, as quirky as you are or not, and listen, and see if there's some patterns that develop, and it's like, "Wow, this is how I'm coming across." Rick Dunn: Yeah. Paul Casey: What's most rewarding for you in your job now, and how do you stay focused on that? I'm sure all the hassles, disappointments of being in charge trickle up to your level, woo hoo, as a leader, but what's the most rewarding for you? Rick Dunn: I mean, I still think the engineer in me likes to solve complex problems. I think the difference is designing a substation presents certain sets of problems, but operating in our business, in the power contracting side of things, for example. Developing strategic plans and different things present challenges, and so I still enjoy the complexity of the challenges, right? I mean, it's that kind of intellectual side of things, as opposed to the emotional side of it, but like I mentioned to you, I still value being a servant to others. I think for me, seeing the inherent value in people and not just making that a talking point, but actually making it a part of who you are is really rewarding to me. I guess what that translates to is, is I love just talking to anybody that will listen to me for more than a few minutes, right? That means anybody in any job capacity. Rick Dunn: COVID's been really difficult for me, because I took over March 1st. Paul Casey: Oh my goodness. Rick Dunn: Two weeks later, we shut the doors and locked things down, so one of my goals as general manager was going to be to walk around a lot and really engage with people, because I really liked talking to people. It's rewarding to me to talk to individuals. People don't need a whole lot of encouragement, and I know from being kind of on the other side of this, that it means a lot to hear from the boss, right? To get to know them and to see that they're a real human being. I like that part of it, and boy, I can't wait to get back to normal so that we can do that. Rick Dunn: One substitute for that, that I've kind of implemented here out of necessity, is to sending out an email to all the employees, to kind of make sure that they know I'm still here, and try to provide some encouragement and some strength through these really challenging times. I think it's a combination. Keep solving technical problems, but get a lot of reward out of just the simple things and the relationships with people. I think, to make room for those two things, people that have worked for me long enough and have been around me know that I'm an absolute... How do I say this? Disciplined daily task manager, and the reason that I bring that up is that if you're going to make room for the things you enjoy and you're passionate about, I just believe you have to have a process by which you intake information, and intake requests for meetings, and requests to review documents and things. Rick Dunn: I do it just really disciplined within... I use Outlook, Outlook Task Manager, and then people kind of, I think it's affectionately, call me the task manager, but they're referring to outlook. If that makes sense? Is that I have a real way in which I process incoming requests for things, because there is a lot of work that we do is very administrative and rather than grouse about it and complain about it, many years ago... In fact, it was a part of this management training I took back in Nebraska. Many years ago, I learned techniques and processes for how to bring paperwork into your office, and sort it and keep it off your desktop. Then when Outlook and email, and everything came out, I figured out a way to really use Outlook Task Manager. Rick Dunn: Hopefully I'm not droning on too long here, Paul, but I guess what I'm saying is, don't discount the value of having processes that are repeatable and allow you to efficiently take care of those administrative chores and tasks, that can take away and diminish your love of the job, right? If you allow it, and so I've really fended that off by having this process that I've had in place for, gosh, probably 15 years now. Then that frees me up, for the future, when I will be able to go talk to employees and things, but I've always done that in the jobs that I've had. I've tried to make room for that. Paul Casey: That's a great way of saying it too, it frees you up. By having these time management and priority management tools, you're talking my language now, then it does free you up to do the other things that give you that joy, but if you just let everything be reactive while you're sitting in the leadership chair, then it crowds all that time out. What is it? Parkinson's Law, work expands to fill all of the available time, and so you have to stay disciplined and say, "Is this what I should be working on right now? Am I the right person to be doing this? Or should I be delegating this to someone else, so I can do that relationship stuff? It's just so rewarding. Paul Casey: Leaders must keep growing or they become irrelevant. How have you matured as a leader in recent years as you moved up through the ranks? Rick Dunn: I think as you consider getting into leadership positions or management, one of the things that I noticed is that people were all, seemed to be looking for formulas and kind of the magic thing that you do to become a leader. There's lots of books and there's lots of things you can read about it, and I always felt a little funny, like, well, I don't really read a whole lot of leadership books. I actually, I really don't. What was the question? I'm sorry. Paul Casey: How have you matured as a leader? Rick Dunn: I'm sorry. Yeah. How have I matured, is I guess what I've allowed myself to do is really tap into some of my own natural abilities. Like I said earlier, kind of listen to what other people are giving me in terms of feedback. For me, the biggest thing I can do is listen more. I still struggle with it, but I've really recognized the value in letting other people talk, and let them tell you what's on their mind. I think as engineers, sometimes... Not sometimes, maybe all the time, we think we got the answer, right? So there's a tendency to kind of shut off, but I think that to be a leader and to mature requires that you do value other people, that you really see their inherent value, and that they may have an opinion that's different. They may have something that they know that you don't know, and really being open to that. Rick Dunn: I think, maybe additionally, I haven't looked for the big aha moment in how I'm finally arrived at being a leader. It's more about incremental improvement for me. I know, Paul, you and I have talked about this, that I really think that success in your personal life is really critical to success in your business life. Winning in your personal life, in incremental ways, kind of can snowball into good things. It kind of translates into just positive outcomes in your business life, too, if that makes sense? Paul Casey: Yes. Self-leadership always precedes team leadership. Rick Dunn: Yeah. I think I've recognized that, and your question was about maturing as a leader, and it's just recognizing that there's some principles on which you can operate and that you need to stay true to, that work throughout your career progression, that are really powerful, and I don't know, be careful that you're looking in books for. Now, trust me, reading books in leadership style. Well, those are all fine. That's all good. Paul Casey: Bill, let's shut this podcast down. He doesn't read leadership books, so let's just end it right here. No, just kidding. Rick Dunn: Right, right. Anyway, I just think that- Paul Casey: Yes. There's no magic bullet. Rick Dunn: ... I think there's a combination. There's a combination. I think, be open, all of that, but don't look for kind of that magic formula that's going to work, find your principles. I think for me, it's just really trying to be grounded, and the fact that it is about people in the end. These things we do for careers, they're really about people coming together, aiming at kind of a common purpose together, and that you can't do that if you don't have that frame of reference, I guess, that really values people. Paul Casey: Yeah. When you hired me to work with your team, we talked about like, let's balance this with self-leadership, and personal growth, and leadership growth, because you were very clear of that. "I want my people to be whole. They're whole people, so let's try to take care of nurturing their personal growth because that's going to bleed over into work." Rick Dunn: Yeah. I think another thing is that a lot of the jobs that people do, frankly, they're very necessary, and there's no job that's not important to an organization, but some of them can be routine, right? They can also isolate people from kind of the bigger picture of what their company's doing, and what we're doing in our community. I think it's really important that we don't leave people like that behind, and so that's what we're doing with you, and that's what we're doing with some of the strategic actions that we're undertaking, is to let's really invest in our people. Let's make sure they know they're valuable. Let's give them opportunities to set some goals and it can be personal life. Rick Dunn: In fact, I wish it was first, right? Get some personal goals that you achieve and then bring that to work. Now, let's set some incremental goals for you. Maybe you're going to expand beyond the job that you have now and in a way that you never really expected, right? Because you start getting some wins in your life, and then it translates to work. Now you're looking for opportunities and things can go far better from there, right? Paul Casey: Yeah. It's a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset, which comes from the book, Mindset by Carol Dweck, but if you have that growth mindset- Rick Dunn: I haven't read it. Sorry. Paul Casey: I know. Rick Dunn: But maybe I will. Paul Casey: But yes, it talks about if you have that growth mindset, you're never really just like digging in with a position. You're always like, "Well, I can learn something from this person in front of me, and I can learn something from this resource," but that fixed mindset's sort of like, "All right. I know it all. Whatever. Yeah." Rick Dunn: Right. I think some people definitely need help in seeing that, right? Paul Casey: They do. Rick Dunn: Because they go to work to pay the bills a lot of times. It'd be easy to kind of hunker down and even become somewhat kind of jaded in your view. "Well, I don't know if there's going to be any opportunities for me," right? I think leaders need to go in, identify people who may be in that situation, and help them see beyond kind of where they're at right now, and do it in small ways again,. It doesn't have to be some major dramatic changes. It's incremental. Paul Casey: Right. It could be a fitness goal. It could be a relationship, marriage goal, a parenting goal. Yeah, for sure. Paul Casey: Well, before we head into our next question and talk a little bit more about that to-do list that Rick has, a shout out to our sponsor. Paul Casey: Mario Martinez, Northwestern Mutual, Mario, why should people work with a financial advisor? Mario Martinez: Hey, Paul, that's a great question. Really. I think there's two types of people who should be seeking out a financial professional. 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Paul Casey: Rick, most of our to-do lists are greater than the time we have to do them, so that requires a leader to have to triage tasks, delegate in order to focus on your most important tasks. How do you sort, you were talking about your Outlook Task Manager, how do you sort how you spend your time, and maybe any tips that you have for our listeners on delegation? Rick Dunn: All right. Now you're going to uncover the secret sauce in how I do things. Paul Casey: Let's go deep, man. Rick Dunn: All right. Okay. Paul Casey: Nerd out on it. Rick Dunn: This is proprietary information that we're getting into there. No, we're not. Yeah, we already talked about the fact that... I guess it starts with this. We have to acknowledge that how we operate in our jobs has changed over the years. Right? I mean, when I came out of college, there were no personal computers. I mean, it makes me feel very old, but I had a PC on my desk within about six months, but I was in the workforce when you still typed a memo, and then copied it off, and routed it around, and everything. Paul Casey: Mimeograph machines. Rick Dunn: Yeah. Now we've moved far beyond that obviously. Email has created this unbelievably open door policy, if you will, about who gets to hear what you're up to, up to the top of the organization, right? It's CC everybody. I try to manage that with people. I try to manage expectations up front, which is if you work for me, or you work within my organization, here's how I want to operate. Rick Dunn: We don't all need to see what everybody's up to at every moment. Right? You need to take some- Paul Casey: Reply all. Rick Dunn: Exactly. I start with that, because this is an acknowledgement that that's the world we live in, I think, so it starts with setting expectations with people and what communication that you want to see, and so I limit it. I start by the same... I have a lot of email, okay? Just like everybody else, but I can keep it reduced. When it comes in, it's almost always, "Can you take a look at this," or it's just letting you know, FYI. Right? I move emails into a task list, because that's how... Email is the way in which we take on assignments predominantly, right? I mean, that's the truth of it. I bring them in, and so I look at the business I'm in, and I won't tell the groupings, but I have about six different groupings in which stuff goes, and it goes into those. Rick Dunn: At the moment that I process it, I assign it a due date. It doesn't mean I'm going to be done with it, and I ask people, I set an expectation, "Tell me when you want it done," because I want to perform to your expectation and not be uncertain about it, and that really helps. Right? It helps you manage your priorities. As those things come in, I assign them to a task. I group it into a particular category, and then I put a due date on, which is going to pop to the top. Then I use a little bit of automation in Outlook, and I tell Outlook, "Hey, show me my tasks by these different groups. And then color red when they get overdue," so they come to the top of the stack that way. The way I come in to each day, literally, is I'll go through those different groupings and I see what's at the top of the stack. Rick Dunn: Then at the end of the day, I kind of follow your advice, right? I'm trying to practice what we're preaching here, and so I look at what's coming for the next day. By doing that, I'm not really surprised by what's coming tomorrow. I try to be just highly efficient in that realm. Then people still insist on giving you paperwork, right? I have a system for which I manage that, and you might think, "Oh man, we're getting down in the weeds now. It is important, because still paper does exist, and so I have an accordion file with A through Z on it, and when somebody hands me a piece of paper, I put it in one of those letter categories, and I go to my task list, and I just put in parentheses what letter it's in. Does that make sense? Paul Casey: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Rick Dunn: Now, I can couple together, the paper world and the electronic world in a very efficient package where it's just kind of integrated with managing email, and calendars, and things. That's where- Paul Casey: Is A top priority, B- Rick Dunn: No. No, they're just letters that tell you the topic or whatever. Paul Casey: It's how you file them, right? Okay. Rick Dunn: Yes, and I don't over complicate it. I try to make... You can spend more time getting organized than you do just doing the work. It's like, "Well, you could"- Paul Casey: You could. Rick Dunn: ... "or you could use the actual process that's fast, seamless somewhat and integrate it. Right? That's my advice, is to take advantage of the tools we have, recognize how tasks are coming in, recognize how email influences you. It can also be a source of distraction. I turn off notifications. I do not have email notifications turned on. I think it really feeds the- Paul Casey: Squirrel. Rick Dunn: ... attention deficit disorder. Yeah, that's happening in the work. Anyway. I hope that kind of explains it. I do that, and then I say, "Okay, now, if there's tasks that end up lingering too long, perhaps I'm not the right person to get it done, or I need to communicate with other people." And I'll find myself finally telling somebody, "Hey, look," I call it my whack-a-mole task management technique, is that it pops up, it turns red, and then I either get it done or I whack it back down in the stack. Right? If I do that multiple times, I'm like, "All right, I've got to send that to somebody else." Paul Casey: That's your trigger. Yeah, yeah. Rick Dunn: That's it. If it's been through multiple cycles, and it's popped up and I can't seem to get it done, then... Now, I will tell you that it's very important to me that I actually meet people's expectations. Right? To do that consistently I do think it's important that you get yourself organized. Paul Casey: Yeah. Good stuff. We talked about personal growth, self-care, being essential for mental health, especially in the land of COVID, and for top performance. What recharges your batteries? Rick Dunn: Yeah. That's a great question. It's certainly easy for me, now that I have my three boys raised and they're adults. I just think that what you can do from a practical standpoint, when you're raising kids and have a house full of craziness, and what I can do now, are different things. Okay? I don't want to stand in judgment of anybody, because I was the last person to get up early and exercise when I had kids in the house. Paul Casey: Sure, sure. Rick Dunn: But, now, at this stage of my life, it's very important to me. I'm not a morning person, but my wife, probably about eight or nine years ago said, "When are you going to stop talking about losing some weight and getting healthy, and do something about it?" I was, "Whoa." Paul Casey: I love you too, honey. Rick Dunn: Yeah. She ordered the DVDs and we started getting up in the morning, right, okay? We did that. We had kids in the house, and so we did it together. I think the reason I bring that up is, because it's an accountability mechanism to have somebody say, "Hey, we're going to do this together." What's become very important to me, and recharges me, is the morning routine where I get up early. I do a lot of prayer time and there's quiet time, and do some Bible study. That's my choice for how I wake up in the morning. Then I go, I do physical exercise. I do at least 30 minutes to an hour. I've kind of reduced it down to 30 to 45 minutes now. Get the mind, and the spirit, and the body kind of fired up before you get to the office. I tell you, it's meant so much to me. Now it's become just part of what I have to do to stay recharged, like you're saying, but it does take discipline. Paul Casey: It does. Rick Dunn: It takes commitment, but the thing I've learned, and I know I'm not the first person to experience this, is once you've integrated some lifestyle like that into your world, I don't know what to do without it then. Right? I mean- Paul Casey: Stability. Rick Dunn: Yeah. I will tell you this. I've told a lot of folks this, is don't beat yourself up if you miss a day or something, right? It's about the long haul. I've really found that that's important to do that. Then I like to come home in the evening and even go for a walk or something. Just simple things. It doesn't have to be major. You can join a health club, but I've got a loft upstairs, and a rack of weights, and a DVD player, and Tony Horton on the other side, so I can do it at home, and make it happen and stick with it. Yeah. Paul Casey: Well, finally, Rick, what advice would you give to new leaders or anyone who wants to keep growing and gaining more influence? Rick Dunn: I think I said it before, but I'm going to reiterate it. No matter what job you're in, no matter what aspirations you have, I think, in terms of leadership, that it really does start with how you look at other people, and how you value them. Just knowing that every person comes to work for reasons that you don't totally understand, but I do believe that there's dignity in all work. I was taught that by my mom, and by my grandparents. You get up, you work hard, you take care of yourself, you take care of your family. I think that, as you're in your job, look at that and understand that, and everybody brings a little something different to the table, right? No matter what the job is, so value people, and don't just say it, actually do it. Rick Dunn: That means you engage with people. You have mutual respect for them. You listen to them. We're not perfect people. I have my moments, right? But I think when you do that, then you're going to find your way into leadership roles, because people naturally gravitate to folks who listen to them, and who care about them. Of course, you got to be competent, and so I say, dig into the technical things, learn your job really well. Do more than the minimum. I do a lot of reading. I spend a lot of time outside of work. I love my job, so it's not terrible to do that, but I think, really learn your job. Sometimes even over prepare a little bit. Be someone that people can count on. Rick Dunn: The simple things. Show up on time, get the task done when people ask you to, communicate with them and don't leave people hanging. All those things kind of work together. They have, for me at least, and opportunities have opened up. When people have confidence in you, like I said earlier, then you go, "Okay, well maybe I could do that, right?" Then they believe in you, and then other people believe in you, and you can find yourself being a successful part of a team. The next thing you know, you're promoted to general manager, and you didn't even want to do it, right? Paul Casey: Don't let this happen to you. Yeah. Rick Dunn: Exactly. Paul Casey: Rick Dunn's rules for life. I love it. Rick, how can our listeners best connect with you? Rick Dunn: Okay. I'm going to give you my email. Is that what you want me to do? Oh wow. Paul Casey: You can, and then it'll go into a folder. Our listeners will at least know that. Rick Dunn: That's right. I'll whack-a-mole you. Yes, yes. No, I'd be happy to communicate with folks. It's D-U-N-N-R, so it's dunnr@bentonpud.org. Paul Casey: Well, thanks again for all that you do to make the Tri-Cities a great place and keep leading well. Paul Casey: Let me wrap up our podcast today with a leadership resource to recommend. It's one that I want to provide for you, and it is a sheet of the top traits of terrific team leaders. It's 11 habits, inspirational habits that you as a leader can do to inspire your team. What you do is you open up a text message to 72000, seven, two, zero, zero, zero, and type the two words team lead, put a space in between, team lead, and I'll be happy to send that little tool off to you. The top traits of terrific team leaders. Paul Casey: Again, this is Paul Casey. I want to thank my guest, Rick Dunn from Benton PUD for being here today on the Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast. We also want to thank our TCI sponsor and invite you to support them. We appreciate you making this possible so that we can collaborate and help inspire leaders in our community. Finally, one more leadership tid bit for the road, to help you make a difference in your circle of influence. John Maxwell says, "The leaders take the vision from me to we." Until next time, KGF. Keep Growing Forward. Speaker 3: Thank you to our listeners for tuning into today's show. Paul Casey is on a mission to add value to leaders by providing practical tools and strategies that reduce stress in their lives and on their teams, so that they can enjoy life and leadership, and experience their deep desired results. Speaker 3: If you'd like more help from Paul in your leadership development, connect with him at growingforwardatpaulcasey.org for a consultation that help you move past your current challenges, and create a strategy for growing your life or your team forward. Paul would also like to help you restore your sanity to your crazy schedule and getting your priorities done every day by offering you his free, Control My Calendar checklist. Go to www.takebackmycalendar.com for that productivity tool, or open a text message to 72000 and type the word growing. Paul Casey: Tri-Cities Influencer Podcast was recorded at Fuse SPC by Bill Wagner of Safe Strategies

Steve Hunter is from Orangeville, Ontario. He ran his first half-marathon in 2014 and his first ultra in 2015. He then went on to run the Ontario Ultra Series in 2016 placing third overall for the 50 k series and 1st for the ultra series for 40-49 age group. He completed his first 100 miler in 2016 and since then Steve has completed several 100 milers and helped many other athletes in the Ultra community through pacing and crewing at other 100 milers, 200 milers and FKTs. We discuss his transformation in his forties from losing weight and starting to run, Western States qualifying races as he pursues his goal to run Western States one day, pacing and what it takes to make a good pacer and much more. Steve is a good friend of mine and this conversation was long overdue and if I ever sign up for another 100 miler I will definitely be asking Steve to pace me.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Runningdivine)

In this video Scott speaks with Dr. Hunter about how to help those who are struggling with suicidal thoughts and feelings. They discuss making personal connections with people, getting help, gaining confidence, and finding purpose in life.

n this video Scott talks with Dr. Steve Hunter about trauma, addiction, anxiety, and the crushing weight that comes from the big lies leading people to view suicide as the only best option. Dr. Hunter shares his story of his attempted suicide as a high-school student.

Steve shares stories about getting drafted into the Army at 19, and the tremendous benefits he got out of this experience… GREAT story about some dark times and how he got out of them… an unusual conversation he had with BB King, which changed his life… his experiences with Bob Ezrin, Aerosmith, Lou Reed & Jason Becker, top 3 musical experiences (NOT what you’re thinking), falling in love at 59 & LOADS more cool stuff. Amazing history from one of the great rock and roll guitarists of our time Steve Hunter is responsible for famous licks he played with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Aerosmith, Jack Bruce, David Lee Roth, Julian Lennon, Glen Campbell, Dr. John & more. He’s also recorded with Joe Satriani, Joe Perry, Johnny Depp, Marty Friedman, Michael Lee Firkins, Tony Levin, Tommy Henriksen, Jason Becker, 2Cellos & Karen Ann Hunter Subscribe https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EveryoneLovesGuitar/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everyonelovesguitar/ 

Steve Hunter. Electric bass player, composer, songwriter and educator from Sydney, Australia. Born and raised in Kent, South East England , Steve was picking out melodies on the family piano from an early age , but it wasn't until shortly after his family emigrated to Australia that, when at age 15 he picked up an electric bass and immediately knew that creating music and playing bass was to basically become his life. With 10 albums to date as band leader, Steve has also gone on to play with Billy Cobham, Chick Corea , Bobby Previte, Mark Isham, Ulf Wakenius, Mark Almond Band, Maxine Nightingale, Bay City Rollers, Gayle Moran, Renee Geyer, DIG, Kate Ceberano, Josef Tawadros Trio and many others. Steve was also the very first bass teacher at Australian  Institute of music back in 1990.  These days Steve still teaches, has his band The Steve Hunter Trio with Gordon Rytmeister and Matt McMahon and he also plays with The Subterraneans.   Episode recorded 23/10/2019. Episode Music. Intro: : Plasa Raga by Steve Hunter (Album: Local World)   https://www.youtube.com/user/MrTrueseventh https://www.facebook.com/steve.hunter.16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to securely donate to The Gig Life Podcast. Your support is very much appreciated. Thank you.   https://www.thegiglifepodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/thegiglifepodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/thegiglifepodcast/?hl=en https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KahER1yXZQP3rh1mhSUqX?si=0O1lB7TJTaKfuD34xm7B7w Email: thegiglifepodcast@gmail.com #thegiglifepodcast  #thegiglife

Gordon Rytmeister. Drummer from Sydney, Australia. When you look at the upper echelon of any field, there's usually a handful of people that come to mind, right? Within the Australian drumming community, Gordo is one of those people. You only need to google his name to see the enormous body of work he's amassed over his 3 + decades on the instrument. And that work continues, as he's still one of the most in demand drummers around. Attitude, facility and reliability keep Gordo as that first call guy, be it sessions or live gigs for jazz, big band, pop, rock, fusion and even metal. Some of the people Gordon has worked with are: Don Burrows, Steve Hunter, James Morrison, Australian Idol House Band, Steve Vizzard Show, Bob Mintzer, Emma Pask, Mark Costa, Leo Sayer, Bob James, Tom Jones, Bob Florence, The Commodores, Bob Geldof, Barry Harris, Nat Adderley, Maria Schnieder, Lee Konitz, Glenn Shorrock (from Little River Band), Alex Koritni, Tina Arena, The Sydney All Star Big Band, Roger Frampton, Bobby Shew, Anthony Warlow, Russell Watson, Rob McConnell, Don Rader, Dale Barlow, Eartha Kitt, Jimmy Barnes and many, many more. This episode is Part 2 of 2.  Get Part 1 here. Episode recorded 26/09/2019. Episode Music. Intro: : "Reminiscing" by The Sydney All Star Big Band: Drums - Gordon Rytmeister Outro:  "Dirty Letter" by Alex Koritni: Drums - Gordon Rytmeister Photo by Bill Risby (@oasisbill) https://www.drumscene.com.au/back-issues/item/610-drumscene-issue-86 http://www.gordonrytmeister.com/ https://au.yamaha.com/en/artists/g/gordon_rytmeister.html https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gordon+rytmeister+   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to securely donate to The Gig Life Podcast. Your support is very much appreciated. Thank you.   https://www.thegiglifepodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/thegiglifepodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/thegiglifepodcast/?hl=en https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KahER1yXZQP3rh1mhSUqX?si=0O1lB7TJTaKfuD34xm7B7w Email: thegiglifepodcast@gmail.com #thegiglifepodcast  #thegiglife

What is it that we do here at InObscuria? Well, we exhume obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This particular episode is planted firmly in the: FORGOTTEN category, as all of these recordings occurred between 1971 - 1978. However, somehow, Kevin has actually seen one of the bands live! As always, our hope is that we turn you on to something new in a genre and decade that you may have thought you already knew everything there was to know.Songs this week include:Ursa Major - "Stage Door Queen" from Ursa Major (1972)Cain - "Heed The Call" from A Pound Of Flesh (1975)Death - "Keep On Knocking" from …For The Whole World To See (1975)Truth & Janey - "The Light" from No Rest For The Wicked (1976)Hooker - "The Way You Love Me" from Rock & Roll (1978)Groundhogs - "Cherry Red" from Split (1971)Orang-Utan –  Chocolate Pianofrom Orang-Utan (1971)Links we discussed in the episode:Attila / Billy Joel album cover: https://www.discogs.com/Attila-Attila/release/1448576Death documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKkWXHBg5sDeath: https://www.deathfromdetroit.com/Hooker interview: https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/06/hooker-interview.htmlOrang-Utan blog: http://waxidermy.com/blog/orang-utan-same-1970-bell-records/Please subscribe everywhere that you listen to podcasts!Visit us: https://inobscuria.com/https://www.facebook.com/InObscuriahttps://twitter.com/inobscuriahttps://www.instagram.com/inobscuria/Buy cool stuff with our logo on it!: https://www.redbubble.com/people/inobscuria/og-shop

Gordon Rytmeister. Drummer from Sydney, Australia. When you look at the upper echelon of any field, there's usually a handful of people that come to mind, right? Within the Australian drumming community, Gordo is one of those people. You only need to google his name to see the enormous body of work he's amassed over his 3 + decades on the instrument. And that work continues, as he's still one of the most in demand drummers around. Attitude, facility and reliability keep Gordo as that first call guy, be it sessions or live gigs for jazz, big band, pop, rock, fusion and even metal. Some of the people Gordon has worked with are: Don Burrows, Steve Hunter, James Morrison, Australian Idol House Band, Steve Vizzard Show, Bob Mintzer, Emma Pask, Mark Costa, Leo Sayer, Bob James, Tom Jones, Bob Florence, The Commodores, Bob Geldof, Barry Harris, Nat Adderley, Maria Schnieder, Lee Konitz, Glenn Shorrock (from Little River Band), Alex Koritni, Tina Arena, The Sydney All Star Big Band, Roger Frampton, Bobby Shew, Anthony Warlow, Russell Watson, Rob McConnell, Don Rader, Dale Barlow, Eartha Kitt, Jimmy Barnes and many, many more. This episode is Part 1 of 2. (Part 2 coming soon...) Episode recorded 26/09/2019. Episode Music. Intro: "Pendulum" - Mark Costa (Textures): Drums - Gordon Rytmeister Outro: "Heart Donation" - Alex Koritni: Drums - Gordon Rytmeister Photo by Bill Risby (@oasisbill) https://www.drumscene.com.au/back-issues/item/610-drumscene-issue-86 http://www.gordonrytmeister.com/ https://au.yamaha.com/en/artists/g/gordon_rytmeister.html https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gordon+rytmeister+   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.thegiglifepodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/thegiglifepodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/thegiglifepodcast/?hl=en https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KahER1yXZQP3rh1mhSUqX?si=0O1lB7TJTaKfuD34xm7B7w Email: thegiglifepodcast@gmail.com #thegiglifepodcast  #thegiglife

WOW! Living legend Steve Hunter opens up about LOADS of really cool stuff. Steve’s responsible for a ton of famous licks with people like Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Aerosmith, Jack Bruce, David Lee Roth, Julian Lennon, Glen Campbell, Dr. John & more. He’s also recorded with Joe Satriani, Joe Perry, Johnny Depp, Marty Friedman, Michael Lee Firkins, Tony Levin, Tommy Henriksen, Jason Becker, 2Cellos & Karen Ann Hunter Steve shares stories about getting drafted into the Army at 19, and the tremendous benefits he got out of this experience… GREAT story about some dark times and how he got out of them… an unusual conversation he had with BB King, which changed his life… his experiences with Bob Ezrin, Aerosmith, Lou Reed & Jason Becker, top 3 musical experiences (NOT what you’re thinking), falling in love at 59 & LOADS more cool stuff. Amazing history from one of the great rock and roll guitarists of our time: Subscribe https://www.everyonelovesguitar.com/subscribe/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EveryoneLovesGuitar/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everyonelovesguitar/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ELovesGuitar

David Allan Coe [00:22] a side: "The Ride" b side: "Son of a Rebel Son" Columbia Records 38-03778 1983 A fine if slightly goofy ghost song on the a-side. The b-side, well... interesting definition of freedom there, but perhaps my perspective as a son of a son of a Yankee son is different. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs [06:44] a side: "Ring Dang Doo" b side: "Don't Try It" MGM Records K13397 1965 Some mighty fine Tex Mex (https://youtu.be/8JLhj9NFu48). Cymarron [12:11] a side: "Rings" b side: "Like Children" Entrance Records ZS7 7500 1971 This is the first single on Columbia's Entrance label, a short-lived country rock label. The Standells [18:59] a side: "Riot on the Sunset Strip" b side: "Black Hearted Woman" Tower Records 314 1967 Heck yeah. If you're the sort who enjoys American International Pictures exploitation flicks from the 60s, check out the film of the same name (https://youtu.be/Z32goIG0axU). The riots are also mentioned in The Source Family documentary. Rush & Attack [25:11] a side: "Road Rash/Every Night/About Me" b side: "Bike/Dreams/Black Smoke" Three Ring Records TRR079 2013 Truly the best 6 minutes of your day. The Gants [31:06] a side: "Road Runner" b side: "My Baby Don't Care" Liberty Records 55829 1965 Meep meep. A fine cover, but Bo knows (https://youtu.be/9Hy6EiiNUmA) best. Detroit with Mitch Ryder [36:28] a side: "Rock 'N Roll" b side: "Box of Old Roses" Paramount Records PAA-0133 1971 A cownbell rocker from fka The Detroit Wheels, featuring the guitar work of Steve Hunter who would go on to play with Lou Reed and whose hot licks can be heard on Reed's Rock and Roll Animal. The Clash [42:57] a side: "Rock the Casbah" b side: "Long Time Jerk" Epic Records 34-03245 1982 The ubiquitous sound of popular music tastes in American changing. Music behind the DJ: "Caravan" by Thelonius Monk.

Proclaimed by Guitar Player magazine to be the greatest shredder ever, JASON BECKER has also emerged as a world-class composer. He used to play guitar -- now, after battling ALS for nearly three decades, he "plays guitar players," as well as writes for orchestras and choirs. And when he puts the two together, he blows your mind -- as you'll find out if snag his new album, TRIUMPHANT HEARTS. The record should please insatiable guitar fans everywhere, because it features an A-list roster of guest guitarists, including Trevor Rabin, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Ben Woods, Aleks Sever, Steve Morse, Neal Schon, Marty Friedman, Daniele Gottardo, Dave Shul, Steve Hunter, Gus G, Uli Jon Roth, Chris Broderick, and others, as well as ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. In addition to speaking with Jason, I caught up with people close to him who have helped him along his wild guitar adventure over the years, including MARILYN WHITE, MIKE BEMESDERFER, DAN ALVAREZ, DAVE LOPEZ, MATT BLACKETT, and Jason's father, GARY BECKER. It was a thrill to dive into the Jason Becker legacy with all of these great humans, and I thank them all for being so generous with their time. -- JUDE GOLD, host, No Guitar Is Safe podcast.

As every hard-rock-and-horror-lovin’ soul knows, there’s a void in the musical fabric that can only be filled by a new Alice Cooper album. Whether the results are a stud or a dud, there’s a shiver of anticipation that runs spider-like down our spines when fresh tunes are spun out from Alice’s web, as we hope to be snagged and drawn up into that dark lair of rage, rancor and riffs that is the mind of Alice Cooper. So it was with the arrival of PARANORMAL in the summer of 2017, coming as it did on the heels of an Alice tour that saw him reunite for a couple of brief, barnstorming sets in Nashville, Tennessee with his cronies from the great Alice Cooper Band. This reunion found its way into the studio to record some tracks, and in addition to the ACB we also have the return of past heroes/enablers/contributors of the Alice legend, producer Bob Ezrin and guitarist Steve Hunter, plus distinctive work from U2 drummer Larry Mullen and the inimitable Billy Gibbons.                 Be that as it may, on the Coopercast we’ve all seen how having a lot of big-name cooks doesn’t always make for a sumptuous kitchen…the prime ingredient is the song. Did Alice deliver choice cuts for this, his 27th studio album? Well, give your Coopercasters –Bobby Hazzard, the lovely Ms. Hazzard, The Naschycast’s Troy Guinn, and special guest Dr. Gangrene – a listen and we’ll break it all down for you, track-by-track, smack-by-smack, and let you know who emerges triumphant: Alice Cooper or Father Time.

Steve is a world renowned bass player. He has recorded 9 albums as bandleader and a further 6 albums as co-leader. He has recorded or toured with Billy Cobham, Chick Corea, Bobby Previte, Ulf Wakenius, James Muller, Carl Orr, Dig, Renee Geyer, Maxine Nightingale, Kate Ceberano, Doug Parkinson and many others. It was a real pleasure to sit down with Steve at his home in Sydney while I was up there for some gigs, unfortunately it was a little last minute so the audio isn't quite up to my usual standard and I apologise! Bandcamp: https://stevehunter.bandcamp.com/ Sponsors: http://www.fbass.com http://www.bassinyourface.com.au Me: http://www.basslessonsmelbourne.com

  Steve Hunter   "Before The Lights Go Out" is long time Alice Cooper/Lou Reed Guitarist Steve Hunter's latest solo album. The cover art and title make a statement about his failing eyesight, but don't make the mistake of thinking this is a quiet wave goodbye. As soon as you put on the first track, you will know that this is more like a Blues Rock Declaration of Independence! There are sexy grooves, luscious guitar tones and melodies galore. As with all Hunter's releases, there is some diversity and sound imagery, not least of which is Tienes Mi Corazón where alongside his nylon string improvisation comes the sound of his own heart. And listen out for Joe Satriani adding his fire to the heat of "Mojo Man." Also joining Steve on a couple of tracks are two great Bass players: Erik Scott can be heard on "Mojo Man," Erik is also an Alice Cooper alumni. On "Under The Bodhi Tree" is Andy Stoller. Steve and Andy toured together with Tracy Chapman during the "Telling Stories" album period, most recently Andy has been touring with Ann Wilson of Heart. Says Steve, "This album was a real joy for me on many levels. A big part of the inspiration and motivation that kept me going; was from all the people out there who had faith in me and encouraged me through the entire process with their donations and comments. It was really a wonderful experience having you all be a part of it. It's my deepest hope and desire that you all enjoy the music on this album as much as I enjoyed making it. Thank you and God bless!"   Steve Hunter is his own man; he has been around the block with a forty-five year career. From his 1973 solos on Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies" album, his legendary acoustic work on Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill," his "Intro" to Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane" and his searing opening solos on Aerosmith's version of "Train Kept A Rolling" Most recently he can be heard on Alice Cooper's 2017 album "Paranormal" making this his ninth Cooper album appearance. The Deacon is not done yet but his life is evolving! He has challenges playing live now but his honed skill, tone, power and soul, is dished up on this hot plate of guitar driven instrumental tastiness. Tracks: 1.   On The Edge Of Uncertainty 2.   Mojo Man 3.   Summer's Eve 4.   Cinderblock 5.   Softtail Deuce 6.   Tienes Mi Corazón (You Have My Heart) 7.   Ice Storm 8.   Under The Bodhi Tree 9.   The Other Side Of The Coin 10. Happy Trails  (vocal Karen Hunter) For more information: http://www.stevehunter.com/ https://www.facebook.com/steve.hunter.54 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/before-the-lights-go-out/id1283875407 www.itsezbreezy.com      

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March 6, 2013 Dick Wagner’s songs and lead guitar have been featured on more than 200 renowned albums, garnering more than 35 Platinum and Gold records, BMI songwriter awards, Emmys, and numerous prestigious international awards. The Detroit area native helped define an era in rock history by playing lead guitar or writing songs for Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Meat Loaf, Steve Perry, Etta James, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner, Air Supply, Hall & Oates, Ringo Starr, Guns & Roses, Tori Amos, Frank Sinatra, and dozens of others. Legendary for his groundbreaking collaborations with Alice Cooper, Wagner was musical director, lead guitarist and co-writer of the icon’s biggest hits, including Only Women Bleed, You and Me, and Welcome To My Nightmare. Wagner was Cooper’s right hand man on such groundbreaking albums as, Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, Lace and Whiskey, From the Inside, and DaDa. Together, Cooper and Wagner co-wrote the majority of Alice Cooper’s top selling singles and albums, including more than 50 songs featured on 57 Alice Cooper albums released worldwide. As a teenage musician living an hour north of Detroit Michigan, Dick Wagner enjoyed his first taste of “big time show biz,” when he was asked to play guitar as backup for some of his musical heroes, including Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Little Richard. Great balls of fire! The Michigan public first took notice of Wagner’s talent in 1964, when he formed the band The Bossmen, whose songs likeBaby Boy were #1 radio favorites in Michigan. Soon Wagner was writing and producing for other Michigan bands. In the late 1960s, as Wagner’s work became more complex and featured a harder edge, he formed the wildly popular band, The Frost, recording three Billboard charted albums and drawing enthusiastic crowds to hear songs likeMystery Man and Rock N’ Roll Music.  Wagner moved to New York to form Ursa Major, a seminal rock band and power trio that recorded one, self-titled, defining album for RCA. The raw musical power and artistry of Ursa Major inspired a generation of rock musicians and remains an influential album for today’s musicians. Little known factoid: the original Ursa Major lineup included Wagner on guitar and Billy Joel on keyboards, but dramas in Billy’s personal life intervened and he left the band. Wagner’s guitar virtuosity captured the attention of Lou Reed, and he was invited to play on Lou’s European Berlin tour in 1973. Wagner assembled a powerhouse band including Steve Hunter and Wagner on dueling lead guitars, Prakash John on bass, Pentti Glan on drums and Ray Colcord on keyboards. The live album, Rock N’ Roll Animal, recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, remains one of the most celebrated and influential guitar albums in rock history. Lauded by Rolling Stone, Billboard, and the international press, Rock ‘N’ Roll Animal was described by renowned music critic, Robert Christgau: “This is a live album with a reason for living.” Writer Joe Viglione, in his book, A Study of Lou Reed’s Berlin and Rock N’ Roll Animal Albums, describes the guitar stylings of Hunter and Wagner: “Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner were as potent a duo as Keith Richards and Mick Taylor, and the four make-up the “Golden Era” of both The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed, that period when the recordings were beyond magical…. Lou’s 9/1/73 show still rates as numero uno in my book, for presentation, drama, craftsmanship and sheer rock and roll energy.” In September 2010, nearly 40 years after the release of Rock N’ Roll Animal, Gibson.com honored Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter among the Top 50 Guitar Solos of All Time, for their guitar performances on Intro to Sweet Jane. Amid the prestigious company of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and other renowned guitar greats, The Hunter-Wagner team appeared twice, with honors as well for their “ghost” guitar work on Aerosmith’s Train Kept A Rollin from their first platinum selling album, Get Your Wings. In 1972, producer Bob Ezrin brought Wagner in to play lead guitar solos on Alice Cooper’s breakthrough School’s Out album. Uncredited at the time, Wagner’s guitar solos were attributed to the Alice Cooper band. The Cooper-Wagner songwriting collaboration began with I Love the Dead, released on Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies album.  Cooper and Wagner began a prolific collaboration that spanned several decades. Together, the Cooper-Wagner songwriting team wrote 7 out of 9 of Cooper’s Top 10 hit records. Leaving Lou Reed in 1974, Wagner moved the entire Rock N Roll Animal band over to play with Alice Cooper. The first full album written and recorded by the Cooper-Wagner team, “Welcome to My Nightmare,” spawned a number of Top 10 singles. The Welcome to My Nightmare tour, with a road crew of more than 45 persons, private jets, technical wizardry, theatrical showmanship, and extravagant staging and lighting, became the biggest and highest grossing rock tour of its time. Shock rock was born. With Wagner’s studio walls lined with gold and platinum awards, he writes with the observant eye of a world traveled artist. In the late 1980’s, Wagner was commissioned to write music by the San Antonio Commission on Child Abuse. Wagner’s poignant composition,Remember the Child, painfully reflects the pain of child abuse. Renowned author/lecturer John Bradshaw discovered the song and chose it as his theme for the Emmy nominated PBS special,Homecoming. The song has since become the anthem for tens of thousands who have been scarred by child abuse, and is a catalytic tool used by many therapists in helping their patients access their hidden suffering of childhood trauma. Returning to Michigan in early 1994, Dick formed two bands, The Dick Wagner Band, and The RAW Emotion Rock Orchestra. Both later evolved into Dick Wagner and The Souls Journey Band. In 2005, Wagner relocated to Phoenix to form a new production company,Desert Dreams Productions, LLC with partners, Suzy Michelson and Alex Cyrell, entrepreneurs and founders of Omnimount Systems and Future Primitive Designs.  A full service record label and artist management company, Desert Dreams specializes in “Music Production and Artist Development for the extraordinary Artist.” More than forty years after launching his storied and dynamic career, hit songwriter, guitar virtuoso, producer and arranger, Dick Wagner, remains a brilliant, prolific and vibrant force in American music.  Whether rock, blues, country, jazz or spiritual, Wagner’s songs continue to detail the essence of life. His guitar playing continues to inspire guitarists worldwide, and his production values recall the era of great songs with great melodies and universally accessible lyrics. 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Steve Hunter- The Deacon (Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel and more!)

Join Suzanne McKenney, Steve Hunter and special guest Colleen Allen on saxophone as they explore Kansas City's hotspots, history and the raucous energy that seemed to ooze from that era as they deliver a passionate show with a lot of heart and force. "Kansas (Sin) City" is a ninety minute "knock on the back door" filled with classic 1930's boogie-woogie tunes, stories, history, and how the jump blues era evolved into rock n' roll.

Businesses With Integrity I continued our series with Life University’s Dr. Gilles LaMarche, focusing on business leaders with integrity. The series is a lead-in to Life University’s Life Talks World Congress event coming up May 12-13. The 2 day event will be featuring numerous subject matter experts on relationships, personal and professional, and various aspects […] The post Businesses With Integrity appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Host:  Penna Dexter Guests:  Dr. Steve Hunter, Criswell College Dean of Students, Hope for the Heart Biblical Counseling Chair, Professor of Psychology and Counseling, and author; Cheryl LaMastra, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Adjunct Professor; Dr. Paul Jacobs, Pastor of FBC Heath, Texas, and Adjunct Professor; and Pam Greene, Licensed Professional Counselor and Adjunct Professor.

Hosts:  Jerry Johnson and Penna Dexter Guest:  Dr. Steve Hunter, Hope For The Heart Biblical Counseling Chair, and Professor of Psychology and Counselling at Criswell College.

Host:  Dr. Barry Creamer Guest:  Dr. Steve Hunter, Counselor, and Assoc. Professor of Psychology and Counseling, Criswell College.