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Welcome to the Best Music Podcast. My name is Dan the Music Man. I have been doing a combination of playing, performing, recording, and teaching music professionally for the past 10 years. I am starting this podcast to answer a single question: What drives, and sustains top musician’s creativity and their ability to perform at the highest level, and how did they get there? Here, on the Best Music Podcast, you will hear from musicians and music industry insiders. Get key insights, hacks, and tips to take your music, and your creativity to the next level from the pros who know. The podcast is divided into two parts. First, we will meet the featured guest for the episode, find out about their career, projects, and areas of expertise. Second, we will take a deep dive behind the scenes and break down what works to keep our guest creative, stay in performance shape, and how they deal with different problems most musicians experience at some point in their careers. Subscribe and follow the Best Music Podcast…

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The Best Music Podcast #1 | Gregg Hollister | Rock Follies, Living a Creative Lifestyle, Music is its Own Reward

Gregg Hollister Gregg's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vocalbassdudeGman

Gregg Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGAYN6KRh4

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Gregg has toured recorded or performed with Al Kooper, Richie Havens, Ron Dante, Tommy James, The Rockspurs, Paul Schaefer, Max Weinberg, Bernard Purdie, Phoebe Snow, Ian Hunter, Tico Torres, Joey D, Vicki Sue Robinson, Anthem, Masayoshi Takanaka, Terry Silverlight, Ben E. King, Cory Daye, Tom Verlaine, Paul Schaefer, and Richard Lloyd to name a few.

Commercial work includes jingles such as Sony, Kodak, Budweiser, Lifesavers, Mars Candy, Club Med, Yamaha Motorcycles, GM, Ciba Geigy, Schering Plough, and Hertz.

TV and film work includes work for PBS the made for TV CBS documentary Julissas Hands (the craigslist killer) movie work such as the Bad Lieutenant and the Driller Killer with Joe Delia/Abel Ferrar and countless musical projects supplying background vocals including Austin Powers movie trailers and Grownups with John Stamos. Gregg can currently be seen and heard playing with Hollister & Friends and The Brian Drux Project.

0:00 Intro

1:46 Warm-Up Questions

4:47 How Gregg Got Into Music

8:55 Rock Follies 1 & The Value of Owning Your Master Recordings

11:50 Perfume Commercials and Bad Contracts

12:55 How Music Publishing Works, How the Money is Divided

16:30 Rock Follies 2 & Managers Stealing from the Band, Getting Robbed

22:41 Joe Delia and the Rockspurs

24:31 Rock Follies 2.5 and 3

26:30 The 80s and Chaka Khan

31:23 The Darryl Canada Project & Rock Follies 4 & What is a Showcase?

34:22 Getting Smart, ASCAP

36:17 What is an Artist Showcase?

38:20 Rock Follies 5

41:56 Phoebe Snow and Al Kooper

45:00 What is a Spec Deal?

47:00 Shopping the Record - Yamaha

51:00 Ben E. King & Background Singer Session Work

52:07 Masayoshi Takanaka

56:00 How Gregg Makes Jingles & Brushing Philip Glass

1:01:30 Music is a Part of Me

1:02:15 Jimmy Leahey, The Brian Druxx Project, Hollister and Friends

1:14:35 Enter Drew Nagal

1:16:14 Max Weinberg Jukebox

1:19:22 Greatest Hits

1:24:20 Lifestyle: Sleep

1:31:54 Lifestyle: Mindfulness and Meditation

1:33:28 How Trans Siberian Orchestra Discovered Ashley Hollister

1:34:54 Paying Your Dues Past vs. Present

1:37:03 Creativity is a Lifestyle

1:40:22 Creativity: The Great Outdoors

1:41:42 Practice: How Many Hours a Day?

1:43:37 Practice: How much Time is Effective?

1:48:05 Performance: Performance Anxiety

1:50:48 Burn out

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The Best Music Podcast #2 | Rez Abbasi - Guitar | Creating New Music and Maintaining a Calm Mind

Voted #1 Rising-Star Guitarist in the 2013 DownBeat Critics Poll and subsequently placed in the “Top-Ten Guitarists” alongside luminaries Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny, guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi is one of the most original voices on the current scene. Making New York home for the past 25 years, Abbasi is considered by many to be one of the foremost modern jazz guitar players the world over. He has performed and recorded with many jazz greats including, Grammy winner Ruth Brown, Peter Erskine, Kenny Werner, Barre Phillips, Tim Berne, Michael Formanek, Billy Hart, Gary Thomas, Dave Douglas, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Mike Clark, Tim Hagans, John Beasly, Ronu Majumdar, Kadri Gopalnath, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Vijay Iyer, Marilyn Crispell, Greg Osby, Howard Levy and a host of others.

The renowned jazz critic, Bill Milkowski says “Abbasi’s unpredictable phrasing and accomplished writing are what sets him apart from hordes of other technically adept guitarists”.

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0:00 Intro

3:03 Creating New Music, Projects, and Ideas

10:12 Drop Tunings

11:45 Sitar Guitar

12:30 Bazaar (2007)

14:17 Soloing with Rhythm, Polyrhythms, and Syncopation

18:57 Metric Modulations in Compositions

22:03 How Rez Uses Power Chords in Jazz

25:04 Django Shift (2020)

33:48 How to Record a Jazz Record in the Modern Age

38:05 Oasis (2020)

43:56 How to Play Music over a Silent Film

48:52 What is Next for Rez?

52:00 Guitar Sound Shaping Play

53:55 Lifestyle, Practice, Performance, and Creativity

54:06 Lifestyle: Sleep

56:06 Lifestyle: Mindfulness and Meditation

1:00:04 Letting Go vs. Ego

1:02:11 Lifestyle: Finding the Right Partner for Musicians

1:06:51 Practice: What Comes Easy for You?

1:09:44 Practice: What was Hard for You?

1:14:13 Practice: What Time of Day is Best?

1:18:48 Practice: How Many Hours a Day?

1:23:06 Practice: How to Deal with and Mitigate Burn Out: Forced Rest Days

1:28:04 "I Don't Want to Think of Myself as a Professional Musician"

1:31:18 How Rez Deals with Performance Anxiety

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