When you started a band, you didn't know you'd also have to be a live sound engineer, did you? You might not have know you'd need to manage five people's in-ear mixes, or known how to handle feedback issues in a broad range of rooms. This week the boys dig in on what it takes to run your own sound, and how do it well.

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Bonus Ep with Ben Ivey for more about live audio: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/coverbandconfidential/episodes/2021-10-13T07_06_41-07_00

This week is ALL about gear.

• MEE Audio Custom Mold In-Ears
* Line6 Relay G50 issues
• Turbosound tower speaker torture-test
* New open beta for Behringer mixer app

Been a bit since we've been back in our wheelhouse: two music nerds talking.

This week there's this item hitting the news about the band OK Go and their legal issues with a breakfast cereal brand. It's interesting in its own right, but it opens the door to lots of Big Thoughts about us local bands, the importance (or not) of uniqueness in our naming, and how to handle intellectual property as part of a brand.

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Please welcome our very special guest, long-time listener and Patreon member Adam Moskowitz of The VAM Band from South Florida! You might recognize Adam from the outro bumper our show has carried for MANY months now (and Adam's got something to say about that!). 

Adam has built a very interesting business model, where all his players are basically modular. He swaps in players for reasons of availability, geography, etc. Then he built a whole library of learning and backing tracks to make a zero-regulars and zero-rehearsal band consistently deliver the high-octane goods!

So please join us for a VERY inspiring chat with a VERY inspiring dude! 

Catch up with Adam on Instagram at @VAM.band and @AdamMoskowitzMusic. 

This week is the first time yer boys have hung together in a few weeks, and Dan has some Mickey-inspired thoughts about how the world's biggest entertainment conglomerate runs live music. However they do it, it's GOOD.

Then: What if we did a real, like, in-person THING? Would you come? W'e'd love to see you. Will you let us know [email protected] is where to say.

This week is a live band coaching session with Savvy the Band, from Bozeman MT. Their drummer and band manager Adam has been a long-time Cover Band Confidential patreon member, and this coaching session is part of their benefit. It turns out there's a LOT to talk about! 

Adam runs through a detailed review of Savvy's social and marketing efforts (largely great, a few clear areas to target for improvement). Then Dan has a dive into their branding ethos and position, leaving them with a whole new place to come from in their messaging. Finally we build out together a regionalized growth plan for a band looking to get out beyond their local venues.

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This week Adam has a conversation with multi-instrumentalist Tyson Leslie: currently working as the tour manager and keyboard player for Vixen.

We cover how he got started playing music, how he got established in the cutthroat Nashville music scene, and Rare Hare, the 80's Metal Jam event he puts on throughout the year!

Check out Tyson at https://www.facebook.com/tysonleslie/

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This episode we deal with it. If your new years commitment is to "take care" of your "self".... Well, what is a "self", and what does it mean to "take care" of it?

Well for us noise generators, it surely includes trips to the ear doctors! That's what most of this episode is about, if you ignore the dental, miraculously gig-booking, and Friday the 13thing content therein.

Friends. Rolling Stone made a list. Here it is: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/

This episode is about our PROBLEMS with it.