Intersect

Nick Giaconia, AKA Mattie Groves grew up on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio in a town known as Kirtland and began playing guitar as a Freshman in High School after an injury sidelined involvement in the sport of wrestling.
Nick released the record Center of the Earth in 1994, a recording that was designed to fail in the Christian market. Produced by Ric Hordinski, the record was the favorite of some critics but did not fare well when it came to the buying demographic.
In 1998, he began working with Dave Perkins on the Mattie Groves project. Mattie Groves was a band moniker created to provide distance between Nick's work in the Christian Market and his work in the main stream market.
In 2002, the independent movie Home Town Legend, featured the Mattie Groves song You’ll Never Take Me Down. Nick developed a great relationship with Country Music legend Vince Gill, who will frequently play guitar in Mattie Groves. And a very unlikely performance with P-Funk made for an interesting career in the music business.

Born and raised in Winston Salem, NC, DeCarlos got his musical start in church at the age of 5. Throughout his musical career, DeCarlos has had much success, with his latest accomplishments being; In 2014, DeCarlos was awarded "Musician of the Year" and Entertainer of the Year" at the Forsyth County Entertainment Awards ceremony.
​DeCarlos started an organization by the name of, Drummers United. This organization is not only about teaching drums, but DU is also about teaching morals, setting goals and getting involve with local schools, churches and communities.
Influenced by drummers such as; Dennis Chambers, Billy Cobham, Horacio Hernandez and many others, has helped build him mentally and physically to be creative and expand his different styles. Over the past few years, he has gained a lot of attention through social media reaching thousands across the globe.
 He’s currently the drummer for the triad's most popular band, "Brothers Pearl". His solo project is his main focus, in which he will feature some of his favorite musician friends, including his friend and mentor, the world renown Dennis Chambers.
https://www.decarlosdavismusic.com/

David Garibaldi joined the renowned Oakland, CA Funk/Soul band Tower of Power in 1970 and since then, has become one of the most influential and iconic funk drummers. David talks about his time with Tower, facing up to the vices of the band's substance abuse, finding a way out through his faith and about his recent brush with mortality, when he was hit by a train outside Yoshi's nightlub in Oakland.

Originally hailing from Atlanta, GA, Otto Price moved to Nashville in 1993, taking the bassist job for Christian recording artist Kim Boyce.  Later that year, he was approached by Toby McKeehan of dcTalk to be musical director and play bass for the breakout rock trio.  He toured with the band for seven years and worked on various albums, including Jesus Freak and Supernatural. In 1997, Price, Ja- son Halbert (Kelly Clarkson) and worship leader Jeff Deyo formed and produced the widely successful worship act SonicFlood. After leaving dcTalk in 2001,  Price launched out on his own as a full-time record producer, working with artists such as Plumb, Tim Hughes, GRITS, Rebecca St. James, and Out of Eden.  He discovered and developed CCM artists of the year Barlow Girl. That lead to the Chairman of Warner Bros. approaching Otto in 2004, to head up the A&R department for the Warner Music Group, Nashville Label Group (Amy  Grant, Building 429, Barlow Girl, Nicole C. Mullen, Francesca Battaselli, For King& Country). In recent years, in addition to Music Industry work, Otto has brought his focus more towards Worship & Arts in the local church. His desire is to bring the skills he has gained in the Christian music industry into the local body. Otto and his wife Trish have six children and reside in Brentwood TN.
Notable Production & Discography:
Years Active; 1997-present
• For King & Country~2012 New Artists of the year nominee; best selling new artist of
2012.
• Kelly Clarkson
• Building 429
• Kenna
• Nicole C. Mullen
• Sonicflood- Founding Member; Best selling debut for Worship Artist.
• T.D. Jakes-God’s Leading Ladies
• Tim Hughes
• Barlowgirl- Cumulative sales or 1.7 million.
• Salvador
• Randy Travis
• Big Daddy Weave
• Robert Randolph-feat Eric Clapton
• Plumb
• G.R.I.T.S.
• Matt Redman
• Natalie Grant
• Jeff Deyo
• Karen Clark-Sheard

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Phil Sillas is the owner and CEO, TSG Records/TSG Artists-TSGREcords.com with as well as a songwriter, arranger and producer.
Some of his Songwriting/Production Credits include:
Promise Keepers-Maranatha 
Jonathan Butler-Maranatha
RJ Helton – GospoCentric 
Aaron Neville – EMI 
Natalie Grant – Curb 
Kathie Lee Gifford – WEA 
Janna Long – EMI 
Greg Long – Word
David Foster – Warner Bros. 
Oleta Adams – Virgin
and many more.
His Film and Television Credits include:
WB “America’s Next Top Model” NBC-TV “ER”
Touchstone Pictures “Enemy of the State” CBS-TV “Touched By An Angel”
Warner Bros. “Pokeman” NBC-TV “Homicide”
NBC-TV “Days of Our Lives” NBC-TV “Leeza”
ABC-TV “Second Day of Christmas” ABC-TV “Second Noah”
FOX-TV “Melrose Place” FOX-TV “King of the Hill”
CBS-TV “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” FOX-TV “Party of Five”
CBS-TV “Young and the Restless” FOX-TV “Beverly Hills 90210”
Sacramento Kings NBA Disney/ABC Christmas Special
Pokemon 2000 Picture KTVT-Dallas

Part 3 of Mark Robertson interviewing Aaron Smith.
Mark Robertson is an American musician and record producer. Robertson is most well known for playing upright and electric bass in Nashville-based Legendary Shack Shakers.
Aaron “The A-Train” Smith is a Nashville-based drummer and percussionist.
At the age of 20, Aaron Smith played drums on The Temptations‘ Grammy-Winning megahit “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone“, and recorded with Ray Charles as well.

Part 2 of Mark Robertson intervieweing Aaron Smith.
Mark Robertson is an American musician and record producer. Robertson is most well known for playing upright and electric bass in Nashville-based Legendary Shack Shakers.
Aaron “The A-Train” Smith is a Nashville-based drummer and percussionist.
At the age of 20, Aaron Smith played drums on The Temptations‘ Grammy-Winning megahit “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone“, and recorded with Ray Charles as well.

On this episode of Intersect, Mark Robertson turns the tables on Aaron and the interviewer becomes the interviewee. 
Mark Robertson is an American musician and record producer. Robertson is most well known for playing upright and electric bass in Nashville-based Legendary Shack Shakers.
Aaron “The A-Train” Smith  is a Nashville-based drummer and percussionist.
At the age of 20, Aaron Smith played drums on The Temptations‘ Grammy-Winning megahit “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone“, and recorded with Ray Charles as well.

Ashley Cleveland is a three-time Grammy and two-time Dove Award winner who has released eight critically acclaimed albums.
God Don’t Never Change, her most recent effort (2009), features songs rooted firmly in a “…host of traditions — black spirituals, folks songs, 18th century hymns, gospel blues, and jubilee.” The disc was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album.
Cleveland resides in Nashville with her husband, Kenny Greenberg, and their three children, Rebecca, Henry, and Lily.

Mark Robertson is an American musician and record producer. Robertson is most well known for playing upright and electric bass in Nashville-based Legendary Shack Shakers, a “punk blues” band, from 2002 until 2015, a band which he was also the primary record producer for. He plays bass live for the Eskimo Brothers and frequently plays with country artist Derek Hoke. He is also a member of The Dixiecrats, alongside Shack Shaker J. D. Wilkes and members of Los Straitjackets. He has alsobeen a member of This Train, The Dirt Daubers,  as well as Rich Mullins & The Ragamuffin Band and Flesh Vehicle with Tom Pappas, formerly of Superdrag.