Not Necessarily Mad

After reviewing  a simple meme about what ‘bands you love because of your DAD…’, Eric and GB talk about how a childhood music imprint gets started.  They know what stuck with them -- and where it came from and who… although they are surprised by some of the common connections.

Eric and GB talk about years of working for a living and some of the things they have taken with them after the job is over.  From serving food to selling cars, from entertaining an audience to setting up a call center, they have tried out a lot of things.  And they have a couple of laughs too about some of the things they took with them.

As distancing continues, shopping and community keeps evolving.  Eric and GB talk about the mall as they have known it, and what is changing -- even in a devolution.  Where will socialize in a common space and shop in real life if this indoor walking gallery fades away?  The number of things changing are all hard to predict!

Eric and GB discuss the evolution of the music video as they have seen it evolve over time, and as the experience of the video keeps changing.  They consider how it can become even greater than individual ingredients of a song and a strip of film, and how changes in live performance on small screens is changing along with it.

After some earlier conversation, Eric and GB come back together to discuss their evolving and respective take on Will Rogers as a phenomenon and a legacy.  By virtue of time, technology and talent, Rogers was an American original and was perhaps the first multimedia influencer.  They wonder about what might be forgotten, but still the form that is being fit in a digital world a century later.

Eric and welcomes Matt BIllings of Flat Five Jazz and also Dreamcatcher of Lynchburg to talk about the groove with the big-G that makes jazz a spiritual headspace.  They share the pull that can bring jazz lovers into existence from the ‘wrong’ room, the connecting language of playing together, and the function of ritual-habit-ceremony as a disciplined creative and professional performer.

 Eric and GB talk about their own songwriting process, particularly from their individual approaches and influences of language and music.  This is the third of three parts going into their experience presently in approach to songwriting as a craft.

Eric and GB talk about their own songwriting process, particularly from their individual approaches and influences of language and music.  This is the second of three parts going into their experience presently in approach to songwriting as a craft.

Eric and GB talk about their own songwriting process, particularly from their individual approaches and influences of language and music.  This is the first of three parts beginning with influences that impact how they approach writing songs

Eric and GB and their go to Quarantine snacks and the food they are ready to get back to.  From sit-down dining to what they go rummage for FIRST in a snack attack onset, they compare notes on things they like to eat, and the things on their short list for the next chance they get.