Performance High Studio Podcast

Adrienne turns the bedroom into a steamy jungle. Justin explains Marzen beer. Justin and Adrienne vacation at Hot Sulphur Springs, population 700ish. Justin makes a major change in his work life, and stops threatening to quit music to work in a grocery store. Adrienne and Justin's cover band gets stranded at a Black Hawk casino during a blizzard. Adrienne sleeps with the bass player and his wife. Urban Dance Theory plays on a tiny circular stage accessed only by rolling, steep, rickety stairs. An imaginary unicorn horn on Adrienne's head helps her sing in a new style.

This episode is sponsored by Performance High Voice and Music Studio, Embassy London shoes, Prost beer, and Dean Public House in the tiny town of Hot Sulphur Springs.

Also, if you need a bass player in Las Vegas, call Jared Schlager.

This is part 2 of the interview with Julian Fulco Perron. 

Cody Qualls releases the album "Colorado" (featuring the single "Colorado") at a full house at Nissi's, involving a huge show crew of about 50 people, including Josh Blackburn and Hazel Miller. Why Adrienne doesn't sing very much in Cody's band. Why you shouldn't do quiet endings to big songs at live shows. Justin attends a show at the best music venue he's ever been to in his entire life. How Denver music crowds are unique. The Huntington Beach band, Ginger Root, blows up from algorithms. How awkwardness can work on stage. Adrienne and Justin both take a visceral dislike to a lead singer, and explain why that's perfectly fine. Adrienne and Justin enjoy the Foals show but wish they had done a couple things differently. How Justin learned to hang on to crowds in beach bars in Jacksonville, Florida. 

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This podcast is sponsored by Performance High Voice and Music Studio and Chipotle.

In this episode we hear former Legend Makers and Adrienne O bassist, Mario Pagliarulo, talk about his unexpected adventure as a professional bassist, and how his life unfolded around that work, journeying from Italy to LA, "luckily" encountering his future wife, and playing bass for Serj Tankian (System of a Down) and Trevor Hall. We also hear about the value in working with people and music you really enjoy.

In this episode, we follow Ryan Miller from the band in which we met - Guitar Villains Live Band Karaoke - to a decade later when he's in a regularly touring female-fronted metal band. We discuss merch, band life on the road, and how their "metal kitchen" videos went viral.

This month, we interviewed multi-instrumentalist Tyler Morse.  He talks about his most humbling musical experiences, the terrifying experience of joining a band just in time to play RiotFest, why you shouldn't play your music like Jackson Pollock paints, how his band writes albums when they live in different states, how to love practicing your instrument, the pros and cons of immortality, and the three most important words for any musician's success.

In this interview with drummer Ryan Elwood, we discuss the different band dynamics of unpaid vs. paid band members, how he decides which gigs to take, what it's like being a working musician with a family of four, his guess about how musicians will need to adapt in the post-pandemic world, his clip art expertise, and why he draws out both his jokes and his drum solos as long as humanly possible.

In this interview with Performance High teacher Joe Mondragon, recorded during the George Floyd protests, we touch on a recent event involving Joe which encouraged Performance High to take a stand. Then, since this isn't a current events podcast, we return to the music topics we usually cover - this time including how Joe was tricked into playing guitar, how he found his way into playing tons of local shows, when it makes sense to tour and when it doesn't, licensing and publishing as a revenue stream, and the future of music in the pandemic era and beyond.

Kenny Martinez is the bassist for Performance High, as well as for many other bands.  If you have performed at a recent showcase, you've seen him - but probably not talked to him, as his nose is usually buried in books when he's not on stage.  In this episode we talk about how he learned music was a thing people did as a career, his musical influences Trent Reznor and System of a Down, his interest in psychopharmacology, and his current ambitious educational project that mixes science, technology and music.

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In this episode, owner Adrienne talks about the two things that are keeping her the most sane during these weird times, our current Plan A and Plan B for coming out of the shutdown, and our online opportunities at Performance High.

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