TALKING with Tony Trombo

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My guests are Pete and Pat Luboff.

We are songwriters, music publishers and songwriting educators. For many years we were music business photojournalists and arts administrators. In 40 years of working as a team, we have built a broad base of knowledge of the music business with particular emphasis in all aspects of songwriting and have developed extensive contacts with hundreds of songwriters, producers, music publishers and record label executives.

As songwriters, we have had success with "Trust Me," the first single on Snoop Dogg's "Topp Dogg" album, "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much," a No. 2 chart recording by Bobby Womack, "Body Language" cut by Patti LaBelle (gold album) and the featured song in the John Travolta movie, "The Experts," "The Son My Daddy Never Had," a charting Country single with Miko Marks, and recordings by Michael Peterson, Glenn Jones, among others.

We have been teaching songwriting workshops since 1979 and currently conduct workshops in Nashville.  We also travel to teach workshops.  Recent cities we’ve done workshops in are New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, Indianapolis and Denver.  Click here to find out more about hosting a Luboff workshop in your town.  And here to read what songwriters have said about us.

For almost 20 years, Pete conducted the Monday night workshops at the National Academy of Songwriters. Pete also taught advanced songwriting at UCLA for 13 years.  We’ve both taught workshops at the Taxi Road Rally and screened extensively for Taxi.  We also have judged for various songwriting contests, including the Just Plain Folks, John Lennon, and Great American Song contests.

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Dan Shinder is the CEO andExecutive Producer of Drum Talk TV™

This interview is for everyone, not only musicians!

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My guest is Amanda MacDonald with the FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS festival in Colorado!

Frozen Dead Guy Days (started 2002) is an annual celebration held in the town of Nederland, Colorado, to loosely celebrate, through a theme of frozen/ice/blue/winter, the 1994 discovery of the cryonic state corpse of Bredo Morstel.

Frozen Dead Guy Days is celebrated from Friday through Sunday on the first full weekend of March. Coffin races, a slow-motion parade, and "Frozen Dead Guy" lookalike contests are held. A documentary on "Grandpa Bredo", called Grandpa's in the Tuff Shed, is shown. A newer version of the film, Grandpa's Still in the Tuff Shed, was premiered in Nederland on March 7, 2003.

Other events include a tour of the Tuff Shed where Grandpa is still frozen; a "polar plunge" for those brave enough to go swimming in Colorado in early March (which generally requires breaking through the ice); a dance, called "Grandpa's Blue Ball"; pancake breakfasts; a market showcasing local artists; snowshoe races, and snow sculpture contests. Glacier Ice Cream, headquartered in the nearby city of Boulder, makes a flavor specifically for the festival (named, appropriately enough, Frozen Dead Guy), consisting of fruit-flavored blue ice cream mixed with crushed Oreo cookies and sour gummy worms. Tours of the Tuff Shed where Grandpa is still frozen were suspended after 2005, after Grandpa's family "became frustrated with Frozen Dead Guy Days", but they resumed with the 2010 celebration.

Although Trygve and Aud filed a complaint against Nederland involving money and naming rights in 2005, Frozen Dead Guy Days is still alive; the most recent celebration was held March 7–9, 2014 and the next is scheduled for March 6th-8th 2015.

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Originally from "chateau country" in the north-eastern part of the US, Victoria was deemed by the media in 2006 "Hollywood's Hottest Scream Queen". In 2008, she was dubbed a "Terror Titan" in the horror/sci-fi film world & in 2010 starred in the #10 Best Independent Film of the year, Killjoy 3 aka Killjoy's Revenge. In 2011, she made the #13 spot on the Top 100 Most Beautiful Actresses working in Hollywood not making a 7 figure salary, yet. And, in 2012 Victoria starred in Killjoy Goes To Hell -one of the Top 10 Rentals of the year on Redbox nationwide.

She is a graduate from New York University with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Broadcast Journalism. And, she danced professionally with the Wilmington Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and St. Croix Ballet Companies, as well as the Hart Pulse Dance Company upon relocating to Los Angeles, CA.

Victoria is also a professional lead, back-up and harmony vocalist on soundtrack label BSX Records. She is a former member of the all-girl punk rock group Black Room Doom produced by legendary, Grammy-nominated platinum-selling songwriter and producer Kim Fowley. Her first solo debut pop/rock album is now available as a Limited Edition CD on her website.

Victoria is also a published lifestyle, parts, & glamor model in dozens of national and international magazines including Femme Fatales, Sirens Of Cinema, Scars, Girls & Corpses, Shots, & Dance Magazine.

For two years, Victoria also hosted and produced the live morning talk show 'The Chat Cafe with Victoria' on the SKY Channel distributed in the UK & Europe.

In addition to being a performing artist, Victoria is also an ASCAP songwriter/composer and publisher, as well as a producer of short and feature films, live episodic television, music, & music videos, and a published poet.

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My guest is the author Caseen Gains! 

Author of Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse, A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic, and the upcoming We Don't Need Roads.

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My guest is the fantastic singer / songwriter Barth Beasley!

Barth has been performing around the world for decades, and was in the Tom Hank's film 'That thing you do"!

After several years out of the spotlight, Barth is set for a huge return!

GET BARTH'S SONGS and a copy of the film THAT THING YOU DO just by clicking "HERE"

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My guest is Jason Brubaker with his series "FIMMAKING STUFF: Make, Market and Sell your movie without the Middleman"

Very interesting for anyone who wants to make a film!

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Today my guest is the great comic LIZ MIELE!

You know her from TV and you can hear her work on several XM radio channels!

Liz is fantastic, and (as always) I learned a lot about her business! This is a fun and interesting interview! I think you'll like it!

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Liz on Facebook

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My guest is KEVIN SPORT from the National televison show THE RIGHT PLACE WITH KEVIN SPORT that can be seen on RFD-TV!

"Am I in the right place?"

We all have asked that question more than once in our lives and not just when we are trying to go somewhere unfamiliar for vacation. Whenever we have ventured somewhere new in our lives and that place was not quite what we expected, we have experienced the doubt that causes us to ask the question: "Am I in the right place?" But who has the answer? Someone who has been there before.

Kevin Sport has been there before. From a young age, Sport knew music was at the core of his life. He dreamed of singing and songwriting his way into people's hearts through their radios. He packed up his guitar, left his hometown of Greenville, Alabama and headed to the country music capital of the world, Nashville, Tennessee. But after some time there, Sport's dream did not materialize as he expected. He began to doubt he was in the right place and even if he had the right dream. Defeated, he came back home to southern Alabama and threw his guitar under the bed. Sport explains, "I felt that I had missed my chance because of the direction my personal life and the harsh realities of the business side of music. I should move on to something else."

But the dream did not die, even though Sport may have denied it. While he pushed music away, music remained a part of him and his family and friends knew it. Consequently, those who knew and loved Sport, began to encourage him to fish out the guitar from under the bed and begin once again to share his music, not just with them, but also with anyone who finds enjoyment and meaning in music. Sport remembers, "People always asked me, ‘Are you still singing? Are you still pursuing music, and if not, then why?'"

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Today my guest is Wolfram Klug from Geneva, Switzerland! His album called BURT, THE NERD [ www.Burt-the-nerd.com ] features some fantastic FZ players including IKE WILLIS, ED MANN, ROBERT MARTIN, ARTHUR BARROW and ALBERT WING!

This was no easy feat to get all these guys together and record! This is a very interesting interview that I think you'll like!

This is the INTERVIEW ONLY version. I'm going to do a second version that includes some of the tunes from Wolfram's CD!

 

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