THE SECOND EPISODE of the show features one of my best friends - producer, engineer, and video director Rocco Guarino.

I first met Rocco in the era of Myspace. At the time, I was a skinny highschool kid with a bootleg Motley Crue haircut. I'd just begun falling in love with music and learning how to play guitar, and Rocco was working with one of my favorite bands Velvet Revolver and their singer, the late Scott Weiland. From working together on my first recordings when I was a teenager, to the six-hour Zoom call that I trimmed into this podcast and then sat on for two months - and every 3AM Canter's Deli trip in between - Rocco has been an monumentally encouraging friend, collaborator, and mentor.

ROCCO AND I talk about the early experiences that led us both to careers in music, his early adventures in Los Angeles working on sexually-suggestive movie sets, the mayhem of touring with a platinum-selling rock band, directing a music video for VR, and how some of the nightmare recording sessions we've worked on together have also resulted in some of the most fun we've ever had.

DARTH WHISKEY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/darthwhiskey YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/darthwhiskey WEBSITE: https://www.darthwhiskey.com

ROCCO GUARINO INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/roccomusic YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/roccomusic WEBSITE: https://www.roccomusic.com