Justin and Adrienne's Music Life Weekly

Adrienne is traveling, three gigs in two cities, in one weekend. Dilemma! Someone has to run down the street in 6 inch heels. Adrienne meets Bingo (Momma's don't listen to Stanhope). Adrienne changes clothes in the back of a cop's car. Justin is correct, the only possible answer is crawling under the stage. A crowd big enough, you can't hear most of them…again. Love for Salt Lake City, thanks to S...

Shanti's in the house. Adrienne and Justin talk celebrity interaction stories. Earth Wind and No Fireball. Adrienne is conflicted about iPads. Justin's stagehand disguise fails and he meets a fan. Adrienne works with Jenny Shawhan on her CD release party setlist…Jenny is so good. Adrienne and Justin catch up with all the people after the show.  

Adrienne realizes how much she loves Denver because of the UMS, but they leave a show after watching it for less than one minute. How pushing too hard on stage is like being *too* friendly. Adrienne scares the sound guy at the Louisville show. Adrienne steals a ton of chocolate, and Justin steals a ton of salsa, from a venue Elvis played at. Adrienne lands a small part on a big tour. Justin used t...

Adrienne and Justin make fun of business signs and taglines. Justin takes solos when he doesn't know the song or even the key, and his confusion is broadcast on a Jumbotron. It is actually getting interesting to talk about the weather. Adrienne is unduly embarrassed by her screwup at Jacob Larson's gig. Playing musicians vs. performing musicians. Justin realizes that showcase set lists need to be...

Adrienne and Justin are punch drunk on heat and yard work. A&J argue over what to name their new tree. The Petty Nicks Experience plays a wild, hot gig at the Louisville Street Fair. Adrienne gets a rare compliment from drummer Ryan. Justin doesn't let drummers play hand percussion. How learning new things is like gambling. If you don't fall down on stage once in a while, you aren't playing hard e...

Justin and Adrienne aren't sure what to talk about, so they talk about negronis and Mission Beach, California. Didn't we all decide about Kanye? Adrienne wondered why anyone would want a guitar in a song. Depeche Mode invents their sound out of convenience. Adrienne is feeling anti-pretty. No Address, Justin's old band, has plans. Why No Address wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered an entire full-...

Will it ever stop raining? Adrienne forgets her iPad at a recording session and adapts a polka feel for a folk song. Adrienne lands her first wedding gig as a bassist and has worked her way to letter H. Adrienne O's new music finally comes to life in front of an audience. Justin finds out he has trouble playing guitar if he can't move his feet. Justin gets nervous playing in front of one of his fr...

Alissa sings for a living (and dances for 1/12th of a living). Mike has an unhealthy music gear addiction. Adrienne is nearly deaf to guitar tone, but can precisely identify synth tones. Alissa starts a professional triple-threat entertainment career at age nine. Mike remembers when MTV showed music videos. Speaking of, Mike and Alissa made a music video. Alissa gets the conga lines going and perf...

Justin's effort at picking up chicks from the podcast isn't working as planned. Adrienne makes percussion out of a singing bowl, a plastic storage bin, and plastic wrap.   Adrienne works very hard to produce vocals that sound easy, because she wants to sing with "bad" vocal technique in the next single.   Adrienne and Justin love The Fabulous Boogienauts' brand of original funk, but Adrienne loves...

A marching band bass drum player breaks Adrienne's brain. Justin has a nightmare gig - or at least, a nightmare getting to the gig. Justin can't believe he knows a song he never thought he would learn. Justin changes clothes while driving. Adrienne leaves a keyboard sitting on the side of the road on the way to a gig. Microphone feedback is nonsense in TV shows and movies. Why Justin doesn't take...

Justin and Adrienne talk weather…so exciting. Adrienne reaches a milestone as a bassist. Justin has a reason for disappearing but Adrienne doesn't agree. Justin talks how crowds are similar, sometimes even in a church. Adrienne talks pickle shots.   Https://www.performancehigh.net https://www.andysydow.com https://www.goosetowntavern.com

Adrienne finally agrees to sing at her cousin's wedding, after repeatedly saying no. Adrienne takes on a new project of learning as many songs on bass as possible. Justin's recent acoustic practice with Cody helps him with an unplanned acoustic situation with Adrienne. Justin recommends against doing something he's done four or five times in his life. Justin and Adrienne weigh in on Daisy Jones an...

This is part 2 of our conversation with musician Joe Mondragon. Justin describes how he knows a song is finally done. Joe describes several ways he helps students start writing songs. How external pressures like gigs or studio time booked are the best motivator. How gigging is addictive. The spectrum of "performers" versus "artists."   Measuring songs by height. Why it's OK to suck. The most offen...

Justin and Adrienne welcome Joe Mondragon (as of this podcast, also known as "Joey Drags") to the podcast. Joe's band plays rock versions of Disney tunes. Joe talks about the lazy reason he likes being in Creature Canopy. Joe's mom tricks him into taking guitar lessons as a young teenager. Joe gets the evil eye from Pierce Brosnan when he calls him "Sean Connery" at a gas station near Pepperdyne U...

Adrienne goes up to Fort Collins for the third time in a week, this time to play Live at Lunch on KRFC 88.9FM with Pamela Machala. Adrienne realizes a thing she often does in production that she thinks isn't very creative… which leads to a realization about artist identity. Justin has an unpopular opinion about Kanye West. Why ideas have to have handles. Justin gets paid a whopping $111 for 2.5 mi...

Adrienne O the band is a featured artist of the month on Indie 102.3 FM.    Adrienne enjoys the honeymoon period with the band's new songs. Justin learns that FoCoMx does NOT stand for "Fort Collins, Mexico."   Justin and Adrienne play at the Lyric Theatre, which feels a bit like the Meow Wolf of Fort Collins. Adrienne plays on the most colorful stage she has ever been on, with the most colorful d...

Justin tries the national drink of Argentina, but it is a complete surprise.   Adrienne is on fire with songwriting now that she has found a new "thinking mode," but still wishes she could come up with more nonsense. Justin identifies the one thing that is valuable in every songwriter. Adrienne uses the word "humdinger" unironically. Justin offers one piece of advice for when you're on a songwriti...

Justin and Adrienne once again admire Eric Golden, one of the hardest working local musicians they know. Performance High returns to the Hard Rock Cafe for a showcase, for the first time since the Before Times. The Pop Choir starts with a bang, and will have a northern chapter for the second round. Inspired by the book The Art of Gathering, Adrienne tries something new as the showcase emcee. One o...

Adrienne has a week of Muse. Justin complains about how loud the audience screams. Adrienne adds a little more "juice" to her moves on stage. Adrienne joins Cody Qualls at his Broadway, Billboard, and Beyond one-voice, one-piano show. Justin is the Australian shepherd dog of the band. Two of Justin's clients perform shows he helped produce - one in Little Rock, AK a day after the tornadoes, and th...

Justin and Adrienne reveal the many reasons why the Legend Makers band wasn't as good an idea as it seemed. Adrienne embarrasses herself when she returns to playing bass after a very long break. A drunk lady does a mic drop - with someone else's expensive microphone. Adrienne reveals why she decided not to restart the band after the pandemic, and Justin reveals the many sources of panic when perfo...

We apologize for the slight background noise at the beginning and end of this episode. It's the furnace. Adrienne goes to the indie 102.3 meetup for the first time and meets many cool people, including a female neuroscientist music fan. Adrienne wonders if her bandmates really believe her when she talks, and… Justin doesn't believe her. Justin reveals the easy secret to being a good producer. Adri...

Adrienne starts with enchiladas. Adrienne gets better at bass without practicing and Justin explains how.   A long-ago band mate comes to Cody Qualls' show at the Buffalo Rose, where Adrienne has the striped bass. The Ultimate Frisbee Association kicks Performance High out of their studio space and they land at Dog House Music as an emergency solution that lasts years. Justin comes full circle wit...

Adrienne listens to two bands on repeat while driving the entirety of New Zealand, but misses the indie music of Colorado. Adrienne and Justin can't get away from their tribute band songs even on the other side of the planet. Justin gets more than his fill of dated pop songs. Justin falls in love with gas station coffee in New Zealand but rails against the NZ beer industry, unless you are trying t...

The Adrienne O Band is born out of Adrienne's frustration with 50/50 ownership of a previous band. Adrienne produces her first album without prior experience. Justin hates Adrienne for making a music video on the top of a mountain. The band has to restart a song three times at a gig for tech issues. The band grows from a trio to a seven-piece band, including Brian Stacks. A bunch of college kids r...

Adrienne joins a band because she can't manage to move to San Diego. Her brief trip to Europe enrages the guitar player into quitting. Justin auditions, but creeps Adrienne out. Remotes don't work when filled with cigarette butts. A die-hard band fan makes bad choices. Adrienne faces a real-life zombie. This podcast is sponsored by Performance High Voice and Music Studio. www. Performancehigh.net...