The Musicians Mentor

On today's episode of the show I talk with the highly talented, guitarist/singer/songwriter - Gary Larsen. Many of you may know of Gary from his time as frontman with Louisiana based indie/pop band Royal Teeth, who had mega hits with songs like 'Wild, 'Heartbeats' and 'We Can Glow'. The band were also signed to numerous labels during their existence, including Dangerbird an...

On this week on the podcast, I talk with Grammy award winning, UK based drummer/musician/tutor - Robert Brian. Rob has had an amazing career, who during his time as a professional musician has done sessions, tours and/or work with artists like Siouxsie Sioux, Goldfrapp, Loreena McKennitt, Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, Miles Kane and many more. As it has been for me in the past, talking with Rob aga...

This week on the podcast, I talk to session guitarist/producer/songwriter - Brian Quinn Brian is a career musician who has travelled the world performing in front of thousands of people at some of the worlds most high profile events and venue and, up until recently (and for almost a decade) was lead guitarist for multi-platinum Alt/Rock band Candlebox as both a touring and recording member, perfor...

In todays episode of the podcast, I talk to Nashville based (but English born), Country-Pop singer/songwriter and actress - Twinnie Lee Moore. Known professionally as - 'Twinnie'. Originally from York, England - Twinnie started down the show business path at a young age and has always been involved in entertainment in some shape or form. As an actress she has won a BCMA best newcomer award...

This week on the podcast I talk with percussionist, composer, improv artist, multi media specialist, educator and cultural diplomat - Tom Teasley. Tom is an American born musician who has lead a truly unique life as a career musician - working as both a drummer/percussionist and a composer. He started his music journey on a simple block of wood and has even represented the USA as a cultural diplom...

In todays episode of the podcast I talk with hit songwriter - Clay Mills. Clay is an Nashville based songwriter originally from Mississippi who has had his songs recorded by artists like Lady A, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Diamond Rio and Darius Rucker. In fact he even had number one hits for both of the last mentioned artists. During the course of Clay's career he has had over 200 songs r...

Today on the show, I talk with Swedish born digital music/tech visionary - Nick Holmsten. Nick is a musician turned businessman who is the former 'Global Head of Music' at Spotify as well as the author of a great book entitled 'Fan Powered Futures'. He recently launched 'Belong' - a platform that aims to reward music super fans in a ever changing music world ,and is constan...

In this special bonus episode of the podcast I'm proud to share part one of a conversation that my friend David Trahan from the 'New Orleans Musicians Dot Com' Podcast had with Mandeville, Louisiana born singer/songwriter - Karen Waldrup. Karen was a top 5 finalist on Season 25 of NBC's 'The Voice', has been featured in forms of media like 'Rolling Stone Magazine, Netfl...

In this weeks episode of the podcast I talk with Lafayette, Louisiana based saxophonist/manager/entrepreneur - Dave Mouton. Dave currently owns and manages the musical group Souled Out, which in addition to their own shows also acts like somewhat of a revolving door for a vast amount of local musicians, he also performs with his contemporary Jazz group, 'The Dave Mouton EXPerience' and even works...

In today's episode of the podcast I talk with New Jersey based drummer/musician - Jon Loree. Jon currently plays for Alt/Rock bands Tantric, Smile Empty Soul and Billy Wilkins (from Dragonforce), runs a successful drum teaching studio and even makes hilarious social media content for the wonderful RTOM corporation, which can be seen via his instagram profile - @Jonsdrumstudio. We talk about to...

I'm beyond excited to announce than my guest on today's episode of the podcast, is former 'The Smashing Pumpkins' guitarist - Jeff Schroeder. Jeff is a California based musician, who in addition to being a composer, producer and songwriter had been recording and touring alongside Billy Corgan for the last 16 years, until his recent departure (which we do talk about). He has also be...

In today's episode I talk with the extra talented multi instrumentalist/producer/composer/song-writer - Mr Dave Tweedie. No stranger to the music business, Dave is a California based musician who has written music for a number of high profile television shows - including, 'So You Think You Can Dance', Nashville, Paris Hilton's My New BFF", Nash Bridges and many, many more. Add...

In episode 65 of the podcast I speak with the incredibly talented Chilean-American multi intrumentalist and producer - Alain Johannes. Easily one of my favorite musicians, Alain and has had an amazing music career working with artists like Queens Of The Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, No Doubt and late greats Chris Cornell and Mark Lanegan. He also had an amazing debut...

In this weeks episode I talk with American drummer/producer/singer and career coach - Matt Starr. A true pro (in every sense of the word), Matt is an extremely motivational musicians who has performed/played or toured as a drummer with some of the biggest names in Rock music - including Ace Frehley, (KISS), Mr Big, Michael Des Barres and Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot). Additionally, Matt is a gifted si...

In today's episode of the podcast I talk with the very talented (and highly accomplished), multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter -St. Paul Petterson. Among the huge list of St. Paul's credits you will see some massive 'superstar' type names like - Morris Day, Darryl Hall, George Benson, The Corrs and Peter Frampton, but the thing that needs to be brought to your attention (at lea...

Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of Season 4 of the podcast. In todays episode I talk with Victoria Theodore - an American pianist/music director/singer/songwriter and producer, best known for her work as keyboardist for multi platinum selling artist - Beyoncé, and keyboardist and background singer for music icon -Stevie Wonder. Victoria was also the keyboardist and singer on the 20...

It's Christmas time and what better way to celebrate the end of the year than by finishing the years podcast content by talking to the one and only - Steve Newman. In addition to his many solo releases - Steve is a South African born composer/guitarist/musician who rose to fame with his trio, 'Tananas' in the late 80's until the early 90's until the tragic untimely death of their bassist, Gito Bal...

Surprise Episode ! We thought it would be fun to release an extra episode this month and what better way to do it, than to put out this collaborative-joint interview/chat with our friend Bree Noble from the popular 'Profitable Musician Podcast'. In addition to the educating content Bree releases under the 'Profitable Musician Podcast', she also runs the 'Woman Of Substance' website and is the resi...

In todays episode of the podcast I speak with 'Rock and Roll - Hall Of Fame inductee' - Mr Kenney Jones. Kenney is a British drummer/musician who rose to fame in the 60's as part of the famous 'mod scene' with his group 'The Small Faces', eventually went on to play alongside Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart in 'The Faces' and even took up the drum position in 'The Who', after the unfortunate passing of...

Roy Burns was an American born drummer and percussion manufacturer who sadly passed away back in 2018. He would have been 89 years old this week, so to celebrate all things Roy and thank him for years of personal inspiration I decided to use an unpublished/archived interview that I had done with him many years ago for episode #58 of the podcast. Roy was the second person to grace the cover of the...

In this weeks episode of the podcast I thought I'd change things up slightly from our usual types of conversations, and talk with musician turned tech/tour manager/lighting and audio engineer - Jo Coz As a crew/tech type individual Jo has worked with some of the best in the industry on both a local and national level, some of these artists include - Eddie Money, Sebastian Bach, Rock Show Nola, Dro...

In this weeks episode of the podcast I speak with Portland based guitarist/musician extraodinaire - Shawn Sonnenschein. Many of you will know of Shawn from his band member role as lead guitarist for Alternative Rock band Trapt, but he also spent many years recording and touring with bands like Black N Blue, Ten Pound Rain and Plum I thought it would be interesting to talk with Shawn about all thin...

In this weeks episode we celebrate our official two year podcasting anniversary by talking to one of our favorite musicians - Josiah Mazzaschi. Josiah is a multi instrumentalist/engineer/producer/songwriter who made quite a name for himself in the Chicago area before eventually settling in Los Angeles where he now works as a producer and songwriter. Many of you will know of Josiah from his bands l...

In episode 54 of the podcast I speak with Montana based composer, drummer, educator and songwriter - John Wicks.  John talks to me about life as a touring musician while still a member (and songwriter) with his previous band 'Fitz and The Tantrums" as well as how he juggles his newer projects like Fluffy Bunny and his constant collaborations with Pearl Jam bassist, Jeff Ament. We also talk about h...

In this weeks episode of the podcast I talk with South African born, New Zealand raised and now LA based musician super power - Andrea Lisa. Andrea has a really interesting story which has led her to touring the world as a musician with musician Kirk Whalum, contributing guitar to Kool and the Gang and even living on more continents than me (which doesn't seem to happen too often ha ha)... Her...