With Eric G recovering from Covid do you think he will miss a show? We think not! We talk about important recalls that dropped this week and catch up on those projects that come up in the middle of the week. There are a couple of important recalls that we want you to know about that could cause a fire.

For more information on the Viking Range recall head to: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Viking-Range-Recalls-Freestanding-Gas-Ranges-Due-to-Risk-of-Gas-Leak-and-Fire-Hazard

For more information about the robot lawnmower recall head to: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2022/Husqvarna-Recalls-All-Wheel-Drive-Robotic-Lawnmowers-Due-to-Fire-Hazard-Recall-Alert

Plus we talk with our Musical Guest Zeke Sky in our new segment Music to DIY to!

Zeke Sky is a guitarist, pianist, vocalist and composer from the USA who has taken the heavy metal and psychedelic rock universe by storm ever since videos of his music surfaced on the internet in 2018.

Combining influences of psychedelic rock, progressive metal and world music, Zeke goes against the grain in composing bold visionary songs without limitation.

For more information about Zeke Sky head to: https://www.zekesky.com/

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[00:00:24] Intro: is around the house,

[00:00:47] Intro: Caroline. Hello,

[00:00:51] Intro: coming back. It

[00:01:09] Eric Goranson: Let's put it that way,

[00:01:17] Caroline Blazovsky: back.

[00:01:28] Eric Goranson: You'll hear me this weekend. I'll sound on the show this weekend. You'll hear it. You'll hear a little less of my voice this weekend because we recorded it earlier in the week. But, uh, welcome back. I it's nice being home. I mean, but funny thing is, is down in Florida, it was like the last two days was 85 and sunny.

[00:01:52] Caroline Blazovsky: It's cold in New York. We're warm. We're 61. I think we're going to be 65 tomorrow. So we've got, I mean, that's like spring in [00:02:00] February. Weird. Right?

[00:02:07] Eric Goranson: I mean, everything's green, outside, and now we're going to be like, I think low of 19, it's going to be super cool. And so we got up that last little death grip of winter coming in to give us some cold air. It'll be dry. Super dry. No, no precipitation. So probably no snow, but, uh, we're going to get that.

[00:02:28] Caroline Blazovsky: I heard you have a

[00:02:57] Eric Goranson: And they've got all this stuff on the consumer product [00:03:00] safety commission. So you can find that, but here's what happened. They have a connection. That could leak thus causing a gas leak. That's a problem.

[00:03:16] Eric Goranson: Yep. So a consumer should immediately stop using the big broil griddle functions to avoid the risk of a gas leak and contact Viking range four to arrange a free repair by an authorized service provider.

[00:03:31] Caroline Blazovsky: have in my hand? Which I carry in my purse. It's not a gas detector, but it's a carbon monoxide meter. So just to remind people, also check your carbon monoxide. It's a good time of year. And, uh, yeah, this, I carry this. This is my Klein tools. E T one 10. This goes with me everywhere. I know that's hot.

[00:03:56] Eric Goranson: Oh yeah. What's going on [00:04:00] there, but yeah. This here is going to leak natural gas or propane. So that's what you have to be careful with. So that's gonna go on to be a problem. So you don't want to have that happen and, uh, no need for, uh, extra burners on the rains that are happening inside of that was to catch fire.

[00:04:40] Eric Goranson: So there's about 1400 of those as well. So there are these cool little all-wheel-drive robotic lawnmowers, and you don't need to have the burning hunk of Husqvarna lawnmower. So make sure you're taken care of as well. That can be problem. Lots of recalls. So what are you [00:05:00] working on in your house? Carolyn, you got any cool projects?

[00:05:02] Intro: tackling

[00:05:11] Intro: sliders

[00:05:15] Intro: we, we,

[00:05:26] Eric Goranson: And then what's this about you maybe wanting to get a dog?

[00:05:46] Caroline Blazovsky: And she just does it as a hobby. It's kind of amazing. She's a young girl, you know, in her twenties. So, um, she's a. I just got on there and started looking at these dogs. Oh my God. A little German shepherd with tongue out. [00:06:00]

[00:06:02] Caroline Blazovsky: It just hits you right here.

[00:06:11] Eric Goranson: This is how it happened to my house too. I mean, we've had dogs forever anyway, but, uh, uh, every time Julie gets on one of the rescue sites or one of the adoption sites, I'm like, oh no, there's going to be another one coming on. We have three dogs right now. We're, we're not gonna, we're not adding to it. And we've got one, that's kinda little tiny thing that was rescued before, even my time with Julie.

[00:06:55] Eric Goranson: He's going to be replaced. I think we'll stick with,

[00:07:16] Caroline Blazovsky: Mistake

[00:07:21] Caroline Blazovsky: Oh, I can't have a dog. I work too much. They're not, no one

[00:07:25] Eric Goranson: be well they're Snoop. Yeah. There's new pet doors out there. I think we were talking about it here a few weeks ago. You and I, there's a couple of smart pet companies out there where you can put the collar on the dog and then it unlocks the dog door when they get.

[00:07:52] Caroline Blazovsky: Oh my God. Do you have a name on that? That's that's

[00:07:55] Eric Goranson: Yeah, I'll put it up here in the show notes. I'll let me find it.

[00:08:07] Eric Goranson: house, we've got a

[00:08:21] Caroline Blazovsky: Ornery when it comes to not getting her food on time, which is a little strange, but she starts doing this thing with her tail and her tongue and she gets kind of aggressive about

[00:08:33] Eric Goranson: That's cool. You gotta be careful of that, but you know, aggressive is going to get,

[00:08:45] Eric Goranson: There you go. See, you know, my, my pet. Dog door that goes outside for the dogs, you know? And, uh, that's also my makeup air at the house, but the cool thing is, is

[00:09:02] Eric Goranson: turn on the vent fan and I can hear it go. The magazine, click click.

[00:09:34] Caroline Blazovsky: I thought cats were supposed to go in like a litter box. They go outside now.

[00:09:58] Eric Goranson: Cool. So, [00:10:00] so there's a lot of cool little devices like that, and it's good if you're in the big city areas, it's good for all that stuff, you know, because I tell you what, um, pet doors that aren't functioning can be a place for rodents to enter. Um, you've got to be careful with that. If you've got rats and mice, they can navigate that pet door pretty quickly.

[00:10:25] Caroline Blazovsky: to our friends cause they have a pet door and they had, I mean, a beautiful home. Remember I was telling you, and then they got a rat problem. I

[00:10:35] Eric Goranson: Yeah, you gotta be careful. And that's, I mean, it's just like a freeway right in, so it's one of those things.

[00:11:04] Eric Goranson: Pop that door open. They're smart enough to figure that one out

[00:11:07] Caroline Blazovsky: head for those biscuits you make on that

[00:11:14] Caroline Blazovsky: Craving some of those biscuits you make. I just started thinking about those and I'm like, Hmm. Eric's like a master

[00:11:21] Eric Goranson: biscuits. Ah, I get, I have, I liked doing those.

[00:11:47] Eric Goranson: Should we run out to Zeke?

[00:11:49] Caroline Blazovsky: this is music guys. So it's music you can work to build, to make Sada us to.

[00:12:07] Zeke Sky: for having me, uh, just enjoying, uh, the hopefully soon becoming very warm weather.

[00:12:19] Eric Goranson: man. Uh, loving your stuff. This new album is great. You have got for anybody that loves the, the rock to hard rock genre and up you hit every single little box as far as check with the different songs on this album.

[00:12:35] Zeke Sky: you so much, man.

[00:12:43] Zeke Sky: We, uh, did this album with a producer called Kevin , who is used to be the guitar player in a band called the Dylan dress scape plan. Um, but it was all done in his studio and it was all mixed and mastered in history.

[00:13:04] Zeke Sky: crazy. But yeah, I can't, I can't produce, I, I can't produce on that level. And, uh, the people who can produce on that level are either, you know, professional producers or, you know, have moved on to something more interesting their life.

[00:13:36] Zeke Sky: I guess my guitar started when I was about 10.

[00:14:06] Zeke Sky: And there was this Neanderthal looking guy kind of sexy. God, save the queen and screaming at her. And I did, uh, I didn't really get it then, but I wasn't even so much interested in the music as I kind of understood, like there's a rebellion happening and I need to be a part of. Uh, so I picked up a guitar and my dad had one upstairs or something, and I didn't learn any chords at first.

[00:14:54] Intro: Nice. Amazing. It's funny. And he's so awesome at it.

[00:15:01] Eric Goranson: As soon as you have any, uh, more classical training, as far as in the music side of things, growing up jazz classical stuff. Cause I did the same thing as a bass player from fifth grade on, I was playing upright bass and that kind of stuff.

[00:15:14] Zeke Sky: school. I was really when I was in high school, like my, the things that I focused on like academically and physically were very different, so I didn't really do anything. Traditional music schooling. Um, I don't want to say I've never had music teachers cause I've had like a couple of close friends who have shown me a lot, but as far as any of my guitar or piano technique, most of it's just been completely self imbibed.

[00:15:40] Caroline Blazovsky: He is such a rockstar to the true

[00:15:44] Eric Goranson: So if you, uh, have you tried any DIY projects? Have you. Dani studio building or any, anything like that? You put an Ikea table together wrong, you know, it doesn't really matter.

[00:16:03] Zeke Sky: I've put some like good home spaces together for recording demos and stuff like that. And I do know the first thing maybe about making a home studio, but it's actually a. Pretty complicated matter to treat things acoustically and to get an aesthetic feeling in a space where you actually want to create.

[00:16:39] Eric Goranson: Nice. Yeah. We had a home studio that I had when I was, I was playing in Seattle rock bands in the, in the early two thousands.

[00:17:06] Eric Goranson: Those things are worth big money because there's enough of them that were lost out there. Today's digital age of recording has made it so much easier for artists to get stuff at least down on tape so you can help develop.

[00:17:22] Zeke Sky: I do think that the producers today do have a very special skill set too, though. Learning how to use gear. That's a little bit more complicated. Can have these really crazy repercussions. Like you can generally, I mean, you had good instincts where you, you could tell that it wasn't a bedroom production or anything like that.

[00:18:02] Eric Goranson: Yeah. And we, I got really lucky to, to hang around with some really cool people, the, the of the world and stuff like that, that were, you know, just icons of the age up there that really could take some recordings that maybe weren't perfect, but could actually have that skill to make something of it.

[00:18:22] Zeke Sky: these days. Butch VIG has a plugin. Yeah, there's a, there's a Butch VIG plugin for distorted vocals.

[00:18:38] Eric Goranson: Oh, it's so hilarious. It's so hilarious. How technology has come so far? So you're going to be getting out on tour soon. What do you got going on?

[00:19:13] Eric Goranson: Nice. Nice. I love the new album. Let's talk about that for a minute, man. What a, what got this going for you with the, uh, intergalactic demon king? This thing is pretty cool.

[00:19:32] Zeke Sky: Right. When COVID was kind of at like the center of its a vortex. And then, um, it had all kind of centered around like this. I don't want to call it an imaginary character, but I guess that is sort of what it was. And all of the songs dealt with themes of kind of, um, history partially, but also like the future of where I thought [00:20:00] things might be going.

[00:20:24] Zeke Sky: And I wanted to see if I could kind of combine the two worlds. Um, you'll notice some of the songs have themes about kind of, uh, one of the songs is literally kind of about the. And I didn't really, I had written a song and I decided that the sound of it flowed very well with the rest of the record, but lyrically, it didn't line up as much.

[00:20:55] Intro: Cool.

[00:21:13] Caroline Blazovsky: And so he has music, which he's a phenomenal musician, which you're going to hear, but he sort of entrenched it into this really deep sort of mythic mythical place. And so you kind of, when you listen to your music, what I like is that it's got this vibe of, it takes me to another point. And whether it be an imaginary place or a, or a made up place, but very, very,

[00:21:39] Zeke Sky: I was like, when I, when the concept had come together, it was kind of like the very beginning of COVID and things were very much in flux. And I knew that I wasn't going to record a serious album for at least a year. So I sort of set it up with stories that I, an illustrations that I thought were kind of relevant to the project.

[00:22:10] Eric Goranson: musical influences. When I hear this album, I hear some almost German and Sweden. Type rock stuff in there as well. What are some of your musical influences that help kind of drive you as a musician?

[00:22:44] Zeke Sky: Um, I'm definitely inspired by a lot of the Swedish bands, a lot of the power, metal bands, um, a lot of the Viking metal type bands. Um, Yeah. Like all of those types of bands, I've always really liked. I like even the newer versions of power metal, like dragon [00:23:00] force. Um, I was into iron maiden a lot as a kid.

[00:23:23] Zeke Sky: Um, but it's, it's, I, I would, I would say there's kind of a narrow band of music that I appreciate, and I've noticed that it's different with other people. And not that I dislike lots of genres of music. It's just that the music I consume on a day-to-day basis. It tends to be kind of like Western European kind or European, like rock metal, um, jazz and classical music.

[00:23:46] Caroline Blazovsky: Zeke. So being a new artist, right. And being of the younger genre too. How does social media help you? So give us an idea. I mean, I see so much social media out of you and I, and it's huge, right? We know with our show here, if you're not on social [00:24:00] media and you're not doing it, you're kind of lost. So how does it help you?

[00:24:12] Zeke Sky: just go ahead and push back on that a little bit, because now I have the perspective of having that followership.

[00:24:39] Zeke Sky: Of having the following is, um, I started before I put my music out, which was, I started putting music out really? Not that long ago, like two or three years ago, I had like a large dedicated Facebook following for my noodley guitar videos and for kind of. Jack assay kind of stuff that I would do on my [00:25:00] newsfeed all the time.

[00:25:19] Zeke Sky: Um, but I think people are diluting themselves a little bit when they think that, uh, you know, you're just going to get some follower count and you're just going to be all set. You have to like really be. These have to be people who are really, truly interested in your stuff and you can convert. And I would say that content really comes first.

[00:25:57] Zeke Sky: So I think that [00:26:00] that followership that I got during that time, you know, I'm not so thrilled on it sometimes because I don't think that that really told my story completely well.

[00:26:16] Zeke Sky: Yeah. We can do that and get something ready to go.

[00:28:16] Intro: you rock

[00:28:21] Zeke Sky: Yeah, I was, I wrote that song when I was like, actually like 19 and then it finally got recorded once, one time in my basement, like three years ago. And then it finally came out in a proper

[00:28:43] Intro: Hmm.

[00:28:47] Eric Goranson: we go. Let's jump out to endlessly forever and take a 10[00:29:00] [00:30:00] [00:31:00] [00:32:00]

[00:32:58] Zeke Sky: website? Um, just [00:33:00] search Zeke sky, anywhere. Z K E S K Y. Um, you'll find the music on Spotify. Uh, YouTube basically everywhere. It used to be the Zeke sky band, but now it's just the sky and we're going to stick with that and, uh, yeah, that's the best way to find me anywhere.

[00:33:21] Zeke Sky: No problem. You're very welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

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