Getcha Some Productions Podcast Episode 23
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A podcast covering all things related to music production: from the first note to the last fan and everything in between. Our mission is to create music and to inspire others to do the same.
Not your typical podcast, each episode is a live business meeting. We are figuring out how to build a music production company (a media empire) as we go and listeners come along for the ride. This is an archive of our progress or lack thereof.
This podcast is always candid and unrehearsed.
In this episode we discuss:
Merry Christmas! Yes, we’re that far behind in releasing these episodes.
We start off talking about the fact that I did not get what I wanted for Christmas because the prices have gone up too much on Reverb.com. But I am going to spend the next couple of weeks and months waiting for the prices to come back down to where they were before Christmas. I believe the gear that I was talking about at the time was either a boss ME80 multi affect processing unit for guitar or the Fulltone Clyde Wah that I’ve been looking at both had gone up substantially in price during Christmas. I did eventually get a better price on the ME80 multi affect processor and did buy it. But that happened in the future which is now the past.
Dan got a new case for his new bass guitar which he very much needed. As we’ve been talking about on this podcast for many months now, Dan did get a brand new fender jazz bass but I guess he had no case for it and so now he does. A fancy nice case with white piping around the side. Something that will look nice in his living room.
I profess my love for my Roland micro cube again. What else is new?
This is the start of a series of podcasts where we focus on Dan. I am referencing concepts by Gary Vaynerchuk that says that CEOs work for their employees actually. It’s not the other way around. CEOs and business owners actually need to take the perspective that they work for their employees.
So I give Dan the intro to the concept which is that, since this is my project initially, I need to take the perspective that I work for Dan. Even though Dan is considered a C suite executives of the company, and even though Dan is a part owner of the company I still have to take the perspective that if I want this project to succeed then I need to want Dan to succeed. And if I want Dan to succeed, then I need to have the perspective that I work for Dan and my job is to help Dan succeed in anyway that I can.
Dan says probably the most important thing of the whole episode when he starts the dialogue off by saying that he was concerned about even getting into the project with me because we are longtime friends. We are even more like family than anything at this point. But everyone knows the saying that business and family don’t mix or money and blood don’t mix or don’t go into business with your family, yadda yadda yadda. So Dan had and has concerns about the whole project based on that. His main thing is that he wants our friendship to be the main thing and would never want to jeopardize our friendship and so that’s his main concern. So of course, if through the business, I’m upset with him for some reason or he’s upset with me for some reason and then we would be jeopardizing our friendship and that would factor into cost benefit analysis of even doing the show.
Dan has many more interesting things to say. He talks about how the things that he’s been successful with in the past are things where he’s partnered with someone who has the executive decision making skills and who are the action takers. He feels like his role in this business would be as someone who would be there to support me and be a counselor to me which is what he’s always been to me in many other situations and over many many years. I think that works very well.
I think everything that Dan talked about was so important and I do think that we have to go back over all those things in designated podcasts.
I go on to say that I don’t want Dan to worry about whether he’s crazy is this in terms of creating content door meeting obligations. For me it’s all about process. We are working on honing a process. The process is specifically that we (once per week approximately) sit down to talk about this project that we’re working on. All we need to do as far as I’m concerned is continue to do the process and continue to refine the process. The process is the product first of all. Second of all the process, as it becomes more and more refined, will yield product of all sorts and it will yield finer and finer product overtime. But the process is everything. And the process is just making a commitment to talk approximately once per week about the project.
We then move on with Dan’s origin story in music. He grew up with a lot of music around in his house. mostly classical music. But he recalls the first time that he ever heard a song that he was interested in enough to make an actual note of what the song was. The song was the Dire Straits Walk of Life.
To recap, Dan’s father was a fan of music. He would play a lot of music in the house so Dan was exposed to a lot of music. Not just classical because he mentions 60s rock stuff like Bob Dylan and stuff like that. But the first song he ever was interested in was the Dire Straits Walk of Life and he made his dad go out and buy him the album for him. The album is called Brothers in Arms. Dan also mentioned that when he was a young kid like 5-ish years old he would play those old-school hard boiled egg slicers kind of like a thumb piano.
A side note is that Dan describes the keyboard part of Walk of Life as being Impish which I think is a really hilarious description
Dan started playing the bass in fifth or sixth grade. I guess he was about 12-ish.
Why bass?
Dan loved and probably still does love the Guns N’ Roses album Appetite for Destruction. Of course, who doesn’t.
Idol worship. Posters on the wall. Magazine comes out.
Duff McKagan is the glue that holds the band together. That’s what it said in the article or on the cover of the magazine Dan recalls. He looks up at his poster on the wall sees a big thing of duff sitting up there. Then he says. That’s what I want to do. Dan wants to be the glue that holds the band together.
I want to psychoanalyze Dan and unpacked a little bit. Maybe there’s a little bit of an unsung hero thing going on in there or maybe there is the aspect of the exclusivity of being in the bass club where most people are really not aware of how cool and important basis.
Dan says that it’s more about being in recognition and harmony with your peers that’s more important than the general public.
Dance coworkers say that he is the ultimate cheerleader because he gets such a thrill about setting other people up for success.
Dan loves metal
Picture eight-year-old Dan sitting cross legged on the floor playing with Legos staring up at the Guns N’ Roses poster. In awe!
Please lick and surprise
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