Get Offset Episode 157: Hometown Heroes and Many Mikes

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[00:00:00] Emily: welcome to the get offset podcast. My name is Emily and my

[00:00:16] Andrew: name is Andrew

[00:00:18] Emily: and it is Sunday morning in Seattle. We’re coming at ya on a Tuesday. If you’re actually listening to this on the day it comes out. I don’t know that that was a weak intro. I don’t know. I don’t know why it does that side

[00:00:31] Andrew: of the mountain.

[00:00:32] Ray is filed in.

[00:00:37] Emily: I have my homemade pumpkin spice latte. Hasn’t hit yet.

[00:00:42] Andrew: This is my first caffeine of the day. Yeah. And this is atrocious. I thought I’d try something

[00:00:48] Emily: new. Is it mud water?

[00:00:51] Andrew: Uh, no. So we finally broke out the drip coffee maker. We’ve just given up on making yourselves nice coffee every single day.

[00:00:59] So, uh, but so I’ve got that. And then I thought to myself, I do protein for breakfast in the mornings, usually. So if I just mix it in like a scoop of protein powder with my coffee and top it off with some unsweetened almond. And my shaker bottle is in the dishwasher, which means I can’t access it because the dishwasher is running.

[00:01:24] Cause I got up early this morning and started on dishes. But, uh, so I, I don’t, I just had to try and do my best with the whiskey and it, yeah, it’s chunky. So if you see me kinda, after I take a sip of coffee,

[00:01:38] Emily: that’s what is your cocktail shaker also? And the dishwasher.

[00:01:42] Andrew: Uh, I don’t, uh, I don’t have the, oh, actually that wasn’t sturdy.

[00:01:46] Cause I did myself. I did make myself a cocktail last night. Um, but there’s not like a shaker ball. So like my, my blender bottle has like a little ball in it that like helps break it all up. Kinetically. Um, whereas like cocktail shaker doesn’t have one of those. So it necessarily,

[00:02:02] Emily: you kind of put some ice in there instead.

[00:02:05] Andrew: I don’t have any ice cause I forgot to make something which is problematic for having people Overwatch and I forgot to make. Before we started this, so I might have to run out and grab the bag before they come over.

[00:02:18] Emily: I’m glad I reminded you to make ice.

[00:02:21] Andrew: I have to move the car anyways. It’ll be fine. We’re not too far from the store and yeah.

[00:02:28] Anyways, um, yeah, this is, uh, this is my attempt at being healthy, but my attempts lately have been sort of working, I guess. Good for you.

[00:02:40] I think I’m one pound away from being down 35 pounds in the last six months.

[00:02:46] Emily: Holy moly. That’s a lot. Congratulations. Here’s who’s ahead between you and Jason on the working class music on the October challenge.

[00:02:57] Andrew: Uh, I’m a head right now. I think he, he told me that he actually went up a little bit and then came back down to his starting.

[00:03:05] He’s he’s, he’s

[00:03:06] Emily: working on gains. He’s doing lean and lean gains, I think.

[00:03:11] Andrew: And I think I’m down two pounds. So neither of us are like even halfway there and I’m going on vacation next week. So it’s really anybody’s. I could undo all of this so fast.

[00:03:25] Emily: Yeah. I mean, I went to Cincinnati, so I didn’t exactly lose weight.

[00:03:28] Cincinnati skyline, Scott.

[00:03:35] Great. Yeah, man. Twice two graders, two experiences. Yeah, once only one skyline, uh, two graders, um, no bus skin. Uh, one more line house. What else did I do? That’s aggressiveness and Sandy went to Kingsville. Had similar roses, everyone else in my family made the mistake of having a Fest house burger. Like why there were so many other options, just get, get the thing.

[00:04:05] And every time they’re like, I don’t know. I just thought I would have gotten better in like the years since we’ve all gone. Like why would you think that? Would you rather have a frozen pizza or frozen burger?

[00:04:17] Andrew: Frozen pizza?

[00:04:18] Emily: Yeah, exactly. So. Uh, do you have what else? We went to, um, mad tree, which was delicious.

[00:04:27] They have cocktails mocktails in obviously a great beer on tap. Very good pizzas. Um,

[00:04:39] uh, Hofbrau house. So lots of German. Um, yeah, we had a great time in Cincinnati. Yeah. Went to both Mike’s musics locations, which I’m sure we’ll talk about later as we’re gonna talk about hometown, hometown, um, hometown, uh, guitar, guitar shops. A bit later, my husband just got home from the grocery store or making Andrew says hi, Rick.

[00:05:08] He’s quiet. He’s he’s been quiet.

[00:05:12] Andrew: You know, I just realized I was tripping out. I’m like, wait, your room looks different. Like what what’s different about it? Realizing for whatever reason this week, the, uh, the way that it’s streaming out is in reverse.

[00:05:23] Emily: Yeah. It’s actually the correct way. I think I actually have a new camera.

[00:05:30] Uh, it’s not actually a new web cam. It is, um, my phone. I’m using my phone and a tool by a brand called Ray incubator called the chemo app on my phone. And I was like, looking at it. I’m like, is it, is it opposite? So I’m like, what do I have to tell? Like, cause it’s really hard to like, gauge, like, is it mirrored?

[00:05:57] Is it mirrored? So I’m hold up. Like the only thing that I have near me that has text on it, I’m like, is it

[00:06:04] Andrew: now? It looks backwards. It

[00:06:06] Emily: looks backwards to

[00:06:07] Andrew: you and all your guitars are lefties. Right now.

[00:06:10] Emily: It looks right way to me. It looks the correct way to me. That’s backwards to you. I’ll fix it in post, fix it in post.

[00:06:21] I’ll. Fix it in post it’s weird. Cause it looks correct to me, whatever

[00:06:26] Andrew: mirror mirror on the wall. Ah,

[00:06:29] Emily: why does it look correct in pre if it’s not correct in pre. It’s weird. Yeah. But other than that, how’s it look it’s, it should look better than my O G webcam.

[00:06:42] Andrew: Yeah, it looks great. Yeah. Looking crisp, looking fresh,

[00:06:46] Emily: so fresh and so clean.

[00:06:48] Oh yeah. When we flew to Cincinnati, um, we booked like, kind of like in the middle of COVID. We’re going to have a, hold on. Hope, man. It’s the last thing that’s holding me. And, um, and um, people, people who like indie rock and date and we’ll get that one. And so we’re looking at like the coach tickets. 99 bucks direct.

[00:07:15] This is Natty. So hold on, brother. Let’s. Um, cause my brother was going with me and my husband and my niece were all going. Um, cause we’re celebrating my, my grandfather’s ninety four, ninety first birthday, again, being very helpful. Um, and I’m like, let’s, let’s look at first class because I’m like last time we flew, I think that we paid like.

[00:07:41] Like almost 400 to 500 bucks. Like to her, it was less to fly first class from each of us than it was to fly coach last time. So we’re like, you know what, it sounds a lot more pleasant to fly first class with a five-year-old and a half almost five-year-old than coach. So let’s just do that. Maze.

[00:08:05] Andrew: You’re all.

[00:08:06] I’ve never flown first-class

[00:08:07] Emily: so well we, well, one like boarding early with an impatient four and a half, five year old. And then in Seattle, we got to go in the Alaska air lounge, which again, much more pleasant place to wait with a young child. And then the adults all get to have like free mimosas and breakfast.

[00:08:28] She got to enjoy like the pancake machine and a muffin and it’s more than shit. And it actually, and then we got to weigh and she’s like, oh, we got on the plane and we get to play. And I was like, just like having a conversation with her. I’m like, well, if we leave, we, can we wait here? And then we go on the airplane.

[00:08:46] Cause then if we get there too early and they’re not ready for us, cause they have to get the other people off the airplane. Right. Your plant’s not there yet. Like as soon as we get there, because we have special tickets this one time trying to explain to her, like, this is a very special flight. We’re not ever going to get this again.

[00:09:02] Probably this is the one time wherever we’re going to fly this way, like really emphasizing this is unusual.

[00:09:10] Andrew: Uh, that’s how I was, how I was with my kid at Mariners game musical tickets. I don’t think you understand kid that doesn’t get better than

[00:09:16] Emily: S this is the, one-time probably where we’re going to do this, but like getting on the plane first was really nice.

[00:09:23] Like having extra, like space to like put your things, like, just like being able to spread your elbows out is just like maybe the nicest part, the extra leg room. Um, there’s just like a little bottle of like a little box water waiting for you when you get up there. Um, then the, the meal, they give you on the plane, like Rick and I both times we get the vegetarian options because again, like, which would you rather have on the plane, frozen risotto or frozen?

[00:09:54] Cod fair. And my brother was like, uh, the meat options were both bad. I’m like, yeah. Cause which would you rather have the frozen, like chicken or the frozen ravioli? Bright. It was a, we were both really happy with our meals

[00:10:16] Andrew: freeze better than others

[00:10:17] Emily: and yeah. And then the fruit, like obviously they were free alcohol.

[00:10:23] This is fine. We then like get wasted or anything. They’re not getting you drunk. And first-class like, but like, uh, the flight, like the first, the flight attendant made sure to remember our names and give us anything we needed, but like, it’s still like, COVID so like I ordered a gin and tonic and they give you like this whole packet of like lime flavoring and I put it in and then I.

[00:10:47] Take it back. I was like, can I just have Jenine orange juice? Because this is very weird tasting and I’d rather have like a more real citrus flavor. So it was really, yeah, it

[00:10:59] Andrew: tastes that doesn’t sound normal. Jen and oranges. No, no, no, no, no. Jen and Jesus find it. The lime flavor.

[00:11:08] Emily: Oh, it was bad. It was really bad.

[00:11:11] Like I, um, yeah. It was all settling to the bottom. I could tell. So I also knew that like here, I know you’re going to sneeze, hit that mute button, dude. Hit it, get it. So I could tell us all settling to the bottom, like this is going to be like, I mean, they’re going to stir this drink the whole time, like actively, or is it going to be like a very weird.

[00:11:36] And experience. So,

[00:11:39] Andrew: I mean maybe if there’s enough gin in there, you wouldn’t notice by the time you got to the bottom, a,

[00:11:46] Emily: they do give you doubles each time you order an alcoholic beverage. But yeah, well,

[00:11:54] Andrew: I mean, I would hope that you would get that for the cost difference, but.

[00:12:02] Emily: Yeah, no, it’s it was, um, it’s like of all the perks sincerely the best one was the elbow room.

[00:12:12] Andrew: Yeah. No, that makes sense. Yeah. I think elbow room is probably the one thing that I would ever complain about with just the economy class. Um, I flew from Frankfurt back to the states when I was in college and I got stuck between. Just a couple of German dudes. Yeah. Like just some, some big old German dudes in turns out really wear deodorant.

[00:12:37] Emily: Yeah. I’ve been on some stinky public transportation before. Um, I remember being on a very stinky, sticky, there was one flight that was particularly stinky and it was like a European flight not to be too stereotypical, but by far my stinkiest public transportation experience was a Greyhound. Um,

[00:13:01] Andrew: all the electrolytes in the air.

[00:13:06] Emily: Yeah. I don’t want to talk about that one too publicly, because I’ll just sound like an asshole, but it was just one of those, like, you kind of look around a new psych. We as a group, do not smell.

[00:13:21] Andrew: That’s fair,

[00:13:23] Emily: but you kinda like, mm.

[00:13:25] Andrew: So my fear is with flying first class, if, and when I ever have the opportunity, cause I have a fear of flying first class and the fear is that I’ll never be able to go back.

[00:13:37] It was like when I moved out of my dorm room to an apartment in college, like I’m never doing a dorm again, like I will pay for the apartment.

[00:13:46] Emily: Yeah. I mean, that’s, that’s a little different, like sharing a room like over a long period of time is with, with somebody you don’t really know, or even somebody you do know is that’s a long-term.

[00:14:01] Thing and flying first class is difficult, but I’ll say like, when we, when Rick won like best mustache at Bonneroo and we got the VIP tickets the next year, I was, I was kinda like, I don’t, I don’t know if I could do GA Bonneroo again, the next year we did GA Bonneroo and I was like, yeah, we did it. It was fine.

[00:14:25] But I kind, kinda, I really did miss the VIP. Yeah, so

[00:14:30] Andrew: taste of luxury.

[00:14:31] Emily: Yeah. But we did it and we did, we did do it again and it was totally fine. So like you say that you think that, and you do it. I think it just kind of depends. Like I always say like for those festivals and things, like if you treat like a Bonnaroo or Coachella VIP experience as like your annual vacation and you really budget, like the thousand 1400 bucks as your vacation, Yeah, sure.

[00:14:58] Do the VIP thing. It’s probably totally worth it. Um, if you’re doing like a bunch of them, like that’s absolutely bonkers and that understand you, he was making so much money and I, I really envy you. And I think that the same could probably be said of flying. Like it was our first, um, obviously like.

[00:15:18] Wasn’t my, my first first flight, it was the first flight I paid for in well over a year. Cause I flew on, um, Alaska credits to summer Nam. Um, so yeah, so like treating it as like the first like flight or like only flight of the year and also like the cost of it, like being like what. P P pay for a flight?

[00:15:43] Uh, yeah, come on, come on. Y’all of course. Why wouldn’t I do that? Right.

[00:15:52] Andrew: I don’t think anybody’s going to drag you for, for your

[00:15:54] Emily: life. It was $350,

[00:15:57] Andrew: so that’s not bad

[00:15:58] Emily: at all.

[00:16:01] Andrew: It’s like, you can’t even get a chase pedal for that these days.

[00:16:04] Emily: No, I just sell, I just sell a squat on river. That’s fine.

[00:16:16] What about you, dude? What have you been up to?

[00:16:21] Andrew: Um, I’m trying to think of how I, how I answer that question. Tactically tactical. Uh, I think the tactical answer is I am exhausted because my, my day job schedule was tossed all over the map this week. And I was getting pretty used to waking up at seven every single day. And I know that that’s a small problem to have, but it’s just one of those a couple early starts I’m just completely thrown for the whole weekend.

[00:16:52] Emily: I mean, just like messing with let’s sleep schedule. Like we are very. Humans are very scheduled paced. I’m

[00:16:59] Andrew: a fragile human being as it turns out. So, no, I’m just I’m feeling that right now, but, um, no, I had a particularly exciting thing happened to me. I came home from work one day this week and it was just one of those, like nothing in particular, just kind of in a grumpy mood, like when I’m hungry and.

[00:17:22] I came home, sat down my bag, uh, walk into the kitchen. There’s a box sitting on the counter with my name on it. I’m like, I don’t remember ordering anything because I haven’t been ordering things lately. And it didn’t recognize the name. It was just like a name. I didn’t recognize from some random address in Florida.

[00:17:39] I’m like, what honey, did you order something for me? Like, do you know anything about this? Like stared? Like, is this going to be anthrax? You’re like what? What’s going on here? And. So it was all right. Well, I guess dinner can wait. I have to know. And so I opened it up and

[00:17:59] this is the first thing that I see inside.

[00:18:01] Emily: Oh, that’s pretty orange. That is

[00:18:03] Andrew: incredibly orange. For those of you can’t see, there is orange bubble wrap and there’s also Sweetwater candy and Mike, but this isn’t from Sweetwater. I’m so confused because I didn’t order anything. Sweet water and there’s a card.

[00:18:17] So I opened the card and I grabbed it. And it’s various pieces right now. Uh, so I opened the card, uh, and as I picked up the cardiac, you kind of see what was underneath. And I started to get an idea of what sort of shenanigans were happening, uh, over the card. And it’s got this magnet in the front that says beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy by Benjamin Franklin.

[00:18:39] I don’t even have to read that off of the card because I know that quote inside and out, my teacher would be so proud and. And I open it up. It says, wishing you everything good on your birthday. Happy birthday, Andrew. We hope it is filled with all the things you love from the Patriots. PS. We couldn’t resist adding a dad joke.

[00:18:58] So I will read the dad joke. What two letters, spell candy

[00:19:05] Emily: C and why? Yup.

[00:19:09] Andrew: And why? Um, so this is a removable magnet. Uh, this is going on my whiteboard. And that was, uh, that was where I was already just phenomenal. I was sitting there like trying not to tear up, you know, you just have one of those stressful days at work.

[00:19:25] You come up with like, so I opened open the rest of the box and fill the bubble wrap and inside this thing, God bless

[00:19:36] Emily: America.

[00:19:43] It’s

[00:19:43] Andrew: orange. It’s fuzzy by warm audio. And, um, I I’m so happy.

[00:19:53] Emily: I was trying so hard the last time we recorded to not be like. Yeah, because it was one of our Patriots who is selling this pedal. And Andrew,

[00:20:06] do you want to tell the story? Uh,

[00:20:08] Andrew: yeah, sure. Yeah, no. So one of our patrons is selling a couple of pedals as a, we do have an internal patron, a channel for on our discord server for selling things. And we often sell things to each other at the, uh, the friends and family. And I saw that this was going for sale impeccable condition.

[00:20:27] I’m like, I have to have it. And I’m like, what is the price? And the price was like, better than anything on reverb. Just, it was a really, uh, entirely fair and even generous price. And I went back and looked at my finances. I’m like, I can’t do this. Cause I’m going on vacation a couple of weeks and I don’t have to be

[00:20:45] Emily: a responsible dad type.

[00:20:46] Andrew: Yeah. And so. Uh, yeah, no. So I was like, I can’t do it. And then I came back around like as a last ditch effort and I cornered you. I’m like, is there any chance there’s like, if you buy it and demo it, I could just steal it after you’re done. I like try to figure out some way to negotiate some way to like, make this a podcast expense.

[00:21:09] And you just kinda like deer in headlights set me. You’re like, nah, I don’t think we can. And I was like, edit. I felt bad because like the way that you responded, I felt like guilted into like free even asking. Cause I hate asking for things in general. I’m like, okay, I’ll just pretend like that didn’t have move on.

[00:21:25] And little did I know that you are already well aware of what was happening? So I think that was like a few days before it arrived.

[00:21:35] Emily: Yeah.

[00:21:39] Andrew: What was that conversation like for you?

[00:21:43] Emily: Nah, I was like, stop ruining your own surprises.

[00:21:49] Hey Carrie, Carrie, you want a cookie now? She’s just wants to watch the birds

[00:21:57] Andrew: here. He does not want a cookie. So I, it was a heartfelt thank you to all the patrons who made that possible. Um,

[00:22:04] Emily: big, heavy lifting for Joe Bragga. Yup. Check her out. Follow her channel. I think it’s a Joan of heart on YouTube. Yes.

[00:22:14] No, that was very funny demos. I think Carlos, her partner wrote the card.

[00:22:19] Andrew: Uh, yeah. And I believe that’s the, that was the name of the package as well. So next time I will remember that.

[00:22:26] Emily: I remember Carlos. Yeah. Cool. Well, that’s fun. What’s new. I have a little, I have a little what’s new. What’s new is actually purchased this time.

[00:22:37] It’s not something that was sent to me. I’m going to open it, do it,

[00:22:43] Andrew: violent violence.

[00:22:46] Emily: I choose violence,

[00:22:50] Andrew: not even using like scissors, nothing you’re just tearing into the tape. Never said a chance.

[00:22:56] Emily: Wow. It can be a FedEx. So, you know, it was already a little, little damage right over the fence. No, it hasn’t been needed over the fence and wonder whatever happened to that FedEx guy who just Amazon game.

[00:23:16] I mean, I did it. I bought the stupidest thing I’ve ever bought in my adult life. I’m so proud of you. I bought the Lego fender guitar and kombu. I don’t know why I did this.

[00:23:37] That’s as a kid. Yeah. Even as a foot switch on the app to activate the free permit by Rato channels. That just, that just made that, made it. That’s a

[00:23:51] Andrew: great detail.

[00:23:55] Emily: Oh my God. That

[00:23:56] Andrew: essential part of the fender app. It

[00:23:59] Emily: is, it has a little, a little stand for the guitar. So I’m definitely going to build this.

[00:24:06] Obviously I’m thinking about doing a Facebook live with it, and I might invite my basis over to like drink mimosas and put this together at some point. Nice. Yeah. Cause they, they visit me. They’re like, Hey, I don’t know if you can get this, but I would put together a live like me too. We should do it together.

[00:24:32] Yeah. So it looks so silly is actually strings in a whammy bar. I bet it works. I

[00:24:46] Andrew: wonder if there’s like some sort of something in there that even just like a one button activation or something built in

[00:24:53] Emily: as you can build a guitar in red or black, but I’ve seen people build a combination of the tool. Yeah, it has 1074 pieces.

[00:25:05] Andrew: That’s a lot more pieces of next.

[00:25:09] Emily: Yes. So this is my what’s new

[00:25:12] Andrew: well, enjoy. That looks pretty rad. It

[00:25:14] Emily: does. Yes. This week’s episode of get offset is sponsored by the Caroline guitar company. They do not make Lego sets. They make pretty sick guitar FX, but don’t Hey, Andrew, what do you call an illegally parked frog.

[00:25:38] Andrew: About to be towed.

[00:25:50] Emily: knock,

[00:25:54] knock, knock. Who’s there. Candace.

[00:25:58] Andrew: I can’t answer that.

[00:26:02] Emily: Candace. Candace. Candace ad Spock at any worse. I’m

[00:26:13] sorry,

[00:26:15] Andrew: not what I was expecting. I was expecting middle school level.

[00:26:19] Emily: Well, I’ve been around my niece all week, so I had to learn some jokes so she could say, oh, and me, she doesn’t quite get them. She doesn’t quite get funds. Um, check them out at. Any guitar, retailer really care, like talk company I’m ready for that,

[00:26:43] Andrew: that, that joke was the verbal equivalent of having

[00:26:48] Emily: the Candice one.

[00:26:50] Yeah.

[00:26:51] Andrew: Immediate having to this conversation,

[00:26:55] Emily: I’m just like possess.

[00:27:00] That one, people like that one, my band, like that one, I told it to them like, wow, geez. Oh man. Yes, there a pedals often have Havocs, which is a somersault, has a habits switch that maximizes the rate and the depths, which is key to my.

[00:27:29] Andrew: Which in context with Candice sounds so much worse, but moving on.

[00:27:35] Emily: Sure. And you can be a supporter of the show. If you check us out at patrion.com/get offset, become one of our Patrion supporters for access to our discord server. So you can buy Andrew toys for his birthday.

[00:27:53] That’s all

[00:27:53] Andrew: next year.

[00:27:55] Emily: Yes, that’s true. Um, and uh, other things I care bear. No still, no.

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[00:28:32] Big deals. Um, so we hinted this earlier, but uh, this week I would Cincinnati and I got to go to my first favorite guitar shop in the world. Mike’s music. Mike’s music is located on short vine in Cory villain, Cincinnati. And that is not nice, not a good neighborhood, but. It is a great guitar shop and it has these really cool stained glass windows that are guitars.

[00:29:06] And it was always just a magical place to me. Um, and I always want to talk about it, man. It’s three stories of like vintage weirdness. That’s literally piled like as high as your head, like the amps in these rooms. I don’t know if he’s still watching the videos, but it’s like, It’s a lot. It’s a lot of stuff.

[00:29:27] It’s a lot to navigate

[00:29:29] Andrew: of potential sound. Yeah.

[00:29:32] Emily: It really is. And there’s like stuff that I’ve never seen anywhere else. And just like really bananas collection, everything from like true blue vintage Gibsons to like eighties Gibsons that were, you know, not exactly the heyday. Um, Amazing like custom shop fender, jazz masters too.

[00:29:53] Like I only did you see the video of that, that, that JAG, that Vinod shag I was playing? No, I think I did. Oh my gosh. I’m just like, sit there and play it for like two seconds. So I like pull my hand away. I’m like, this feels gross. And then I’m like, my fingers are like orange from all the dust. I’m like, Ooh, maybe

[00:30:17] Andrew: real quick before you play again,

[00:30:20] Emily: maybe.

[00:30:21] Uh, so yeah, that, that plays like I bought some guitars there. I bought my first, um, lap steel there. I bought my, my Gibson hummingbird there. So my favorite. Uh, favorite acoustic Tarbell time I bought there. Um, I met the donnas there. I met Ryan Adams there. Actually. I have a great picture of me and Ryan Adams there when I was like 14 and it makes me feel real weird real.

[00:30:44] We are now, but it’s right next to bell gardens, which is. Very famous club in Cincinnati. Um, so it was really cool to go. It’s always really cool to go back. I always make a point to go back. They have, they have some just incredibly cool and weird stuff. And I just, I think anyone who ever go Cincinnati needs to go to at least the original mix music on short buy-in.

[00:31:05] If not both locations, they have another location called the sound stage in Covington, which doesn’t have as much stuff, but it’s really still a cool, cool place. So. I love as local places. I always make a point to, um, when I’m traveling, I would just want to, I want to go to all the local local guitar shops.

[00:31:25] I mean, Seattle has some great local shops do, obviously

[00:31:31] Andrew: we absolutely

[00:31:32] Emily: do. Yeah. My favorites are like the ones that carry the weirdest stuff. Cause what, like. Mike’s has like, obviously the three, four, $5,000 guitars, but they got, they got some weird, like affordable, crazy bananas stuff there too. I remember

[00:31:57] Andrew: last time I was there, I only remember what guitar it was anymore, but it was a $7,000 guitar that was just like weird and funky, but the sound is just super inspiring.

[00:32:06] And I remember sitting there.

[00:32:08] Emily: Oh, you mean the likes Mike’s here. Mike’s in Seattle, like in my ex makes my music in Cincinnati. Yeah. It’s confusing. I agree. A lot of makes there’s at least three months.

[00:32:26] Meghan Meghan, Meghan X. Uh, yeah. So there’s some weird shops here too. Obviously there’s a mic and Mike’s here, which makes this conversation immensely confusing.

[00:32:39] Andrew: So microphones

[00:32:42] Emily: makes music, does music sells everything?

[00:32:48] Andrew: Maybe the Mike and Mike’s is like, it cancels itself out signaling that they don’t sell mix

[00:32:54] Emily: Mike and Mike’s been Nomics. Um, yeah. So then there’s Mike and Mike’s and Ballard and Fremont. And since, uh, Fremont and Seattle. Yes. Yeah. That’s what Andrew’s talking about. And they don’t just have like the expensive stuff either.

[00:33:11] Like Andrew saying they have sub thousand dollar guitars as well.

[00:33:18] I would like to hear more about,

[00:33:23] Andrew: I just, I remember going in, I think I was up on the second floor trying to think. I think it was an acoustic that I was playing that I was just like, whoa. Um, that was pretty cool, but I mean, I guess if I really want to go back to like, quote unquote hometown, I mean, hometown is. Hard just as a military brat, but the, one of the, one of my hometown’s his eye Lompoc, California, and I remember there is like on eighth street all the way down at the south end there, uh, right next to the coffee shop, there, there is a music shop and I don’t remember what it used to be called anymore.

[00:33:58] I just looked it up in the it’s changed names entirely. But remember back then, it was just like this. I remember thinking this is so cool. Cause it’s small town. Like that’s all we had. Um, but I remember stock was very limited and it’s hard as you’re never into. And there’s usually maybe one person working, but sometimes they’re also like in the coffee shop next door, and you had like ring a bell and they like walk through like the door that they share and be like, oh, what’s up.

[00:34:24] Sorry. I was just having my cappuccino. Um, yeah, but I think last time I was there, I remember like walking up and they turn an old drum set into like planter boxes out front. And I was like, come on. No, why

[00:34:41] Emily: it’s upcycling. It made me sad. Uh, you can’t like not everything can live forever, so then you turn it into something new.

[00:34:54] It’s like in New York city, they turn old subway cars into Marine habitats and in the, the Hudson bay. And actually it has really helped the Marine life there thrive. So yeah, why not turn it into like, Planter boxes.

[00:35:09] Andrew: It sounds like such a cop out. It’s like, what are we going to do with these little cards?

[00:35:12] I don’t know, toss it into the river.

[00:35:15] Emily: My sister-in-law had got a bunch of old tires that turned them into, um, um, raised garden beds. Fair, fair.

[00:35:26] Come on.

[00:35:30] Andrew: I think the one thing that that store was like, Really phenomenal for, for serving local community. It was the lessons that they hadn’t lessons or remember were super cheap. I never ended up taking any there, but every time I was there, there’s somebody up like in the balcony area there that was, uh, giving away.

[00:35:45] And invariably, like there would be Tom petty involved. Um, anytime I’d poke my head in, learn enough.

[00:35:52] Emily: Oh,

[00:35:52] Andrew: okay. All right. See you and no, I mean, I think it was really good. Some, some of my friends that played, uh, in high school all learned from the couple of guys that gave lessons there. And I think that was just a really neat small town community type of a shop.

[00:36:08] And. So that was, that was a good introduction for me before I moved out of that town to, to kind of what a music shop was like in some of my earliest music shop memories.

[00:36:18] Emily: Yeah. I love that kind of thing. And Nashville. Um, my, my most local shop was, um, 12 south music, which I don’t think is no corner music, corny music, which was located in 12 south, which I think is mood.

[00:36:33] Sadly, I didn’t get to go. When I was back there. Um, well man, I, I always like to go into that place. I always had a pretty good, pretty good selection. Um, I got a Jasmine that was where I got my first Jazzmaster. I remember rec um, I really wanted that guitar. He, he went to see what else that he had that could maybe go toward, go towards some trade value to help me get good.

[00:37:01] So that really meant a lot to me. It made, it made a lot harder to trade that guitar. And when I went and traded it for the auto too, but he supported that too. Cause he’s a good guy. Um, there is another shop it’s in say called molar music though. That was a lot closer to me is where I went. Um, when I lived in sunset, like, um, north of Cincinnati, uh, near Kings island, for those who know.

[00:37:28] And that’s where I went to get more work done on guitars, where I went to guitar strings. I did buy a guitar there. It’s where I bought my , um, 35 or 1 37, um, and 1 35 or 1 37. So one that had the balsa wood block, not the mahogany. I forget the numbers. They don’t make them anymore. Um, Yeah, I’d have to look it up.

[00:37:56] Uh, I don’t have it anymore. And, um, yeah, I always really liked how the guys there treated me. They always treat me with a lot more respect than like when I would go to Sam Ash or the guitar center that was also kind of like equal distance. Um, they were always there. Yeah, they were always really great sweet guys.

[00:38:14] Um, they did music lessons there as well though. I didn’t take them there. There were places closer to me that that gave lessons. Um, It’s just like the vibe, like that’s, that’s kind of what I shop for in local guitar stores and, you know, good vibes only. Yeah. W E. S in rural Ohio from rural Ohio, at least, you know, he, a little bit of a rarity at that point, um, going in and looking at electric guitar stuff.

[00:38:45] So it was really about like, who’s not going to be a shithead to you, right. Who’s going to treat you with respect and these guys. They always treated me. Like I was fucking awesome. Like not, not like getting into my head too much, but they just treat me like one of the dudes and I always appreciated that.

[00:39:03] And, um, and they were, they didn’t talk down to me, but they talked level-headed to me and they talked to me like anybody else. And, um, that, that mattered to me more than anything. And, um, it really set a baseline of the kind of respect that I could and should give. And, uh, it was pretty, uh, essential form for me.

[00:39:22] And I think that if I hadn’t gotten that there, I wouldn’t have thought that I could have gotten it anywhere. So shout out to molar music. I hope this still exists. I hope the guys who worked there are doing good hope. You’re doing all right, guys.

[00:39:37] Andrew: Very cool. Very cool. Yeah.

[00:39:39] Emily: Especially the guy with the red hair.

[00:39:41] I call your name. He was the best. How dare you? I don’t know. It’s been, uh, how old am I? It’s been 15 years. It’s been at least 14. It’s been at least 14 years since I’ve been there. Like, come on, man.

[00:39:56] Andrew: So, well, anyways, I mean, with that said I shoot go support your local music shops. It’s that time of the year.

[00:40:04] Yeah. It’s the time of the year to peak shopping for friends and family. And if you’re looking at a shop friends and family, and you’ve got like, think about this now, not November, we’re like, oh, well I really don’t have the time. Somebody just ordered from an online retailer. Like if you think of it now and have the time to go in and get ahead of the holiday rush to get those presents for your, for your loved ones, go do that.

[00:40:26] Now. Make sure you’re supporting. And you

[00:40:28] Emily: can order through those local shops as well. It’s the same price it’s like going through other retailers. You can see if they’ll do price matching or whatever, but like support the local shops because, uh, like you can’t try stuff out really from, from other places very easily online retailers, like just, just do it, go to the trading musician and see what they have.

[00:40:53] Like places like the trainee musician in Seattle, old time music in Portland. Go to go to Mike’s music and Cincinnati. Uh, she go to Mala music. If I gotta look to see if Molly music exists

[00:41:19] well, Willis music still exists and Cincinnati.

[00:41:29] Andrew: Another great mention would be, uh, I think

[00:41:31] Emily: it’s called Willis music now. I think it’s called Willis music. Now

[00:41:37] Andrew: is James still selling stuff to the guitar store brand or is it under Kemper percent now?

[00:41:41] Emily: What is it under? What

[00:41:42] Andrew: whimper sound or am I

[00:41:43] Emily: think of something else? The record store. Okay. There we go.

[00:41:47] It’s still the guitar store.

[00:41:52] I don’t know where they ship out of, but yeah, the guitar sort of still exists. It’s all nine. Well, this music is now what Mueller music was listen to the same place. I loved it there, but now it’s

[00:42:11] in Westchester, Ohio, so sad.

[00:42:17] Andrew: So yeah. I think it’s a,

[00:42:24] what I think it’s time to go do some shopping,

[00:42:27] Emily: go to corner music in Nashville.

[00:42:33] Pull the address is on the Gerson pipe.

[00:42:41] Oh, they look like they have a hell of a selection too. There’s so many good guitar stores and Nash. There really are. And when you, when I’m traveling, I love going to a ton of guitar stores. So if you, if you, if you sign up on Patrion and I’m traveling, I’m going to ask you for guitar store recommendation advice.

[00:43:07] When, when traveling is a thing I do again. Yup.

[00:43:11] Andrew: Yeah.

[00:43:12] Emily: Oh man. I remember when, when Nick and I took that vacation to Austin and we went to a. What was that? The people who made those custom asks guitars, I don’t want to say Mohawk. They had the branding with the bird

[00:43:33] I’m blanking Austin guitar manufacturer. It was not, um, callings. It was the one that doesn’t exist anymore. Oh, it wasn’t mythic. Wasn’t Earl wine. It’s there with an M

[00:43:56] Andrew: we solve for

[00:43:56] Emily: another day. Uh, tell me, just tell me in the comments who I forgot about. They were so nice to me. Well, I, I forget, oh, another what’s new is, uh, last, I guess the other week, my speed Tremper demo of the M made it by audio speed for demo did really well. So thanks to everybody who watched that.

[00:44:20] That was really cool to see that one take off and unexpected. Very unexpected. Very

[00:44:27] Andrew: cool. Very cool.

[00:44:27] Emily: Very cool. That one was on music radar.

[00:44:31] Andrew: Oh, that’s right. Yeah.

[00:44:32] Emily: I just put the. Th th how bye. Okay. Cool. Thanks.

[00:44:39] Andrew: Well

[00:44:39] Emily: deserved. Sure.

[00:44:44] That was the, well, everybody out there. I think Andrew wants to go. Um, so thanks for watching. I gotta go refill my coffee. He needs to fix his coffee mistake. Yep. All right. Well, thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Thanks for understanding until next time. My name is Emily and my name is Andrew.

[00:45:02] Andrew: Goodbye.

[00:45:03] Emily: Bye.