Getcha Some Productions Podcast Episode 22
https://reverb.grsm.io/GetchaSome
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:
This is episode 22. The double deuce. We’re rolling on 22s yo! Yo MTV Raps.
Dan is bringing the heat! Dan is bringing fire! Dan is coming in hot!
Dan is having a spicy hot love affair with his Fender professional jazz bass. He leaves it on the bed and he takes pictures of it and posts them on social media and people love it.
Dan decided that if his bass was a human she would be the redheaded girl from that 70s show (Donna Pinciotti played by Laura Helene Prepon). Because she’s not the easiest to get along with but totally worth it.
I talk a bit about how I learned a solo arrangement of a Christmas song (you can see were a bit behind on a podcast because I’m still talking about Christmas and it’s long gone). I also talk about about my old friend Jack Reilly (https://www.jackreillyjazz.com) who unfortunately has passed but I recount the musical moments of him coming over the house and playing tunes on the piano in particular playing Christmas tunes around Christmas time and the family sing-along but it was a pleasure having a very Skilled and knowledgeable musician in the house so it was not your average sing-along. Jack as an aside also happen to be a great scholar of Bill Evans who is one of my favorite musicians of all time and I happen to be re-reading a book right now that Jack wrote about Bill and it’s very interesting and inspiring if not intimidating.
Link to arrangement of Christmas Tune: https://barrygreenevideolessons.vhx.tv/videos/the-christmas-song
In 12 years I’ll probably have a whole set of Christmas music if I’m not dead.
I’ve listened back to all of our old podcasts. I’ve listen to all the promises we’ve made and broken.
We discussed the fact that, since we are such a young company, we need to do a “mission gut-check” pretty frequently. Maybe even as frequently as every 10 episodes. That way, we can always be revisiting and staying on target with what we’re trying to accomplish in this business.
We spend a a few minutes remembering our old project Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (https://www.thewhizbang.org/about.html) and how that was a long running and relatively successful project. It was a band. A real band. We were in a band. We went on tour a few times. Recorded a bunch of albums. Now, the project is over and we do have some recordings to remember it but we don’t really have a lot of good video content or blog/documentary content for posterity and archival purposes. It’s like, with the exception of the albums, it just disappeared into the ether to be forgotten in the river of sweeping and discarding nature of time. The inexorable march forward. And we even did an “off off” Broadway play at a nice theater and we don’t have any video of that. That was a very elaborate in-depth production of our play and music and it’s a little bit insane that we don’t have a good catalog of this stuff.
The idea behind this podcast is that, 10 years from now, when this is the biggest production company on the planet and people are offering us $100 million for our catalog, we will have the records of the process in the form of this podcast. This podcast is the catalog. This podcast is our posterity. This podcast is our archive of how this Project came to life.
So, the idea is that we’re doing this podcast with the intention that we are going to have everything we’re gonna want to see and hear 10 years from now.
Authenticity and consistency are the parents of quality. They are the parents of influencer success. They are the two main ingredients for media success nowadays.
Dan of course has to chime in with his typical role as the voice of reason and he makes some good points. He says that the direction that I am taking the Oliver’s Musical Genius YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6iRajenI2SUKsiRtxMzlHQ) channel was not exactly what he had in mind. I’m taking it in the direction of dissecting all of our songs into their element parts and creating extended videos and exercises out of those. Dan had a different idea. Dan says that we already did the work in creating a finished product with the Handshake self-titled album links below.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5n4xoKs6aAuBifgXaFzCscMvO72GvAZA
Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4SJ8fGm8x5ajeYxwwPDLwG?si=-pe2PSpiTuyo-cf4YK_a_A
Apple Music
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-handshake/552979025
We should have videos and podcasts where we just talk about the process of recording and arranging those songs. We should just recount what happened. He says that we’ve already dug up the gold we just have to process it into a new kind of finished product. I think this is a really good idea.
Then I bring up the Gary Vaynerchuck idea that as the CEO of this business I work for Dan. Dan doesn’t work for me. So I need Dan to think about what exactly he wants to get out of this business. What does he want to get out of this project?
Music is not been nice to have, it is a need to have for Human.
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