Speaker 1: Hello, this is Christian Bush and welcome to episode two
Speaker 1: of Geeking Out, my new podcast. Every episode is a
Speaker 1: new person talking about what they're obsessed with that has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with their job. The only requirement is
Speaker 1: that they're totally geeking out on it and they want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. From bee keeping the craft beer
Speaker 1: from eighties TV shows to custom printed tennis shoes, from
Speaker 1: remodeling airstream trailers to collecting Game of Thrones bobbleheads. Tell
Speaker 1: me what you love, why you love it, how you
Speaker 1: got into it, and what makes it awesome. Every episode
Speaker 1: is presented in three chapters. Chapter one, my guest and
Speaker 1: I talk about what they're obsessed with. Chapter two is
Speaker 1: a game I call trade jo, where my guest and
Speaker 1: I turn each other on to one thing that we've discovered.
Speaker 1: And Chapter three closes the show with me talking about
Speaker 1: music that I'm currently geeking out on and why I
Speaker 1: believe that curiosity is can tageous and the life is
Speaker 1: better with a soundtrack. So let's go chapter one. Today,
Speaker 1: I visit with Mr Brian Fraser. Brian spent most of
Speaker 1: his life in the music business, first as a musician,
Speaker 1: then as a powerful record company executive and now as
Speaker 1: an artist manager. I recently worked with him when I
Speaker 1: produced one of his artists, Lindsea Yell, who you just heard.
Speaker 1: In working with Brian, I was taken by his personality,
Speaker 1: his knowledge, and his excitement about the entire world around him. Also,
Speaker 1: it should be said that Brian is very tall. He's fit,
Speaker 1: with a full head of blonde hair, and has likely
Speaker 1: had to bend down to hug everyone in his life,
Speaker 1: So I mean with Brian Fraser. Hey, hey, welcome to
Speaker 1: the podcast. So I have to be here. Podcast is
Speaker 1: currently happening in my home in Nashville, which is awesome,
Speaker 1: by the way, would you like to describe it for podcasters.
Speaker 1: I'm on the second floor, right near where the stairs
Speaker 1: come up from the entryway, and I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: wall of vinyl records and I don't think there's one
Speaker 1: up there that came out before h S admin and
Speaker 1: it's probably eight thrillers. What he was explaining to me
Speaker 1: how whoever comes in can rotate out whatever records they
Speaker 1: want to play. They just put new ones up every time.
Speaker 1: I think it's just such a great fun concept and
Speaker 1: just awesome. Thank you. It was a way for me
Speaker 1: to avoid decorating my place. So you you've heard the
Speaker 1: rules of the podcast. You I was briefed on the
Speaker 1: rules by Whitney. Okay, good, Whitney's here actually in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: we love having Whitney around. Um, we want to talk
Speaker 1: about what you are totally geeking out on right now.
Speaker 1: That is not your job. So first of all, you
Speaker 1: might want to just say what your job is so
Speaker 1: people can understand the distance and well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean currently in my third career. My first career was
Speaker 1: as a musician. My second one was as a record
Speaker 1: label guy. I was the vice president promotion of B
Speaker 1: and A Records, which was has since become Columbia Records
Speaker 1: Nashville under Sony Music. And I now am at Red
Speaker 1: Light Management and I managed Lindsay l and I co
Speaker 1: managed Craig Morgan. And I do radio promotion and marketing
Speaker 1: for whoever else on the Red Light roster might need
Speaker 1: it in terms of country radio. What are you geeking
Speaker 1: out on right now? Well, I'm geeking out on jiu
Speaker 1: jitsu martial arts in general, Brazilian jiu jitsu currently. Uh.
Speaker 1: But I have studied martial arts since I was twelve
Speaker 1: years old and I'm fifty two. Uh and uh it's
Speaker 1: something my brother and I started when we were kids.
Speaker 1: My father got us into it. I found out later
Speaker 1: his logic, which was incredibly sound for about as much
Speaker 1: of a redneck as you can get in West Virginia. Uh.
Speaker 1: He he told me when we were older, he said,
Speaker 1: I knew if I could get you boys into the
Speaker 1: martial arts, that you would always take care of your
Speaker 1: body and you always maintain a healthy lifestyle. Uh. If
Speaker 1: I could get you into this and you would fall
Speaker 1: in love with it, which both my brother and I
Speaker 1: did fall in love with. My brother actually has a
Speaker 1: school in Columbus, Ohio, and he's a very high ranking
Speaker 1: black belt in the Chuck Norris system, and like literally
Speaker 1: goes to Chuck's ranch and he's hold on the Chuck
Speaker 1: north system. Yeah, it's you found Unifighting Arts Federation of America,
Speaker 1: United Fighting Arts Federation. Chuck Norris's UH system is called
Speaker 1: Chun Cook Dough and it is based on tang Pudo,
Speaker 1: which was a Korean martial art, and it's a it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a taekwondo. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: high kicking, a lot of you know, punching, kicking, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and it's uh. There originally was a
Speaker 1: big point karate circuit that both my brother and I did. Uh.
Speaker 1: When we were younger, I fought in tournaments all rather
Speaker 1: than to my mid thirties, I was always training for
Speaker 1: or fighting in some kind of tournament of some sort.
Speaker 1: Norris system coming before the movies or did the movie. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the thing a lot of people don't understand about
Speaker 1: Chuck Norrith. Chuck Norris is the real deal man, I
Speaker 1: mean he is. He he was doing that and then
Speaker 1: got put into the movies because that's what he was.
Speaker 1: A world champion competitive karate uh fighter and and a
Speaker 1: kickboxer and he was for real all the way around.
Speaker 1: And he Bruce Lee picked him to be in the movie.
Speaker 1: I think it's Return of the Dragon that he's in
Speaker 1: and they have this fight in the Colosseum, and Bruce
Speaker 1: Lee had he had written the movie. Uh, and Bruce
Speaker 1: actually hand picked Chuck to play the guy the his
Speaker 1: his opponent. His Chuck is a bad guy in the movie. Huh. Right,
Speaker 1: So so there there's an incredible scene and as a musician,
Speaker 1: you will love it that this is the thing about
Speaker 1: martial arts for me is especially with jiu jitsu, it's
Speaker 1: so so many of the principles applied directly to music
Speaker 1: and your everyday life. And it's the principles and the
Speaker 1: concepts behind the techniques that work that make them work.
Speaker 1: And if you understand the principles of why something works,
Speaker 1: you can apply all across all areas of your life.
Speaker 1: You can apply it in music if you understand why,
Speaker 1: you know, this certain chord works over this harmonic structure
Speaker 1: or vice versa, then you can apply that in any key. Right,
Speaker 1: What's the same thing with a with a martial arts technique,
Speaker 1: if you understand it, you understand the principle of why
Speaker 1: it works, and your practice to a level that you
Speaker 1: can execute it, then you can you just create on
Speaker 1: the spot. It's a whole world of creation and immediacy
Speaker 1: that happens when you're when you're when you're actually doing it,
Speaker 1: you know. So. Uh. But anyway, so back to the
Speaker 1: musician part with Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee. They had
Speaker 1: at the end of returning to the Dragon, there's this this,
Speaker 1: and I believe it's returning to the Dragon. There's uh,
Speaker 1: there's the fight scene, the final climactic fight scene between
Speaker 1: Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris, the characters, and they're in
Speaker 1: the Roman Coliscene during the coliseum room, and you see,
Speaker 1: you can you can see this developed. At first, Bruce
Speaker 1: is his character is trying to fight the Chuck North
Speaker 1: style fight, and the music sounds a certain way. It's
Speaker 1: very stiff. It's very staunch, you know, it's it's very
Speaker 1: very um um. It's predictable. The music is predictable, right,
Speaker 1: and then so Bruce takes a couple of shots and
Speaker 1: then he realizes, I've got to fight my own way.
Speaker 1: You can, if you know the concepts behind it, you
Speaker 1: can see the wheels turning in the movie. Because Bruce
Speaker 1: Lee directed this, he shot the whole thing. And when
Speaker 1: he starts realizing that he needs to fight his way,
Speaker 1: his own and and express himself his own way, the
Speaker 1: music changes to it, and then it's a real improvisational
Speaker 1: kind of like funky jazz, like that early seventies progressive
Speaker 1: jazz kind of sound. It goes the music changes to that,
Speaker 1: and Bruce just starts he's stopping every punch he's hitting it.
Speaker 1: And then you see him defeat Chuck and he's upset
Speaker 1: that he has to kill him in the end because
Speaker 1: this was such a worthy opponent. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, if you understand the philosophy behind this, it
Speaker 1: is incredible to understand how that that. You you need
Speaker 1: to watch that movie and even if you fast forward
Speaker 1: to the last like ten fifteen minutes to the Colosseum
Speaker 1: stuff and watched that scene understanding the concepts of how
Speaker 1: it was why all I mean the and now that
Speaker 1: was at the time period in Bruce Lee's life when
Speaker 1: he was he had he had just written the kind
Speaker 1: of the philosophy, the Tao of jeep Kundo and jee
Speaker 1: Kundo was his style of martial arts that he developed.
Speaker 1: It's called it's a way of the intercepting fist and
Speaker 1: based on based on oh dude, everything, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: been movies made so but it's uh. It's The beautiful
Speaker 1: thing about uh Bruce's art je condo was that he
Speaker 1: he took all of the things that he found practical
Speaker 1: and worked from all the different fighting systems. He took
Speaker 1: a boxing stance before you put your hands in boxing stand.
Speaker 1: He took that from boxing. He took Filipino collie, which
Speaker 1: is a scream a stick fighting and knifefighting, and he
Speaker 1: applied that to empty hands so that you had trapping
Speaker 1: and a lot joint locks that he brought from jiu jitsu,
Speaker 1: and he studied with all the masters of these different
Speaker 1: things that he studied with Wally j who was when
Speaker 1: I first started taking jiu jitsu. Uh it was small
Speaker 1: circle jiu jitsu, which is what Wally j Is was
Speaker 1: famous for. And that small circle means up um using
Speaker 1: the smaller joint locks like finger joint locks, um um,
Speaker 1: you know, wrist locks being able to if you can,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna lock out a finger, then I would.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to describe it so people can understand what
Speaker 1: the podcast. But if I haven't in your hand, if
Speaker 1: in my hand and I push, I push on the
Speaker 1: top and I pull under the bottom, and I create
Speaker 1: a small circle here, then I get right into the
Speaker 1: joint of it, and it causes pain, causes extreme pain,
Speaker 1: but it didn't break it. It doesn't hurt me. It
Speaker 1: just hurts me for a while. So I can control
Speaker 1: the person. Right, So me have your hand just so,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna take two figures right, so you just
Speaker 1: you can feel it, so you can feel. It just
Speaker 1: filled out my interest today. Okay, you see you feel that.
Speaker 1: You see the push and here's the pool. So I'm
Speaker 1: here and I yeah, I'll do what you can feel.
Speaker 1: You feel the pain, but now you're fine, You're okay,
Speaker 1: not hurting, but you could move my body around. I
Speaker 1: can make you do what I want you to do.
Speaker 1: How many people that you work with on a day
Speaker 1: to day basis even have any idea that this is
Speaker 1: what you do? None? Really, I don't really, I have
Speaker 1: never talked about it. This is the first time I've
Speaker 1: ever talked about it in any kind of form bigger
Speaker 1: than one or two people before we we we sat
Speaker 1: down today. I did the least amount of research I
Speaker 1: could because I wanted you to teach me as well
Speaker 1: you should that's the way, Well, it's it's. It's because
Speaker 1: I want to be just like my listeners, which are
Speaker 1: you know, turned me onto it. And the first thing
Speaker 1: I did is I and the only thing I did
Speaker 1: was pull it up on Wikipedia and jiu jitsu, my
Speaker 1: saying yeah, there's there's it's and it seems like that's
Speaker 1: a it's a family tree. Yes, the branches come off
Speaker 1: and the leaves come off, the branches. That's right. So
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu is originally about combat against someone who is
Speaker 1: in armor and may or may not have a weapon
Speaker 1: and the person who is performing jiu jitsu does not.
Speaker 1: You know, it's close hand combat for people who are armored, yes,
Speaker 1: from someone who is not. Yeah, basically, yeah, that's that
Speaker 1: is correct. It's uh true combat jujitsu. Now, my first
Speaker 1: black belt in jujicsu is in combat jujitsu. I'm a
Speaker 1: fourth degree black belt in combat jujitsu. I'm a fourth
Speaker 1: degree black belt and issuary karate, and I'm currently a
Speaker 1: purple belt in Brazilian jujitsu. Combat jujitsu is really is
Speaker 1: kind of a Japanese style jiujitsu, and it was based
Speaker 1: off of actually goes all the way to India. There
Speaker 1: are wrestling styles in India to thousand years ago that
Speaker 1: migrated into China and then migrated down into Japan, and
Speaker 1: the samurais developed jiu jitsu as you would know it
Speaker 1: as you read about it. They developed it because of
Speaker 1: the armor. So if you are striking somebody and you're
Speaker 1: hitting armor, you're hitting a face mask, You're gonna hurt
Speaker 1: yourself too. You can't strike against this armor. But The
Speaker 1: things that you can control are the joint the joints
Speaker 1: of the risk, the joints of the elbow, shoulder, the knees,
Speaker 1: the ankles, the hips. There's all kinds of different where
Speaker 1: the body is flexible. Um so if somebody has on
Speaker 1: a suit of armor and they're wielding a sword or
Speaker 1: a bow and arrow or whatever, they still have to
Speaker 1: have the mechanics to bend their arms and swing them
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So the joints are free. So
Speaker 1: that's why they developed the system of joint manipulation. Two.
Speaker 1: That's that's when I say lock, I mean I'm locking
Speaker 1: your wrist out in a certain way that it causes
Speaker 1: you pain. And it it either it over extends the
Speaker 1: tendons or it's the card elage of stuff separates it
Speaker 1: in the joint. It terms that your elbow or your
Speaker 1: wrist away that it's not supposed to go and it
Speaker 1: causes the pain. Now you can break that if you
Speaker 1: move very fast. I can decide I want to go
Speaker 1: really fast, hit that really quick and break it, pop
Speaker 1: it because of the force, the momentum and the angles
Speaker 1: on the wrist. Or I can choose to hold that
Speaker 1: right at that point where it hurts really really bad,
Speaker 1: and you will stop do them. You know, I can
Speaker 1: kind of control what you do. I love this because
Speaker 1: you're one of the kindest men I know. And I
Speaker 1: just had no idea I had that. So what did
Speaker 1: it feel like to grow up knowing how to fight
Speaker 1: and really never having you have you had to fight
Speaker 1: outside the Oh yeah, outside? Yeah, I mean it never
Speaker 1: was competition. I mean, here's the thing, man, after fighting
Speaker 1: so many tournaments in my early thirties and stuff, when
Speaker 1: I was competing against trained people, and then you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, little altercations and ship that happens when
Speaker 1: you're you know, in your mid twenties and you're drunk
Speaker 1: in a bar and somebody doesn't something ugly to a
Speaker 1: friend of yours. Um. Those After you've done a few
Speaker 1: of those, you realize that you're you just feel like, man,
Speaker 1: you just feel like a freaking panther walking among gazelles.
Speaker 1: You're just allowing it to happen, just let it, just
Speaker 1: letting that behavior cool man. So But but but what
Speaker 1: it does, and it is it makes me I don't
Speaker 1: get freaked out and I don't help. It's helped me
Speaker 1: in business so much because I can stay calm. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't. It doesn't I don't get too worked up
Speaker 1: over anything, you know, in in pressure situations, because you're
Speaker 1: always in pressure situation issues. Um, and it's beautiful in
Speaker 1: and when you're training, Like if I'm stressed about something
Speaker 1: and I go to work out and I'm rolling with
Speaker 1: a guy that is probably gonna put me to sleep,
Speaker 1: or is like, really, you know, these guys are so
Speaker 1: much better than me these days, and they're young, they're
Speaker 1: twenty years younger. And if I'm not focused on what's
Speaker 1: happening in the moment, then I don't. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: nothing's gonna last very long, and they're gonna kill me, right,
Speaker 1: So I have to. I have to pay attention. Or
Speaker 1: what it does is it forces me to let go
Speaker 1: of everything else has bothered me. So I spend an
Speaker 1: hour hour and a half training hard, working on technique,
Speaker 1: sparring and in. The beautiful thing about Brazilian jiu jitsu.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that it makes you so effective
Speaker 1: is that you can train at almost full speed all
Speaker 1: the time and not get hurt because it's wrestling, it's
Speaker 1: it's grappling, it's your your your your body positioning, You're
Speaker 1: you're trying to work three and four moves ahead to
Speaker 1: get this guy to give you something you know you
Speaker 1: want three or four music. It's like chess, and it's
Speaker 1: like it's like human chess, you know. So it's so
Speaker 1: intellectual and it's so physical at the same time. I've
Speaker 1: never found anything that is it's equal in terms of
Speaker 1: being intellectual and physical at the same time with such intensity.
Speaker 1: So when you're done and you're just wasted and you're
Speaker 1: just you're sitting there and your ass feels about like
Speaker 1: thirty pounds that che bubble gum and you're just sitting
Speaker 1: there and you're like, oh my god, uh and you're
Speaker 1: kind of shaking because you've worked so hard. You're just
Speaker 1: completely relaxed. And I just I really believe that people need.
Speaker 1: They need things that are hard in their life. There
Speaker 1: need things that don't that they have to struggle to
Speaker 1: achieve in order to really to really know what that
Speaker 1: is and what how it can relate to other parts.
Speaker 1: It will make them better in every part of their life.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, you know, I've been struggling to learn
Speaker 1: Brazilian jiu jitsu on top of I mean I've studied
Speaker 1: marshal arts for years, but Brazilian jiu jitsu is a
Speaker 1: freaking mystery to me still. It's just baffling to me.
Speaker 1: And I've been doing it now for eight almost nine years,
Speaker 1: and and at this age, you know, and and it's
Speaker 1: one of those things that my body has to learn
Speaker 1: it I had. My sensitivity has to be developed to
Speaker 1: feel this move here and to think three moves ahead,
Speaker 1: and to to be able to do that, and it
Speaker 1: that requires time on the mat, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: if I don't get the time on the mat, then
Speaker 1: I fall back and I have to start over it
Speaker 1: kind of have to rebuild again. But it's it's that
Speaker 1: struggle of learning it that is so fulfilling because then
Speaker 1: when you start you start seeing results. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: you know I did that, Because in especially in Brazilian jujitsu,
Speaker 1: it either works or it doesn't, and nobody gives you anything.
Speaker 1: You are either respected on the map because you work
Speaker 1: hard and you try hard. You don't need to win,
Speaker 1: but you need to work hard and you need to
Speaker 1: try hard. And if you um, if you are are
Speaker 1: putting in the time and you're working hard, everybody there
Speaker 1: will support you. And the have your back at every
Speaker 1: turn no matter what, because they know you're trying. You know,
Speaker 1: if you don't try, you don't stick around them. It's
Speaker 1: a really pure, true thing that you cannot um can't
Speaker 1: argue your way. You can't argue your way. You can't
Speaker 1: say I would have done this or I would have
Speaker 1: done that. It's all bullshit and everybody knows it too.
Speaker 1: It's either you either can do it or you can't.
Speaker 1: And if you can't do it, then you need to
Speaker 1: be working towards the ability to do it the right
Speaker 1: way or to to find the truth in what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And I think that that has so much to do
Speaker 1: with life that that's what I love about. It's just
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to have. I mean, there's still a
Speaker 1: few things in this world that we can count on
Speaker 1: that are absolutely true, Like I know, black and white truth.
Speaker 1: When that stuff works, and when it does Chapter two.
Speaker 1: In every episode of Geeking Out, I see if I
Speaker 1: can trade one thing I've discovered with one thing that
Speaker 1: my guest has discovered, a friendly exchange. I call it
Speaker 1: trade you. I'm gonna trade you one thing that I've discovered.
Speaker 1: It just so happens. I discovered it this past week. Um,
Speaker 1: I came across pillows that are cold. Oh yeah, day
Speaker 1: pillows have you I have been dreaming. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, dude. I for like three years ago I
Speaker 1: went to a showcase during CRS that big machine put
Speaker 1: on and the parting gift was this giant stakehold like
Speaker 1: pillow but memory phone, but it's cold on one side pillow.
Speaker 1: To this day, I thought, my wife, that's my pillow.
Speaker 1: I've got something for you. They have. The technology has
Speaker 1: gone one step further. So it's no longer the the
Speaker 1: gel pillow or the stay phoned the NASA pillow. It's
Speaker 1: now here's this one here, I'm trady picture of it.
Speaker 1: It's called a hydrolux air and it is a straight
Speaker 1: up feather pillow, right, and it stays hold And I
Speaker 1: don't know how it does it, but it has to
Speaker 1: do with pressure, right. It really works like you put
Speaker 1: your head on it, and I do you have to
Speaker 1: do anything to prep it first? Nothing? Just to fill up? No,
Speaker 1: I'm like in my mind, you you know, like remember
Speaker 1: how we used to have to put the rice things
Speaker 1: in the microwaves or maybe the cold packs when you
Speaker 1: hurt yourself while you're jiu jitsuing? Right? Is that? Because
Speaker 1: it's a verb and um, you would crack it and
Speaker 1: put it on your shoulder. This stuff you literally lay
Speaker 1: on it and it gets cold. It is so important
Speaker 1: to me now that I'm thinking of replacing more than
Speaker 1: just one. You let us send me a link to
Speaker 1: that so I can I can get one. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Hydro lux air is what it is. The one I tried.
Speaker 1: This sounds silly, there's no such thing. Well it makes
Speaker 1: I don't know. Do you ever spend any time on Pinterest?
Speaker 1: You know what? Um? I when Pinterest first started, I tried,
Speaker 1: and I do. I love it. I swear to god,
Speaker 1: I love Pinterest. There's so much cool guy stuff on there.
Speaker 1: There's like rate motorcycles and just and I will go
Speaker 1: down the rabbit hole if I'm really just kind of
Speaker 1: want to veg out and I just want to kind
Speaker 1: of just I just want to kind of do dumb stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, what are your searches? Like? I mean, I
Speaker 1: would tell you what, but here's the thing. It's weird
Speaker 1: because it's an intuitive website and and I know Pinterest
Speaker 1: is a thing that people know about it. I don't
Speaker 1: know but for me, I've only in the last month
Speaker 1: or two become just enamored with it. But it's a
Speaker 1: you it after you've searched so many different things, it
Speaker 1: picks stuff for you and it just feeds you the
Speaker 1: things that you it thinks that you will like, and
Speaker 1: and it's usually so right. It is so right with me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and I'm looking at it and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, if somebody saw my pinter stage, what
Speaker 1: kind of person would they think I am? Because there's
Speaker 1: just all kinds. There's like survival gear on there, there's
Speaker 1: jeep stuff, there's motorcycles or tattoos. That's the one thing
Speaker 1: I do because I've started working on this tattoo I've
Speaker 1: got going on here this sleeve. I have three lions
Speaker 1: on my arm and it's uh, my myself, my wife
Speaker 1: and my son, and it's just about the connection between
Speaker 1: three of us. And then there it's the religious thing
Speaker 1: with the trinity. And it just come from pintris No.
Speaker 1: But I got the idea of putting the red overlay
Speaker 1: on the black from Pinchers. I found it. It's called
Speaker 1: it's called trash. Polka art style was started in Germany
Speaker 1: and if you look that up on Pinters. There are
Speaker 1: the coolest tattoos. Trash trash polka, t R A s H.
Speaker 1: I love the O l K A trash polka and
Speaker 1: you look that up on Pinter's and there's just the
Speaker 1: coolest stuff. I accept your trade because I'm That's what
Speaker 1: I use Pinterest for us to look for tattoos. We'll
Speaker 1: look up trash polka and you will see some of
Speaker 1: the coolest freaking tattoos you've ever seen in your life. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for being here, man. I think I love
Speaker 1: hearing about your life and I now know a lot
Speaker 1: more about jiu jitsu, and I will keep you near
Speaker 1: me in a bar. YEA sounds good. Chapter three The Clavinet.
Speaker 1: Because Brian Fraser was our guest today, I thought it
Speaker 1: would be appropriate to talk about a track from his artist,
Speaker 1: Lindsay L's album that I Love. I produced Lindsay's album
Speaker 1: The Project, and I actually have the individual tracks here
Speaker 1: to her song Mint, and I'd like to use them
Speaker 1: to tell you about one of my favorite instruments, the clabnet.
Speaker 1: What is it, Well, it's a keyboard. It's a vintage
Speaker 1: keyboard that makes a unique sound. You probably know what
Speaker 1: it is because you've heard it play in your whole life.
Speaker 1: At the beginning of Stevie Wonders superstition, the clavinet or clave.
Speaker 1: While it looks and plays like a keyboard with white
Speaker 1: and black keys, the sound that comes from it is
Speaker 1: actually exactly like an electric guitar. That's because it actually
Speaker 1: has guitar strings in it, and it gets plucked, and
Speaker 1: every time the keystroke comes down, there's a pick up there,
Speaker 1: just like an electric guitar, so it can distort and
Speaker 1: feedback and do all the amazing tricks that a guitar
Speaker 1: player does. Why you ask, would you put a clavinet
Speaker 1: or in this case many clavinet's on a song where
Speaker 1: the artist is such an amazing guitar player. Well, the
Speaker 1: answer is because it sounds so cool, also because it
Speaker 1: might make you dance. Here, let me pull up the tracks,
Speaker 1: let's listen. The idea was it was so groovy that
Speaker 1: we just had to have brand and play clavinet kind
Speaker 1: of in the Stevie Wonders style. There it is and
Speaker 1: your left ear, and then that's a guitar, and you're
Speaker 1: right here, and there's Lindsay in the middle playing lead.
Speaker 1: And then the whole band comes in. See how they
Speaker 1: all bounce off each other and make you kind of dance. There,
Speaker 1: you see why we use a clavinet. Go out and
Speaker 1: pick up Lindsay L's album The Project downloaded, stream it,
Speaker 1: buy it, give it to your friends. It makes great gifts.
Speaker 1: Also thank me later because this lady is incredible. Black
Speaker 1: Crisman Man Fresh Up Baby with All Black a clap song.
Speaker 1: It's hell, we may scratch, we may win. Condition of love,
Speaker 1: It's one condition to it. I hope you enjoyed this
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Speaker 1: to Bobby Bones for the opportunity to make this podcast,
Speaker 1: Brian and Bush for making the soundtrack and assembling the pieces,
Speaker 1: Tom Tapley for audio wizardry and Whitney Pastrick for being
Speaker 1: a great producer and making this whole thing possible. This
Speaker 1: is Christian Bush geeking out. Thank you for listening.