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Episode 17: Gary Dann (opens the original)
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Gary Dann has been a fixture of the Philly music scene and community for decades, beginning with early work with Doodlebug and Digable Planets. Most of the Bub & Pop Podcast gets made at The Boom Room, the rehearsal and recording space he opened when Fishtown was still the wild west and someone told him he could never make a studio work so close to the El train. (That was over fifteen years ago.) Gary keeps himself busy with a variety of artistic and entrepreneurial initiatives, including his ba
Episode 16 : Lebo (opens the original)
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Lebo plays an acoustic guitar with a magnetic pickup dropped into it, through an amp, in a rock band. If you know anything about guitar electronics that sentence should bother you a little. It works because the body behind the bridge stays microphonic - the guitar is hearing the whole room and feeding it back through the strings. He can prove it, too: on an ALO cover of "I Shall Be Released" cut with Jack Johnson, there's an ethereal wash under the piano intro that nobody played. His hands weren
Episode 15: Jefferson Waful (opens the original)
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Jefferson Waful spent eleven years lighting Umphrey's McGee, and moe. before that. What that actually takes: counting odd time signatures, watching a guitarist's foot move toward the sustain pedal, hearing the drummer call "off on one, in on two" into a talkback mic and killing the stage on that exact beat.He's a video director at On Location now — Super Bowls, Coachella, sixty-second cuts — which means he finally gets to sit down at work. We got into the Phish show in 1993 that wrecked his broa
Episode 14: Vahe Sarkissian (opens the original)
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Vahe Sarkissian is a veteran of the Philadelphia music scene and plays across genres: rock, jazz, and original interpretations of Armenian folk music that sound like jazz fusion. He's a two-hand tapper, but not the kind you're thinking of. For him it's composition, not a party trick, and he throws away the pieces that only exist to prove he's tapping. His last LP, Curcuna , is named for a Middle Eastern rhythm he'll argue is in 10 and not 5, and he walks us through exactly why. We get into openi
Episode 13 | Ross Bellenoit (Muscle Tough) (opens the original)
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Ross Bellenoit plays guitar in Muscle Tough — though good luck telling who's playing what on their records, or with your eyes shut at the show. For twenty years he's also been one of Philadelphia's most-called guitarists, and a lot of the guitar tone and harmonic scaffolding underlying the Americana that came out of this city in the early aughts is his: Amos Lee, Birdie Busch, Chris Kasper, and the production chair at Turtle Studios.We open on the injury that knocked him off the road for a stret
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