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Hi everyone, this is Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck with the Final Vinyl Podcast, and today I have Brian Tarquin on board, the Sound Check Conversation podcast.
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And um Tyranny of Tone, album called Brian Tarquin and Friends, or Heavy Friends, I should say.
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It was launched with a mission to support emergency relief for California Fire Foundation and LA Firefighters.
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And Brian is an Emmy Award-winning guitarist, composer, and producer known for his extensive work in smooth jazz, hard rock, and guitar fusion.
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And the album is fantastic.
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Thank you for coming, Brian.
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Oh, thank you.
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I'm glad you enjoyed the album.
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Thank you.
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I did.
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It was a lot of fun.
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I mean, uh, you had some great players come on board for this.
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How'd you manage to get all these great players to come record with you?
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You know, some of them I worked with before, like Satch and Bumblefoot, Carl Braheon, um, and uh others, you know, it was the first time I worked with them, uh, and they were happy to support the cause, uh, like Steve Hackett and uh Stu Hamm and Bruce Kulick from KISS.
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So uh yeah, it was uh it was uh a labor of love.
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It took a while, it took a couple years to get this done.
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Wow.
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Yeah, all the logistics must have been a nightmare for you.
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Yeah, yeah, because everybody's on, you know, tour and this and that, but thank God for uh digital because we were able to do it through uh, you know, them sending files and stuff.
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Right.
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I understand this is something you do quite a bit of.
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Is that right?
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Yeah, I've done a few of these releases, uh Brian Tarquin and Heavy Friends for veterans and for um the Pulse Nightclub shooting and uh the Las Vegas shooting at the in Adelaide Bay.
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So uh I like to put these uh causes together for the albums.
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That's great.
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And he did it for the vets too.
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I'm a vet, so I really appreciate that.
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Oh, sure.
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So when did Brian Tarkwood pick up a guitar and what was it like for you growing up?
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You know, some of your influences, how'd you get to where you're at today?
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Kind of what I was studying, right?
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Yeah, well, yeah, I guess so.
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I started young.
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Um my mother had a um acoustic nylon classical guitar that she had brought back from Mexico and she was uh living there, and uh so I started playing in the 70s and you know, like the mid-early mid-70s.
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And so um, you know, I quickly uh realized that I wanted electric guitar and I really liked electric guitar and the sounds it made, and you could bend the strings and and make all these great sounds that I was hearing from people like Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck and you know all the Zeppelin and Jimmy Page stuff.
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So um I basically uh uh you know got uh my first electric guitar and uh kind of moved on from there.
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I I was lucky as a teenager, I had a uh a really good teacher from uh Berkeley.
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Uh and uh he used to give me weekly lessons until he said I taught you everything you know, uh, you know, you that I could teach you.
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And uh so you know, a lot of influence, you know, I I really tend, you know, I was in bands and stuff, you know, vocals and and that kind of thing.
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But you know, I I really tended to like instrumental music.
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So what I wound up doing was just um really kind of gravitating to, you know, Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow, and all of those albums, you know.
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Oh yeah.
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Wired and um and Jan Hammer and their interaction together, and and it's just uh, you know, that was that was really my key, you know, at in those days to do that.
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So it was it was kind of, you know, uh uh a thing where, you know, you I I kind of listened to them and see how they structured songs and see how it uh how it took off.
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And then, you know, Sash was another uh uh Satch and Vi were another big influences in the next decade in the 80s because uh they were doing instrumental music as well on their solo albums.
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So um and then I saw, well, you know, there there is a marketplace for that.
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Um so you know, I kind of honed into to you know kind of develop this um this instrumental style that I liked.
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And and I like you know, taking, you know, Van Halen was always a big influence too, uh his tone and his playing.
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Um and so you know, I I like to take those those kinds of tones and styles and and mix it up with the you know fusion and jazz.
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So that's that's kind of like what I uh you know headed towards, you know, when I uh when I grew up, if you will.
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Right.
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Oh, I definitely heard the Jeff back blow by blow influence in your couple of tracks there, that's for sure.
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Those uh albums I still love to hear today.
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And you know, I think at the at the time when those came out, it was like mind-blowing.
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Like, what is this guy doing here?
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, because Mahovishnu Mahovishnu was doing it, and Return to Forever was doing it, which I was influenced by and I like them, but Jeff really brought it to the rock, you know, audience, and uh and and and really like kind of gave that exposure to it.
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And so I I thought, oh man, this is so good.
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Yeah.
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To this day I I I still think he's been underrated.
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He's right up there with Hendricks, as far as I'm concerned.
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Oh yeah, Jimmy, you know, of course, Jimmy was another huge influence.
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Yeah, Jimmy, you know, he he definitely he definitely was.
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Um and he the thing about Jeff, he was always kind of pushing the boundaries, going into other styles of music, but bringing his guitar and so forth.
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So you know, so I thought, well, you know, this is such a cool cool way of doing everything.
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So um you know, so I I I really you know, he he definitely was one of the uh the greats, you know.
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Uh it's a shame we had to lose him.
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Um but uh but you know, he really he really did it.
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You know, he really set um guitarists on a path.
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And uh it's uh it's great.
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You know, I thought, wow, this is you know, he just you know, even in his his new records, you know, uh which I loved is he was taking electronica music and you know mashing it up with his guitar tones.
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Um yeah.
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Just really progressive, you know.
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And and you know, you think about Hendrix, if he would have lived, I think that's the kind of direction he would have ended up in too, and just done some incredible stuff, you know.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I was I always thought that too, you know.
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I think that Jimmy would have would have gone into fusion.
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I think if he had lived longer, he would have gone because he was already kind of heading that way, you know, on um you know He was.
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Yeah, you know, on the on the electrical A-land.
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So I I think that um I I think yeah, he he definitely it would have been something else with him.
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And he was, you know, he was like from outer space for all of us, you know, it's just like he was the whole Th there's definitely a lot of people that have uh um you know made their mark in history that that seemed like uh they were just from another planet with some of the things that they did, you know.
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Oh, I know.
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Yeah.
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Like Einstein and you know, people like that, just wow, where did you come from, you know?
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So Yeah, incredible, right?
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Do you uh tour with this music or do you do your own solo gigs um and and focus in on you know things that you've done over the years?
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Or are you just you know, I really don't I really don't tour.
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I'm kind of a studio rap producer, and I kind of just, you know, the way I kind of do it is just put um, you know, uh I may do like uh, you know, some podcasts live with the band, but um but for the most part, you know, because these particular albums are so you know heavily influenced with guests and things, it would be it would be really too tough to tour with something like that.
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Right.
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Too complex, too much going on.
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Yeah, right, exactly.
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So how has the uh the music been doing?
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It's been about approximately a month since you released it.
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Um what's the reaction been?
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I know you saw my review, and you know that'll get out there, but uh just you know, other things that you've seen um after you've you know done some publicity with publicity agents and got it out there for review.
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What's what kind of reaction you've been getting?
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So far it's been really well.
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I mean, uh it's been great.
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It actually um debuted uh last week, number 32 on the classic rock charts.
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So uh yeah, so I think you know, I think people are responding well to it.
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It seems like everybody likes it, and uh, you know, which is a which is a good thing.
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Um and so I'm I'm glad about that.
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And uh so it's um you know, it just came out, so it's kind of like uh fairly new.
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So we're trying to uh get everybody on board and do uh do what we can do with everybody and see uh, you know, I'll just get the word out there.
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And of course, you know uh the importance of donating to the California um fire foundation as well.
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Right.
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Right.
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Well, hopefully people enjoy the music and realize what a great cause, you know that's that's behind the music.
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You know, I'm thinking about like chart positioning, how it used to be back in the day.
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You'd sell records, right?
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And uh you'd get in a billboard charts, and now I gee, there must be a lot of different sources that they pull in to get numbers, right?
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I think they may, yeah.
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I'm not sure how exactly it works.
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They may um but I think as far as radio charts, they only look at um who's spinning the album, uh, like the old days.
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Um I mean there are other charts, obviously, like uh, you know, for Spotify and stuff like that and and and Apple, but they they only I think they the way they do it is it's still based on um you know pretty much a uh you know kind of a uh you know who's spinning and what's going on with the album.
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As far as radio play.
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Right.
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Right.
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Because they're all reporters, so you know they they report what's happening on the record.
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Right.
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Well I was just thinking, um I'm a huge fan of uh Satriani and Surfing with the Aliens has always been my favorite and still remains my favorite.
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Um what albums have you played on with Satch?
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Um this is the second song that we did.
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Uh the album, um, I did an album called uh Brothers in Arms that came out in 23, and uh that was the one for the veterans, and um we did a song uh called uh Speed of Sound.
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And uh that was uh that went that did well on the metal charts.
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I think that was the you know top uh at the at Loud Rock, I think it was an NACC, the college charts, they it was like top 20, and then it was like top ten on the metal contraband charts.
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So um so yeah, that was a lot more I did.
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Nice.
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So looking forward into the future, I imagine you're always recording.
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Um are any plans for doing something different the next time you release music or but what's gonna happen?
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Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty much done on the Heavy Friends series now.
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Um because I've done I've done a whole series of them uh through the years, from Wounded Warriors to the you know to uh so many.
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And so now I'm gonna uh do um I'm working on a New Age release, actually, uh something completely different.
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It's a an acoustic uh album one with Hal Lindis from Dire Straits, uh a singer from Ireland, and a violinist.
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So uh so it'll be it'll be an interesting interesting change.
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Oh I cover a lot of New Age.
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I have a New Age site for that, so Oh, do you?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's that's really a step in a different direction compared to what you just did, that's for sure.
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Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
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And I've never really done a New Age album, so I'm kind of interested in tackling that kind of uh uh genre because it's it it seems very interesting.
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And uh, you know, most people I think a lot of people appreciate that too, and it's uh it's a relaxing type of uh music and uh it'll be a a a fun change in genres.
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It'll be a challenge, I imagine, as well for you, you know, playing.
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And yeah, New Age has developed quite a bit over the years, and there's so many subgenres that have branched off of it now.
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It's it's quite interesting.
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Yeah, there there is.
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They have a lot.
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It's like it's kind of meshed together with now um uh I I guess like drone and chill and so many different uh you know kind of facets uh that I see that's kind of meshed into it.
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So um it's cool.
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It's a it's interesting.
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It's a it's a very uh probably a more of a growing field um at this point because uh I mean even the Grammys have have recognized that for years.
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So true.
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Yeah.
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And it's uh very beneficial for for healing, health, you know, uh mental um mental awareness and relaxation.
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I mean, just a lot of different things come into play with that music.
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And the fact that you have that jazz background, you're gonna be able to pull that in too, and that'll be really cool.
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That always sounds, for me anyway, in my opinion, w when I hear New Age mixed with jazz, uh it's just a really good partnership.
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It is.
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It is, it's a really it's it's true.
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It's it's very uh it it kind of really lends itself to it.
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And that you know, in the in the original, what was New Age was like back um you know, I remember in the eighties with Windham Hill and all of those albums uh you know, uh that they they were always releasing stuff like that.
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Yeah, George Winston and Alex DeGrassi and all all those guys.
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Yeah, yeah, they're the ones that really ticked it off, that's for sure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, talking patty, all those guys, it was a there was a they had such a so many uh a huge roster over there.
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Um, you know, I think uh it was it was a cool music, yeah.
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I I still listen to those um compilations.
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They're they're they're pretty uh cool.
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I do like them.
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Yeah, me too.
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I still have them too.
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Well, Brian, it's been great talking to you and about your album, Tyranny of Tone.
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Everyone's been out for a month now, so make sure you check it out.
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Brian, Tarkoon, and Heavy Friends, Tyranny of Tone.
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If you like instrumental guitar rock and uh different flavors, you will love that album, guaranteed.
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Great, thank you so much for having me.
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Thanks for coming, Brian.
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I appreciate it.
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Take care.
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Take care, take care, thank you.
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Bye bye.
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Bye bye.
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Hi everyone, this is Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck with the Final Vinyl Podcast, and today I have Brian Tarquin on board, the Sound Check Conversation podcast.
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And um Tyranny of Tone, album called Brian Tarquin and Friends, or Heavy Friends, I should say.
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It was launched with a mission to support emergency relief for California Fire Foundation and LA Firefighters.
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And Brian is an Emmy Award-winning guitarist, composer, and producer known for his extensive work in smooth jazz, hard rock, and guitar fusion.
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And the album is fantastic.
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Thank you for coming, Brian.
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Oh, thank you.
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I'm glad you enjoyed the album.
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Thank you.
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I did.
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It was a lot of fun.
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I mean, uh, you had some great players come on board for this.
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How'd you manage to get all these great players to come record with you?
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You know, some of them I worked with before, like Satch and Bumblefoot, Carl Braheon, um, and uh others, you know, it was the first time I worked with them, uh, and they were happy to support the cause, uh, like Steve Hackett and uh Stu Hamm and Bruce Kulick from KISS.
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So uh yeah, it was uh it was uh a labor of love.
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It took a while, it took a couple years to get this done.
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Wow.
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Yeah, all the logistics must have been a nightmare for you.
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Yeah, yeah, because everybody's on, you know, tour and this and that, but thank God for uh digital because we were able to do it through uh, you know, them sending files and stuff.
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Right.
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I understand this is something you do quite a bit of.
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Is that right?
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Yeah, I've done a few of these releases, uh Brian Tarquin and Heavy Friends for veterans and for um the Pulse Nightclub shooting and uh the Las Vegas shooting at the in Adelaide Bay.
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So uh I like to put these uh causes together for the albums.
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That's great.
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And he did it for the vets too.
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I'm a vet, so I really appreciate that.
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Oh, sure.
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So when did Brian Tarkwood pick up a guitar and what was it like for you growing up?
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You know, some of your influences, how'd you get to where you're at today?
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Kind of what I was studying, right?
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Yeah, well, yeah, I guess so.
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I started young.
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Um my mother had a um acoustic nylon classical guitar that she had brought back from Mexico and she was uh living there, and uh so I started playing in the 70s and you know, like the mid-early mid-70s.
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And so um, you know, I quickly uh realized that I wanted electric guitar and I really liked electric guitar and the sounds it made, and you could bend the strings and and make all these great sounds that I was hearing from people like Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck and you know all the Zeppelin and Jimmy Page stuff.
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So um I basically uh uh you know got uh my first electric guitar and uh kind of moved on from there.
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I I was lucky as a teenager, I had a uh a really good teacher from uh Berkeley.
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Uh and uh he used to give me weekly lessons until he said I taught you everything you know, uh, you know, you that I could teach you.
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And uh so you know, a lot of influence, you know, I I really tend, you know, I was in bands and stuff, you know, vocals and and that kind of thing.
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But you know, I I really tended to like instrumental music.
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So what I wound up doing was just um really kind of gravitating to, you know, Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow, and all of those albums, you know.
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Oh yeah.
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Wired and um and Jan Hammer and their interaction together, and and it's just uh, you know, that was that was really my key, you know, at in those days to do that.
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So it was it was kind of, you know, uh uh a thing where, you know, you I I kind of listened to them and see how they structured songs and see how it uh how it took off.
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And then, you know, Sash was another uh uh Satch and Vi were another big influences in the next decade in the 80s because uh they were doing instrumental music as well on their solo albums.
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So um and then I saw, well, you know, there there is a marketplace for that.
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Um so you know, I kind of honed into to you know kind of develop this um this instrumental style that I liked.
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And and I like you know, taking, you know, Van Halen was always a big influence too, uh his tone and his playing.
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Um and so you know, I I like to take those those kinds of tones and styles and and mix it up with the you know fusion and jazz.
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So that's that's kind of like what I uh you know headed towards, you know, when I uh when I grew up, if you will.
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Right.
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Oh, I definitely heard the Jeff back blow by blow influence in your couple of tracks there, that's for sure.
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Those uh albums I still love to hear today.
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And you know, I think at the at the time when those came out, it was like mind-blowing.
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Like, what is this guy doing here?
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, because Mahovishnu Mahovishnu was doing it, and Return to Forever was doing it, which I was influenced by and I like them, but Jeff really brought it to the rock, you know, audience, and uh and and and really like kind of gave that exposure to it.
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And so I I thought, oh man, this is so good.
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Yeah.
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To this day I I I still think he's been underrated.
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He's right up there with Hendricks, as far as I'm concerned.
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Oh yeah, Jimmy, you know, of course, Jimmy was another huge influence.
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Yeah, Jimmy, you know, he he definitely he definitely was.
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Um and he the thing about Jeff, he was always kind of pushing the boundaries, going into other styles of music, but bringing his guitar and so forth.
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So you know, so I thought, well, you know, this is such a cool cool way of doing everything.
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So um you know, so I I I really you know, he he definitely was one of the uh the greats, you know.
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Uh it's a shame we had to lose him.
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Um but uh but you know, he really he really did it.
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You know, he really set um guitarists on a path.
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And uh it's uh it's great.
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You know, I thought, wow, this is you know, he just you know, even in his his new records, you know, uh which I loved is he was taking electronica music and you know mashing it up with his guitar tones.
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Um yeah.
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Just really progressive, you know.
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And and you know, you think about Hendrix, if he would have lived, I think that's the kind of direction he would have ended up in too, and just done some incredible stuff, you know.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I was I always thought that too, you know.
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I think that Jimmy would have would have gone into fusion.
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I think if he had lived longer, he would have gone because he was already kind of heading that way, you know, on um you know He was.
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Yeah, you know, on the on the electrical A-land.
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So I I think that um I I think yeah, he he definitely it would have been something else with him.
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And he was, you know, he was like from outer space for all of us, you know, it's just like he was the whole Th there's definitely a lot of people that have uh um you know made their mark in history that that seemed like uh they were just from another planet with some of the things that they did, you know.
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Oh, I know.
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Yeah.
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Like Einstein and you know, people like that, just wow, where did you come from, you know?
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So Yeah, incredible, right?
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Do you uh tour with this music or do you do your own solo gigs um and and focus in on you know things that you've done over the years?
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Or are you just you know, I really don't I really don't tour.
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I'm kind of a studio rap producer, and I kind of just, you know, the way I kind of do it is just put um, you know, uh I may do like uh, you know, some podcasts live with the band, but um but for the most part, you know, because these particular albums are so you know heavily influenced with guests and things, it would be it would be really too tough to tour with something like that.
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Right.
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Too complex, too much going on.
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Yeah, right, exactly.
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So how has the uh the music been doing?
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It's been about approximately a month since you released it.
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Um what's the reaction been?
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I know you saw my review, and you know that'll get out there, but uh just you know, other things that you've seen um after you've you know done some publicity with publicity agents and got it out there for review.
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What's what kind of reaction you've been getting?
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So far it's been really well.
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I mean, uh it's been great.
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It actually um debuted uh last week, number 32 on the classic rock charts.
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So uh yeah, so I think you know, I think people are responding well to it.
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It seems like everybody likes it, and uh, you know, which is a which is a good thing.
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Um and so I'm I'm glad about that.
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And uh so it's um you know, it just came out, so it's kind of like uh fairly new.
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So we're trying to uh get everybody on board and do uh do what we can do with everybody and see uh, you know, I'll just get the word out there.
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And of course, you know uh the importance of donating to the California um fire foundation as well.
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Right.
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Right.
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Well, hopefully people enjoy the music and realize what a great cause, you know that's that's behind the music.
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You know, I'm thinking about like chart positioning, how it used to be back in the day.
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You'd sell records, right?
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And uh you'd get in a billboard charts, and now I gee, there must be a lot of different sources that they pull in to get numbers, right?
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I think they may, yeah.
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I'm not sure how exactly it works.
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They may um but I think as far as radio charts, they only look at um who's spinning the album, uh, like the old days.
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Um I mean there are other charts, obviously, like uh, you know, for Spotify and stuff like that and and and Apple, but they they only I think they the way they do it is it's still based on um you know pretty much a uh you know kind of a uh you know who's spinning and what's going on with the album.
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As far as radio play.
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Right.
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Right.
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Because they're all reporters, so you know they they report what's happening on the record.
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Right.
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Well I was just thinking, um I'm a huge fan of uh Satriani and Surfing with the Aliens has always been my favorite and still remains my favorite.
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Um what albums have you played on with Satch?
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Um this is the second song that we did.
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Uh the album, um, I did an album called uh Brothers in Arms that came out in 23, and uh that was the one for the veterans, and um we did a song uh called uh Speed of Sound.
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And uh that was uh that went that did well on the metal charts.
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I think that was the you know top uh at the at Loud Rock, I think it was an NACC, the college charts, they it was like top 20, and then it was like top ten on the metal contraband charts.
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So um so yeah, that was a lot more I did.
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Nice.
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So looking forward into the future, I imagine you're always recording.
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Um are any plans for doing something different the next time you release music or but what's gonna happen?
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Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty much done on the Heavy Friends series now.
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Um because I've done I've done a whole series of them uh through the years, from Wounded Warriors to the you know to uh so many.
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And so now I'm gonna uh do um I'm working on a New Age release, actually, uh something completely different.
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It's a an acoustic uh album one with Hal Lindis from Dire Straits, uh a singer from Ireland, and a violinist.
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So uh so it'll be it'll be an interesting interesting change.
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Oh I cover a lot of New Age.
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I have a New Age site for that, so Oh, do you?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's that's really a step in a different direction compared to what you just did, that's for sure.
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Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
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And I've never really done a New Age album, so I'm kind of interested in tackling that kind of uh uh genre because it's it it seems very interesting.
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And uh, you know, most people I think a lot of people appreciate that too, and it's uh it's a relaxing type of uh music and uh it'll be a a a fun change in genres.
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It'll be a challenge, I imagine, as well for you, you know, playing.
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And yeah, New Age has developed quite a bit over the years, and there's so many subgenres that have branched off of it now.
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It's it's quite interesting.
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Yeah, there there is.
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They have a lot.
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It's like it's kind of meshed together with now um uh I I guess like drone and chill and so many different uh you know kind of facets uh that I see that's kind of meshed into it.
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So um it's cool.
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It's a it's interesting.
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It's a it's a very uh probably a more of a growing field um at this point because uh I mean even the Grammys have have recognized that for years.
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So true.
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Yeah.
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And it's uh very beneficial for for healing, health, you know, uh mental um mental awareness and relaxation.
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I mean, just a lot of different things come into play with that music.
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And the fact that you have that jazz background, you're gonna be able to pull that in too, and that'll be really cool.
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That always sounds, for me anyway, in my opinion, w when I hear New Age mixed with jazz, uh it's just a really good partnership.
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It is.
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It is, it's a really it's it's true.
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It's it's very uh it it kind of really lends itself to it.
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And that you know, in the in the original, what was New Age was like back um you know, I remember in the eighties with Windham Hill and all of those albums uh you know, uh that they they were always releasing stuff like that.
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Yeah, George Winston and Alex DeGrassi and all all those guys.
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Yeah, yeah, they're the ones that really ticked it off, that's for sure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, talking patty, all those guys, it was a there was a they had such a so many uh a huge roster over there.
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Um, you know, I think uh it was it was a cool music, yeah.
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I I still listen to those um compilations.
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They're they're they're pretty uh cool.
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I do like them.
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Yeah, me too.
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I still have them too.
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Well, Brian, it's been great talking to you and about your album, Tyranny of Tone.
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Everyone's been out for a month now, so make sure you check it out.
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Brian, Tarkoon, and Heavy Friends, Tyranny of Tone.
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If you like instrumental guitar rock and uh different flavors, you will love that album, guaranteed.
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Great, thank you so much for having me.
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Thanks for coming, Brian.
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I appreciate it.
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Take care.
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Take care, take care, thank you.
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Bye bye.
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Bye bye.
