The Tone That Made Us

The Tone That MadeUs with Rob Echeverria

This Episode is with powerhouse player Rob Echevarria. Rob started in the NYHC scene with bands like Straight Ahead and Rest in Pieces segway-ing to bands like Helmet and Biohazard. We spend an hour to chat with Rob about his early influences, how his Marshall was the only amp he needed, being the first guitarist in the 80’s HC scene to rock PRS, auditioning for Helmet in standard E tuning and nailing it and his love for collecting guitars. Please share, subscribe and rate!!!!

The Tone That Made Us with Gavin Van Vlack

This episode is with powerhouse guitarist Gavin Van Vlack. Over the past 4 decades he has influenced thousands of musicians by consistently reinventing his sound and approach in bands like Absolution, Burn, Die 116, Pry, Big Collapse and Cannonized. We discuss hitchhiking hundreds of miles as a youth to go to music stores to acquire gear, purchasing an epic guitar from Billy Gibbons and how he protected his gear over the years living in the Lower East Side Squats of Alphabet City in the 80’s. Please share, rate and subscribe wherever you enjoy your podcasts! Spread the word! Check out Gavin's stuff on Instagram @gavin_van_godamn_vlack @burn_nyc and @diamondheartpcc

The Tone That Made Us with Vernon Reid

This is a bucket list Episode for us. Renowned guitarist and gear addict Vernon Reid. Vernon has spent the last 5 decades as the Guitarist for Living Colour as well as producing, Musical Directing and being an amazing guy. He sat with us to discuss his start with 60’s rock and jazz to his time developing his tone and signature sound with Living Colour and his signature guitars from ESP, Parker and PRS. Touring stories, studio stories, it is all in here.
 
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The Tone That Made Us with Stephen Egerton Part 2

This is an incredibly nerdy gear saturated episode with one of our teen heros Stephen Egerton. As the guitarist for Descendents and All, Stephen has solidified his place in punk rock history. But it goes much deeper. We touch on his humble beginnings as a solo acoustic player, how he got into producing, building the Blasting Room (literally), every guitar and amp he used in his years making music and if indeed his van leaked gasoline all over the streets of South River, NJ while producing Shades Apart at Trax East. This episode was a Bl’ast!

The Tone That Made Us with Stephen Egerton

The Tone That Made Us with Walter Schreifels

This Episode is with the songwriting and producing force that is Walter Schreifels. Walter blazed paths that thousands followed with bands like Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, CIV, Rival Schools, Solo and more. While everyone was chasing what Walter was doing, he was already was creating new bands that defined music scenes. We discuss the early days of gear, our love for weird Japanese guitars and how much the evolution of tone, played into the songwriting process.

The Tone That Made Us with Alberto Vaz Pt 2

This Episode is with a very special one. Alberto Vaz was an up-and-coming Jazz guitarist from Rio who developed a love for engineering and developed an amazing career earning a Grammy for live and studio sound for Kid Rock, Kacy Musgraves and Sheryl Crow. He currently runs Front of House sound and is the Chief Engineer of Sheryl Crowe’s personal studio. We discuss growing up with limited exposure to musical instruments in Rio, manifesting a scholarship to Berkley School of Music and how he went home to Brazil to hone his skills that would later land him in Music City Nashville, TN with one of the most prolific songwriters and performers

The Tone That Made Us wit hAlberto Vaz Pt 1

This Episode is with a very special one. Alberto Vaz was an up-and-coming Jazz guitarist from Rio who developed a love for engineering and developed an amazing career earning a Grammy for live and studio sound for Kid Rock, Kacy Musgraves and Sheryl Crow. He currently runs Front of House sound and is the Chief Engineer of Sheryl Crowe’s personal studio. We discuss growing up with limited exposure to musical instruments in Rio, manifesting a scholarship to Berkley School of Music and how he went home to Brazil to hone his skills that would later land him in Music City Nashville, TN with one of the most prolific songwriters and performers.

The Tone That Made Us with Ben Weinman

This Episode is with the driving member and Guitarist of The Dillinger Escape Plan Ben Weinman. Ben fused Jazz, Hardcore and a bit of Calculus to create one of the most important genre defining bands of the late 90’s/Early 2000’s. We discuss years of duct taping and screwing back together guitars, years of trial and error with gear, recreating the DEP live sound on records, reinventing their sound over the years and his vision of the perfect guitar and how ESP helped him to realize it.

The Tone That Made Us with Billy Graziadei

Billy Graziadei:
This Episode is with legendary guitarist and producer Billy “Biohazard” Graziadei. Billy has been a touring a recording musician for 4 decades and in his studio Firewater Studios he continues to creatd amazing music for his bands Billy Bio and Powerflo along with producing music for countless other bands. We discuss growing up in Brooklyn learning piano and his first instruments, Studio tips learned along the way from some of the greatest and how EVH in both spirit and gear changed his sound.
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