Throwing Quarters Podcast Season 2 Episode 3 w/music from Adam Taylor

Here it is. The biggest podcast I have ever done. We took the show on the road the Cleveland Barley House in lovely Downtown Cleveland.

This was the first time I have ever taken the crew and I out of our comfort zone and into the fire of live.....anything. Even this podcast wasn't truly live because I did cut a ton of stuff out, but it was pretty damn stressful to do a podcast in front of people. I had a great time and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

I learned a ton from this experience and we are ready for the next time we go out and do a show somewhere in this fine city.

Technical glitches aside, Adam Taylor and Kate Young did a lovely performance live on stage and I was so glad to get it all recorded. I was so glad Adam Watt and Dan were able to get down there as well, because without these guys, I would not have a show. And a special thank you goes out to Kasey Crabtree from a 'real' radio station here in Cleveland. She told us many great stories and even some really juicy stuff that I had to leave on the cutting room floor! Oh, you should have been there. You could have heard it! Oh I have deleted a few lines from this post for fear that it may get out. You're welcome Kasey.

Anyway, the podcast goes down like this. We open the podcast with Adam Taylor and Kate Young. After the first song we sit down and talk with Adam about his album, genre, influences, and favorite songs on the radio. We then send it over to Dan and his Hollywood Spin. We come back with a beautiful song with Adam and Kate again, and then we wrap it up with 'Tell Us a Story" with Kasey Crabtree and then Adam Taylor Brings down the house with his sweet ass cover of No Diggity.

Here are some sights and sounds from the night. All the photos were taken by Melissa Hofelzer. She was great, and it was nice to see here again. If you want to see all the photos you can see those right here.

[L-R Kasey Crabtree, Adam Taylor, Me]

[Kate Young, Adam Taylor, Adam Watt in background]

[L-R Dan Ryan, Kate Young, Adam Taylor, Me, Adam Watt]

[L-R Kasey Crabtree, Adam Taylor, Kate Young]

[L-R Kasey Crabtree, Me]

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Season 2 Episode 2

What happens when you have a singer/songwriter, a guitar, a sound guy, Skype, and some friends over?

This Podcast.

This episode of the Podcast was by far my favorite to produce, edit, and actually put together. As you can hear, we had a great time, and I hope you do as well. Here is a little run down of what we talk about, and listen to.

First and foremost, I cannot say enough great things about Dave Ritz. Truly a great guy, with a great voice, just happy to be doing what he loves to do; entertain. I won't lie, I was a bit nervous about this podcast. Was Dave going to think I was a hack [the answer is more than likely a resounding yes I'm sure] because he's been on bigger and better shows than mine. So having someone over the house and playing for me was a humble experience. I loved every second of it and I cannot thank him enough for coming out. I can't wait to see his live shows with his band behind him. Please go check out his website and say hello.

Dan Ryan, my announcer, and now a contributor to the podcast was also here [he drove Dave from the far East Side to the far West Side] and he brought burgers to grill. There is nothing like having a guest come over and bring burgers for me to grill up and be the butt of a few jokes, but then again, tell us about the movies. Check out his blog and keep tabs on it.

Adam Watt was also here for this podcast making sure it all sounded ok. He brought a studio in a box to capture Dave and his Guitar. He was awesome to hang with as he always is and again, I cannot thank him and his record label enough for supporting this small podcast. Thanks again Adam. If you are a singer/songwriter and want to be considered for a project with Adam, please e-mail him: atomwatt [at] papyrusrecords.com.

On the phone this week we had Jules from Just Jules. It is always funny to hear someone's voice after reading their blog and have your own version of what their voice sounds like. She broke in a new segment called, 'Tell us a story". Her story is a must hear, and by God, when I taped this, long after the rest of the gang had left, I was rolling and laughing to the point my eyes watered.

Tune in!

I was able to snap a few photos of Dave Ritz rocking the Couch Potato Studios. Check em.

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Here is a photo of all of us on the show today.
[left to right: Dan Ryan, Adam Watt, Me, Dave Ritz, and that's Audrey in front]

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The Weekend Approaches

This week is the 4th of July week. In Cleveland that means hosts of carnivals, fireworks displays, and other completely random types of activities. So what is on the agenda.

Unfortunately I cannot attend the opening of the new Bar Symon today. Work gets in the way of a night life all too often. But I am sure it will open to a packed house and rave reviews. I got up early this morning to read up on some of my favorite blogs, and since posting my blog yesterday, I met some very cool people who share my affinity to Cleveland. Check my profile to see some new ones on there. They are all definately worth the read!

I am also excited to see one of my favorite bands on Friday night at the Beachland Ballroom. The Ohio Sky will be rocking it, and it will offer an opportunity to talk to the band 1-on-1 to get a solid date in the books for an appearance on the Podcast. I hopefully will be able to book a few more musical guests as well. On my wish list is a Columbus, Ohio band called Philo, an acoustic band from Florida coming through Cleveland today called Boyce Avenue, Carrie Sample from the Papyrus Records Record 'Portable Words vol 1', a local metal band Morality Check, Zach Watt also from Papyrus Records, a new band to Cleveland Vendetta Point, and The Doctor Teeeth.

Its a large wish list, and if I could land even 3 of these bands, I would be happy. If I land all of them, it would be awesome, but very unlikely considering Boyce Avenue is in town today and leaving tomorrow and they have yet to return any of my phone calls. I also have a HUGE interview planned, but with whom will have to wait until it gets closer.

Big news

I usually try really hard to come up with an interesting way to tell a story. Whether it is to go into detail and put you there with me, or just give you the rough outline, I try and take a different angle.

Well today I am not really going to go there. I am just going to give it to you straight up.

I have been working feverishly to get my Podcast better and more widely distributed. My last podcast was a smash hit by my total hits standards, I have decided that that podcast will be the last one of "this season". I have gone into my writing studio and started writing a bunch of stuff for the podcast. I have a lot on the agenda and my next Podcast will be bigger, louder, and more entertaining as ever. I have some special musical guests lined up. The Ohio Sky, Morality Check, and a new band, Vendetta Point will all make it onto the show coming soon along with great music from Papyrus Records. Not only will I be able to bring you great stuff from these guys, but we also were able to find a new comer to the professional photography industry and we can bring you video and photos, and with the help of Papyrus Records, great live concerts.

So what's content without a way to distribute it? I have tried to make my podcast accessible to anyone. With a live feed on this blog, to a dedicated Podcast page over at Podbean, I have even bitten off a piece of the forbidden fruit and it's now on iTunes. With all of those great avenues to bring Throwing Quarters to you on your computer and also on your portable music device, I have gone one step further. I can now bring you my Podcast from a mobile application for iPhones and Blackberry smartphones called Stitcher. If you have listened to NPR in the last 2 weeks, you will hear that they have a commercial for this app in every commercial break. Stitcher is really cool and yesterday I heard back from ther Senior VP of Business Development, Mike Ghaffary, and gave me the green light to have my podcast join the line up of other great Podcasts on Stitcher.

A lot has happened since my little interview with Tangobaby, but I think this is just the beginning of things to come. The wifey is working diligently on making the look of the Blog page and Podcast Page more professional using her graphic design skills, so when the new season of Podcasts launch, so will all the new art work.

I will be placing promos for the new season of the Podcast to hype it up, and I am going to ask for your help to spread the word. I can't wait!

But before I go, I do need your help. Since many of you are very photographically inclined and I want your input, I am wondering if anyone out there has a way to take or get a photograph that inturprets the title of my blog in an interesting way. This way I can hand them over the wifey [aka as the Throwing Quarters Art Department] and she can try and take each one and incorporate it into the banner. You can find my e-mail in the right side margin of the blog or click here.

Thank you all for the support, and thanks for reading! This is going to be an exciting summer.

Podcast 7 Presented by Papyrus Records featuring Tangobaby

What a great show we have in store for you.

We finally have a partner in the Podcast world in Papyrus Records. A local Cleveland record label who specialized in singer/songwriter music has signed on to help out the Podcast by giving us exclusive tunes and support in producing live broadcasts around town. I want to thank Atom Watt for all his help and support.

Visit Papyrus Records on the net on Twitter [@papyrusrecords] and e-mail your submissions for consideration at atomwatt@papyrusrecords.net.

This week's tunes are brought to us from Carrie Sample and Zach Watt. Both are exclusives and I think their music is fantastic and refreshing.

On top of all the Papyrus Records hoopla, we also had a blogger buddy on again.

I want to thank Tangobaby for taking time out of her packed day to come on and talk about all the great things she is doing out in San Fransisco [intentional or not]. I hope you find her stories as fascinating as I did.

Without further adieu, I give you installment 7 of the Throwing Quarters Podcast.

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