July 12, 2024 • 21 mins
LA session guitarist/producer, Fernando Perdomo has a new solo album out called "Self".
It's a wonderful mix of songs that I thought to myself, if the Beatles, Burt Bacharach & Frank Zappa had a baby it would be this album.
In this episode we discuss the album, his work with Marshall Crenshaw, personal experiences at Abbey Road studio two & a lot more!
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It's a wonderful mix of songs that I thought to myself, if the Beatles, Burt Bacharach & Frank Zappa had a baby it would be this album.
In this episode we discuss the album, his work with Marshall Crenshaw, personal experiences at Abbey Road studio two & a lot more!
Find out more about Fernando at the following site: https://www.fernandoperdomo.com/
And if you'd like to help support me in my ongoing quest to provide informative, insightful & entertaining episodes like this, why not do that at this site:
https://buymeacoffee.com/tsolobandq
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Welcome to Tommy Solose famous friends.This is where I get to chat with
people I've connected with over the yearsin the world of arts and entertainment.
And today is yet another Shameless Plugsepisode, this time with La Session guitarist
Fernando Prodomo. Welcome back, Fernando. How are you doing, Tommy?
I was thinking earlier, I cancount on one hand the number of guests
I've had on the show three timesor more, and you are one of
(00:47):
the very few. So you're justa busy guy. I don't know when
you get time to sleep. You'reworking with so many people, I mean
lately Cactus come on. You knowthat? Well, that was a project
that's been in the works for along time and Carmine as the mastermind of
it, and I was so honoredto get brought in on Long Tall Sally
with Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge andKenny Aronson, amazing bass player. So
(01:11):
you know, that track is trulyone of my career highlights. And I
don't get to play the blues veryoften, but I got to live my
little fantasy of playing in a big, loud blues band, and I think
I was kind of channeling a bigvariety of people from Jeff Beck to Leslie
West to Ronnie Montrose, and itwas really fun to kind of crank up
a les Paul and go nuts onthat song. So that's fun. That's
(01:34):
an incredible record. It's got everybodyunder Mother on it, no kidding.
It's a who's who of a legacyartist. And then you're one of the
younger among the bunch, but Templeof Blues Man, you've got to get
a Carmine a piece of project.But that wasn't why we originally set this
call up. You have a brandnew solo album mode it's called Self and
(01:55):
it's out on Cherry Red Records througha Spirit of Unicorn, which is a
boutique label that I've released the ZebraCrossing, the Out to See Records and
the ram On Record through and they'rebased in England and they're putting a lot
of love into it. So Icouldn't be happier with the family that I
have, the Spirit of Unicorn,Cherry Red, and this record is very
(02:19):
special one to me because it hasa combination of my singer songwriter stuff,
my progressive rock in the form ofwho I Really am, and the big
closing number. There's even an acousticfingerstyle song, very very Michael Hedges style,
and then there's a couple of reallynice ballads that I'm always known for.
And I put a lot of workinto the record, and so far
(02:42):
it's been paying off because the reviewshave been mind blowing. So hey,
It's part of my musical journey,and I couldn't be happier with the way
that my career has allowed me totake such risks while making a living doing
my production work and my session workand my toury work. For you are
one busy guy, and you playedeverything on this, didn't you. I
(03:05):
did it's self produced. I playedall the instruments on it. I sang
all the vocals. The only thingI didn't do was it was mixed and
mastered by a Grammy Award winning engineernamed Zach Siskin, who I've been working
with since ninety eight and he's mytechnical whiz. He's by Alan Parsons that
helps me achieve the sonic excellence thatI seek. And then had some help
(03:25):
on the art side from the Saman'sThral And it's been an incredible process too,
because I've been doing a lot ofself promotion, but it's a blast.
And now did I have a bandthat I'm putting together to play the
album live. I'm going to startlooking some more opening slots because that's something
that I did a lot when Iwas with my own project, Dreaming in
(03:46):
Stereo, where we opened up forLeon Russell, Adrian Blue Filter, a
bunch of different bands. And thenyou know, when I did the Zebra
Crossing record, I was doing Solivanand slots. Actually War Years. When
I was doing four Years, Idid some opening sots for Avian Baloo and
John lu Ponte, and I wouldlove to do more of that because there's
no better way to get discovered thanwhen you're put in front of a legend.
(04:11):
Knock on wood. Hopefully some morestuff comes this year, no kidding,
Yeah, I mean I envy whereyou are as an artist. I
mean I have a day business sothat I don't have to take certain gigs
and whatever. But in that regardwith all the things you're involved with,
man, that's too cool really,And earlier we were talking a little bit
about Marshall Crenshaw and that's that's akind of a fun gig for you.
(04:34):
Yeah, for the last two yearsI've been playing lead guitar and singing harmony
vocals with Marshall Crenshaw, the absolutelegend, and he's one of the nicest
guys in the business. And he'salso one of my favorite guitar players.
And so when he asked me ifI could play guitar with him, I
said, well, why do youneed another guitar player? And it's so
he could focus on the vocals andhave somebody else taking care of some of
the brunt work. But I getto shine on that show. I mean,
(04:58):
we're trading off solos, interlocking guitarparts, and I've learned a lot
about son craft and also the musicbusiness, because you know, Marshall is
in a great position where he hashad a great career, but he's not
too big to the point where hislife has been altered by it. You
know, it could still be afamily man and do his own thing without
being too tainted by the industry.But he's a great guy. He's a
(05:21):
very nice dude, and the bandis great. It's Mark Ortman of the
Bottle Rockets on drums, Derek Anderson, formerly of the Bengals on bass,
and then me and then Marshall.So the four of us have really gotten
very close as friends and family touringall over the country, and we're gonna
be back on the road end upAugust. We're heading to Texas and Louisiana,
(05:44):
and then in November we're going todo an East Coast rum, culminating
in a big show in New YorkCity. Yeah, and hopefully much more
in twenty five. Very cool.Yeah, it's always nice when you can
play with people that you like tobe around off stage two. You know,
I've the last decade, so Isaid to myself, I'm not going
to play with anybody that doesn't wantto play with me. And if anybody
(06:04):
isn't comfortable being around anybody, we'renot doing it, you know. So
that's always nice. And sometimes you'reforced to be in a position where you're
just a job or and you gotto take whatever because it's the job,
right. I remember when my friendBrett Simon's got the gig with Chicago playing
bass, and I said, Ijust got to know, how did you
get this gig? And he saysthat sometimes when you're on the road,
(06:28):
the two hours that you spend onstage is only ten percent of the day.
And it's what you do that otherninety percent of the day that is
just as important. And he's avery nice guy, is a very good
human and his old road manager fromwhen he was touring with Brian Wilson put
in the recommendation and he got thegig. And there's nothing more lonely than
(06:50):
being on the road and to havea good central core of people around you
that really care about you. Youknow, whenever we've had some like stuff
or anything come up, we arealways rallying for each other and we're always
doing things for each other. Onthe last tour, there was a situation
where Marshall's in years were put awaywrong and somebody lost the power supply.
(07:13):
So I went major mission to finda power supply for his inn of your
system and I was able to geta hold of one. I missed sound
check, but I mean I wasout there doing everything I could to make
sure the show could go on.And it did and it was awesome and
it's a really beautiful situation. Can'twait to see those guys again in August.
Yeah, I mean that's so importantif you want to have a good
tight band and something you'd found onto go forward with everybody needs to do
(07:38):
their parts, So that's that's avery nice situation. Speaking of bands,
I know that you recorded all theparts pretty much, you did all the
playing on self, but you havea band that you're going to take out
for the release party. I've puttogether a really tight band with my Broken
Sound bandmate Michael Collins on drums.He also plays with Bow Wow Wow,
(07:58):
amazing drummer, a great singer,great songwriter, great multi instrumentalist. And
a new guy named Keith Coosmer thebass player who I saw playing with Bird
Streets, which is a really wonderfulband out of New York, and he's
living on LA and he showed interestin playing with me. So the cool
thing is that both of these guysare great singers. And we're also going
to have a wonderful singer named LynnHolmstead from Sweden come join us for a
(08:20):
few songs. So it's going tobe a really wonderful thing. It's going
to be at the Hotel Cafe onthe twenty ninth of June, which is
a Saturday, and then we alsohave a show early August for International Pop
Overthrow, which is a power popfestival that happens every year in Los Angeles
and a lot of other places inthe world. I actually did the one
(08:41):
in Liverpool last year, so youknow, it's all run by this guy
named David Bash. And I've beendoing the International Pop Overthrow Festival since before
I with La. I actually didmy first one in twenty ten in New
York. It's a really good thing. I've met a lot of great people
through. The first time that wespoke was because I had interviewed Karma a
piece about the Running Up that Hillrecord, and I thought, who is
(09:03):
this guitar player? And when wewere able to connect, you were over
there in England. You were inLondon, England, and I was calling
you from London, Ontario. Andthen another really cool part of that experience
for us was that you were tryingto show me some things on your guitar
and it glitched on a recording.So I sent you a message and said,
you know, I know that youdo an amazing job on that solo
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from something. Can you do acell phone recording whatever? And where did
you do it? Fired it thatlittle video that I shot at Abby Road
using my electrophonic guitar, and thatwas a lot of fun because that's a
very special place to me. AndI made a record called Seper Crossing that
was recorded mostly there, and thatwas one of the greatest days of my
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life to be able to make musicin those hall On halls, you know,
the Holland Halls of Studio two atAbbey Road where the Beatles made all
those incredible records and Alan Parsons Projectand Kate Bush and Pink Floyd. Yeah,
you got to feel like the spiritof the artists that were in there
before you. I mean, that'sthey say, I peede in the same
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urinals. You know. That's thecool thing about these old places is that
the giants walked the same steps.And that's the beautiful thing. Like when
you go to the Parthenon, oryou go to the Coliseum in Rome and
all those things. This is wherethis is exactly where all the giants were
and Baby Road, it's like theyhaven't really changed anything about the way it
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looks esthetically. So the staircase,the white paint, the lighting, everything
about that room is pretty much thesame as the room that the Beatles first
walked in in sixty two. Sothat's a pretty magical place. Brother.
Yeah, No, kidding. Ienvy you in your footsteps there as well.
I've yet to go over to England, although when I was younger everybody
said you got to go to England. And yeah, okay, whatever,
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life goes on and we'll be rightback after this. Back to you for
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a minute. And self, Iknow, this is a really cool album.
And when I first listened to itin my truck, I thought,
you know, if the Beatles andBurt Backrack in Santana had a baby,
would be this album. And thenmy producer was in my truck with me
the other day and we started listeningto the first track and he says,
oh, Oasis, Obviously to me, this is something based on your journey
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and self awareness and all that,and it seems to take us down different
roads and so on. But youknow, I think we should just take
a minute and give the fans asample of your promo video on this.
Yeah, let's show the video forSearching for Myself, which is the first
single that came out from the record, which is a song that was inspired
by I was sent a photo ofme from my twenties that I was like,
(12:05):
I don't look anything like that guyanymore. So I decided to write
a song about missing person and havingit be myself and searching for myself as
an have you seen this man?You know as a song that just float
out and I'm really proud of it. Cool, Well, let's hit play
on that. Editor's note Obviously we'renot watching video as well listening to this
podcast, But one way that youcan see the video for Searching for Myself
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is by subscribing to my YouTube channelat tell me solo nine one five four.
All right, back to the showand searching for myself? Have you
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seen this spall this picture? He'sbeen lost for days? Have you seen
this space? He had his lifetogether, but he's lost his way.
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He looks so like, he lovesso like, so all my save?
Where where can I said? Whereget out? Where can I it lost
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till found? Has he been?Just? God? It is? He
broke in hardy? Maybe these aroundjust hiding in the placement separatey displacement.
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He looks a lot like me.He looks love shoo myself? Where where
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God? Shoot for myself? Whereget out? Where could I be?
Everybody gets a little loss ortiz.Everybody gets a little loss of time.
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Everybody gets a little loss of tellme everybody gets a little loss of time.
So chin fo myself? Where couldI be? Where could I be?
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So myself? Where could I Wherecould I be? That is amazing?
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Man? What can I tell you? A good job all around the
video induction, everything that the musicis amazing. I know you're going to
do the CD release party in LAat the end of the month, and
you're involved in so many projects.What's next for you? Well, what
I could talk about is the factthat I've been working on a bunch of
(17:10):
really cool projects. I actually justdid a Camel tribute album with a guy
named Ian Goth the band Camel,and that's going to be coming out on
a label called Think Like a Key. This might be an announcement of that
actually, which is pretty cool.I have been producing an artist named Sarah
Beth who was on American Idol,and she's got a lot of label interest
because she was very young and justamazing and very unique. I'm going to
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be producing another record for Rebecca Pigeonin July, another record for James Bullahan.
I might be going on the roadwith another band called Chrome or waiting
on the final itinerary for a Septembertour. I'm going to do something called
doad Fest in Ashville for the sixtiethbirthday of a guy named Dode Cricket who
I produced his record. And thisis actually very exciting news. It looks
(17:56):
like in October I'm going to beflying out to Amsterdam to record on a
record, which is going to bereally cool. I love Amsterdam, I
love Holland there's a guy who's aproducer who's hiring me for a think and
he says that he's going to tryto get me some self gigs out there,
and I'll have a drummer and bassplayer out there, so I'll be
fun to play with music in anothercountry. So we'll see how it goes.
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And I would love to come outto Canada sometimes. I've got a
lot of good friends in Canada.We'd love to have you. Who knows
what could happen down the road.You'll have to let me know if you're
coming up this way. We'll sparkup the barbecue and then celebrate. I've
been producing a record for a wonderfulCanadian singer named Jody Quine, and she's
great. Actually, we're eight songsinto the mixing process. She's using some
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incredible people mixing the record and it'sgoing to be a big Grammy contender hopefully.
Also we're talking about making another pieceof p demo project record. So
lots of good things, Man,lots of good things. I've got a
lot of irons in the fire,new clients every day in the studio,
new guitars that influence me. Guitarnut. Recently, I was given this
(19:03):
nineteen sixty five Modsright guitar by afan, the Amazing Ventures, you know,
Iron Butter gitar, and it's beeninspiring me. It's got a wonderful
prem loo bar, it's got avible, it's own, the pickups are
really good. It's just a wildpiece of sixties Americana. I just recently
this morning, I actually I wenton Facebook Marketplace and I bought an Australian
(19:26):
Maintance guitar. It's a guitar that'sused by Tommy Emmanuel, but it's a
basket case that needs a neck reset. So luckily I got it for next
to nothing, so because it isgoing to cost a lot of money to
get it in shape, but it'sa priceless instrument. It's a beautiful instrument.
I love guitars, you know,and everybody has their different addictions,
and I've always been obsessed with gearand I've accumulated a lot of it.
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If you want the real news.On Monday, I'm going to be helping
the build a shed on my propertybecause I need to get rid of my
storage uniq because I've got too muchin there and it's too expensive every month.
So I got to have a shedthat put all my stuff in.
See. This is one of thereasons why I'm not full time in the
music anymore, because I would dothe same thing. I'd have too many
guitars, et cetera. Listen,it's always fun talking to Fernando. I
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know you've got a lot of thingson the go, and I want to
take up the rest of your day. I really thank you so much for
all the help that you've done.Your videos have been really wonderful to share,
and your music's great too, man, And hopefully we'll collaborate on summer
one day. That would be amazing. That would be amazing. Let's keep
that thought in our back pockets.Thanks so much once again, Fernando,
and until next time, Hey,have a wonderful day and enjoy your Father's
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Welcome to Tommy Solose famous friends.This is where I get to chat with
people I've connected with over the yearsin the world of arts and entertainment.
And today is yet another Shameless Plugsepisode, this time with La Session guitarist
Fernando Prodomo. Welcome back, Fernando. How are you doing, Tommy?
I was thinking earlier, I cancount on one hand the number of guests
I've had on the show three timesor more, and you are one of
(00:47):
the very few. So you're justa busy guy. I don't know when
you get time to sleep. You'reworking with so many people, I mean
lately Cactus come on. You knowthat? Well, that was a project
that's been in the works for along time and Carmine as the mastermind of
it, and I was so honoredto get brought in on Long Tall Sally
with Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge andKenny Aronson, amazing bass player. So
(01:11):
you know, that track is trulyone of my career highlights. And I
don't get to play the blues veryoften, but I got to live my
little fantasy of playing in a big, loud blues band, and I think
I was kind of channeling a bigvariety of people from Jeff Beck to Leslie
West to Ronnie Montrose, and itwas really fun to kind of crank up
a les Paul and go nuts onthat song. So that's fun. That's
(01:34):
an incredible record. It's got everybodyunder Mother on it, no kidding.
It's a who's who of a legacyartist. And then you're one of the
younger among the bunch, but Templeof Blues Man, you've got to get
a Carmine a piece of project.But that wasn't why we originally set this
call up. You have a brandnew solo album mode it's called Self and
(01:55):
it's out on Cherry Red Records througha Spirit of Unicorn, which is a
boutique label that I've released the ZebraCrossing, the Out to See Records and
the ram On Record through and they'rebased in England and they're putting a lot
of love into it. So Icouldn't be happier with the family that I
have, the Spirit of Unicorn,Cherry Red, and this record is very
(02:19):
special one to me because it hasa combination of my singer songwriter stuff,
my progressive rock in the form ofwho I Really am, and the big
closing number. There's even an acousticfingerstyle song, very very Michael Hedges style,
and then there's a couple of reallynice ballads that I'm always known for.
And I put a lot of workinto the record, and so far
(02:42):
it's been paying off because the reviewshave been mind blowing. So hey,
It's part of my musical journey,and I couldn't be happier with the way
that my career has allowed me totake such risks while making a living doing
my production work and my session workand my toury work. For you are
one busy guy, and you playedeverything on this, didn't you. I
(03:05):
did it's self produced. I playedall the instruments on it. I sang
all the vocals. The only thingI didn't do was it was mixed and
mastered by a Grammy Award winning engineernamed Zach Siskin, who I've been working
with since ninety eight and he's mytechnical whiz. He's by Alan Parsons that
helps me achieve the sonic excellence thatI seek. And then had some help
(03:25):
on the art side from the Saman'sThral And it's been an incredible process too,
because I've been doing a lot ofself promotion, but it's a blast.
And now did I have a bandthat I'm putting together to play the
album live. I'm going to startlooking some more opening slots because that's something
that I did a lot when Iwas with my own project, Dreaming in
(03:46):
Stereo, where we opened up forLeon Russell, Adrian Blue Filter, a
bunch of different bands. And thenyou know, when I did the Zebra
Crossing record, I was doing Solivanand slots. Actually War Years. When
I was doing four Years, Idid some opening sots for Avian Baloo and
John lu Ponte, and I wouldlove to do more of that because there's
no better way to get discovered thanwhen you're put in front of a legend.
(04:11):
Knock on wood. Hopefully some morestuff comes this year, no kidding,
Yeah, I mean I envy whereyou are as an artist. I
mean I have a day business sothat I don't have to take certain gigs
and whatever. But in that regardwith all the things you're involved with,
man, that's too cool really,And earlier we were talking a little bit
about Marshall Crenshaw and that's that's akind of a fun gig for you.
(04:34):
Yeah, for the last two yearsI've been playing lead guitar and singing harmony
vocals with Marshall Crenshaw, the absolutelegend, and he's one of the nicest
guys in the business. And he'salso one of my favorite guitar players.
And so when he asked me ifI could play guitar with him, I
said, well, why do youneed another guitar player? And it's so
he could focus on the vocals andhave somebody else taking care of some of
the brunt work. But I getto shine on that show. I mean,
(04:58):
we're trading off solos, interlocking guitarparts, and I've learned a lot
about son craft and also the musicbusiness, because you know, Marshall is
in a great position where he hashad a great career, but he's not
too big to the point where hislife has been altered by it. You
know, it could still be afamily man and do his own thing without
being too tainted by the industry.But he's a great guy. He's a
(05:21):
very nice dude, and the bandis great. It's Mark Ortman of the
Bottle Rockets on drums, Derek Anderson, formerly of the Bengals on bass,
and then me and then Marshall.So the four of us have really gotten
very close as friends and family touringall over the country, and we're gonna
be back on the road end upAugust. We're heading to Texas and Louisiana,
(05:44):
and then in November we're going todo an East Coast rum, culminating
in a big show in New YorkCity. Yeah, and hopefully much more
in twenty five. Very cool.Yeah, it's always nice when you can
play with people that you like tobe around off stage two. You know,
I've the last decade, so Isaid to myself, I'm not going
to play with anybody that doesn't wantto play with me. And if anybody
(06:04):
isn't comfortable being around anybody, we'renot doing it, you know. So
that's always nice. And sometimes you'reforced to be in a position where you're
just a job or and you gotto take whatever because it's the job,
right. I remember when my friendBrett Simon's got the gig with Chicago playing
bass, and I said, Ijust got to know, how did you
get this gig? And he saysthat sometimes when you're on the road,
(06:28):
the two hours that you spend onstage is only ten percent of the day.
And it's what you do that otherninety percent of the day that is
just as important. And he's avery nice guy, is a very good
human and his old road manager fromwhen he was touring with Brian Wilson put
in the recommendation and he got thegig. And there's nothing more lonely than
(06:50):
being on the road and to havea good central core of people around you
that really care about you. Youknow, whenever we've had some like stuff
or anything come up, we arealways rallying for each other and we're always
doing things for each other. Onthe last tour, there was a situation
where Marshall's in years were put awaywrong and somebody lost the power supply.
(07:13):
So I went major mission to finda power supply for his inn of your
system and I was able to geta hold of one. I missed sound
check, but I mean I wasout there doing everything I could to make
sure the show could go on.And it did and it was awesome and
it's a really beautiful situation. Can'twait to see those guys again in August.
Yeah, I mean that's so importantif you want to have a good
tight band and something you'd found onto go forward with everybody needs to do
(07:38):
their parts, So that's that's avery nice situation. Speaking of bands,
I know that you recorded all theparts pretty much, you did all the
playing on self, but you havea band that you're going to take out
for the release party. I've puttogether a really tight band with my Broken
Sound bandmate Michael Collins on drums.He also plays with Bow Wow Wow,
(07:58):
amazing drummer, a great singer,great songwriter, great multi instrumentalist. And
a new guy named Keith Coosmer thebass player who I saw playing with Bird
Streets, which is a really wonderfulband out of New York, and he's
living on LA and he showed interestin playing with me. So the cool
thing is that both of these guysare great singers. And we're also going
to have a wonderful singer named LynnHolmstead from Sweden come join us for a
(08:20):
few songs. So it's going tobe a really wonderful thing. It's going
to be at the Hotel Cafe onthe twenty ninth of June, which is
a Saturday, and then we alsohave a show early August for International Pop
Overthrow, which is a power popfestival that happens every year in Los Angeles
and a lot of other places inthe world. I actually did the one
(08:41):
in Liverpool last year, so youknow, it's all run by this guy
named David Bash. And I've beendoing the International Pop Overthrow Festival since before
I with La. I actually didmy first one in twenty ten in New
York. It's a really good thing. I've met a lot of great people
through. The first time that wespoke was because I had interviewed Karma a
piece about the Running Up that Hillrecord, and I thought, who is
(09:03):
this guitar player? And when wewere able to connect, you were over
there in England. You were inLondon, England, and I was calling
you from London, Ontario. Andthen another really cool part of that experience
for us was that you were tryingto show me some things on your guitar
and it glitched on a recording.So I sent you a message and said,
you know, I know that youdo an amazing job on that solo
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from something. Can you do acell phone recording whatever? And where did
you do it? Fired it thatlittle video that I shot at Abby Road
using my electrophonic guitar, and thatwas a lot of fun because that's a
very special place to me. AndI made a record called Seper Crossing that
was recorded mostly there, and thatwas one of the greatest days of my
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life to be able to make musicin those hall On halls, you know,
the Holland Halls of Studio two atAbbey Road where the Beatles made all
those incredible records and Alan Parsons Projectand Kate Bush and Pink Floyd. Yeah,
you got to feel like the spiritof the artists that were in there
before you. I mean, that'sthey say, I peede in the same
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urinals. You know. That's thecool thing about these old places is that
the giants walked the same steps.And that's the beautiful thing. Like when
you go to the Parthenon, oryou go to the Coliseum in Rome and
all those things. This is wherethis is exactly where all the giants were
and Baby Road, it's like theyhaven't really changed anything about the way it
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looks esthetically. So the staircase,the white paint, the lighting, everything
about that room is pretty much thesame as the room that the Beatles first
walked in in sixty two. Sothat's a pretty magical place. Brother.
Yeah, No, kidding. Ienvy you in your footsteps there as well.
I've yet to go over to England, although when I was younger everybody
said you got to go to England. And yeah, okay, whatever,
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life goes on and we'll be rightback after this. Back to you for
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a minute. And self, Iknow, this is a really cool album.
And when I first listened to itin my truck, I thought,
you know, if the Beatles andBurt Backrack in Santana had a baby,
would be this album. And thenmy producer was in my truck with me
the other day and we started listeningto the first track and he says,
oh, Oasis, Obviously to me, this is something based on your journey
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and self awareness and all that,and it seems to take us down different
roads and so on. But youknow, I think we should just take
a minute and give the fans asample of your promo video on this.
Yeah, let's show the video forSearching for Myself, which is the first
single that came out from the record, which is a song that was inspired
by I was sent a photo ofme from my twenties that I was like,
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I don't look anything like that guyanymore. So I decided to write
a song about missing person and havingit be myself and searching for myself as
an have you seen this man?You know as a song that just float
out and I'm really proud of it. Cool, Well, let's hit play
on that. Editor's note Obviously we'renot watching video as well listening to this
podcast, But one way that youcan see the video for Searching for Myself
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is by subscribing to my YouTube channelat tell me solo nine one five four.
All right, back to the showand searching for myself? Have you
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seen this spall this picture? He'sbeen lost for days? Have you seen
this space? He had his lifetogether, but he's lost his way.
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He looks so like, he lovesso like, so all my save?
Where where can I said? Whereget out? Where can I it lost
(14:03):
till found? Has he been?Just? God? It is? He
broke in hardy? Maybe these aroundjust hiding in the placement separatey displacement.
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He looks a lot like me.He looks love shoo myself? Where where
(14:50):
God? Shoot for myself? Whereget out? Where could I be?
Everybody gets a little loss ortiz.Everybody gets a little loss of time.
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Everybody gets a little loss of tellme everybody gets a little loss of time.
So chin fo myself? Where couldI be? Where could I be?
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So myself? Where could I Wherecould I be? That is amazing?
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Man? What can I tell you? A good job all around the
video induction, everything that the musicis amazing. I know you're going to
do the CD release party in LAat the end of the month, and
you're involved in so many projects.What's next for you? Well, what
I could talk about is the factthat I've been working on a bunch of
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really cool projects. I actually justdid a Camel tribute album with a guy
named Ian Goth the band Camel,and that's going to be coming out on
a label called Think Like a Key. This might be an announcement of that
actually, which is pretty cool.I have been producing an artist named Sarah
Beth who was on American Idol,and she's got a lot of label interest
because she was very young and justamazing and very unique. I'm going to
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be producing another record for Rebecca Pigeonin July, another record for James Bullahan.
I might be going on the roadwith another band called Chrome or waiting
on the final itinerary for a Septembertour. I'm going to do something called
doad Fest in Ashville for the sixtiethbirthday of a guy named Dode Cricket who
I produced his record. And thisis actually very exciting news. It looks
(17:56):
like in October I'm going to beflying out to Amsterdam to record on a
record, which is going to bereally cool. I love Amsterdam, I
love Holland there's a guy who's aproducer who's hiring me for a think and
he says that he's going to tryto get me some self gigs out there,
and I'll have a drummer and bassplayer out there, so I'll be
fun to play with music in anothercountry. So we'll see how it goes.
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And I would love to come outto Canada sometimes. I've got a
lot of good friends in Canada.We'd love to have you. Who knows
what could happen down the road.You'll have to let me know if you're
coming up this way. We'll sparkup the barbecue and then celebrate. I've
been producing a record for a wonderfulCanadian singer named Jody Quine, and she's
great. Actually, we're eight songsinto the mixing process. She's using some
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incredible people mixing the record and it'sgoing to be a big Grammy contender hopefully.
Also we're talking about making another pieceof p demo project record. So
lots of good things, Man,lots of good things. I've got a
lot of irons in the fire,new clients every day in the studio,
new guitars that influence me. Guitarnut. Recently, I was given this
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nineteen sixty five Modsright guitar by afan, the Amazing Ventures, you know,
Iron Butter gitar, and it's beeninspiring me. It's got a wonderful
prem loo bar, it's got avible, it's own, the pickups are
really good. It's just a wildpiece of sixties Americana. I just recently
this morning, I actually I wenton Facebook Marketplace and I bought an Australian
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Maintance guitar. It's a guitar that'sused by Tommy Emmanuel, but it's a
basket case that needs a neck reset. So luckily I got it for next
to nothing, so because it isgoing to cost a lot of money to
get it in shape, but it'sa priceless instrument. It's a beautiful instrument.
I love guitars, you know,and everybody has their different addictions,
and I've always been obsessed with gearand I've accumulated a lot of it.
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If you want the real news.On Monday, I'm going to be helping
the build a shed on my propertybecause I need to get rid of my
storage uniq because I've got too muchin there and it's too expensive every month.
So I got to have a shedthat put all my stuff in.
See. This is one of thereasons why I'm not full time in the
music anymore, because I would dothe same thing. I'd have too many
guitars, et cetera. Listen,it's always fun talking to Fernando. I
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know you've got a lot of thingson the go, and I want to
take up the rest of your day. I really thank you so much for
all the help that you've done.Your videos have been really wonderful to share,
and your music's great too, man, And hopefully we'll collaborate on summer
one day. That would be amazing. That would be amazing. Let's keep
that thought in our back pockets.Thanks so much once again, Fernando,
and until next time, Hey,have a wonderful day and enjoy your Father's
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Day weekend. All right, sameto you, and until next time,
cheers. Tommy Solo's Famous Friends isa one man production, meaning that I've
done all the work, including recording, editing, guest acquisition, et cetera.
And hey, here's some news.We've just recently joined forces with five
to one nine magazine, so youcan check out my interviews there as well.
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The theme song for Tommy Solo's Fameas Friends is a clip from my
original composition, The Burn. Allrights reserved. If you enjoy the show
and you'd like to help us keepit going, why don't you click on
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