Compared To What Podcast

Compared To What Podcast

Charlie Hunter and Mocean Worker have conversations with interesting people. These are stories you aren't used to hearing

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May 28, 2015
Welcome Michael Beinhorn to the Compared To What POdcast family. For those of you who don’t know who Michael is, here’s a brief rundown. A young boy in Queens sells ice cream from a cart, saves his money, buys a micro-moog. He then meets Bill Laswell and helps make one of the most important sampling/synth/drum […]
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  Part 2 of the Tommy LiPuma and Matt Pierson Conversation. The fellas get started RIGHT where they left off. More stories from an incredible life in music. Tommy Lipuma!  
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  Episode 27 had Matt Pierson joining the CTWP family when he sat down with Charlie and told some incredible stories. Now we get the absolute joy of having a former guest sit down with a new member of the CTWP crew. Matt sat down with music business legend Tommy Lipuma. Tommy has produced so […]
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Question: Who has worked with Miles Davis,Roger Troutman,Marcus Miller,Meshell NdegeocelloJesse J,Kelly Clarkson and written 12 tone music/dodecaphonic jams with disco breakdowns? Answer: The one and only David Gamson! (If you answered correctly please proceed to the bonus round!) David Gamson is a song writer/Producer who first  came to fame as a major part of 80’s […]
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Johnny Vidacovich is a legend in New Orleans. Name any artist down there and he’s probably worked with them. He’s an Educator , a Poet , a philosopher and probably the only drummer we can think of that breathes like a horn player when playing through the melody. This year during some time down in […]
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This episode marks the very first time we’ve opened up the show to a guest host. Please welcome Bassist,Producer and good friend Greg Bryant to the CTWP family. Very happy to have him sit down with Charles “Wigg” Walker…….take it away Greg! Charles Walker is a soul singer and native of Nashville, Tennessee. He came […]
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How do you start off a new year of episodes?? With a bang so without further ado please welcome…….(Cue dramatic  Las Vegas show room tympani roll)…..Marcus Miller to the Compared To What Podcast Family. Mowo! sits down with Marcus and the two cover a wide range of topics. The two have been friends since late 1986. […]
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Your fearless leaders meet up again in Los Angeles and discuss a world of topics. A state of the union if you will. CTWP is rapidly approaching its first birthday and Charlie and Mowo! sit down to discuss what’s coming,what’s happened and government cheese. Charlie happens to be in LA playing with his good buddy, […]
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Howard Smiley……..what  can we say? He was so behind the scenes in the record business that the only photo we could find of him is one in the kitchen of him making some fried matzoh! Without further ado let us introduce you to Mr. Howard Smiley the man behind the man next to the guy behind […]
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Joining us this week is the incredible pop songwriter and  actual writer,writer Shelly Peiken.She recently had a piece on Huffington Post cause a big stir and her blog “Confessions Of Serial Songwriter” (she’s also writing a book with the same title) http://www.shellypeiken.com/confessions-of-a-serial-songwriter/  is a read you’ll always look forward to after you visit the site (THIS IS NOT […]
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Leo Sidran, musician, producer, and composer SORT of joins the show this week. You see, Leo is the host of an incredible podcast called “The Third Story” and he got in touch with us recently with a brilliant idea to have a conversation about our two shows and each other. Mowo! took the call and […]
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Charlie sits down with Vernon Reid in a bookstore in Staten Island or “North Shaolin” as Vernon calls it. You probably  know Vernon as the driving force behind the incredible  band Living Colour . Charlie and Vernon touch on a wide ranging variety of topics including Vernon having given Charlie one of his first big […]
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Peter Bunetta joins “the merry mix up” this week here at Compared To What. Peter has produced many hit records from the mid 80’s on. Patti Labelle , Smokey Robinson , Kenny G. (Just remember the classic W.C. Field’s line from the mother of the little obnoxious girl in “The Bank Dick” …”I bet you’d […]
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Al Kooper and Charlie Hunter get together and Al makes Charlie an amazing hotdog. They chomp on chips and talk about ………..well we don’t wanna get ahead of ourselves. Let’s welcome Al Kooper to The Compared To What Podcast.  For those of you who know Al Kooper no real introduction is needed. For those of […]
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Mtume….Musician,Producer,Composer,Political Activist,Radio Show host. Mtume is not someone that can be put in one box. That’s just not gonna happen. Mowo! had the absolute pleasure of being able to sit down with Mtume after Mtume finished his weekly radio show. 8am on a Sunday morning in NYC made MOWO! think of the famous Lenny bruce […]
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Steve Berlin learned it the right way. Some of you may know Steve from his being a member of Los Lobos. He’s also been a member of The Blasters and Top Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs. He was born in Philly and subsequently moved to LA and cut his teeth working on just about every […]
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Here we go again. Mowo! and Hal continue their previous conversation and cover a lot more ground. we open up on Hal doing an impersonation of  Marianne Faithful. With nothing but love in his heart but its kind of stellar. The conversations settles after a couple of minutes into Hal’s long loving relationship with Lou […]
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Harry Manx is best described as where East meets West musically. “Mysticsippi”. Harry plays an instrument called the Mohan Veena the invention of Vishwa Mohan Bhatt  a very unique stringed instrument with 20 strings. Charlie sits down with Harry and talks about the incredible world of busking and being a street musician. For Charlie and Harry […]
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Who’s the dude that wrote all that insanely cool music on the TV show “Breaking Bad” and writes like 40 minutes per episode on “The Black List” ??  Answer : Our good friend Dave Porter.( hearty round of applause ). Mowo! sits down with the composer who just won ASCAP’s “Tv Composer Of The Year […]
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Mowo! and Charlie talk about Mowo!’s sit down with drummer Vince Wilburn. Vince is the nephew of Miles Davis……..so………well………….fun stories. http://www.comparedtowhatpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ComparedToWhatPodcast-TheVinceWilburnMiniEpisode.mp3
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