Guitar Speak Podcast

Episode 12!   Today we speak to Joce Dominger of Dominger Pickups in Carolina, USA. Joce and his wife Tammie are passionate boutique builders working closely with luthiers and players alike. Joce builds and designs, whilst Tammie takes care of the pickup winding and creates unique finishes.      

Welcome to The Guitar Speak podcast.   Today we give a shout out to two of our past guests - Michael Dolce and Peter Northcote - who have upcoming events in Sydney, Australia.   Our special guest this week is melodic rock instrumentalist Jack Tharammat. Jack is a phenomenal guitarist from Thailand who is in constant demand as a Yamaha and Laney clinician.    We speak about his development, from teaching himself Dream Theatre songs by ear as a teen, through to his winning of the international Guitar Idol competition in London in 2009 and beyond.   Jack has a huge worldwide following and we are very proud to present his first interview in English. Jack's English is much better than my Thai...    

Welcome to episode 10 of The Guitar Speak Podcast! This week we speak to ex-pat Aussie, Daniel Steinhardt who runs The Gig Rig in Swindon, UK. The Gig Rig creates state of the art effects switching equipment that has been used by Andy Timmons, Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan, Ed O'Brien, Al DiMeola and Reeves Gabrels - to name just a handful. Dan is becoming increasingly hands on in building his customers pedal boards. Daniel is an excellent guitarist in his own right and plays with former XTC guitarist, Dave Gregory in the band Tin Spirits. Daniel also co-hosts That Pedal Show with Mick Taylor, a YouTube pedal show that has around 30K subscribers tuning in each week...not bad!    

This week we meet Bob Spencer, a guitarist who has played with not one, but two very prominent Australian bands - Skyhooks and The Angels. Bob has also been inducted into the ARIA hall of fame.  We discuss Bob's career from his first notes up to his solo album due out later this year.      

Thanks for joining us. Today we conclude our interview with Peter Northcote, one of the most in demand guitarists in Australia. Also, we catch up with Rob Walker, creative director of the Melbourne Guitar Show 2016.

Peter Northcote is in all likelyhood one of the most recorded guitarists in Australian history. On top of countless session appearances, Peter has played with some major Australian acts including Dragon, Richard Clapton, Stevie Wright, Doc Neeson's Angels and Daryl Braithwaite to name a few. We spent some time in Peter's home studio in Sydney to discuss his career, fantastic guitar collection and why he will never buy an amp again.

Welcome to Episode 6 of the Guitar Speak Podcast. In this episode we speak to Michael Ross from Nashville TN. Michael is a guitarist/author/journalist with a long and varied career, stradling both conventional and experimental musics. He writes for Guitar Player and Premier Guitar in addition to authoring several books on playing and crafting tones. Utilizing a hybrid iOS/laptop guitar rig, Michael writes and performs guitar based ambience pieces under the name of Prehab Nashville.  Michael curates the excellent guitarmoderne.com site, spotlighting avante garde and experimental guitarists. We also feature listener Jason King, who jammed some tasty licks over our backing track. Thanks Jason, great playing! You can hear more of Jason at https://soundcloud.com/jason-king-6/sunday-morning-strat-session-1 You can download our backing track here, solo over it and send it to us at guitarspeakpodcast@gmail.com...we would love to hear from you. Thanks for listening in!

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Guitar Speak Podcast. Today we speak to Brett Kingman, James Reyne's mainstay guitarist since the mid 80s, and in demand sideman. Brett has also established himself as one the world's preeminent online guitar gear reviewers, with his YouTube channel receiving a staggering 20+ million hits in 8 years.  

We want to hear you play!   1/ Download our free 'Backing Track 1' from guitarspeakpodcast.libsyn.com 2/ Record yourself playing over the track - it's a one chord vamp over Em, modulating to Gm a few times. 3/ Play over the whole track or just a bit, its up to you. 4/ Send us your recording - as an MP3 file - to guitarspeakpodcast@gmail.com 5/ If we like your stuff we will include it in an upcoming episode.

Welcome to episode 4 of the Guitar Speak Podcast. Today we speak to Pat Keegan of Pat Keegan Guitars. Based on the beautiful south-eastern coast of Australia, Pat has been building very cool electric guitars making creative use of Australian and imported tonewoods, in addition to some funky repurposed woods.              

Welcome to the Guitar Speak podcast. In this episode we catch up with acoustic master Michael Fix. Michael is a prolific solo artist with 14 albums to his name, a calendar full of local and international tours and three Golden Guitar awards in the cupboard. Michael tells us about the development of his Michael Fix signature Maton guitar, touring Europe each year for the past decade or so and the impact of having Tommy Emmanuel as an 'older brother'. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Guitar Speak Podcast. We conclude our interview with Sydney based session guitarist - and member of the house band for the television show 'The Voice Australia' - Michael Dolce. Michael describes how he developed his technique, his partnership with Charles Cillia Guitars which culminated in the MD Signature series and the recording of his debut album "Everything 'Till Now". Thanks for listening in...you can find us on: Facebook www.facebook.com/Guitar-Speak-Pod…658947757579024/ iTunes: itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/guita…d1102714044?mt=2

Welcome to the first episode of the Guitar Speak Podcast. In this episode we interview Sydney based guitarist, Michael Dolce. Michael is the guitarist in "The Voice - Australia" house band and is very much in demand for sessions and touring. He regularly presents guitar masterclasses around Australia and has released a brilliant solo album, "Everything 'Till Now". Michael talks about establishing his career, getting gigs with artists such as Delta Goodrem and Roachford and why he originally knocked back the job of guitarist for the TV show, "The Voice - Australia".