Hello and Welcome Back, A big Thank You too you for coming back for some more traveling with Fretman's Podcast. On this episode we speak to the CO-Founder's of Musician's Unite! Together Wherever. It's an amazing interview so go ahead listen to it. Don't forget to subscribe to their channel and catch all the live festivals on their facebook page. More information to follow....

Hello and Welcome to this episodes show notes....

First off- a Big Thank You, to You for reading this. I'm never sure if anybody ever reads these. Also, I have no idea why I laid out the show notes in this unprofessional style. I'm out the door with this proper etiquette today, as I've been sheltered in place and it's like one hundred degrees today in sunny Southern California.

Second off- a Big Thank You to Jano and Daniel from DSM/ Humboldt Electronics. I met then in Winter NAMM 2020. 

Third off- a major Thank You to the Molly Miller Trio for allowing to play their reimagine of The Vice of Killing from Ennio Morricone. The original theme song  Western/Spaghetti Western "For A Few Dollars More" movie from 1965 with the fame Actor Clint Eastwood as Monco. Many people don't know this, but the reason they called Spaghetti Western, is because the director for these movie are from Italian Descent.

Thank You All who read this, I should do a giveaway just to see who reading this and listening to my boca!

Please be safe, help each other and let's work together like a human race to live happy in our only planet that we know has life.

Hello and Welcome to Episode #29 with The Band Mount Royal.

If you are new Thank You for find us, if you are a returning customer (I guess I'm doing something right). Nonetheless, Thank you for coming back and enjoying  a incredible band. Thanks to Mount Royal for reaching to me and giving us the opportunity to interview these talented musicians. As you can see we had an incredible time speaking about music and how to take over the world.

What is Mount Royal, well.... we let them explain to us. "Born with a sense of purpose and drive to breathe life into this new era of music. Built on a strong foundation of friendship, playful expression and powerful performance, Mount Royal strives to lift up its audience with catchy hook-driven Rock ‘n’ Roll that will make you feel good and think deeply." Thank You Mount Royal for explaining what you stand for.

Don't forget to purchase their latest single that will become available on April 1st. The name of the song is Hunted Demands. 

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Our first interview is with Golden Age Project. It's a wonderful company that provides this show with an amazing microphone. We get the load down of the their new microphone that will compare better then any other mic out there. Do give them a try before going to a large company.

We meet the following segment a few years back at NAMM, since then we have always made it an effort to always visit their booth and continue to support the local business. They might not be the larges corporate company at NAMM, but they do punch through the market and make themselves present with some incredible craftsmanship with their products. I am talking about Romero's Creation. Besides making the worlds best ukulele, They also have venture out and have made the incredible 6 string guitars. All their work is done by hand by the amazing Pepe Romero Jr. Oh, and if you are wondering who he has backing him up as an Artist and co-operator of the company, let me list it for you. First off, he has his Dad as artist relation highlighting his product. The master classic guitar player/ guitar god Pepe Romero Sir. And if that wasn't enough, he also has Daniel Ho, master ukulele player/ ukulele god. I can't say enough, how wonderful of relationship I have had with the Romero Creation team. They truly are what you expect from a family business. So enjoy the music provided by this hard working team. 

The next segment is with a small boutique guitar company that custom makes guitars out of Atlanta, Georgia. That is with Alsip Guitars, I meet the CEO Jake and the COO Shane, in which the interview is based out of with him for this segment, These guys and ladies, make some beautiful hand crafted guitars that are just priceless.The attention to detail is the up most important. Give then a visit if you are looking to have a guitar upgrade. 

Next we have an amazing guitar amplifier company that makes amp the way they were built back in the 40's and 50's. This technology has been around for years. But has been made popular again as Peter the owner and creator has brought it life for the world to see and hear. As a close friend and partner to the world famous Cesar Diaz, only the big's amplifier/ guitar pedal builder for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bob Dylan. A matter of fact Cesar was SRV's guitar tech almost for his entire career as a musician. And that's were Peter comes in, as Cesar tour the world with the greatest guitar player- Peter maned the amplifier store that Diaz operated. The birth of Homestead Amps came in 2014 when Peter McMahon decided it was time for a change. After 15 years of owning and operating Diaz Amplifiers, it was time to call it his own. Don't  get me wrong Cesar and Peter grew up together as young kids to grown adults.

Lastly, we have a new boutique pedal company from Chile. That right, we continue our quest to travel the world and found an amazing guitar pedal company that makes a one stop shop. One guitar pedal that will double as your effects maker and your amplifier. Is it possible, Yes it is. You start to see more of this as companies learn how to fit things in smaller packages. DSM/ Humboldt Electronics have created a small footprint in the world of music. That's right the worlds smalls Direct Line/ Amplifier that will connect to the house speakers (the PA system that you are playing at) and with incredible sound.

Thank You to all that allow me to interview at Winter NAMM 2020, It was an incredible year and I was lucky to be able to interact with some the worlds greatest minds in music creation. As now we are facing difficult times, it's unknown if we will ever be able to interact like we did that year. 

Please stay safe from my family to yours.

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Do you folks read the show notes? Or am I spinning my wheel! Anyways, regardless I’m going to post you the notes for this episode. What can I say about Mackie (www.mackie.com), (Instagram- mackiegear)besides being the best in the industry. Make sure to visit their site and checkout their newest microphones 🎤 “Element Series Microphones” plus they have a killer deal on a bundle package that includes everything you need to start recording your voice for a podcast, voiceover session, or simply just creative music. The sky is the limit of how creative you can be. With 30 year commitment to serving the sound industry, Mackie will serve you right.

Today's amazing episode is with the talented and amazing (I dig his voice) gentleman Mr. Christian James Hand. Just listen to the episode (you'll wish you were British again)...... 

A bit about Christian James Hand, a man that wears many hats. Besides being a audio producer he is also a DJ on 95.5 KLOS in Los Angeles. Over the past couple of years he has curated, and grown, a ground-breaking radio segment he calls “The Session” where he takes you through a track-by-track breakdown of some of the greatest songs ever recorded and reveals the magic behind the music. This SoundCloud page is an archive of his appearances on the Frosty, Heidi, & Frank Morning Show, as well as his occasional appearance with Gary Moore in the Afternoons. Look for more news about this incredible piece of radio soon. Enjoy!

For a night of incredible music AND many ridiculousness, that may and will somewhat POSSIBLY go wrong?

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Lia Paris is born in São Paulo, Brazil, began her performing career as a circus acrobat and trapeze artist. It was also during this
time that she began her journey as a musician. Lia launched her solo music career at the Path Festival, and in the same year toured Europe to promote her debut single “Wild Boy”. The video clip for Wild Boy was lmed and performed at the Left eld bar on the Lower East Side of New York City, and featured Fredo Ortiz from (Beastie Boys). Lia’s self-titled debut indie pop album was released in 2015. Lia’s second album, “The Red Moon”, was produced by Daniel Hunt (Ladytron/UK) and was released in October 2016 by a multimídia performance at MIS ( Sound Image Museum of São Paulo BR). Since then Lia in presenting her multimedia project named Lva Vermelha in some different formats. Among the 2017 presentations are the Meca Inhoitim festival, MIS, C-base in Berlin, Vínil in Iceland, Sp Urban Cinemateca, the village in Bogotá, and the Visual Brasil Festival in Barcelona. In 2018 Lia presented the show Lva Vermelha with Orchestra at Funarte in São Paulo.

In 2019 following the MultiVerse's premiere at Rio2C, Lia released her second album at the Ibirapuera Auditorium in São Paulo, followed by an Europe tour at some relevant venues in between Portugal, France and Germany like Silencio (David Lynch club ) in Paris, Casa da Música at Porto and Music Box in Lisbon. In October she got three international awards, on the LHAFF in London as best breakthrough international artist, and two at LABRIFF in Los Angeles with the music video "Gypsy Heart". Lia has just returned to Brazil straight to the Music Professionals Award where she was a finalist as director. She continue the MultiVerse tour for the November shows with her acoustic concert on the 15th at Trancoso Jazz Festival (BA), and the full MultiVerso concert on the 17th at SESC Belenzinho in Sao Paulo.

Her 2020, Year has been very busy with her new up and coming release of her latest album MultiVerse, dropping February 22nd. She will also be opening for Ladytron on March 2, 2020 at the London Heaven in the UK. 

Make sure to follower at her Instagram site Lia Paris or visit her website at Lia Paris. Support her by buying her album.

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Hello and Welcome Back, On Today's Episode, we interview Dophix Guitar Effect Pedals at Winter NAMM 2020. Dophix has been a great supporter of this podcast as well as this podcast has been a great supporter to guitar effects. We have seen this small Italian company grow into an amazing large handmade pedal maker. 

Welcome back my listeners!!!  Did you miss me? I sure did miss you folks! Let start by saying that we did our fair share of walking and talking to the many great folks at Winter NAMM 2020. And with that, I was able to get many great interviews from more than a hand full of like-minded folks like us. This episode is a very special one to me. As I was given the opportunity to interview the CEO of Furch Guitars. That's' right, the CEO!!! WOW!!! What a great opportunity to be able to talk history of the company, it's process for creating eye catching/ best sounding guitars. I do want to Thank the Furch employees that attend NAMM. They were very helpful and amazing in bring everything together. In my option, they had one of the best displays in the whole convention floor.  So, enjoy this episode, as I enjoy learning straight from the chief executive officer of Furch Guitars. Don't forget to visit Furch Guitars, you can follow them on Instagram and on Facebook as well. Please don't forget to subscribe to Fretman's Podcast and follow us to receive the latest episodes as they become available. 

Hello and welcome back listeners. I have survived Winter NAMM 2020 and Grammy’s week. We are knee deep in mud of things, editing our brains out. So, bear with me as I continue to edit/ polish and improve the audio from our NAMM interviews. A big Thank You to Andrea from Dophix Effect Pedals, Peter CEO from Furch Guitars, Wolfe from Wolfmesiter and the many more that I can’t recall from the top of my head. A special shoutout to Larry Milburn from Roadie Free Radio, I finally got to meet him. And a super big 🙏🏼Thank You to NAMM and the LIPPIN Group, for allowing me to interview some of the world’s greatest music companies and musicians that were more than willing to go on the mic with me. Stay tune as I continue to edit NAMM episodes and I began to pump them out. Thank You for your support and stay tune.

Hello my Listeners,

Welcome to the start of our pre-game show, this is the super bowl to musicians. Coming to you from Anaheim, California will kick off this episode with attending NAMM Media Day Preview. That's right, we had the chance to preview some of the greatest products before the first kick off.

On this episode, we speak to the representative to Wizz Drums, which gives us a quick and short overall demo of their product. Using 3D printing, Wizz drums have a minimized size and weight of the drum kit and increased its portability. The total weight of the kit and suitcase is about 18 kg/ 40 lbs.

Stay tune as we post more amazing products from Winter NAMM 2020.