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The year was 2015. Show host Blake Wyland intended to start a podcast where he took a deep dive with his guests from the guitar world to explain their rigs. What happened was that, but also a whole lot more. The show quickly evolved into discussions about people's lives. Guitars, pedals, amps, etc. are the central hub of the show, but it really is more about the PEOPLE behind all of it. Both the musicians who use the gear, and the folks that create these magical tools of expression. You can expect chats about songwriting, favorite bands, family, loss, addiction, conspiracy theories, philosophy, and most of all....... food. This podcast goes all over the place. Come take a ride.
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- 6 days ago1h 23m
Repair, Don’t Replace w/ Jeff Leavitt (Tone Ranger) & Ben Matin (RestoWraps)
On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, I’m hanging out with Jeff Leavitt of Tone Ranger Guitars and Ben Matin of RestoWraps, two guys who have gone impressively deep into the worlds of guitar building, vintage gear restoration, and keeping perfectly good stuff out of the landfill. Jeff builds Western-inspired guitars using locally sourced urban lumber from Los Angeles, turning trees that might otherwise have been discarded into instruments with a story. Ben approaches vintage amp and cabinet restoration more like art conservation, repairing old Tolex, recreating grill cloth, resurrecting Hammond hardware, and generally doing everything possible to preserve the history already baked into a piece of gear. We get into how both of them found their way into these extremely specific corners of the guitar world, why repair work can make you a better builder, repurposing old Hammond reverb amps into killer guitar amps, the importance of questioning “tradition,” what separates good craftsmanship from great craftsmanship, excessively dangerous capacitors, flatwound strings, stereo rigs, Westerns, and quite a bit of pizza. It’s a wonderfully nerdy conversation about building things well, fixing things properly, and occasionally asking, “Why are we doing it this way in the first place?” Check out more at https://www.tonerangerguitars.com/ https://restowraps.com/ and https://malibumusic.com/ Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago1h 3m
How to Actually Make It in Music w/ Liz The Music Manager
Liz Kamlet, better known online as Liz The Music Manager, has spent most of her life somewhere behind the curtain of the music business. She started shooting tour photography as a teenager, worked around artists like James Taylor, Jackson Browne and Kenny Loggins, somehow became the person Guitar Center called when a famous musician wanted to buy a vintage guitar, and eventually found herself managing artists, running tours and helping musicians navigate an increasingly strange industry. On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, Liz joins me to talk about how all of that happened and, more importantly, what independent artists should actually be doing in 2026. We get into building an online presence, networking, co-writing, getting people to care about your original music, the real cost of releasing records, why a record deal shouldn't necessarily be the goal, and why you absolutely need someone qualified to look at a contract before you sign it. Liz also shares some genuinely wild stories from behind the scenes, including artists getting ripped off for millions of dollars, questionable industry tactics, disappearing musicians, stolen guitars and the time she broke BOTH of her forearms saving one of James Taylor's guitars from taking a dive off the stage at Red Rocks. So yeah. We talk a lot about the music business. And a little about guitars. You can get all things Liz on her website HERE https://www.lizkamlet.com/ Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 1m
Why Isn’t This on Every Guitar? w/ NVision Guitars
What if, instead of asking a musician to adapt to their guitar, you built the guitar to adapt to the musician? On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, I’m hanging out with Renee and Tristan from NVision Guitars, a mother-and-son team building some seriously cool instruments with an even cooler purpose behind them. NVision makes handcrafted guitars for players who may face physical or visual barriers with a traditional instrument. That includes their sensory navigation system, which uses tactile markers on the back of the neck and differently shaped controls to help players navigate the instrument by touch rather than sight. We get into where the idea came from, Tristan teaching himself to build guitars, Renee’s 27-year career in the federal government and military, the terrifying health scare that helped push them toward something more meaningful, and why they decided to take the leap into the guitar business together. We also talk about designing alongside blind and low-vision musicians instead of simply guessing what they need, the realities of running a small family business, NAMM, death metal wedding music, Tenacious D, homemade stuffed-crust pizza, and apparently phenomenal gas station food in Iowa. This one is a great conversation about guitars, accessibility, craftsmanship, and figuring out what you actually want to spend your life doing. Check them out on their website HERE https://nvisionguitarsllc.square.site/ Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago1h 8m
Dylan McKerchie Cut a Harley Benton in Half (But Why?)
It has been way too long since Dylan McKerchie of Dylan Talks Tone has been on the show, and quite a bit has changed since our last conversation. Dylan has a home base, his daughter is working full time winding pickups with him, the business is cranking, and somehow he is producing an absolutely unreasonable amount of guitar content every week. We get into what happens when the thing you love also becomes your job, finding some kind of work/life balance when your shop is approximately 15 feet from your couch, and why both of us have found ourselves reaching for acoustic guitars when we want guitar playing to feel like a hobby again. We also dig into something Dylan has built remarkably well over the years: community. Why the people surrounding Dylan Talks Tone matter more than view counts, how those relationships translate into a real business, and why making guitar content is ultimately about helping somebody squeeze a little more joy out of the limited time they get with their instrument. Of course, things eventually go sideways. Dylan recently cut a Harley Benton in half in the name of science, and certain corners of the guitar internet reacted with the calm, measured restraint you would expect from the internet. We talk cheap guitars, what makes an instrument actually recommendable, gear snobbery, angry comment sections, beginner gear, Boss Katanas, expensive guitars, unreliable European cars, and why “I like this” and “you should buy this” are two completely different statements. And somehow we wrap the whole thing up with Afroman, a cowboy bar, and Dylan's very expensive guitar getting extremely sweaty. Check out the goods HERE https://dylantalkstone.com/ Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 17, 20261h 9m
Building the Next Chapter w/ Randy King of King Electric Guitars
This week I’m hanging out with Randy King of King Electric Guitars, and what starts as a conversation about old cars takes approximately four minutes to wander off the road and into something much bigger. Randy has been obsessed with making things for most of his life. He bought his first car at ten years old, spent his youth tearing into old hot rods, served in the Air Force, played music, and eventually found himself building guitars. Now, at 53, King Electric Guitars is beginning to turn from an idea into the next chapter of his life. We get into the strange mechanics of building a small guitar company, why gifting a guitar to Chuck Ragan was both heartfelt and completely calculated, learning to stop tying happiness to accomplishments, getting diagnosed with ADHD later in life, and realizing that maybe the goal isn’t to become a different person. Maybe it’s figuring out how to use the brain, hands, and ridiculous collection of life experiences you already have. There’s also a $75 Oldsmobile, a sketchy Falcon Ranchero, purple alligator “work shoes,” powerlifting, and a gym that apparently runs almost entirely on free weights and ammonia. Check out Randy's work HERE: https://kingelectricguitars.com/ Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 11, 20261h 5m
Zao Is Getting Sludgier With Age (Scott Mellinger)
Scott Mellinger of Zao returns to The Tone Mob for a long-overdue hang, and apparently age comes for us all in different ways. Some people take up golf. Zao seems to be getting slower, heavier, and sludgier. Scott digs into Pillars, Zao’s new collection paying tribute to the overlooked bands from their local scene that helped create the blueprint for what they eventually became. That leads into the strange history of early metalcore, bands that arrived a decade too soon, and the peculiar experience of having your very human record temporarily flagged for AI by an AI. From there, things naturally get weird. Blake horrifies Scott with the darker side of streaming fraud, Scott recounts his pilgrimage to EarthQuaker Day, and the two discuss pedal nerd community, Sweetwater, meeting your musical heroes, and why perfectly normal human beings somehow become twelve feet tall the second they step onto a stage. There’s also talk of getting older while refusing to leave the mosh pit, the health benefits of heavy metal and occasional cheesecake, Scott’s resurrected side project Lonely Ghost Parade, more Zao cover material, and, most importantly, a brand-new Zao record currently taking shape. Scott brought a lot to talk about. We managed to talk about guitars occasionally sometimes. Give Zao a follow on the socials HERE https://www.instagram.com/zaoband Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 4, 20261h 6m
How Frank Gross Built Thunder Road Guitars One Guitar At A Time
This week on The Tone Mob, Blake sits down with Frank Gross, founder of Thunder Road Guitars Seattle, for a conversation about music, retail, risk, reinvention, and the strange magic of simply refusing to disappear. Frank tells the story of leaving the band life behind, moving back to Seattle, and slowly turning Craigslist flips, pawn shop finds, and a tiny workspace into one of the most respected guitar shops on the West Coast. We dig into the early days of Thunder Road, the importance of branding, the realities of bootstrapping a business, and why “just show up and try” might be the most brutally useful advice a new business owner can hear. We also get into the brand-new Thunder Road Seattle location, building an in-person retail experience in an increasingly online world, the chaos of moving a working guitar store, punk and screamo war stories, favorite Boss pedals, gigantic pizza, and why guitar shops still matter. Check them out at https://www.thunderroadguitars.com/ Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Jul 28, 20261h 21m
Emerald City Guitars: Trevor Boone and the Art of the Guitar Hunt
Trevor Boone basically grew up inside a guitar shop. His dad started Emerald City Guitars in Seattle back in the mid-90s with a shoestring business plan, a small loan, and a whole lot of secondhand guitar-store dream dust. Trevor was the kid at the counter, surrounded by musicians, weird old guitars, shop talk, and the kind of musical obsession that tends to permanently rewire a person. In this episode, we get into Trevor’s journey from pre-eBay guitar hunts with his dad to becoming one of the people collectors call when they are searching for serious vintage pieces. We talk Bursts, Dumbles, Silvertones, funky under-a-thousand-dollar treasures, and the strange balance of loving the oddball stuff while also surviving in the high-end vintage guitar world. We also dig into how guitar retail has changed, why proper setup and authentication matter more than ever, the pressure of social media, the magic of instruments that simply make you play better, and why the best guitar shops still feel like the barbershops of the music world. There is also some Boss DM-2 love, Seattle pizza talk, Garth Brooks, Stringjoy Foxwoods, and the usual amount of beautiful guitar nonsense. Support The Show And Connect! The Text Chat is back! Hit me up at (503) 751-8577 You can also help out with your gear buying habits by purchasing stuff from Tonemob.com/reverb Tonemob.com/sweetwater or grabbing your guitar/bass strings from Tonemob.com/stringjoy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The year was 2015. Show host Blake Wyland intended to start a podcast where he took a deep dive with his guests from the guitar world to explain their rigs. What happened was that, but also a whole lot more. The show quickly evolved into discussions about people's lives. Guitars, pedals, amps, etc. are the central hub of the show, but it really is more about the PEOPLE behind all of it. Both the musicians who use the gear, and the folks that create these magical tools of expression. You can expect chats about songwriting, favorite bands, family, loss, addiction, conspiracy theories, philosophy, and most of all....... food. This podcast goes all over the place. Come take a ride.
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