Peter Lockhart takes Carly’s place and does a dang good job! He speaks with Dan and George about the importance of preserving music as a crucial part of our history and his own career trajectory that has included everything from, but not limited to: Wolfgang’s Vault, Morocco, Biden (yes, the Joe Biden), and now Erroll Garner. The three also discuss the importance of artists owning their music and retaining creative control, and the difference between marketing music versus other products.
Show Notes
- Get to know all things Erroll Garner
- Wolfgang's (formerly Wolfgang's Vault), the company where George and Peter first met and worked together. Wolfgang’s also bought a majority stake in Daytrotter, the Ash Grove’s blues archive, the Newport Jazz archives, and Paste magazine
- Ed Pearl, who started the Ash Grove and produced shows there, has worked with countless artists. The Ash Grove was also a departure point for the Freedom Rides in the 1960s
- Watch the trailer or stream the music from the Ash Grove film here
- Steve Rosenthal owned and operator of the Magic Shop in New York City for 28 years
- Erroll Garner’s Concert by the Sea was the first jazz album to sell more than a million dollars worth of retail copies
- Listen to Ready Take One, a compilation album of previously unreleased Erroll Garner recordings, produced by Peter Lockhart
- Robin D.G. Kelley, a historian and academic, wrote the definitive book on Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
- The GHStrategic Mirror of Desire model
- Listen to Nick Drake’s music. If you aren’t already familiar with him, George says you’re welcome in advance
- Read the New Yorker piece, How Venture Capitalists are Deforming Capitalism
- Guitar Center, the largest retailer for musical instruments in the US, has filed for bankruptcy
- Do yourself a favor and subscribe to Erroll Garner Uncovered, a 12 part podcast series
Three Things
Peter
- Watching: We Are the Champions on Netflix, a show all about weird competitions like cheese rolling in episode one, narrated by none other than Rainn Wilson
- Eating: The ethically sourced, domestic charcuterie that Underground Meats is serving up
- Reading: Andre Perry’s, founder of Iowa City's Mission Creek Festival, collection of personal essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
Dan
- Loving: Notion now that he has made it his one stop shop as a project manager database for E&A, the perfect Trello replacement
- Listening: To Holly Humberston’s EP “Falling Asleep At The Wheel''. Dan describes her music as “awesome lo-fi alternative” and Humberstone herself calls the title track a milestone in her career
- Listening pt 2: Decoder, a new podcast hosted by Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel. Patel is building off of Kara Swisher’s Recode Decode but taking a more nerdy, deep dive into the tech. Dan now wishes the two would join forces on one podcast
George
- Eating: Seafood paella for Thanksgiving dinner, as is tradition, with saffron aioli
- Loving: The rule of law, yes the law. It’s been under strain for the last four years but seeing lawyers spin falsehoods on TV, but not in the courtroom has restored his hope in the institution that is foundational to a democracy
- Quoting: Patti Smith, “We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.”
