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00:00:00 Hello everybody. This is the Nashville daily podcast. I'm Stuart Deming and I'm Erin Pennington. More fall events and nouns for this weekend and we give you Nashville's most dangerous areas that were revealed. Plus we have our guests who works in the same studio that Elvis recorded in. This is national daily
00:00:29 Today on the podcast we have mr Justin Crot. You are the current manager of RCA studio B, correct? That's correct. So are you the studio manager or the general manager?
00:00:42 Ah,
00:00:43 It's kind of both, but studio managers, technically my title. Okay. So
00:00:48 For anybody who hasn't worked in the audio field, so, but it's Nashville, so nevermind. No, I'm kidding. So everybody, yeah, everybody, what does a studio manager and especially one at RCA studio B with as much history as it has, which we'll get into what does a studio manager do?
00:01:08 Yeah, well, a little bit of everything. It's not all glamorous work. I mean, you do get to meet interesting people. But you know, you also have to, you know, help people if they fall down. That happened, that happened yesterday. Oh no. Yeah. You know, you have to, you know, take out the trash if no one else does it, whatever. But, but no, that's great. I mean we, I do a fair amount of actual audio work and then I do a lot of just talking about the studio sharing of people, showing folks around. Last minute. I don't give, I'm not like a tour guide. Exactly. We have really great tour guides or tour guides or some of the best in the city. Thank you. They are, they're awesome. But I do a fair amount of just showing people around spur of the moment kinds of things, you know, filling in the gaps, take care of the equipment, take care of the instruments, take care of the building itself. How long have you been at RCA studio B? Five years. Yeah. That's awesome.
00:02:01 Yeah. Do do a lot of people, I don't know if, if I would've known what RCA studio V was before coming to Nashville. So if somebody was like, this is way over my head, I don't know anything about RCA studio B, but I know I should. Yeah. What are the, what are the highlights that they should know before we dive deep in later in the show? Sure.
00:02:24 So studio B is, it's commonly known. It is historic RCA studio B if you want to be official about it opened in 1957 it's a second studio on what would become music row. The first being the Bradley brothers studio, which is just about a block from us. It's called the Quonset huts. Quonset hut. Yeah. Yeah. Bradley studios clods. We'll be talking about that like
00:02:45 In way later episodes when we get to like 1950s in New York. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, 1800 right now. Oh good. Yeah. We've been going through like installations of decades of history. I love, we've only done two
00:03:00 So far. My favorite one, honestly, we talked about how the Nashville road system got developed with this grid and there was, they basically planned out this grid, but they didn't realize all of these Hills and so they just followed the bison trails. [inaudible] Basically it seems like they had a map of Nashville. They'd laid down a grid over top of the map and then they saw all the Hills and then they burned the map and then started following bison trails. And that's where they laid their roads. Some good Southern city planning. As somebody who's from like the nearly Iliana area I can, I can make a big [inaudible]. Yeah. All right. So let's get back into RCA studio B, but yeah, yeah. Open the 1957. I mean it is one of the, and I don't think this is an understatement. It's one of the most historically important steals in the country.
00:03:49 Definitely. I mean, if you've watched any of the Ken burns country music documentary that's just, have you seen all of it yet and finished it? But I'm through it. Porsche, like sort of where we would be. Okay. I'm still have some three or four, like I haven't watched it in a couple of weeks. Once you get, there's one, there's actually one called gosh, it's the name of an Don Gibson song. It's escaping me right now, but the song was recorded to be, that's awesome. So Ken burns come in and quite a bit to RCA studio B. You know, they didn't, I think they were doing, you know, seems to be his thing to mostly do archival stuff and then interviews. And so it wasn't like elimination shoot. No, no. I think they had everything they needed from, you know, just historical documents and stuff. So you think you would at least visit at least one of the places they did go next door to, to study away.
00:04:38 So they didn't visit the, you know, next door to us which opened in 65 so anyway yeah, were, there are some nice shots of the studio in there. In fact, a couple of pictures I hadn't seen before on us exteriors, so that's always nice to see. Totally cool. Yeah. And then a lot of interior like, you know, session shots and stuff. Oh wow. Cool. So look for it when you get to the [inaudible] be my favorite part of the kind of burns series. Cause RCA studio B is my favorite attraction in Nashville. Thank you. Yeah, I'm glad to hear that steward was, I knew that already. But yeah, you know so a lot of the development of the Nashville sound was done there as well as at the Bradley studio. Of course, Elvis recorded there quite a bit. What is the Nashville sound?
00:05:21 I know a lot of people are not familiar opening Chet Atkins would a, would jangle the change in his pocket and say that's the Nashville sound. That's the sound of money. But that's a good sound. But yeah, the Nashville sound was a, a basically a reaction in country music to the incredible sales of rock music of rock and roll early in rockabilly. You know, you're talking about this stuff coming out of, you know Memphis primarily. Right. Would it be also with like in competition against the, like Frank Sinatra and the rat pack and those types of a kind of, what it sounds like, I think to modern people is it's a slightly country Tingy pop crooner kind of thing. You know what I mean? So they, they tended to downplay the traditional country instruments. You know, instead of your steel guitar, you'd have a full string section instead of your you know, instead of maybe your banjos and stuff, you would have other things in their vibraphones and marimbas lots of piano, you know, which is not always in country music necessarily background vocal groups as well.
00:06:29 So it's a very polished sound. So with the rise of the Nashville sound on the sales chart perspective, the country music start to incline again. Yeah, it helped quite a bit. It helped quite a bit. Yeah. So, you know, the rock and roll sales, obviously it was a hit with the teenagers and the, and that's like the first period I think where you really have like that age group driving the rest of the industry still is and it still is now. Right. but yeah, it definitely helped, helped make up for what they were losing. And I think the, the story, you know, everyone thinks country music with Nashville as they should, but I think the real stories that like every genre was recorded in this town, you don't even realize the songs recorded in this town until you really take a good hard look at it, you know, between really between our room. And again, the Bradley studios in the early days and then many, many more to follow. But it was a meld of everything
00:07:24 I heard somewhere. I can't remember where I've heard that, but somebody was, some musician was saying to me like close to 41 or 45% of all music now today still recorded in Nashville. That sounds about right. I don't know. I don't think anyone really has that. Statistics certainly know the rap music. Yeah, it's very popular here. I say little Wayne on music row all the time. All the time. Yeah. Oh, he's always a treat when he comes by. Yeah. All right. So Justin, you've been in this city for quite a few years, about 10 years. 10 years. So you've seen the rise of traffic, but you came from near Atlanta, so you saw the hair. Yeah, I mean I, I S yeah, I grew up in a fairly small town, but yeah, I did spend some time in Atlanta. Okay. So what are your thoughts on traffic in Nashville today? You know, it is what it is. I mean, it's not fun, but
00:08:13 If you want to, you know, you want to see your city grow and, and all that and
00:08:18 It's just part of one of those things you have to deal with. How do you pass the time in your car? Honestly this is, I'm not trying to sound like holier than thou, but I engage in some silence these days and that makes me more patient. I legitimately thought you were going to say I engage in sign language. [inaudible] I just imagine you sitting behind the wheel of a car and you're like, it's not like there's that every traffic guard, right? Yeah. People are really friendly here though.
00:08:46 My air conditioning being broken for a while. And so I'm running around in the summer with my windows down and the number of people who just said hello or wanted to just like, we're sitting there wanting to start a conversation,
00:08:56 You know, like this, this girl drove up and she's like, hi. Just wanted to say hi. I have a really funny story. So about two years ago I was coming from hobby lobby. I was like, Oh, I'm going to go look at some false stuff. And steward is a basic hashtag [inaudible] hashtag basic white man with a beard. But the spice Stewart. Yeah, I love pumpkin spice. I've had like four to five already this season. So though even get me started on that topic. But so I was pulling out of hobby lobby and this girl pulled up before her mom and she was like, this is like September 1st two years ago and she was listening to Christmas music. Well and so I rolled down the rest of my window and I'm like, yes, get it. That's the Christmas music. And then she ran like a red bike. She was so happy. Yeah. I have a lot of it goes through experience.
00:09:55 No lives listening to Christmas music on the way back from the Smokies recently.
00:10:02 Right. So let's get into events. We're killing this, the sales charts already. Yeah, we're worth it. We're the reason why Christmas music blew up also because it's royalty free. A lot of songs, but we're not going to get into that. True. so let's, let's get into events that it's happening this weekend. This is insane. Yeah.
00:10:24 Events city as a, it's showing its true name and its true colors this weekend. So we are starting a, if you remember us talking with West from the tailgate the other day, we have a few events that are coming up that involve tailgate. So they have their movie series starts in the summer, continuing onto now they have outdoor movies. They do the finishes and finishes in December and they started back up with this, whether there'll be fine outdoors, but this is a, the mighty ducks that are playing probably in celebration at the front starting there. That's a great idea. So I saw their November lineup and it's like elf in home alone and I'm like, yes,
00:11:03 That's in November. I may have to leave the until. Okay, go watch those movies and drinks.
00:11:07 Yeah, and a tailgate. They also have a fall festival. I think it's tailgate Fest.
00:11:14 Yeah, it's tailgate first. That's all going to be at Sunday. Hold on, let me look at my show notes because there's so many list of events.
00:11:22 Yeah, they're a good Sunday starting at 10 or 11:00 AM and it's going all day. They also have a, what is it called? A trippy Shea. A trivia. Yeah, but they're launching, they go to the buses. Instagram. It's less underscore from underscore tailgate West from tailgate. He's been showing some pictures of them preparing for that and I think that separates a lot of events that are going on here. How often can you say, I painted that pumpkin and then I, and
00:11:53 Then it launched hundreds of feet in the air under the feet pole and it hit traffic.
00:11:59 Wait, that's, that's a forwarding cause traffic. That's the fall festival. It's one of the fall festivals that's happening. October
00:12:07 Six at tailgate think start time is 10:00 AM or 11. This is happening at the Charlotte pike location. Yeah. Justin, we're just going to have to call you for every one of these, these these Yvette lineups because sometimes people are playing at the Ryman where like,
00:12:21 Who are this, this person plan? I'm sure they're great, but I have no idea who they are. I may or may not either [inaudible] something or in fall Fest. So I live in the Woody crest neighborhood, just South of downtown and we have our Woody crest Fest on Saturday and foe, which is a little neighborhood festival with a pie contest and the chili cook off. Ooh. And some fully done. Ah, I might this, usually I run sound and make noise, but this year they dethroned me. I'm not doing anything. So I don't know what happened, but it's a sound engineer really disappointed moment when he doesn't have to run that. True. That's true. So yeah, that's going on. It's like a white chicken chili recipe that's killer to get it on that. Yeah, I think you can make it essentially when this is on Saturday the fifth. Okay. And this is on Hutton drive. I don't know anything other than that, but it'll be basically somewhere in South Nashville. So yeah, poke around South Nashville. Just roll down your window. You'll be able to, yeah, we have a community garden, so it'll be in the community garden and then head over to Plaza mariachi.
00:13:24 You should and listen to this. I just [inaudible] it's such an amazing place. Have you been Justin [inaudible]? It's, I like [inaudible]. It's one of my favorite places now. It's really fun. Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah. We'll have a whole podcast about them. So at the Ryman auditorium you have Heather land, no idea. Not sure, but I'm sure it's great. Yeah. Yeah. That's [inaudible]. That's 8:00 PM at the Ryman. I then, this started yesterday, this is the Nashville film festival and it's going through October 3rd through the 12th this is the 50th anniversary. It's happening at Regal Hollywood 27 that's in hundred Oaks in Nashville. Film festival.org for tickets for that. This, I couldn't really find like what this is like this events sounds interesting. I'm not sure what it is. The shrine circus, this is that municipal auditorium 7:30 PM shows her going all through the weekend. You've got the link in our show notes. It'll tell you what time is happening for which day of the weekend it will be. But it's, it's a circus. So yes, probably not too different from what you would expect. I'm guessing they can't use animals though anymore, right? Because of the certain transferring laws between like animals between States now
00:14:33 Transfer in laws with milk between States. Yeah. Yeah. It's [inaudible]. Have you heard about that? I know it's hard to smuggle elephant meat these days. Yes. We couldn't get any of the testing. The elephant sanctuary really bombed that. You guys didn't have an elephant stake for me to, yeah, it'd be a big steak. Have you heard of it? You've heard about that with, with right? Yeah,
00:14:52 I've heard about it. I don't understand the reasoning behind it unless it's just to keep local farmers. I think it has to do with they sit in their communities or I think it has to do with bacteria.
00:15:02 Ah, because like down South you're going to have different bacterias because of the heat. Then you would up North [inaudible] so I think it's to spread like or spread bacteria. I wonder if that's looking at the same reasons. For the animals. Probably some, it's the same thing with like fruit. I can't technically take oranges out of the state line to Florida. Oh, okay. And if you get pulled over in Georgia having Florida oranges, you, it's like a $500 fine. I'm dead serious. I didn't know that. We used to just go to Florida to get fireworks. Oh
00:15:38 Yeah. I think you can do that in Alabama and Georgia. Now let's talk about firearm.
00:15:43 I don't know if this place, this is going to have fireworks, but this is the Nashville cultural festival happening at Centennial park. Saturday 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and they have a cool, well a website. It's celebrate nashville.org. That's a fun one.
00:15:54 That's a good, that's probably good that they grab that up. Yes, it looks like it's a good duration of Saturday, 10 to six at Centennial park. This is free on their website says, provides an opportunity for intercultural dialogue there in Nashville. Festival experience features a variety of dance, musical performances, stages, food vendors. Say dance. I said dance may have to go show my basic skills. Just grab your PSL before you hit that you were dancing with the pumpkin.
00:16:22 Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing how wow. The company.
00:16:26 Kinda like a pumpkin spice latte like, but the base of is inside a pumpkin, so I like that. So you really get that pumpkin flavor for it.
00:16:38 [Inaudible] My Tompkins with my wife.
00:16:42 So speaking of this weekend, this Saturday is insane with the events happening here. So this is happening at the Nashville symphony center. It's Halloween at Hogwarts starting at 11:00 AM and I can get tickets for that. And Nashville symphony and.org. And then they have another concert that night with Trisha Yearwood. It's insane how much tickets. I think that starting at 8:00 PM. So they have two concerts in one day at the symphony.
00:17:07 It looks like if you're, if you're excited for that, a Halloween at Hogwarts, they've got a listen on Spotify button, so I'm guessing they already have a playlist for this. I mean, you can get excited about it. That's really cool. That's really cool. And Trisha Yearwood, fun fact, she was once a tour guide at RCS. Do. You'll be really, Oh, that's fun. Correct. That's really true that she come back and visit their rental, but I'd love to, I'd love to see her sometime. Yeah.
00:17:28 Trisha Yearwood. If you're ever listening to the Nashville daily podcast, make sure to go over to RCA studio B. Like on the side.
00:17:34 Yes. Make sure you get in a, also, I'm looking at this Halloween and Hogwarts just cause I'm reading this starting at 10:00 AM show up for a fun, friendly family friendly pre-concert activities, including our, you would never think that this would be on the here and instrument petting zoo.
00:17:55 Oh, I liked that. Yeah. This is a nice saxophone. Yeah. With the cello though. Nothing that an artists loves more than everybody touching their instrument. That's true. That is true. I feel like they're not putting out the good cellos there. These are the, these are the, the closet cello. It's a, it's a first act, you know, if it breaks, it's not the end of the world. Yeah. These aren't the ones that are getting polished every single night. I wonder where something like that came from. Like did they just get a bunch of requests in there in there? Like hypo cards that just said, we just really want to touch the instruments. Like, like it'd be interesting to see what the process was of, Hey, let's have a instrument petting zoo. All right, so another thing happening in Nashville who would've guessed Nash Tober fast happening at Richland park from two to 9:00 PM. This is free. 11 local breweries will be there perhaps from daddy's dogs, a Stein holding contest, and they brought worst eating contest. That sounds great. Yeah. Dietician the other day I said, I just need to eat more protein. This sounds like my type of festival. You go, you'll see Stewart there and you'll see us recording it.
00:19:08 So let's see, what else do we have going on? We have a birthday bash. Lu, a birthday bash party. This is the 94th birthday for the grand old Opry.
00:19:20 Happy birthday. Grand Ole Opry. Happy birthday rolled out the timing at this time of the year with the Ken burns documentary coming out. That's amazing. Huge. So this is happening at the grand old Opry S Saturday at 10. They have a busy day. Literally they have a 10:00 AM 3:00 PM 4:30 PM and then they have two shows of the Opry that night to get tickets for that. That's opry.com.
00:19:42 I'm trying to see if they asked who they're having a play. Like they have kind of the full lineup for their earlier shows their, their normal lineups.
00:19:53 The other day they had the bacon brothers. Justin, have you ever heard that the bacon genders Kevin and the other bacon boys? They really, the believe it is. Wow. That's amazing. Cause he plays the banjo, doesn't he? Or she does something I can't remember. Wow. That's cool. I have to listen to the third. There's celebration bacon brothers.
00:20:09 It looks like Terry Clark is going to be there. Oh cool. Yet as well. Let's see. It looks like she's the headliner for it. So a very cool, it looks like she's coming out with a vinyl album, a double vinyl album right now. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Have you have you recorded on vinyl?
00:20:28 I have I heard anything. I haven't ever done like a directed disc. I actually know some people who've done like the disc is being cut. Third w records. Yeah, I know they have the booth. Right. And then there's another studio in tellin called welcome to 1979 and they do the same thing. Do a, they have a cutting
00:20:48 Laith and they'll do a, you can actually record straight to the disc as well with like a full band set up and everything. Yeah. So that's a thing. And then like my good friend Kevin Becker does vinyl cutting at times. And so yeah, I've seen some of that stuff. It's really fun. I haven't had any, anything I've worked on, I don't think of that on vinyl, but yeah, I'm always open to the possibility. That's awesome.
00:21:13 Yeah, that's really cool. So we've talked about this all week. This is fall Fest at the Hermitage. They have a busy weekend. Oh, well this is, it's insane. How many events are happening. So Saturday, Sunday, 10:00 AM fall fest@thehermitage.com and then they also have Jack's pumpkin glow. I think that's Saturday night, Saturday night and six 45 to 10:00 PM this is also the ghost tours. It's insane. That's just the Hermitage. This is not including the cheek harvest. These are all ongoing events for the Hermitage. The fall Fest jacks, pumpkin glow, and the ghost tours. So a, I'd imagine they're in the, during the peak of their season. And then on a Saturday you have the Cornelia Fort picking party that's over in East Nashville, the abandoned airport. We have a video of that on our YouTube channel. Yes. And that's a Cornelia for picking party.org I guess they're a nonprofit organizations. So we sell some.org earlier today or we added sound like a nonprofit. They were weird.
00:22:12 You guys did by the way. That's a really good one.
00:22:14 Well thank you. It's a cool space. And then we have first Saturday art crawl. This is downtown on fifth Avenue from six to 9:00 PM on nashville.com for that. Two galleries happened on second as well. Of course 21 see I think kind of [inaudible] and then also Wedgewood. Houston has their art crawl as well as [inaudible]. They're not going to be a part of this one. That's what we're going to be downtown for this one. Okay. If you're looking to get half full and half drunk, yes. You can go to the bar crawl. Yeah. Six to 9:00 PM it'll probably still be really hot outside. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So, so you can stay indoor the arcade and walk around in the galleries on the upstairs. That's the way to do it. And then you'll be perfectly fine. A Nashville predators are playing Detroit Redwings on Saturday, 7:00 PM yeah. So that's happening.
00:22:58 And then you have a Titans game on Sunday Titans verse the Buffalo bill supposed to be Sunday and on that day PM and then who's playing at the Ryman on Sunday? Sarah Barella's. Whoa. At the opera house, not the Ryman. I always confuse, it's on ramen.com but she's playing at the opera house. This isn't, this is Sunday, October six, 8:00 PM Sarah Barella's a amazing artist. A great voice. At least I knew one artist who was playing during this. Right guys, that is all the events that we wanted to cover during this weekend. I'm taking a deep breath. My hour is going a little fast because it's just so much happening. All right. So now raise up your anxiety because our next story, the news I like this is coming from Fox 17. [inaudible] The title is literally here are the most dangerous spots in Nashville right now according to Metro police.
00:23:51 No time for puns or anything with this kind of title. You just gotta get right to it, right to the point. And guess what is leading on their lists? Their first one is Opry mills. Really? Yeah, I think so. I think this is based on like crime rate going up. Okay, so Opry mills, my assumption has, they have a lot of theft. Sure. I would think so. Yes. Theft and like potential, like stickups and like there was kind of yeah, because it was like maybe a year or two. There was a shooting last year. Yeah. When I was at RCA studio B, my wife texted me, said, Hey, we're at lockdown on the hotel. And I'm like, Oh, I have a tour group at RCA studio B. Yeah. So I understand Opry mills being on that list, but my assumption is it's all for theft.
00:24:34 Like I would think so. Yeah. And then also on the list you have third and Broadway, which I thought that was very particular. Like, Oh, we're going to know who talks about third quarter, third of Broadway on his bad side. Is that the the diner, is that like right there obviously hotel Luke's, Brian's store, that's what it is. I can't remember what's on the other side. Is there, was that support in the FedEx stores right across the street? Is that when they're building that new small, tiny museum that's coming in that's going to be on second Avenue, second and Broadway. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah, I guess third and bro, I wonder if it, does it have to do anything with any of the, I know there's been a lot of talk lately of aggressive pain handling. Yeah. So it's been the assaults, so I think they're basing that crime statistic on the assaults and downtown Nashville and third and Broadway just in the center of it.
00:25:26 So you might as well just say, Hey, this is the stress that Aria, but from what I was, or what I listened to, they said a aggravated assault has gone up 27% in downtown Nashville. Wow. But it's decreased in Nashville, 4% as a whole. As a whole. Okay. Interesting. So it's up higher and it's that aggressive panhandling. It's probably a lot of drunk people, drunk fights. It's the bachelorette parties touching people. We've also had, I mean, and these have been front and center stories in the past month. Several people involving their vehicles and Broadway and Oh yeah. Like running into people running into cops. Like that's happened three times in the last month. This is why you need to close down Broadway and make it accessible for emergency vehicles. It's, it blows. I still cannot believe they don't do that. At least even on the weekends or one night a week, Saturday night for a trial this weekend, you're going to have this weekend with the Titans and predators game.
00:26:27 You're probably going to have 250,000 people downtown Nashville and you're not going to shut down a street gym for them. Shine and PM to 4:00 AM start at fifth and all the way down to, to first to the river. Yeah. All right, so this one didn't surprise me. This is my hood. This is like deepen my hood. You're here every day. I see it. I see the prostitutes, I see the drug deals, I see the stabbings, I see it all. So this is East Thompson lane, which is found in South Nashville. Hey, that's my father. Yeah, that's my Kroger. That's my class. My stronger. That's a good grade in Murfreesboro pike. That's actually almost, okay. I'm going to get into a Kroger story real quick. Okay. That Kroger is better than the German town Kroger in East Nashville. Quotes in the German town. Kroger. Yeah. Did you know that German town Kroger.
00:27:15 So the story is better than I thought you saying that it was worse than I was like he can't get worse than that. The German town Kroger's pretty terrible. I've had some bad experiences that, that German town broker to the point where I contacted Kroger and they didn't do anything about it. But but thankfully at brand new Publix is opened in downtown Nashville, so I'm just going to do that. Yeah. So I am not surprised at all that East Thompson lane and Murphysboro has made this list. I literally drive home every night and I'm like night Walker. Night Walker. Oh, another prostitute. Oh, that's a drug deal. That person discussed that I'm drunk driving away. Murfreesboro pike does get rough. So true. I tell the story about, you're in your last apartment. All right. I have a lot. I'm gonna let me get another drink. Yeah, definitely get another beer.
00:28:02 But I'm so I'm sitting at Amanda's parents house and I get a phone call from my old roommate and he's like, bro, SWAT team literally just broke into the apartment, like next door do not come home. And I'm like, what? He's like SWAT team broken to the apartment, next door, do not come home. And I'm on the phone and I'm like, Amanda's parents are there and Amanda's there. And I'm like, well SWAT teams like at my building just breaking into apartments right now. And like Amanda's dad's like, you can't go home. So I'm having like three people tell me I can't go home. And it turns out that this guy was stabbed and killed in the apartment. I came home about three and a half, four hours later there's police caution tape everywhere. There's blood still on the walls. It was insane. I'm like, all right, this is cool.
00:28:53 This is cool. I'm moving out of this place very soon. So wow. Like I went home three, three hours later and guess what? This apartment complex flipped that apartment and had it rented out in three days. What a boy. Like when I moved out four months after this incident happening, there was still some blood trails on the carpet. Yeah. So that's my experience of Murfreesboro pike. I have stories on top of stories on top of stories. Actually I want to give you one quick story real quick. This is not all Murfreesboro pike. This was on Nolan's full pike right next to that McDonald's and four 40. Yep. And Oh that's my pike. That's your yeah. And so I was driving for Lyft and I had four passengers in the car and
00:29:42 I came over that Hill coming down past that McDonald's and there was a woman literally on the road licking the concrete sweet. And I almost like almost hit her and I got swerved. I'm like, Oh crap. I almost got into a bad car accident. And then a like she was literally licking the concrete. Okay. Dropped off the passengers and then I drove back up the Hill to see if she'll still there cause I'm going to call the cops. She got killed by a truck. Oh. Like wow. That's the type of stuff. And see, I see in Nashville all the time and they're really, there has to be some kind of, some kind of, well it turned out, so I read the police report I the next day and it turned out she was on bath salts. Yeah. So I'm just saying like, you know, it's such a successful city, like we gotta do a better job taking care of the people that are hurting.
00:30:28 Yeah, absolutely. It's a, it's a hundred we're in, we're short 187 cops and like at the very minimum it's a very minimum and we have like, we have so many events and they have to bring in private security for all these things and it's very hard to be a cop right now. Like it's extremely hard to be a cop. Sure. Yeah. Well, in private security is like probably a little dubious, I would imagine. It. Totally. Yeah, absolutely. I've, I've had my fair share of private security as well. All right. So, you know, well let's say, you know, what might, you know, make all this stuff worse, especially if you're out on the streets. It's going to be the heat. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's terrible. Yeah. And but like literally I, like I, I was, I read a report when I was driving into work on Wednesday morning and literally said, guys shot on Lafayette, which is like Murfreesboro pike, Lafayette Lyft driver almost hits him, calls police.
00:31:26 And I go to the article that was on like Fox 17 news channel five. I'm speaking of the heat we've got we've hit some records today. We've hit two records today with the heat. We hit a record temperature for October 99 degrees. We hit 99 degrees. Wow. And that was on Wednesday though, wasn't it? Yeah, we hit, we hit it this week. My back was so wet and on that day and then we also hit a record for the number of 90 degree days in 2019 and I think that we've had 97 days of 90 degree weather, which was another record center that's almost a third of our year. [inaudible] Yeah. And so you know, this summer for anybody who's like, just moved to Nashville, this is not, this is not our typical Nashville weather. Last winter wasn't our national typical national winter. It was, we didn't get as much snow. It wasn't as cold as it had been the previous winter. So this has been a very different year for Nashville. Not that Nashville is very consistent.
00:32:41 No. Yeah, the weather. I mean I'm from Georgia and the weather's kind of the same. It's very temperamental. Yeah. No, but yeah, there, I mean I remember like I say, 10 years ago we had a fair amount of snow just about every year, you know,
00:32:54 I think winter is coming with a vengeance. Yeah, I do. I come on to put that [inaudible] is coming. We're going to have a one or two days of, of fall. I hope for the leaves will be perfect. All the Instagram photos will be taken with their PSLs and also be good. That's what everybody's hoping for, including us. We are hoping that we can get just a little bit of color on the leads at the right time. So we can make some proper fall content. Yes. Cause we need fall contents. I'm also have a leaf [inaudible] my pocket and this is a, yeah, let me see the scratch marks from the side and that's it. This is, I don't think this is supposed to be this color. I also do want snow because we've had a video plan for you guys for our YouTube channel for Oh yeah, that's right.
00:33:41 Year and a half and it's a fricking Epic video. But we need snow. Yeah. We had a video that we set out for last year that was had to involve snow and we just said okay, we'll just show the three inches of snow. No, that didn't happen. Yeah, yeah, you've been, yeah, like the chest pain is what we've got right here. Like global warming. I'll get you. So every day we love to cover like a tip of Nashville. How would you experience Nashville? So Justin, what is your tip on how to experience Nashville or what would you show a guest?
00:34:13 Visiting the city. Okay, well obviously come to the studio obviously. Yes. Do it now. I will tell everybody, if you haven't been here before and you've heard of music row, when you come down music row, you're not going to get what you expect.
00:34:29 Yeah. We talked about this in the video. Justin was in one of our videos with the history of music video, which is a great video. It's 27 minute long mini documentary. We couldn't keep up with Ken burns. Yeah. But but one of the things that we talk about, and Justin, I'll have you kind of expand on this is, you know, because this was like literally my experience as well. I think I was still, my parents and I were down here, you know, 10 years ago or something and we, we drove down music row and I think my dad was like, look, it's music row. And I was like, where? Right. I said, where, what am I, what am I looking at? Or what am I, Oh, that's a nice Bush. Did we, was that, what did we just pass it? Like, I'm like, what am I talking about?
00:35:13 Dental office. Yeah. That's always my joke. Every single time. Yeah. So you're driving down music row and there's those banners and I'm like, Oh, these are for number one hit songs that came out of that recording studio. And then there's a dental office right here on your right that's just trying to fit in with music row. So how would you tell somebody, if you say experience music row, obviously it's not going to be to drive down it. No, I mean, yeah, take it, take a stroll. It is a nice stroll. There's a lot of Magnolias that played is a good walk decades.
00:35:39 Yeah. But you know, I mean I, I expected it to be something extravagant too and, and it's just, it's not, you know, it's just a, it's a, it was a residential neighborhood and I think that's why a lot of the studios and other businesses publishing companies moved in. They're relatively inexpensive. And then, you know, it's still a bunch of little houses in a row and it's wonderful. I mean, despite the number of sort of condo buildings that there are now, there's still a lot about our planning. Yes. Yes. That's very true. Yeah. but you know, you still get some of the vibe. I, I would definitely walk down music row. I would, I would take a stroll by sidewalk and, and take it in, you know, realize that what's around you are operating businesses and that's still a big part of the heart of the music industry here.
00:36:25 For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you would, you would take somebody to studio B, let them experience that, and then where would you take them after that? Oh, are we going to eat or are we going to, it's Nashville. Yeah. Okay. We should eat. So I mean, I know you guys live over at olds, right? I love my [inaudible] Arnold's twice this. Okay, good. Okay. So Arnold's is if you want lunch and you aren't from the South and you want to experience what it's to be like from the South they could better than anyone in my family and I don't mind. Hey grandma. And sorry, and I'll be sure to break this podcast. Five stars please. I'm always afraid for one of my aunts to pop out of a Bush. If I ever say anything bad about grandma's cooking, but grandma can't really cook.
00:37:12 Anyway. so you gotta eat orals. But I mean, I like, you know, there's so many great places to eat here. I mean Firefly is one of my favorite places for like a dinner and my, where's fireflies? It's in green Hills and it's kinda tucked away. It's been there for a long time. I think. It's kinda behind trader Joe's broker. It's offline guy, but Martin I think kind of as a goal, there's a alcohol store right down the road if you're looking for some deal Indies. But they, you know, the thing about that place, it's like you know, their menu changes a lot. It's like a chef led kind of place. And so I, what I get every time I want to get, every time I get it, well obviously it get something to drink and then I get, there's a cheese plate and they always have like amazing cheese that was like, is it locally sourced cheese or not, although some of it was like burst and volcanoes and stuff.
00:38:03 That's amazing. That was like that poop on it. Yeah. All that stuff. But everyone gets a charcuterie, get the cheese plate and then they're there usually will be a regional or a local one on there too. It's usually like three, you know, and they're all really intense and different. And then the vegetable plate like is like nine different things and it's like whatever they're making that day, you know. So I love it cause it's very colorful and it's different. I used to be a vegetarian. I'm not anymore but long story, but but it's great. Firefly's great. And it's chill. It's a little funky. They've got stuff staple on the wall and I dunno, it's just a lovely place to eat dinner.
00:38:40 Nice. Great. Let's see. Well yeah, that's, yeah, that's a good recommendation. Okay. So other places that you would, you would take them to visit, get the vibe of the city?
00:38:49 Yeah, I mean, I, you know, I just want vibe in general. Right. So I mean there's plenty of places to go. I like on my side of town. There's bastion of you guys been to bash and I'm sure you've been over there.
00:39:02 I aye. So I've, it's kind of a handcuff past it. Yeah, I have heard of it. Yeah. I think I've had their food at a pop up somewhere, but I've never visited the restaurant. They have like a serious restaurant, but then they also just have a bar. Yeah. And the only thing you can get, it's only, it's only like 20 tabletop. Yeah. But inside the bars
00:39:20 It's kinda like a, it's kinda like your, your buddy's basement or something.
00:39:23 Okay. Nice. Random chairs and stuff. Yes. I mean that area, Wedgewood, Houston, it was Apple music coming in and wow. Oh yeah. So I'm that old boy who's three hall, the hosiery Hoser E that's turning into Apple music. It's going to be a hundred thousand square foot Apple music concert venue that's specializing in country music. Wow. It's insane. That's incredible. Then you have the Soho house, which is that creative membership hotel. Really what it is. Interesting. and then you have the block house, the barbershop over there, which is great barbershop. We've actually, I will be coming out eventually with our top Barbra video. He honestly, you can't let [inaudible] get a haircut every other day for that one. Yeah. It takes some times actually that this has been our longest video too. Yeah, I'm sure. [inaudible] Video that no video. Maybe in competition. Right. There you go. This one, this one, like we've recorded stuff almost a year ago. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:21 And then my, my really cool kid's piano teacher told us about this place called various artists, which is a bar on Elm Hill pike.
00:40:28 It's an Elm Hill pike, which you don't think about. It's very, very industrial over there. The only, the only thing I really know about, I knew two things. They're really good about Elm Hill pike. Joey's house of pizza. Joey's house of pizza. Yes. That's pizza. Oh, hands to hell. And then a whiskey. Neat. Or whiskey lace barbershop. Yes. Oh, that's one of the, it's one of the barbershops that we've, Stuart got his hair cut at. Yeah. This is the time. This is
00:40:52 Small little bar where they brew their own beer. I mean, I had, yeah, I mean I had a fantastic Brownell. I mean the world seems to be ruled by sours and IPA is at the moment, which I like.
00:41:02 Yeah. I think I love like [inaudible] PA's have been like the leading industry standard. Yeah. Or
00:41:07 For craft beer for the last 10 years. Yeah. For a minute. But I like a good Brown ale or the bear Walker Walker love the bear Walker Brown jackalope. Yeah, that's a great one. You know, so this, this is a nice little nice little bar where they breed their own beer, they make good food. I think we have a full menu a couple of days a week and the rest we had, I had a barbecue sandwich that blew my mind. Was it Popo today? Yeah, it was a pulled pork. Yeah. But it was a bit smoke. They me. No, it was good though. Yeah. Okay, fantastic. That doesn't matter. Wherever you get it just, yeah. Yeah. Go have an emotional conversation out there. It's a very Stardust. Is it more of a songwriters kind of bar? I don't think they even do that. I think it's just called that. It's just like two artists that own it and they're like various bar.
00:41:54 I don't know. I you gonna say, I mean they had a good, I will say the playlists can get a little stale in the town. Sometimes you tend to hear the same tunes. Oh for sure. There's bars. There's things you can't, you can't hear in the outside world because you've heard it. So. Exactly. In all of these venues you're like, Oh my gosh, they're so many. They had a great playlist. Oh the other place I love is the green hour. You guys been to the green hour in Germantown? Absolute bar. Tiny little joint to chocolate shop during the day. Oh, temperature. Timbered yeah, it's Thursday, Friday, Saturday night. It's an absent bar. Yup. There's a green light bulb that comes on in the window of tempered. Oh, I'm glad it's on that red light bulb. Cause I now look like my hood. That's right. [inaudible] Blood run if down the hallway. But, but that is a fee.
00:42:39 I mean, even if you don't like abstinence, they are amazing. Bartenders make great drinks and but if you want to try absent, that's a great place they do at the flights of absence. And there's this, this is obviously not the real, no, it's real. It's legal. It's legal. Legal now it's been legal only absence bars I've seen are, are, there's one there, there's one in Mona Spain. Yeah. Hey. Yeah. It's legal with the wormwood and all that good stuff. Yeah. And you don't, you don't hallucinate. I've drank a lot of it. There's a great company, actually, there's a company called third stage. What exactly is absent? It's like a, it's sort of a LaCour so it's like a blend of herbs that go into, you know, an alcohol that's sort of a distilled verbal thing. The green is natural light. It's a natural color from some of the actual, like the warm wood, like wormwood and a nice, which gives it like a licorice flavor.
00:43:30 But yeah, this third stage that says local may is Diego [inaudible] monster. Tiny bit, tiny bit. But there's a lot of variation in there. [inaudible] Shit. I'm being nerdy right now. Do Wikipedia. The great Oz is, my dad calls it historically absent described as distilled highly alcoholic beverage, 40 to 70, 45 to 74%. So I need a 148 proof. So yeah, derived from botanicals, including the flowers and leaves of a, some scientific name with the last word, absinthe, IOM grand wormwood together with green, a nice sweet funnel and other fiddles and culinary herbs. Yeah, it's delicious. It's delicious. Yeah. And you take a sugar cube, you put it on a slotted spoon. You drip cold water over it once I had in Italy once, but I love it. I don't remember why it was, but yeah, if you want something local, there's third stage. This, this guy makes it in town. He's actually been on the absence trail lately. I've been following you on Instagram.
00:44:32 Have some trailers. There's a Berman trail now. There's, it's in Switzerland, in France and Tennessee. Yeah. Well, yeah. Okay. But yeah, well, no, I mean, the real, the real trail. There's in Switzerland that makes Tennessee trails, it stops and ends and treasure towns. Right. You have to make a big jump. Yeah.
00:44:51 The German town has a lot. There's a new restaurant that we just saw this week. I think Stuart found it. Somebody knew his,
00:44:59 Oh my God, his, his habits and set that ad straight to him on zipper in those, I love like smoked meat. Yes. That's good. So like they know my Instagram knows that very well and so they're like, Hey, we're just going to push this new barbecue restaurant to you. That's the German town. And I'm like, I looked at their menu,
00:45:19 They have macaroni and cheese, like deep fried waffles. And then they have, I can't remember the other thing I say, was it like pork belly balls or something? Like balls? Yeah. I hope it's not the pig balls, but
00:45:30 Ah, doves. But it's like pork belly, like balls. I think it's like deep fried, like pork belly and Mac and cheese inside of that I believe as well. Yeah. Yeah. So a butcher town halls over there and turn your town. It's a great one. It's like a Mexican German fusion restaurant. So they say that to you. It sounds like bullshit, but it's good. Yeah. Like the guys telling you like what, what the restaurant and you're like, no, no, no, no. Look what, just give me somebody is good. Give me something. The district court, this is about so
00:46:03 Aaron, where did you eat locally? All right, so continuing down the food, train a sewer if you guys are hungry after this episode. Yeah. So sir, now I have been eating a lot of donuts lately. Gosh, Dawn, for our new, our new doughnut video that's going to be up. And so I had donut dog as the place that I would like to nominate for where I've eaten locally. And found on Belcourt road street AV. Yeah, there's a Belcourt taps is over that way. And that chicken restaurant mean there's been a line of spouses that, that are restaurants and everything. Even some that are just new, I think now. But donut and dog, it's been there about two years. And it's, it's really good. They have a lot of wealth decorated and themed donuts even for Halloween and they're done it. Their donuts are like so fancy. You don't want to eat them? No, you really don't. They're coming out with a a nitro cold brew that's called, it's a pumpkin pie. Nitro cold brew with maple foam and
00:47:04 You just got my basic side of me or
00:47:07 Yeah. And the hotdog was really good. It's been named I think one of the best hot dogs in Tennessee. I think reader's digest. Who reads that?
00:47:17 Do you guys read, read your style? I have a few laying around. Okay. Yeah, I know my parents used to read it in day, but I have not seen one of those initials
00:47:25 Long time. Yeah, those quickly gone away. [inaudible] The hotels.
00:47:30 So I also had a donut place, but this is a place Aaron introduced to me a couple of weeks ago. I think we talked about on the podcast almost two weeks ago. And this is donut distillery found on Gallatin pike having been [inaudible] fantastic. They used the miniature donuts and they have one with like Reeses on it and it's just like the donuts are so cute. They also serve beer and then they have, they served beard, they serve like a milkshake. They serve cocktails. And we met their owner Shauna and I mean we'll have her on the show here soon and stuff and I come back when Sheldon is on cause I want to be here when she brings things to her location. Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah. So I mean just a such a unique place and it's one of those things where you just walk in, you're like everything's just great here and they have a fantastic venue.
00:48:21 Yeah. This episode of Nashville daily is brought to you by screened threads, screened threads as they Nashville curious shop located in the historic marathon village. Use code Nashville daily to get 10% off your next line order. Their website is screened, threats.com also mentioned this ad in store and get 10% off as well. I forgot. They also have Chromat coffee there at donuts distillery. Why are they doing everything you could possibly want to have a mural and they have board games for you to play. Then you have board games. They have a, I think locally made sodas. They're, Oh my God, you were checking all the boxes. Yeah. Great. So we have this Epic photo. I'll send it to you, Justin one once. I hated it. I have this miniature donut with the sun glare coming through this donut and behind the mural they have a mural on the building to Epic. So and free parking, free parking. This, it's just a good place. And like, I think it was a $4 for three minutes or donuts, three bucks maybe that much. Right. Preston, they've only been opened up into six months and they're opening two more locations. They're talking about the [inaudible] supposed to reveal that. I'm sorry if I did.
00:49:30 Okay. So Justin, you went to Belmont university, correct? The only person in music to go to Belmont. So how was that debt incurring? No, it was great. So I had
00:49:45 You know, I had another degree from Berry college in Georgia where I'm from. And I studied first English, then psychology and graduated with psychology and did a little music there too.
00:49:57 Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I worked for a couple
00:50:00 Years in like community mental health and I didn't even know that audio engineer was a job. Like I didn't know that was a thing you could do. Oh wow. Yeah, I just grew up, you know, looking at my CD liner notes and wondering what producers were and what engineers were and stuff. So, you know, it was actually my, my piano teacher at the time who was kind of a mentor for sure for me. And he was like, I was telling him how I was working and you know, I was actually running an afterschool anger management program. Interestingly, if you can believe that I'm with kids and teenagers, that was wild and great. That does not seem like you're a [inaudible]
00:50:39 Your cup of butter. Whenever that was a couple of butters, Stewart, it was, it was solid and difficult to swallow. And Paul Dean's new restaurant that's going to be a topper difficult to swallow isn't a Paula Dean store down in [inaudible] in Gatlinburg. There's an entire section on bugger about the size of a table
00:51:01 About, Oh, you know, Reese Witherspoon has Draper James and I think Paula Dean has casual racism like that, right?
00:51:10 And butter, you can't forget the butter plus butter.
00:51:14 So anyway no, I was wondering, I mean do it all. That was great, but I was wanting to do something directly involved with records. You know, I've been a musician for a long time and struggling, you know, or not struggling, but just attempting to make music and write songs. When did you start playing music then? I was a bad piano student when I was about nine and then I took, and then I started playing guitar when I was about 14 and writing songs.
00:51:41 I have a story about, I don't know if I should share on the policy. Okay. So, okay. I had a trumpet teacher, so I played trumpet for a little bit and I had a really bad gut feeling. This is like third or fourth grade had a really bad gut feeling about this guy. And he told me the story. I think I did. Yeah. So I, I told my mom, I'm like, I don't trust this guy. Like I legitimately do not trust this guy a about T. So I quit lessons and then about two years later it he was arrested for being a molester.
00:52:11 Oh yes. Now maybe you guys was story after story tonight. I'm sorry guys. Indexed on the show. [inaudible] Shares. So I started playing piano, student playing guitar. My dad played guitar
00:52:30 And right. Started writing songs, you know, really terrible songs for a long time. And this is like, you know, I got a computer when I was 15, you know, like we got the internet and a computer at the same time, you know? Yeah. Total dial up. Yeah. I mean I was on Napster,
00:52:47 So I used to go. Yeah, yeah. I used to live and I did download some Metallica. Don't tell anybody.
00:52:56 You know, so I would go, you know, I just make stuff, you know, myself and had a couple of friends I messed around with and recorded ourselves or whatever, but I never thought it could be a thing. And then he was like, well, no, you know, you could, you could go back to school and Belmont's the place to go if you want to be an engineer. Oh wow. So I looked and I looked at MTS. You too. But the thing, I think that it's actually the weird thing is, is that I saw that at that time Belmont was using RCA B as part of their classroom. And I was like, that's crazy. And ocean way, which is another amazing studio. And and the Quonset hut, all of these like historic and that sort of tickled a couple, you know, areas for me. Yeah.
00:53:37 And so my wife and I, we got married in college. And so we were looking for a change in general and we were looking to get out of Georgia. We're both from Georgia. Did you guys meet in college? We might. Ed Berry in [inaudible]. Yep. And that was great. And but we were just looking for a change and so we decided to move up here and that was kind of, and so, so I went back to school. I just did two years of Belmont. Okay. did you get your master's then? No, I have two bachelor's degrees. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Let's see. We do stuff. Yeah. So yeah, no, I have two, yeah, two bachelor's degrees, one in psychology and one in audio engineering. [inaudible]
00:54:16 You got all of your gen EDS out of the way? Absolutely. Yeah. But it was great fun. I mean, Belmont I think, you know, definitely all the other schools in the area too. Trevecca MTSS, you all of them. Lipscomb, a lot of the Athens of the South ladies and gentlemen, a lot of good mentors, you know, and everything. And, and so it was a wonderful experience. I got to record a lot and I took full advantage of it, but that was a lot of late nights. You know, I interned at Blackbird, nice porn studios, which is not right. Yeah. Which is not an honor. I mean like anybody can intern there, but it is, it was sort of a [inaudible], you know, it was, it was difficult. Yeah. It was a lot of long hours and stuff and so, you know, it was great and I got to work briefly at ocean way.
00:55:04 And they have amazing people there. I mean, the people at ocean way Nashville, if you want to record it at any studio in this town commercial, please go to where exactly. That's on 17th and edge Hill. Okay. Beautiful little church. Oh yes, yes. Yeah, absolutely. Beautiful old church. Yeah. Great. One of the best you, you as in town, honestly. You heard it from a sound engineer in town. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I love, I love bead the Tet that takes nothing away from B, but but you can't really both be, so there you go. So yeah, that's what Belmont was like. Belmont was wonderful. It was a pleasure. You know, I worked at the health clinic and I worked with a bunch of wonderful women there and yeah, it was just a great talk. It was great. That's awesome. Yeah. All right.
00:55:48 So tell us about your experience in working in wine, the most significant and visited recording studios here in the city of Nashville. Well, what can you say other than it's humbling? Every day. I work for the country music hall of fame and museum, which is a great organization. They do a bang up job with preservation and taking care of all these wonderful places. Literally just as I said them, they, I said that on Tuesday's episode I said that they were the gem of downtown Nashville. Thank you. Yeah, no, really you have to, it's a quintessential place to visit. If you're going to visit town, you have to go to the country meets call game. The only thing I wish they had a little bit differently is like paid interpretive guides instead of just the audio. Huh, sure, sure. Yeah. And like for me, being from the standpoint of tourism, yeah. Giving the amount of people I've given tours, like that's something the audience really wants to. Sure, sure. And so I would love just to have like a one on one experience with [inaudible] the museum. Yeah, absolutely. And I think you can get that at a lot of great museums like the met and places. Oh yeah, you can definitely do that stuff. Yeah. so
00:56:59 I lost track of the question though, so you're fine. This is, yeah. W what's it like working? Yeah, please. Yeah. Well, I was wondering, you know, we talked about some of the pictures that you saw from, from Ken burns thing that you never seen before. Do you find little hidden gyms throughout, something like that? All the time? Yeah. It's great.
00:57:18 I mean the, the couple people I work with, Johnny and Diana every day or both wonderful people and definitely experts. They're fun. They're fun people. Yeah. Johnny Johnny is an absolute genius and and Diana is too especially from like an engineering standpoint and stuff and we just kind of get together and nerd out and I'm really privileged to work with them. So we look at old photos all the time and try to discern like from our chair as engineer's like, what were they doing? What Mike's were they using, what techniques were they using, how are they using the room, all that stuff. So anytime I see a studio image like that and we've gotten really good at identifying what studio, you know, something was taken at, it's, people send us things all the time and say, Oh, I think this is from studio B people.
00:58:04 I mean the equipment lives on. So people are still buying and selling equipment that they've been told came from the studio and it may have, it may not have, you know, so we, we help determine that a lot of times as well. It's interesting. It's interesting cause a lot of, you know, equipment's one of those things that kind of lives forever. But yeah, seeing studio pictures, seeing how everyone was set up, you know, in the same room together, all the musicians and mostly doing live performances, you know, that became the records, you know they would mostly do just take after take, you know, sometimes just a few until they get it right. It's pretty incredible. Can we talk about some of the artists that recorded at RCA studio B? Yeah, of course. You know, of course you have to talk about all of us. So from about 1958 to 1971, he was recording their, of course he bounced around everywhere, but all told he did something, 240 some odd songs in studio B. So a lot of gospel stuff, a lot of rock and roll. A lot.
00:59:07 There's going to be a, Kanye is going to be noticed for his gospel album coming up next is going to be like Elvis, Elvis went rock and then, and then gospel and then out this happening with Kanye, Kanye, me. Now there's a gospel album coming out. It's something we talk about all the time is Elvis, you know,
00:59:21 Only ever won Grammys for gospel music. So
00:59:24 That's actually a, so one of my most beautiful moments in RCA studio B. This is help with you. Last year so almost around this time, right? Almost exactly. Last year at this time. Yeah. So I brought my family in for wedding week and you introduced yourself and you came out and say hi down on my family. And we had, I can't remember who, he had his tour guide, but the tour guide was fantastic. And then there's about 10 of us and then we rang it out privately, RCA studio B, and they played how great that large, and it's just one of the most beautiful moments of my entire life just seeing my family, like singing along to that, like, Whoa, tears hold back. It is yeah.
01:00:07 Do thing. I mean when it, when it kind of lands on you, the songs that were done in there, you know, the Everly brothers dream. Yeah.
01:00:15 So that experience and then also, sorry, I know you're good. How was that Texas? I think the band is Texas and I can't remember the name, but I had a private concert in there with clients before. That was incredible. Oh my gosh, that's incredible. What's a, what's one part of that
01:00:34 You see photos of those archived recordings and sessions. What's one either technique or what's one thing that you wish you could recreate from those, from those images if you had your own session? It's hard not to lust after the extravagant number of Norman microphones that they had. But you know, a technique takeaway. Yeah. The interesting thing about, you know, as an RCA studio, and they had RCA Mike's, but they mostly use the German going into microphones just cause they were basically the finest Mike's being made at the time and today, but even a lot of those vintage ones. So anyway you know, one technique takeaway is from about 1958 to 1971, they only were working with a pretty limited number of channels in there. So we're miking people up together in groups. Yeah. So when they would have the string players, they would have a Mike, which was, you know, in 360 degrees picking up all around itself and they would just surround it with the strings.
01:01:39 It's like, right. Duh, obviously. Yeah, of course you would, you know, and it's things like that and just use saves you money. Yeah. It does. Any time and technical limit technical limitations. I'm not the only person that thinks this, but they are often a good thing for creativity. Right? Because they help you think around problems and come up with novel solutions, right. You're around and you know things that would have just never happened before. Right. But because yeah, these problems happen, there's always going to be a solution. Absolutely. And so they, they usually yield very, very beautiful things. The big takeaway I have is just using room, you know? And so there wasn't a lot of isolation, so each microphone was picking up stuff from other instruments. And so you just, you just work with that. You don't have to have perfect isolation. You say, okay, well some drums are getting into my acoustic guitar bike, whatever. It's, it's fine. It's all the same record. Yeah. At the end of the day, you know what I mean? So you just work with it, you know, you don't need pristine conditions. It's more important that you do something, you know what I mean? Yeah. That's kind of like, it's like don't let anything stop you. That's sort of my take away from, from looking at the history of the studio. It's like, don't, don't, don't worry about it. Just do it. Make a, you make a great record, you know.
01:02:56 Yeah. Just to be a hard question, Justin. No. So let's answer this first. How many songs were estimated to be recorded at RCA studio? B? 35. 45,000. Okay. I'm telling you that 35 to 45,000. Yeah. What are your top three songs that come out of RCA steel? No, that's not too hard. I'll be really hard for me cause I'm like alphas. A lot of good ones. Yeah.
01:03:18 I mean, I love, I love the Roy Orbison records that were done there. Crying, only lonely,
01:03:26 Only the lonely when they play that, the introduction of the tour. Yeah. It's so good.
01:03:30 Running scared blew by you all those it really put Roy on the map finally. And deservedly so I would say, you know, one of those records probably probably, let's just say crying. Okay. Crying's amazing vocal performance by Orbison. And then I would say, you know, I'm, I'm kinda basic with this, honestly.
01:03:55 Did the pumpkin spice studio be songs and we just got our podcast title? It's now or never
01:04:06 By Elvis cause I love that like kind of pseudo Latin beat. And again, another amazing vocal performance. He does a great job. And then I will pick, I will pick a different one. Wilson Pickett did one record at studio B in the early seventies, so we got Elvis, we got Roy and then we'll go Wilson. And I know I didn't pick any country stuff and I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I love Connie Smith. I love Porter Weider I love Dolly Parton. I love George Hamilton, the fourth Abilene. I love Gary Stewart. We did this Willie Nelson and Willie Willie in early part of his career yet. I know this is interesting.
01:04:47 Wouldn't Willie Nelson came to ascend last year? [inaudible] People flooded out. That's interesting. Cause I, I asked somebody, so you know, why is everybody leaving? I said he's just getting old. Oh wow. That's a bummer. I know. I don't like that at all. I know. I'm guessing this is kind of losing stamina. Yeah, that's right. His, his son, Lucas Snell. Someone's son is a studio. Amazing. He's really relatable. And he's, his recent album I think came out like a year ago. Good, good. Yeah, he did a performance
01:05:18 A while back in the summer. Great. anyway. So yeah, Wilson Pickett, he did this one record. It's called ms Lenas boy. And there's a song I'm there. It's a cover of the song Memphis, you know. OK. It's a phone conversation. Long distance information gives me, Memphis, Tennessee helped me to find the party trying to get in touch with me. Okay, great. So yeah. And the drums on that record are primarily a preset from an organ. So it's like [inaudible] Oh, that's awesome. And then I got to meet the guy who was the session drummer on a, that session. His name was Hayward Bishop. He passed away a few years ago. Right after we got to talk to him and he, they had the, the, the drum beat from the Oregon and all he did was play fills around it. Him like playing off this program beat.
01:06:08 It's really cool. Oh my God. Amazing. So yeah, look up Memphis by Wilson Pickett forever. I go listen to that. Yeah. After the show. Yeah. That's awesome. Love it. So you anything else to say about RCA studio before we move on to another topic? I mean, it's incredible. It's amazing that it's still there. And it's really well in preserved, really well preserved that that's one of my big things is that it's one of the best preserved studios of the era for sure. And I mean it, you know, we get so many visitors every year from all over the world, but it never loses the magic, you know, being I think a big part of my job is just preserving the vibe.
01:06:48 You know what I mean? Like it's just got good vibe curator. That's your title. That's it. I'm divide curator going to start telling people that because I'm not really
01:06:58 Dorian, you know? So yeah, I just curated vibes. But yeah, it's just the lyrically and metaphorically.
01:07:06 That's it. Yeah, yeah. Literally a vibraphone. Yeah, I do, but it is a special real place.
01:07:15 And I would just say, you know, in a town full of special places, like it's, it's near, it's near and dear to my heart. I'm so glad. What so glad. Was there a this is before I really started getting into a lot of Nashville history in a lot of the areas of Nashville. I think it was probably maybe four years ago or three years ago. There's a big I remember reading it. It was in all the headlines. There were some part of music row that was trying to be taken away. What was was, it was you know, our neighbor RCA studio. Okay. Which we were, I was thinking of a completely different story but okay. I know we talked about it a little bit earlier. So that, you know, we opened in 57, we only become B when they opened a in 1965 which is a much larger building and it's still in commercial operation now.
01:08:04 Right. But back about 2015 it was bought by a developer and was the intention was to tear it down. Yes. And build condos. And what actually happened was some, some wonderful people stepped in and bought the building from the developer. Why Baal and good for them. And the applause to you because, yeah, Aubrey, Preston I think I curbed family foundations involved there as well as some other folks. So great, great people who I interact with pretty regularly, thankfully. And so yeah, that building roommate has it stolen commercial operation as a studio and a lot of that building to about a third of it is studio I would say. And the rest is office space. So there are lots of interesting people with offices over there now. And so it was always sort of this like meeting place for the music industry.
01:08:54 Wow. and it kind of continues to be that now, so that's awesome. It's a wonderful thing. Yeah. Yeah. It's a really great thing. Well, that's awesome. The story I was thinking of is a recording studio sold under the table during the middle of the night and a developer came in bulldozed it and the people of Nashville like were angry. And there's like a small studio up on 17th Avenue. So I'm like right at the end of 17. So yeah, there were a bunch of, it was very controversial. Yeah. Like I think it went to maybe Supreme court potentially. There were lots of I know where the Virgin hotels being built there now. If that's the spot I'm thinking. I think that's the spot. I'm thinking of two. Oh yeah, they're almost done with that finally. Yeah, it's been, it's taken a while. But yeah, I feel like that ever since I was [inaudible] and yeah, like being, there's a lot of fun right there and like you have to walk over the Midtown or Dimon Bre, inhale to get food.
01:09:51 Pretty much. Yeah. I mean the tie you saying is right there. [inaudible] And tailgate and tailgate. Yeah, eat it. Tailgate a lot. Entice in all the time. Doghouse saloon, which is great. Hotdog location in Nashville. Yeah, there's a few other places, either that or edge Hill pretty much. Or Vanderbilt. That's where we go for food. But yeah, there's ever been a lot in Virginia's market. I have to blow up. You've taken me there like twice. Can we do a video about Virginia's market? We probably [inaudible]. You told me, you told me some of the history right with that, like the, it used to be called murder Mark. Well, people still refer to it that way, but not under the current owners. But in the 90s some people were murdered there and dumped in the dumpster. However, now a very nice, I think they're Ethiopian, Ethiopian family runs. They can paint painted the dumpster.
01:10:36 I don't think it's the same dumpster. So there's a, there's a mafia saying, ah, we paint houses. Do you guys know what that means? No. So back in like Al Capone era, he would talk about like, we're gonna paint some houses. And everyone was like, why? Why is he keep like, why is Al Capone and all these guys talking about painting houses? And so guess what it means? It means you're going to go into their house, you're gonna shoot him up and their blood's going to paint the walls. That's painting a house. So stuff need a dumpster. But Virginia's [inaudible] biscuits every morning. What handmade box gets into construction? What time do they open? I'm pretty early. I'm in the construction. People come in and attack it every morning. So, and then sandwiches for lunch, like, you know, probably six, seven made. They're making them here. It makes them the average Unity's, yeah.
01:11:22 A day makes everything. Pies. She makes pie. She makes cookies. I had no idea that variety of foods, I think time gone. We've bought like six packs together. You could do that. That's also a good thing to do that. But yeah, they used to serve I think there was like a little lunch counter in the bag. Wow. And then for awhile there, like I say, these folks are Ethiopian. They had Ethiopian food back there for a while, but that didn't last. But because it's the market, the demographic when they eat that, cause it's Ethiopian food is primarily hand based code. It just didn't work out for whatever reason. But yeah, they still do the biscuits. [inaudible] Oh man. A couple of bugs. It's great. You know, they have like chicken sausage biscuits. Yeah. All that stuff. Yes. Sausage, chicken biscuit you know, Tenderloin kind of thing, which is what I grew up with a lot.
01:12:10 So yeah, it's great. It's awesome. It's awesome. Country hand. Yep. That's very cool. Justin, you are the host of two podcasts. [inaudible] So Cisco's one and one we won't talk about. Okay. just because, because, because of the work stuff anyway. It's very vulgar and incredibly vulgar. But, but wonderful. And if you listen to the other one, you'll come across the first one cohost with the same, same person. Yeah. My friend Nathan, my good friend Nathan, who is our basic shtick is that he hates everything and I'm kind of positive and so we, that's our thing. And he's a, he's a lovable curmudgeon difficult to love and I'm sort of, you know, not, I wouldn't say new age, but I definitely am like, woo, everything, everything's great, you know Taoism and all that stuff. So yeah, we, we play off of each other nicely and that's really where it started.
01:13:08 We, we started about four years ago, podcasting and our first show or the major, like trends of podcasts, we just beat it, just barely beat it. So for like for, for like three years, you know, not a lot of, I mean we had some wonderful people. We met through the communities, a lot of indie indie podcasters and so we met a lot of great people that way and had some wonderful interactions. We called Sweden when they had a number, you could just call the country and talk to someone in Sweden. That's, that's been shut down at this point. Just like, Hey pie operating put me on the, it was like one 800 Sweden or whatever is like this for like tourism Microsoft. It was, yeah. And so we got a guy who was an immigrant from Kenya and he was stoned and that was great. That was really fun. So Nathan and I have a blast. So then like maybe a year and a half ago, we started this podcast about Bob Ross and the joy of painting a television or we did at our season two finale. So we just started season three or season two finale is both a video and audio version of us painting and failing miserably.
01:14:17 That's all in the most wonderful way. Copy Bob Ross yet? Well, sorta as much as we could. Yeah. I'm just don't do this tree. That's right. Yeah. And then not do the trick, but it's been, that is the show is called nothing. Nothing
01:14:32 But a Bob thing with an a thing. Kind of like nothing but a G thing. And it's been an incredible thing. We were on an NPR.
01:14:44 Oh, that's awesome. The NPR stations, right? Yeah, as well. It's called, it's w PR out of Connecticut. The column McEnroe's show. I have no idea, but it was great. They did a whole show while they did a show about Bob Ross in Thomas Kincade. Ah, the mall
01:15:03 Artists do, you know, with all the little cottages and stuff. But most of it was about Bob. The New York times had come out with a video not too long ago called where all the Bob Ross paintings. This is a great video. You should do.
01:15:16 I saw that on this vehicle. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Watch it. And they were all at Bob Ross incorporated for the most part. Inboxes just packed up, you know? But those was incredible cool people there. But anyway, they know it's going to be worth a lot. Yeah, let's just, let's just keep holding on to it and making a Netflix things.
01:15:33 I don't think, you know, selling them was ever really Bob's thing. You know, he really wanted to teach people and inspire people and, and so Rogers and painting. Yeah, exactly. And so we, we definitely poke fun at Bob, but we also, we, we do love him at the same time and are genuinely amazed by him. So yeah, like I said, we just started season three, nothing but a bop thing.
01:15:53 That's amazing. You guys follow along with the painting and then we do specials.
01:15:57 We do specials in between to entertain ourselves and hopefully entertain others as well. But it's a, yeah, it's a, it's a, it's definitely a loving poke. That's sort of the, the stance of the show. And it's been great. The response has been incredible. We got invited up to Muncie, Indiana, which is where they recorded the original Bob Ross stuff. There's something going on there called the Bob Ross experience. Nice. That sounds fun. Yes. Where they have the original studio and these, these wonderful folks, they're doing an Indiegogo right now actually. Oh, very trying to raise money to finish it so you can visit where they shot the joy of pain. They have one of his easel, some of his brushes and paints and some of the paintings they didn't, they didn't keep them
01:16:39 Fro did they? They didn't keep us. That'd be amazing. So that became like the mannequin. Yeah. Right. I'm sure you can put one on that. That became
01:16:50 The weird thing for Bob cause they, I think it, I think it became like an albatross at a certain point. You know, he like, he didn't [inaudible]
01:16:57 Want it anymore, but it was a branding thing. We had to keep it, you know, I understand. I understand. I've built my entire business. You've got the beard. I understand. I usually have this hat that I wear, but I'm not wearing it today. So yeah, it's been
01:17:10 A wonderful, we've met so many great people. Our friends, they load Dave out in California, sent us supplies. He does Bob Ross paintings and send us a little painting that he made as well. So it's been a wonderful treason. It's cool trees there. You get a full, yeah, we're gonna need mountains or waterfalls and mountains, water of everything. Everything you could want. So yeah, I recommend that show for sure. I think we do a good, a good job. And you'll find out about the other show if you listen to that one. Yeah. If you can't get it up just to just remind people one more time where they can find your podcasts and what the name of it is. That way everywhere, everywhere podcasts are found. And if you're on Stitcher too, I think we are also on Stitcher. Yes. Which is nothing but a Bob thing.
01:17:56 And if you want to go to Twitter, it's at Bob underscore thing pod. That's my friend Nathan manages that. Also trying to tweet as well. So go find us all on there. Yup. Any other social media links people can follow you at? You can find me at sushi jackknife on Twitter. I do have an Instagram, but it's like, it's kind of my you more in the Twitter, the Twitter sphere, a bit of both. I mean I try not to get completely working. People follow RCA studio B. Yeah. Pretty much everything is at RCA studio B. Oh no, sorry. At studio B studio B. Dot. Org is for more information. So yeah, you should try that as well. Awesome. Justin, we appreciate you [inaudible] been a great episode. Yes. Yeah. I love you guys. We all to say thank you. Yeah, we'll be doing this again for sure. We enjoy having to, I think we'd love to be here, Bob Rouse episode.
01:18:47 Sometime you get Nathan and you can, you can understand what I'm talking about. People will be confused. Like which podcast are we listening to? [inaudible] Podcast. It's collaboration, right? That's important. Yeah. Awesome. Well we appreciate you having, having you on again. Thank you so much and we look forward to having you back on this. The national daily podcast. We are on Twitter X PLR underscore Nash. So we Instagrams, we Instagrams, we tweets, we tweets, dues it all to cite us on to YouTube. The YouTube, the YouTube saysX , P L R. Dot. Nash, paint some houses. [inaudible] House says, guys, all right. So events city is in full blown swing this weekend. So make sure to capture a Nashville event and we'll see you guys on Monday.