Bee Sound Podcast

Today we welcome Adam Ivy, an American music producer, brand strategist, professional YouTuber, award winning creative marketing specialist, and founder of SellMusic.com has established himself as an authority in the online business world.

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Today we welcome Will Stenner from DiscoverYouRadio.com an internet radio station. Discover YOU RADIO LLC Broadcasts out of Fort Collins Colorado and is dedicated to helping build a better community. We believe in Being Good To People and doing our part to make someone else's day a better one.   

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Today we welcome Cora and Fred from Milwaukee Wisconsin based band Ratbath. Their bio describes the band as “All queer, all the time, Spooky Country Core”. Their Debut album Rat From Hell comes out on Feb 18. We discuss the making of the album, finding your audience, and meet the dogs of the Rat Bath family.  

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Today we welcome Matthew N Thomas, Mr Thomas works with photography and videography and claims nothing genuinely brings him joy like getting behind and in front his camera. Matthew currently creates sketches on tiktok, vlogs on YouTube and posts photography on Instagram. His business 13th Hour is designed to help you create great videos. We discuss being an extra on a television production, creating content, creator vs artist, and ways to get comfortable on camera. 

Todays discussion is with Linda AKA The Gamer Girl who is a YouTube creator. We discuss overcoming our fears to become and authentic authenticity.  Plus we talk about some of the problems of being on a public platform like cyber stalkers and content take downs. 

Today Dan speaks with the author of 'The Tragedy of Being Good' Henry Forshaw who claims "It's never too late to be redeemed, having tried to nurture my way out of shame and guilt I found this approach to be of limited use alone. Now I am getting results by facing my fears, expanding my comfort zone, embracing pain and discomfort and not taking no for an answer."  

In this episode Dan speaks with Cameron Leehey of the industrial prog metal band POLYACHi. Formed in 2011, POLYACHi are a duo of cousins:  Schuyler Leehey (Singularity Warning, Of Conscience, Paradox) and Cameron Leehey (Mopium, TenTonHalo, Black Tooth Grin, Silver Lyning). For ten years, they wrote and recorded dozens of songs which they consider a time of gestation.  There were no gigs, no official releases.  During the pandemic the band built a studio and learned how to operate it and currently recording 2 EPs right now: EVERY LiTTLE BiT HURTS & THE SiCKNESS GETS WORSE.

James Deighan is an entrepreneur and founder of 3 startups including At Mega Cat Studios, where "getting it right creatively" is the guiding principle of their development strategy. Mega Cat is a creative first development house for high engagement, high-quality gaming experiences. James is a champion of opportunities that take the his studio to the next level of commercial and critical success delivering audience engagement through game mechanics that bring iconic worlds to life. Some say James is a business founder or video game enthusiast. When you get down to it, he is a leader, a technician, a marketer and a teacher. 

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Today we are speaking with Dames Marvs aka Damon Marvin. Damon is a Musician, Comedian, Writer, Actor, Producer, and owner of LOCH 22 Productions which handles Music production, Art Design, Web Design, Event Coordination and other creative ventures. He is also working with the online entity known as Project-Nerd.

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Joe Sherman is a longtime Nintendo player who discovered the world of homebrew NES games in 2017, but never thought he could make one of his own. He found "NESmaker" in 2018, and became one of their earliest supporters. Joe has created three main projects: "Turtle Rescue," which Gamemaster Howard Phillips awarded "Best Game" in the NESmaker 2019 Byte-Off competition, "Turtle Party," a two-player battle of mini games, and finally "Turtle Paint," an interactive coloring book, which is currently on Kickstarter!

Todays guest is Brian Barr and Noah Koester of the Doom Metal band Aseethe. We discuss their gear, keeping relevant during a pandemic, and recording at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio.  

Aseethe’s Throes is a work of corrosive beauty and colossal weight. The trio of guitarist/vocalist Brian Barr, drummer Eric Diercks, and bassist/vocalist Noah Koester craft tectonic slabs of doom through minimalist approaches to composition. Minutely selected textures built on simplistic, repetitive motifs become mountainous. With each cycle of repetition, their towering riffs, bludgeoning drums, and inhuman howls become increasingly hypnotic and reveal subtle intricacies. The recursive nature of their songs coupled with their glacial pacing make masterful use of restraint to create moments of genuine surprise. On Throes, these elements coalesce into songs as detailed as they are visceral and scathing.  

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Today we speak with Ursula Burger, known affectionately as Ursie Wursie, is a children’s author with a passion for simplifying the complexities of the adult world.  She aims to enrich relationships within families through her passion for rhymes.  Ursula is committed to finding resources to improve the lives of homeless veterans, teens, and animals.  Her books encourage conversation between adults and children.

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Cigar chomping Matt Bacon is a consultant, A&R man, and journalist specializing in the world of heavy metal. Matt has worked with everyone from glam rock icon Phil Collen of Def Leppard to rock legends Coven by way of legendary thrashers Exhorder as well as labels including Prophecy Productions, Artoffact Records and Ripple Music. Far from simply trying to work with the biggest acts he can find, Matt has dedicated his life to helping young bands develop. Having started his own blog at the age of 14 he views his career in artist development as ‘a hobby that got out of hand.’ In 2015 he formed Dropout Media in order to better support the artists he loves. In the last year he has used his daily Instagram video series ‘Bacons Bits,’ and his podcast ‘Dumb & Dumbest,’ to give bands advice in an easily digestible way. With countless tours booked, records released, and deals signed, he loves every minute of it.

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In this episode of the Bee Sound Podcast, I speak with Josh Terry. We discuss his background as a musician, how he got into podcasting and ended up in the cryptocurrency space, as well as mental models. His project, Josh Terry Plays on TikTok is a place to explore new areas of personal development and thought leadership. Josh Terry's podcast is an incredibly diverse experience that tackles different aspects of self-development and life in general. He dives into Bitcoin, interviews people from all sorts of industries about countless topics such as entrepreneurship and more. If you're looking to expand your mind, Josh Terry's podcast is a good place to start.

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Ray is also known as Transcending Me on TikTok and creates content for people who would like to go deeper into discovering themselves, but without any of the excess baggage, dogma, and rules that come along with traditional organized religion. He seems to be interested in creating a space for those who are already on the path of self discovery, and want to go further.  

Thom Calhoun is a musician and record/audio engineer from western New York state. In this episode of the Bee Sound Podcast, Thom talks about being in Grunge band Asswater, his time in the band Hord, coping with anxiety, his start in the industry, recording bands and how he does it from his home known as Asswater Studio.   

"Philosopher Warrior. Rearrange your DNA and stop wasting time." These are the words on Kip Hartley's LaughingTruth TikTok page which seem to sum up what he does quite well. Kip is a believer in the hero's journey and how it relates to all of our present day lives. In this episode we discuss why the journey is so important as well as philosophies and techniques used to help get your life on a better track no matter where it is at now. The standout moment for me personally is when Kip shares meeting a Zen master and what happened when he tried to see if he could knock the master off his game. The truth of the matter will have you laughing. Maybe thats where Kip gets the name "Laughing Truth"?

Iowa artist Casey Hulteng and I discuss his projects as Rainbow Eater as well as his other musical project American Emergency. Mainly we stick to Recording, Mixing, and Mastering audio, the trials and tribulations of the working class engineer. Finding mentors and the journey, glorious and grinding along the way.   

Making music since the mid to late 90's, Casey Hulteng has developed a sound that can best be described as experimental with drum and bass at it's base. From there Casey has added an assortment of styles and sounds creating a unique and sometimes eerie atmosphere to his tracks. The American Emergency band was created in order to emphasize this theme, with dark lyrics, and a dark atmosphere.  

Casey Hulteng is an author, musician, and DJ with a extensive background in audio engineering, a passion for music, and a love of the arts. He has worked closely with various artists across many genres to achieve the highest standard of music. Casey has experience recording and listening to music ranging from classical compositions to heavy metal. His interests also range from playing video games to making short films. His latest project, Rainbow Eater is the endeavor of Casey Hulteng. It is as complex as it is simple- an all instrumental exploration of self, music, and life. Rainbow X Eater creates a unique blend of trance music and art. Featuring heavy breakdowns, stark contrasts between light and dark moments, and writing that weaves in traditional psychedelic themes with modern applications of metaphysics and spiritual concepts.  

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Edward Madison is someone I met at a mutual gig who radiated kindness and passion for the art he was involved in. At this particular show he was playing in a cover band while simultaneously recording a multi-cam version of our show together which he edited and sent to our band out of pure generosity. This sparked a friendship which we started to discuss things we had in common such as guitars and gaming. Ed also had a podcast which I was a guest on twice so far and his relaxed and inviting attitude is a big inspiration for how I have been trying to conduct this podcast.   Check out Ed on the web  

In this episode I had the privilege of speaking with one of my guitar heroes Gary Lee Conner, a founding member of the Screaming Trees. Along with Gary's brother Van Conner on bass, Mark Pickerel behind the drums, and Mark Lanegan with his classic vocals The Screaming Trees went on to find Major label success with their single "Nearly Lost You" in the early 1990's. In this episode we discuss classic Screaming Trees, from their humble beginnings to their years on SST Records, and onto Sony. We discuss things like how he came to work with Mike McCready of Pearl Jam and Layne Staley of Alice in Chains as well as how Mark Lanegan may have lost the master tapes to The Screaming Trees earlier works. 

This is the genesis of how the podcast came to be. Call it the pilot episode. So it's only fitting we include this conversation with Steve Albini at the number one spot on the episode list. For those of you who are curious, Steve Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman and Flour, and is a member of Shellac. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago.