The Tone Mob Podcast
1) Tommy Emmanuel!!!!
This episode is sweat, wood, and wire. Tommy Emmanuel explains why he plays for the humans in the seats, not the guitar forum in the balcony. How youthful shred became musical conversation. How he bu...Show More
2) A Mall For Musicians?
This week on the podcast I'm talking to Ryan Lynn of Eastide Guitar Repair, Hank Failing of Hank's Music Exchange, and Brad Boynton of Rhythm Traders. All of these exceptional musical entrepreneurs ...Show More
3) Bark at the Moon: Inside Moon Guitars with Kyle Wolfe
Blake sits down with Kyle Wolfe of Moon Guitars to chart the journey from teenage Van Halen brain-melt to full-tilt luthier madness. Kyle gets “voluntold” into his cousin’s repair shop, learns the cr...Show More
4) How Beetronics Got Everyone’s Attention
Beetronics didn’t just buzz onto the scene—they showed up in beekeeper suits and rewired how pedal brands think about vibe. In this episode, Filipe Pampuri tells the whole wild arc: teenage studio rai...Show More
5) Coils, Swords, and High Gain w/ Ricky Sutton of Arcana Pickups
Ricky Sutton of Arcana Pickups rolls in to talk metal, hand-wound voodoo, and why the word “influencer” sounds like something you catch at a gas-station bathroom. He grew up in rural Tennessee, moved...Show More
6) From Elvis to Extreme Metal: A Chat w/ Taylor Danley
Metal YouTuber and fellow Oregonian Taylor Danley shows up with riffs, opinions, and a tube-amp habit that could brown out a neighborhood. We trace the path from Elvis ukulele kid to extreme-metal lif...Show More
7) The 1-800 Number That Built Mojotone
Mojotone has been “that place that has everything” for decades—but how did a parts house become an OEM powerhouse? Blake talks with Mojotone’s Andy Turner and Michael McWhorter about the wild ride fro...Show More
8) How Parrotdice Guitars Became Portland’s Favorite Weird-Gear Hang
Some kids take apart toys. Jay Sasseen popped the backplate on a red Squier and never looked back. That curiosity turned into Parottdice Guitars, a Multnomah Village spotwhere weird gear and rad peo...Show More
9) Matt Parker vs. The Bass VI: Strings, Mods, and Mayhem
Matt Parker plays bass like a guy who read the manual and then set it on fire for warmth. We talk the strange magic of the Bass VI: why the new Squier Classic Vibe fixes the old headaches, and which m...Show More
10) From Dead Radios to Living Tone: The Origin of R2R Electric
Chris Vincent (a.k.a. DJLavalamp) joins the podcast to tell the story of how a punk kid with a busted guitar wound up building some of the most coveted point-to-point, vintage style guitar pedals on ...Show More