Garza Podcast - 199 - Fender 7 String, Favorite Mastodon Riffs & Hair Routine

Episode Date: September 22, 2025

Garza is back for a solo episode. Diving into his new guitar, answering Patreon questions & much more.SPONSORS:https://neuraldsp.com USE CODE: Garza for 30% OFF!00:00 - John Goblikon & Positivity02:30 - Fender 7 String18:01 - Patreon Q&A: Top 3 Amps33:16 - Patreon Q&A: Books & Alex Hormozi41:22 - Patreon Q&A: Home Studio45:58 - Guilty Pleasure: Fuel52:00 - Hair Care Routine57:08 - Making It // Golden God Awards1:03:44 - Favorite Mastodon Riffs1:10:24 - Hot Take: Mom Drivers1:15:30 - Weekend Plans // Bill Burr1:19:42 - Training Jiu Jitsu 1:20:34 - Drummer Episode Next Week!

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Yo, good morning, good evening, good night. I'm just going to go straight into the hot heat to avoid a ramble. I think there's a lot of, I'll touch on it quickly, but just we released the episode with John Gobicon and I think that episode was pure, positive, into the planet, into the internet, into the YouTube sphere, especially at a time where,

man, a lot has happened since, this is probably by far the most that has happened from update to update. So a lot of, I think a lot of negative stuff is out right now.

And I think the John Galbaconda is always at the perfect time because that week was, the internet was, was more negative than, usual so that is kind of funny how that episode dropped it was just pure just funny out there so we're going to continue to do that in a time where people were just being super negative or whatever opinion you might have so yeah I got shout out to John man he he's a funny guy he is a funny guy man

hour and a half flew by people have been saying maybe we should do more of a collab uh it's definitely something we should uh maybe talk more about but uh Elephant in the room. I'm going straight into the hot heat. We got a new addition to the Fender Semicring family. It's right next to me. So we're just going to go right into it. I promised when we made the couple posts that I'll do the specs.

So we're just going to go on. We're going straight through the hot heat. The hot specs. This thing, dude. should I plug this thing? No, I'll keep it plugged in. Another Fender, seven string stratacaster.

Boom, look at this thing, dude. It's fucking beautiful, man. The paint job is pearl white. And if you look at it in a certain angle, I guess the proper term is lavender.

So it's like this like hints of purple in there Which is kind of cool So they go with a pearl white It's I want people to see this from like a mile away Just like that fucking just that hot That hot lavender You know what I'm saying? So the paint job came out perfect

It's it's just clean Clean clean And like the past two Semistrings We literally We ham picked the wood so this is straight up

mahogany past two were also handpicked I went there in person in Corona we literally went to like the I don't know what do you call it a wood room where the wood is doing what is doing it's being wood so with the goal

I guess this sound even more geeky like you always could ask do you want like a lighter wood because it's a very common thing that people want people want these light woods I get it you don't want it to like break your back especially get older um i'm hitting 40 in less than three months so i'm like nah i want this guitar to be even heavier than the previous two so we literally uh

picked the heaviest piece of mahogany that we could find and we took it around the warehouse and had people kind of look at it and like oh this is a fucking good piece of wood so we pick the heaviest one and it's it's solemn man one it's it's The specs are identical to the purple one, except for a couple small things. Obviously, the color, the headstock is flat because I learned the last one that with the gloss, it kind of glosses over. You know, so it's just a flat. There's no, the wood is unfinished, so if you want to rip, you can rip. one knob

three-way switch bare knuckle aftermaths same pickups as the past two I love them again Fender Hardtail Bridge I think I'm the only one I am the only one on the planet that has Fender Semichring with a Fender

Hard Tail Bridge so there's only two on the planet and I have both of them so same thing one plight I like the I like the one-ply pick and I chose a I don't know if you could see it but I chose like a thicker ply so it's it's a fucking massive piece of a of a of a pick guard and pretty cool you got the and the back you got these really cool uh I call them a new metal access because if I'm up here dude I'm gonna I'm doing some freaking new metal leaves so uh

Yeah, people will usually use these for like, you know, doing solos. But man, I call this the new mental access here. If I'm up here, dude, look at that. It's perfect. So it's pretty cool. This originally came from the Ultra. A little bit more access, a little bit more comfortable, you know. As you can see, I can really, I can really get up there.

If I want to get super, you know, 1999 creepy, I could do that. Or you want to do some solos or sweeps. You can also do that as well. And the neck, again, similar. Kept it fat. It's, I, I hear from their engineer, Jesse, that the neck is based out of an ultra. But when you take that shape and then you put it into like a seven string, it just, just something about it, it feels, it feels big. this is this is a big big boy but uh so yeah fat neck i think fat necks equals fat tone so it's kind of my

mindset and approach to it but there's just some this is some reason like when i play with this neck at first it was awkward but i learned from the purple one that just felt in love with this neck shape so again we're talking you want to go you know everyone's going thinner Everyone wants these thin necks. But no, I want I want a fat neck. But it's very comfortable. And everyone that plays this like,

like, oh, okay, this is different. Interesting. Then they actually fall in love with it. I'm actually seeing people play this guitar and play the purple one. Oh, this. And they want it more. They want it on the other guitars.

So pretty cool. Obviously, it's a hard tail. So the string through. Maple Neck, Ebony Freeport. 26.5 is the scale length. So it's not exactly a baritone, but it's not standard. There's something about the 26 and a half. I just can't explain it.

I can't put worse to it. It holds the tuning better. There's something about the chugs. When I had guitars, it had the 27th, there's just something about it I didn't like when we were doing like tremolo picking, or speed picking or death core picking, I guess, however you want to call it. But there's something about the 26.

and a half that just feels right and still kind of maintains that uh that sound so at ebony fretboard 24 frets uh we learned from the from the first semi string that uh to put it's mandatory to put uh jumbo uh stainless steel frets because they put i think it was what was it nickel i think it was nickel and those these first two frets were just destroyed within uh uh like the first year. So we learned from that that the stainless steel can handle like the punishment.

And you know, I'm a rhythm guy so, you know, their friends are pretty worn out around here. You know, but that's fine. All these were untouched. But that's just my personal plane. Locking tuners,

all offender's hardware. I love it. I've tested it out on the road. So everything is Fender. I don't put anything weird besides the pickup. but uh what am i missing oh yeah and the only difference also uh on the purple and the number one is those are both uh bone nuts and this one is a word that i can't i can't pronounce but uh

i think it looks cooler what is it it was like what they say like musk or some musk some kind of a some kind of weird but I don't know it sounds awesome looks freaking sick dude awesome yeah there there it is dude number three seven eight years

in the making I think this guitar is officially in my eyes and with the feel and the sounds I think this is perfected from the first one that was built by Carlos Lopez

he he went on to uh he moved on from from fender and then went on to to create his own brand casadoza guitars uh when was it wow it's been a wow it's been a few years during the pandemic and that that guitar company actually blew up so really proud of carlos he uh really he did the first drawing and uh that was kind of like our foundation to where I got approached by a hobby or Cuba and Gumby from Fender to do number two. So we kind of built off that, but also at the same time, like reversed engineer a few things because I wanted to do like some stuff that are different, like the access. The neck placement was moved, I think, higher than the first one.

So once I got the second one, I was like, oh, this is like, this is it. And then I learned from my life. I think we, I've talked about this before as artists and as players and humans, like, we'll like, like, we'll have the magic that's in our hands. Then we'll just like, we'll keep experimenting. So what gets us there is what also how we'll lose, uh, that, that special sauce. So I learned from the last one, don't experiment, but works, works. And so I really kept this.

It's almost identical. Like the neck shape, like the placement of everything, like the pickups, the scale length, like the woods, like the stainless steel. Everything is perfect. Just, you know, experimented with the paint job because, you know, obviously the most important thing is how it looks. So Fender killed it. Thank you for going to be in Obior, Cuba, for building this thing, man. It's freaking beautiful, man. I think the next step is to jam it.

Is that to get a couple chugs? And this thing is heavy. Like, all three of these guitars are heavy. Like, if you ever held, like, a piece of mahogany, like, it's a very heavy word. It's probably, actually, we should probably look it up somehow. If it's, what's the heaviest piece of wood? I want to say it's mahogany.

Or what, we have black, Ironwood. What, what's that? Consider the heaviest and densest wood. African blackwood. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's very dense. And this is a very dense. Like, we're like, we'll like knock on it. Like, okay, put, like your head head to it. And like, it's a very heavy piece of wood. They have like a very popular wood right now is like bass wood. It's super light. Kind of feels like a toy trying not to talk smack. But hey, you want to. You want to. You want a bass wood for the next one? I'm like, fuck no, dude. Fuck no. I want to have you. I want to break my back. I want to be in a wheelchair by that to Mount 50 because of this thing.

Because the sound is very important. So, uh, let's freaking chug this thing, dude. See how it sounds. He's freaking sick, dude. Play's perfect. Play's freaking perfect. Sounds perfect. Still does.

It doesn't seem real. This completes. I like to complete things. in threes. I call them the trifecta. So this completes the trifecta. We got the first one, the old school looking one. We got the purple one.

And now we have the, I think this is the closest to the finished. I don't know what else I would do. I mean, it's literally perfect. It is perfect. And also again, I mentioned with the purple one. You know, I'm going to need to mention it again, but this is

This is out of my hands and in your hands. I'm going to leave this out to the universe If you want this thing, I mean, you got it to a fender. I mean, obviously like the dream is to make this model a signature It just needs to come from you guys really, and I do need your help, so I even like selfishly obviously I want it for myself but I mean you know fuck me I mean it's if if you guys talk if they see ifender sees that there is a demand for this uh I think and I'm confident that they will listen in time so we just got to keep keep bugging them keep trying um I ain't going to go anywhere obviously this podcast is out every week.

We're on the internet every day. So we're going to keep pushing this thing. I'm going to repeat myself again and again. But this thing is fucking sick. This is, if you were to put the two words hot heat into a shape, this is hot heat. This is what hot heat looks like. You know what I'm saying?

It's fucking beautiful, man. It really is heavy. so yeah as always shout to fender and thank you for uh man they didn't even exist at a time it's so weird that like i remember like talking to him and like hearing nose that no maybe like we'll like try we'll talk to some builders and hearing knows and maybes and years past years past patience and now now there's three of them fucking pretty cool man and uh and thank you for commenting every time we put out videos with the seven strings you guys comment and you like it and uh it looks really fucking cool so so thank you for the support all right i think we could uh

i learned from the last few uh to avoid uh ranting and wasting time let's just go straight into the fan questions and then see see what happens because i push the fan questions later and i go into rants and then i promise jade it's going to be a short episode than an hour 40 flies by oh my gosh i'm sorry so let's just go straight so these questions are from our our patreon let's do the first one cream corn with two k's from our patreon uh to be more specific this is from our discord which i'm on uh it's the only place that i am consistent on i am on discord every day it's only place i actually read like comments and stuff but okay cream corn here we go. What are your top three favorite amps of all time? And also he asked, would you also,

and also, would you ever have the case you strain on the podcast? Vince is pretty picky. I try and I will continue to try. And eventually he might say yes or he might not. But yeah, this is a really good, great question. Top three favorite amps. of all time. And obviously, you know, there's a style of music that we're in. So I'm going to be naturally drawn to, we're going to talk straight, just heavy tone.

The number one, like the first amp I plugged into and like this is the heavy tone. And I think this is number one. It's the PV 51-52. That app is just, and now it's become like, a classic sound it's an era it's uh it's now a classic amp which is really a trip but nothing sounds like this amp i'm you're talking like this literally created like deathcore whatever

edie van haenlain did or peb did i mean dude like it it just it created a sound and genres it's just That tone. I don't know what they did, but I wonder if Eddie knew what he was doing. Because, I mean, this went on. If you were a heavy band, you were going to get this amp. You were going to get it. I wonder what, uh, conception real quick. The PV 5150 was based on the Saldano 100,

which Eddie Van Hanlon was using at the time. interesting seldono that's an amp I never really jammed before but I think we you know what I never thought about this until right now

I think I think there's some tracks on the cleansing that uses a Solano like for it overdubbing I think we use a Solano and I didn't realize that until right now

sometimes things will just come to you that's crazy but to me I think that's When I plugged into the amp, that was the sound. That was it. And I still plug into the amp right now. And it's like, oh, that's the sound.

I do own a 51, 52. It's in my house. At some point, I want to, with the quad cortex, I do want to capture it. Trying to find, like, a time where we take it to a studio and actually capture it. Because for some reason, when we capture an amp sound, I like the sound of the capture better for some reason. I'm not sure what it is. And I think that people said back in a day, they're both great amps. They're both great.

But people always, Jay is literally reading my fucking mind. It's crazy. People always compare these two amps. And to me, people will compare the 51 51 and the 51.52. I think they're different amps. both great but people will try to tell me that uh oh they're the same thing like they they don't sound different i think they're so different dude like i'm not sure what it is about the two um i think there's like some more i think uh some more a little bit more gain a little bit tighter

bottom in i think something yeah then you go into forums and people are just saying a bunch of gibberish Like someone said here The 51-52 is a little less aggressive But more versatile I mean this person could suck my wiener dude It's so aggressive man It is crazy But

But the first PV was on a lot of A lot of bands in the 90s were jamming it And it sounded incredible I think like you're talking like Machine Head When I was a kid like a lot of the the Orange County

Illinois Empire hardcore bands metal bands were using like the one and it had a sound it really had a sound you want to check it out check out

throw down the first record beyond repair for some reason that really captured that sound in era where like when I think

50.50, I think that sound. And when they do top string riffs or breakdowns, I think this came out, when it's come out, Jay, I want to say it's 99. It's, I think it's 99. Yep, March 23, 1999. It just captures that era. There's just something about that record in particular where it just captures something. something is that it's the as Roba Robinson would say uh the ghost um yeah check out that record

if if you want to know what i'm talking about as far as like the like the guitar sound and when they play breakdown just has that fucking that thing but me personally i didn't connect to it um it was it was the two and uh again once uh suicide sounds came out uh everyone bought the two as it was crazy to see it but it's a great amp i still have it i still use it uh my goal in the future we'll see where it goes i want i want to make a real like a real capture of it and put it in the uh in the quad and maybe one day maybe one day i'll make it available that'll be sick so okay so we're we're talking top three that's my number one number two again kind of similar thing with with the one and the two it's with the the mesa

boogie rectifier it's the 90s version it's it's the two channel version and uh people swear by the duel it's sick but i always went to triple i've always loved the mesa boogie two channel triple And it just had again, like a little, it's something that I can't explain. Like, I'll play the duel. I'm like, okay, it's cool. It's sick. And a lot of bands would use it.

But no one talks about the triple. There's like something happened where people kept talking about the duel. And I personally, again, I never understood it. I always went to two channel 90s triple wrecked. And also, obviously, obviously, obviously I'm the new metal guy. So, you know, I'm like, I'm like looking at all of these videos. I'm seeing, you know, what is, uh, what is, uh, what is, uh, you see the fucking

two channel triple rectifier. And that's exactly why I bought that amp was because of corn. And I'm looking at West Borland. I'm like, I love what, West Borland's tone. What is he using? Oh, it's the Mesa Boogie triple wreck two channel, not the dual. And I'm looking up. Darren from System.

I see like overduees of him. Oh, he's playing like the triple. I mean, there's something about that sound. Also like a kind of connect the era to it. Some of the more recent bands, I guess, I would use them at some point. Me and Mark were using the two channel triple. Pat O'Brien, formerly of Cannibal.

He was using the triple. One day I got really drunk. and I approached Pat O'Brien and asked him if, the rumor is he used a dual, but I want to say he used a triple, if you look really closely. Or maybe he did. Or maybe he's both.

But something, my favorite guitar tone is horns. I mean, I'll just be afraid up. But one day I got really drunk and I approached Pat O'Brien and asked him if I could play his amp. And sure enough, the next day, the next afternoon, he said, what's up, dude? Come up here.

jammed it oh it was so sick and he actually taught me because people are always trying to put like rules to like guitar tone and stuff but he taught me like i looked at his settings and then games at 10 and he had uh they were using like the middle zone pedal that's cranked them oh yeah there's no rules like you don't people say like i got you know cut back on your gain and all like this this pussy shit oh yeah you don't there's no rules like it like put put the knobs where it sounds good that that kind of like reinforced a mindset that I still use today the corn is I mean that's my I mean obviously it's my favorite band and I always go to like that tone I go like those old core videos I'm like damn this is something about this is something about them at some point they're using the three channel I think it was later on in their

career okay now what's the now what's the third top okay so 51-50s 52. Mesa boogie two channel triple wreck. I don't care what the I don't care what the forums say. I don't care about what the comments say.

That head is sick. Now what's top three is where it gets interesting. Now what was the third one? There was a time where I was just washing dishes at my first job. And I was just taking that money in and I was just recycling gear on eBay at the time it was recycler.

I wonder if I ever owned a line six head. Line six at the time was pretty sick. If you're like just starting, you get like just your instant tone. Like, oh, there's this, what was the head I was pretty stoked on? The third one is tough. Nothing's coming to my brain. I don't know. Yeah, what's, oh, yeah.

My first head was a carvin. That was my first half stack, a carving. You know what? I wish I kept that head. And as I get older, I see other bands use carving. It's actually the one to the far right. That's literally, that's my first half stack. Is that one?

I think MTS, right? MTS 3200 100 100-50 watt tube ant That was my first half stack You know what? I'll put that at number three I wish I kept that ahead I really wish I kept it

Because at the time I didn't know what a two-screamer was If I put a fucking two-screammer in front of that thing And a fucking fender semistraming strat I mean You're talking being horned up to a point where you just might pass out. I mean,

dude, you know what, one day, I might rebuy this amp. Man, I haven't thought about this amp in a long time. And then I get older, I see a lot of people were using this amp and putting it on their records. Fuck.

Jay, what was your first amp? Damn, my first amp? Honestly, it was spider a spider like the little head I forgot probably the spider two spider two yeah

ooh that's all yeah I mean oh dude I'm kidding kind of horned up I still argue dude that you could get a sick tone out of this oh totally yeah

I have a spider two combo in my room it's sick it's got everything cleans you know a little crunch little uh Tube scream type tone and then insane. I never touched insane mode, but you know. Dude, insane's worn up. I mean, dude, this might be the best first amp you can get.

Yeah, hell yeah. I mean, you're, you're gonna get a sick tone. You're gonna turn on, plug in, boom. That's it. Effects, all kinds of effects. It's just everything you need, reverb. That is everything you need. Wow.

Yeah, everything else is just being spoiled or something. Yeah. You know what, dude, I'm selling my. quad cortex you know i'm going straight line six yeah it's sick dude it's really sick cool i think uh yeah i think that's the top three um hopefully that helps you uh let's go to you let's go to you the next question thank you cream corn next page patreon question from my nisa she's been a supporter since day day one um okay all right nisa from our our patreon discord what are you reading Have you always been a reader or did you start as an adult?

I can nerd out on book discussions as bad. As bad or worse than I can about music. We all know I'm a nerd here. Hell yeah. Okay, we talked about this prior. What age is an adult? Because I want to say I started as an adult. But what's that age?

I started when I was 27. 26 27 is when I started like full on you're talking once I started I read every morning and I could count with like the I could count with probably one hand mornings that I missed for many years it was every morning I put a book in my face it's boring as that sounds I think it was 20 I want 26 27 it's one day I just accepted it I mean you know what dude You're an idiot. He and you. You got to do something, man.

You got to do. And that really started the process of, uh, of reading that I still use today. I think last slowly, yeah, we went through like a book rundown. But something that I'm doing right now is, uh, I'm getting really into Alex Hermosie. And I think most of us have seen him because he is, he's one of those guys that it's just everywhere. On YouTube, social media. He always has the hat, the semi-long hair. Sometimes he has that nose thing.

That fucking, and he's also a super buff. That's gonna be me in two weeks. That's how I look now with my shirt off. You guys just don't know. But I'm beginning into a lot of his stuff. He's kind of consuming his YouTube clips. I began reading his books per advice from

Berth when we were hanging out he recommended his books and I found him very helpful I'm about I mean now three weeks in into his subjects and I think they've been they've been very helpful

if you're ever trying with whatever line of work you're doing and if you want to again this was the advice from burnt and i i applied it and it's really helping me because like sales and marketing all that stuff is very foreign to me i'm just getting into it and alice he's kind of one of those guys that just makes it to where if you're a simple person he puts it in simple terms so if you're struggling you want you want to get into those subjects i would do the same thing as Brent did for me, I would push people towards his books.

Very, unfortunately, it is a complicated subject, and he just breaks it down, like, towards someone like me can understand it. And I'm a cliche, you know, if I, if I could understand it, I think anyone can understand it. So, yeah, he's been super helpful with the past three weeks, and it's one of those guys, man, everywhere,

everywhere, just on my fucking phone. I'm like, geez, my weeds, dude. But yeah, if you're trying to get into marketing sales and you don't know where to start, like I was, it helped me. I went straight into this guy. And it's really zero bullshit,

put into the most simple way possible. So, yeah, hopefully that helps you. And shout out to Alex Hermosie. um I've also been doing his I was kind of doing it but he does it on steroids not like literally but like his

oh shit like sometimes like if you're trying to work um a lot of us work with headphones you might have like a podcast on you might uh you might be listening to me right now while while you're working

or uh so I like the headphone part But what I started doing, I'm thinking that it's been two months and it's helped me greatly because I realized that being focused is very hard and I don't want to be like everyone else to say I have ADD, you know, fucking, but I mean, yeah, definitely have a hard time paying attention. And so, okay, like what, like what can I do? I would just put headphones on. I have these big heavies.

Those headphones, I have heavies on. I was put them over the ear and not play anything. Just, I don't know, there's something about like the deafness. I really liked. I don't know. I noticed I'll work for an hour. I was, oh, what the hell has happened with that past hour? And I know there's something about that.

There's something about just nothing. And you're enclosed. And then, um, you drink, drink coffee. Get my caffeine, this kind of zone out. But also at the same time zoning in. And then I found out what Alex did, which I have since then directly ripped off. And it's definitely changing my life. It's, oh shit, he does the headphone thing too.

But he's crazy. He puts earplugs in as well. So you put earplugs in and then the overhead headphones. So you're talking like zero sounds. And he says he gets caffeinated. And then he would. chew nicorette gum um so oh shit so i literally i i i'm already doing that i'm already like getting caffeinated um i was i was getting carried away with uh cigar smoking so i got the nicotine

so i basically just kind of already doing it but he really put it in like a very simple way like clean your work area and then put on the fucking earplugs the over the head headphones she wants some some gum yeah and it's

tripled my focus it's zoning out when jays not here I'll actually turn all the lights off so this is dark which also he does it's like no no sunlight

I don't something happens you kind of zone in you zone out but zone in at the same time that's so you're struggling that so that looks like me when I'm here alone

pretty sick and I definitely have a cut back on smoking cigars which is pretty sick and it's definitely helped with my focus so if you're struggling with focus on the nicker red gum I've been chewing is the

two milligrams I'm on advocate for it I'm just saying that's what I do pretty sick I also don't abuse it I have like two Maybe. But man, there's,

there's, there's four milligram options. I'm like, man, who the fuck is chilling the four milligram ones? That's too much, man. Like, the two is like, you're just chilling. Okay, cool. But man, four? Fuck that. That's just too much.

So shout out to Alex Hermose. Pretty fucking cool, man. And thank you, Nisa. Yeah, let's go on to the next one. See what we got. Sterling Lee. His username is Faithful Misery. or a last

Patreon question do you have which I love I love this one so I think this is getting out of control on YouTube

and social media I think this this subject alone is too much all right so Sterling asks do you have a home

recording studio if so what doll do you use yeah the other room I got my I believe

in simplicity. I'm an idiot. Things need, I think if, um, every day, like your brain just wants to complicate shit. It's make, let's just make sure. So I have a, a Mac mini. Um, and I'm pretty nice, like, about this size of a screen. A 4K screen, pretty sick.

And then I have, uh, which I had for years, man. I've been using pre-sone. interfaces for years like years um and in this room i have like a little a little two channel a little channel one is small um but i use that uh plug the quad straight into the two channel prasonus little a little cheap guy and i go straight into logic everything i use i like using like the how do you say like the dummy version like if I could use it

it has to be user friendly it has to be the Apple version so that that's why the quad is so successful um Logic is so successful Mac is very very simple very simple so logic is that

um I think it's it's getting kind of out of control where I think um and also like I like the work area to be nice it's clean clean table besides like the pizza crumbs it's pretty like yeah i mean we get like the illusion

where everyone has like everyone that we see has like these super nice studios and super nice they have all this gear i'm like dude i personally think it's getting out of control i just keep it simple i'll even say ugly is it just it doesn't have to be like this extravagant things simple, a few things, only a few things you need. I have a little section here with pedals. I have, which we actually just dropped today, like only a few guitars. I own six, but I think it's too much.

Keep it simple. I prefer prosonis and logic. That's what I personally use. And I picked up on the way those two, things work very quickly quickly like you turn on you plug in and you are recording and uh logic we've used uh and it's cool to have that i remember like when we're recording no ton of bleed machine to produce your use logic and i found it very cool and crazy at the same time and like oh we're paying a lot of money to do a record but also at the same time i'm going home with the same program with the same

I had the same program as a professional and we have access to that which is really really cool so uh hopefully that that helps you just trying not just trying to help you like unclutter stuff like just logic is super simple personas very simple um software updates will piss you off because then you'll update it and then we'll stop working everything's very simple like the mac to logic persona. This is what I personally found to be the recording for dummies. That's

and it's logic. So, I mean, you're talking any style of music. I mean, obviously, I'm chugging. I'm putting hot heat into logic, but that's the most simple way. So yeah, Sterling, hopefully that helps you, man. Let's go on to the

I think I have time for a couple more. How do you say this? RELPERS. Rout Perr's from Instagram Guilty Pleasure Song And when I saw this question I was like

It came instantly Fuel in my hands Is One of the sickest songs Of all the time Me and Jay were jamming earlier I just I just forget

Like this song There's a time where I was just like I was just on repeat It was on repeat. It was on repeat as pretty soon as two weeks ago. I love this song, man. In my hands?

Hey, Jay, let's jam the chorus for like five seconds. And you guys need, you guys can get horned up. Fucking sick, dude. What a great song. That's awesome. They got it all. Okay, the singer has bill bottoms. If you don't,

if you can't see what's going on, the singer has bill bottoms. He's also pretty ripped. The drummer has the classic one tattoo on his left shoulder, his arm. Classic drummer tattoo. And it's exactly what you want to see. The other guitar player has a Les Paul. He's bald.

He's rocking out. Exactly what you want to see. This was a massive hit, dude. This was a massive hit. I mean, what's the singer's name? I did a deep type on him But this was a while ago I mean it's well over a year ago

So I need I need to get my Brett Scallion Yeah Oh is he Is he? Is he I had a ban again? Yeah Fuck

He's up 2020 2020 So yeah he came back Shit Well that's unfortunate Dude we got to get Brett on the pod

Dude That'd be sick Yep, that's him. 53 years old, born December 21st, 1971. Wow. Dude, when this song came out, man, I mean, the amount of pussy he probably got. Probably almost killed him. This song was everywhere, dude.

But yeah, it still hits hard, man. This song is so heavy. If you hear her song and you don't think it's heavy Fuck you This song is this It's so heavy And he's playing Marshall's exactly what you want to see Yeah shout out to fuel

In my hands That's my personal That's my personal guilty pleasure song I was trying to play the chords earlier But I think it's just a different tuning I'll give a shot If it sounds like shit then then Jake could uh...

get a little edit out I think I'm pretty sure it's E flat something something like that oh and this and you're talking okay one more thing

and then this is where it gets horned up dude oh you know you know what I'm about to do the fucking solo man oh my god simple man

yeah dude he's just they're this rocking dude they're just fucking rocking. Yeah, shout out the fuel. Freaking badass.

Yeah, everyone go jam that song. It's pretty freaking sick, dude. 61 million views? 61 million views. Million. 15 years ago. Shout out the fuel, man. They're freaking sick.

Ooh. There's a heavy comment, right? Oh, wow. It's a heavy song, man. I mean, emotionally. It's a fucking heavy song, man. Well, I think we have probably two more or two, two, two, two, two more. Oh, dude, this is a good one.

Because I just want to share some, some more. I just want to share things that, I like sharing things that help me. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't like advice. But this, if I do something then that helps me. Okay. Hey, hey, hey dude forever. What's the hair care routine? Okay.

one time we were uh i forgot what tour it was i think it was attila it was a while ago we were um in florida at some bar we're hanging out with rob barit shout out to a cannibal and uh his wife was with them talking about hair and that's what that was one of the first times i heard about argon oil i think i'm saying that right argon oil or argon oil argon oil argon yeah that's it's probably it right jay yeah i'm gonna say okay cool i mean and literally my whole career of head-banging dude like i've always had an issue with uh with dreadlocks and knots in your hair which i think you all struggle with uh if you have any kind of long hair your hair your hair just wants to get a knots and just not be long

and just doesn't want to be long hair. I went home, dude. Yeah, this is how my hair looks. If I don't brush it, I turn into a Maxim Soul Fly really quick. Like, that shit is this, it just happens super fucking,

yeah, I mean, I should not have long hair. This happens so quickly, it's kind of scary. So that's always forced me to brush my hair. Always, like, I'm always playing with my hair,

but taking out the knots. Because it just, my hair does not want to be long. But I went home. I tried out what she was talking about. Oh, argon oil.

Argon oil. Okay. And I think at that point, I tried a few things that weren't working. But this particular brand, um, go up, Jay.

I think we found, uh, go over to the right. It's right. Yeah. Click that. Middle. Uh,

right. Boom. I think that's it. I think we're about to something like that. Is that it? So I went to Walmart and I got the cheapest Argonne oil spray. It looks like this, but it's not this.

Is it that actually? I don't know. It's like a spray. Yeah, I think it's one of those at the top. No one or we're going to find it. Oh, yeah. I think it's cream of nature, cramp top. Walmart option.

I think that's it. Is it? Oh my gosh, we found it. I had a feeling when we talk about it. We're just going to find it because I'm like, I was, I don't know brand anybody. I was cream. Was that J?

Cream of Nature? Creme? Creme or cream? Creme? Crem? Oh my. Crem of nature. I'm a freaking crem, dude.

Okay, so this is, I found this, dude. Walmart. Spray. So it's five bucks. 74 cents. Literally, I was out there a shower, man.

You spray that. This your hair. It was a game changer. I get way, way less dreadlocks. And this is a free plug

for him, man. Hey, Krem of Nature, you better freaking sponsor the pod, dude. Personally, again, this has helped me.

uh yeah like start like up here and just go down a little bit give a little twister and then i mean the dreadlocks went from wow uh almost non-existent um i try other sprays but they don't work as well but for me at least where i'm at in my life currently uh this is the biggest help so hopefully if you're struggling with um knots in your hair uh hopefully hopefully this helps you because it's helping me. Literally, I put in my hair this morning. So it's stuff that I personally use. I want to say it's also, it's Walmart,

so it's also the cheapest as well. So pretty sick. Good luck to all your long hairs out there. That was a good one. All right, Jay, I'm going to need your help with this one. Hegino. Ooh. I don't know.

Hagino. at which point in your career at which point in your career you said I made it alright so the first thought that uh that popped in my brain was uh the first time we did the Golden God Awards

where we wore the suits which was the smartest dumbest idea we've ever had it as a unit a band. And yeah, we all wore the suits, but we got up there early for sound check, jamming.

The venue is empty, but people are starting to show up. Like, you know, backstage and stuff. It's at the really cool theater that doesn't host metal, typically. And we're getting done with sound check. we're still playing songs but uh remember me and Alex

look over and it was uh John Davis was a watch watching us and we're like oh shit me you mean me and Alex both had the same exact reaction we're like oh my shit dude there he is that was our first time being like around him you know so we were fucking tripping out and uh yeah and then we actually did the show this as uh if you're just listening we're actually playing a clips from the show. Fuck, I guess it's, uh, I keep hearing about it.

I guess it's a classic moment now in time for the genre. That shit sucks, dude. Like, it looks cool. But man, we're trying to take the fucking tie off. Man, it's sucked ass. And Mitch, that fuck, he cheated.

He didn't with the bottoms. He wore his jeans. It's probably way more comfortable. We all wore the fucking dress pants like a bunch of idiots. but I mean it looks cool so I can't hate on it too much oh that shit sucked but I guess it's a moment so it's worth it right

and then we got a ward that day and then in line we were around John again and I asked him for a photo you know and he said yeah she was very cool he gave props to the band and I was like man

that's like there's it's like man We're just dumb A bunch of kids from the IE And that we're fucking hanging out with We were in line about to get the award So I'm asking John For a picture

Right behind us is Allison Chains Which they ended up presenting the award to watch Which I didn't know To get to the stage We walk right past Ozzy And uh Carrie King

Like we're just like You're saying hi to this people People are like, what the fuck is going on, dude? I'm just a dumb kid from Corona. And now we're fucking here, dude. It was, that was a pretty crazy evening. And then I proceeded to, uh, drink a lot. I'd, uh, nothing bad happening.

I had, I had a great time. Just definitely a celebratory. It was a cool weekend. It was a really cool weekend. We did the bamboozle show, which we flew in for. So we're from California, but we were on tour during this time. So we flew in for that show and bamboozle. And we would take pictures after bamboozle.

So Golden Gods, bamboozle next day. Next day we would take photos, which ended up being legendary photos. of the fence and the barbed wire and all that shit i woke up and called our manager and i tried i tried to cancel because i was so fucking hung over um it was terrible i'm surprised like those photos came out as well as they did i was not there i called our manager too i can't make it i'm fucking i'm dead i'm so hungover dude literally that night um a girl I was dating at the time I think ended up getting a DUI because we got fucking hammered dude at bamboozle

it was I think I slept in my car in a parking lot in in Irvine at the Irvine Meadows it was a I was a mess because they had this fucking Yeager tent and I don't know how many shots of Yeager I took that was back in the you know drinking Yeager that was a fucking crazy time man yeah that was that was the time where i was like i dude we made it we're around

legend dude legends dude legends that was a fucking trippy time man that was a really cool show too bamboozle it was a really cool festival that was like the beginnings of what's normal now really there's doing a bunch of acts that shouldn't be a bunch of uh a bunch of music that shouldn't be on the same stage. There's a time where it was us, then it was deptones and then 50 cent. So they were really experimenting

back then, like just trying to see what works and we were the only band in that kind of genre kind of doing it. But it worked though. It worked. I guess it's,

but right now it's normal. It's a very normal thing. That's a crazy fucking time, man. Thank you for your question. Made me go down memory lane. last one we'll do seven

dish papa a long time supporter man what's your favorite mast on riff so yeah man we're uh how we open a pod since our last checkup so much has happened dude uh

i mean Brent Heinz passed away and a motorcycle wreck which unfortunately we know all too well it's fucking terrible man rest of piece Brent man one in one one one

that fucking face tattoo is unique that shit's just fucking heavy man but even though I wasn't exactly like an avid listener but there were some rifts that I have played throughout my life I believe it was their

it was their first record let me see if I had the tone ready okay cool I remember though yeah so it's this record like it was uh the song's called ants marching or like a one of the singles yeah the march march of the fire ants this i remember i would play this riff a lot dude i wasn't even like a big fan but there's something about that riff dude it was like that's a sick riff dude and that's on their first record man So at the time I was consuming as a child I was consuming a lot of relapse stuff Massadon was was on there consumed Nazim picture door specification all the all the nasty nasty stuff

So that was a fucking sick rip that I still play it that's probably the cleanest I ever played it to be honest I can't front that one um and another one when when when the record dropped was uh was high road Remember I heard that rip and was like, what is he fucking? What, what are they playing? It's a really interesting chord choices. And it says, I think it's drop A. So anything that I hear that's low, I just get really warmed up, you know? That's interesting in video.

It's kind of creeped out. Also, since Crack the Sky, this was the next record. I would kind of jam Macedon again. It's a really, it's actually kind of hard to play. It's like a full-on. I'm probably playing it wrong, yeah, that's a really sick riff. I remember once I heard it,

I tried to learn it. And I was like, what the heck's you doing? It sounds like a freaking full-on, like a full-on bar chord. Sounds like a minor. If you know, even to play it,

correct me if I'm wrong. That's the part I love the most. Like when he goes out of nowhere, that top string, it's like such like a, the way he bends it. I don't know who, wrote that rip Brent or uh but the way he bends it and like this a slide I'm like dude what

it's so so simple but so cool very uh what's the term very uh swaggy I guess you say be a rest in peace Brent man it's so sad dude died in a motorcycle wreck I guess it was a downtown Atlanta if if I read correctly it sucks dude August 20 age 51 BMW SUV collided that sucks dude what's uh just for shits and giggles what uh look up BMW SUV I have the image in my mind and we might have to do a little rant yep it's exactly what I expected okay so I do have a fear when I'm driving around I don't know you would call this prejudice or some

I don't know hate but there is a certain kind of human I look out for on the road it's my number one that I'm looking out on the road for it's moms moms are the

if I see a mom in the SUV I get the fuck out of the way because they're busy mom and they're busy as fuck they don't even know where they're rats my last uh bender bender was with a mom

and an SUV which might have trashed my car I was literally it was like 6 a.m it wasn't raining but it wasn't sprinkling it was like a healthy

flow of water that was falling from the sky. And I had the left going into the parking lot of the gym. I had a green light. Obviously, it's green. I'm turning left like a fucking decent person. I'm trying not to be a piece of shit.

I'm going to gym. Work off its pizza had last night. I'm killing it. And then the SUV coming from the opposite direction. ran the red light completely, like not even, not even like, and it was a soccer mom. And this would begin my hate towards SUVs. And I'm very conscious, uh, I'm very cautious of, uh, females driving. So what happened was turn left.

Thankfully, nothing bad happened to her or me or potential. kids in the car but my bumper came off and was hanging from the left side by a few screws

so if I was to drive my bumper would be dragging and probably hit a car to my left if I continued to drive so I was like shit I saw that she wasn't stopping she realized oh wait we got in a car accident you should probably stop

and pull over. And she did not stop. So I'm like, oh shit, am I about to chase this fucking soccer mom? So I make a U-turn. And it's also right by the freeway. It's right by the 91 freeway west. So if we make the U-turn, she's technically still going straight. And then she goes right to go onto the freeway.

And I'm right behind her. I realized I can't chase her like I'm I'm dragging this massive piece of plastic off my car she's not she's not she's not she's not gonna stop and then I proceeded to not go on the freeway I went straight under the bridge and I parked in front of a taco bill that's still there and ripped off my bumper but yeah I meant SUVs I'm very conscious I don't know it like just ingrained this like because when people are driving I do kind of like like to look at the person. Like if I'm like turning like right or

some where I'm like kind of driving, I'm kind of yeah, that's exactly how my car looked almost identical. And I put the I put my bumper back on with the zip ties and I did that for quite some time. Yeah, look if I see, I don't know.

If I see anyone that resembles a mom, I apologize if I'm generalizing, but I was like I get the fuck out of the way. way. No, no ego here. I'm this is your road. Yeah, they either drop their kids off somewhere or they're like they're, they're, they're in a hurry. It was in a hurry, mom and I just, I just, that and a car that's beat up. Don't fuck cars that are beat up. They, because they don't care either.

That was my experience with the SUV. It's pretty cool. Pretty scary too. All right, what do we, what do we got? Before we close this thing out, um, what are we doing? You got any plans this weekend, Jay? What we got? It's going to help my friend record some music. Sick. We got some new, I don't know if you saw them. We dropped some new gifts for the GarzaPod.

Oh, yeah. So you can use them on Instagram and stuff. It's pretty fun, you know. We're freaking gift up. I think I dropped one. I'm going to throw it. Oh, there it is. Oh, yeah.

So you can have some fun, you know. I don't know. It was like a little goal that I had. And we got it. Yeah, that's sick. Gift up, dude. Yep. Plants. Baby shower for my little brother.

Ooh, the baby shower. Yep. It would be fun. He's going to have twins. Twins? Yeah. Oh, my goodness. So basically that means you're having twins.

Ah, I'll be an uncle and a twin, you know. And a boy. They're doing good. They're doing good. Um That's about it And then I'm gonna edit this bitch

Okay chop it up for you people Chop it up dude And yeah That's about it That's sick So it's pretty chill Yep And we back Monday

Sick I'm gonna Sunday Sunday Yeah yeah Yeah yeah That'd be sick Ooh that's gonna be hot

Hot heat We're gonna see We're gonna see I'm gonna see By the time you are watching, listening to this, it already happened, but this weekend, me and my lady are going to have a date night and see Bill Burr in Riverside. Last minute show. It's funny, we were having date night on Sunday at a pizza spot, and then she saw this random link. And she's like, what's this?

And when we clicked on it, Bill Burr is playing the Fox, or it's going to be at the Fox Theater in Riverside at this show. There's no way. We can't miss it. So we are both going. Just missed the Ovan when he was in town. I regret it. I miss some of my favorite bands when they're in here. Regret it.

I mean, you know what? You'll fuck it, dude. We're going to see a billber in our backyard. We got to go. Especially now, dude, shit's all fucking negative, dude. Just want some positive shit. So that'll be pretty cool. By the time this comes out, maybe I might have met a few of you.

I tend to run into people when I go to the audit. It's always nice. After a few beers, I'm always in the bath and pissing, and I tend to run into a few people. So hopefully the same thing will happen. Come say what's up? Bill Burr, man. He's my favorite comedian. Like, he's like, right, like, just favorite comedian.

I think the one I fell in love with Bill Burr. She's fucking selling out, dude. Um, was his special, uh, Paper Tiger. That was the one I was like. dude he's next level paper tiger's my favorite special it is i'm not thinking about it might be my favorite special in general dude it's it's fucking hilarious especially like at the time too post like post uh post pandi

just came out with this fucking super funny special it was awesome man I can't have a beer in his fucking just laugh um what else I think I found like the new the new thing because I always do like the We do fan questions later I do rants and then it goes too long

But uh I mean I didn't even get through my whole list I think I'm going to save this shit Maybe even for a next time But uh Yeah I'll save these These little hitters for for next time

I did start training Uh Jiuitsu For the first time of my life two weeks ago. I've been avoiding it for many years, but I just started learning at the Dan Henderson Fitness Center. Pretty stoked.

I'm trying to get that the trifecta. I got the Muay, learn jitzy at the ground, and then I want to get a gun. I want to get a full hand and gun. Because there's a really cool shooting range off Pierce Street, if you're familiar with the area.

It's really cool. It's kind of hidden. I've been there one. once. So we'll get the trifecta of combat. And maybe I could go on tour despite bands. That'll be a cool new thing to do.

But yeah, I'll save these heaters for next time. So you're listening to Washington solo right now. We're pretty horned up because the next podcast we were recording. It's going to be our first drummer. And these people don't know what we're talking about. No, not drummer as a guest. know he's going to bring his drum set in here

from Mike and a kid we're going to jam with a full-on drum set in here and so that's going to be what we got coming up we're going to do it on Sunday so it'll be solo episode and then our first drummer will be for episode 200

which is wild we're going to hit the old old 2-0-0 can't believe it so it's going to be cool and kind of bring in a new a new time, a new thing. So what better to have a drummer on

to show what we got coming up this year? I'm stoked, man. This fucking starts riffing and jamming. Pretty sick. So hopefully you enjoyed this episode. Next week we have our first drummer, episode 200. And yeah,

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Oh yeah, we had fun. That was a fun A little session there. That's it. That's it. Probably just stay tuned because we got some heat. I mean,

we're going to get horned up, dude. So, yeah, again, thank you for supporting podcasts. And yeah, be safe out there. Later.