The Tone Mob Podcast
by Blake Wyland & Sound Talent Media
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The Insane Story Behind the Elvis & Nixon Photo
The Insane Story Behind the Elvis & Nixon Photo
About this podcast
The year was 2015. Show host Blake Wyland intended to start a podcast where he took a deep dive with his guests from the guitar world to explain their rigs. What happened was that, but also a whole lot more. The show quickly evolved into discussions about people's lives. Guitars, pedals, amps, etc. are the central hub of the show, but it really is more about the PEOPLE behind all of it. Both the musicians who use the gear, and the folks that create these magical tools of expression. You can expect chats about songwriting, favorite bands, family, loss, addiction, conspiracy theories, philosophy, and most of all....... food. This podcast goes all over the place. Come take a ride.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 539 episodes
- The Insane Story Behind the Elvis & Nixon Photo · 1 h 3 min · Episode 540Oh baby! We have a special one for you. Another, rather ridiculous story from the Tape Spaghetti vault for ya! Elvis Presley had money, fame, private jets, guns, karate skills…
- The Guitar That Got Away… Did My Guest Buy It? | Mike Ball of Mike N Mike’s Guitar Bar · 1 h 5 min · Episode 539You know that guitar you passed on years ago and still think about? Imagine telling that story to someone… and realizing they might be the person who bought it. Mike Ball of Mike…
- Emily Wolfe Almost Quit… Then Her Phone Went Off · 1 h 5 min · Episode 538Emily Wolfe was riding home from a brutal tour, looking up what she could get for her gear on Reverb, and seriously considering calling it quits. Then a text came through that…
- “My Job Is Guitar” with Emily Harris of Get Offset · 1 h 5 min · Episode 537When somebody asks what you do for a living, sometimes the easiest answer is simply... “guitar.” This week, Emily Harris of Get Offset returns for a long overdue catch-up! We dig…
- When Did 2001 Become Vintage? w/ Phillip Carter of 40 Watt Podcast · 1 h 12 min · Episode 536My buddy Philip Carter from the 40 Watt Podcast is back, and this one started the way a lot of our conversations do... We were talking about guitars before hitting record and…
- Get Off Your Phone and Play Guitar w/ Shelby Pollard of Black Bobbin · 1 h 11 min · Episode 535Shelby Pollard of Black Bobbin is back on the show, and apparently we had some things to work through. This conversation starts with burnout, work/life balance, phone addiction…
- “Don’t Get a Job.” w/ Zoe Jet of Zoe Jet Guitars · 58 min · Episode 534Zoe’s path into guitar building is a pretty fascinating one. She grew up surrounded by artists, started out as a drummer, dove deep into piano and composition, and at one point…
- Fugazi on a Six-Figure Martin w/ Jason Verlinde · 1 h 1 min · Episode 533My buddy Jason Verlinde of The Fretboard Journal is back on the show, and this time we’re fresh off the Fretboard Summit in Chicago. I finally made it to the Summit this year, so…
- Repair, Don’t Replace w/ Jeff Leavitt (Tone Ranger) & Ben Matin (RestoWraps) · 1 h 19 min · Episode 532On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, I’m hanging out with Jeff Leavitt of Tone Ranger Guitars and Ben Matin of RestoWraps, two guys who have gone impressively deep into the…
- How to Actually Make It in Music w/ Liz The Music Manager · 1 h 1 min · Episode 531Liz Kamlet, better known online as Liz The Music Manager, has spent most of her life somewhere behind the curtain of the music business. She started shooting tour photography as…
- Why Isn’t This on Every Guitar? w/ NVision Guitars · 60 min · Episode 530What if, instead of asking a musician to adapt to their guitar, you built the guitar to adapt to the musician? On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, I’m hanging out with Renee…
- Dylan McKerchie Cut a Harley Benton in Half (But Why?) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 532It has been way too long since Dylan McKerchie of Dylan Talks Tone has been on the show, and quite a bit has changed since our last conversation. Dylan has a home base, his…
- Building the Next Chapter w/ Randy King of King Electric Guitars · 1 h 5 min · Episode 531This week I’m hanging out with Randy King of King Electric Guitars, and what starts as a conversation about old cars takes approximately four minutes to wander off the road and…
- Zao Is Getting Sludgier With Age (Scott Mellinger) · 1 h 1 min · Episode 530Scott Mellinger of Zao returns to The Tone Mob for a long-overdue hang, and apparently age comes for us all in different ways. Some people take up golf. Zao seems to be getting…
- How Frank Gross Built Thunder Road Guitars One Guitar At A Time · 1 h 2 min · Episode 529This week on The Tone Mob, Blake sits down with Frank Gross, founder of Thunder Road Guitars Seattle, for a conversation about music, retail, risk, reinvention, and the strange…
- Emerald City Guitars: Trevor Boone and the Art of the Guitar Hunt · 1 h 17 min · Episode 524Trevor Boone basically grew up inside a guitar shop. His dad started Emerald City Guitars in Seattle back in the mid-90s with a shoestring business plan, a small loan, and a…
- The Yvette Young Episode With Superman in It · 56 min · Episode 523Yvette Young is back on the podcast, which means we are legally required to talk about beautiful guitar parts, creative chaos, and the strange little circus act of trying to be a…
- Buddy Blues: From Beirut Blues Kid to Guitar YouTube · 1 h 1 min · Episode 522Buddy Blues joins The Tone Mob for a long-overdue conversation about guitar, YouTube, blues, pedals, and the strange little internet ecosystem where all of those things collide…
- How 29 Pedals Made Buffers Cool · 1 h 18 min · Episode 521Jesse Honig of 29 Pedals finally joins The Tone Mob, and we are digging all the way into the beautifully nerdy machinery of his story. Before launching 29 Pedals, Jesse spent…
- Why Musora Is Putting Your Favorite Bands On The Spot · 1 h 5 min · Episode 520Ron Jackson has one of those jobs that sounds suspiciously like something a music nerd invented while staring at the ceiling. As the host and producer of Musora’s Covers On The…
- Sal Mignano on Held, The Sleeping & a Lifetime of Loud · 1 h 5 min · Episode 519Sal Mignano has never been particularly interested in making the bass behave itself. As a founding member of The Sleeping and one-third of the thunderous new project Held, Sal…
- Cosmodio and the Art of Beautiful Chaos (Barton McGuire) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 518Barton McGuire doesn’t believe a guitar pedal should politely prevent you from making a bad sound. Where’s the adventure in that? In this episode, Blake sits down with the…
- Will York: Thunder Road, Vintage Guitars & Betting It All · 1 h 16 min · Episode 517Will York of Thunder Road Guitars PDX joins us to tell the real story behind one of the West Coast's favorite guitar shops. Before Thunder Road Portland became a destination for…
- Too Many Knobs? Perfect. Shea Sterner of THISHEAVYEARTH · 1 h 21 min · Episode 516This week on The Tone Mob Podcast, Blake hangs with Shea Sterner of thisheavyearth, a Portland-based builder making heavy pedals, brutal solid-state amps, and gear that looks…
- The Sleeping’s Douglas Robinson Woke Up a Guitar Player · 1 h 2 min · Episode 515Douglas Robinson is best known as the voice of The Sleeping, but with his new project Held, he’s stepping into a whole new role: guitar player, riff writer, and newly minted…
- MARK MORTON!!!!!! · 1 h 0 min · Episode 514Mark Morton joins the show today, and we somehow manage to talk about the gravitational pull of the electric guitar, the operational realities of a world-class metal band…
- The Used’s Joey Bradford Wants Guitars to Feel Human Again · 59 min · Episode 513Joey Bradford of The Used is back on The Tone Mob, and this one wanders through the good stuff: touring, dad life, studio rabbit holes, guitar rigs, loud amps, weird pedals, and…
- Fluff vs. The Internet: Who’s Actually Winning? · 1 h 1 min · Episode 512Ryan “Fluff” Bruce is back, and this time it’s less about chasing tones and more about chasing sanity. After more than a decade in the YouTube trenches, Fluff joins Blake to talk…
- Chumbawamba!!! (Something A Bit Different) · 1 h 14 min · Episode 511This week I'm serving up something a bit different! There is another podcast I do called Tape Spaghetti with my good buddy Scott Marquart. On that podcast, we explore strange…
- What It Takes to Survive in the Guitar Industry w/ Danny Songhurst (The Rock Slide) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 510What do you get when you mix a family legacy, a near business collapse, and a piece of gear most people treat like an afterthought? Something that refuses to disappear. This…
- How Dan Tremonti Built FRET12 Into a Music Culture Machine · 1 h 0 min · Episode 509In this episode, Dan Tremonti shares the full story behind FRET12, from its early days creating The Sound and the Story to building a full-blown music culture brand rooted in…
- Jordan Buckley Returns, Part 2: Healing, Heavy Music, and Letting Go · 1 h 0 min · Episode 508Jordan Buckley is back for Part 2, and this time the conversation heads somewhere unexpectedly hopeful. After years of noise, pressure, and carrying things that don’t travel…
- Jordan Buckley (Better Lovers, Every Time I Die) Returns pt. 1 · 55 min · Episode 507Jordan Buckley is back for round two, and what starts as a classic Tone Mob conversation slowly reveals a little more weight under the hood. In this episode, Blake catches up…
- Chris Benson of Benson Amps (Vintage Reissue) · 51 min · Episode 506This week, we’re digging way, way back into the vault for a proper Tone Mob reissue. While I was in Nashville helping move the Stringjoy shop, I needed something special for this…
- Colt Westbrook on Walrus Audio’s Hits, Misses, and the Gear That Still Inspires Him · 1 h 6 min · Episode 505This week on The Tone Mob Podcast, Blake hangs out with Colt Westbrook of Walrus Audio for a conversation that wanders through guitar pedals, business experiments, digital rigs…
- PUP’s Steve Sladkowski on Touring, Tone, and Why Tube Amps Still Matter · 1 h 14 min · Episode 504Steve Sladkowski of PUP joins Blake for a conversation about the strange business of building a life out of noise. This one wanders into the good stuff. The human stuff. The part…
- RJM’s Ron Menelli: The MIDI Wizard Behind the Pros’ Pedalboards · 1 h 2 min · Episode 503RJM’s Ron Menelli: The MIDI Wizard Behind the Pros’ Pedalboards Description Ron Menelli from RJM Music joins Blake Wyland to tell the long, nerdy, wildly practical story behind…
- How Kris Crummett Learned to Hear What Everyone Else Missed · 1 h 15 min · Episode 502Kris Crummett is on the show, and this one rips. Kris has been in music for basically his entire life and has worked on records by Issues, Sleeping With Sirens, Dance Gavin…
- Why Ian Martin Allison Built a $750 DI (And Why People Lost Their Minds) · 1 h 4 minIan Martin Allison is back, and this episode is a full-on gear-nerd thunderstorm with actual life lessons hiding in the lightning. Blake and Ian go deep on signature basses, the…
- Tone Mob 500: Henri Cash on Starcrawler, Vintage Amp Chaos, and Guitar Gear for Weirdos · 1 h 7 min · Episode 500Episode 500, baby. And we brought in Henri Cash (Starcrawler, Plague Vendor, Cash & Skye) to celebrate the only way this show knows how: by diving headfirst into glorious guitar…
- Steve Rowe Returns: NAMM Chaos, Silent Pedal Rooms, and the Future of Guitar Media · 1 h 19 minSteve Rowe from 60 Cycle Hum returns to the show after an eight-year gap, and we immediately time-travel back to the era of wired earbuds, headphone jacks, and recording next to…
- The Dark Summer and the New Era: Jason Mays Returns · 1 h 29 minMy dude Jason Mays is back, and we get into the real stuff on this one! We talk about wearing 12 different hats (PlayJason, Working Class Music, writing gigs, Orange, a band, and…
- Yvette Young vs. The Shadow People (A Tone Mob Throwback) · 2 h 7 min · Episode 497Here’s a vintage reissue that refuses to stay buried. This throwback episode with Yvette Young started life as a Patreon bonus… until enough people yelled “this is too good to…
- Turning Down Waylon Jennings: Alison Prestwood’s Nashville Origin Story · 1 h 2 minNashville bassist Alison Prestwood joins Blake for a deep-dive hang that zig-zags through the kind of career that only makes sense in hindsight: a near-miss with Waylon Jennings…
- Matt Pike, Brent Hinds, Jimmy Bower: Inside the Woodrite Guitars Machine w/ Steve Reis · 1 h 2 min · Episode 495Steve Reis from Does It Doom returns after four years and it’s one of those “wait… you did what?!” catch-up episodes. In the time since his last visit, Steve didn’t just add a…
- Pearl Jam vs Ticketmaster: The 90s Battle That Still Matters · 1 h 5 min · Episode 494This is the last episode of 2026!!! And just for that, I wanted to give you a special look at one of the other podcasts I do, Tape Spaghetti! What happens when one of the biggest…
- “Turn the Lights Off”: Allegheny High on Charles Wesley Godwin & Cold Cheese Pizza · 1 h 4 min · Episode 493I caught up with a good chunk of The Allegheny High boys in central Oregon while they were out doing what they do best: making Charles Wesley Godwin sound like a freight train…
- Corey Congilio on Surviving the Algorithm and Still Loving Guitar · 1 h 3 min · Episode 492On this episode of The Tone Mob Podcast, Corey Congilio returns to hang out and pull back the curtain on what it actually looks like to build a modern guitar career in 2025. We…
- From CKY Superfan to CKY Bassist: The Wild Road of Mike Leon · 1 h 7 min · Episode 491This time I am hanging out with Mike Leon, current bassist for CKY, and Igorrr. (Former member of Soulfly, Havok and The Absence.) We dig into how a kid who was obsessed with CKY…
- Arielle On Brian May, And Why “No Deal” Is Better Than A Bad Deal · 1 h 9 min · Episode 490Guitarist, songwriter, studio owner, guitar designer, Brian May collaborator, and professional bad record deal survivor Arielle stops by the show this week. We get into how a…
