Surfy Klaus is Coming to Town

Kalimar and Brian fail at their blues homework and instead sit down with fellow podcaster, collaborator, and middle age star, Scott Newman. The guys talk about surf, Santa, and how to deal with surfeit of time one has for one's pursuits.

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• Stage Right by Monoprice 15-Watt 1x12 Guitar Combo Tube Amp with Celestion Speaker and Spring Reverb - Monoprice.com — Used for Scott's surf sound
• Apple iPod Nano 3rd Generation Silver (4GB) USED BUNDLE 885909164660 | eBay — Scott's hack for having backing tracks readily available
• SurfyBear Reverb Tank — Scott's spring reverb tank.
• On Trajectory Financial Planning — Thanks to On Trajectory for being our sponsor! Figure out how much ramen you have to eat so you can afford your next guitar. All kidding aside, On trajectory is an easy to use, high fidelity financial planning tool that maps your income, investments and expenses in a friendly graphical display. OT captures dozens of data points so that you understand how your decisions affect your finances - now, two months from now, when your kid starts applying to college in another decade or so?
• JingleJank Christmas music podcast — Jingle Jank is a podcast showcasing the offbeat and obscure Christmas music we find on YouTube. Each week, we pick five songs relating to a topic, artist, or specific title and poke some lighthearted fun at them. It's family friendly, except for an occasional bonus episode. (any episodes that aren't family friendly will be marked as such) Shows are released every other week. Probably. Maybe.
• Christmas Morning Podcast — Christmas Morning is a daily morning show...ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS! Launching November 29th, Christmas Morning will be released daily at 5am EST, Monday - Friday. Hosted by Bran (Deck the Hallmark Podcast) & Scott (Jingle Jank Podcast)
• Tinsel tunes — The Tinsel Tunes podcast goes into great detail about Christmas music. Full of fun and interesting facts, it will get you into the Christmas Spirit! Hear about classics, modern songs, songs you love, and even those songs that you dislike. We go deep into the history of Christmas songs, explore the compositions, and play lots of music!
• The Basewinner Podcast — We are a weekly podcast focused on simplifying complex sabermetrics into actionable info for sports bettors and daily fantasy players.
• Silver Sky SE Guitar — Scott recently acquired one of these when he sold is "Antique Road Show" Gibson Les Paul
• PBS Antique Roadshow — We briefly mentioned Antique RoadShow. On the show, people get their personal items appraised, sometimes they are highly valued, sometimes they are duds. Scott ended up with a winner!
• EVH Wolfgang Special — The budget version of Scott and Kalimar's childhood dream guitar.
• Positive Grid Riff Audio Interface — Dead simple interface that works with Bias FX software and is specifically designed for getting the most out of guitar recording
• Jason Loughlin's Essential Surf Guitar Course on Truefire — In Jason Loughlin’s Surf Guitar edition of Essentials, you’ll explore a variety of Surf music styles, as well as some of the styles that orbit Surf music. Surf music doesn’t have a lot of improvisation in it, as it's primarily focused on melody and arrangement, which is what Jason focuses on throughout the course.
• Postive Grid Bias FX 2 — Brian uses Bias FX when he wants to produce guitar sounds directly in a digital audio workstation (DAW).
• Spark amp — Packed with 40 Watts of immersive, room-filling sound, ultimate on-board control and massively inspiring smart features like all new Smart Jam Live, Auto Chords, 10,000+ tones and more!
• String Joy Broadway vintage strings — The strings Kalimar had on the guitar he sold.
• 60 Cycle Hum HX Stomp Surf Tone — Kalimar used their HX Stomp tone for his surf sound. It's drippy. Link to the preset in the description.
• Eventide Cioks PowerMini Compact Power Supply — Kalimar's new power supply. It's really well priced, tiny, and versatile