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Approaching Wildflowers
The Tom Petty Project - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen climbers finally decide to take on the holy grail of all ascents, Everest, they first face a nine day journey to base camp, which includes two full rest days. This journey alone weeds out about thirty of explorers. Those who are lucky enough to make the arduous trek to the first staging pos...
Tan Wee Cheng … An Iconoclast
Counting Countries - April 18, 2024 15:16 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsTan Wee Cheng has traveled to 187 countries Hey now, I am your host, Ric Gazarian. Wee Cheng, a regional neighbor, and I have communicated on and off for several years, but like many of us in the community we were only virtual acquaintances. That changed when I met Wee Cheng in person at an extr...
Russell Mark Returns (Swing and a Miss)
The Tom Petty Project - April 17, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsOne last non-Petty episode before we being digging into Wildflowers! This time, Russell Mark, from The Nextdoors is back to talk about their new single "Swing and a Miss". We talk about perfection in art and whether it's worth striving for, we nerd out over specific production choices and songwr...
Jake Thistle Returns (The Half Left Out)
The Tom Petty Project - April 10, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis is another special non-Petty episode of the podcast with the fantastic Jake Thistle, who found time in his insanely busy schedule to sit down with me to discuss his label debut, The Half Left Out. We chatted a little about Gainesville and Tom of course, but mainly we dug into the weeds arou...
Greatest Hits (with John Paulsen)
The Tom Petty Project - April 03, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA really fun one today folks. John and Kevin dig deep into inclusions and ommissions from 1993's Greatest Hits. We have a conversation about formats (CD vs vinyl), chronological ordering vs sequencing, and whether ballads belong on Greatest Hits compilations. Both John and Kevin have one song th...
The Petty 8ight with Sean and Todd McGinity
The Tom Petty Project - March 27, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday’s episode is the third installment in my Petty 8ight series, where I bring in musicians who aren’t Pettyheads, give them eight deeper cuts that they likely haven’t heard before, and get their thoughts on them. In this episode, my willing newbies are Sean and Todd McGinity. The brothers are...
Inside Lindores Abbey Distillery with Drew McKenzie Smith
Inside Whisky - March 22, 2024 13:00 - 38 minutesMCDXCIV – does that ring a bell? And no, it’s not a typo… It’s a Roman numeral and it stands for 1494, quite a pivotal year in the world of whisky and especially for the newly founded Lindores Abbey Distillery. 1494 is the year in which, according to the Scottish Whisky Association, th...
Something in the Air
The Tom Petty Project - March 20, 2024 16:28 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA major change in this cover version is the format of the lyrics. Something in the Air is a fairly ominous call to arms. The original was released in May of 1969 when the Vietnam War was still raging at its most furious. Speedy Keen said that told ZigZag magazine in 1975 of the song "It was a re...
Elena Chechina … A Lost Day Of Your Life
Counting Countries - March 19, 2024 09:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsElena Chechina has traveled to 158 countries Hey now, I am your host, Ric Gazarian. I met Elena back at the ETF in Yerevan and started to realize what a unique life she was leading. She is a true global citizen with true family connections to Europe, Asia, and Africa. Elena has somehow manag...
Mary Jane's Last Dance
The Tom Petty Project - March 13, 2024 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen author Paul Zollo asks Tom about the song in his book Conversations With Tom Petty, and mentions that the song had been partially written some years previously, Tom confirms this, saying, “That was one I wrote during the Full Moon Fever sessions. I wrote all but the chorus. I just had the l...
Peace in L.A.
The Tom Petty Project - March 06, 2024 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn March and April of 1992, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were wrapping up the European final leg of their Into The Great Wide Open tour. This leg saw them play dates in Germany, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Norway, and on April 3rd, they closed out the tour in Malmo, Sweden,...
10 Questions with Peter Nester
The Tom Petty Project - February 28, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is my ten questions with the brilliant Peter Nester. I usually put these out as bonus episodes in the same week as my chat with that guest, but Pete's answers to these questions were so thorough, considered, and beautifully expounded, that I felt this needed to be a regular relea...
Jeff Slate Returns
The Tom Petty Project - February 23, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis is a special non-Petty episode of the podcast. I haven’t recorded one in ages, but when former guest Jeff Slate reached out to me to ask if I’d be interested in talking to him about his new single which is out now and the album it’s from which will drop in May, it wasn’t a hard sell for me ...
Peter Nester
The Tom Petty Project - February 21, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsI have two words for you: Yogi Berra. But what does the Yankees catcher have to do with my conversation with Pete Nester? Tune in to find out! Today's episode is a sprawling, hugely enjoyable conversation I had with a fellow music podcaster who I've been listening to for a couple and a half yea...
Hayley Kennedy … Overcoming Obstacles
Counting Countries - February 21, 2024 08:36 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsHayley has traveled to every country in the world Hey now, I am your host, Ric Gazarian. I started to follow Hayley in the last year or two on Instagram. And over the last several months we started sharing some messages. She has just completed her journey to every country in the world and I ...
Into the Great Wide Open (with John Paulsen)
The Tom Petty Project - February 14, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAnother long one this season folks! But again there's so much to talk about with this album and we felt we needed to talk about each individual track. John and I had a good discussion about the background to the recording of this album and where this sits in the evolution of Tom's songwriting. W...
Built To Last
The Tom Petty Project - February 07, 2024 20:17 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe lyrics in Built to Last are unambiguously hopeful and quietly resilience. Perhaps it’s Tom’s last attempt to build a creative buttress around his failing marriage. Perhaps its an equal attempt to put up a wall around a band that had gone through a major friction point and were probably still...
Extraordinary Travel Festival II Update #4
Counting Countries - February 02, 2024 09:41 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsTo hear the entire podcast join us on patreon.com or Apple Podcast subscription. Join us in Bangkok for the Extraordinary Travel Festival in November of 2024. Please use code – BANGKOK – to save $120. . Want to go to Bhutan? Or you can join us on a tour to. For those in the know when it c...
Makin' Some Noise
The Tom Petty Project - January 31, 2024 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsI know that, because you’re listening to this podcast that you must love rock n roll music. And when you hear the crackle of a cable being plugged into an amp, or that low buzz from the speaker, there’s just something primal and irresistible that happens to you if you love this type of music. Yo...
Raiiq Ridwan … The Travel Bug
Counting Countries - January 28, 2024 12:28 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis is the second publication of this interview. The first podcast had a corrupted file. All audio from the first interview had been deleted after 1 hr and 31 minutes. This publication is the full file. Raiiq has traveled to 118 countries Hey now and Happy New Year to all! I am your host, ...
You and I Will Meet Again
The Tom Petty Project - January 24, 2024 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAnother simple song, another catchy hook, another memorable idea that Tom puts into our heads and leaves there as a treat. I’m 100% sold on Into The Great Wide Open these days, where I didn’t listen to it front to back very often before. This song is another little forgotten deep cut that does s...
10 Questions with Mark Lindsey
The Tom Petty Project - January 10, 2024 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is my ten questions with the amazing Mark Lindsey. As a veteran of over 40 Heartbreakers shows and as a guy who has seen Mudcrutch, Bob Dylan, ELO, and Bob Dylan live, my questions about opening acts, shows Mark would like to see, and Mudcrutch or the Wilburys became all the more...
Out in the Cold
The Tom Petty Project - January 03, 2024 16:41 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn Conversations With Tom Petty, Tom says “I struggled with the lyrics quite a bit. It was one of those things where you struggle and you always wonder if you got everything out of it that you could.” He does go on to say that during a rehearsal for the song he found that he enjoyed the lyrics, ...
Extraordinary Travel Festival II Update #3
Counting Countries - January 03, 2024 13:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsJoin us in Bangkok for the Extraordinary Travel Festival in November of 2024. Please use code – BANGKOK – to save $120. . Want to go to Bhutan? Or you can join us on a tour to . I am happy to introduce a new speaker at the ETF, . I consider David a Papua New Guinea product expert. He has s...
Mark Lindsey
The Tom Petty Project - December 29, 2023 09:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is my wonderful conversation with one of the finest human beings you're going to find anywhere on the planet. As well as being a lifelong superfan of Tom Petty and a veteran of over 40 of his shows, Mark also runs the Sight and Sound Care charity that provides free vision care, i...
Trapper Schoepp
The Tom Petty Project - December 27, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is a conversation I had with Milwaukee-based musician Trapper Schoepp. We discussed his love of Tom's music, the background behind his cover of Free Fallin' which you can find on all streaming platforms, his co-write with Bob Dylan (yes, you read that right!) and he rapid-fire an...
10 Questions with Doc Wiley & Chris Gillette
The Tom Petty Project - December 24, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is Doc Wiley and Chris Gillette's answers to my ten questions. Doc found a good hack to my question "Which Tom Petty concert from history would you like to have seen" and Chris talked wonderfully about Walls and mentioned that The Waiting played it during their PBS special, which...
Doc Wiley & Chris Gillette
The Tom Petty Project - December 22, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode is the fourth installment of my #Guestember series of conversations. This one is with the wonderfully funny and insightful Doc Wiley and Chris Gillette, who are the bass player and singer/rhythm guitarist in Montana-based tribute band, The Waiting. Like my previous tribute band g...
Too Good To Be True
The Tom Petty Project - December 20, 2023 16:44 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsMaybe she’s the girl who is gonna be picked up in King’s Highway. Maybe the thing she’s finally managed to break free from is a relationship with a self-obsessed movie star who has been pulled into a world of glamour and glitz. Maybe, just maybe, I’m massively overthinking this, but it sure is f...
10 Questions with Will Porteous
The Tom Petty Project - December 16, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsToday's episode covers the Ten Questions part of my conversation with Will Porteous. It's no surprise which album Will chose as his favourite, but our conversation about which song we'd give to someone who didn't know Tom's music saw us talking about a few deep cuts that don't often get a shout...
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