Ask for the Gig You Want: Kevin Glendinning on SNL, Super Bowls, and 25 Years on the Road
Monitor engineer Kevin “KG” Glendinning joins you live from a Roman amphitheater in Pula, Croatia: eight countries in seven days...
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From Broadway Swing to Principal: Eight Shows a Week...with Victor Carrillo Tracey
Your voice is the most temperamental instrument you’ll ever own, and this week Victor Carrillo Tracey – original company member...
Matt Beck on Matchbox Twenty, The Outsiders, Hot Cocoa and a Green Tartan Suit
Matt Beck taught himself guitar strung upside down and backwards and has never once found a reason to stop. He joins you this week from the...
Hired From an 11-View Video: Sean Mullaney on Opportunity and Owning the Stage
Guest co-host Sean Mullaney joins Dave Hamilton to prove that the gig you want is usually hiding inside the gig you almost skipped. A video...
Nobody Bought a Ticket to Watch Load-In
It’s just you and Dave this week for a full mailbag episode, with road stories up front: Matt Musty behind the kit with Train at Great...
When Your Worlds Collide...and the Drummer Becomes the Sound Guy
Daniel East is back for a no-agenda episode that turns into Gig Gab therapy. You’ll hear about Brit Drozda’s fifth record in pre...
The Wrong Audience Is Still an Audience: Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe on the Gigging Life
Episode 543 lands on National Fortune Cookie Day, and guest co-host Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe of NUGEN Audio opens by demystifying how your mas...
Growing Up Statler: Wilson Fairchild on Harmony, Hustle, and the Working Musician's Life
This week Wil and Langdon Reid of Wilson Fairchild pull up a chair beside Dave to show you what a life in music actually looks like from the...
Ryan Goldbacher on Touring with Tom Keifer, Mixing FOH (and Monitors), and AI
This week front-of-house engineer Ryan Goldbacher calls in from the road with Tom Keifer, and you’ll quickly learn that landing the ne...
Patrice Peris on Sync, Survival, and Why You Don't Need a Backup Plan
This week singer-songwriter Patrice Peris joins Dave to flip the script on building a music career. That question musicians always get – wha...
Sub Gigs, Mic Mutes & the Art of Mixing Live with Jesus Hernandez
This week you start things off digging into the craft that separates good gigs from great ones. You’ll get the playbook for prepping a...
Three Rush Fans and Rush's 2026 Comeback Tour: From the Room and From Afar
Three Rush fans — a father, a son, and Spartacus — walk into a podcast. There’s no punchline, just the tape rolling on a conversation...
Road Stories, Recording Secrets, and the Perfect Pop Song – with Rand Lempert from The Broken Rings
This week on Gig Gab, Dave Hamilton sits down with guest co-host Rand Lempert of the Broken Rings, a two-piece recording project built on 15...
AI and Music for Working Musicians: Tool, Threat, or Bandmate?
This week Stu Dias joins Dave from a slightly different corner of Durham, New Hampshire, and after a quick detour through barefoot drumming,...
Loaded Out, Rolling Home, Rolling Tape
Ride shotgun with Dave as he records GigGab on the drive home from a Casual Gravity gig, finally living out the show’s original missio...
What's Your Band's Definition of Success?
OG co-host Paul Kent rejoins Dave Hamilton to talk about how The Houserockers have stayed booked into their 27th year, and what your band ca...
Relentless Consistency and the Scarcity Premium with Mike Schulte from The Pork Tornadoes
Guest co-host Mike Schulte joins Dave with 15 years of Pork Tornadoes social media wisdom, and the message is blunt: relentless consistency...
From Wedges to In-Ears: A Monitor Engineer's Playbook with Paul Klimson
Ready to make the leap from wedges to in-ear monitors? Or finally get the stage mix you’ve always wanted? Dave Hamilton welcomes back...
Stop Guessing, Start Growing: Fix Your Band’s Biggest Pain Points (with Dan Chantrey)
You trace Dan Chantrey’s path from drummer dad influence to choosing music over football, and quickly see the real lesson: the game has flip...
50 Years of Rush: Howard Ungerleider on Lighting the Lighted Stage
Step inside five decades of rock history with lighting legend Howard Ungerleider, the man who’s been designing and directing Rush̵...