Season 1 - Episode 20 // Jeremy Gilien & Robert Matsuda - Minds Over Music

I landed in the US in august 2010 and one of the first friends I have made were Jeremy and Robert. I first met Jeremy at Pappy and Harriet's, a wonderful restaurant and concert venue lost in the desert, 2 hours away from Los Angeles. With Yard Of Blondes, my band, we looked around and see where we could crash some Open Mics and booked our first DIY tour around some desert towns. Teddy Quinn, the open mic host, and legend on his own let us perform that night and he actually let us perform more than the usual 2 or 3 songs! I think we ended playing our whole set, which was not very long anyway at this point! We met so many friends that night and created souvenirs for life. Soon after we came back from that memorable trip, Jeremy invited us to a BBQ at his place in Picfair Village. That's where we met Robert. He's an amazing violin player and, for a little while, he played with Yard Of Blondes. We also had the pleasure to work with Jeremy as he arranged strings for some alternate acoustic versions of our debut album Feed The Moon. They're still to be released and I hope you're going to listen to them soon! Well, enough of me, what matters is we got to talk for about an hour and a half to some of the most educated men we know when it comes to music. I love the way they analyze music and put it in perspective. Whether they talk about classical music or rock n roll, it's always with passion but also through their experience as all-time Angelinos and classically-trained professionals. Check their new podcast Mind Over Music. Vincent
Fernanda and Vincent have been around the LA alternative music scene for almost a decade yet they never felt it was a real community. They came to the US with the same dream of joining a vibrant community of artists but they soon realized the Laurel Canyon, Sunset Strip, and Fairfax High School days were long gone. Because talent is still brewing and because L.A. deserves another chapter in the music history books, we decided to help by giving a voice to a new generation of rock bands and connect them to the many fans & professionals that are hoping to see a new scene arise. Join the movement!

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