Adam Jaffe is the drummer for Pistols At Dawn, an exciting up and coming band.  The band recently booked an opening slot on the Alter Bridge & Mammoth WVH tour.   They just wrapped up an acoustic radio tour for their single "The Truth."  We discuss all this plus how Adam grew the band, working with producer Sylvia Massy, a crazy stage incident & more! 00:00 - Intro00:42 - Recent Radio Tour & Playing Acoustically 05:34 - Old Singer & New Singer 08:00 - New Guitarist & Bassist 09:40 - Growing the Band & Success 15:05 - Making the Tough Decisions & Going All In 17:50 - Tour with Mammoth & Alter Bridge 21:30 - Adam's Take Over The World Attitude 23:35 - Adam's Backstory 26:20 - Working with Producer Sylvia Massy 28:58 - Recording with Jesse James Dupree 30:23 - Guns 'N Roses & Stage Accidents 36:00 - Charity Show & World Central Kitchen 37:22 - Website, Social Media & Band Name 39:28 - Outro Pistols At Dawn website:https://www.pistolsatdawnband.com/World Central Kitchen website:https://wck.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Matt Ramsey is a vocal coach, singing teacher and YouTuber.  He has worked with singers of all levels, but really enjoys working with adult beginners. His YouTube channel has over 30 million views and almost 300,000 subscribers.  In this episode we discuss different vocal styles, how voices change with age, vocal fry and more! 0:00:00 - Intro0:00:45 - Preconceived Notions of Singing 0:01:45 - Bob Dylan & Punk Singers 0:05:58 - Pop Singers, P!nk & Broadway 0:07:37 - Bob Dylan & Sustaining Notes 0:08:45 - Polished Music of the 80s Vs. Rougher 90s 0:10:50 - How to Sing with Emotion 0:13:30 - Matt's Path to Become a Voice Coach 0:18:55 - Starting a YouTube Channel & Growing It 0:26:53 - Vocal Ranges 0:30:57 - Vocal Fry 0:36:15 - Auto Tuning Singers 0:38:25 - Working with Beginners Vs Professionals 0:43:50 - Singers Voices Changing with Age 0:47:25 - Vocals, Abs & Being in Shape 0:52:33 - Talent Vs. Practice 0:55:00 - Medical Issues with Singers 0:58:00 - Working with Certain Songs0:59:35 - Death Metal Singing 1:00:55 - Austin Music Scene 1:04:22 - Health Alliance for Austin Musicians 1:08:55 - Outro Matt Ramsey website:https://ramseyvoice.com/Vocal Range Finder:https://rangefinder.ramseyvoice.com/Health Alliance for Austin Musicians website:https://www.myhaam.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Rebecca Zung is an attorney, author and YouTuber. She was recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a “Best Lawyer in America” and her YouTube channel has over 30 million views. In this episode we discuss Rebecca’s backstory and her YouTube channel which focuses on understanding and dealing with narcissists. 00:00 - Intro00:40 - Rebecca's Story 03:10 - Rebecca's Work Ethic 04:10 - Being Bullied & Narcissist Relationship 05:56 - Learning About Narcissists 08:55 - Narcissist Defintion 12:54 - Narcissist Types 19:12 - Phases of Narcissists 32:50 - Strategy in Negotiating with a Narcissist 34:50 - SLAY  Legal Aid 36:29 - Outro Rebecca Zung website:https://www.rebeccazung.com/SLAY Legal Aid website:https://www.slaylegalaid.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Laura Cox is a French guitarist, singer and songwriter. She started out on YouTube and has amassed over 500,000 subscribers and millions of views with her solos, cover songs and originals. She has released 2 albums with her solo band and a third one (Head Above Water) will be out soon. We discuss the new album & single plus her YouTube channel, how to write songs, new bands she digs & more! 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - YouTube Channel 01:57 - Living in France 04:25 - French People 05:22 - Drawing Out Emotion In Music 06:35 - YouTube Channel Comments 10:35 - Musical Influences 12:44 - Playing Guitar to Starting Band 19:14 - Learning to Write Songs 20:27 - Hard Blues Shot 22:15 - Rock Scene in France 25:40 - Sheryl Crow 27:40 - Current Bands Laura Likes 29:50 - New Single "One Big Mess" 31:10 - Recording at the ICP Studios & Royal Blood34:13 - Mastering By Ted Jensen 35:02 - Favorite Gear 37:31 - Original vs. Covers 39:36 - U.N. Women 40:30 - Outro Laura Cox website:https://www.lauracoxmusic.com/UN Women website:https://www.unwomen.org/enChuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Darren and Jeff Allen Geare (The Geare Brothers) are screenwriters. Their latest film The Retaliators is getting rave reviews (currently 88% on rotten tomatoes). The movie stars Michael Lombardi (Rescue Me) as well as many rockstars including Tommy Lee, Jacoby Shaddix (Papa Roach), Ivan Moody (5 Finger Death Punch) and many others. We discuss the production of the film as well as some of the deeper issues they touched on, plus Darren’s Christopher Walken story and more! 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:40 - Welcome The Geare Brothers!0:01:18 - Rutger Hauer0:02:25 - Christopher Walken 0:07:03 - Working at a Video Store0:09:04 - Starting a Band 0:11:48 - Foray Into  Writing Screenplays0:18:24 - Writing  The Retaliators & Rave Reviews 0:23:12 - Michael Lombardi Coming Aboard 0:26:55 - Shooting During the Lockdown 0:28:15 - Editing in Movies & Randy Bricker 0:29:45 - True Inspiration & Criminal Attacks 0:37:48 - Prison System, Death Penalty & Moral Struggle 0:46:57 - Time Jumps in Films 0:49:50 - Showing Nudity & Throwback to Old Films 0:56:31 - Music in the Film 1:01:38 - Anxiety & Depression Association of America 1:04:40 - Outro The Retaliators website:https://www.retaliatorsmovie.com/A.D.A.A. website:https://adaa.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Jared Callahan is an Emmy nominated independent director and producer.  His latest film “Clean Slate” is about two people in drug recovery trying to make a short film. We discuss drug addiction, obstacles in filmmaking, upcoming projects and more! 00:00 - Intro 00:34 - New Film "Clean Slate" 03:38 - Ryan Leaf  & Spiraling for Addicts 05:58 - Global Problem of Addiction 07:43 - Updates with Subjects of Movie 10:12 - Jared's Path to Filmmaking 11:35 - Persevering Through Rejection 14:25 - Famous People Vs. Interesting Subjects 16:15 - Financing for Movies & Producing 20:32 - Entering Films in Festivals  22:10 - Growing Body of Work 22:53 - Time Spent For Films 23:53 - Influential Movies 24:40 - Birds in Massachusetts & Upcoming Films 25:50 - Awards & Other Films 26:52 - Artistic Integrity & Jack White 29:10 - People People Media 30:00 - Outro Jared Callahan website:https://www.jaredcallahan.com/People People Media website:https://www.peoplepeoplemedia.com/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

John Norum is a singer, songwriter and guitarist.  He is most known for being the guitarist in Europe but also spent time with both the band Dokken & Don Dokken solo.  He also has maintained a successful solo career as a singer and guitarist.  His latest solo album "Gone to Stay" is available now.  We discuss the new album, future music with Europe, working Don Dokken, almost joining UFO and more! 00:00 - Intro00:41 - John's Voice & Singing 03:11 - Early Musical Days 05:46 - Phoenix Connections 07:30 - Touring Plans & Live Shows 11:58 - Face The Truth Revisited 13:40 - Norma & Hollywood 16:40 - Solo Albums & Record Labels  18:30 - Leaving Europe in the 80s 22:30 - Working with Don Dokken 25:25 - Flirting with Joining U.F.O. 29:15 - New Europe Album & Tour 30:43 - Solo Music Videos 33:54 - Starving Children Charity35:30 - Outro John Norum website:https://johnnorum.se/Europe band website;https://www.europetheband.com/Unicef website:https://www.unicefusa.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Carla Harvey is a musician, actress, artist and grief counselor.  Heidi Shepherd is a musician and actress. Together, they are the co-lead singers of the band Butcher Babies.  The band has a new single out now "Best Friend" - a cover of the Saweetie song.  There is more music coming soon, as well as upcoming shows and new music videos.  We discuss all of this plus the history of the band, the band's wine, Guns 'N Roses and more! 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:37 - Recent Tour 0:03:35 - New Single  "Best Friend" 0:08:15 - Heidi's Family 0:09:27 - Best Friend Music Video 0:12:10 - Making Music Independently 0:13:25 - Butcher Babies Wine & Desert Rock Winery 0:15:13 - Cutting Out Hard Drugs & Less Partying 0:19:25 - Paris Hilton & Kim Kardashian & Strawberry Cocaine0:21:01 - Carla Quitting Playboy to Work at a Funeral Home 0:25:02 - Grief Counseling & Helping People with Music 0:26:35 - Playboy Company & Playboy Mansion 0:31:05 - Formation of Butcher Babies & Tribute to Plasmatics 0:33:58 - Not Putting Value in The Hate 0:36:20 - Early Shows in L.A. & Punk Rock Antics 0:42:01 - Band Blows Up & Early Tours 0:46:02 - Band Arguments & Touring with Other Bands 0:50:07 - Acting 0:54:00 - New Album, Music Videos & Singles & Art 0:56:15 - Guns 'N Roses 0:58:10 - St. Jude's Children's Hospital And Pitbulls & Addicts 0:59:45 - Outro Butcher Babies website:https://butcherbabies.com/Carla Harvey website:https://www.carlaharvey.com/St. Jude's Children's Hospital website:https://www.stjude.org/Pitbulls & Addicts website:https://www.pitbullsandaddicts.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Tripp Eisen is a guitarist & songwriter, formerly with the bands Static-X, Dope & Murderdolls. He is currently with Teeze/Roughhouse, Face Without Fear, and his new band, Project-X that will do Static-X material. He is very open in this interview about his legal issues, his feelings towards his ex-bandmates, his current musical projects and more. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:43 - Tripp's Background 0:02:25 -Joining Teeze/Roughhouse 0:04:31 - Producer Max Norman 0:05:20 - Popularity of Roughhouse 0:07:10 - Bands in the 90s 0:08:10 - Audition with Marilyn Manson 0:10:40 - Mistakes w/ Roughhouse & Musical Styles0:12:35 - Stuffed Doll & Trent Reznor 0:14:10 - Halloween & Manson Show 0:16:15 - Dope Formation & Gap Between Bands 0:18:35 - Dope Launch & Touring, & Broken Foot 0:23:16 - Joining Static-X & Murderdolls &  Leaving Dope 0:31:05 - Static-X, Touring, Girls Backstage & Rockstar Life 0:32:35 - Irresponsible Behavior, Arrest & Remorse0:40:12 - Prison Experience 0:44:10 - Learning Experience & Preventing Mistakes 0:47:27 - Working Through Guilt & Moving Past Incident  0:51:10 - Hiatus from Music & Keeping Low Profile 0:54:35 - Rebuilding & Offers to Rejoin Dope & Static-X0:59:30 - Songwriting Disputes with Static-X 1:05:14 - Tripp's Version of Static-X Called Project-X 1:13:30 - Inspiring Other Musicians & Drugs & Alcohol1:15:18 - Rock To Recovery 1:16:40 - Website, Social Media & Podcast 1:19:15 - Outro Face Without Fear Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/facewithoutfear/Rock to Recovery website:https://rocktorecovery.org/Chuck Shute website:http://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!

Adam Ferrara is a comedian, actor and podcaster. He had recurring roles on Rescue Me & Nurse Jackie and was also the co-host of the American version of Top Gear for seven seasons.  His latest comedy special “It’s Scary in Here” is available now for free on YouTube. We discuss all this in the interview plus where he got his work ethic, living with Kevin James, why performing at the roasts is difficult and more! 00:00 - Intro00:42 - Adam's Studio 01:47 - Beatles & Music Fan 02:50 - Pete Townshend & Writing Bits 06:10 - Work Ethic, Job Experiences & Learning 10:03 - Playing in a Band & Early Stand Up 12:45 - Colin Quinn & Writing to Understand 13:22 - Riffing and in the Zone 15:26 - George Carlin & Chris Rush 16:40 - Picking Up Headliners & Grinding 19:30 - Last Day Job 23:10 - Working with Kevin James 24:20 - Joe Namath 25:28 - Tea Leoni, Michael Tucci & Acting 29:43 - Criminal Minds & Crying 30:30 - Dennis Leary & Rescue Me 32:10 - Rescue Me & PC Culture 33:25 - Nurse Jackie 34:53 - Italian Family, Sopranos & Edie Falco 36:15 - East Coast, West Coast & Woke Culture 40:20 - Adjusting Sets For Different Cities 41:28 - The Roasts 42:58 - Pushing Past Fear & Channeling Energy44:15 - Top Gear & Driving Cars 50:30 - Adam's Dad, Derek Luke & Humanity 54:01 - When The Work Takes on a Bigger Life 56:38 - Leary Firefighter Fund 57:18 - Outro Adam Ferrara website:https://www.adamferrara.com/Leary Firefighter Fund website:https://learyfirefighters.org/grant/Chuck Shute website:https://chuckshute.com/Support the showThanks for Listening & Shute for the Moon!