{ "schemaVersion": "v1", "slug": "the-beautiful-electric-guitar", "title": "The Beautiful Electric Guitar", "kind": "solo", "listenUrl": "https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/The-Beautiful-Electric-Guitar-e1grn74", "publishedAt": "2026-10-14", "source": { "provider": "whisper", "model": "faster-whisper:base", "normalizedSchema": "v1", "transcribedAt": "2026-06-09T10:16:37.585Z" }, "paragraphs": [ { "startSec": 2.48, "endSec": 24.63, "text": "All right, so all my brothers got me all hyped. I want to talk about guitarjust in general guitarOkay guitar is super so guitar is my main instrument" }, { "startSec": 25.39, "endSec": 30.87, "text": "So even when I think of this bass because I play a lot of bass is Scoobert Doobert, and that honestly my" }, { "startSec": 31.63, "endSec": 54.52594272076372, "text": "Edges guitar every once in a while for my favorite instrument, but I'm talking in guitar like electric guitar guitar solo guitarI want to talk about my personal journey with it and maybe I'll inspire some other guitarists or at least like give youInteresting background of somebody thatLoves the instrument and has gone on quite a little journey with it." }, { "startSec": 54.52594272076372, "endSec": 76.49, "text": "Istarted playing withBasically the intention of playing metal as You know any self-respecting12-year-old would doI got my got my first guitar is like a you knowcrappy knockoffYou know, they'd like a fake Stratocaster Fender Stratocaster, but it is not fender. I think it was made by Johnson" }, { "startSec": 77.37, "endSec": 87.67865979381443, "text": "Like they couldn't even come up with a better name. They just said and Johnson's good enough. That soundsThat sounds relatively American and so I bought this Johnson guitar." }, { "startSec": 87.67865979381443, "endSec": 103.29, "text": "I'm a parent's about this Johnson guitar for like 80 bucksthat American music exchange in Encinitas andStarted playing that guy and blew through a bunch of instructional books all those kind of stuff was reading you know finding tabs on the internet and" }, { "startSec": 104.81, "endSec": 127.29, "text": "I was like convinced. I want to be a metal guitarist. I was listening to like well Children of BodomBig I was also like you know into like kind of classic metal like iron maiden and Judas priestAnd so that was the direction that I thought my musical career was going to goPractice a ton got a lot better and then finally my grandpa said okayIt's time for you to get a guitar that you know has sanded" }, { "startSec": 127.77, "endSec": 134.25, "text": "threats, so it's not cutting your fingersSo you know those like lines on the fretboard or on the neck of the guitar" }, { "startSec": 135.45, "endSec": 158.25, "text": "This they're really really cheap guitars. They don't actually sand them down well enoughAnd so as you slide yourFingers can actually just get cut and start bleeding because you're sliding offYou know unsanded metalumSo yeah, I was having all sorts of problems with that very very badStarter guitar and though I'm forever grateful to it" }, { "startSec": 159.45, "endSec": 169.37, "text": "Uh, so I go to the guitar center or something to look at a broader selection of guitarsI was set on a BC rich warlock, which is this like devil looking" }, { "startSec": 170.09, "endSec": 197.61, "text": "You know like gothic kind of guitar with a bunch of sharp angles in the body made out of plasticAnd my grandpa walks over and he hands me a telecaster insteadYou know it's not it's called the standard or the Mexican TeleAnd uh, so I start playing this and I realize oh my goshI've never felt a guitarFeel this good before the BC register similar to what I was dealing with before and so I'm playing this" }, { "startSec": 197.77, "endSec": 216.49, "text": "I'm playing this telecaster and I go you know what I'm sold I'm convinced and that was the moment that shifted my entire genreYes, you can play metal on telecastersBut the telecaster just like led me in this direction where I picked up surf guitarAnd I think you can kind of hear it in some of my musicBut that was like kind of the foundational stuff" }, { "startSec": 216.65, "endSec": 223.37, "text": "I went from metal and I was like super passionate about wanting to do that but not having the technical facility or gear that would allow me to do that" }, { "startSec": 224.41, "endSec": 248.17, "text": "Eventually started to build up a little bit of facility got this telecaster and then pivoted to becoming likea disciple of the venturesSo I'm learning like every ventures song imaginable ventures very big in japan by the waySo yeah, if I ever tour in japan, I'm playing a ventures songbook itbook itUm, so yeah, I start I start learning surf guitar, which if you guys are not familiar" }, { "startSec": 248.89, "endSec": 255.05, "text": "You are actually familiar you think you're not familiar for you are like Hawaii Five-O or Perfidia or pipeline" }, { "startSec": 256.33, "endSec": 273.28056300268094, "text": "All those like awesome sounds this instrumental music this guitar lead music where the guitarIs a vocal and that's that was the pivot point for me on the instrumentUm, and also I think a part of what I liked with metal was that like the guitar was front and centerThere's always like doing stuff." }, { "startSec": 273.28056300268094, "endSec": 300.97, "text": "It was always interacting with that vocal was always dancing with that vocal But then like when I started to get into surf guitar and that eventually blues and rock and all this guy stuffI I found a sense ofYou know melodic vocalness in in the instrument and then eventually a sense of passion and a sense of emotionIn it where growing upI had a really bad voice in part because my voice dropped" }, { "startSec": 301.77, "endSec": 324.05571428571426, "text": "From being like this little tiny voice voice to you know where I'm at nowI had a massive vocal change and so I was able to sing when I was a boyAnd then I hit puberty and it was just wreckedAnd I built myself back up from there. I'm still working on itbutThe guitar never left me the guitar was the way that I could sing and I still feel that wayThat's the way that I can sing." }, { "startSec": 324.05571428571426, "endSec": 336.89, "text": "I was in Japan talk in Kyoto Playing taking some musical instrument lessons for koto and shamisen and I was talking to the teacherWe're just doing like one-on-one lessons and" }, { "startSec": 338.65, "endSec": 359.4142857142857, "text": "Saying like the instrument that is most similar to speaking for me is guitar and she said the instrument like that is kotoAnd so we we interacted and she showed me like what it's like for her to just speak on the kotoAnd it resonated with me because that was the same feeling of just me speaking on the guitarWhere it's like hey, just put me in a situation." }, { "startSec": 359.4142857142857, "endSec": 368.97, "text": "I'm just gonna sing over stuffThat That was the glue moment and I swear it all goes back to surf guitar as strange as that is where it's" }, { "startSec": 369.69, "endSec": 394.72679999999997, "text": "If you learn an instrument from the beginning as a singer the instrument is just you singingIt changes the whole the whole thingMy favorite drummers are lyrical drummers. They're able to sing on the drums Bernard Purdie makes drums singSame thing with bassThere and then it's a different kind because it's like singing against something." }, { "startSec": 394.72679999999997, "endSec": 411.93, "text": "We're singing In the spaces singing in the glue and that that's like expert level stuff that'sI'm still working on that but that's likeThe holy grail but it's a little bit deeper and then the guitar or saxophone or something like thatThat's like lead singer with a spotlight on you in the middle" }, { "startSec": 412.65, "endSec": 418.81, "text": "I swear part of the reason why humans even developed melodic instruments is because" }, { "startSec": 419.53, "endSec": 428.2639622641509, "text": "People were frustrated. They couldn't do what was in their head with their voice and for meThat's guitar." }, { "startSec": 428.2639622641509, "endSec": 452.37167840045055, "text": "I have ideas in my head that my voice just can't doBut my fingers can and only on that instrumentBecause it's so nativeIt's like like when you talk to other musicians and you ask like ohWhat instruments do you play a lot of times you're gonna say oh?X is my primary You know keys is my primary guitar is my primary." }, { "startSec": 452.37167840045055, "endSec": 479.75, "text": "I'm mostly a vocalist, but I also doAnd that's because it's just like a first language Not everybody's like this a lot of people start with a bunch of things at once and I think that's really cool toobut to beActually fluent in one thing like I feel like with guitar not to say I'm a master of guitar, but I'm fluentI can speak on it in any contextIt's gonna sound like me because that's my" }, { "startSec": 481.11, "endSec": 509.32, "text": "Vehicle in the same way that it wasWith the koto with my JapaneseMusic teacher that'sThat's what I'm trying to drive at and that's part of whatHas created a very interesting love affair with the guitar for meWhere IAlmost take it for granted sometimes like I get so excited for bass" }, { "startSec": 510.04, "endSec": 517.24, "text": "Particular but a lot of other instruments even even singing or playing keys or whateverIt's so excited about them because I hear my growth" }, { "startSec": 518.44, "endSec": 534.04, "text": "That I end up doing them way more than guitar, but then I'll pick up the guitar and goOh, man, if only I could do anything else like thisAnd I'm not saying to brag or say that I'm so good at guitar. I'm saying that I'm so fluent at guitarIt's so me. I've developed my voice on it" }, { "startSec": 534.76, "endSec": 554.28, "text": "And that's like what I would recommend to anybody else that's coming up like learning instrumentsTry and develop your voice at least on one so that you can go backAnd you can find your center and for me it really helps likeTo have a voice on one thing becauseAnytime I'm playing other instruments just feeling kind of lost" }, { "startSec": 555, "endSec": 558.28, "text": "It's like okay, hold it. I'm gonna do a guitar part and then build back around it" }, { "startSec": 559.64, "endSec": 575.48, "text": "Or just you know take a break and play some guitar do a solo if I'm losing a melodyI can't quite find somethingVocally it's like let's try and write a melody on guitar and see where that goesMaybe it'll turn into like an instrumental sectionMaybe it'll be like the beginning of Can't Imagine Feeling Better. It was like" }, { "startSec": 577.72, "endSec": 591.72, "text": "That's those kind of things just like flow out because you're fluent. There's no effort thereBecause it's just you that's what you sound like some people won't like it some people willBut it's you the other thing sometimes you feel like you're trying to figure yourself out" }, { "startSec": 593.08, "endSec": 602.9994936708861, "text": "And so guitar is this like sneaky like you know somebody asked me like what do you do?I produce music or like what's your favorite thing?" }, { "startSec": 602.9994936708861, "endSec": 634.28, "text": "I love making songs and I go oh your favorite things not guitarIt's like wellI am guitarIt's not like a favorite thingIt's part of meLike I do other things, but I don't do guitar That's something that's so fundamental to who I am that it's not it's not even an extension of selfIt just is selfAgain not to say that I'm like whatever to say that it isWith enough time with enough" }, { "startSec": 635.72, "endSec": 641.4, "text": "Intensity to the point where you know, I hurt myself. I wasn't able to play for a little while because I played so much" }, { "startSec": 642.44, "endSec": 649.4, "text": "It just becomes part of you and then you have a voice and then that's the most special thingBut it's funny because it ends up warping the way that I talk about the instrument" }, { "startSec": 650.36, "endSec": 673.7638902743142, "text": "But I just wanted to give a little bit of perspective at least until like that's the core of who I amAs a musician everything else kind of spins around that mixing engineer produce or whateverthe core isThis kid that picked a telecaster instead of a BC rich warlock again not to hate on metal. I really loved it." }, { "startSec": 673.7638902743142, "endSec": 694.84, "text": "I still doSort of not as much, but I mean I get itI like gent anywaythe the core of meIs That surf guitar playerEverything else all the melodies the sensibilities it all comes from thereIt's likeYou can wrap as many things around a core as you want but it's still a core" }, { "startSec": 696.12, "endSec": 724.28, "text": "And so sometimes I need to remind myself of that if I'm being asked like what do you do or whateverI play guitar and I hope you like the instrumentBecause I love it if you want to hit me yetscoobertdoobert.pizza is where I can find all my linksLet's talk about guitar and stuff or notWe can also talk about uh" }, { "startSec": 724.28, "endSec": 744.44, "text": "Lakers or actually not right now the Lakers suck we can talk about bass bass is coolAnyway, give me up seven memes whatever scoobertdoobert.pizza. That's really final this stuffAnd look forward to next weekBecause hopefully you're gonna have a guest onThanks a lotSee you next time" } ], "correctionsApplied": [] }