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Frank Bello From Anthrax On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Frank Bello is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #83 – Frank Bello.

Who is Frank Bello?

Some albums just hit you at the exactly right moment in time. One of those albums (for me) was Anthrax‘s 1987 release, Among The Living. While this was their third studio album (and I had heard and enjoyed their previous efforts), this was the one for me. To this day, I can listen to Among The Living, and it feels fresh and vibrant. Frank Bello has been the bassist for this legendary New York thrash metal band since 1984. They have sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more times than he cares to count, and enthralled audiences from the world’s biggest stages. Know as one of “The Big Four” in metal (along with Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth), Frank’s playing is ferocious, and he truly does love the electric bass. You can also hear him paired with Dave Ellefson (ex-Megadeth) on Altitudes & Attitude for some double electric bass attack. Frank just published his long-awaited memoir, Fathers, Brothers, and Sons – Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax, and it is a gripping read. It’s a book that goes deep and well-beyond his stories about life as a recording and touring musician. Frank had a very tough upbringing, and this book tells the tale. Enjoy the conversation…

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #83 – Frank Bello.

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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.