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Randy George On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Randy George 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 #53 – Randy George.

Who is Randy George?

You can love jazz. You can love classical. You can love rock. You can love it all, but playing progressive music is a whole other ball of wax (my personal opinion). So, when you get the chance to sit down and discuss just how much the bass impacts progressive music from someone who knows, lives and has worked in the genre for a long time, you jump at the opportunity. Randy George is best known for his work in The Neal Morse Band. Together with, Morse and world-renowned drummer, Mike Portnoy, they have released eight studio albums and two cover albums. In addition, they have released over a dozen live concert DVDs and fan club releases. Randy was also a founding member of the progressive rock band, Ajalon, who captured the attention of the Prog-Rock world in 1996 when Rick Wakeman of Yes fame signed the band to his independent label, Hope Records, and the band released their first album, Light at the End of the Tunnel. Ajalon has recorded three studio albums overall. Randy has worked with many artists including Rick Wakeman, Michael Manring, Jordan Rudess, Steve Hackett, Steve Morse, Paul Gilbert, Adrian Belew and more. If that were not enough, Randy has been involved with a number of Prog Tributes over the years. Parallels – The Music of Yes and later Squonk Genesis Tribute in Los Angeles. Most recently Randy has been showcasing The Steppes, A Tribute to the Early Albums of Steve Hackett. We recorded our conversation live in Montreal right before his gig with The Neal Morse Band. Enjoy the conversation…

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #53 – Randy George.

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.

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.