170 Smash Mouth Guitarist Greg Camp Celebrates Steve Harwell and the Art of Writing Hit Songs

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Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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For this episode, we head out to Nashville, TN, where Smash Mouth founding guitarist GREG CAMP plugs in and shows you how he gets his magical, multi-platinum-selling "surfadelic" Jazzmaster sounds. He also details the art of writing hit songs (he wrote Smash Mouth's biggest hits, including "All-Star" and "Walkin' on the Sun"); introduces you to his new band, the Defiant; and celebrates the life and music of late, great Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell. Special thanks to Daneil Adams, who lets us listen to an unreleased track produced by the great Eric Valentine — the master behind the mixing desk on hits by Smash Mouth and so many other bands. Hosted by Jude Gold. This episode is brought to you by Guitar Player magazine.

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0:00.0	All right, all right, we are about to plug in with Greg Camp, the phenomenal guitarist,
0:12.3	lyricist, songwriter, and hitmaker for the biggest songs of Smashmouth.
0:17.5	I mean, you'd have to have been living under a whole pile of rocks to have never
0:21.7	heard this song.
0:28.2	Even if you didn't see Shrek, man, that thing is and was ubiquitous and probably always
0:34.2	will be.
0:35.1	And speaking of Smashmouth, the inspiration for this guitar hang
0:38.9	was that we wanted to also celebrate the life
0:41.9	and the great stories of Steve Harwell,
0:45.6	Smashmouth's lead singer who passed away
0:47.5	on September 4th of this year.
0:50.4	Wikipedia said, liver complications, something like that.
0:54.0	He had so much personality in every syllable
0:57.0	total alpha rock star
1:00.0	So we'll celebrate that and also dive into Greg's brand new band called The Defiant. I have this great song, dead language, and a whole album you can check out.
1:33.3	Today's episode In the land of the lost Pre-ravacitated universe
1:45.7	Rise or off
1:46.6	Today's episode is brought to you by
1:48.7	Guitar Player magazine
1:49.7	and GuitarPlayer.com
1:51.5	Guitar player
1:53.1	Play better
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