45 - Gretchen Menn

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Guitarist/composer/pilot GRETCHEN MENN details the making of her new instrumental album, Abandon All Hope. She also reflects on her adventures with Led Zeppelin tribute band, Zepparella, and jams with host Jude Gold on riffs and themes by J.S. Bach, Jimmy Page, and Django Reinhardt, to name a few. Bonus: Gretchen argues that Texas Chainsaw Massacre is high art.

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0:00.0	No guitar is safe.
0:07.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to episode 45.
0:12.0	No guitar is safe. Thank you so much for listening. I'm really psyched for today because it's just such a multifaceted episode.
0:19.0	We're going to have rock moments.
0:21.6	We're going to have moments that fuse both of those things.
0:52.7	We're going to talk horror movies, jam on some Django jazz and some Zeppelin and Bach
0:57.6	and even drop a few F-bombs when discussing some lyrics from a certain rap band.
1:03.4	Hey man, it's a real conversation.
1:05.6	Some real words are dropped.
1:07.3	It was hilarious, I thought.
1:09.1	So I hope you dig that part.
1:10.4	You were warned.
1:11.9	When we first turn on the mics, our guest is going to blow your mind with a Shakespeare
1:17.5	monologue that seems to be burned into her brain.
1:20.3	We're talking about the brilliant Gretchen men.
1:22.7	Music You're hearing samples from her new album.
1:38.2	Amazing piece of work.
1:39.5	It's called Abandon All Hope.
1:49.4	Music Abandon All Hope. This album came about when my good friend and my mentor, Michael Melinda, editor-in-chief of
1:56.7	Guitar Player Magazine and other magazines, came to Gretchen with an idea.
2:01.8	Mike sort of conceived this for Gretchen and wrote a libretto that comes with the CD.
2:07.0	If there's a third person who really made a huge contribution, it's Max Crace, who did the
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