58 - Brendon Small

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

From the tragedy of his first gig to the triumph of his new album, Galaktikon II: Become the Storm, BRENDON SMALL plugs in his signature-model Gibson and Epiphone guitars and shows you how he succeeded in blending metal riffs, animation, and standup comedy to forge one of the most unique careers in the history of guitar. Picking up where Dethklok (the animated intergalactic thrash band from Brendon's hit series Metalocalypse) left off, Galaktikon has an even more massive sound, courtesy of huge armies of guitar and vocal overdubs stacked in spectacular harmony. On this episode, Brendon not only reveals how he planned, produced and recorded Become the Storm, he also shows you some of his favorite guitar techniques — some learned from other great players, and others arrived at on his own. Every time I meet with Brendon, he inspires me to take my playing, composition, and music production abilities to the next level; hopefully, with this in-depth interview, he will do the same for you. — JUDE GOLD, host, No Guitar Is Safe.

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0:00.0	No, guitar is safe.
0:07.0	There'd be like a line outside around the block for these shows, and I'd go, who are these people?
0:18.0	Who are they?
0:19.0	Are they metal people?
0:20.0	Are they what? And then I'd look, and I'd go, Slayer shirt, Metallica shirt, South Park shirt. Okay. Okay. Simpson's shirt.
0:26.0	All right. Mastodon shirt. Okay. But you just start to see like, oh, they're cartoon fans
0:29.5	or metal. They're all the same person, as it turns out. They're people who like comedy and people who
0:33.0	like metal. So I am beyond
0:43.3	So I am beyond psyched because today on the show, one of the smartest, one of the most creative, one of the most prolific, one of the funniest guitar players I've ever gotten to know, Mr. Brendan Small.
1:15.2	Could this be? small. You are currently listening to Galacticon 2.
1:18.1	This is the second album from Galacticon.
1:20.1	Galacticon is his main project these days.
1:23.1	It's a band, but he's kind of the sinister mastermind behind it.
1:27.6	The puppet master.
1:29.0	This album is called Become the Storm.
1:32.3	It's Brendan Small's Conception.
1:35.2	He's the guy playing those incredible armies of guitar in perfect harmony.
1:40.0	And those, he's the guy singing all those vocal parts stacked in perfect harmony.
1:49.0	He's the guy who's also doing the crazy thrash cookie monster vocals.
1:54.0	You might have gotten to know that vocal sound from his previous project, which was Metalocalypse, the great cartoon.
2:02.1	Metalocalypse starred an animated intergalactic thrash band that became very popular.
2:07.4	This cartoon became very popular worldwide.
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