77 - JMJ

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

Music

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Producer/bassist JMJ plugs in his new Fender Artist Series JMJ Roadworn Mustang bass and jams with host Jude Gold. JMJ also reflects on his adventures touring and recording (he has worked with such headliners as Beck, Nine Inch Nails, Air, Dixie Chicks, Pink, and more), shares what he has learned as a producer (his clients have included Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, Wolf Alice, and other bands), and offers insights into what it means to have great "time," be a great musical director, and be a great touring musician. Bonus: JMJ also shares the story of how he got guitar virtuoso Steve Vai to drop an epic solo on a trance-pop tune by M83.

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0:00.0	No, guitar is sick.
0:07.0	No, they won't shoot you with another one today.
0:27.7	No guitarist save podcast, the podcast where players plug in.
0:31.4	Sounds like a tagline, I guess, but I just kind of made that up.
0:34.2	But it's true today we're going to plug in with another amazing player.
0:37.9	Justin Meldell Johnson, aka, in fact better known as JMJ, the great producer, bassist.
0:46.0	That's right, he plays bass. We haven't had a bass player on since Billy Sheehan way back 71 episodes ago on episode 5, the great bass player, Billy Sheehan.
0:55.9	Man, you have so much to learn today from Justin.
0:59.7	He is amazing.
1:00.6	JMJ has produced, gosh, Jimmy Eat World, which we're listening to right now.
1:05.4	This is a song called Pass the Baby.
1:07.7	Epic recording.
1:09.6	Wow.
1:11.1	And he's also done a bunch of stuff with like Paramore.
1:14.1	We'll get into that.
1:15.0	Wolf Alice, Ravenettes, Metric, M83.
1:19.3	He even corralled Steve Vi onto an M83 song.
1:22.9	Steve Vi on a total kind of pop setting.
1:24.8	That is really cool.
1:25.7	You're going to hear that.
1:26.9	And my gosh, as a musician, it's just crazy.
1:29.7	All the gigs, JMJ has held as a bass player.
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