James Valentine
Wong Notes
Premier Guitar
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Maroon 5's fleet-fingered axeman dishes out the backstory on his signature Ernie Ball Music Man model and what it was like to rock out at the Super Bowl.
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? |
| 0:03.4 | Welcome to Wongnodes podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Season one, this one goes to 11. |
| 0:09.0 | That's a spinal tap reference, because it's episode 11. |
| 0:13.5 | All right, if you don't know spinal tap, get with the tapes. |
| 0:16.9 | All right, I went even deeper there. |
| 0:17.9 | Get with the tapes. |
| 0:18.5 | That's a term the old school cats like to use if you showed up to rehearsal or the gig without knowing the material. Get with the tapes. That means, hey, get your act together. Learn your parts. Okay, this is episode 11. There's one more episode this season. Episode 12. It's going to be a solo endeavor. I'm going to answer your questions, and I'm going to talk about my experiences and my most |
| 0:40.2 | valuable lessons I learned from this season. |
| 0:43.4 | And then, I think we might start a second season afterwards. |
| 0:46.9 | We'll see. |
| 0:48.5 | But hit me up on Instagram at Corey J. Wong or Facebook, Corey Wong, music. Send me a message. Let me know if you have any questions that you want me to answer or if there's any topics that you want me to talk about. I'm happy to do it. Now anyways, today's episode features one of my favorite guitar players in the world, James Valentine. You know I'm from Maroon 5. |
| 1:13.3 | I knew him originally from Real Big Fish. |
| 1:14.7 | We're going to get into it. |
| 1:16.1 | Don't worry about it. |
| 1:17.6 | I was a Skaw kid, okay? |
| 1:18.5 | I was a Skaw kid. |
| 1:19.3 | It was the 90s. |
| 1:25.7 | Now Maroon 5 has seen basically all of the successes that you could possibly want as a band. |
| 1:30.2 | Multiple Grammys, Moon Men from MTV Video Music Awards. |
| 1:33.2 | They played the halftime show at the Super Bowl. |
| 1:35.6 | Hits after hits after hits. |
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