Hey, Peter.

Hey, can we finally talk about what we've been reading?

I've been waiting so long.

Yes, I just finished the Encyclopedia of the Blues.

I'm Adamanas. And I'm Peter Martin. You're listening to the You'll Hear podcast. Music advice and inspiration for life coming at you. I mean, you just do what you want. You do you, man. It's your 50th birthday today. Peter, come on. It's still my birthday. It was been my birthday for a week. I know. It's like two weeks later on the podcast, but we're still recording this on your 50th birthday. It's amazing. Man, I'm having fun, man. I appreciate you. I appreciate the listeners. I appreciate the whole Open Studio fam that you'll hear it family. I'm getting messages from fantastic musicians, but more importantly, fantastic people. Mark Whitfield sending me a message, Jeff Clap, Elio Alves, Rubin Rogers, Christian McBride. Come on now. Happy birthday, my man. Love you, Pedro. Okay. Excellent. Speaking of Christian McBride, is this, will the course be out when this is being heard? We don't know. I think it's out this week. Okay. It's coming soon. Christian McBride. Your sound is your signature.

Oh, I love that title.

It's Christian McBride really breaking down some amazing stuff on the bass. And, you know, he's joined by Carl Allen on drums. That's right. The newest member of the Open Studio fam. This guy is so swinging. So swinging. Have you played a lot with Carl? I played a, yeah, I played over the years quite a bit.

And I just, he's one of my favorites.

Actually, there's a certain kind of tune.

There's several kinds of tunes that I would rather play with nobody else besides him because he makes it so, feel so good at the same time as making you sound so good as a pianist. And I know Christian feels the same way. That's why when we talked about,

what about having a drummer

if we can do the social distancing

and figure it out? He was just like, see if Carl's available. And that was like, no-brainer. He's one of those musicians that makes everybody around him better. Yeah. Yeah. And if you ever get a chance to hang out with him as a person, it's the same thing.

That's what I consider a great technique on your instrument

when your personality comes out so well.

So, you know, sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes it's a bad thing in Carl's case. Now, he's from Milwaukee. That's the only thing going against him. Yeah, that is a drag. Hometown of... I love you, Milwaukee. Hometown of Liberacee and Jeffrey Dahmer as well. Fun fact. Go Brewers. You're not selling it. And Carl Allen, more importantly. So yesterday we were the last episode, we were supposed to do this recent reads, right? On all the nonfiction we've been reading, but we got sidetracked. Yes. With a listener's angry email, which we wanted to address, and I hope we did an okay

job with that. But let's go back to Scott's question and talk about what we've been reading, because you and I've been both reading a lot of what we'll talk about it, but Scott says, I've heard both Peter and Adam allude to some of the nonfiction they have been reading lately after checking out atomic habits, filing a recommendation from Adam. I found myself enjoying other similar works such as Grit by Angela Duckworth and Peake by Anders Erickson and Robert Poole. I am wondering if you would consider producing an episode where you discuss some recent reads and how you use some of the information in your life and music making. I think it's a great idea, Pete, for an episode. We were talking before we started recording about, like,

you know, all the things we're reading. In another era, there would be maybe like self-help, you know, in the New York Times, self-help section or something. And they might even be on the same shelf space like by, you know, I say, El Ron Hubbard's works, perhaps. Yeah, yeah. But now, some controversial area. All the stuff we're reading has a, has a distinct techie vibe.

Like a Silicon Valley.

Tech bro, a little bit of a CEO of a fledgling online music company.

Yeah, a little bit of a CD kind of like, you know, VC, you know, running off to the Cayman Islands during a pandemic kind of a flare to them

yeah think a think a button down Oxford shirt with a patagonia vest over it oh god is there

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