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Gina Gleason
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WOW! An interview with GINA GLEASON lead guitarist for the incredible metal band BARONESS.
Gina Gleason, a product of Philly, began playing guitar at fourteen and has had a wild journey through Rock&Roll, playing for Misstallica (all female Metallica tribute band) as well as Queen Diamond (all female King Diamond tribute band). She performed as the character 'The Muse' in the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil production of Michael Jackson: One playing many of those famous rock/funk guitar licks.
After this stint she moved into an outsized vacancy in Baroness by replacing their guitarist Pete Adams.
This is where her badassness presently resides.
Enjoy this listen as we chat with Gina about life, art, guitar lessons, creation, something, nothing, metal, and more . . .
https://guitar.com/features/interviews/baroness-gina-gleason/
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:01
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You are listening to something rather than nothing. Creator and host Dan Vellante. Editor and producer Peter Bauer.
00:00:25
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Right now, lately, it'd be good to know what's going to happen in three hours from where you are. Yeah, it'd be
Gina Gleason's Guitar Journey Begins
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all good. Good at some coffee, maybe.
00:00:35
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This is Ken Volante with the Something Rather Than Nothing podcast. Super excited. We got Gina Gleason from Philadelphia. Gina is just a great guitarist, plays guitar with Baroness, has played with some really big names in the past, and really quite an incredible creator.
00:01:04
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and musician Gina Gleason want to welcome you to the podcast. Hey, thank you, man. Thank you for all the kind words, man. Appreciate that. Absolutely.
Influences and Early Musical Discoveries
00:01:17
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So tell us about when you were young. I mean, were you born with a guitar in your hand? Did you like art? Did you get in trouble? What were you like? I picked up guitar a little later. I guess I was like 14 or so.
00:01:35
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And yeah, kind of a similar story of many, many, many people, but parents split up, you know, so sometimes at dad's house, sometimes mom's house, that kind of thing. And dad happened to have a guitar laying around the house. And it was like a thing to do, you know, I just want to like mess around with it and try to learn. But um,
00:01:58
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I don't know. I have one older brother. He and I are like best friends still to this day. And we were always really tight growing up. We didn't have that sibling teasing and arguing kind of thing. We were always like really tight buddies. And I always just wanted to emulate what he had going on. You know what I mean? Yeah. He and I kind of got into music around the same time. He's four years older than me.
00:02:28
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Um Yeah, we kind of liked like hip-hop and stuff like that first like stuff that was on the radio and then a little more accessible and then um I think as he got older and got into his like high school friend group and I was you know, like the younger sister I kind of was trying to find stuff on my own and I remember buying um British steel do you just priest album? Yeah, first album I ever bought I don't know why I bought I think
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and started that kind of started the that whole wormhole of metal and music and then yeah like I said dad had a guitar later out the house and I just kind of
00:03:09
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would try to pick it up and mess around. And he had this like VHS tape that was like, like how to play the blues. Yeah, you know, it's like you pop it on as this dude showing you like 12 bar blues. And I remember being like, Oh, I just want to learn that. And then like, I'll be good. Like if I could just get that I feel like that would be enough to satisfy this, this thing that I'm feeling inside this like urge to to do this. But
00:03:35
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Yeah, I don't know. As a kid, I was, I don't think I got in trouble too much. I was kind of just like a lame kid. I just, you know, I just kind of kept to myself. I did try to do music, but yeah. I tried to like not disappoint my mom. Had a lot of the Italian guilt thing going on. So I tried to like get good grades and like keep to myself and do that kind of thing, you know. Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, we're talking the last name, Volante here. So, right. But, uh, well, yeah, I mean, uh, and I, I, I definitely picked up on, you know, um, you're talking about your, your brother. I have a close relationship with, you know, my siblings and my, my brother, my sister is 12 years younger than me. So my brother and I are very close in age and definitely, uh, just kind of sheared a lot of the same experiences.
Cirque du Soleil Experience
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Right. Um, and.
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and influences. So you say you start around 14 and it sounds to me some metal influence. I want to just kind of jump ahead and just kind of talk for the listeners to get acquainted with the work that you do where it's a bit more public.
00:04:59
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You had a gig and I saw a video on it and it was just really fascinating for Cirque du Soleil and it was a Michael Jackson tribute album and you played a character called the Muse. Incredible, obviously incredible, wild.
00:05:16
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outfit. A lot of time looks like extreme dedication for a long time doing that. First of all, though, is that outfit the most metal or the least metal outfit you could wear? I wasn't sure. I'm like, that's either the least metal or the most metal thing I've ever seen. That's true. It's definitely the least punk outfit I could wear. Tell us tell us tell the listeners about, you know, how you ended up in a kind of world renowned
00:05:44
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playing guitar in a world right now with Michael Jackson riffs. How did all that happen? At the time, I was playing in a couple of bands in Philly and I worked at Guitar Center and was also teaching lessons and stuff. He was 20.
00:06:04
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And my friend just sent me a link that she saw this Facebook ad that said, literally just said like Cirque du Soleil for a female guitar player for something, a show, or I don't even think it said. It just said like female guitar player. And she was like, you should check this out. And you know, it was almost like I dare you to do this, you know, like audition or apply or whatever.
00:06:26
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And I didn't really know what Cirque du Soleil was. I never heard of it, never seen a Cirque du Soleil show, but I was down to do anything that involved playing guitar, you know. And so I applied and first they kind of had this process of like sending videos of yourself to them. So they were based out of Montreal in Canada.
00:06:49
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so they would ask for certain videos like one of just like can you do some like improv guitar work just kind of shred send a little minute two minute long clip and then from there they were like hey that's cool can you send a clip of doing more like clean chicken picking
00:07:06
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stuff like more rhythmic stuff. And so I did that. And then they asked if I could send a video of doing like the beat it solo specifically. And I was like, very specific. So did that. And then they called me one day I was on the way to work and they're like, Yeah, we're doing this show. It's like a Michael Jackson themed show. If you want to play guitar for it, you'd actually have to move to Las Vegas.
00:07:30
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In hindsight, I don't know. If somebody asks me that now, I think I'd be like, ah. Yeah, at the time I was 20 and I was like, fuck yeah, that sounds awesome. So I did that move to Montreal first and we actually created this show. It was pretty much just like there's a director who's like,
00:07:51
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Everything I was involved in is this whole other world. I feel like I was a tourist in this whole other world that exists of the music industry or whatever you want to call it that wasn't anything that I was used to or anything of what I do now. You know what I mean? It's like this whole world with choreographers and all this stuff.
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You know, it was neat to kind of be, like I said, it really felt like I was like a tourist in this other side of like music or entertainment or whatever. So in Montreal, Cirque du Soleil has this like headquarters thing set up. It's like circus NASA, you know, you go in and they have all these crazy apparatuses and people are doing flips and all this crazy shit, you know, like hanging on stuff and all that.
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And from there, the guy that was the director, choreographer, had all these ideas for these scenes. And all of us as a cast just kind of put on the table what we had to offer. And we created this crazy show that still runs in Vegas. I mean, not currently. Everything's obviously shut down, but still is going. So yeah, it's really, really crazy experience.
00:09:09
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As a musician, it was kind of interesting because you do 484 shows a year. Whoa. So you're doing two a day. And then periodically, it'll be like a week off or three days off so they can clean the theater and do just general maintenance on all of the automated scenery and stuff like that that runs on lifts and hydraulic lifts and that kind of thing.
00:09:37
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But yeah, you're doing the same thing and playing the same things 484 times a year doesn't leave you a lot of time to like pursue other things like touring, especially is like definitely off the table. Yeah, while I lived out in Vegas, I moved from Philly first to Montreal and then to Vegas to pursue this and I tried to take on like band projects and things that I hoped would like
00:10:07
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tour, like things that I could, you know, write music with other people and hopefully like do shows and tour and just function as a normal band. But that was kind of off the table with when you're doing that kind of schedule. Um, so you're stuck with this like weird mental thing where it's like, I am playing guitar for a living, but I not stoked. And that becomes like a really crazy
00:10:34
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thing in your head, you're like, what's wrong with me? Like, why am I not stoked 24 seven, I'm literally playing guitar every day for a living, you know what I mean? But it's this strange, this strange conundrum, you know? Yeah, I'd imagine, you know, just from what you're saying with within that, I mean,
00:10:56
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You're young enough to want to be able to creatively like spread your wings and like to do like what you want to do And obviously you're in a situation would be learning tons right about the industry and about show show like showmanship and performance and all that stuff which has to be like super value, but that that rigorous pace, you know the you know that that many shows and like you said doing the same thing and
00:11:21
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You know, it's it's probably the disciplines, a mixed blessing, I imagine, within that situation. Yeah. But it's kind of cool because it set me off on this path of, you know, for like a good year, year and a half, I was like, so I did the show for almost five years. And I would say to like any musician that's like,
00:11:45
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checking that out if you're young and you still have the itch to like tour and be in bands but you're like trying to pursue something it's like it's awesome for a year and you make awesome friends i'm still extremely close friends with like everybody on that that i worked with through that like to this day like you stay in touch with people that are all over the world and it's that's a incredible experience like nothing can uh quickly there's kind of uh connections that you make with friends and stuff but um
00:12:14
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As a creative person, it's like after so long, things like that can get a bit taxing. But it set me on this path where I was like, all right, I'm just going to not leave the house except to go to work. And I'm going to just stay home and just create my own music from home. And I set up a small, not even a home studio. I just got an interface with a couple more inputs than what I had previously and just tried to work on
00:12:44
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writing music and I got really into like gear and pedals and creating like soundscapes and just weird shit at home. I was just like making all this weird music by myself. But that's kind of how I met John from Baroness. So he's got this, excuse me.
00:13:06
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I love the sound effects. That's fantastic. Tell us about the connection with Baroness and that piece of your work.
00:13:26
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Yeah, so John's got this fuzz pedal company based out of Philly. It's called Philly Fuzz.
Joining Baroness and Musical Evolution
00:13:31
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And while I lived in Vegas, obviously being from Philly, I was just like looking up stuff online and looking up fuzz pedals and like, oh, these ones use silicone transistors, or these ones use germanium transistors. I'm different and blah, blah. And then I found these ones called Philly Fuzz. And I was like, oh, I have to have that. It says Philly on it. Right, right.
00:13:54
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And it turns out it was John's pebacumpy. I didn't know that, but I was a really big Baroness fan. I discovered them when the yellow and green record came out and was following them ever since, like when Purple came out, I was like really stoked about that. I remember my brother sending me a link. He's like, yo, new Baroness record, Purple, like new color. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:19
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And so John sent me a message online was like, Yo, do you buy one of these pedals? And I was like, Yeah, person from Baroness. Why is it really him? Or is it like his, you know, whatever is manager? I don't know how this works. But that's just like how we met and kind of became buds. We he was like, we should maybe we can meet up and like demo some of these pedals. And he's like, I have all
00:14:47
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bunch of gear at home. And he really does. The dude has so much fucking gear. So it's just kind of something we bonded over and became buds. And yeah, I think just around that same time, their current guitar player Pete Adams was like, pursue some other stuff. And John was like, hey, do you want to learn some some Baroness songs? And that's kind of how I joined the band. So
00:15:13
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just kind of good timing for where everybody was at in their respective journeys. You know what I'm saying? That's great. We'll chat a little bit more about that. I wanted to ask you a question about what types of art do you enjoy? Do you enjoy art of different forms? And like when you get to music, what are the type of things that
00:15:37
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That influence you that you that you like to partake in as consuming art for yourself. Yeah Well, I'm lucky enough to get to be around a lot of visual artists. I'm not a visual artist at all but I'm lucky enough to spend Most of my life around people that are like between John obviously does incredible visual art does all the album covers and
00:16:05
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And then just friends of his who are also involved in kind of the Baroness world and other like album art making, you know, worlds. So like we have a friend named Marl who does all of the interior album artwork for Baroness. He did all the stuff on Golden Gray and on the Purple album as well. So.
00:16:30
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My partner is also a visual artist, does a lot of big canvas stuff and screen printing and stuff like that. So I feel very, very fortunate to be around all of these incredible artists. I just love taking it in. I don't care what it is. I love hearing people talk about their process or what they use, the materials they used. And yeah, as far as visual art, it's like I can't do that, but I just
00:16:59
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love looking at that and hearing people speak about like, you know, how they went through the how did you create this and kind of just always blows my mind how you had a canvas with nothing on it and now there's something on it. Yeah, yeah, it's your theme.
00:17:17
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It is quite the, you know, it's that transformation and, you know, within the podcast and the show, just kind of like looking at those moments of how things are created and, you know, whatever form it is, just that spark that, you know,
Artistic Challenges During the Pandemic
00:17:36
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creates something like where there wasn't sound before, there wasn't the image before. I wanted to ask you, Gina,
00:17:46
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Just about with the current recording this amidst the pandemic and so many impacts on art and public performance. For you, you would be on tour right now.
00:18:04
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What role right now do you feel both for yourself and other artists that you're around? What's the role of art? What's the role of music or metal right now in a pandemic? What do you think about that? It's really fucking hard because this is what we
00:18:26
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depend on for our living, you know, is playing music and touring and doing that. And just, yeah, ourselves and so many of our friends are so widely affected by this. It's not only us, it's people that
00:18:42
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work at venues. When we're not on tour, typically I work at a venue in Philly. So not only are we not on tour, but the venue's closed, obviously. Effects are like people that are doing audio, people that are doing so many different facets of what goes into going on tour. That's not just like the four or five people on stage with instruments or whatever it is, you know what I'm saying? There's so many people affected by this.
00:19:11
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It's cool that we kind of have time to be like, all right, you're forced to slow down. You can create something, but that also kind of puts this looming pressure over, I think, creative people. It's like now I have time, I don't have an excuse. There's this weird pressure looming over to create and be really highly productive, but that can kind of be really taxing mentally, you know?
00:19:39
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Like a like a like a week or something you feel compelled to or just like that You have to do where you're like, uh, I'm just trying to keep my head straight in this messed up like what I'm seeing, right? Yeah, it's weird It's like I we're not on tour. We have the time We should be being productive right like we should be creating we should be doing this but the outside world is is different we like there's not you know, I can't go out and
00:20:09
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and go to places or see people or interact with people the same way. So it's like the things that would inspire my creativity or things that I'm putting out before. I'm not getting the same input, you know what I mean? So, you know, when you're just alone in your house all day and all night.
00:20:28
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That can be cool for a little while, but there's definitely been a couple weeks in here where me personally, I've just been like, I don't know what's going on. I don't know what I should do if I maybe I'll just watch another episode of whatever the hell I'm watching. You know what I mean? Like, so it's hard. I think only recently I've been trying to take that pressure off and just be like, all right, it's okay to not have every day be like, I have to be the most creative and productive person. Like, you know,
00:20:56
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Yeah, yeah. And, you know, one of the things that that, you know, that I felt if we talk about like performance and music, I mean, I describe people to people for me, I might, I love going to shows, I love going to shows with my son or
00:21:12
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You know my when I go to a metal show, you know, it's like when you particularly for me is the doom metal crowd and like I know there's a certain vibe. There's a certain kinship. There's a certain ceremony that takes place. And that ceremony has been lacking, you know, for both, you know, performance, your ability to like be there up on stage and like seeing the fans, you know, love a particular genre of music, love Baroness and
00:21:40
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You know that type of ritual You know is is missing And I know it's for some folks who? Like you know you go to like go through a week go through to work We could be like well at least not like you know Friday or Saturday be like I'm gonna go hit that show and I'm gonna get some of that stuff out and You know I think it the there's a that's just missing right now. It's definitely definitely been something to I
00:22:07
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uh to to adjust to and i'm sure on on your side you know having the expectations you know to be on tour you know right now and just being like okay um really like to play live now i'd imagine right of course yeah and just interact with people with your band mates and with people at shows like i love playing live because i'm i love meeting the people that go to shows i love going to shows i try to go to shows in philly
00:22:35
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as often as kind of just about every weekend, you know, try to go we're talking about kung fu necktie a little bit earlier before the podcast started, you know, like Billy's great for house shows, and there's a lot of great venues. And yeah, so we're missing that. But I, I do see where people are just getting, getting creative and just trying to make the most of it and do different things. Like, you know, you see a lot of videos where people are like, recording themselves and then like,
00:23:05
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green splitting it with someone else that's recording themselves playing a track or whatever. I've gotten to collaborate with some friends on some really fun stuff. I did this Danzig cover with my buddy that does this two minutes to late night show.
Reflections on Art and Creativity
00:23:24
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But it's it's things like that where it's like, this is going to occupy a couple days worth of of working on stuff. It's making me feel productive. It's fun. It's light hearted. And so trying to engage in stuff like that is really helpful mentally. You know, and you hope that it brings a smile to someone else's face the same way it brought smile to you when you're working on it. You know what I mean? Yeah, the
00:23:51
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uh i saw your uh cover of uh hot for teacher on the two minutes till um i was like i mean that was that that performance just that was just so so
00:24:05
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It was just a badass performance. That looked like so much fun. It sounded like just so much fun. And the collaboration is the part of how you collaborate now. There's some distance. And I imagine that's something to try to try to navigate. Hey, Gina, what is art? That's one of the big questions I have. What is art?
00:24:35
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Well, being around so many visual artists, I constantly see this kind of theme of obviously the cliche of life in the taste of art, or in the taste of life. But I see a lot of visual artists who are friends of mine that, you know, the stuff they make, the things that they're painting are reflections of
00:24:56
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little things that are going on in their daily lives or specific instances that happened to them and stuff like that. So when I see that in my friends who are making stuff currently, when I go and look back at, like, you know, if I'm at a museum or I'm looking at, like, a classic art piece, I tend to think about the same things, like, what was this person going through when they were making this specific piece? I know for me, not as a visual artist, but just as a musical artist,
00:25:28
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That theme kind of carries over to me as well. Everything I'm playing in a more abstract way is just a reflection of what I have going on in that moment or in this particular day or week or month or whatever it is.
00:25:44
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tapping into something that I've suppressed and somehow the specific notes I'm playing are tapping into that and making me think about other things. I was doing a vocal track with a friend of mine the other day and we recorded this jam back in December before everything was obviously shut down.
00:26:08
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And we've been kind of just messing with different mixes and just kind of sitting on it. And she said, like, dude, why don't you just do some vocals? Don't think about it. Don't listen back to it and just send it to me. And because she's like, I think if you listen back to it, you're going to be really critical and and we'll never get to hear it. But if you just send it to me, just having an outside buddy be like, no, that was cool. Like maybe that can be helpful.
00:26:35
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So it's like, you know, trying to do this vocal track and just, you know, kind of tapping into some suppressed things that I had deep down. And I know it sounds cheesy, but sometimes the only way to tap into those things is through creating art, creating music, blocking everything from the outside world out and just kind of getting silent with yourself and taking the time to get in there. And I just feel really lucky to have
00:27:04
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a way to express that, you know, I feel really lucky that I can pick up a guitar and do that or I can, you know, pick up a microphone and just scream and, you know, and get all that stuff out. So to me, art is not only the finished product or the thing that you walk away with or the thing that you can show somebody, but it's the whole process, you know, actually think to me, it's it's more about the process than the than the finished thing.
00:27:33
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And you just hope that the finished thing inspires somebody else and their own thought process and their own creative process. And, you know, you just hope that it inspires somebody to think, think differently, think about something, remember something, conjure up something inside. And so to me, that that is art that I guess not to put like a period on it. That is art, you know. Well, that's that's.
00:28:00
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You know, that's the thing. I mean, I think the, the, the, the, the questions are fun. And I was really, I was really following what, you know, what you're talking about. And I think a lot of times people talk about, and they really do get into the process, right? Because there tends to be like, when you discuss like, what is our, there seems to be like a need for intention, right? Like, like I'm expressing this out and it might take this form. And, um, but I think the question is, is.
00:28:28
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is is interesting because people are experienced in art and have like kind of like a working definition of it. And it's like I know it when I see it has been one of the responses, you know, like I think that was like the Supreme Court definition for pornography. It's like I know it when I see it in art, in art, kind of like I can't sit here and explain exactly what's going to tip over into art. But I know when I see it, it's like I can hear it or see it. So
00:28:58
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And by the way, love Danzig. I had a note here. I know you mentioned Danzig. I've seen you with the Danzig shirt and you mentioned the cover. I wrote Danzig in big letters. That's it. I have Danzig on my sheet. Amazing.
00:29:14
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Yeah, it's so hard to define. I think when we were doing Golden Grey, that really put me through the ringer as far as how I'm thinking about guitar and thinking about music in general. And it turned into more of an art form where it was like, I can do this rock solo, or I could just not.
00:29:35
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and let there be space. And to me, decisions like that on a musical level really kind of challenged me like, okay, I feel like I'm thinking about this more of an art piece as far as this album goes instead of like, no, it's all about me, the person creating it. I wanna do the riff. It's like, no, dummy, just let the song be the song. It's not about
00:30:04
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the person as an individual, we're just trying to create a piece here. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Well, and I and on that, um, uh, a couple, a couple more questions, uh, Gina, um, and you're speaking about creating right there. Uh, why do you, why do you create? Do you ever ask that question of like, you know, why, like exactly why am I doing this? Yeah. Every day I wake up and I'm like, why? Um,
00:30:34
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But I don't know, sometimes I don't create, you know, sometimes I try and I've had more, more times than not, I fail to create. But that's part of the art form, you know, you're just trying shit out, seeing what works, seeing what fails, you know.
00:30:53
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When I successfully create, I'm really stoked, but those times are a lot fewer than the times I try and fail and learn something, or the times that I don't, because it's like I'm too self-conscious, or I'm too in my head, or I'm too mentally not there, which we could probably spend another hour talking about. All the reasons are mentally, I'm just not there. I'm somewhere else.
00:31:22
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Well, uh, you know, part of the thing is, uh, uh, we're talking about Gina Gleason, a Baroness. Um, Gina, I, um, I didn't save the easiest question for the last question and I've been told I need to do that.
Musings on Human Nature
00:31:38
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So I gotta, I gotta hit you with, uh, I need to know why there's something rather than nothing. Um,
00:31:50
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I don't know, man. I mean, why is there something rather? Sometimes nothing is fucking cool. Yeah. Why is there something rather than nothing? Well, because we're humans and we just have this like, you know, impulse to just always put something, always be doing something, always be productive, always be looking at your phone, you know, so maybe that's why there's always fucking something is converted.
00:32:16
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human beings and we can't not have the impulse to like oh a thing oh it's you know whatever it's like jesus just can you just let there be fucking nothing i'm i'm vibing with your answer this because it's like there's too many fucking something's all right
00:32:36
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Yeah. Can we have a little piece? Can we have a little fucking nothing? That was a great, great time to have, you know, nothing and quiet and be stoked about that. And, you know, I. Yes, yes. Thank you for helping me with your answer to that question, because I just jumped right in with you on that one. Gina Gleason, a Baroness. Hey, could you tell as we wrap up here, Gina,
00:33:05
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Just as far as you know listeners fans You know where to where to find you where they you know, you want them to find you online?
Staying Connected with Fans
00:33:16
Speaker
We're to look for material Baroness all that type of thing weird where they come and contact you and in your band Baroness Baroness has a website called your Baroness calm because
00:33:33
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Baroness.com was taken by like a leather Kinky site. Okay. Well, you can go to both sites if you want, but, um, but your Baroness.com is, uh, is where Baroness said. And the same is the Instagram handle. It's just your Baroness. And, uh, I don't use Facebook, uh, but I use Instagram and it's just my personal thing. And sometimes I do guitar.
00:34:02
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videos or do stuff about music or sometimes I'm just sitting in the woods or just having coffee or whatever but it's just Gina Gleason uh GTR guitar uh my big creative name Gina Gleason guitar I like it but yeah so yeah be uh be uh stoked to uh
00:34:25
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Talk to you on there. Yeah, Gina, and thanks for that, too. I really wanted to make sure folks could connect, you know, and I know for me, you know, looking at YouTube and some of the Cirque du Soleil stuff, some of your really cool performances and covers. I saw your play with Carlos Santana.
00:34:44
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It's just you know, you know, it's easy it is to say I mean folks look up Gina Gleason some of these great performances There's a lot of great stuff to watch you great performer great guitarist And it's been a it's been a great joy to be able to talk to you and also you know I was kind of excited to hear you from Philly like I said, I know a couple of folks over there and you know, I've had an East Coast vibe lately on the podcast, but I can say I
00:35:13
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For people that I know out here, when there comes a time for tours and shows to happen, whatever form that they do, a lot of folks out in the Pacific Northwest, including myself, love to see you play guitar in the great band Baroness, wanted to thank you so much, Gina, for being on the podcast. It's been an absolute thrill to talk to you.
00:35:41
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Thanks for having me, man. I think you guys are a really cool thing. It's a cool concept for a podcast. It's really interesting. It's great talking to you, man. Thanks, Gina. Hope to hear from you soon. Take care now. All right. See you, man. Bye. Bye-bye.
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