greg howe

In this week’s episode, we go nuclear with the almighty guitar heroes! The only thing to survive the apocalypse will be metal wires on scraps of wood and the demons will unleash the fiery fury of Shredageddon! 

What’s this InObscuria thing? We’re a podcast that exhumes obscure Rock n' Punk n' Metal and puts them in one of 3 categories: the Lost, the Forgotten, or the Should Have Beens. This week we discuss all three. Get out your old Guitar World and Guitar Player mags and flip the pages as we discuss some of the most amazing fingers to ever touch a fretboard! Be sure to also check out the Jason Becker documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet that we mention.

Songs this week include:

1. Uli Jon Roth & Electric Sun – “Sundown” from Earthquake (1979)
2. Jason Becker – “Mabel’s Fatal Fable” from Perpetual Burn (1988)
3. Guy Mann-Dude – “Shredd’n It Down” from Sleight Of Hand (1989)
4. Liquid Tension Experiment – “Acid Rain” from Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999)
5. John 5 – “Ya Dig?” from The Art Of Malice (2010)
6. Nita Strauss – “The Quest” from Controlled Chaos (2018)
7. Jason Becker & The Magnificent 13 – “Valley Of Fire” from Triumphant Hearts (2018)

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A potentate of the instrumental guitar relm, Prashant is an incredible player, engineer and producer. Greg digs into Prashant's musical journey through the Berklee College of Music, Greg Howe, and then onto the LA music scene.

1:52 - Prashant’s year in 2020 - moving from LA to Northern California, celebrating the birth of his third child, and treasuring time with family
5:19 - Coming out to your parents that you want to be a professional musician, and Prashant’s experience telling his parents as a first-generation American
7:37 - Prashant’s experience attending Berklee College of Music, and translating classical Indian instrumentation and musicality to guitar-music, improvisation, jazz, and rock
19:24 - Taking lessons from guitarist Greg Howe, and the recording of Prashant’s first album
24:14 - The story behind Prashant’s self-distributed album, a one-way ticket to Milan, and his move to LA to work in Pop music
35:07 - The transition to recording and producing professionally, and the importance of staying creative and understanding that word-of-mouth is the best gig-finder a musician can utilize
40:38 - How have things changed over time in the music scene of Los Angeles, and how social media plays a role

Total Length: 71:45