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Guitar Strings & Chasing Tone - Guitar Smarts #102
Mar 18, 2025
55m 34s
The Podcast RETURNS! - Guitar Smarts #101
Jan 6, 2025
1h 00m 43s
ASK US ANYTHING - Guitar Smarts #100
Aug 28, 2024
1h 09m 16s
Theodore, Nuno and Enough of Wedding Gigs - Guitar Smarts #99
Aug 11, 2024
52m 24s
Kiran Buys ANOTHER Tokai - Guitar Smarts #98
Jul 22, 2024
53m 50s
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| 3/18/25 |  Guitar Strings & Chasing Tone - Guitar Smarts #102 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back to the show! This week Matt & Damo talk about their life changing experience seeing Toto live at Wembley arena in February, Matt talks about his visit to Austin Tx where he paid homage to SRV, and the lads debate the importance of guitar strings and their place in the everlasting endeavour that is the chasing of tone! For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.e... | 55m 34s | ||||||
| 1/6/25 |  The Podcast RETURNS! - Guitar Smarts #101 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! Welcome back to the podcast! It's been quite some time since we released an episode of the show, due to a unplanned break. Our wonderful host and friend Kiran had to take a break to recover from a very unexpected health issue but we are so glad to say he is recovering well. Whilst he takes the time to concentrate on his recovery, our good friend Damo Lodrick has stepped into his rather large shoes, to ... | 1h 00m 43s | ||||||
| 8/28/24 |  ASK US ANYTHING - Guitar Smarts #100 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! WE MADE IT! 100 Episodes!! We can't thank you enough for sticking with us for these last 3 and a half years, it's been utterly fantastic fun to do this podcast for you and ourselves. The best thing to come out of this podcast, for us, has been the connections we've made and the community YOU have built around it. We are so grateful. And to celebrate, we decided to dedicate our 100th episode to answering YOUR questions ... | 1h 09m 16s | ||||||
| 8/11/24 |  Theodore, Nuno and Enough of Wedding Gigs - Guitar Smarts #99 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome to the podcast! This week, Kiran and Matt mull over some recent news in the guitar world. From the hilariously ridiculous litigation battles between PRS and Gibson, to the intrigue around Nuno Bettencourt's involvement with the Positive Grid Spark II amp, culminating with Matt's realisation that he's DONE with Wedding gigs for GOOD! We hope you like this week's episode! For links to all our important stuf... | 52m 24s | ||||||
| 7/22/24 |  Kiran Buys ANOTHER Tokai - Guitar Smarts #98 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back to the pod! This week, we talk about a good few things but mostly we welcome another new Tokai to Kiran's family of guitars. It's another Les Paul, but what was it about this guitar that made Kiran part with his pennies? We also discuss the tantalising possibility of a Murphy Lab Red Special, and a great and good value way to get Brian's tone thanks to the folks at Catalinbread pedals. For lin... | 53m 50s | ||||||
| 6/3/24 |  Our FAVOURITE Acoustic Songs - Guitar Smarts #97 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Summer is here! And what could be better on a sweet summers day, thank grabbing your acoustic and sitting outside to serenade the world with your favourite tunes. But, which tunes? This week Kiran and Matt reel off their go to acoustic hits to listen to and to play when the time is right! Listen to a playlist of the songs here! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/25SYpyj3GMm1wBocox9muq?si=b777ead6e0134cd3 And as Matt m... | 1h 01m 30s | ||||||
| 5/20/24 |  Kiran's Guitar Safari Part 2 - Guitar Smarts #96 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! This week we are looking at a couple of things, the most popular songs googled by guitarists around the world, and also Kiran takes us through the second part of his recent London Guitar Safari, where he falls for another Strat! Will he buy it? Find out in this weeks podcast.. https://woodandfirestudio.com/en/most-played-songs-and-riffs/ For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... htt... | 54m 51s | ||||||
| 4/22/24 |  The Importance of Ear Training With Damo Lodrick - Guitar Smarts #95 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back! On this episode of the Guitar Smarts podcast, Kiran has tagged in our good friend and previous guest Mr Damo Lodrick to provide some valuable insight on the importance of training your ears. Music is something we experience in many ways, and often we find ourselves moved by things we hear but do not necessarily understand. Matt & Damo are here today to help you understand why it is a valuable endeavour... | 1h 00m 36s | ||||||
| 3/25/24 |  NEW GEAR From Keeley, Line 6 and GIBSON - Guitar Smarts #94 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Greetings! This week we take a look at some of the finest new gear released by some of the biggest names in the industry. Line6 has released a new version of the POD, Keeley have once again innovated with their new drive pedals and Gibson have done exactly what Gibson do, revisit the past. For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/guitarsmarts Remember to please subscribe... | 56m 32s | ||||||
| 3/11/24 |  Kiran Visits The London GIBSON GARAGE - Guitar Smarts #93 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! On this week’s podcast Kiran recalls his recent visit to the brand new UK Gibson Garage, a guitar store built and operated by Gibson guitars in London’s West End. This new store has got all the Gibson products you could wish to see, and is not just meant to be a high quality guitar store, but a shrine if you will, to the history and impact of Gibson guitars. You can head here to try out some of the finest Murphy lab gui... | 56m 19s | ||||||
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| 2/19/24 |  NAMM 2024 and Yamaha’s new PACIFICA - Guitar Smarts #92 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! On this week’s podcast Kiran and Matt are discussing some of the new releases from this years NAMM show in the US. What caught our eye though was Yamaha's re-release of the Pacifica model. Listeners of the show will know that we love the old Pacifica model, which was seminal guitar back in the 90’s whose build quality and playability changed the expectation of what your 200 pound or dollar learner electric guitar ... | 1h 06m 00s | ||||||
| 2/4/24 |  Celebrating 60 YEARS of Eric Clapton - Guitar Smarts #91 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are kicking off 2024 by celebrating 60 years of Eric Clapton. Back in October 2023, Eric celebrated 60 years as a professional musician and artist. Arguably one of if not the most celebrated and revered guitarists of all time, it’s hard not to understate his contribution to the world of guitar playing and music making. Over on the Eric Clapton website, there was a fantastic article celebrating this milestone, that in... | 1h 09m 21s | ||||||
| 12/18/23 |  Ending 2023 With 2 New Guitars! - Guitar Smarts #90 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we have our final episode of 2023. I want to start by thanking each and everyone of you who have joined us and listened to the show throughout the year, it’s really a great pleasure for Kiran and I to share these conversations with you and we have great plans to bring you even more in 2024, so keep those subscriptions active and look out for more as we get into January. This week we talk about 2 new guitars, o... | 44m 04s | ||||||
| 12/4/23 |  Ian Edwards From Guitar Breaks - Guitar Smarts #89 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we have a short episode for you - shorter than usual at least. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Guitar Breaks founder, Ian Edwards, at the London International Guitar Show in late October. Guitar Breaks are a company that specialise in all-inclusive guitar workshops offering you the opportunity to get away from it all, explore different techniques and skills, discover new styles, hone your own playing ... | 23m 39s | ||||||
| 11/20/23 |  The London International Guitar Show 2023 - Guitar Smarts #88 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Its been a while, but we are finally back! After a few weeks of downtime due to some illnesses, work trips and general business we are finally able to bring to you our first episode from the London International Guitar Show 2023. It was a fantastic show, we met many people, introduced the show to a lot of new listeners, spent a little bit of money and enjoyed looking at some truly wonderful guitars and amplifiers ... | 1h 00m 57s | ||||||
| 10/22/23 |  Kiran & Matt's Desert Island Discs - Guitar Smarts #87 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are here with another episode of the pod, this week Kiran and Matt are talking about their desert island discs. Each of them have chosen the 5 albums that they would be happy to listen to for the rest of eternity, knowing that they could listen to nothing else. Play along, make your own list, and head on down to the Guitar Geek hangout to let us know what albums you would have chosen for your personal stay on a deser... | 57m 19s | ||||||
| 10/9/23 |  Jam Nights, Custom Guitars & MIDI Rigs - Guitar Smarts #86 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome! This week we dissect a great night playing at Damo Lodrick's local Jam night, where we let loose and rocked out in celebration of Damo's birthday. Matt can't make his mind up about a possible Esquire mod or a new guitar build whilst Kiran feels the need to buy a new guitar. Finally, we finish off with a discussion about using Midi to control Matt's Line 6 Catalyst 100 guitar amp as a get out of jail rig f... | 46m 15s | ||||||
| 9/24/23 |  Tone Philosophy & The Rigs Of The GODS - Guitar Smarts #85 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week we are grateful for the suggestions of our friends over on the Guitar Geek Hangout page on Facebook. We asked what you might like to hear us talk about, and you spoke! This week we are taking inspiration from our listeners Fred Simpson and Olly Browning who both asked similar questions related to tone. Of all the famous guitar rigs there are, who’s would we choose to play through if we could, and along with th... | 1h 03m 23s | ||||||
| 9/10/23 |  Gig Journeys, Fret Levelling & Lee Anderton - Guitar Smarts #84 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are back...again! This week we discuss Matt's strange preference for relaxing after a long day gigging, we talk about the careful but accessible method that Matt took to finally level the frets of his much beloved Epiphone Les Paul that has been screaming out for this work for years, and we talk about the recent news brought to light by KDH about Lee Anderton and his personal involvement in some well known brands and... | 1h 08m 18s | ||||||
| 8/21/23 |  Kiran's First Ever "In-Ears" Gig - Guitar Smarts #83 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, We talk about the use of in ear monitors without having a guitar amp on stage following Kirans first ever experience of this. This seems to be the way that a lot of pro gigs are these days so how does that experience play out for a guitarist like Kiran who is only used to having blaring amp on stage behind him? We also talk briefly about the first ever Guitar Smarts Guitar Solo Challenge and how that played o... | 52m 31s | ||||||
| 7/24/23 |  The £3000 Guitar Challenge - Guitar Smarts #82 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! This week, we are asking the question, if you had 3000 pounds to spend on a new guitar, what would you buy? We asked our listeners on the Guitar Geek hangout what they would like us to talk about on the podcast, and we had a plethora of excellent suggestions, many of which we will most certainly do but this week we are thanking you Mr KingFredward Simpson for your excellent suggestion. Kiran and I have got 3000 of our f... | 56m 19s | ||||||
| 7/9/23 |  Are Sire BETTER than Gibson? - Guitar Smarts #81 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! We are once again back with you for another episode of the podcast. Thanks as always for listening in. This week, we discuss the meteoric rise of the brand Sire, whose star has been lifted by Marcus Miller and Larry Carlton, two of music’s most revered ever session musicians. But what is it about Sire guitars that are turning the heads of these guys? Commercial interests aside, there has to be something about these guit... | 50m 20s | ||||||
| 6/18/23 |  The BEST Songs with Guitar Effects - Guitar Smarts #80 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Welcome back to the show! This week, we look at some of the best songs in rock history that prominently used guitar effects to punctuate the guitar tone. This episode is accompanied by another great Spotify playlist that you can find in the links below! For links to all our important stuff, including this weeks new Spotify playlist, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/guitarsmarts Remember to please su... | 53m 20s | ||||||
| 5/29/23 |  Eric Bibb, Fretwork Anxiety & Luthier Dreams - Guitar Smarts #79 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! So, recent Eric Bibb gigs, Helix programming Skills for wedding gigs, Fret Dressing Anxiety, Luthiery dreams and much more, this week is a mixed bag conversation of many things but nothing in particular! Hope you enjoy it. For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/guitarsmarts Remember to please subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts, and come to see us on our... | 1h 06m 07s | ||||||
| 5/15/23 |  The BEST New Gear from NAMM - Guitar Smarts #78 | Love Guitar Smarts and want to get in touch with us? Send us a Text HERE! Bluetooth toggle switches and Fancy Pickups, Ibanez making the best guitars and T-Rex spending 8 years to create an echo unit that already existed? This week we are lining up the best in news from NAMM 2023 and telling you what we think about it all! Remember to come and tell us what you think on the Guitar Geek Hangout! For links to all our important stuff, check out our LinkTree... https://linktr.ee/guitarsmarts Re... | 1h 08m 22s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.