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Creative Legends of the DMVJim Morrison: PoetThe legendary poet and singer Jim Morrison from the seminal 60s rock group The Doors is on the table to discuss. Centered around the poetry of James Douglas Morrison rather than his superstardom and rebellious ways, Evan reveals various tidbits of the young Morrison's time as a teenager in Alexandria, VA sowing his roots to be a legend of the DMV.Born in Melbourne, Florida December 8th, 1943, Jim Morison was a flash of lightening with deep words to share about the mystery of the human condition. Believing himself or presenting his mystique as a mix of ancient Na...
2024-04-1534 minCreative Legends of the DMVChip Py: Eye of the Go-GoCreative Legends of the DMV returns after a slight break with Episode 11 all about local DMV photographer Chip Py!Chip grew up in Bethesda where he shadowed his dad who was a news reporter. It led to a love of photography that soon crossed with an equal love of music. Chip garnered more and more experience as he grew up in the area composing all kinds of pictures in all kinds of environments. As the 21st century loomed, Chip found there was one DC element he was unfamiliar with. He had heard a bit of Chuc...
2022-06-2339 minCreative Legends of the DMVThe Godfather: Chuck BrownThe undisputed creator and godfather of Go Go music AND an instrumental force in the music behind some legendary old school hip hop, Chuck Brown (1936-2012) was a kind soul who left us with some great music.He started in the 1960s playing in local groups before landing on a talented array of musicians that would become The Soul Searchers. The Soul Searchers were behind some charting hits of the early 1970s before they became Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers. In 1978, that outfit scored a #1 smash in Bustin' Loose. That enabled Chuck to keep going into the...
2022-04-1232 minCreative Legends of the DMVTim Buckley: Jeff BuckleyTim Buckley (1947-1975) was a folk singer and avant-garde musician. Born in Washington, D.C. and then uprooted to New York and then finally southern California where by the time he was a teenager, he was already involved in the music scene there creating bands and meeting people that would give him career opportunities. Opportunities he used to explore his multi octave voice against acoustic backgrounds that were lush, playful but not at all commercially accessible. He eventually developed his own cult following and by now, some of his songs have been covered by many musicians. A bit all over...
2022-03-2543 minCreative Legends of the DMVRoberta Flack: Quiet StormRoberta Flack is a tour de force singer, musician and composer best known for her hits "Killing Me Softly With His Song", "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", and her soulful duets with Donny Hathaway (The Closer I Get To You, Where is The Love?) and others. Quiet Storm is the name of her third album but they are also two words that give a great introduction to the legend that she is and that she has become.Before she came into national prominence, she was 15 and one of the youngest ever to be enrolled a...
2022-03-1531 minCreative Legends of the DMVSteve Jenkins: Master of PersistenceSteve Jenkins is a professional bass player who has been playing bass and involved in music for over 25 years. He started in Montgomery County, MD where he grew up affected by the sounds of Kiss, Gap Band, and Parliament Funkadelic. Those grooves would start his journey into more progressive ones he found in jazz. All of this led him to the famed Berklee College of Music where he formulated relationships and an education that launched him into a career playing with all kinds of established musicians.After spending some time in the DMV post college playing in man...
2022-03-0545 minCreative Legends of the DMVThe Tapestry of Don ZienteraDon Zientera is a veteran, an artist, a musician and if that was not enough for one person and one life, that is not even the things he is known for.Don runs Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA and was an instrumental player in the DC punk scene in the late 1970s and all through the 80s when energy and message took the stage over just about everything else. Don's talents in recording and sound engineering, which were initially just a hobby to his own music making and artistic endeavors, put him in a prime position t...
2022-02-2533 minCreative Legends of the DMVEva Cassidy: Lightning in a BottleEva Cassidy (1963-1996) was an accomplished singer and musician who had a soprano unlike any other. Beyond Billie Holiday, she could be the most unique female singer to ever have been born in and/or crossed through the area. Eva had the voice of an angel but her career and trajectory was cut short due to a bout with cancer that took her life at the young age of 33. In the five short years Eva played in and around the area with her band, she impressed The Godfather of Go Go and accomplished national musician and legend of...
2022-02-1831 minCreative Legends of the DMVKnowledge is Hip HopThe DMV has and continues to see a lot of creative wordsmiths and poets take their experiences and set them to rock or jazz influences beats and express themselves through rhyme. In the 80s, the late Biz Markie put DMV in the hip hop spotlight playing lots of college bars in the areas with his late 80s gem "Just A Friend". Since, hip culture has evolved into various forms within itself paralleling the technology and the shifts within the cultural dynamics it expresses itself through. Logic, from Gaithersburg, MD, used hip hop as forum to bring attention to teenage sui...
2022-02-1435 minCreative Legends of the DMVRoy Buchanan and Danny Gatton: TelemastersBoth Roy Buchanan (1939-1988) and Danny Gatton (1945-1994) were masters of their instrument and stellar representatives of musical legends of the DMV. Roy ended up in Reston, VA after being born in Arkansas and Gatton was a lifelong resident of Maryland. They took their talent of guitar, particularly the Fender Telecaster, and love of music and fused it into something that was truly otherworldly. Danny Gatton took jazz, rock, blues, rockabilly, and not only mastered all the essential elements of those genres, but fused them into a sound that had not been heard before. He was named one of the gr...
2022-02-1031 minCreative Legends of the DMVDuke Ellington: Birth of the Real CoolEdward "Duke" Ellington was a master of contemporary jazz and the piano. His compositions, songs, and scores, cover 50 years of American music. In this episode, Evan muses over Elington's influence over music and how his life played out guided by the muses. In his usual wayward style, Evan uses Ellington's life to discuss how music has changed yet stayed the same with its ever changing dynamic while highlighting certain tracks from Ellington's life that showed his ever evolving style from the 1920s to the 1970s.
2022-02-0231 minCreative Legends of the DMVFat Nave: Not a LegendFat Nave is Evan Taff. Evan Taff is Fat Nave. The first episode of this podcast introduces Evan Taff, the host and moderator of Creative Legends of the DMV. A brief framework is introduced for the scope of the podcast and its episodes and Taff's own background as a musician, currently branded as Fat Nave, and a writer and filmmaker growing up in Montgomery County, MD.You can hear the music of Fat Nave on various music apps and at:www.fatnave.comwww.facebook.com/fat-nave
2022-01-2432 min
Talk Hockey RadioTalk Hockey Radio: Brand Pitch Episode 1 - Crown HockeyThis Special Episode: Fraser talks to Evan from Crown Hockey in our first of many specials called Brand Pitch where we explore the ins and outs of various brands... Evan spoke about the processing and how the brand developed from its conception to where they stand now and what they are planning for the future... a very interesting interview which gives you a bit of insight into Crown Hockey. Well worth a listen even if we say so ourselves.
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2021-03-2438 min