Piano Barbarians
Paul Seiz, Steve Savage, and Jarret Izzo host this podcast about roaming the earth as professional piano players and the various wildlife they encounter. Each of these barbarians perform regularly at dueling piano clubs around the the US and overseas. It's at these clubs that they meet some of the most exotic entertainers the world has to offer.

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E16 - Tony Bohnenkamp

Paul sits down with Tony B between gigs in Iowa to discuss songwriting, playing covers, and extended vacations in the friend zone.  Check it out!  

Direct download: E16_-_Tony_Bohnenkamp.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 7:57pm EDT
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Paul met up with Papi and Jimmy C at the second floor of their new pub in downtown Denver, The Kraine Station.  For those of you who don't know these two jabronis, strap on your safety belt for the ride, as Papi and Jimmy hold court on the dueling piano business, what it's like to run a restaurant, and how to find the right chemistry onstage.  For those of you who DO know these two raisin cakes, this interview is exactly what you want it to be.

www.krainestation.com

Direct download: Papi_Jimmy_C_Full_Podcast.mp3
Category:Roundtable -- posted at: 11:33pm EDT
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E14 - Christian Colabelli

Cruise ships, Berklee, and the life of a working musician today.  Christian Colabelli of Boy Meets Machine sits down to talk shop and impersonate various guitar teachers from a certain music school in Boston.  

Direct download: E14_-_Christian_Colabelli.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 2:23am EDT
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E13 - Matt Nichols

Introducing a new member to the Piano Barbarians squad... Jarret Izzo sits down with Matt Nichols of Howl Boston to discuss friendemies, the life of a freelance dueler, and how it feels to be a house player at one of the country's busiest dueling piano bars.  Enjoy!  

Direct download: E13_-_Matt_Nichols_.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 7:06pm EDT
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E12 - Chris Hatfield

Pour the wine, light the fire, because Chris Hatfield is about to make sweet sweet love to your ears.  Steve had a chance to sit down with Chris at his house in Nashville to talk about everything from getting punched in the nuts at 6am to spending your days off working on finishing a record.  

Direct download: E12_-_ChrisHatfield.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 1:43am EDT
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To behold Dave Hawke onstage is the equivalent of cracking your eyes when the Ark of The Covenant is opened .  And then super-natural spirits rip into the most blistering rendition of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" you've ever witnessed.  Grandiose comparisons aside, make sure you hang in there with this episode past the bits on boob-flashing and Uranus for some brilliant words from Dave Hawke, a performer in his own class.

Direct download: Dave_Hawke_Experience.mp3
Category:Interview -- posted at: 4:45pm EDT
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E10 - Travis Von Cartier

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a bad-ass session musician in LA? You have? Well, affix your earholes to this podcast, as Travis Von Cartier holds court on life as an LA musician, and the differences between NoCal audiences and SoCal audiences. Follow Travis on twitter: @tvoncartier...Also, Paul makes a blatant at controversy. Did he succeed? Were you “WHA?” or “meh..”

Direct download: Travis20Von20Cartier.mp3
Category: -- posted at: 12:16am EDT
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What’s the impetus to start dressing up like Elton John? Are iPads just fancy frisbees? Can you tell how much fun the audience is having by the sweat on the walls? These and other questions are explored by Steve Savage and Bill Connors, a dueling piano player and EJ impersonator.
www.eltonimpersonator.com

Direct download: PB_BConnors_Episode_Mix_1.mp3
Category: -- posted at: 3:03pm EDT
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E8 - Steph & Ashley

Steph & Ashley are partners in owning and running That Bar Danville, a piano-club in Danville, CA. When not mesmerized by their beauty and charms, Paul was able to ask them semi-intelligent questions about running a piano-bar business.
www.thatbardanville.com

Direct download: Steph-2.mp3
Category: -- posted at: 1:01pm EDT
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E7 - Jacob Wolfson

Steve and Jacob sat down in New Haven to discuss the proper way to harass somebody in a wheelchair. Also, have you ever been accused of looking like Condoleeza Rice? Listen up. Plus, the merits of actually playing a banjo during Dueling Banjos.

Direct download: Jacob20Wolfson-1.mp3
Category: -- posted at: 3:45pm EDT
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