(Don't) Quit Your Day Job
Hosted by Paul Neil and Paul · Paul Neil
4.9from 57 ratings
- 290
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 57
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 40K
- YouTube views
About (Don't) Quit Your Day Job
Did you move to LA in the 80's to make it on Sunset Strip? There are many stories about making music for a living. Sometimes you need a day job and sometimes you play the worst gig. Let's talk about the stuff that happened with people who have "made it" or "come close" or played to a dog in an otherwise empty room. There are funny and enlightening stories out there, so I started a podcast to tell these stories.
- Publisher
- Paul Neil
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 290 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 280 with Rick Girt (The Sneaky Heat Missiles): What Does Richard Famous Think of Old Bands Doing Kickstarter Campaigns?
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 279 with Mark Tremalgia (Little Caesar): What Does It Mean to be in a Band?
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 278 with Goodwood Audio: There’s What You Think It Will Be And Then There’s The Reality
Inside a recent episode
Episode 280 with Rick Girt (The Sneaky Heat Missiles): What Does Richard Famous Think of Old Bands Doing Kickstarter Campaigns?
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's definitely metal-y. Not everything is like metal band in terms of iron maiden or or death metal or anything like that it's it's very accessible metal um and if if you dig like beatles harmonies or beach boy harmonies right this is this is how i think about the band so anyways they were again sort of c-level popular never huge um but they got to go on some big tours uh contemporaries with king's x who were Also from that that Texas, the Texas background, they had the same manager. And then the 90s happened and they, you know, that sound of music fell out of favor and they sort of went by the wayside as a band. […]
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- Rick Girt
- Richard Dean Girt III
- Mark Tremalgia
- Grant
- Yinzer Chuck
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 40,230
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 38 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 19 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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- Quality
- 62
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 82
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Paul Neil and Paul host the show. Published by Paul Neil.
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