Gig Gab - The Working Musicians' Podcast
Hosted by Dave and Dave Hamilton · Dave Hamilton & Friends
4.9from 66 ratings
- 555
- Episodes
- 32
- Transcribed
- 66
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 79K
- YouTube views
About Gig Gab - The Working Musicians' Podcast
Welcome to Gig Gab—the podcast sanctuary for working musicians and anyone fascinated by the vibrant, often unseen world behind every note played on stage. Whether you’re a musician, a member of the crew, or just someone who loves peeking behind the curtain to discover the secrets of live performances, you’ve found your tribe.
- Publisher
- Dave Hamilton & Friends
- Category
- music · music · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Feb 2015
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
32 of 555 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Instagram Paid Him Tens of Dollars. It Also Got Him Into the Beach Boys: Social Media, Session Vocals, & Harmony Stacks with Chris Cron
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Every Club Sounds Great: Running SXSW Stages & Changeovers with Nate Cross
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Opener Sets the Tone: Set List Strategy, AI vs. the Artist & The Craft of Fronting a Band
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Instagram Paid Him Tens of Dollars. It Also Got Him Into the Beach Boys: Social Media, Session Vocals, & Harmony Stacks with Chris Cron
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Made the rounds. Made the rounds, and so I started making more Beach Boys content, and I started... Since I'm a songwriter at heart, that's what I cut my teeth doing. I was in a band... back in the early late 90s early 2000s called melee and we um wrote a couple records and released them with warner brothers and yeah one with hopeless records and uh so i wanted to bring my songwriting into this new beach boys kind of centered world so i started writing songs in the style of the beach boys and Sure. And posting that as content. Instead of just how to sound like them, how do we write like them? Let's do a deep dive and study why their songs work and what... what it takes to create a song like that, uh, which has been fascinating and really great for my songwriting too, because to write a song that's two minutes and 15 seconds instead of three and a half, four or five minutes is so good. […]
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- Chris Cron
- Nate Cross
- Skylar Hamilton
- Tyson Hanes
- Adam Barber
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 78,509
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 53 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 13 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 90
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Dave and Dave Hamilton host the show. Published by Dave Hamilton & Friends.
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