Gig Gab - The Working Musician's Podcast

Play the Fill: Stage Confidence, Filling an Empty Room & Booking Gigs

You’ve earned your seat on that drum riser, even when four people in the crowd know the Bonham parts better than you do. Dave Hamilton and guest co-host Skylar Hamilton (

Re-Impressing the Room All Night: The Realities of Nashville's Lower Broadway with Tyson Hanes & Adam Barber

Nashville’s Lower Broadway isn’t a gig, it’s a gauntlet, and Tyson Hanes and Adam Barber of The Tyson Hanes Band are here to show you how it actually works. You’ll hear w

Ask for the Gig You Want: Kevin Glendinning on SNL, Super Bowls, and 25 Years on the Road

Monitor engineer Kevin “KG” Glendinning joins you live from a Roman amphitheater in Pula, Croatia: eight countries in seven days into the Lorde world tour…and he’s got th

From Broadway Swing to Principal: Eight Shows a Week...with Victor Carrillo Tracey

Your voice is the most temperamental instrument you’ll ever own, and this week Victor Carrillo Tracey – original company member of Broadway’s The Outsiders – walks you th

Matt Beck on Matchbox Twenty, The Outsiders, Hot Cocoa and a Green Tartan Suit

Matt Beck taught himself guitar strung upside down and backwards and has never once found a reason to stop. He joins you this week from the pit of The Outsiders, where he

Hired From an 11-View Video: Sean Mullaney on Opportunity and Owning the Stage

Guest co-host Sean Mullaney joins Dave Hamilton to prove that the gig you want is usually hiding inside the gig you almost skipped. A video with eleven views got Sean hir

Nobody Bought a Ticket to Watch Load-In

It’s just you and Dave this week for a full mailbag episode, with road stories up front: Matt Musty behind the kit with Train at Great Woods, three nights of Phish and Ru

When Your Worlds Collide...and the Drummer Becomes the Sound Guy

Daniel East is back for a no-agenda episode that turns into Gig Gab therapy. You’ll hear about Brit Drozda’s fifth record in pre-production, unannounced pop-up gigs built

The Wrong Audience Is Still an Audience: Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe on the Gigging Life

Episode 543 lands on National Fortune Cookie Day, and guest co-host Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe of NUGEN Audio opens by demystifying how your masters actually translate across

Growing Up Statler: Wilson Fairchild on Harmony, Hustle, and the Working Musician's Life

This week Wil and Langdon Reid of Wilson Fairchild pull up a chair beside Dave to show you what a life in music actually looks like from the inside. These guys grew up on

Ryan Goldbacher on Touring with Tom Keifer, Mixing FOH (and Monitors), and AI

This week front-of-house engineer Ryan Goldbacher calls in from the road with Tom Keifer, and you’ll quickly learn that landing the next gig comes down to two things: com

Patrice Peris on Sync, Survival, and Why You Don't Need a Backup Plan

This week singer-songwriter Patrice Peris joins Dave to flip the script on building a music career. That question musicians always get – what’s your backup plan? – is a t

Sub Gigs, Mic Mutes & the Art of Mixing Live with Jesus Hernandez

This week you start things off digging into the craft that separates good gigs from great ones. You’ll get the playbook for prepping and surviving sub gigs, learn (again!

Three Rush Fans and Rush's 2026 Comeback Tour: From the Room and From Afar

Three Rush fans — a father, a son, and Spartacus — walk into a podcast. There’s no punchline, just the tape rolling on a conversation that was going to happen anyway, and

Road Stories, Recording Secrets, and the Perfect Pop Song – with Rand Lempert from The Broken Rings

This week on Gig Gab, Dave Hamilton sits down with guest co-host Rand Lempert of the Broken Rings, a two-piece recording project built on 15 years of musical kinship betw

AI and Music for Working Musicians: Tool, Threat, or Bandmate?

This week Stu Dias joins Dave from a slightly different corner of Durham, New Hampshire, and after a quick detour through barefoot drumming, sweaty-hand fixes, and oversi

Loaded Out, Rolling Home, Rolling Tape

Ride shotgun with Dave as he records GigGab on the drive home from a Casual Gravity gig, finally living out the show’s original mission. You’ll hear why packing your own

What's Your Band's Definition of Success?

OG co-host Paul Kent rejoins Dave Hamilton to talk about how The Houserockers have stayed booked into their 27th year, and what your band can steal from their playbook. Y

Relentless Consistency and the Scarcity Premium with Mike Schulte from The Pork Tornadoes

Guest co-host Mike Schulte joins Dave with 15 years of Pork Tornadoes social media wisdom, and the message is blunt: relentless consistency wins. You literally can’t post

From Wedges to In-Ears: A Monitor Engineer's Playbook with Paul Klimson

Ready to make the leap from wedges to in-ear monitors? Or finally get the stage mix you’ve always wanted? Dave Hamilton welcomes back monitor engineer Paul Klimson, the m