GCP: Saturday Night Grit - Getting Creative - Bonus w/ Joshua W. Turner

The Grit City Podcast

On this episode the guys chat about Auto Zone, Grit City Comic Con, photomicrography, and segment guest Joshua W. Turner discusses the topic “what kind of musician are you”, what lead him to finding the type of musician he is, and the exciting news that his band We Wept are releasing their second single on October 23rd. He closed by expressing the point that there’s different ways of being the same thing as others. The guys finish off the podcast discussing the Washington State Horror Con, Stephen King, DB Cooper, and the cool things happening in the PNW.

01:31 – Jeff reveals the isle at the Auto Zone he and Scott met, poses a question to AI, and reveals what AI voices are his favorite. AI’s reveals the top podcast pick for the Seattle/Tacoma area being GCP, Jeff gives a shout out to Ohioans, and they reflect on the crazy days back in the day at Malarkeys in Tacoma. Jeff reveals the Patron top pic for the GCP movie night and talks about his cool bong pic.

19:30 – The guys promote the awesome GCP coloring book, Jeff expresses the zone he was in when creating them, and talks about being at the upcoming event, Grit City Comic Con. They discuss what people can find there, Scott dives into the cool photomicrography article showing cool weed, brains, and spider eyeballs.

40:15 – Josh talks about going to school of music on the east coast, the mathematical ways people look at music, and what made him stand out at Berklee. He talks about the types of musicians he met while there, his appreciation of ADD, and the type of musician he falls into the most. He talks about the healing power of music and the importance of musicians asking themselves “what type of musician am I?”

59:06 – They talk about Stephen Kings coming of age stories, the upcoming DB Cooper Conference at the Museum of flight, and Scott talks about the popularity of DB Cooper Parachute at the Tacoma Museum. Jeff talks about the return of Reverend Horton to the Spanish ballroom, other PNW legends they’ve gotten a chance to see, and the bands that have stopped off in the PNW before getting big.

Special Guest: Joshua W. Turner.

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• The Grit City Podcast - GCP Coloring Book!
• Comic Book Convention, Tacoma, WA | Grit City Comic Show — An Old-School Style Comic Book Convention at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center, 1500 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402
• About the Artist – PatMoriarity.com — Pat Moriarity started out as a punk rock artist in the mid-1980’s music scene of Minneapolis, working for Twin/Tone records, doing things like paste up, poster design and cartoons for acts like CURTISS A, THE REPLACEMENTS, MEKONS, MAGNOLIAS, FAT TUESDAY, SWINGIN’ TEENS and SOUL ASYLUM.
• Weed, brains and spider eyeballs: 20 jaw-dropping snapshots of the microscopic world around us | Live Science — See the top 20 winning photographs from the 50th Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
• Auditions and Interviews at Berklee College of Music
• Washington State Horror Con – Presented by Elvira — Save the Date for an exciting event that will launch Summer Con’s version of a horror convention with amazing guests, exhibits, vendors, artists, panels, film presentations, and so much more on October 25-27, 2024 at the Washington State Fair and Events Center in Puyallup.
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: King, Stephen: 8580001040363: Amazon.com: Books — Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.