The Gustav Baller Show

MAX REVIEWS FISHBONE. NICK REVIEWS TAY TAY 1989 TAY TAY'S VERSION. THE RESULTS WILL SHOCK YOU.

WE'RE BACK. AND SOBER. GET A PREVIEW HERE OF THE SEASON TO COME. THANK YOU FOR PATIENCE.

it's the first in-person taping of the GBS. unfortunately, nick and max hate spending time with each other and both of them are at wits end. we talk about the saxophone and other gbs related projects. i didn't mention the sick ass sandwich i had or how i think "rip ass" should mean something good instead of being a euphemism for fart.

October isn't the spookiest month because of Halloween, it's the spookiest month because of Sober October (Octsober, as some call it). Max and Nick got together to listen to Gregorian chant and really make things worse for themselves. That music is terrible. So is not drinking.

Our Introduction to Orchestral Instruments continues with the Trombone and the wildest man to ever do it, Oquendo. This was recorded sometime in September but Audacity crashed and I was really too lazy to go back and fix it but here it is!!!!!

Everyone knows the best part of this stupid ass show is the music Nick writes. Somehow, Max convinced Nick he should write a whole album in the style of the GBS music, focusing on a single composer and HERE'S THE RESULT. IT FUCKING ROCKS SACK. IT'S GOT EVERYTHING: MAHLER, LEONARDO DICAPRIO, BERNSTEIN, FREE JAZZ SAXOPHONE, WHAT MORE COULD TF YOU WANT FROM ONE ALBUM???? Anyways, if it isn't featured on Pitchfork's "Best New Music" by the end of the day I'm gonna do an I Think You Should Leave quote I can't really put in writing without getting the authorities called. 

IT'S SUMMER VACATION BABY (at least for the idiot still in college, the other guy teaching public school still has a way to go), so here Nick and Max drink 40's and talk about their combined 40 favorite music related things, or some number close to 40, who really knows. We'll be back next month with a lecture from noted Prussian War expert Kenzie who is gonna teach us about the violin and some its most important repertoire. SEE YA THEN!!!!!!!

Nick and Max are joined by a very special guest in episode that is ABSOLUTE CHAOS to talk about our musical new years resolutions. You can fast forward about 15 minutes to start, and stop about 10 minutes before the end and you'll still get most of it. Or listen on 2.5x. Either way, thanks for a fun year of getting drunk and talking music. Here's to hoping we get better at this in 2022.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays from the GBS family to you and yours. Here we talk about some Christmas related classical music with an actual musician we kind of can't believe agreed to be a guest on the show with us idiot ass mfers that ain't know shit, and then we list our top 5 Christmas carols. LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

Nick and Max play Good News/Bad News, ponder sonata form, and rank the five best piano sonatas and the five worst ones for saxophone (we're all adults here and can admit they're all pretty bad). THANKS FOR LISTENING!!!!!!