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The Guitar Hour Podcast

The Guitar Hour Podcast

David Beebee, Tom Quayle, Dan Smith & Jake Willson · David Beebee

188 episodesEN

Show overview

The Guitar Hour Podcast has been publishing since 2016, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 188 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 240 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 1m and 1h 27m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Music show.

The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 1.5 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2019, with 51 episodes published. Published by David Beebee.

Episodes
188
Running
2016–2024 · 8y
Median length
1h 12m
Cadence
Fortnightly

From the publisher

The Guitar Hour Podcast is a weekly, long-form discussion hosted by David Beebee, Tom Quayle, Dan Smith & Jake Willson. Together, and in conversation with today's top players, they explore different approaches for improvising, theory, technique, practising, teaching and share the humorous ups and downs of being professional guitarists in the modern age.

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Ep 187187: Dull Men's Standards Club and Diminshed Bromance

Beebs and Dan jam in meat space for the first time in a while.

Nov 4, 20241h 9m

Ep 186186: RIP Guitar Techniques Magazine

The lads pour 1 out for the beloved magazine of their yoot.

Oct 25, 202458 min

Ep 185185: Quayle Returns, We're Back to a 4 Piece, With a Side of Bants

Tom's (briefly) back from the Laney tour, time for a big old catch up.

Oct 20, 20241h 20m

Ep 184184: Fender, Gibson Coming Back To NAMM, Paid Modeller Updates (Feat. John Cordy)

Beebs and Dan rope John Nathan Cordy back on whilst the Doc and TQ are away. Big shoes to fill, but he's now a Dad, and Johnny big chewbs since last time he was on. Can he get through the first 60 seconds without an R Kelly joke? This may have been a bad idea. Oh dear. Topics include the big guns (Fender, Gibson, Suhr) returning to the NAMM show for 2025, checking in with Cordy's youtube success/workflow and all the hullalballoo around Kemper charging for updates. Are free gear updates now a thing of the past?

Oct 3, 20241h 22m

Ep 183183: This Is Not Your Nan's Cortex

Dan has nightmare pitch shifting gig. Beebs is on location, still with very confused feelings for NDSP. Jake has secrets. Tom is still on tour. We're dangerously close back to 1 a week....shhhh don't jinx it.

Sep 24, 20241h 30m

Ep 182182: Born in the rut? Moulded by it? TGH tips for breaking out

Sep 11, 20241h 17m

Ep 181181: Playing Under Pressure - Dr Who? Dr Jake Willson at the BBC Royal Albert Hall

Sep 4, 20241h 36m

Ep 180180: Mad As It Sounds, Oasis Woke Us From Slumber

Catching up, Oasis reunion, Beebs' Quad Cortex experiement, Dan asks us what you got in the tank? We're doing this live on youtube from now on, and the audio will be posted up to the podfeed rough and raw. We really miss hanigng out and talking guitar nonsense, so we figured it's better this than waiting for perfect schedules and edits and it never happening.

Sep 1, 20243h 1m

Ep 179179: All Star Quiz 2024 (The Lost Episodes)

Audio of the all star quiz that slipped through the net before our hiatus. Just catchin up on lost episodes before we re-start. Featuring, Beebs, TQ, Jake, Smith, Jens Larsen, Rhett Shull, John Nathan Cordy, Jack Gardiner, James Davies, Joseph Anidjar.

Aug 30, 20241h 24m

Ep 178178: Guitar, Gear & Videotape: GearTube's Obsession With Integrity

What is this?! 2 weeks in a row? Yes indeed, and more ranting! Like tag wrestling the doc is out and Dan Smith is in. Let's rumble.

Nov 15, 20231h 23m

Ep 177177: Rolling Stone 250 Greatest Rant & Time Horse Podcast Pedal

Beebs, Jake and Tom catch up on whats been happening over the summer. Tours, new skills, new releases, the podcast now has it's own custom comedy overdrive/delay pedal - THE TIME HORSE! Also, there's a big rant about the Rolling Stone 250 GOAT Guitarists List.

Nov 7, 20231h 7m

Ep 176176: Jake's Jeff Beck Gig & The Future of Modelling

Hi Guys, sincerest apologies that it's been a while. Some of the chat might be 'out of date' somewhat but it's our takes on the goings on at the time. I hope you enjoy as we dive into Jake's all star Jeff Beck tribute gig and everything that came with it. Including the the gear used... which led us into a big ol' chat about guitar modellers, the Neural Amp Modeller and a little bit about the Bad Monkey saga towards the end. As always thanks for listening and for all the support. Catch you on the next one!

Jul 27, 20231h 13m

Ep 175175: Marshall Sold, Martin Miller Album & Retro Gear Nostalgia

Jake is on a show so the Beebs, Smith, Qualye power pod trio is back. After some meandering intro bants the boys discuss the release of friend of the show Martin Miller's new album, the recent Marshall deal with Swedish company Zzound and go down a rose tinted nostalgia worm hole about retro gear we had in the 90's. Enjoy!

Apr 8, 20231h 10m

Ep 174174: THAT Nuno Solo & Our Final Boss Level Guitar Solos

Back together finally to discuss THAT crazy Nuno Bettencourt solo from the new Extreme track. The guys also chat through what would be the end game boss level difficulty guitar solos to replicate.

Mar 30, 20231h 8m

Ep 173173: Posture, Physical Health & Guitar Tekkers

Ever young vampire Dan has double booked, so the oldies (Beebs, Tom and the Doctor) sit around to complain about ageing, failing bodies and how bad posture may or may not be getting in the way of guitar playing. On a positive note there are some interesting things discovered along the way. The extended Patreon edit includes (amongst other things) a detour into halloween horror movie recommendations.

Nov 14, 202258 min

Ep 172172: Tom Quayle Ant Law Jake Willson Jazz Trio & Strymon BigSky Plug-in

A 2-parter episode. First of all the lads welcome back Ant Law for a debrief on the Tom Quayle, Ant Law Jake Willson Ibanez/Guitar Guitar Jazz Trio clinic tour they recently completed. On side B, the guys discuss the recent Strymon BigSky Plug-in release and debate the nature of guitar related plug-ins more generally.

Oct 27, 20221h 23m

Ep 171171: Time Management For Mortal Guitarists

With the Doc down' pit and catchups out the way, Beebs presents some practise and time management ideas discovered whilst in the bowels of the Nepali monastery. Naturally Tom pushes back for a classic TGHP debate whilst Dan throws in the jokes and threads the needle for us. Surprisingly given the subject matter, this is a humorous banger! LINKS: Making Sense Podcast - Time Management for Mortals

Oct 16, 20221h 16m

Ep 170170: Jack Gardiner: Catch Ups, Live & Pentatonics Are For Boomers?! haha

Do you Boomatonic bruv?! Longtime friend of the show and all round six string legend, Jack Gardiner returns to chew the fat and catch us up with all going on with his guitar life AND what the guitar student Yoots aparently think about our fav 5 note scales! lol No Tom this week, Jake and Dan are in contorl with a remote Beebs briefly chiming in from Portland Oregon.

Oct 6, 20221h 10m

Ep 169169: Being A Guitar Chameleon & Swapping Stylistic Hats

Tom's playing country, Beebs has started choobing and Dan doesn't know where Epsom is. Look what happens when the Dr isn't here!

Sep 25, 20221h 1m

Ep 168168: The Boys Are Back In Town

The lads dust off the rust for a big catchup and (fingers crossed) a proper return to podding.

Sep 9, 20221h 12m