Guitar Smarts
🎸🎸 Welcome to GUITAR SMARTS - The Wildest Ride for Guitar Maniacs! 🎸🎸
Hey there, guitar junkies! Ready to unleash your inner rock god? GUITAR SMARTS is here to blow your mind and amp up your passion for everything with strings and frets. Join the rebellious duo, Kiran and Matt, as they turn their guitar madness into your weekly addiction!
What’s in store? Only the most electrifying content you’ve ever heard:
- Gear Mania: Obsess over the craziest gear – from out-of-this-world pedals to legendary axes.
- Epic Gig Chronicles: Laugh, cry, and headbang to their insane gig stories and outrageous live show escapades.
- Guitar Lust Galore: Dive into their never-ending and unapologetic quest for the ultimate guitar collection. Warning: severe GAS (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome) ahead!
Forget being professional. Kiran and Matt are the rock ‘n’ roll rebels with years of wild gigging adventures in the UK’s pubs, clubs, and beyond. They’re raw, real, and ready to rock your world with their infectious energy and unfiltered banter.
Join the guitar revolution! Connect with us and be part of the GUITAR SMARTS crew:
- Facebook: GUITAR SMARTS
- Instagram: @guitar_smarts
Crank up the volume, smash that play button, and ride the wave with GUITAR SMARTS! 🤘
Episodes
102 episodes
Guitar Strings & Chasing Tone - Guitar Smarts #102
Welcome back to the show! This week Matt & Damo talk about their life changing experience seeing Toto live at Wembley arena in February, Matt talks about his visit to Austin Tx where he paid homage to SRV, and the lads debate the importance...
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The Podcast RETURNS! - Guitar Smarts #101
Greetings! Welcome back to the podcast! It's been quite some time since we released an episode of the show, due to a unplanned break. Our wonderful host and friend Kiran had to take a break to recover from a very unexpected health ...
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ASK US ANYTHING - Guitar Smarts #100
WE MADE IT! 100 Episodes!!We can't thank you enough for sticking with us for these last 3 and a half years, it's been utterly fantastic fun to do this podcast for you and ourselves. The best thing to come out of this podcast, for us, ha...
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Theodore, Nuno and Enough of Wedding Gigs - Guitar Smarts #99
Welcome to the podcast! This week, Kiran and Matt mull over some recent news in the guitar world. From the hilariously ridiculous litigation battles between PRS and Gibson, to the intrigue around Nuno Bettencourt's involvement with the Positive...
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Kiran Buys ANOTHER Tokai - Guitar Smarts #98
Welcome back to the pod! This week, we talk about a good few things but mostly we welcome another new Tokai to Kiran's family of guitars. It's another Les Paul, but what was it about this guitar that made Kiran part with his pennies?We ...
Our FAVOURITE Acoustic Songs - Guitar Smarts #97
Summer is here! And what could be better on a sweet summers day, thank grabbing your acoustic and sitting outside to serenade the world with your favourite tunes. But, which tunes? This week Kiran and Matt reel off their go to acoustic hits to ...
Kiran's Guitar Safari Part 2 - Guitar Smarts #96
Welcome back! This week we are looking at a couple of things, the most popular songs googled by guitarists around the world, and also Kiran takes us through the second part of his recent London Guitar Safari, where he falls for another Strat! W...
The Importance of Ear Training With Damo Lodrick - Guitar Smarts #95
Welcome back! On this episode of the Guitar Smarts podcast, Kiran has tagged in our good friend and previous guest Mr Damo Lodrick to provide some valuable insight on the importance of training your ears. Music is something we experience in man...
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NEW GEAR From Keeley, Line 6 and GIBSON - Guitar Smarts #94
Greetings! This week we take a look at some of the finest new gear released by some of the biggest names in the industry. Line6 has released a new version of the POD, Keeley have once again innovated with their new drive pedals and Gibson have ...
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Kiran Visits The London GIBSON GARAGE - Guitar Smarts #93
On this week’s podcast Kiran recalls his recent visit to the brand new UK Gibson Garage, a guitar store built and operated by Gibson guitars in London’s West End. This new store has got all the Gibson products you could wish to see, and is n...
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NAMM 2024 and Yamaha’s new PACIFICA - Guitar Smarts #92
On this week’s podcast Kiran and Matt are discussing some of the new releases from this years NAMM show in the US. What caught our eye though was Yamaha's re-release of the Pacifica model. Listeners of the show will know that we love t...
Celebrating 60 YEARS of Eric Clapton - Guitar Smarts #91
We are kicking off 2024 by celebrating 60 years of Eric Clapton. Back in October 2023, Eric celebrated 60 years as a professional musician and artist. Arguably one of if not the most celebrated and revered guitarists of all time, it’s hard n...
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Ending 2023 With 2 New Guitars! - Guitar Smarts #90
This week we have our final episode of 2023. I want to start by thanking each and everyone of you who have joined us and listened to the show throughout the year, it’s really a great pleasure for Kiran and I to share these conversations with...
Ian Edwards From Guitar Breaks - Guitar Smarts #89
This week we have a short episode for you - shorter than usual at least. We had the pleasure of sitting down with Guitar Breaks founder, Ian Edwards, at the London International Guitar Show in late October. Guitar Breaks are a company that s...
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The London International Guitar Show 2023 - Guitar Smarts #88
Its been a while, but we are finally back! After a few weeks of downtime due to some illnesses, work trips and general business we are finally able to bring to you our first episode from the London International Guitar Show 2023.
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Kiran & Matt's Desert Island Discs - Guitar Smarts #87
We are here with another episode of the pod, this week Kiran and Matt are talking about their desert island discs. Each of them have chosen the 5 albums that they would be happy to listen to for the rest of eternity, knowing that they could ...
Jam Nights, Custom Guitars & MIDI Rigs - Guitar Smarts #86
Welcome! This week we dissect a great night playing at Damo Lodrick's local Jam night, where we let loose and rocked out in celebration of Damo's birthday. Matt can't make his mind up about a possible Esquire mod or a new guitar build whilst Ki...
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Tone Philosophy & The Rigs Of The GODS - Guitar Smarts #85
This week we are grateful for the suggestions of our friends over on the Guitar Geek Hangout page on Facebook. We asked what you might like to hear us talk about, and you spoke! This week we are taking inspiration from our listeners Fred Sim...
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Gig Journeys, Fret Levelling & Lee Anderton - Guitar Smarts #84
We are back...again! This week we discuss Matt's strange preference for relaxing after a long day gigging, we talk about the careful but accessible method that Matt took to finally level the frets of his much beloved Epiphone Les Paul that has ...
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Kiran's First Ever "In-Ears" Gig - Guitar Smarts #83
This week, We talk about the use of in ear monitors without having a guitar amp on stage following Kirans first ever experience of this. This seems to be the way that a lot of pro gigs are these days so how does that experience play out for ...
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The £3000 Guitar Challenge - Guitar Smarts #82
This week, we are asking the question, if you had 3000 pounds to spend on a new guitar, what would you buy? We asked our listeners on the Guitar Geek hangout what they would like us to talk about on the podcast, and we had a plethora of exce...
Are Sire BETTER than Gibson? - Guitar Smarts #81
We are once again back with you for another episode of the podcast. Thanks as always for listening in. This week, we discuss the meteoric rise of the brand Sire, whose star has been lifted by Marcus Miller and Larry Carlton, two of music’s m...
The BEST Songs with Guitar Effects - Guitar Smarts #80
Welcome back to the show! This week, we look at some of the best songs in rock history that prominently used guitar effects to punctuate the guitar tone. This episode is accompanied by another great Spotify playlist that you can find in t...
Eric Bibb, Fretwork Anxiety & Luthier Dreams - Guitar Smarts #79
So, recent Eric Bibb gigs, Helix programming Skills for wedding gigs, Fret Dressing Anxiety, Luthiery dreams and much more, this week is a mixed bag conversation of many things but nothing in particular! Hope you enjoy it.
The BEST New Gear from NAMM - Guitar Smarts #78
Bluetooth toggle switches and Fancy Pickups, Ibanez making the best guitars and T-Rex spending 8 years to create an echo unit that already existed? This week we are lining up the best in news from NAMM 2023 and telling you what we think about i...
