Conversation with Mike Gantzer

Dropped Among This Crowd

Tune in this week to hear my conversation with Aqueous + Death Kings guitarist and vocalist, Mike Gantzer. Mike and I talk about a whole bunch of topics like:

* Death Kings, how it all came together, and what its been like for Mike to work on this project.

* The Green Day set he played with Kris Myers and Ryan Stasik at Summer Camp Music Festival 2017 and how that started laying the ground work for Death Kings.

* March 2020 when Aqueous was set to open for Umphrey’s in San Diego before everything was cancelled

* What 2020 was like for him personally and as a musician. What he focused on most during the time off the road and the lessons he’s learned.

* His solo acoustic “Storytellers” type shows back in April

* Teaching lessons on Lively

* The importance of mental health, vulnerability, and courage

* What inspired him to pick up the guitar and how skateboarding played a huge piece into that

* Seeing Umphrey’s McGee for the first time

*How’s he’s inspired by UM personally and professionally

* What song he would sit in with UM if he was given the opportunity

* The punk version of "Uncle Wally" from Summer Camp Music Festival 2004

* The Town Ballroom

* Moe.

* The most valuable piece of advice he’s gotten about being a musician

and more!

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Bandcamp page: Music | "Uncle" Mike Gantzer (bandcamp.com)

Lessons on Lively: Lively: Mike Gantzer (golive.ly)

Aqueous: Aqueous (@aqueousband) • Instagram photos and videos

Website: Aqueous (aqueousband.com)

Punk version of "Uncle Wally" May 30th 2004:

Setlist:

Umphrey's McGee \mm/ (umphreys.com)

Where you can listen:

Archive.org: Umphrey's McGee Live at Summercamp on 2004-05-30 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive