Walt Richardson

Welcome into the desert vibe.

I'm Glenn Gardner, Walt Richardson right over there.

Our special guest today, Mark Zubia, who has done a ton here in the state of Arizona and beyond as far as being a great singer-songwriter, member of a bunch of different bands that you probably know of.

And at the bottom of the hour, Emma and James are going to be by with What's Vibin' in the Desert, a comprehensive look at events across the state of Arizona and beyond.

I want to start this morning, just before we get to Mark, though, and recognize my pal Walt Richardson is in receipt of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Tempe.

That happened this week.

Now, I got to tell you what, they called me first and they said, you know, are you available? But they said, we have criteria.

The criteria is you can't have a life.

We are embarking on our second season, which is awesome.

I'm Glen Gardner, Walt Richardson right next to me there.

Our guest today is Sue Schnitzer.

I have known Sue for actually getting to be many years now.

welcome to the desert vibe podcast i'm glenn gardner walt richardson right next to me and our special guest today is matthew moyer we'll talk a little bit about him in just a moment but i want to remind everybody we're going to have our comprehensive look at events happening across the state of Arizona with Emma and James we call that what's vibing in the desert that is coming up in about 30 minutes right at about 30 mark in the show so join us for that too but so so Matthew Moyer is someone that I ran into Walt at the chill room when I was hosting the open mic there and it's probably getting to be about three or four years ago maybe three years ago I think and you were kind of this tentative guy that got up on stage and didn't seem real sure about I don't know if I really want to be doing this and I'm not sure if I'm good enough and you know all that self-doubt that after 60 years of doing this I still have every time I step on stage but it has been an absolute joy to watch the progression of your trajectory as a songwriter and as someone who is fostering and mentoring and facilitating other songwriters in the Valley.

You've put together a phenomenal series over at The Chill Room and you do some other things too, obviously, but it is a singer songwriter showcase that happens once a month.

and it is showcased uh some folks that are fairly established and have been writing songs for a long time and then some folks that are that are brandy new and i think One of the things that Walter and I are really keen on is making sure there's opportunity for singer-songwriters here in the Valley, other than standing under a TV in the corner of some biker bar somewhere.

Uh, your, you know, your contribution has not, has not gone, uh, unnoticed.

And, uh, generally at this point I hand it over to my good friend, Walter, who, uh, who, uh, starts the interrogation, uh, with, uh, you know, some question having to do with like the Epstein files or something like that, or, you know, I don't know, but.

Anyway, here's Walt Richardson,

folks.

Hey, welcome, everybody, and welcome to the podcast.

Welcome to The Desert Vibe, another edition.

I'm Glen Gardner, Walt Richardson.

Right beside me here joining us today is Paul Kent.

Paul is not actually a musician himself, but we're going to get an interesting perspective on someone who, for whatever reason, wants to hang around with musicians and and facilitate what they do and all that good stuff.

And we have correspondents all over the state who are going to be checking in.

So action-packed and exciting show today.

So I am going to hand it over to Walter, who is going to fricassee Paul, grill him.

Oh, yeah.