Jun 18, 2026 · 53 min · 9 segments
Listen + backstage photos, transcript & more: https://onlyinthegreenroom.com/episodes/sweetwater-50th-anniversary Mount Tam Media is thrilled to launch its Tales From the Green Room Podcast with a…
Jay BlakesburgGuestDennis RizzoloHostTammy LarsonHostHow ironic that we ended up doing the interview at his house, which was unbelievable.
Kind of hard to see the house because it's full of the most incredible photography.
got past it and we kind of got right into it with his favorite Sweetwater Music Hall memories.
He focused on one, his first experience there, essentially, in particular in 1989.
I'm not going to give it away, but you have to listen to how he got there and what came of it, who was there with him, etc.
was really a tribute, too, to something else he talks about when he gets a little philosophical.
But, you know, yeah, just, you know, it takes a lot of hard work to get where he is.
He did tell us a little bit at our prompting about some of the things he's doing now, which includes this amazing retro Blakesburg coffee table book, which is all about his photography, a film photographer, as opposed to digital, which started in 2008, I believe.
How ironic that we ended up doing the interview at his house, which was unbelievable.
Kind of hard to see the house because it's full of the most incredible photography.
got past it and we kind of got right into it with his favorite Sweetwater Music Hall memories.
He focused on one, his first experience there, essentially, in particular in 1989.
I'm not going to give it away, but you have to listen to how he got there and what came of it, who was there with him, etc.
was really a tribute, too, to something else he talks about when he gets a little philosophical.
But, you know, yeah, just, you know, it takes a lot of hard work to get where he is.
He did tell us a little bit at our prompting about some of the things he's doing now, which includes this amazing retro Blakesburg coffee table book, which is all about his photography, a film photographer, as opposed to digital, which started in 2008, I believe.
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