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Podcast guestBrett Schmidt
Bassist in the Scott Weiland tribute Crack in the Halo and former bassist of the metal band Concrete Injection.
Brett Schmidt plays bass in Crack in the Halo, a tribute to Scott Weiland that covers Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. He started on guitar in junior high, learning by jamming along to Metallica, and spent years making home recordings on a four-track with a friend under a string of made-up band names. Brett switched to bass in the mid-2000s with the original alternative band Saltwater, which later became the cover band Sugar Laced Morning. He then played about 10 years in the metal band Concrete Injection before coming back to the stage through the Ziggy's and Shaw's open jams.
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MN Music Note - Ep13 - Brett Schmidt - Years of Writing and Basement Blues Jams
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- His first album was Kiss on 8-track, picked from a Columbia House music club.
- Hearing Metallica's Fight Fire with Fire on the radio turned him into a metal fan, and he bought Master of Puppets the day it came out.
- Learning ...And Justice for All was his breakthrough moment on guitar.
- He and a friend recorded album after album at home, first by layering tape players and later on a four-track.
- In the 1990s he hosted all-night basement blues jams with horn players and keyboard players, and recorded every one.
- Saltwater was an original alternative band that played parades from a float decked out with waves and threw saltwater taffy.
- Saltwater became Sugar Laced Morning, a cover band, which ran until about 2012 or 2013.
- Concrete Injection had its albums mixed and mastered by an engineer in South Africa.
- Concrete Injection released a heavy cover of Prince's When Doves Cry in 2016, retitled When Doves Die.
- Concrete Injection played rooms like Big V's and Lee's Liquor Lounge.
- Before Crack in the Halo he played in Tripwired with Brian Naughton, with Aaron Cole filling in on drums for showcases.
- Crack in the Halo played a showcase at Ziggy's in Hudson and booked its first official show for December 13 at Jersey's.
- Instead of naming a next guest, Brett turned the tables and interviewed host Will.
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