THE TEAM
JARETT BELLUCCI
Director, Exec Producer, Editor, Co-Host
Jarett Bellucci is a 2x Emmy award-winning director of television, commercials, corporate videos & social media content. As an award winning narrative and documentary filmmaker, his films have been handpicked for prestigious national and international film festivals.
RANDY LEVIN
Writer, Exec Producer, Editor, Co-Host
For twenty years, Randy made his living as a stand-up comedian, performing at the nation’s most prestigious comedy clubs, major concert halls, Equity theaters, colleges, and on television…plus of course the occasional prison release party. He is also an award-winning playwright with an MFA in Creative Writing.
At the age of 58, Randy picked up the guitar and immediately became obsessed. He’s been taking lessons weekly (Dan DelVecchio) and loves playing for himself. (Anyone who accidentally hears Randy play also loves that he prefers to play for himself).
LUKE APPELQUIST
Visual Effects, Animation & Producer
Luke Appelquist is a seasoned San Diego media professional with two decades of experience specializing in motion graphics, animation, and visual effects. With a mastery of Adobe After Effects, his creative expertise has been a driving force behind countless high-quality projects for clients both locally and internationally. From eye-catching animations and brand anthems to immersive visual effects and explainer videos, Luke’s work consistently delivers results that captivate audiences and elevate brands.
NICK DONNELLY
Music Score
Nick Donnelly is a NY/LA based media music composer known for his wide variety of genre spanning compositions as well as his string arrangement of 'Wrecking Ball' for the Emmy award winning season 2 finale of Netflix's Bridgerton. And from hit TV series theme songs like CBS Sports Pre Game Show, Vice and My Cat From Hell to award winning world wide distributed film scores like Dependent's Day, Sandpaper and Arctic Void.
WHO'S IN THE MOVIE?
Check out the people who were kind enough to be interviewed for this crazy film.
Click the images for full bios and links.
Manufacturers
Dick Boak
MARTIN GUITAR & CO.
Lindsay-Love
TAYLOR
Mark Agnesi
GIBSON
Justin Norvell
FENDER
Ryan Kershaw
D'ANGELICO
Internet Personalitates Teachers & Performers
Marty Schwartz
MARTY MUSIC
Justin Sandercoe
JUSTIN GUITARS
Tyler Larson
MUSIC IS WIN
Charlie Wallace
GUITAR MUSIC MASTERY
Dan DelVecchio
DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS
Guitar Shops
Crispin Weir
REGENT SOUNDS, UK
Nate Westgor
WILLIES AMERICAN GUITARS, MN
Lillian Werbin
ELDERLY INSTRUMENTS
Tommy Coletti
THE MUSIC ZOO
The Guys Who Inspired the Movie
Andrew McCabe
Former FBI Deputy Dir
Harry Litman
Former Assit. Attorney General
Dr. James Phillips
CNN MEDICAL ANALYSIST
DR. Jack Gilbert
NETFLIX HACK YOUR HEALTH
Academics
Dr. Gavin Steingo
REGENT SOUNDS, UK
Dr. Richard Boyatzis
CASE WESTERN
Dr. Matt Brounley
MUSICOLOGIST
Other Cool Guitar People
David Fishof
ROCKnROLL FANTASY CAMP
Eric Feldman
GUITAR TEES
FULL BIOGRAPHIES
DICK BOAK
Dick Boak’s legendary career with C. F. Martin & Co. started in 1976 and spanned 42 years.Now retired, Dick is still building guitars for fun, creating new pointillist illustrations, writing songs anddoing occasional speaking engagements.
Martin Guitar -Founded in 1833, our guitars were strummed by Civil War soldiers around campfires,helped shape the sound of modern music at the turn of the 20th century, and were played by music’s firstsuperstars like Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry. Decades later, Martins floored the crowd at Woodstock,then took center stage on MTV Unplugged, and can be heard on countless classic and contemporary songsacross all genres of music. Artists like Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, NeilYoung, John Mayer, Seth Avett, and many others all played Martins, creating much of the soundtrack ofthe last century.
Click here for full bio and Dick’s website: https://www.dickboak.com/
LINDSAY-LOVE
Lindsay Love-Bivens is Taylor’s Artist and Community Relations Manager. Lindsay brings a great mix of credentials to her position—she’s been a performing artist and guitar player across multiple genres; she has years of experience at Taylor in guitar production and repair. Lindsay has a passion for promoting diversity and inclusiveness throughout Taylor’s extended global community.
Taylor Guitars is an industry-leading manufacturer of premium acoustic guitars headquartered in El Cajon, California. Founded in 1974 by Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug, the company is widely recognized for its innovative manufacturing techniques and tone-enhancing designs, and players around the world love the easy playability of Taylor’s guitar necks. Taylor is currently led by Chief Guitar Designer, President and CEO Andy Powers. In December of 2020, Taylor became 100-percent employee owned.
50 th Anniversary Podcast link:
MARK AGNESI
Mark Agnesi started playing the guitar at 8 and never looked back. He played in many bands throughout high school, and at 18 years old, moved to Nashville, TN to attend Belmont University where he graduated with a Bachlor’s degree in Music Business and immediately moved to Los Angeles.
After a 2 year stint as a professional guitarist, Mark became the General Manager of the world famous Norman’s Rare Guitars in Tarzana, CA. Mark spent the next 10 years running NRG’s and building social media and Youtube followings from his daily webseries “Guitar of the Day.” After 734 episodes of the show, and amassing over 200k followers on Instagram, Mark moved his family back to Nashville in 2019, and took on the role of Director of Brand Experience for Gibson Guitars. Since arriving at Gibson, Mark has launched Gibson TV and Gibson Films, as well as designing the Gibson Garage locations around the world.
Gibson Guitar has shaped the sounds of generations of musicians and music lovers across genres for more than 100 years. Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Nashville, TN, Gibson has a legacy of world-class craftsmanship, legendary music partnerships, and progressive product evolution. The Gibson portfolio includes Gibson, as well as many of the most beloved and recognizable music brands, including Epiphone, Kramer, Steinberger, MESA/Boogie, and the Gibson Pro Audio division, KRK Systems. Gibson is dedicated to quality, innovation, and sound excellence so that music lovers for generations to come will continue to experience music shaped by Gibson.
Justin Norvell
Justin Norvell brings more than 25 years of global experience as Executive Vice President, Fender Products and Manufacturing at Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC).
In this role, Norvell oversees all aspects of the Fender Brand, including Product Development, Product Management and Production of electric guitars and basses, acoustic guitars, amplifiers, accessories, lifestyle, and licensing. He is also an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with music licensed worldwide and has appeared on many records as well as his own musical projects, which he continues to record to this day.
FENDER: For nearly 80 years, Fender® has created innovative musical equipment and revolutionized music and culture as one of the world's leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC)–whose portfolio of owned and licensed brands includes Fender®, Squier®, Gretsch® guitars, Jackson®, EVH®, Charvel®, Bigsby® and PreSonus® – follows a player-centric approach to crafting the highest-quality instruments and digital experiences across genres. In 2021, Fender celebrated 75 years of giving artists "wings to fly," carrying on the vision of its founder, Leo Fender, and connecting players through a shared love of music.
Follow @Fender across social platforms
RYAN KERSHAW
Ryan Kershaw must be either very humble or in the Witness Protection Program. His personal bio is simply that he is the Executive Vice President of Bond Audio. I also know he has a 1 1/2 year old puppy but that’s it.
D'Angelico Guitars Founded in 1932, D’Angelico Guitars is a New York City-based guitar brand built on the history of one of the most revered luthiers of all time. D’Angelico instruments were strictly hand-made, and in very limited quantities. During the late 1930s, when production was at its peak, D’Angelico made approximately 35 instruments per year with the help of only two workers.
In the D’Angelico brand had been purchased and a support system of new management, state of the art manufacturing, warehousing and distribution infrastructure was built. By 2017, the brand had grown notably.
MARTY SCHWARTZ
Marty Schwartz, or as he’s better known on the Internet, Marty Music has been the face of guitar education on the Internet for the last decade and a half.
With over 4 million YouTube subscribers, over two billion video views, and a career longer than most rock bands, Marty has arguably taught more people how to play guitar than anyone else in the world.
If the guitar is the “people’s instrument” then Marty is the “people’s instructor.” Marty has been a school music teacher, a private guitar instructor, and has cut his teeth touring in some serious rock bands. As a result, his approach to teaching guitar is far from formal. His love for the guitar is undeniable and he infuses every pupil with that same fire.
Beginning his career early in YouTube’s history, Marty’s impact has grown as the platform has grown. As the role of the guitar has shifted in music throughout the years, Marty has remained a core voice of the culture. It’s clear that Marty has found his true calling as a guitar educator and he’ll undoubtedly continue to cultivate new and surprising guitar talents.
https://www.martymusic.com/
JUSTIN SANDERCOE
Justin Sandercoe is a renowned Australian guitarist, educator, and author. With almost three decades of experience, Justin has become a leading figure in the online guitar community. His website has empowered millions of aspiring guitarists worldwide with its comprehensive lessons, tutorials, and resources—and is recommended by names like Brian May, Mark Knopfler, and Steve Vai.
His unique approach combines technical expertise with a high-level ability to understand the best way to help students unlock their full potential—leading him to earn the trust and admiration of millions of guitar enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels in every corner of the world.
When he's not teaching or recording, Justin prioritizes spending time with his family, exercising, and training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
justinguitar.com
Tyler Larson
Tyler Larson is a Nashville-based guitarist and content creator who has become one of the internet’s most prominent and engaging guitar personalities – someone who is highly respected for producing quality videos that cover just about every single topic guitar players find themselves thinking about.
Tyler also is the founder of Guitar Super System, one of the largest independently owned guitar learning applications complete with lessons that provide professional instruction across an array of styles, with others devoted to understanding music from a more theoretical standpoint, plus gear tests with no shortage of tasteful chops to demonstrate the subject of the moment.
He’s also interviewed different kinds of guitar heroes for his channel, from ’80s shredders like Steve Vai to Paul Gilbert and Zakk Wylde to modern masters like St. Vincent, Yvette Young and Cory Wong, examining their signature tones and techniques.
Charlie Wallace
Charlie Wallace is the founder of Guitar Mastery Method and the guitarist/songwriter for New Zealand hard rock band Black Smoke Trigger.
Wallace has built Guitar Mastery Method into one of the largest guitar lesson platforms in the world. With his band, Black Smoke Trigger, they have recorded with legendary producers Michael Wagener (Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Skid Row) and Nick Raskulinecz (Alice In Chains, Deftones, Korn), most recently touring through Australia with Filter and Europe with Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden.
https://blacksmoketrigger.com/
Dan DelVecchio
Inspired by The Beatles at age 8, Dan quickly discovered his passion for guitar. As he honed his craft through the years with exceptional teachers that led him to Hofstra University's renowned music program and a BA in Music,
Dan has continued to study the styles of legendary guitarists and now, 22 years later, Dan is an accomplished and well-established New York based performer, songwriter, session musician, and teacher dedicated to his art.
His current band, DON'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS is signed with Imagen Records/Warner ADA, and is featured on Apple TV's "We Crashed" soundtrack. Between his prolific talent, social media following and guitar video content.
Dan has earned sponsorship from PRS Guitars, Ernie Ball, KORG, VOX, Samson Audio, Michael Kelly Guitars, and more.
Crispin Weir
Crispin Weir is the owner of Regent Sounds, Iconic Recording Studio and Guitar Store in London UK. Founded in 1948, the Rolling Stones recorded their first three albums there which opened the door for many other legendary rock stars to record there, including: Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, The Who, Elton John, David Bowie, Black Sabbath and countless others.
Now as a guitar shop, ‘Regent Sounds’ has come full circle with music being played here all day every day.
Nate Westgor
Nate Westgor - Orphaned in high school, Nate Westgor went on to do what his parents feared…he sang in various rock bands and toured across the Midwest. He began finding vintage guitars and reselling them in Chicago as well as doing guitar repair for The Sound Post.
Moving to St Paul in 1986 he brought his reputation and love for vintage and repairs with him. Willie DelMar was a stage name given him by “The Hornets” his last band in Chicago. Thus began Willie’s American Guitars with a deep love and respect for the American Icon, the guitar, and those that make a living with it.
Willie’s American Guitars has for 35 years been dedicated to the art, science, history and tone of the American guitar. Voted the 6th best guitar store in America by “Guitar World Magazine” Willie’s was started by Nate Westgor (aka “Willie”) and has a happy band of irreverent and knowledgeable co-workers. Located in St Paul Minnesota yet known worldwide We buy, sell, trade, and admire all forms of that American icon, the guitar.
Lillian Werbin
Lillian Werbin is the Co-Owner and CEO of Elderly Instruments, a renowned retailer of fretted and stringed musical instruments and a cherished haven for musicians, located in Lansing, Michigan. In addition to her leadership at Elderly Instruments, Lillian is an active and influential board member of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), Bluegrass Pride, and the IBMA Foundation. Through these organizations, she has played a pivotal role in creating and sustaining inclusive spaces for musicians on a national scale.
Elderly Instruments offers great new, used, and vintage instruments, as well as accessories, instructional materials, and even a few wacky things, all at great prices. Our repair shop is one of the best in the world, with over 150 years of combined experience. We originally opened on July 5, 1972 in East Lansing, with about 15 or 20 used instruments.
By 1983, we had outgrown our original space, so we bought and renovated an old lodge hall in Lansing. The current Elderly workforce includes Stan Werbin, original founder, Lillian Werbin, heir apparent, and just under 40 stellar employees, many of whom have been here for well over 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d413tFGtfms
Tommy Colletti
Tommy Colletti started playing guitar at the age of 12. Lessons quickly progressed into an obsession. By the age of 15, he was teaching at the local music store in Maspeth, Queens. Tommy then studied music at Queens College’s Aaron Copeland School of Music. After graduation, he joined Brooklyn based hard rock band Kingsland.
The Music Zoo, Inc. opened the doors in its original location in Little Neck, Queens in late March of 1994. In 2011 The Music Zoo moved to a larger location in Roslyn Harbor
The Roslyn location also became home to visits, clinics and performances by Steve Vai, Warren DeMartini of Ratt, Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, Steve Miller, Jimmy Vivino, Perephery’s Misha Mansoor and Marc Holcomb, Captain Kirk Douglas and The Roots, Guthrie Govan, Megadeth's Chris Broderick and Dave Ellefson, Tosin Abasi, Yankee and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams and more.
In 2019 The Music Zoo moved from Roslyn to Farmingdale to their new and current home and showroom.
Andrew McCabe
Andrew McCabe – Former FBI Acting Director and Deputy Director. Distinguished visiting Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.
McCabe first joined the FBI in 1996 after graduating from Duke University and obtaining a J.D. degree from Washington University in St. Louis. During his distinguished career, he was on the SWAT team and held management positions in the FBI Counterterrorism Division.
He is now a CNN contributor and has a very successful podcast, JACK. McCabe is married with two children and aside from playing guitar, he is also a triathlete.
Harry Litman
Harry Litman is creator, host and executive producer of the Talking Feds podcast, the Talking
Books podcast, and the Talking San Diego speaker series.
A former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and CBS and the senior legal affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times op-ed page.
Dr. James Phillips
Dr. James P. Phillips, MD, FACEP is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician in Washington, DC. He graduated from the Harvard Disaster Medicine and Emergency Management Fellowship and later joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School.
He was selected as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and as a Fellow at the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Phillips was also an Associate Professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC where he was the Chief of the Disaster and Operational Medicine Section and Director of the Disaster and Operational Medicine Fellowship.
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dr. Phillips became a leading public health voice on television and was the first physician hired to be a CNN Medical Analyst and subject matter expert on the virus and its impact on US healthcare.
He has also been deployed internationally to Ukraine, and Nepal, and served for several years as Medical Director and EMS director for Camp Taji, Iraq as a US government contractor.
Gavin Steingo
Gavin Steingo has played guitar most of his life. His first experiences were in a rock band in 1990s South Africa, where he performed regularly at clubs in the Johannesburg area and was occasionally featured on radio and TV. In the late 1990s, he studied with local jazz legend Johnny Fourie and played in the Johannesburg Youth Jazz Orchestra at major events, such as the National Arts Festival.
Gavin is now a full professor of music at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on ethnomusicology, sound studies, and acoustic ecology. With auditory neuroscientist Asif Ghazanfar, he runs The Animal Song Collective, a research unit that explores the idea of animal music from scientific and humanistic perspectives. He has written two books, edited several volumes, and won multiple international academic awards and fellowships. He performs with the electro-country group, Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, and is developing a novel approach to composition that he calls "perceptualism"
https://music.princeton.edu/people/gavin-steingo/
Matt Brounley
Matt Brounley is a musicologist who specializes in the history of popular music and the electric guitar. He received his PhD from Stony Brook University and teaches music history at Rutgers University and Long Island University.
He has presented at numerous international conferences and his written work can be found in The Cambridge Companion to the Electric Guitar and Americas: A Hemispheric Music Journal.
He has also published articles on the history of electric guitar design and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville brand. In the past, he worked in the musical instrument industry managing large musical instrument stores in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Jessica and is currently working on a book project about guitar tone. The title is That Sound in Your Head: Guitar Tone Values and Neoliberalism.
Richard E. Boyatzis
Richard E. Boyatzis is Distinguished University Professor of Case Western Reserve University, and a Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science. He has a BS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard.
His more than 200 scholarly and 50 practitioner articles examine sustained, desired change on leadership, competencies, emotional intelligence, competency development, coaching, neuroscience and management education. He is ranked in the top 2% of all scientists worldwide by PLOS Biology based on his citations.
My synthesis of 58 years of research on Intentional Change Theory, The Science of Change:
Discovering Sustained, Desired Change from Individuals to Organizations and Communities is
published by Oxford University Press.
US: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Change-Discovering-Individuals-Organizations/dp/0197765114
Canada: Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/buy/spc/handlers/display.html?_from=cheetah
Europe (Germany): https://www.amazon.de/Science-Change-Discovering-Individuals-Organizations/dp/0197765114
Dr. Jack A. Gilbert
Dr. Jack A Gilbert a Professor in Pediatrics and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Associate Vice Chancellor for Marine Science, and Director of both the Microbiome and Metagenomics Center and the Center for Soil Health.
Dr. Gilbert uses molecular analysis to test fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology. He cofounded the Earth Microbiome Project and American Gut Project. He has authored more than 450 peer reviewed publications and book chapters on microbial ecology. In 2023 he became President of Applied Microbiology International and won the 2023 IFF Microbiome Science Prize.
David Fishof
After working with rock legends such as Roger Daltrey, Ringo Starr, The Monkees, Levon Helm, Joe Walsh, and many other top rockers, David Fishof, launched the Rock n' Roll Camp in 1997, a place where everyday people could reconnect with their passion for music alongside the biggest names in the industry.
A quarter-century later, the camp has provided over 7,000 people from around the globe the opportunity to live their rock star dreams. The camp has enabled participants to meet and jam with musical idols such as Joe Perry, Roger Daltrey, Gene Simmons, Nancy Wilson, the late Jeff Beck, and over 250 touring rock stars at legendary venues like Abbey Road Studios in London, Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, and the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas.
January 2021 saw the release of Rock Camp, a documentary by Academy Award winner Doug Blush, which chronicles the history of the Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp. This documentary, now streaming on Amazon Prime and Rotten Tomatoes, has received four-star reviews and a rating above 90%.
David currently resides in Los Angeles and takes immense pride in his family: he is a father of five, grandfather of eight, and a devoted husband.
rockcamp.com
rockcampthemovie.com
comedyfantasycamp.com
Eric Feldman
Eric Feldman is the founder and president of Guitar Shop Tees, a unique platform that has spent the last decade promoting independent guitar shops to a passionate and dedicated global audience. Through his business, Eric has cultivated a loyal subscriber base, helping elevate small, independent guitar shops worldwide, while celebrating the culture of music and craftsmanship.
In addition, Eric has also made his mark as a columnist for Guitar World magazine, contributing his insights and expertise to one of the most respected publications in the music industry.
Eric is also the president of The Screening Process Corp., a creative services company specializing in apparel and promotional merchandise for a diverse range of high-profile clients, including notable artists, celebrities, renowned apparel brands, and major corporations. His company creates unique, high-quality promotional products that help elevate brands and connect with audiences in meaningful ways.