“Take It To Your Wit’s End”: Intervals’ Aaron Marshall On How To Survive, DIY-Style

Intervals bandleader Aaron Marshall joins Rhett and Zach for this installment of Dipped In Tone, which is essentially a crash-course in touring, merch design, road-ready rig planning, and keeping your head above water as an unsigned act.
The trio start off with a deep dive into Intervals’ focus on high-quality merch, and Marshall outlines his design and marketing philosophies. Increasingly, these elements are the lifeblood of any band that wants to make a living in music: “A touring band is just a traveling T-shirt shop that gets to play music for 40 minutes,” Marshall quips.Marshall expands on his DIY expertise-Intervals has self-released all four of their full-length records, and still managed to thrive and build a name for themselves. Obviously, that requires a lot of hard work before outsourcing things like management and booking. “You have to take it to your wit’s end,” says Marshall.
Marshall explains how Intervals has managed to maintain a top-level live production without label backing, and why, after literally tucking his tube amps in to a tour van bunk bed, he won’t take them on the road anymore. (“Glass is crazy to be touring with,” he says.) Part of the band’s low-frills magic is a “go along to get along” attitude as an opening act, which includes foregoing specific pieces of gear to make their lives-and the lives of everyone involved in a tour production-more easy.
While Intervals leans toward the gnarlier side of the rock spectrum, Marshall connects his playing back to the classics, and shares why he thinks it’s important to keep a healthy, back-to-basics musical diet: “Playing the blues and learning how to play rock is like eating broccoli at every meal.”
Stay tuned til the end to get the details on Intervals’ upcoming 2024 release.
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[@ponceedi000]

I got to meet Aaron at a guitar clinic in Portland and the dude was so wholesome and passionate about his craft. He’s #1 on my list favorite guitar players

[@QuincyJamesMusic]

This is different, good different.

[@TheBassMountain]

This episode was SO good. Loved the insight Aaron brought to the table and it felt like some fun chemistry.

[@danielcicalo8225]

this was a great one. loved Aaron's discussion about influences and how he went from serious to joking around about the gear. it was hilarious.

[@nualln]

Aaron takes an extremely detailed all-in approach to everything he does. Great lesson for the rest of us.

[@benmarquis1437]

Loved this! Looking forward to seeing Intervals on the MammothWVH tour!

[@joshserna9983]

My favorite community to watch in the guitar world are the kids who picked up guitar because they heard polyphia. It's been about two years since I started noticing them and they seem to be keeping with it. Interested in seeing how these guys develop as guitar players given that they're jumping straight into this difficult contemporary style of music.

[@michaelslahetka8371]

Rhett & ZacH GREAT BIT !! With Josh & TEAM ( PEDALS ON ICE !! Fabulous Funz !!

[@mojo6778]

Great show, love Aaron Marshall and the chemistry between all of you in this episode. I haven't laughed this hard in a while as I did during the rig dipping. You need to have him back for another show, one cool dude!!!

[@admarhermans1]

Thank you for the book title Rhett! You guys should do that more often. 🖖

[@joshtorresfdu6621]

I’m a modeler user and I got to modern concerts, I NEED THE BONES ON STAGE. I hate being front row not being able to hear shit lol

[@Strat642001]

Love Intervals! Great guitar player.

[@JesseRad]

I'm an older player that recently picked up guitar. Option paralysis is definitely there, but thankfully, there are some fantastic places for guidance and a lot of tabs online for those niche songs you'd never find in Guitar World.

[@matthewwhitley982]

@DippedInTone , great flow on the new production!

[@thekevinjsim]

This was a great episode, very insightful. He had a lot to say but is a very good speaker.

[@dongonzulman6478]

Intervals is a great band. I got to see them live right before covid when they were touring with BTBAM and Chon, and got to meet Aaron. Very nice dude, awesome fucking guitar player / writer

[@MichaelMYouTube]

Hilarious / fun dipping! Such a funny mix of dead serious real feelings and ridiculousness. Ha!

[@telecasteroil]

Oklahoma has Jazz in June ,when I was there it was the greatest!

[@Total_DaveB]

A nice change of pace!

[@jamesthainmusic]

Zach's face 🤣 lightspeed and morning glory

[@stevenoliva7516]

So much for no more interviews 😁.

[@ksharpe10]

I'm into eating meals without the same Fork the Quote of the day. Wrote it down for Rhett.

[@MrRafaztar]

That prs is the one with the piezo

[@ericsills5290]

The rig we dipped is a little much for first year for sure.

[@janofdelft]

Good 'cast. One question: How does one (supporter via Patreon) submit a rig for dipping?

[@Haku_records]

Damn ❤

[@joshuaenos9001]

Not often I have to slow the video down to listen… typically I speed it up, but my man was hype!

[@redbirdjazzz]

As long as it really is Hunt for Red October and not Down Periscope.

[@telecasteroil]

I'm a proud meatsponge!

[@stevenkoppelkam643]

That guy is a talker, and i appreciate it

[@jordangunit3078]

Referring to tube amps as “glass” is new generational nomenclature. I guess it makes sense, but typically, in the touring audio world, you might confuse the engineer that refers to long fiber optic cable runs for multichannel digital audio as “glass”. It weirdly almost sounds like drug talk from a previous part of my life. Culture and lingo develops. It seems “tube amps” or “tubes” is too long? “Valve” in the UK I guess. Maybe “glass” for tube amps just sounds cooler. 😅

[@jefffletcher2614]

And then like, it was like, and I was like, and they were like, and then like, and we were like

[@Wooooahhh6272]

Are you having a stroke?

[@WhitAnderson70]

For everyone's sake I think it best we leave my end out of this...

[@majkpps]

Don't sell the PRS. Play them all

[@ryangunwitch-black]

Someone definitely farted on Zach’s pillow. Not cool

[@daustin777]

A lot of inside jargon, crypto-speak going on here. Not sure what is he is talking about.

[@talaynt2656]

Skill issue

[@daustin777]

Not knowing esoteric abreviations for gear is not a lack of skill unless we are speaking of the skills of a Retail Audio Salesperson that communicates to colleagues in a character limited communication platform.