{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Beer, Booze & B.S. Podcast ","title":"AUDIO ONLY: Tommy Lee, A Record Deal & The Road To Nashville| Ep. 23 Pt. 1","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4339,"description":"Troy Castellano joins Beer, Booze & B.S. to reveal how an Isanti, Minnesota guitarist ended up playing on Tommy Lee’s Methods of Mayhem album, inside Tommy Lee’s Calabasas home studio—and facing a $250,000 Los Angeles record deal he ultimately walked away from.\nFrom opening for Cheap Trick, Styx, Warrant, Slaughter and FireHouse to leaving Minnesota for Nashville, Troy Castellano’s music career is packed with rock stars, record deals, wild parties, dangerous misunderstandings and unbelievable stories that sound like they came straight out of a movie.\nIn Episode 23, Chrissy and Paul sit down with their longtime hometown friend Troy Castellano at Frontier Liquor in Zimmerman, Minnesota, for a raw, hilarious and unforgettable conversation about the highs, risks and realities of chasing a lifelong dream in the music business.\nTroy reveals how a Guitar Center contest led to producer Scott Humphrey discovering his guitar work—and eventually placing Troy’s guitar parts on Tommy Lee’s Methods of Mayhem album, A Public Disservice Announcement.\nTroy later traveled to Tommy Lee’s house in Calabasas, California, listened to the finished album inside Tommy’s private studio and heard Tommy tell him, “Dude, you’re all over it.”\nBut that is only one chapter of this story.\n🔥 IN THIS FULL EPISODE:\n🎸 How Troy played guitar on Tommy Lee’s Methods of Mayhem album\n🏠 What happened inside Tommy Lee’s Calabasas home and private studio\n💰 Why Troy walked away from a $250,000 Los Angeles record deal—and the $100,000 check that came with it\n🤘 Opening for Cheap Trick, Styx, Warrant, Slaughter and FireHouse\n🏆 Winning a major Battle of the Bands competition and earning a spot at Midway Stadium\n🎤 The unforgettable moment Cheap Trick singer Robin Zander told Troy, “I know who you are”\n📞 The unbelievable phone call Troy answered from country legend Merle Haggard\n🏍️ The terrifying confrontation with a 6-foot-7 biker who mistook Troy for the man who slept with his wife\n🎶 Moving from Isanti,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hmX-fGe5T9UXolk259tRszpg3kabeiWL0aL-gQo0q1Q/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YmI3/NDEwNDNkMjIzOTBk/YjE5ZjRiNmNjOTY3/MWFiMy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}