{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Thing We Never Talk About","title":"Andrew Sandoval - Producer & Book Publisher","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5278,"description":"In this episode, Tim sits down with Andrew Sandoval — producer, manager, and founder of Beatland Books — for a wide-ranging conversation about a life built entirely around music fandom. Andrew traces his path from publishing a music fanzine as a teenager to writing liner notes, managing the Monkees on their 50th anniversary tour, and eventually launching a book company producing deluxe, limited-edition volumes for underserved fan communities. Throughout the conversation, Andrew reflects candidly on the financial realities of that kind of career — the feast-or-famine nature of tour income, the experience of subsidizing passion projects with his own savings, and what it's like to have invested so heavily in music that conventional financial planning has largely happened around him rather than because of him. He also shares hard-won lessons about the importance of delegating, finding complementary collaborators, and identifying what's missing in a market rather than chasing what already exists.\nAndrew's question for Tim: What would be a good first step for someone wanting to dip their toe into the investment market without tying up a lot of liquid income?\nKey Takeaways:\nAndrew describes himself as a producer rather than a manager — a title that fit both his creative role and the Monkees' own complicated history with outside representation — though in practice he handled everything from booking flights and negotiating contracts to writing set lists and running video footage during shows.\nHe got his start in the music business by putting himself in the room where things were happening — working at clubs, writing liner notes, showing up and being useful — and credits that approach, more than any formal career plan, with everything that followed.\nWhen the pandemic wiped out a major Monkees tour he had been producing, Andrew pivoted to self-publishing — launching a 700-plus page deluxe book on the Monkees by going directly to the fan community he had spent years...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ij30T8S22oW7oq3h35PBmjsaEjzv6wqJJXFR2goCl8k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MWUw/NTk1NDU5NDIxMTc4/N2RlZDJiNGFhZmUx/MDQ0OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}