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Chatting with Singer Brandon Boyd About Music and Golf

I’ve spent the better part of my adult life indulging two of my great passions, music and golf. In doing that I’ve had the good fortune to meet and work with some wonderfully talented artists. Some worked with a guitar or a paint brush. Some worked with 14 clubs in a golf bag. Whether you are an artist or a golfer I’ve come to find that there are some remarkable similarities in the pursuit of great music and great golf. My friend, Brandon Boyd, has suffered through a steady stream of my silly golfing analogies over the last 12 years but it turns out that we have alot in common and those analogies may have been more on target than I might have imagined. Recently, I told Brandon about my golfing blog and he actually checked it out. In fact, against all odds he liked enough to agree to sit down with me at his studio to talk about the similarities between the pursuit of great music and great golf. I’m going to share some of our conversation with you over the next few days and I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. We talked about all kinds of things from tools, to headspace, fear of failure, self doubt, and rising to a challenge. I think you’ll find it interesting whether you are a musician, a golfer, or just somebody looking for the inspiration to do something great in your life. Today, I’ll start with something light while me and my blogging team, Joe Bielski, Matt Rennie, and Evan Rennie put together some more tidbits .