What holds us together as life keeps changing?
In this episode of Gen X Crisis, Rob reconnects with musician and recording engineer Greg Curtis, nearly two decades after Greg produced Robert's The Letter Green EP in his basement. From growing up in small-town Wisconsin to building The Bridge, one of LA’s top film and television scoring studios, Greg’s story is about how community shapes creativity, resilience, and meaning.
Rob and Greg talk about the values we carry from childhood, the lessons of collaboration in music, and how technology - home recording, streaming, even AI - is reshaping what community looks like. They explore the balance between holding onto tradition and adapting to change, and how music at its best is always about people, not just sound.
This one’s about basements and big stages, old friends and new collaborators and the reminder that community is what makes the work, and the life, matter.
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And check out Greg's latest project producing The Litteral Truth by acclaimed LA session player Paul Litteral.
And here's a track from The Letter Green project that Greg and Rob worked on together in 2007.
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