Matt Watts is a music industry double threat. At night he continues to play guitar with pop-punk legends, the Starting Line. Matt joined us in for this conversation in front of a live audience. Matt joined us in for a live conversation in front of an audience about his varied pursuits - on stage and off.
Hosted on Acast. See acast. Matt is our gracious guest today. He's also lead guitarist in a little rock-and-roll combo called The Starting Line.
Last night, Matt was on stage in front of, what, 15,, 20, people at the Shoreline Amphitheater. LP: And now he's here with about 20 or 30 of us here today. There are a few really unique things about Matt, one being he's made this interesting transition from being a recording and touring artist to a very successful business executive. The other being he actually had a vision for doing that. And the third is, at least in the time I've known him, he's proven to be a very humble person, in addition to being accomplished and passionate and smart, and generous with his time, as exhibited by being here today.
So, thank you for joining us. LP: Of course. So how do you go from playing to 15,, 20, people and the high of that, to coming into a room of 30 people? How do you context switch? MW: The performing and the touring component of my life, it happened over the span of 10 to 12 years. So now my normal day-to-day life is sort of business professional, marketing executive, and the band stuff is just a part-time thing that we do a handful of times a year that I'm very fortunate to do.
But it's like leading sort of a double life, so to speak. It's funny. My girlfriend and her daughter came out to the shows this weekend. It was the first time that they saw us play, but I've been dating her for nine months, and I've known her kid for about six months now.
