adbeats LPs

2007 was a strange & bountiful year. Skipping across continents I somehow managed to end up working at a music studio in the beautiful Toronto, Ontario. During this time I met superstar composer Tommy Zee and joined in on his campaign to take over the ad industry, one great composition at a time. I hopped on board Adbeats, a podcast Tommy had designed in part to educate the ad world of music that should be in advertising, and in part just because he has an insane sort of musical intuition that picks out songs before they even know they've been written.

Adbeats was picked up by ihaveanidea.org, an online community devoted to the art of advertising, and we decided to aim high. We'd target and interview the top Creative Directors and CCO's of the industry at that moment. My first booking challenge was to secure Jeff Goodby, the CCO of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco to do an interview for the second season. Prepared to go into email battle with Californian secretaries, I was almost disappointed when Jeff answered his own email, and yes, he would do Adbeats.

That afternoon Tommy and I decided that each episode that season would feature the CD's and CCO's on their own LPs. Here's a collection of our top Adbeats LPs: