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Zak Loy Talks About His Bands, Playing For Ed Kowalczyk & Live, And His Solo Debut, Dinero


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4VJ_JTT0NM

8 May 2025
This guest never sits still. Welcome guitarist Zak Loy. If you’re in the Austin, TX area, you might know him from any number of bands or projects like Damesviolet, Alpha Rev, Mother’s Anthem, and more. If you like classic alternative rock from the 90’s, you may have seen him playing guitar for the band Live and he was kind enough to take a break during the final stages of his new solo album, Dinero, to talk about his career.
He started playing guitar at age eight but didn’t graduate to playing in bars until he was the ripe old age of thirteen.
He formed his first band, Damesviolet, with his brother Beaux and that was it. He’s been working non-stop ever since. He’s played in Alpha Rev so often that I accidentally praised him for someone else’s guitar solo. But in my defense, he IS credited on the album. Zak tells me how he met and started working with Ed Kowalczyk and how it evolved from Ed’s solo tours to playing rhythm in the back for Live to being the lead guitarist and Ed’s right hand man. He also talks about the unique challenges of playing in a legendary band.
As I mentioned, Zak has a new solo album coming out called Dinero. Pre-order it through zakloy.com or wherever you get music these days. Follow him @zakloy26 on Instagram. Follow us @PerformanceAnx. Merch is available at performanceanx.threadless.com. Support our caffeine supply at ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety. And now, one of the only guests with a shorter name than me, Zak Loy, on Performance Anxiety on the Pantheon Podcast Network.