For as little as a dollar a month you can support the development of new tracks and projects. Diamanda Galas said that in the modern world, investors no longer value the time to develop ideas, expecting only the finished product. This is a mistake. The classic artists that we listen to, came up in a world where artist development was essential to their development of mastery and crafting the songs that have informed our generations.
With the massive shift of the record…
Read moreAlmost a year after the successfully crowdfunded, recorded, released and music video'd "(Don't Get Caught) By the Dazzling Charades" I am back with a new music project and it can only happen with YOUR help.
Here's the deal - Ryan Brown, the guy who played the drums on The Big End, We breathe So Brief and Killing Days, Living Nights (on my 2015 album Come to Life) has just returned to Los Angeles after touring with Dweezil Zappa and playing all the incredible Terry Bozzio stuff that grew up in the Frank…
Read moreSo excited to share with you the new video for the single "(Don't Get Caught) By The Dazzling Charades."
The song was an answer to a 7-Day challenge, but I actually wrote, recorded, mixed and completed the entire thing - every single second, in 7 days, live on Periscope. My old buddy Josh Joudrie helped out with that ;)
And then we took like another month to fine tune it for commercial release :)
Then we successfully funded it on IndieGogo in 18 hours - getting it mastered by Andy Vandette (Sevendust…
Read moreSo remember that time I promised to make a song in 7 days if I got 100 likes?
It happened, and we did. It was all documented on Periscope and that will be available soon in digest form on YouTube due to a successful ensuing IndieGogo crowdfunding campaign.
Last night I received the final masters from M.r Andy VanDette who again, went above and beyond to get it just right. We got Mr. Lifeson's notes and blessing. And I am deep into production on the music video. One of my faves I have ever made for a…
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