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Alexa Vetere, demo / (in production) | ||
CREDITS: Written, Engineered, Produced, Performed. Heavy developmental/producing, 2004 - present. She had never sang, played guitar or wrote songs before. I gave her guitar and vocal lessons, wrote the music, vocal melodies, hook lyrics and co-wrote verses, performed the guitar, had my band play the rest, rehearsed and performed live, did her photo shoots, got her web designer, managed her whenever applicable. While still in development, the song "Breathe Again" has remained at the #1 spot on ClearChannel / Z100's online indie charts for 6 months straight, with over 3.6 million plays. She was also nominated at All Access magazine's 2007 awards for Best New Artist, Best Songwriter, and Song Of the Year "Breathe Again" |
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"Talking Metal on Fuse" / FuseTV, November 2007 - March 2008 | ||
CREDITS: Engineered, Produced,
Performed. Recorded, mixed and mastered the live performances of artists on FuseTV's "Talking Metal on Fuse". Artists include Zakk Wylde, Exodus, The Spyderz, and members of Overkill, Dream Theater, Anthrax, Twisted Sister, Guns N' Roses, Iced Earth, In This Moment, God Forbid and Warrior Soul. |
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Return To Earth, "Captains Of Industry" / Bald Freak Music, December 2007 | ||
Debut album, featuring drummer Chris Pennie Coheed & Cambria, Dillinger
Escape Plan) CREDITS: Co-Engineered / Co-Produced, Performed some backing vocals. www.returntoearthmusic.com www.myspace.com/returntoearththeband |
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Q*Ball, "This Is Serious Business" / Bald Freak Music, March 2007 | ||
Third album from electro-pop retro-80's artist. CREDITS: Engineered / Produced, some Co-writing, Performed guitars, backing vocals. |
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24-7 Spyz, "Face the Day" / Gumbo Records, Feb. 2006 | ||
Ten years since their last CD, 24-7 Spyz is
back with a new "heavy-metal soul" album CREDITS: Engineered / Co-Produced / guest guitar solos... |
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Evoken, "Antithesis Of Light" CD / Mercenary Musik (US), Avante Garde Music (Europe), Feb. 2005 | ||
NY's darkest doom metal... CREDITS: Engineered / Produced. |
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The Nerve!, "The Nerve!" CD / Hey Day Records, Nov. 2004 | ||
CREDITS: Engineered / Produced These guys are a great energetic rock band - totally a live band, all about gigging. So I recorded the music completely live, the whole band and all their equipment in one room, amps turned all the way up, to help capture that live energy. Ran the guitar into a second amp to thicken the sound, one on the left, one on the right. I should also mention, they're semi- insane. The last time I recorded them, a few years back, they really broke my balls. I'd be recording girls singin' backing vocals and the guys in the band would burst into the room naked running in a circle around them, stuff like that - I think they did that at a radio station too. It was good to work with them again. Because now I got to break *their* balls. Joe likes to conserve and had his "Official Joe Nerve cup" - a plastic cup he'd re-use every session. So I'd have it waiting for him, full of urine, or dented with bite-marks from unknown teeth (not it that order) - stuff like that. I guess they owe me for the next record... |
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Q*Ball, "Fortune Favors the Bald" CD / Bald Freak Music, June 2004 | ||
Electro-pop with a retro-new-wave
sound. CREDITS: Engineered / Produced, some Co-writing, Performed guitars, backing vocals. |
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Cathy-Ann, "Honey Wagon" CD / self-released, Feb. 2003 | ||
CREDITS: Engineered / Produced, Performed all music except acoustic
guitar/vocals. Debut CD of "anti-folk" singer/acoustic guitarist
with punk edge. First CD produced at Bumblefoot's new studio in Princeton NJ *Her music was very dynamic, gentle to aggressive, and she had a way of capturing it all at once when she sang, by having the lyrics and their delivery at different emotional places, giving you a complete idea of what she's about. It was so important to record her true spirit, unaffected by anything. So I set up a mic and had her play live, recording her acoustic and vocals to tape, no click track or anything. She's so great - never needed more than one or two takes. I lived with the recordings for a week and got to know every shift in dynamics and tempo. Then built a band around her - simple drums, kick, snare, hats, ride and crashes, and gave them a late-70s Blondie type sound. The drums followed her tempo/dynamics, rather than being laid as the usual foundation. I filled it up with a heavy bass guitar, often with distortion and phase fx. Used a clean Fender-type electric guitar as icing, some nylon string too, along with tambourine and shakers when called for. The cool thing about recording Cathy-Ann's guitar/vocal tracks as the foundation is that we can strip down the mixes to acoustic versions and they sound as natural as the full-band versions. |
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Q*Ball, "Q*Ball In Space" CD / Bald Freak Music, April 2002 | ||
CREDITS: Engineered / Co-produced / Performed guitar, bkg vocals. Debut CD of electro-pop artist "Q*Ball" - picture Moby/new-U2 mixed with DJ loops and a hint of retro-80s New Wave... music aired on MTV's "The Osbournes", Z100 (NYC) and XM radio. | ||
Most Precious Blood, "Nothing In Vein" CD / Trustkill Records, Nov. 2001 | ||
CREDITS: Engineered / Produced. NYHC band "Indecision" re-groups under new name, "Most Precious Blood". After releasing the cd, they toured throughout 2002 with Andrew WK and hardcore bands as their cd climbed to #3 on the CMJ hard rock charts. | ||
Evoken, "Quietus" CD / Avante Garde Records, Dec. 2000 | ||
CREDITS: Engineered / Co-produced. Third release from NY's darkest doom band... | ||
Pat O'May, "Breizh / Amerika" CD / Coop Breizh (France), March 1999 |
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CREDITS: Co-engineered / Produced.
"Breizh-Amerika" combines traditional music of Brittany with Pat's guitar-driven
rock style, and touches the political issues of the French government dissolving the
culture of Brittany with comparisons to Native American Indian history in America. *In the song "Blood," we had two-dozen local dancers meet us at a wooden barn which we had fully mic'ed - from above, on the floor, from the room below facing up... They did a traditional dance, all stamping their feet in unison and I sync'ed them into the music. It was quite a vision - they held hands in a wide circle that slowly rotated as they danced, while clouds of dust rose from their feet only seen through two rays of bright sunlight through the side windows. |
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Indecision, "Most Precious Blood" CD / Wreckage Records, August 1998 |
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CREDITS: Engineered / Co-produced. Second full-length CD from NYC hard core band |
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Indecision, "Unorthodox" CD / Wreckage Records, Dec. 1996 |
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CREDITS: Engineered / Co-produced. Debut CD from NYC hardcore band |
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And dozens more that aint on the list... |
reviews |
Cathy-Ann, "Honey Wagon" CD / self-released, Jan. 2003 |
STARVOX.NET
(March 2003) With Honey Wagon, you get a collection of songs that is purely Cathy-Ann... Cathy-Ann is an excellent acoustic guitar player and vocalist. This CD was recorded while she played and sang at the same time, so it has an energetic live feel. She has unusual confidence for a debut album, and she's not afraid to try all kinds of phrasings and combinations of sounds and words to make very memorable and individualized music... Cathy-Ann knows what she wants to say, how she wants to say it, and she's willing to do what it takes to get her message out. Honey Wagon is produced by the inimitable Bumblefoot, so the production is eminently full and captivating. The music has a very lively tone, but with the kind of clarity you wouldn't get from a live recording. If you've got any taste for intelligent pop, or heck, even if you don't, give Cathy-Ann a listen. Her music is creative, sincere, clever, and fun... |
SMOTHER.NET
(March 2003) *Editor's Pick Before any of you dismiss her as “just another cute thing that wants to play with the big boys”, let me dash your dismissals by saying that it`s going to be the `big boys` that are going to be playing HER game. Produced and engineered by Bumblefoot who I absolutely can`t get enough of, Cathy-Ann`s debut album just smokes. Her aspirations to “be a big-time sellout, become obscenely rich, and move to a place that has a tropical climate all year long” could honestly become reality if she wants it. She`s got the tough girl attitude that helped Alanis Morissette become recognizable by just a first name. ~ J-Sin |
Mark Josiah -
UK journalist
(Jan 2003) “Honey Wagon” is her debut CD & if there is any justice it will achieve major success on a worldwide scale. Forget about the “skip” button whilst listening to “Honey Wagon” as there is not one filler throughout the 11 tracks on the CD. All the tracks sound raw, edgy & alive in their production, which make the whole listening experience such an audio pleasure. You will instantly be drawn in by the lyrics, as Cathy-Ann somehow manages to seduce the listener with her vulnerability & witty lyrics then in the next breath cuts your throat & kicks you in the balls for giving a shit. Cathy-Ann manages to express so many emotions into her vocal style that she cannot be compared to any one artist. |
Lach - anti-folk event coordinator at Sidewalk Cafe,
NYC (Jan 2003) "She's got the songwriting and playing chops to get where she wants to go, these are tight pop-punk songs. While obvious comparisons to Alanis and Avril come to mind it's the hints of The Runaways and The Buzzcocks that point to Cathy-Ann's no bullshit, ready-to-rock abilities. In Duraselove (her ode to her vibrator) she says all she needs is batteries - I disagree, this girl has enough juice to run on her own quite fine!" |
Q*Ball, "Q*Ball In Space" CD / Bald Freak Music, April 2002 |
Grave
Concerns (April 25, 2002) |
Aiding & Abetting ( issue
#229) |
Smother" E-zine
(2002) |
The Wage Of Sin, "Product Of Deceit And Lonliness" CD / Immigrant Sun Records, March 2002 |
RGreview.com |
Most Precious Blood, "Nothing In Vein" CD / Trustkill Records, Nov. 2001 |
Undevoured (Nov. 2001) |
Evoken, "Quietus" CD / Avante Garde Records, Dec. 2000 |
Hyberblastmetal.com Crushing production. There hasn’t been a better Doom album to hit my ears... |