Starting From Scratch
25 years in the music industry and I find myself in the somewhat unbelievable position of starting over. And I don't mean starting a new project. I mean starting over.After years of playing the drums -...
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The First Performance
July 18th, 2012 I traveled to Bristol, Rhode Island to attend a horror writers convention called Necon. About a week before the conference began I received an email from one of the organizers; they...
View ArticleThe Studio (Part 1)
The studio has been an interesting experience so far. In the past I’ve gone in with a full band. We would set up the drums in the main studio and spend anywhere from three hours to a full day getting...
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Song #1 - Killer on the Loose
The first song I put online is called, Killer on the Loose. No reason for this, other than it was the first song that sounded okay. I think it was the seventh or eighth scratch track we recorded, so...
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Song #2 - Living Dead Blues
The second song I mixed is called Living Dead Blues.(The song is currently a free download - help yourself!)I think this track turned out better than “Killer on the Loose,” but I think “Killer on the...
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Song #3 - The Walking Dead
My Song The Walking Dead - as I'm sure you can figure out - was inspired by the television show. I actually wrote it while watching Season Two.(It's currently a free download, so please - dig in!)...
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Song #4 - Vampire Slayer
This song was a bitch to record.(And right now it’s a free download – so take it!)The drums sound pretty simple, right? That’s because they are pretty simple. But it wasn’t easy to get there, that’s...
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Song #5 - Freddy Concedes
This song was a bitch to record (And it's a free download... go on... take it!). Wait a minute... didn't I already say that?Yep. Of course I did. Because when you're recording songs with no bandmates...
View ArticleThe Music of Horror-Punks Volume 3
A couple months ago I joined a web-based community called Horror-Punks. Right away, I liked what I saw. It's a community for horror-music artists and fans. I consider myself to be both.I uploaded my...
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Interview with Eerie Von
This is an interview that I did with Eerie Von (Misfits, Samhain, Danzig) a couple years ago, around the time he did the cover art for the hardcover limited edition of my first novel, The Dead Parade....
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BIG SCARY SHOW
My song, "Living Dead Blues" has just been featured on Jerry Vayne'sBIG SCARY SHOW - episode XVI - along side Dee Walace (E.T., Cujo, The Howling), Denise Crosby (Star Trek, Pet Sematary, Dexter), and...
View ArticleSummer Update - 2013
Things have been quite on this blog for a bit. Sorry about that.I was deep in the middle of studio stuff when my partner Ron became sick. This is the wrong place to discuss personal matters, but I can...
View ArticleBoycott Rolling Stone
The whole Rolling Stone Magazine Cover thing pissed me off royally. If it doesn't piss you off, okay... whatever. On my end, I see slipping a terrorist of the cover of the magazine kinda like slipping...
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