I just finished recording Lil’ Alice Spencer and Her Monkey Butlers. It was my first purely engineering project. I loved it, I only had to worry about the sound and didn’t have to juggle that with bass playing duties.
Here is a description of the band from Alice’s website:
Li’l Alice & Her Monkey Butlers perform jazz [...]
L.A. was great. I think we cut the song that will be the first single for the record and another two that are also really strong. The magic happened at the House of Blues Studios which is located at a mansion in L.A. It used to be Tito Jackson’s house and studio. Luckily there wasn’t [...]
I played bass on my third country record this past weekend. The first two records were some demos with Jack Ingram and Elizabeth Wills’ record Road trip. This time it was with Houston Marchman. Houston is really more Texas singer-songwriter/Americana than hee haw, but it is about as country as I get. Jack Ingram used [...]
The Portland Mercury asked some influencial local musicians to list their favorite records of 2005.
Here is what Alex James from Dolorean wrote:
1. Tenlons Fort - The Golden Handshake
2. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
3. Smog - A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
4. Bill Fay - Time of the Last Persecution
5. Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All [...]
I now have a MP3 player/jukebox on my sidebar. It has some songs from Blu, David Garza, Craig Marshall and Tenlons Fort. I played on all these songs. I hope you like them and that the player works. You might not have the right flash player plug-in if it doesn’t, and you have to click [...]
I just added a discography page over there on the side bar. I will link up some samples of each one in the near future, but there are already some samples on most of the artists’ websites you can listen to for now. I’ve lost track of a couple of the records I played on [...]
It looks like we are going to finish up Matt’s record in L.A. the first half of February. Maybe have it mixed in March and probably have it out this summer or possibly LATE spring. But don’t quote me on that. Matt says this new batch of songs are the best so far and that’s [...]
I’m part of a project/band/person named Tenlons Fort. It was my first crack at engineering and co-producing. I have a couple of tracks on my myspace page, but you can also hear some on the Tenlons Fort MySpace page.
I am so bad about keeping up with posts. The shorter version of the last few months.
We kicked ass on the fall tour. Matt sold out tons of huge venues like the House of Blues in Chicago, Irving Plaza in NYC, three nights at the Paradise Rock club in Boston, two nights at the Great [...]