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Why don't we do do what Phait used to do on SSS with a getting to know you interview for these good folks here on HC?

It would be a good way of getting to know each other and also fun to boot.

Whos wants to be an interviewer and who do we pick first to be interviewed?

 

What do you say?

 

 

Shars is bored... can you tell? :D

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Originally posted by offramp

Well, if the changeover affects him in any way similar to the news of Apple moving to Intel, it might just prove to be too much for his angst-ridden little heart, and he'll keel over.

:D PMSL Dave!

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Good idea Base.

I will think of some questions and add them later on today as in need of a shower and some food right now :)

If you think of any, please do post them up as your more technical than me.

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B&*ger, walked straight into that! Ok, I'll start with the obvious ones, feel free to add more...

 

Name: Jason

Nick & reason for it: Base, college nickname

DOB: 28/11/73

From: Bristol, UK

Lives: Woking, UK

Marital Status & Kids: Living with partner, no kids

Occupation: The living death that is IT Support

Webpage: Snowlock Photography

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Photography

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince

Favourite TV: Sci-fi, Buffy, Dr Who (Reality, yeuch! :eek::D )

Favourite Movie(s): Good Will Hunting, Braveheart

Sports - Participate: Fencing (not for a while tho)

- Watch: None, bores the crap out of me

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): Rock/Pop(in it's various forms)

Currently Listening To: Alice Cooper

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Alice Cooper, Sleeper, Travis

Random CD in your collection: Jim Steinman - Bad 4 Good

 

What do you do musically?: Mostly self-taught, play guitar in an as-yet-ungigged covers band, due to make stage debut in Nov :eek:

Instruments Played: Guitar, bass, sing a little, learning some drums

Anything we might have heard you in?: Nope

Links to any MP3's: None (yet!)

 

Will that do to start?

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Name: Neil

Nick & reason for it: fantasticsound, That's what I deliver.

DOB: April 13th, 1967

From: Highland Park, IL, USA

Lives: Madison, TN, USA

Marital Status & Kids: Married with kid

Occupation: Administrative for a Corprorate event management company

Webpage: See my sig.

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Photography, Juggling

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Oops! I meant to come back to this. I haven't read Harry Potter. Last was Eric Idle: The Greedy Bastard Diary

Favourite TV: Lost, Law & Order,

Favourite Movie(s): Young Frankenstein, Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, The Sound Of Music, Hard Day's Night

Sports - Watch: Football.

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): Acoustic music, Rock/Pop(in it's various forms)

Currently Listening To: Beach Boys

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: accompanying CD to Fingerstyle magazine with cuts by John Knowles, John Jorgensen, John McLellen & Vince Gill, Pat Bergeson and others.

Random CD in your collection: Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee, Freddy Jones Band - Take The Time

 

What do you do musically?: Mostly self-taught, play mostly acoustic guitar for my own enjoyment. As a mixer I've toured with a few country, label acts, mixed for regional sound companies and clubs in Nashville.

Instruments Played: Guitar, bass, sing, some piano and keys.

Anything we might have heard you in?: If you were a fan of John Brandmeier on WLUP in Chicago in the early 1990's, you might have heard my and my brother's original "Wacky Weenie", The Kilman Chronicles. It received a good bit of airplay as introduction for his newsman/sidekick, Buzz Kilman.

Links to any MP3's: See my sig.

 

Proudest musical moments:Mixing for Mink (now defunct, Nashville local rock band.) in support of our troops in the Mideast, 6 months after 9/11.

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I'll join you Neil.

 

Name: Paul

Nick & reason for it: PBB=Pontiac Blues Band, Paul=me.

DOB: August 8th, 1963

From: Milwaukee, WI, USA

Lives: Delafield, WI, USA

Marital Status & Kids: Married with two kids and a third almost here!

Occupation: IT Sales, music performance, production

Webpage: pontiacblues.com

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Biking, reading, boating, cooking, puttering around the house.

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Tom Clancy - The Bear & The Dragon

Favourite TV: Deadwood, Entourage, Six Feet Under, Sopranos

Favourite Movie(s): Wow, too many to list.

Sports - Watch: Football.

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): Almost anything played from the heart.

Currently Listening To: 100 disk CD changer set to 'random'

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Robben Ford - Blue Moon

Random CD in your collection: James Cotton - Live and On the Move!

 

What do you do musically?: Perform with my band, record some corporate stuff, play occasional solo shows, record my own stuff when time permits, occasional collaboration projects.

Instruments Played: Guitar, bass, sing, some piano and keys.

Anything we might have heard you in?: Depends on where you live. I get airplay on a couple of local radio stations and have done a few TV shows.

Links to any MP3's: Here's a collaboration project that I mixed and played guitar on.. I'll put some band stuff up when I finish rebuilding my web site (hopefully soon).

 

Proudest musical moments: 1. Hanging and performing with Hubert Sumlin and Sunnyland Slim. 2. When my son asked me to do a guitar presentation at his school.

 

Hey Shars! You started this, it's your turn!

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Cool... we did this at SSS once and it was a great introduction:

 

Name: Sherri

Nick & reason for it: Valkyriesound: Name of my audio services company (Ms. Valky to my friends)

DOB: cough

From: LA, CA

Lives: LA,CA

Marital Status & Kids: single-can't find a date

Occupation: Audio engineer- full time

Webpage: See my sig.

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Video games, comics

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Probably another audio engineering book

Favourite TV: Alias, Stargate

Favourite Movie(s): 1963 Cleopatra, any musical

Sports: Taekwondo/Korean sword

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): "chick" rock, classical

Currently Listening To: Beth Hart-always

 

What do you do musically?: Formally, I have a degree in Music from USC. As an engineer I work on a lot of classical recording

 

Instruments Played: Trombone

 

Anything we might have heard you in?: Currently I'm working at National Public Radio... so you may hear anything of mine on Morning Edition, Day to Day, and News and Notes with Ed Gordon

 

Links to any MP3's: Some sprecific stuff I've done:

http://www.vsoundinc.com/Broadcasts/broadcasts.html

NEW STUFF:

Any of the Chamber Music Northwest stuff:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4726386

BOB NEWHART INTERVIEW:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4762522

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Name: DC Ross

Nick & reason for it: see above

DOB: Sept. 8th, '73

From: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Lives: Redmond, WA, USA

Marital Status & Kids: Married, two cats

Occupation: Web Programmer, Graphic Designer

Webpage: www.RossDesignGroup.com (not completed, "plumber with the leaky faucet" syndrome)

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: '95 Harley FXD, '73 Plymouth 'Cuda, anything constructive. I enjoy building things.

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Programming Microsoft InfoPath 2003 (yawn)

Favourite TV: Mythbusters, Monk, Veronica Mars

Favourite Movie(s): American Beauty, Airplane, The Big Lebowski

Sports: n/a

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): Rock, Pop, New Wave, some hair metal (just for Lee :) )

Currently Listening To: The Who, The Cure, Pixies, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Ted Nugent, Heart

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Song- Let's Get Away From It All by Frank Sinatra

Random CD in your collection: I See Good Spirits by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

 

What do you do musically?: Jam every other week with my wife on bass & best friend on drums.

Instruments Played: Guitar (mainly), bass, sing, keys (GPO, Stormdrum)

Anything we might have heard you in?: Not unless you were in St. Charles, IL in the late 80's / early '90s and saw a brilliant band who was way ahead of their time named World Anonymous ;)

Links to any MP3's: See below

 

Proudest musical moments: Well, I'm not sure about this one, but in 1990 (or so), the aforementioned World Anonymous opened up for Three Dog Night at the Pride of the Fox festival in St. Charles, IL. Unfortunately, the bass player (John "Weeds" Woods) somehow managed to blow up the PA. I have no idea what happened or how. I remember an unhappy sound guy, but the details are a bit fuzzy :)

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Name: TK Major

Nick & reason for it: "theblue1" was unavailable (actually it was registered to me quite a while ago but I must have changed the pw or lost it. Or something.)

 

From: Long Beach, California (born and raised in OC, came here for college, never went back)

Lives: feels like about 10,000 so far but... Samsara... can't live in it... can escape it

Marital Status & Kids: single & none

Occupation: database and web developer

Webpage: www.onebluenine.com| bluetrip.com | tkmajor.com

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: ontology, old movies

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Robert W. Chambers' In Search of the Unknown (1904)

Favourite TV: Turner Classic Movies

Favourite Movie(s): King Kong, Casablanca, Nosferatu, Performance, Zardoz, Der Blaue Engel, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, The Exterminating Angel, Belle de jour, The Tennant, Cul de Sac, The Seventh Seal, The Maltese Falcon, Citizen Kane, High Noon

Sports

- Participate: bicycling (I used to like backpacking, mountain hiking, urban distance running and sandlot football before my motorcycle wreck and I always wanted to do more horseback riding)... oh yeah, and the oldest sport... poker

- Watch: none

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): blues, folk, jazz, reggae, dub, country, electronic, world, rock (when it was still alive)

Currently Listening To: Ravi Shankar

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Backbone, Bill Barrett

Random CD in your collection: Atlantic Jazz: New Orleans

 

What do you do musically? Annoy the neighbors; with guitar, vocals, keyboards, fretless bass, and hand percussion.

Instruments Played: Oops. See above

Anything we might have heard you in? Likely not. one blue nine's recieved some exposure on the web, something like 50,000 DLs/plays. But that's not like selling 50,000 records by any stretch. I gigged for years in and around the LBC in a (usually) one man band called Frippenstein which also AKA'd as Tranz Azul (I was trying to sell out; I'm not cut out for selling out); I also had another synth echo-loop live improv band called Drift, which played a few gigs including the first Long Beach Music Festival. Uh. short answer (too late): no.

Links to any MP3's: www.soundclick.com/onebluenine | www.download.com/onebluenine | www.myspace.com/onebluenine

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Name: Scott Boettcher

Nick & reason for it: Botch/Mr. Botch, comes from my live playing...

DOB: [uS users note: may be serious privacy issues] 1960

From: Sioux Falls, South Dakota USA

Lives: Ogden, Utard

Marital Status & Kids: Professional Bachelor

Occupation: Explosives Engineer for USAF Ejection Systems

Webpage: www.puddlestone.net

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, nature photography, woodworking, BBQ

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Younger Next Year, Make Mine Music, Sands of Empire

Favourite TV: occasionally the Food Channel, otherwise nothing

Favourite Movie(s): 2001 Space Odyssey, Blue Man Group concert

Sports

- Participate: Downhill skiing, pingpong

- Watch: Women's beach volleyball

 

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Preferred Genre(s): Rock, Jazz, R&B, Classical, Smoove Jazz, Prog

Currently Listening To: Shangri La, Mark Knopfler

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Shangri La, DT's Octavarium

Random CD in your collection: Best-Loved Xmas Hymns, Marilyn Manson

 

What do you do musically? Weekend musician, critic

Instruments Played: Keys, Fiddle, Tenor Sax, harps, vox

Anything we might have heard you in? On a Lynyrd Skynyrd live album, when Ronnie says "What song is it you wanna hear?" there's a rich sultry baritone, mostly out of the left speaker, that yells "Freebird" before the rest of the crowd does. That's me.

Links to any MP3's: www.puddlestone.net (live mixes)

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Name: Gustavo Lozada

Nick & reason for it: Gus Lozada... it's my name

DOB: Jan 18th, 33 years old.

From: Mexico, with love

Lives: Torreon, middle of nowhere, Mexico.

Marital Status & Kids: Divorced, which means Happily single. A 7 years old lovely kid.

Occupation: Tech Support Manager, M-Audio International, freelance writer, moderator, consultor.

Webpage: www.guslozada.com

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Cook, Travel, Web surfing, Partying !

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: "The Alchemist"

Favourite TV: The Simpsons

Favourite Movie(s): Star Wars

Sports

- Participate: Aerobics / Kici Boxing / Golf

- Watch: Golf, sometimes

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): Rock, Pop, electronic

Currently Listening To: "Trukko", a friend's rock band

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: "Revolution" - Crematory

Random CD in your collection: The Fragile - NiN

 

What do you do musically? Compose, record, perform

Instruments Played: Keyboards, Guitars and sing

Anything we might have heard you in? I have some songs in the "Keyboard Corner" CDs and within a month my CD is gonna be released in the US by Universal Music Latino.

Links to any MP3's: www.wom.com.mx

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Here we go...

 

Name: Sharmin not to confused with Charmin the toilet paper as I was here first!

 

Nick & reason for it: YaCaBaby is translated into Y-C-B and I was givern that name as I am the 1st babygirl to have anything to do with the band.

 

DOB: August 22nd, 1968 ( Yeah I'm THAT old!)

 

From: Born in Nyansa Kenya but lived in the UK since I was 5

 

 

Lives: Chingford, London

 

Marital Status: Married to Peter and we have 5 kids (Jermaine 20, Rochelle 19, Bianca 17, Emmanuelle 15, and Jamel whos 11) and also about to be grand parents in january (2 in one go as both girls are preggas and due within days of each other!!!)

 

Occupation: Manager of several bands,promoter and about to start tour management as a new venture!

 

Webpage: Funk Management UK but its down at the moment ( My old company)

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies:MUSIC and more MUSIC! I love to walk when I get a chance,surfing is something i like to do, I love going to live gigs as many times as I can! Reading and just vegging when I have a chance to in front of the TV with a duvet and a good movie with the kids and hubbie.

 

Favourite TV: CSI (all of the varients!)

 

Favourite Movie(s): An Affair To

Remember with Cary Grant! It gets to me everytime!

 

Sports - I like all sports but Soccer is my fav especially if Arsenal are playing.

 

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Preferred Genre(s): BRITFUNK ala, Level42, Light Of The World, Delegation etc but I love anything that is funky from my passion for Stanley Clarke to the Police and down to smooth Jazz like Fourplay.

 

Currently Listening To: Paul Taylor, Nightlite but I have rediscovered Luther Vandross and Stevie Wonder again as well as listening to alot demos that I get sent into me.

 

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Kyle Eastwoods CD,yes, hes the offspring of Clint and I lve it to bits as hes a upright bassist and I love bass players in general!

 

What do you do musically?: I currently manage several bands but right now I am taking a break to concentrate on my new Tour Managment company but I do alot of promo work for major artists in the UK and I also co-ordinate the Stanley Clarke Meetup programe where I was made world wide Co-ord earlier this year which I love doing!

 

Instruments Played: I have been learning to play guitar for 13 years and not queit there yet!

 

Anything we might have heard you in?: Maybe... I have done some recording in the past which I may reveal in time

 

Links to any MP3's: none really as I am not a musician but you can hear the band that got me intrested in working in music and thats YCB. I love these guys with a passion and they are my boyz... www.Soundclick.com/YCB

 

Proudest musical moments: I did a charity fund raiser in 2001 for Level 42s charity, Childrens Say and helped raise alot of moeny for a Bone Anchored transplant for a child! I am so proud of that accomplishment. I also am extremly proud of being asked to promote Gary Husbands 'Force Majeure' tour earlier this year which was a real high as hes a real hero of mine and a dear dear friend!

 

There you go...thats all about me :)

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Name: Greg

Nick & reason for it: FoxTick, think about it. ;)

DOB: The same month DSOTM was released

From: Lost Angeles

Lives: ~35 miles south-east of sacramento

Marital Status & Kids: Single/no kids (that I know of)

Occupation: Control system engineer

Webpage: http://www.foxtick.com - not really a webpage, just a master index of all my online files..

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Mountain biking, 4-wheeling, martial arts,

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: None.... I'd rather be doing something that people write books about.

Favourite TV: The Simpsons, Family Guy

Favourite Movie(s): Office Space

Sports

- Participate: Paintball, field hockey, softball, fishing

- Watch: The occasional Baseketball game

 

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Preferred Genre(s): !new_country

Currently Listening To: The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: System of a Down - Mesmerize

Random CD in your collection: Mr. Bungle - California

 

What do you do musically?

Instruments Played: guitar, bass, keyboard, cowbell

Anything we might have heard you in? I played bass in the first Tsunami Relief song "Tears We Share"

Links to any MP3's: I don't have a lot posted up yet, but I do have a remix or two, something I did for a FARK audio edit contest, and a song written, recorded and mixed in one night http://www.foxtick.com/mp3/

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Name: Dave

Nick & reason for it: Pat Metheny fan; "Still Life/Talking" was too long of a screen name.

DOB: 7.28.1963

From: central Indiana

Lives:Golden, CO.

Marital Status & Kids: Married, working on kid(s)

Occupation: A/V technician/engineer

Webpage: http://homepage.mac.com/echohaus

 

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Hobbies: None non-creative. I like to build things, enjoy architecture, design. Photography.

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: The Field

Favourite TV: probably Stargate SG1

Favourite Movie(s): Way too many.

Sports: No interest, whatsoever

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): are there really genres, anymore? Nothing angry. Nothing screaming.

Nothing too twangy.

Currently Listening To: The fan in my studio. Usually, Sting. Almost always Sting. I'm dull that way.

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Do not recall.

Random CD in your collection: Defunkt: In America

What do you do musically?

Instruments Played: guitar, bass, keyboard, drums

Anything we might have heard you in? Tsunami relief tunes. And, nothing I can mention without dropping names, so I'll refrain.

Links to any MP3's: Nothing I'll reveal, yet.

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Name: Scott Jones

 

Nick & reason for it: if you have to ask.....

 

DOB: May 18th 1966

 

From: St Louis MO USA

 

Lives: St Louis MO USA

 

Marital Status & Kids: Second marriage (1st wife died....I have a 22 yr old step daughter from that marriage, who I co-raised from the age of 4); now newly married with 2 kids.

 

Occupation: Full-time professional musician: guitarist, arranger, composer.

 

Webpage: www.scottjonesmusic.com

 

Non-Musical Interests -

 

Hobbies: Photography, Acting, Movies, Reading

 

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: Lost Scriptures of the New Testament; the Theory of Everything (Hawking)

 

Favourite TV: new Battlestar Galactica; Sopranos

 

Favourite Movie(s): LOTR Trilogy; Gandhi; Amadeus; Contact; Eternal Sunshine; Crash (Paul Haggis)

 

Sports

- Participate: None

- Watch: None

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): Jazz and Fusion; but I really enjoy and get something out of all music

 

Currently Listening To: Scott Henderson LIVE; Chopin Preludes; Coldplay; Nishat and Irshad Khan; Metheny

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Name: Michael

 

Nick & reason for it: Joe Cole, Henry Rollins best bud, died of cancer. Thought the story was powerful, didn't want to use my name at the time....

 

 

DOB: june of '69

 

From: born, raised and live in Montreal

 

Marital Status & Kids: married, no kids

 

Occupation: product specialist, tech support, Autodesk/discreet, buncha others...

 

Non-Musical Interests - sports, vintage car racing, rear drive sports cars

 

Hobbies: driving my wife all over!

 

Currently Reading/Last Book Read: 2- Behind the Glass, Davinci Code

 

Favourite TV: Sopranos, Lost

 

Favourite Movie(s): Fight Club, Goodfellas...

 

Sports

- Participate: Hockey (hey I am Canadian), Tennis, Golf, Football

- Watch: Hockey, Tennis, Boxing, Sport Car Racing (no ovals!!!!)

 

Musical Interests -

 

Preferred Genre(s): music that I feel the artist is true too....Rock, Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Electronica, TripHop

 

Currently Listening To: Blue Train- John Coltrane

 

Last CD Bought/Song D/L'd: Weezer- latest

 

Random CD in your collection: Erik Truffaz- Bending New Corners, Jellyfish- Spilt Milk, King's X- Dogman

 

What do you do musically? musician, composer, home recordist/producer/mastering

 

Instruments Played: guitar and bass, some drums and keys

 

Anything we might have heard you in? radio spots for Studica, echos of my arrangements on Ferron's new cd, same for Revalation Zero

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