As Dorothy Parker said, Holy Shit, Time Doth Flit…

I have a brand new CD out called BADOOM. (The first band since ABBA to use all caps?) At this point it’s available on CD Baby, Spotify, youtube and Amazon. I brought a bunch of jazz musicians on board this time – most of them from The Seventh Street Big Band in San Jose. Check them out if you want to hear some amazing jazz. It was an honor for me to work with these young people. (compared to me anyway)

I’ve been playing drums for several years now, taking lessons from David Dieni, a well known Bay Area percussionist who plays in local orchestras and also has impeccable jazz chops.

RECORDINGS

2008

In 2008 The Nut Club spent a week recording a CD in Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Fantasy was a small jazz label (if that isn’t redundant) until they signed Creedence Clearwater Revival in the 60’s. The money that they brought in built this studio. We were in studio A. Booker T. uses the same Hammond B3! George Winston was down the hall recording in Studio D. Carlos Santana has recorded lots of tracks here, including his monster comeback “Supernatural”. The crew and the studio are fantastic, simply top drawer. (Eric Forman voice….”Top drawer!”.)
http://www.fantasystudios.com/

left to right…..
who else? Hammond B3 organ, including bass pedals, also a bit of piano and synthesizer
Stephanie Haines – lead vocals
Joo Lomenzo – guitar/vocals
Danny Lomenzo – drums
There are 11 original songs – I wrote the music and most of the lyrics, with Stephanie adding lyrics and pointing me in the right direction. Danny Lomenzo produced, Adam Munoz engineered, and Amanda Howell provided birthday cake during the sessions. The CD was mastered
by Ken Lee in Piedmont and Ryan Shaffer finished up the artwork in L.A. There is a booklet with the lyrics and some groovy old pictures.

Here are pictures from the sessions and the CD.

Hokey Smokes Bullwinkle, over a decade ago?!? A solo project, a CD of Christmas songs like you’ve NEVER heard them before. All on synthesizer, all traditional songs that are in the public domain, so no one can get upset with what I did to their fave song. That’s my tinsel tree on the cover, it’s been in the family since the 60’s. (Charlie Brown has nothing on me.) And that’s my parent’s house in Brookville Ohio on the back cover. (Good grief, I sound like Ralphie in “A Christmas Story”.) Love the way the lights on the bushes are covered with snow. (It’s a wonder no one was electrocuted.) Go back to the home page and click on “listen to studio recordings”. (do it now) All of those samples are from the Christmas CD. First time I ever used a sequencer – I played the parts and saved them on floppy disc – at times there are a dozen overdubs – and then went into Olde West Studios with the synth, popped in the discs, hit play, and voila, instant CD after a year of home recording.