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Sam Matthews

fri 9/5 devilish merry @ borders eastside

About Me

I'm in a bunch of bands.
I play guitar with the Burning Path and the Bumps.
I play bass in the Crow Flies and Devilish Merry.
I play mandolin in Moonlight Motel.
I frail the 5-string banjo, too.
I'm available on guitar, bass and mandolin for performance, recording and instruction. I get a great amount of joy from collaborating with other musicians. Hit me up.
I have a mobile digital recording rig capable of recording up to 8 tracks simultaneously. I record selected projects at very affordable rates. Email me for more information, audio samples and prices.
I have been a member of:
the Whereabouts
Radio Hanoi
96 Tears
the Garden
the Bats
Bbronk
Carsickness
Meat
the Feral Family
Mister Love Napkin
Dank
Jack on Fire
No Part of Nothing
Comprovisations & Impositions
Boxstep
the Name of this band is not the Talking Heads
Fangs of the Panda
Joybox
the 9th Ward
Onsite Music:
"hawkwind" and "sams riff expanded squared" were recorded in garageband.
lee skirboll plays drums and bass on "sams riff expanded squared".
"public image dub" and "10 minutes" were recorded in logic 8.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/17/2006
Influences: the Velvets
Patti Smith
Sabbath
Bowie
Coltrane
Sonic Youth
the Dead
Miles Davis
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
the Minutemen
Meat Puppets
the Fall
the Stooges
Mission of Burma
Bill Monroe
68-78 Rolling Stones
Charley Patton
Robert Johnson
Hank Sr.
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Nirvana
Joy Division
the Gun Club
X
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
the Anthology of American Folk Music
Doc Watson
the Clash
16 Horsepower
Lester Bangs
Jack Kerouac
strong ass coffee
my friend Craig
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Victory Hop Devil
East End Big Hop
Guinness
Jim Beam
Knob Creek

Type of Label: None

My Blog

sam in the news: the police at the decade

my trip down memory lane gets a paragraph in the p-g.http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08206/898955-388.stmgod, i'm old.
Posted by Sam Matthews on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:02:00 PST

sam in the news

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08143/883637-42.stm
Posted by Sam Matthews on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:29:00 PST

you never know what youll find on the internets, part 2

a whereabouts poster:http://www.gigposters.com/poster/87521_Five.html96 tears posters:http://www.gigposters.com/poster/87518_Five.htmlhttp ://www.gigposters.com/poster/55184_Five.htmlbats posters:http:...
Posted by Sam Matthews on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:39:00 PST

you’ll never know what you’ll find on the internets

go to:http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oi d%3A38640for a nice piece on the 9th ward @ wyep and on the upcoming butler street tout for toys.go to:http://www.greatesthitsmailorder.c...
Posted by Sam Matthews on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:15:00 PST

bumps/meat puppets photos

i found this surfing the web. sheryl musta took these:::::http://www.flickr.com/photos/alienspice/sets/72157 601740049733/
Posted by Sam Matthews on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:04:00 PST

downloading your own recordings

i'm a lifelong live music taper. in the 80's i was using a panasonic handheld. today i have a core sound binaural>sonymzr50MD rig. the mzr50 is the best mini disc ever made for bootleging due to it's ...
Posted by Sam Matthews on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:14:00 PST

new cro tune - light through a window

To test my new laptop recording rig, last night I took my stuff out to the Crow Flies Churchhill lair (aka Magee & Zyl's) for a little trial run. "Light Through a Window" was recorded in under three ...
Posted by Sam Matthews on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:16:00 PST

fangs of the panda

saturday night, fangs played in a roadhouse jukejoint in the backroads of nazareth.we played long and loud and were quite drunk.check out some of the audio carnage here:http://www.myspace.com/fangsoft...
Posted by Sam Matthews on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:33:00 PST

what’s been and what is up.......

The Post-Gazette gave the Bumps a shout out in their review of the Meat Puppets show. Thanks, Merv.http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07242/813144-388.stmCity Paper wrote a really great article about Blac...
Posted by Sam Matthews on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

"you’re gone"

an interesting thing happened tonight.i went to fang's practice and no one showed. but it's cool. while i had a beer on ben's porch i started playing on this riff. then i came home, recorded and poste...
Posted by Sam Matthews on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:56:00 PST