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Paul Tavenner

About Me

Grew up in Texas, studied in Boston, making my career in LA... I'm surrounded by round things that I beat up on all day long. Love to bang on the drums, write music, produce groups, perform live - no substitute for that.Stay tuned - I've got an enormous catalog of music I want to get out into the world...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/08/2006
Band Website: www.bigcityrecording.com, www.manalivemusic.com
Influences: Bealtes, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, Chicago, Led Zep, Stones, Steely Dan, Coltrane, Miles, Mahavishnu, all pop music (fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it!), Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin - pretty much all the dead composers, some country (grew up in TX after all), punk, even rap on occasion.drummers: too many to list accurately, but to start: Buddy Rich, Simon Phillips, Steve Gadd, Peter Erskine, Tony Williams, Dennis Bradford, Tom Brechtlein, Bernard Purdie, Jim Keltner, Dave Weckl, Joe LaBarbera, Vinnie (you know you're in the history books when just one name is enough), Joey Heredia.... etc....
Sounds Like: working on a new genre... why pigeon-hole myself?
Record Label: Man Alive Music Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Christmas Album

Busted!OK, the truth is this album was supposed to be done in its entirety for this Christmas - that's 2009....   OK, OK...   last Xmas 2008....    Alright then - it started in 05 with one song on a b...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:57:00 GMT

Finally - an appearance on myspace...

Alright - it's late, but I have finally gotten a myspace page started at the constant nagging of all my friends. There, happy??Don't worry, the content on this page will take a quantum leap over the ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:50:00 GMT