Music:
Member Since: 3/5/2005
Band Website: crap I knew there was something i forgot in 07!
Band Members:
I'm the only surviving member, the others died
in a shoot out. That will teach 'em to drink my whiskey and complain
about too many guitar solos.
I'm always amused when people refer to me as "guys" or think this is a band.
Yes, a band of insane hombres inside my head!!!!
Anyhow, sometimes El Blondito makes sounds and I arrange the sounds into this
thing called music, using as of 2008 (by category):
Electric Guitars: 12 X Fender Stratocaster (well ok, I'm not really
sure how many I have anymore, but I do record with them all. Each is modified a little bit differently.), Neptune
Baritone Electric, Agile 3000M, Ibanez AK 85 (jazz box, used mainly with fuzz).
Pickups: Fender, Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, Jason Lollar, Sheptone.
Effects: FOXROX, DOD, BSM, Homebrew Electronics (AZ), Electro Harmonix, BOSS and SIB.
Amplification: Marshall, Vox, Fender, Engl and RC Davis (uses Jensen
speakers, made in Italy).
Steel String Guitars: Taylor 510, Tacoma Chief (pre Fender), Yamaha 12
String.
Nylon String Guitars: Raimundo and Yamaha
Bass: NAMM 1 off Fender Custom Shop (Japan) Mustang, Reissue Mustang,
90's era American Precision Bass.
Bass Amplification: SWR (pre Fender).
Drums & Percussion: Mostly programming, loops, etc. But I've
been studying drums for more than 1 year now and one of these days, I reckon all
hell will break loose as my skill sets merge. Tama, Zildjian, Paiste,
DW. I like Vic Firth and Vater sticks. I bang a lot of things
around to get strange sounds too.
Assorted :
Trumpet, Harmonicas, Replica of 1873 Peacemaker, fires 9mm equivalent.
(Made in Italy of course!)
Synths: Korg Karma, Korg Pa1XPro (Also Made in Italy! Do you detect
a theme yet?), Roland GR-20.
MIDI: Rarely used, because soft synths don't stand up too well
against analog wave forms. Roland
GI-20 Midi converter for the GK-3 pickup system. I use my keyboard too,
when I'm scoring traditionally.
Theremin: Moog Etherwave
Vocals: Unfortunately that's still me! hehe Notice how i put vocals towards the bottom of this list! haha
Mics: Shure, Groove Tubes,
Sennheiser, AKG, Blue, EV & Rode.
Console, Rack, DAW Platform:
A seemingly never ending project, by end of 2007, I'm working with a custom
made, centralized recording studio with distributed KVM, audio monitoring and
tracking stations. This consists of 16 Pre Sonus inputs going into a
dedicated Quadcore AMD Opteron 270 (Italy) system, running Cubase SX3.
The cabling alone is enough to drive anyone insane. The sessions for "The
Devil Rides Out" were done with a MOTU 896 HD. It has been retired
for everything but playback / mixing.
Influences:
My primary influences that come out in my music are:
Ennio Morricone, Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow), Alessandro
Alessandroni, Jimmy Page, Yngwie J. Malmsteen & Bruno Nicolai.
A further list of my influences would include (in no particular order):
Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Ian Gillan (solo), Rainbow, Iron Maiden, Judas
Priest, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Jimi Hendrix (although I
certainly don't play like him), Rory Gallagher, The Who, The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Del Shannon, The
Kinks, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters (up to Amused to Death), Billy Joel (early), The Beatles, Paul McCartney, the Monkees
(when I was 3 years old!), Neil Diamond, Kiss (only the Disco album from 1979), The Ventures, Dire Straits, soundtracks to 1970s pron films (cmon they were so underrated!), ABBA, Disco and lots of 1970s hits like Kung Fu
Fighting, The Funk Brothers (Motown) David Bowie, Gypsy and Folk Music from Eastern Europe, particularly
brass bands, great American television show theme songs (like The Rockford
Files), Beethoven, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Richard Wagner, Strauss, Chopin, and a
variety of other composers. I like a good military march!
Sounds Like: Vintage instruments being pushed off the edge of a cliff.
Record Label: Mine.
Type of Label: Indie
