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Matt

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

I keep a daily livejournal and post to it all day, every day..go check it out. After you read it, why not join livejournal and add me as a friend?
After you read my journal, go look at my youtube videos of my experimental juicing sessions and home movies of my awesome 3.4 year old son, Edward Smith, shot on location in N.Y.C. and Antioch, Illinois. I also have some video from this years Ratha Yatra festival in NYC and some live music videos as well.
And just in case you didn't know...I love animals so I don't eat them. Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.
After 14 or so years playing guitar for my 15 year old band Disassociate, our original Bass player Bones23 left the band in January and I took over playing Bass. I also play guitar for DarksideNYC and Guitar and/or Bass for DownlowNYHC depending on who happens to be in the band on that particular day. I'm originally a Bass Player first since 1978 so I have no problem holding down the low end. I play a Daisy Rock Elite series Bass and use a Yamaha BB1000 Bass as a backup through a DOD Grunge pedal. Right now i'm using 2 Cerwin-Vega B15 3 way cabinets with a BBE Tube preamp and an old SAE 240w power amp. I also have a Marshall 1x18" Bass cabinet. For Guitars I have a wine red Jackson Dinky reverse, a totally dissed creme colored 1990 Gibson Les Paul Junior '55 reissue and 2 custom JK Guitars telecaster type solidbodies. I play through a Marshall 1960 4x12" slant cabinet and have an ass kicking Mesa Boogie Mark III 85 watt Amplifier. I also have an old Marshall JCM 800 100 watt guitar head. I still use my trusty Akai S01 Sampler for noise effects and sonic mayhem along with a Tascam 464 4-track, a Denon portable DAT player and a Radio Shack ambience generator. Oh yeah.. I also have an old, dusty Guild M20 acoustic guitar under my bed that needs a bit of repair. For juicing I use an elite chrome Omega 8005 juicer
MY UPCOMING SHOWS -
Writing and recording the new DarksideNYC CD

My Interests



Edward Frank Smith, Jasmine Nicole Smith, efnet #midiwarez, 8 track tapes, 80's music, African Cichlids, Alois Haba, ambient, Amiga, Angel, animals, Antioch, archaeology, architecture, artifacts, Astoria, astronomy, basic stamps, bicycle, black metal, Bob Marley, bongs, books, Broccoli, Brooklyn, Bushwick, calculators, cameras, Cap't Crunch, Carcass, Carrots, casemodding, cats, Cattlepress, Charles Dodge, Charles Ives, chess, cider, circuit cellar, classical music, clocks, collections, collections of collections, comics, Crisis, DarksideNYC, David Tudor, death metal, denim, digital photography, Disassociate, diy, dogs, Doll magazine, DownlowNYHC, drawing, Easley Blackwood, Ebay, ebow, eeg, electronics, embedded systems, EGH, Exuvia, Flatbush, Floorpunch, found objects, FreeBSD, fusors, Gamera, Gazeebo, Ghidorah, girls, glassblowing, goa trance, Godzilla, grindcore, guitar, Gurnee, hardcore, Have Heart, Hour of the Wolf, ichthyology, irc, Iron Chef (Japan), Isabella Blanco, Italian food, J train, jewelry, John Cage, Julian Carillo, Kill Your Idols, Kiss, l.e.d.s, legos, Legs Diamond, Linux, lostbrooklyn.org, lp's, mad scientists, magazines, making out, MAME, math, may-wah vegetarian food, microcontrollers, microtonal music, music, Napalm Death, new wave, nixie tubes, NYC, nyhc, old computers, outer space, Park Slope, Peter Tosh, Phobia, photography, physics, pitbulls, pizza, power tools, Prabhupada, reading, record collecting, rings, Rye bread, science, scientific calculators, sculpture, Seitan, silver rings, Soba noodles, Soilent Green, Spaghetti, Spiderman, Spinach, Steve Roach, Stephen Phillips, taking things apart, The Godz, thrift stores, thunderbirds, Tofu, Tofurky, toys, trance, transistor radios, Ultraman, Veganaise, vegetarianism, vintage computers, Verse, Vir Unis, walkie talkies, Wikipedia

I'd like to meet:

Krishna
Keifer Sutherland
Frankie Valli
Ray Kurzweil
Emmett Chapman
John Robbins
Dean Cornish
Zakir Hussein
Dean Drummond
and you

Music:



I've played Guitar and Bass for 25+ years. I've played with

Rapid Transit (1978) - Bass, backup vocals
Red Alert (1979) - Bass, vocals
Dagger (1981) - Bass, vocals, Taurus pedals
The Heat (1984) - Bass
White Plastic (1984) - Guitar
Execution Style (1985) - Bass
Kap'n Krunch (1986) - Guitar, Bass, vocals
Dank Sinatra (1988) - Guitar
Jesus Chrust (1989) - Guitar
Disassociate (1991-present) - Bass, Guitar, backup vocals, samples
The Denied (1992) - Guitar
DownlowNYHC (1993) - Bass, Guitar, backup vocals
DarksideNYC - (1995, 2007) - Bass, Guitar, backup vocals
Dr. Israel and 7 (2000)- Bass
TOFU (2007) - Bass, Guitar, Drum machine, Sampler, Omega 8005 juicer

I'm also a Guitar and Bass Technician and have worked and toured over the years with D-Generation, Murphy's Law, Gutterboy, Cromags, Warzone and other hardcore and metal bands.

Movies:

The Chronicles of Narnia
Spiderman
Planet of the Apes
Logans Run
War of the Worlds
Any and all Ultraman
Any and all Godzilla
Citizen Kane
Rollerball
2001
Gozu
Suicide Club
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead

Television:

24
Lost In Space
Star Trek
Space 1999
UFO
Thunderbirds
Mythbusters
Animal Planet
Animal Cops
CNN News

Books:

Bhagavad-gita
Genesis of a Music
On the Sensations of Tone
The Book of Tofu

Heroes:


Krishna

AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Harry Partch

John Cage

Herman Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz

Charles Ives

Ray Kurzweil

Henry Cowell

John Robinson

George Harrison

Jack Bauer

Dexter Morgan

My Blog

My girl. Talkin’ ’bout.. my girl. My girl. Woo hooo

I copied this off of Pam's blog and altered it a bit.Q. What happens when a musician falls in love? A. He avoids all music related crap on his off hours. Q. What happens when a vegetarian dates an ope...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:53:00 PST

Headed to Illinois to see Edward!

I'm going to Antioch Illinois this weekend to see my amazing son Edward Frank Smith. 4 days of fun. I won't be on myspace so if you email me, don't expect to see an answer right away. Best way to reac...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:13:00 PST

One year of no Marijuana

I made one year of freedom from pot Nov 14 2007. Didn't think I could do it. Dec 21 is gonna be one year of no alcohol and Dec 31 will be 1 year of no cigarettes/rolled tobacco.
Posted by Matt on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:28:00 PST

Back on guitar for Darkside NYC

Well after a year of playing Bass for Darkside NYC, i'm back on guitar after Matt Fleming left the band - we just got a new Bassist, Take', from Everyday Dollars. I'm using my Jackson Dinky Reverse ri...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:07:00 PST

Me and Kitty representing Tofurky!

So Kitty and I are going to be famous among vegetarians!Last year was our first veg Thanksgiving and we had gotten the Tofurky Feast (Tofurky is a very popular brand of veg "meat" products for those w...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:36:00 PST

Leaving for Illinois in the morning!

I'm headed out to Antioch, Illinois tomorrow morning to see my son Edward Frank. I'm very excited and a bit nervous. He's a lot bigger and older since I saw him last, he's talking now and growing up. ...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:05:00 PST

SUPERBOWL OF HARDCORE 2007 FLYER


Posted by Matt on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:44:00 PST

Superbowl of Hardcore 2007

This just in from Black and Blue Productions...SATURDAY AFTERNOON MAY 19TH 2007 STUDIO B259 BANKER ST B/T MESEROLE AND CALYER STBROOKL...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:56:00 PST

My merch from cafepress.com

My bands are all different, people..there's something for everyone! DownlowNYHC t-shirts have arrived! Check out the old school NYHC poster and our sexy fighting apparelI also have dope Disassociate d...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:05:00 PST

New xTOFUx straightedge t-shirts for you!! Support xNYHCx

TOFU MERCH IS HERE!Go buy a shirt and spread the word - straightedge is coming back to NYC
Posted by Matt on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:48:00 PST