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The Neil Anthony Collective

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About Me

The Neil Anthony Collective is the solo project of sound engineer, producer, mixer and audio lecturer Neil Anthony Pickles, having recorded, mixed, produced, mastered or all of the above other peoples records for the last ten years, some big names, some not so big but still in my opinion very very talented, i decided to do my own album as a side project. 3 years in gestation mainly because I'm so busy working for other artists I've finally almost got the first song finished and hope to roll out the whole LP over the next year.I would like to thank the following talented musicians and people especially for taking part in these recordings and/or their encouragementGiulio Pierucci friend and engineer but most of all encouragement I can't thank you enough for telling me I could do it.Anthony (Tony) English for creating/building Estudio El Bano my creative home from home www.slowglass.co.ukDamo Waters for his drumming.Mark Neary for his bass and audio engineering skills.Seiki Kitano for his lead guitar and audio engineering skills.SAUL PARIENTE for his dueling guitar solos, wah wah wonders and crashing power chords who is another Les Paul fan it should be noted the classics just can't be beaten! http://www.myspace.com/saulrockukMariana Bianchini lead vocalist of Panza www.panzaweb.com.ar http://www.myspace.com/panzaweb for her stunning lead vocals on "The Colours"Facundo Rodriguez, Marcel Van Limbeek, Justin Fraser, for their kind words, work and encouragementFinally Julie anne McCambridge for a singing lesson 3 years ago that made me think maybe I could do it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/5/2006
Band Website: neilpickles.com
Band Members: All songs written by Neil Anthony Pickles who is the only full time member but I am joined on the recordings by a core of the following talented musical geniuses who have never actually met each other............Damo Waters on drums the best drummer in London bar none and full time member of Dead Singer www.deadsinger.infoMark Neary bass also a superb sound engineer and an in demand bass player for the likes of The Hours and Baxter Dury.Seiki Kitano resident of Shibuya, Tokyo and Les Paul playing God of guitar.SAUL PARIENTE for his dueling guitar solos, wah wah wonders and crashing power chords who is another Les Paul fan it should be noted the classics just can't be beaten! http://www.myspace.com/saulrockukMariana Bianchini lead vocalist of Panza www.panzaweb.com.ar for her stunning lead vocals on "The Colours"+ a cast of thousands OK dozens of other guests and random freinds of friends who just happened to be around at the time!!!
Influences: The Pixies, Led Zeppelin, Sonic Youth, Sugar, Cream, The Meters, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, My Bloody Valentine, Stevie Wonder, Echo and The Bunnymen, Glen Campbell, The Kinks, P J Harvey, Max Martin, Motown, Atlantic, Love, The Dandy Warhols, Ian Brown, Jimmy Webb, Booker T and the MG's, Elvis Presley, People that I have worked with over the years blah blah blah
Sounds Like: Me
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Thankyou Mariana, Sergio and Facundo

A Big thanks to my good amigos Facundo for engineering for me at Quark and allowing me to adopt my producers hat properly without being distracted by levels !! Mariana for singing beautifully on 3 tra...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:13:00 PST

I finally finished tracking a song !!!

I cant quite believe it but a tune I started about 3 to 4 years ago is finally finished the recording/tracking stage. The song an original composition with words and music by yours truely is called Ol...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:28:00 PST

Magic boxes

Some new additions to Esudio El Bano recently the HD rig finally went up to a HD3 which pretty much means nothing is impossible from a mixing front anymore. Also brought another magic box an Alan Smar...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:36:00 PST

Guitars

After months and months and months of inaction I finally got something done !!!! The Collective has a new member, it's been pretty hard to find someone to make a guitar contribution of the class of S...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:44:00 PST

Things are happening !!!

No really they are Although no new tunes are yet ready work is at my usual snails pace progressing on 8 other tunes they are I.F.S.L Rain Friends The Colours Oldest Star Shell Beach Hole in the...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Thu, 31 May 2007 10:54:00 PST

Sunrise Superhey! The Recording Part 2

Further technical information this is really for recording engineers, producers and grade "A+" geeks only!   The main rhythm guitar is a 1985 Japanese Squire standard Telecaster Di'd through a T...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:30:00 PST

Sunrise Superhey! Technical info&.The Drum Recording.

Sunrise Superhey! Technical info&.The Drum Recording.   I am an audio engineer and am interested in this kind of crap as are a lot of my friends, but if you don't care about what microphone was ...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:50:00 PST

Sunrise Superhey! Recording credits

Sunrise Superhey! is almost ready I have a mix that whilst probably not the final one is good enough to post and hope to do so in a couple of days so in preperation here are the................. Sunr...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:22:00 PST

Sunrise Superhey!!!

Sunrise Superhey! is nearing completion one final mix tweak and it'll get posted along with full details of everyone who shouted clapped and played on this epic 1minute 49seconds of Indie surf rock. A...
Posted by The Neil Anthony Collective on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:49:00 PST