Phantom Drummer bought his first cassette 4 track recording machine (Tascam 414) in 1997, Brought it home with no box. It was a discounted floor model from a huge music store chain that eventually grabs every musician at one point in their lives and forces them to endure countless guitar, and/or drum solos. You know what I am talking about.?.Never taking the time to read about the machine he started recording and never left the apartment. That winter was the big "El Nin~o" winter, so there was nothing to do but write songs and watch storms come in off the ocean. Today he has a milk crate and cardboard box filled with 4 track tapes.The music is mostly instrumental, sometimes words creep in. Most of the music the PhD has made over the past few years is the product of a music forum called ICS (Immersion Composition Soceity, started in Oakland) where a group of musicians independently of one another take one day to write and record, mix... as many songs as they can. Everyone gets together at the end of the day and listens to each other's "compositions".The idea for the Phantom Drummer came from many years of playing multiple instruments. Being a drummer first and foremost, the PhD also plays anything else he can get his hands on (guitar, bass, keyboards, banjo dulcimer, autoharp, Echoplex (yes, it can be an instrument in itself), melodica, Snoopy harp, glockenspiel, vibrophone, marimba, synsonics drum pads, feedback, transistor/shortwave radio, record players, trumpet (it almost made me pass out). There are probably more, but that is it for now.When PhD plays live it is usually accompanied by film, and sometimes by other musicians. He rarely plays live as most of PhD's time is spent with his other band Rogue Wave.More to come. Please stay in tune.xoxo, PhD
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