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Will Glass

About Me

(1980-) Born Michigan, raised there and also in Massachussetts and Montreal. Continuing to be raised in New York. Self-taught rock drummer, partially trained jazz drummer, one day composer and producer, fundamentally an improvisor.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2006
Band Members: Drumset

Member of: The Octagon, The Ball Governor, Monkey King, GlassBurns.

Collaborator with: Nat Baldwin, Dirty Projectors, Alfonso Velez, GOA, Shot Heard Round the World, Shalabi Effect, Hannah Marcus, Mike Watt, John Heward, Kosher Dill Spears, Sam Shalabi, Anthony Seck.

RIP: Crackpot, Balai Mecanique, Sloth is the Love, The Vittles, Detroit Metal.
Influences: James Yancey; Ed Blackwell, Milford Graves, Andrew Cyrille, Max Roach, Roy Haynes; Ahmir Thompson, Karriem Riggins; RZA, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Madlib; Kenny Buttrey, Levon Helm, Earl Palmer, Charlie Watts, Billy Ficca; De La Soul, Ramones, the Four Tops, American Devices, the Meters, Neil Young and Crazy Horse; Don Pullen, John Coltrane, Fred Hopkins, Marshall Allen, Don Cherry, Richard Davis; Pistol Allen, Uriel Jones, Al Jackson, Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks; James Brown, Sam Cooke, Al Green, Martha Reeves, Mary Wells, Otis Redding; D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Dwele, Bilal; Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants; "Criminal Minded," "Discipline 27-II," "Astral Weeks," "Black Woman"; "Exile on Main St.," "Green Mind"; Tape Op, Wax Poetics; "Ulysses," "Get Fuzzy"; Moe Tucker, Olatunji; Cristina Elena Brickman Gonzalez; Cycling; Canada.
Sounds Like: Sbarro's Italian Buffet
Record Label: Serious Business
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Cash Papercuts with DJ $bILL, Wednesdays 12-1AM on www.whfr.org

   Probably could have guessed that the marriage wouldn't last based on the songs she got into over the years -- "Purple Rain," "Every Little Bit Hurts," and that motherload break-up jam, "Don't Think...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:41:00 GMT

GlassBurns’s First Album, The Pain Dingus

In the Spring of 1999 I was an 18-year old McGill University freshman and aspiring drummer who was aware of, if not qute yet part of, a thriving creative music scene in Montreal. In April, a four-Wedn...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:04:00 GMT

Dirty Projectors / Nat Baldwin Audio Tour Journal

Among the many highlights of The Octagon's recent tour was meeting up with Amil of Tabel Tapes in Pittsburgh. He gave me a fine package, four score copies of the just-now-released Dirty Projectors / N...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:46:00 GMT