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DEVON(VERTIGO SALESMAN)

My blues is like a rat infested sky, a rusty needle injecting daffodils with pesticide The knocks at

About Me

DEACON BLUES......I was born and raised in New York and lived in Brooklyn for thirty years. I worked as an assistant engineer and office manager for Donald Fagan's RiverSound Studio in New York for almost a decade. I worked on the multi grammy winning album(Including Album of the year 2000 and best engineered album) for Steely Dan TWO AGAINST NATURE, as well as artists like Lauryn Hill, Keith Richards, Joshua Redman, KRS-1, A Tribe Called Quest, Blind Mellon, Gov't Mule, Wallace Roney, Laura Nyro, Groove Collective, George Clinton, Herbie Mann, T.S. Monk, Blues Traveler,Jacky Terasson, Slash's Snakepit, Russell Malone, Helmet, Charlie Hunter, Paul Motian, Aerosmith, Tom Jones, Steffon Harris, Cowboy Mouth, Counting Crowes, Joe Lovano, The Allman Bothers, Phoebe Snow, Bashiri Johnson, and many many others. I'm happy to still be in touch with quite a few of the people that I got to work with in those crazy days. Donald Fagan continues to be a friend and mentor to this day. I almost consider him and his wife Libby to be like second parents to me. I sharpened my guitar and bass skills by seeking out the best musicians in blues, Jazz, rock, funk, Hip-Hop, and soul. Watching artists in the studio made me the musician I am today. I am lucky to have some of the most talented friends anyone could ask for. Currently I am writing music that I plan to record myself. It will be me playing all instruments except for drums.I am not about to put on a baseball hat backwards and call myself an MC or DJ or put out some ambient drum and bass snooze fest material(AKA Funk on Valium and herbal tea) to sustain myself in the "Industry" or keep up with current trends. (I say that now but...) There are still new and creative sounds that can come from guitar driven music and a lust for organized chaos and that's what I am currently exploring. That is why there is no music on my myspace page at the moment. I'm a perfectionist and won't put out just any old thang, but it's all starting to come together so be patient!!! Other plans in the works are opening my OWN studio and starting a production company(If I totally lose my mind) Although I'm fairly new to the digital world, I have a true gift for live recording and mixing. I learned from the best, people like Roger Nichols, Elliot Scheiner, Mike Barbiero, Eddie Kramer, The late Tom Dowd and countless of other great engineers who frequented the studio and let me ask stupid questions and nag them until I got some skills of my own though with all of the new digital technology constantly emerging, I sometimes feel like a dinasaur waiting for those first few flakes of snow to fall. I didn't receive a lot credit for a lot of the work I did over the years because I started so young but that's the way it works unfortunately. My other great talent is writing. I studied dramatic writing for stage and film at NYU's Tisch School Of The Arts. Some of my instructors were Tony Kushner, Leslie Lee, and Lonnie Carter. My poetry and song lyrics can fit into any style of music except for(Maybe) Hip-Hop. I am also working on putting out a book of my short stories, songs, and poetry. I have a good sense of humor which has helped me survive the music biz!!!! Being a reasonably private person, I've always hated things like myspace, blogs...etc So maybe this is a form of self punishment. S&M, the lazy man's version. I thank all of my friends for not letting me quite playing after becoming dissolusioned and cynical by all of the "Fat Cats" who cheated and short changed me over the years. I've survived anything you can imagine and won't be going away any time soon. I can write a song for you that will make you twitch. I love survivors because I am one. "Slow motion is better than no motion." -Bootsy OH FOR THOSE WHO ALREADY KNOW ME, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHEN I SUDDENLY END MY MYSPACE ACCOUNT OUT OF DISGUST, AND A FEELING OF COMTEMPT TOWARDS SOMETHING THAT LACKS SUBSTANCE AND CAN'T BE HELD IN MY TWO HANDS. AND FOR THOSE WHO WANT ME TO POST A PICTURE OF MYSELF, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I LOOK LIKE ALREADY, YOU WILL WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT. Wow This is way too much for one person to say about themself in an entire decade!!!

My Interests

Music, Writing, Reading, women, Cheap Chaos, sleep, More women, Remote control jump rope 600 with snooze hatch, blinding migraine headaches, More sleep, all forms of art, expensive chaos, Mild panic Attacks, Illicit silliness, feeling calm like a Buddhist monk with a mild concusion, My own guitar playing!!!

I'd like to meet:

Quiet people. Lovers of the New York city of old. People who can speak English properly. Other musicians who have worked in the biz and like funk, jazz, blues, anything with soul. Avid readers!!! I hope you are funnier than I am in the morning. I am looking for Someone who creates a prescription drug for bed head with minimal side effects!!! Women musicians! Artists of all kinds. My old fellow comrades whom recorded with me in the studio. Musicologists, and artists that deserve more press and recognition than they have gotten from a bland and thoughtless industry. I'll always do what I can to help artists who I believe have been overlooked or stepped over by ignorant A&R people and record labels alike. I like to meet People who read, think, have manners, and have an ounce of humanity although it is currently out of style at the moment. And freaks of all kind.

Music:

You should know by now!!!! Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Sonny Rollins, P-Funk, Monk, Dolphy, Dizzy, Hendrix, Me, Kenny Burrell, Lee Morgan, Sly, James Brown, Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker.......Albert King, B.B. King, Mingus, Larry Graham, Fats Navarro, Bootsy Collins, Bird, Skip James, Guitar Slim, Mississippi Sheiks, Son House, Hank Williams, Wes Montgomery, Bud Powell, Billy Higgins, Ornette Coleman, WC Handy, Tadd Dameron, Otis Rush, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Yusef Lateef, Smokey, Last Poets, Isaac Hayes, Blackbyrd Mcknight, Eric B. & Rakim, Art Blakey, Stevie Wonder, Art Tatum, StillPhil, ODB, Johnny Hodges,Cannonball Adderley, Bob Dylan, Prince, Max Roach, Freddy King, Clutch Johnson, Duke, Basie, Blind Willie Mctell, Herbie Hancock, Bernie Worrell, Milt Jackson, Teddie Wilson, Bessie Smith, Eddie Hazel, The Temps & all of Motown, Sonny Sharrock, Lonnie Johnson, Billy Holiday, Paul Chambers, Johnny Guitar Watson, Ella Fitzgerald, Wayne Shorter, Coltrane, Prez, Muddy Waters, Howlin'Wolf, Little Walter, Hubert Sumlin, Jackie Mclean, Bean, Carlos Santana, Segovia, Gatemouth Brown, Leadbelly, Jimmy Smith, Donny Hathaway, Elvin Jones, Meters, Public Enemy, Earth Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, The Velvet Underground, Earl Hooker, Charley Patton, Bukka White, Rashaan Roland Kirk, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins,Bobby Blue Bland, Charlie Christian, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Donald and Walter, KRS-1, Miles Davis of course.............There's not enough space here.

Movies:

Anything by Kubrick, Kirosawa, Hitchcock, Bergman, Otto Preminger, Howard Hawks, Fellini, Movies with a script!!!!

Television:

The Simpsons, America's funniest home boat disasters!!!(AW)

Books:

Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysees, Watt, Going Native, Uncle Vanya, Last Exit To Brooklyn, Naked Lunch, Phenomenology Of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(See profile picture, That's not Beethoven!!!), Naked Masks; Five Plays by Luigi Pirandello, A Season In Hell/The Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud, Anything by Shakespeare, Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Nabakov, Genet, Sartre, Chekov, Beckett, Stephen Wright,Raymond Chandler, and many poets you've never heard of. DO NOT REQUEST TO BE MY FRIEND IF YOU DO NOT READ BOOKS. MAGAZINES AND ANYTHING BY DAN BROWN DOES NOT COUNT AS READING!!!!!

Heroes:

T-Bone Walker, Groucho Marx, Krusty The Clown, Joan Of Arc, Thelonious Monk, Captain Crunch, William Burroughs, Arthur rimbaud, W.C. Fields , My pharmacist, Jimi Hendrix, Alfred E. Newman...................Murf The Smurf, Poe, and Duke Ellington

My Blog

Morning Has Passed......

Something bizarre is beginning to take form like memories of great gothic Halloween silhouttes bouncing off of the sidewalks of old Bleeker Street. A well toned mind and body in the making. Exercise, ...
Posted by Devon Wendell on Fri, 25 May 2007 09:54:00 PST

A Broolynite in LA

Hi all you west Coast people. I'm on my way to your strange land pretty soon. I've decided to start smoking again on my trip to LALA land to piss off you locals for starting a world wide ban...
Posted by Devon Wendell on Tue, 22 May 2007 09:11:00 PST

One note, maybe two

Hey all of you flashy run around with dizzyiing speed guitarists. Last night I hit one note. Just one single note that was perfect. The sumation of my life. It happened in a blues dive with maybe two ...
Posted by Devon Wendell on Sat, 19 May 2007 10:56:00 PST

A new York Rise And Shine(Summer is coming)

Another morning. My sunken possum like eyes burn from a one more dream of an involintary baptism. The iridescent sun from the unforgiving water bleeds into consciousness causing me to stumble. An then...
Posted by Devon Wendell on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:18:00 PST

For those who want me to rush my tracks!!!!

I'd like to address some questions about why I do not have any tracks up on my myspace page yet. I grew up in the studio. I was fresh out of high school when I got a job working for Donald Fagan's stu...
Posted by Devon Wendell on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:23:00 PST

Live from the grave.............

Who can guess what musician said, "Live from the grave, straight from the grave." -Devon Wendell
Posted by Devon Wendell on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:52:00 PST