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John Philip Shenale

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About Me

DISCOGRAPHY
TORI AMOS
"Little Earthquakes" (Atlantic)
"Under the Pink" (Atlantic)
"Boys for Pele" (Atlantic)
"From The Choirgirl Hotel" (Atlantic)
"Strange Little Girls" (Atlantic)
"Scarlet’s Walk" (Epic)
"Tales of A Librarian" (Atlantic)
"A Piano - The Collection" (Rhino)
"American Doll Posse" (Epic)
JANE’S ADDICTION
"Ritual de lo Habitual"(Warner)
THE BANGLES
"Everything" (CBS)
"Eternal Flame" Single
JIMMY BARNES
"Souled Out" (Mushroom)
"Heat" (Mushroom)
"Flesh and Wood" (Mushroom)
MICHEL BERGER
"Tycoon" (Epic)
TRACY CHAPMAN
"New Beginning" (Electra)
JOHNNY DIESEL
"Hepfidelity" (Mushroom)
MARC LAVOINE
"Paris" (BMG France)
BETTE MIDLER
“Bathouse Betty” (Sony)
RICK SPRINGFIELD
"Living in Oz" (RCA)
"Tao" (RCA)
"Karma" (Platinum Entertainment)
AS PRODUCER:
WILLY DEVILLE
"Backstreets of Desire" (FNAC)Gold France
"Loup Garou" (EastWest Gmbh)
"Atlantic Collection" (Atlantic)
"Crow Jane Alley" (Eagle)
"Pistola" (Eagle)
SYLVIE VARTAN
"Nouvelle Vague"
THE ROYAL MACADAMIANS
"Experiments in Terror" (Island)
EVELIO
"Evelio"
BRUCE BURTON
"On The Avenue"
BOBBY GRIFFIN
" Bobby Griffin" (EMI)
DOG PARK
"Dog Park (Perigrinate)
WENDY MAHARRY
"Released" (IODA)
AS ARRANGER AND KEYBOARDIST
FIVE FOR FIGHTING
“Message for Albert” (EMI)
LOVE SPIT LOVE
"Love Spit Love" (Imago)
JAN ARDEN
“Blood Red Cherry” (Universal)
JESSE MCCARTNEY
"Beautiful Soul" (Hollywood Records)
SWIMMER
“Surreal” (Matador)
AIR SUPPLY
"News From No Where" (Giant)
"Book of Love" (Giant)
"Across the Concrete Sky" (Avex Trax)
KINDRED SPIRIT
"Kindred Spirit" (IRS)
RIVER CITY PEOPLE
"Say Something Good" (Capitol)
ADAM COHEN
“Adam Cohen (Sony)
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"Broken Toy Shop" (Polydor)
NINA HAGEN
"Fearless" (Columbia)
GREGORY HINES
"Severance" (Largo)
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
"The Rumour" (MCA)
RAINDOGS
"Border Drive-In Theater" (Atco)
ERNIE ISLEY
"High Wire" (Elektra)
"Rubaiyat" (Electra)
JANET JACKSON
"Dream Street" (A&M)
TANYS BLOUNT
"Natural Thing" (Motown)
AS MUSICIAN:
BELINDA CARLISLE
"Belinda" (IRS)
CHRIS SPEDDING
"One Step Ahead of the Blues" (Music Avenue)
ALICE IN CHAINS
"Facelift" (CBS)
TONI CHILDS
"House of Hope" (A&M)
NATALIE COLE
"Good to Be Back" (EMI)
ROBERT CRAY
"Midnight Stroll" (Polygram)
THE INDIANS
"Indianism" (Polydor)
DAVID AND DAVID
"Boomtown" (A&M)
BUDDY GUY
"Feels Like Rain" (Silvertone)
JOHN CAMPBELL
"One Believer" (Elektra/WEA)
BRUCE HORNSBY
"A Night on the Town"(RCA)
BILLY IDOL
"Charmed Life" (Chrysalis)
PAUL JANZ
"Renagade Romantic" (A&M)
JAMES REYNE
"James Reyne" (Capital)
OFFSPRING
"Ixnay on the Hombre"(MCA)
VINCENT ROCCO
"Hell Or Highwater" (Elektra Ent.)
ZACHARY RICHARD
"Snake Bite Love" (A&M)
UMA
"Farewell" (Refuge)
JIMMY HARNEN
"Can’t Fight the Midnight" (WTG)
RUST
"Rust" (Atlantic)
WARREN G
"Regulate" (Def Jam)
LESUCHAN
"Take Me to Your House" (United)
ERIC MARTIN
"Somewhere in the Middle" (WEA)
JOHN HIATT
“The Best of John Hiatt” (Capital)
BILLY FALCON
"Pretty Blue World" (Polygram)
PHIL PERRY
"The Heart Of The Man" (EMI)
WILLIAM MACGREGOR
"Welcome TO THe Carnival" (Jimmy Boy)
Alfie Zappacosta
"Quick" (Penta)
Franco Battiato
"Echoes of a Sufi Dancer"(Capital)
Boom Crash Opera
"Boom Crash Opera" (Giant)
Beach Boys
"L.A. Light" (CBS)
John Doe
"Meet John Doe" (Geffen)
Nick Gilder
"Nick Gilder" (RCA)
Sara Hickman
"Shortstop" (Elektra)
Hunters & Collectors
"Cut" (Mushroom)
Roberto Carlos
"Coração" (CBS)
Paul Hyde
"Turtle Island" (EMI)
M C Solaar
"Le Tour De La Question"
Shari Belafonte
"Eyes of Night" (Ariola)
Barry Manilow
"Manilow" (RCA)
Diana Ross
"Forever Diana" (Motown)
Santana
"Milagro" (Polydor)
Curtis Stigers
“Brighter Days” (Columbia)
Kim Ferron
"Kim Ferron" (Cherry/Universal)
Bonnie Tyler
"Secret Dreams & Forbidden Fire" (CBS)
Frankie Valli
"Street Fighter" (FBI)
Katey Sagal
"Well" (Virgin)
"Room"(Valley-Entertainment)
Dionne Warwick
"Finder of Lost Loves" (Arista)
Tim Weisberg
"High Risk" (Desert Rock)
Dreams So Real
"Rough Night in Jerico" (Arista)
Mondo Rock
"Boom Baby Boom" (Columbia)
Victoria Williams
"Swing the Statue" (Rough Trade)
FILM, TV, RADIO MUSIC:
AS COMPOSER:
Out of Line (Curb Ent.)
Score with Bob Thiele
Animal Traxs (VH-1)
Score with Barry Goldberg
Return of the Living Dead III (Trimark)
Score with Barry Goldberg
Dirt Bike kid (New Horizon)
Score with Bill Bowersock
Best of the Best III
Score with Barry Goldberg
Smart House (Disney)
Score with Barry Goldberg and Sterling Smith
Losin It (AVCO)
Title Track
License to Drive (Twentieth Century Fox)
Source Music
Daughter of the Streets (Lifetime)
Featured Track
Swiss Family Chipmunks (Bagdazarian Prod.)
Featured Track Son of A Wanted Man (Bantam)
Score
AS ARRANGER AND KEYBOARDIST:
Curly Sue (Warner Bros.)
Der Schattenman (EastWestGMBH)
Showgirls (UA)
Superman III (Warner)
Chipmunks "Chipmunks Go to Hollywood"(RCA) Shout (Warner Bros.)
AS KEYBOARDIST AND PROGRAMMER:
Footloose (Paramount)
Hard to Hold (Universal)
Streets of Fire (Warner Bros)
Little Shop of Horrors (Geffen)
Soul Man (New World)
Private School (Universal)
Out of Bounds (Columbia)
Phantom of the Opera (21st century Prods)
Where the Boys Are (Tristar)
Satomi Hakken-Den (Toshiba EMI)
Mannequin (New World)
The Wraith (Paramount)
Lovelines (Universal)
Tin man (Montage)
National Lampoon’s Joy of Sex (Paramount)
Summer Rental (Paramount)
Steele Justice (Atlantic)
Knights of the City
That Was Then This Is Now (Paramount)
The Return of Eliott Ness (Art and Ann Prods.)
Youngblood (MGM)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/6/2007
Band Website: coming soon
Band Members:



Influences:
EARLY INFLUENCES
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Igor Stravinsky
Vaughan Williams
Benjamin Britten
Johannes Brahms
Anton Dvorak
Herman Hesse
Serge Gainsbourg
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Leos Janacek
Richard Strauss
Zoltan Kodaly
Darius Milhaud
Samuel Barber
Parliament
Funkadelic
Buffalo Springfield
David Bowie
Brian Eno (pre U2)
Family
J. J. Cale
Taj Mahal
Sly and the Family Stone
Love
Gentile Giant
Steve Miller (Sailor and Children of the Future only)
Moby Grape
Led Zeppelin
Yardbirds
Stones
Free
LATER INFLUENCES
Henryk Gorecki
Arnold Schoenberg (pre WW1)
Carl Nielson
Alexander Scriabin
Alfred Schnittke
Peter Gabriel
Kate Bush
Busta Rhymes
Bill Lasswell
Maurice Ravel
Arvo Part
NWA
Morris Berman
Elaine Pagels
Howard Jones
Human League
OMD
The Clash
Henry Rollins
Willy Nelson
Sounds Like:


Record Label: Independant
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Michael Sackler Record

spent last week with a great songwriter Michael Sackler.We recorded live and made some great tracks .I think it will be a very cool record,he has a great voice and interesting lyrical perspective.I pu...
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Thu, 15 May 2008 02:42:00 PST

amanda dumas record progress2

in the middle of the final recording of amanda dumas' record.Just wonderful!!! Using The red R0 (elam251) capsule on a tube akg c451 body built by my friend stayne Mclane at innertube audio. hopefully...
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:23:00 PST

Finally a website to call home

My main website is being created by Tod Bingham.It is planned to be a consolidated "portal"for my studio, label and my artistztechnical info on music and sound recording and audio electronicsand part...
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:54:00 PST

amanda dumas record progress

half way therecut tracks with davey faragher and pete thomas last weekend.Bill Drescher was keeping the sounds rockin.
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:46:00 PST

latest PISTOLA review and wiki entry

http://blogs.epicindia.com/leapinthedark/2008/02/music_revie w_willy_deville_pis.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistola _note-2
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:12:00 PST

Willy DeVille "Pistola" review link

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/music- magazine/album-previews/willy-deville-pistola-771847.html
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:19:00 PST

Great Review of Willy DeVilles "Pistola" in the UK Independent

Independent newspaper music supplement [Willy] has never been more artistically potent than on Pistola, confronting the demons of his past with an impressive lyrical honesty and unexpectedly diverse ...
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:53:00 PST

Willy DeVille’s record is mastered

Well we left Capitol Mastering with a great sounding record.I think Willy and all of us should be proud.more info next week.
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:02:00 PST

Willy DeVille Recording

Well the album is off to a seriously great startWell actual a 3rd of the way thru.Songs are great , tracks are great. Some new pics of the first sessions have been added.Oh finally got my cannon SD850...
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:43:00 PST

Started working with Willy Deville on his new record

Started going thru songs arranging recording basicsSome really cool stuff.
Posted by John Philip Shenale on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:33:00 PST