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About Me

"Spearmint Experiment", a six-song CD released in April 2004, featured Stu and Mike singing and playing all the instruments as well recording and producing all the tracks."Instant Analysis", released 6/1/05, featured 14 songs. This time, we were happy to include some of our friends to add to the fun and strengthen the tunes -- five guest lead vocalists and three instrumentalists contributed."Transcendental Medication", released 5/1/06, again featured 14 songs with a total of seven guest vocalists. Details on the guests can be found in a March 1, 2006 blog entry."Psychoacoustics" -- scheduled for release on 6/1/07 -- will feature 14 songs and seven guest vocalists. Details on the guests can be found in a March 15, 2007 blog entry.ALL FOUR CDs ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/1/2005
Band Website: You are looking at it.
Band Members: Stu Rutherford (formerly of the Creatures of the Golden Dawn) and Mike Sin (from the Insomniacs) plus a rotating ensemble of friends making guest appearances.
Influences: Fairchild limiter, Binson Echorec, artificial ADT (artificial double tracking) , vari-speed, flanging, tape echo, DI (direct injection), manual compression, reverse signal processing, unwound pick ups, auto-panning, hypercardioid and condenser microphones, phase cancellation, drum splatter, rotary speakers, and abitrary decibel elimination.
Sounds Like: Some weird quasi-1960s extrapolation....
Record Label: Umbrella
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Interview with Mike Sin at peacedogman.com

Peacedogman.com -- "the web's wildest rock spectacle" -- recently conducted an interview with Mike Sin. Read it here: http://www.peacedogman.com/ptirp ...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Sun, 27 May 2007 07:40:00 PST

Psychoacoustics

We're back& like a bad rash! The next (and fourth) Royal Purple CD, entitled Psychoacoustics, is scheduled to magically appear on June 1, 2007. Here is the final track listing (the names in par...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:15:00 PST

Online Review / Update

All three Royal Purple releases were recently reviewed as a group here: http://www.popism-music.com/ I'll be posting a more elaborate update in about two weeks, but just let me mention at this point t...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:52:00 PST

This review sums it all up...

"Besides the fine music performances, what else makes The Royal Purple an interesting and likeable combo is that the project is all for fun, simply out of appreciation for the sounds of the 1960s. No ...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:08:00 PST

Yet, three more tracks uploaded

"You Just Gotta Know My Mind" featuring Jen Tarr. "I Want More (Lovin')" featuring Kevin Groller. "Worry" featuring Skooch. ...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Thu, 25 May 2006 12:51:00 PST

Three New Tracks Posted

Three tracks from the forthcoming Transcendental Medication CD have been posted: "She'll Love Again" featuring Michael Lynch. "I Tried to Make You Happy" featuring Cynthia Santiglia "Come and Stay Wit...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:50:00 PST

Transcendental Medication

The next Royal Purple album, entitled Transcendental Medication, is still scheduled to hit the streets on May 1, 2006. Here is the final track listing (the names in parentheses following some of the t...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:36:00 PST

Another year... Yet another FREE Royal Purple disc coming your way!

Happy New Year to all, and thanks to all the folks who requested CDs, sent emails, and left funny comments -- Stu and I sincerely appreciate it. What started as merely an experiment has now progressed...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:29:00 PST

What we are... quite simply.

The Royal Purple is essentially a two-man operation We dont tour and we dont play live. We are not on a quest for indie success or complete market saturation." We just want cool folks to hear t...
Posted by The Royal Purple on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST