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Michael McDonald

About Me



You can order my cd here:
5€

American singer/songwriter and guitarist Michael McDonald plays in Helsinki bands Montevideo and Treeball. Now he’s finally finished his own solo album, which was written, played and recorded entirely by himself.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/03/2007
Band Members: Just me.

Live band:
Heikki Tikka, drums
Janne Lehtinen, bass
Pasi Hartikainen, keyboard
Nick Triani, guitar
and/or
Sam Shingler, guitar

Influences: THE CHURCH!!!!!...and Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek/Red House Painters, Teenage Fanclub, Beatles, Monkees, Verve, Luna, Matthew Sweet, Pixies, Replacements, Kent, Ed Harcourt, Ryan Adams, Ben Folds, Pernice Brothers, matt pond PA, etc.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Back in busyness [Summer '09]

The summer so far:- have to finish thesis, which is not cool.  (But must be done.)- got inspired to get 1)Logic Express, 2)Apogee Düet and 3)lots of plugins (M-Tron, Universal Audio, Vintage Warmer). ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:52:00 GMT

New demo added

Just put up a demo of a new song I recorded today. Just wanted to point out that the "drum" sounds audible in the background are actually just foot-and-hand drumming, with distortion added. Almost s...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:17:00 GMT

Glowing reviews!

I've gotten some nice reviews in the Finnish music magazines 'Soundi' and 'Rumba'. 4 stars out of 5 in both, but the Rumba review is especially gracious with the positive comments. Later I might pos...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:17:00 GMT

Album available!

If you'd like to order my cd, you can do so here - ">The price is 12¬ including shipping. Thanks!![Please note I am not the Doobie Brother Michael McDonald!][[Half the people who visit my page seem t...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:59:00 GMT

Album handed back to the pressing plant and then back to me

Got my cd's last week on Monday, only to find that the actual cd was just plain silver, not white like it was supposed to be, causing it to look somewhat amateurish (writing went almost over the hole ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:16:00 GMT

Album handed over to the pressing plant

Took my album to the pressing plant today, a very non-schmaltzy event, not quite what I'd pictured. Champagne was not offered. Some nice lady, probably someone's mom, took my cd and said it'd be rea...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:42:00 GMT

matt pond PA is (so) good

Just been listening to a lot of matt pond PA recently. Their 2004 album 'Emblems' is a masterpiece, every song a classic. Why does he keep reusing song titles (Butcher, Kc, Measure, Lily)? What str...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:23:00 GMT