Michael Eisenstein - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I play guitar. I play bass. I produce records- mostly of the guitar based pop-rock varitey. At my studio (Rumpus Room in Studio City, CA), I've made records for Kay Hanley, Layne, Hello Dragon, Cruiserweight, Shay Gerson, The Hard To Get, Heard, The Reigning Monarchs, Ingenue and more, as well as music for TV, film and advertising. Send me a message if you like the songs and want to make a record.Some of the people I've worked with and played for are: Letters To Cleo, Nina Gordon, Catie Curtis, Babyface, Rob Dickinson, Bob Rock, Our Lady Peace, Kay Hanley, Michelle Lewis, Lisa Loeb, Juliana Hatfield, The Dan Band, Hillary Duff, Fefe Dobson, The Break And Repair Method, Layne, Gigolo Aunts, The Dilettantes, Catie Curtis, Averi and a ton of other less famous but super talented people.

Myspace Layouts For Girls!
On bass with Juliana Hatfield:On guitar with Lisa Loeb ..

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Member Since: 3/30/2007
Influences: The Beatles (all four guys of them), The Replacements, Guided By Voices, Big Star, The Who, Sloan, Pavement, Bill Frisell, Sonic Youth, Weezer, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Thelonious Monk, Van Halen, The Pixies, The Breeders, Ahmad Jamal, Nirvana, The Figgs, Sugar, The Cavedogs, Teenage Fanclub, The Posies, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams, Guided By Voices, AC/DC, The Breeders, Buffalo Tom, Duke Ellington, Joe Jackson, Nada Surf, The Gravel Pit, John Scofield, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Jimmy Guiffre, Led Zeppelin, The Muffs, The Beach Boys, Dillon Fence, The Cars, Pat Metheny, The Police, Freedy Johnston, The Rolling Stones, and everybody I was ever in a band with.
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Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

What's going on in 2009

Well, somehow it's March already. A trip back to Boston in January to play The Hot Stove/Cool Music benefit with Letters To Cleo kicked off the year right. We're still ironing out the details on the...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:33:00 GMT

Blue Note Records

I have been delving into my jazz collection lately quite a bit. It's not what it used to be- I stupidly sold off a ton of vinyl prior to the L.A. move. But I have dumped most of the CDs into the iTu...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:38:00 GMT

New Songs

So I finally got around to changing the songs on my page. Here's a quick rundown:1) Shay Gerson "I Hate Everything" - Here's one I co-wrote and produced for a great young singer. It's from her new "...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:54:00 GMT

NEW SONGS

So here are 6 new songs for the old myspace page. 1) Kay Hanley - Think Bad ThoughtsI helped Kay write this song, which involves some music she originally wrote with David Rolfe. I played guitar, bas...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:05:00 GMT

iTunes/iPod

I just listened to an awesome mix of a song I worked on (thank you Tom Polce). So I'm doing my daily emailing/web browsing and didn't realize that my iTunes was set on shuffle. So after preparing my m...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:31:00 GMT