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STUDIO 7 IRELAND's Gerry Casey

About Me


I simply love music, creating, mixing, collaborating and of course listening to it, it's my life's blood and always has been. The five sample tracks available for download on this site feature myself on vocals, guitars, bass and keyboards, Black Stratman and Johnny McGlynn on guitars and songwriting, though singing is my thing really. My first love is the blues however, and I grew up on a diet of Deep Purple (when I heard Ian Gillan singing Black Night, that was it, I was gone..), Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore, AC DC, and the wonderful "Long Distance Runner" album by Cork's very own Mr Freddie White.
I also am a big fan of Robert Cray though my favourite blues track of all time has to be a live version on the Allman Brothers Fillmore concerts album of "Stormy Monday", it still gives me shivers up and down my spine to this day all these years since I first found it on a blues compilation cassette on the Kilburn Highroad all those years ago.
I'm a huge fan of joni Mitchell, her beautiful voice and guitar playing is unsurpassed and as for her lyric writing, well what can I say, unreal. I particularly like her melancholic road album Heijira. Sheryl Crow and Mica Paris are two more of my favourite female artists along with the incredible Elizabeth Fraser and of course, Kate Bush, they just take me to another place. My other hero and someone who I've been lucky to catch live 3 times in Ireland is Prince, the ultimate performer, songwriter, guitarist, dancer, you name it, a truly gifted artist.
Another genius of course is Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, an amazing wordsmith and composer, his insights are incredibly well observed and woven into his songs -his intuitiveness is not something you can learn at music college either... His solo album "amused to death" featuring Jeff Beck on simply incredible guitar duties must simply be heard to be believed or rather experienced, it is so rich and with such depth and I hear something new with every play.
And last but by no means least, a special mention for the late, great James Brown - what would music be like today if he hadn't have come along when he did? I shudder to think. Rest In Peace Brother.
The world is by far the richer because of artists like those I have mentioned above.
I am a very average guitar player, singing is more my thing and if you drop by my website at www.studio7.ie you can check out some of my original stuff and old live recordings made back in the day with friends doing mainly cover songs in local pubs. You can also take a look at my special tribute to El-Presidente, Scotland's finest glam-pop,funk, disco-rock sensation featuring one of Studio7 Ireland's regular songwriting partner, Johnny McGlynn on lead Guitar.
We also enjoy collaborating musically with other artists / djs from around the world, so if you hear anything that you like on my myspace profile or on my main music website at www.studio7.ie, please do drop us a line, we'd really love to hear from you, regardless of musical genre or style, we just like to get stuck in and mix it all up and see what happens!
And Finally: I also just "happen to be manic depressive" or that nice new pc term dreamed up by some well meaning person out there, Bi Polar. I do, however, refuse to be defined by my condition as I had done in the past, I'm just an ordanairy Joe just like you all out there who has the gift/curse of this quite extraordanairy and enlightening condition. I don't like to ram it down people's throats but I am a very vocal and steely advocate for people like myself with the diagnosis and I shall soon have a seperate forum page on my www.studio7.ie website called "The Voice Of The Forgotten". I'm not sure what shape or form this page "May-be" as yet, but anyone can drop by to learn more about the condition, its' most certain link to creativity and I hope to, in some small way, maybe help the wider community out there sharing this "happy / sad" condition to be accepted as ordanairy human beings. Through our experiences, suffering and stigmatisation as a result of misunderstanding by the general public, the media and in some cases the medical profession itself, we as 1 % of the population have an awful lot to offer the world as a result of our painfully earned insights into the human condition that WE ALL have in common after all. But for now, you can hear my take on all this through the medium of my original songs i.e. "Gently with the flow", "What friends are for" and "Dirty Dishes All around" to name but a few but most of my songs are about my life living with the condition and the world as "I" see it at any rate, and all the jam tracks from 1993 when I was going through what I used to call my Kurt Cobain phase, fury, frustration, venom, its all in there, recorded a year before I was diagnosed in 1994. I like to think I've come a long way since those very dark days, mainly due to the wonderful support of my amazing family and a small group of very dear, dear friends who have been with me through thick and thin (you know who y'all are, thanks guys and gals!) and some brilliant therapists.
Please drop by our Studio7 Ireland website and simply click on the blue swirl symbol to be brought to our main music site. Thanks for you lending us your ears!
And for more of our tracks, please visit: My Showcase
My Multiply Site
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Be Good.
Gerry Casey, Studio7 Ireland.

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Member Since: 4/12/2007
Band Website: studio7.ie
Band Members: Gerry Casey (lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, keyboards), Black Stratman (guitars, keyboards and song writing) Johnny McGlynn (Guitars, Vocals and Songwriting) plus a whole host of Studio7 Ireland regulars.

Bands that I have been a member of as lead vocalist in the past:

Phaiton, Strange But True, The Stringwreckers, Abbey Music Artists (I sang lead vocals on D. O'Connor's "Oh!, No, Somalia" famine relief single), Crossroads, The Forgotten featuring Johnny McGlynn, Seamus Simon, Justin Whelan and Mr B.Eno, Studio7 Ireland and the newly formed "Virtual Band" we call "The League of Extraordanairy Gentlemen" (concept album coming out later in the year with a bit of luck!).

I've jammed with some great bluesmen over the years, notably Carvin Jones, Damien McCabe and Big Daddy and Red Hot Java when they've toured Ireland, all keeping the spirit of the blues alive for all us music lovers out there.
Influences: Norway's Eliksir www.myspace.com/eliksir is an incredible new artist I was lucky enough to come across since I signed up to MySpace - her debut album "Earthly Things" is simply the best CD I have heard in many, many years. Her vocal prowess, use of imagery and stunningly beautiful arrangements throughout puts her right up there among the top female artists of today. On hearing Eliksir's voice and music for the first time, I simply felt like giving up trying to create original music, I felt so inadequate compared to what REAL creativity can sound like, but now, however, I've changed my mind - If I can, I want to try at least and "maybe" get a bit better!! Check out Eliksir's offical site at www.eliksir.org

Donal O'Connor, Singer Songwriter from Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland (www.myspace.com/donaloconnor). Donal has a rare gift for observing the everyday about us and translating it into verse through his wonderful songs. He gave me my first "break" in this business by actually letting me sing lead vocals on his debut single, "Oh!" No, Somalia". Prince, Sting, Roger Waters, David Coverdale, Paul Rogers, John McLaughlin (famous Jazz fusion guitarist once hailed as the new Hendrix), Joni Mitchell (what can I say that hasn't been said a million times before, for me personally, a life changing artist the first time I heard "Song for Sharon"),George Michael (a superb singer/songwriter), Ritchie Blackmore (the guvnor), Mica Paris, Cara Dillon, Sheryl Crow (an exceptional talent, favourite track being the incredibly observed and deeply intuitive and melancholically wistful "Weather Channel" - "At least the hinges have stopped their creaking" - truly inspired), Elizabeth Fraser, Trevor Horn, Elton John, Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt, David Bowie (I really liked his heavy, "Tin Machine" period), Deep Forest, BB King, Eric Clapton (beautiful live version of "Old love" from the Mtv unplugged album), Robert Cray (fantasised), John lord (a wonderful musician with a wry sense of humor...), Ian Gillan, Ian Paice (best drummer out there, always was, always will be), Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes (Holy Man, thanks for that one alone Glenn), Stevie Wonder, The amazingly talented Dave Kilminster (Not forgetting Dave Gilmore!), Kate Bush, K.D. Lang (one of the great talents of our time), Eddi Reader (an amazing live performer and another one of Scotlands major talents) Alison Moyet, Coctea Twins (Ms Fraser is Simply the most Amazing, Amazing Vocalist I have ever heard), Irelands finest, Sinead O Connor, Don Baker (world renowned blues harmonica player, the best in the business according to Bono), The Marbles, Bonnie Raitt, All about Eve, Iarlaid O'Lianaird (almost brings tears to my eyes with his superb voice), Bono (literally bumped into him once in Blackrock, Dublin in 1998) Joe Satriani, Clannad, U2, El Presidente from Glasgow, Robert Plant and Led Zep (fav track, "Ramble On"), Daniel Lanois (the superb "Still Water"), Brian Eno, Scritti Polliti, Paul McCartney (forget the Beatles, "Coming Up" does it for me everytime) and the simply wonderful Gerry Rafferty, another one of Scotland's finest singer/songwriters; like the man said, "If you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time, next time". Wise words indeed. Johnny McGylnn, a dear friend and musical collaborator - Dante Gizzi of El Presidente once said of him, "One of the finest guitarists Ireland's got to offer - I go a step further and say that "THE WORLD" has to offer, a superb musician and a gifted artist.

As for movies? The superb Richard Gere in "Mr Jones", "Good Will Hunting" (a movie about a genius, starring one - the great Robbin Williams), "The Abyss", "The Acid House", "Shine" and top of my list is "Falling Down" starring the wonderful Michael Douglas - "I'm the bad guy? How did that happen?" An amazing film for all of us, proabably, at one time or another, "no longer economically viable" types out there, a modern classic.

And the last word will always go to the sadly missed but forever remembered, the late Bill Hicks. Bill was one of those rare types that have what I describe as, a certain, indefinable "Shine" about them, call it inner beauty or what you will, it can't really be described verbally I guess. I've witnessed it very rarely in individuals, though they all seem to have the same amazing diversity of talent, artistic ability, progressive thinking, incredible creative intelligence and an almost palpable longing for "a better world" type of energy and self awareness about them which marks them out from the herd. The world finds it hard to understand and accept such people - most simply can not understand why they are not constantly striving to get ahead, make money, get, get, get like most, regular types, probably a little like you and I and everyone else that we know. That was the part of Bill's genius that I most admired. He was able to translate his progressive thinking and awareness of the (absurdity mostly) of life and the world around him and bring it to the masses in the form of entertainment, a sort of "master session" if you like but with plenty of bad language thrown in! It must be something to do with being on that journey towards the ultimate reality or Truth as some might say. Bill certainly was on that Journey while he was here with us, thats all he talked about on stage, in one guise or another, his jokes or stories were his own sort of modern parables I suppose you could say. He often said that "Life was just a ride" at the end of his shows. How true. I hope, Bill, that there is no final destination out there for you, I like to imagine you ridin' around on that great big dipper in the sky, with Jimi in the seat next to you giggling away together up above the clouds. You both certainly played from your hearts' guys, two of my greatest heros and influences, two special agents of evolution......

Books? Anything that's real - Biographies, Philosophy, anything by Barry Long, Jiddu Krishnamurti and Ekchart Tolle.
Sounds Like: Cocteau Twins (or so I wish!!), Deep Purple, The Blues of course, Whitesnake, everything basically, I love all music. The vast majority of our brand of music is what some one once called "home made music, very little sampling, just guitars, voice and keyboards, no messin' about and usually recorded very quickly, many of my "lyrics" are streams of consciousness, nothing written down, I just start to sing into the mic and what you hear on some of these songs are the results....I'm sure it shows!!!! Real music, with Real live Performers recording their own thing and not relying on sound pools etc for input. Creation, Inspiration, Perspiration as the saying goes!

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My Blog

A Review of ELIKSIRs Stunning Debut Album EARTHLY THINGS

NEW ALBUM FROM SIDDHARTHA RECORDSEliksirEarthly ThingsA Review"I save a raindrop from sinking in the sand"-the first line of Eliksir's (Elin Synnøve Bråthen) opening track, "Raindrop Song" from her st...
Posted by studio7ireland on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:36:00 PST

NEVER BEFORE uploaded to MySpace

Hi EveryoneI just uploaded a modern blues track to MySpace called "Never Before", if you get a chance, check it out my friends - hope you like it.Cheers!Best wishesGerry CaseyStudio7 Ireland.www.studi...
Posted by studio7ireland on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:55:00 PST

"Where Is YOUR Love?" uploaded to no.3 position on MySpace.

Hi EveryoneI've just uploaded anther track to the no.3 position on my MySpace media player called "Where is Your Love?" - I hope you all like it.Thanks again for all your kind words and messages of e...
Posted by studio7ireland on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:36:00 PST

"Destiny's Chile" uploaded to MySpace

16 July 2007Hi EveryoneI've just uploaded a demo of a new song that my dear friend and all round musical genius and virtuoso guitarist, Johnny McGlynn, wrote for me recently - which I then added the ...
Posted by studio7ireland on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:14:00 PST

Demos now available

Studio7 Irelandwww.studio7.ieStudio7 IrelandHi everyone,and many thanks for having me as your MySpace friend.Many of my older demos can now be played on MySpace with my new music player widget - hope ...
Posted by studio7ireland on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:39:00 PST

In MyDreams uploaded to no.1 on MySpace

Hi EveryoneI've just uploaded a slightly less noisy version of "In MyDreams" to the no.1 position on my media player, I hope you like it.In MyDreams (c) 2007CaseyI open my eyesAnd through the fog I re...
Posted by studio7ireland on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:34:00 PST

"Can You Feel It....?" Uploaded to mySpace

Can You Feel It..? Uploaded to No.1 position on MySpace..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   Hi everyone   I've just uploaded "Can You Feel It&?" to the...
Posted by studio7ireland on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:46:00 PST

"Dirty Dishes All Around", uploaded to no.1 position on my myspace profile.

"Dirty Dishes All Around", uploaded to the No.1 position on my Myspace profile.  ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Hi Guys, as the title suggests, "Dirty D...
Posted by studio7ireland on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:34:00 PST

"Mr Otis Regrets.." uploaded to no.1 position on my profile.

Hi everyone:  ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I've just uploaded a new short piece to the no.1 position on my "myspace" media player which I call, "Mr. O...
Posted by studio7ireland on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:27:00 PST

Slippery Shreck In California !!

Hi Everyone!   "Shreck On The Water" has now found a new home in California (but you can still find him at his Spiritual home here on Studio7 Ireland's media player at no.2).   If you follow...
Posted by studio7ireland on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:35:00 PST