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Dusty Schaller

About Me


I'm a drummer and studio engineer in Los Angeles. As a drummer, I've recorded a few albums, toured nationally, been flown to Austria, and met a lot of amazing people. I work regularly as an engineer, and am fortunate to be able to play drums on a fair amount of those recordings as well. I'm the drummer for Socadia and have a lockout in North Hollywood to use as needed. Also, I do a bit of drum teching and live sound when my schedule allows.
Outside of music, I love escaping to the desert in Nevada and Arizona, or up in the mountains, or anywhere else where I can block out the noise of humanity. I'm a computer dork, a science dork, and read constantly: music business books, accounting books, news magazines, internet articles, novels - anything I can get my hands on really. If you stop learning you become irrelevant. My first real job was a newspaper columnist, and I write lyrics if the band wants me to. Click here to read some .
Please see my Bio and Credits blog for details on my career thus far.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/06/2005
Band Members: Currently drumming for:
Socadia

Profile Songs:
"Isolation Chamber" by Autumn on Mars (aka me)

"Never Felt" by Sanction

"Inri" and "Three Feet Away" by Inside Us All.

"Heaven Sinner" (Nikka Costa cover) and "You Oughta Know" (Alanis Morissette cover) by Miss Nomers
Influences: drumming influences:

Sonic Youth
Soundgarden
NWA
Hendrix
drum & bass
dredg
CCR
Deftones
Portishead
Vinnie Colaiuta
Brand New
Tool
Longwave
Cypress Hill
Apex Theory
RHCP (Blood Sugar album)
Blue Man Group
Pink Floyd
Queens of the Stone Age
Tim Alexander
Brad Wilk
The MetersTom McRae
Maktub
Helmet
Marilyn Manson

other stuff I listen to:

Morphine
Candiria
Woven
Norma Jean
Team Sleep
Porcupine Tree
Goldfrapp
Fear Factory
Meshuggah
Crystal Method
The Faint
Pennywise
Tindersticks

Sounds Like: solid; creative; simple when necessary; hard-hitting; sparse, tasteful fills. more groove, less flash.
Record Label: no affiliation

My Blog

Bio and Credits

Dusty Schaller, drummerUsing a blend of acoustic and electronic drums, Dusty Schaller has become known for heavy-hitting, creative grooves and energetic live performances. After earning degrees in dru...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:55:00 GMT

Playing in Austria with Socadia

Hello friends,Writing from Salsburg, Austria with the press release of an amazing program for which we have been invited to perform.------LA Potential: Los Angeles as a hotspot for young art in Hangar...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:39:00 GMT

Some lyrics I wrote

I’ve written lyrics for a number of the projects I’ve been a part of. Here are a couple songs I’m particularly proud of. I hope you enjoy them.IntertialEyelids blink awakeThe backg...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:54:00 GMT

condoms and the president

it just so happens that condoms work amazingly well as microphone windscreens. it also happens that El Presidente de Los Estados Unidos quite often gives speeches outdoors, in the wind. of course th...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:57:00 GMT

it’s not paranoia if there’s precident

January 1692. The kickoff to the Salem witch trials. Nineteen people were hanged in a climate of war, economic strife, religious intolerance, and teenage boredom. Of course, something like that could ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:48:00 GMT