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Derek O'Brien

Producer, Engineer, Drummer - Open For Business and Shaking Up Your Vegetables

About Me

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Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Black & Orange

My Interests

Helping you take your music to it's highest level....................................................... ........... For information about my recording background, equipment, some mp3's and such see...... ............................................................ .......................http://www.myspace.com/dobsound

I'd like to meet:

"Those about to Rock" The ones that make the music and the ones that keep it alive and well........................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ .................... If You would like to be added as a friend, act like a friend and SAY SOMETHING. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY, I WILL NOT ADD YOU. Never go to the party empty handed...................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ...................The Following is a growing list of folks I have had the pleasure of working with: Social Distortion, Agent Orange, D.I., Extra Fancy, The Adolescents, Lucinda Williams, Ry Cooder, Flogging Molly, Miss Derringer, Maxeen, The Briggs, Name Taken, Bad Smaritans, Wrecking Crew, Punk Rock Karaoke, The Cheaslea Smiles, Pulley, MXPX, D.E.K., Go Betty Go, The Slanderin', Michael Konik, Charmaine Clamore, The Deadbeat Sinatras, Year Long Disaster, Front Row For The Meltdown, Ted Russel Kamp, Bob Woodruff, Saturn, Comcast, T.V. Series: "Men In Trees", Music for:Indie Films & T.V Pilots..., Clem Burke of Blondie, Joey Castillo of Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Ford of Black Crows, Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio, Producers – Micky Patralia, Ted Hut......................................................... ............................................................ ............. Punk Rock Karaoke Feat. Mike McColgan of Street Dogs on vocals(FRONT ROW FOR THE MELTDOWN) during the making of their album "Lillian's Last Stand Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Derek O'Brien. The Video was shot by Asia Mechikoff. 2007The Adolescents - Welcome To RealityEarly Social Distortion

Music:

Beatles, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Randy Weeks, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, John Coltrain, Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Stax, Mowtown, Radiohead, The Clash, Iggy Pop, Buzzcocks, The Jam, Bad Religion, Prince, The Police, X, Herb Alpert, The Cars, Fugazi, XTC, The Ramones, Joy Division, Alkaline Trio, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Descendents, Queens of the Stone Age, Nick Cave, Ben Folds Five, Turbo Negro, Slayer, NWA, Squirl Nut Zippers, Weezer, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Outkast, Paul Westerberg, Flogging Molly, Cafe Tacuva, Ok, TV On The Radio, ...

Movies:

Wings Of Desire, Blue Velvet, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Scare face, Falling Down, The Lover, PI, I Heart Huckabies, Lost In Translation (OK...anything with Scarlet J.), Beuna Vista Social Club, Farenheight 911, This Is Spinal Tap........

Television:

not much.....

Books:

We The Living, The Fountaihead, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Ana Karanina, Please Kill Me, Hardcore California, All You Need is Ears (George Martin), Good Vibrations (a history of record production), Brave New World, The Alchemist, Life In The World Unseen, An Urban Guide To The American Hipster, The Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), Fair Gods and Feathered Serpents (Terry O'Brien), The Stand, A Confederacy of Dunces, Biographies:(Little Richard, Elvis Costello Buddy Rich, Salvadore Dali, J. Paul Getty, Brian Eno) A & R - A Novel, Hype, Ishmael, Def Jam Inc., oh yeah - and shit loads of exciting audio production books and equipment manuels!!!

Heroes:

Good honest folks. Real people with real souls.

My Blog

New D.O’B. Sound MySpace Page w/ songs

Greetings, I finally have the modified vintage Trident  connsole with Pro Tools HD Accel System, Apogee Hi Def converters powered by Mac Pro (fully Blown) Intel Pentium processors up and running....
Posted by Derek O'Brien on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:30:00 PST

Hacked Again - Please delete the post

I do not post mass random messages or videos. Please delete the post about Macy's and the "chick" video.Thank You,Derek
Posted by Derek O'Brien on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:08:00 PST

Check out the Modern Drummer Interview

Derek O'BrienPunk Pioneer..Social Distortion, Agent Orange, D.I.these are just some of the pivotal acts that helped shape the Southern California punk rock scene. And it's drummer Derek O'Brien who ...
Posted by Derek O'Brien on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:11:00 PST