Don - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I've been involved in music/recording for 30 years now... although I took a fairly lengthy hiatus from recording (I got sick of hearing cover versions of Jesse's Girl), but am now back into it with using ProTools. I've done CD's for Even To The Stars, D-Railed , nativemind , and Cuba . All of these bands exhibit great songwriting, musical talent, and love for their music. Cuba is back in the studio working on their new CD. It is going to blow people away. The writing, performing, and recording have never been better. Keep an eye/ear out for snippets they may be posting on their myspace. Good stuff indeeed. Please check these bands out! It's worth your time. I've also just finished a CD with Brent McPike - tremendous guitar player/professor at ISU, and am working with Christina Blust - amazing voice and songwriter, and the usual gang of musicians who are part of the Syndicate.
I do recording/producing at no charge to the bands because there's too much great talent out there that goes unheard as your typical working musician can't afford quality recording. The bands and musicians I choose to work with share a number of common attributes: creativity, talent, a joy for performing, and openess to suggestion, as well as just being very decent people. I do however expect that if the bands I work with get signed or makes significant money off of what we create, that a small part of it is shared with me. It's not greed, it's just that I'd like to buy more toys for the studio.I'm not interested in doing metal, country, rap or barbershop quartet music at all. This isn't a statement about the validity of those musical styles, just personal preferences. Acoustic, alternative, hard rock, jazz, classical are some of the genre's I'm interested in. I'm now looking for a new project, so if you're in the Terre Haute area, and meet the criteria above, let me know, maybe we can work together.
Your Personality Profile
You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.
Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle.
You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs.
For you, comfort and calm are very important.
You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong. The World's Shortest Personality Test

My Interests

If you're just trolling to get adds, don't bother, please. If you genuinely want to share music and your art, that's okay. However, if you do want me to add you, it's required that you check out the musicians on my top friends list. They deserve a listen, too. Also, for the most part, I won't add:rap hip-hop screamo/emo dj/dance/trance/mashup death metal suicide punk countryAgain, not because they're not valid musical styles, I just don't listen to that stuff.

I'd like to meet:

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Music:

Yes.

Movies:

"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it was meant to be yours. If it doesn't, track it down and kill it so no one else can have it."

Books:

The Ender Series , Harry Potter, Richard Feynman , Brian Greene , John D. MacDonald , Robert Heinlein

My Blog

Projects and Updates

In case you don't know, the new Cuba CD is nearing completion. It is quite a bit different than "Sounds Like A Story", which I think was quite awesome. This one has a harder edge, is tight...
Posted by Don on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:24:00 PST

CBGB OMFUG FYI

I was talking with someone the other day who wanted to know what the OMFUG stood for under the CBGB on the awning at the legendary punk club. Here is:From Hilly Kristal, owner and founder:The questio...
Posted by Don on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:24:00 PST

The Verve and The Copper Bar

So, last night before the Verve show, I walked down to the Copper Bar with Jon and Evan to check out the other band Ryan plays with - Ellusion. (BTW - admire Ryan's stamina).Anyway, Ellusion was loud...
Posted by Don on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:49:00 PST

As it should be.

When I got back into recording a few years ago, I had decided that I wasn't going to do it as a commercial effort. I simply wanted to be a part of creating very good music. If one of the artists or ...
Posted by Don on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:11:00 PST

Alexander McCall Smith and sentimental meanderings

Over the past few years, I've grown quite fond of reading books by Alexander McCall Smith. They're not adventure books, science fiction, science related or anything like I normally would read. Just ...
Posted by Don on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:30:00 PST

Natural Male Enhancement

If you've watched local TV at all recently, you've seen the ads for 'Enzyte - The Natural Male Enhancer'. Well, like most guys, it piqued my interest.... after all, who among us doesn't want to ...
Posted by Don on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:15:00 PST

Denny's, Jesus, and childcare (warning: offensive to Christians)

So I was thinking about the dichotomy that exists at Denny's. If you visit Denny's at 2:30 a.m., you will see the most bizarre collection of humans to be found anywhere outside of the travelling carni...
Posted by Don on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:34:00 PST

Is nice, yes?

Last night's show at Ivy Tech was awesome.To be honest, it's a pain in the ass to put stuff like that together... scheduling, setting up the venue, trying to get the artists paid, worrying about weath...
Posted by Don on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:49:00 PST

So you wanna be a sound engineer?

Jason messaged me wanting some info about becoming a better sound techie (props to him for having the desire to learn). So I decided to post what I sent to him with some editorial comments along the ...
Posted by Don on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:45:00 PST

The Guitar Pt. 1 - an essay of limited interest

The following is of very limited interest even to guitarists, but I've wanted to write something like this for a while. It's long, opinionated and has a few obscure references. But here it is.I hav...
Posted by Don on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:58:00 PST