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Aaron Comess

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About Me

To date, drummer Aaron Comess, a founding member of the Grammy nominated, ten million plus album selling band Spin Doctors, has played on and/or produced over one hundred albums with an acclaimed and diverse roster of artists such as Spin Doctors, Joan Osborne, Chris Whitley, Rachael Yamagata, Bilal, New York Electric Piano and Marc Cohen to name a few.Comess is still active with the Spin Doctors and is a member of Joan Osbornes current band.he plays with some of nyc's finest all over town on a regular basis and is very busy in the studios playing on a variety of records . His newest creative endeavor, Catskills Cry, marks drummer Aaron Comess debut instrumental album. Armed with a years worth of original material written and influenced by a variety of landscapes from Anguilla, to Manhattan to the Catskill Mountains, the album takes listeners through a myriad of lush, ethereal, moody, intensely appealing songs.With accomplished guitar player Bill Dillon (has played with Robbie Robertson, Joni Mitchell, and Daniel Lanois), Tony Levin on bass and stick, best known for his work with King Crimson, John Lennon and Peter Gabriel, and Comess on drums and in the role of producer, the record was recorded in Woodstock New York at Flymax Studio.Currently Comess endorses Yamaha drums , Zildjian Cymbals, Regal Tip sticks, amd Remo drumheads .He has appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone and Modern Drummer magazines. He lives in New York City, where he gigs , records , and produces, and teaches out of his recording studio: His House.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/7/2005
Band Website: aaroncomess.com
Band Members: musicians on Catskills Cry:Aaron Comess :drums/guitar Tony Levin: bass /stick Bill Dillon: guitar/guitorgan
Influences: tony williams,elvin jones,roy haynes,john bonham,charlie watts,jim keltner, ringo star, bernard purdie ,miles davis,john coltrane,bill frisell,daniel lanois, hef duarte , all the great musicians i play with and tons more.
Sounds Like: hopefully me and a bit of all the musicians i have been influenced by.
Record Label: hey boy music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

what i have been up to

i figured i would finally write something in here to let people know what has been going on so far this year with my musical happenings. you may find this incredibly boring in which case i would rec...
Posted by Aaron Comess on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:09:00 PST