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Malibu Howies

About Me


Imagine a place where your song can get professionally recorded without you getting a loan from daddy to pay for it. A studio that does not look like the Kennedy Space Center but yet is a launch pad to shoot for the moon with your ideas.
Malibu Howie’s music beach is the cure, the vacation if you will, from the typical studio stress. Howie is a pretty average drummer that would rather promote music than beat drums. The beach is a house in a hip area on the outskirts of nashville that looks like a miami lifeguard shack on the outside and like sponge bob’s bikini bottom on the inside. A place to chill and focus. The recording room is a groovy, tweaked-out drum studio where howie pretends as if he is recording drum tracks for producers, songwriters, and artists around the globe. For the artist or industry client, The beach is a reliable source for demo work, content files, mixing, editing, and general audio production, from guitar / vocal demo’s to fully produced tracks using "Z" list musicians from both the Nashville area and abroad.

My Interests

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Member Since: 16/09/2007
Band Website: malibuhowies.com
Band Members:

Malibu Howie's

129 Shivel Drive

Hendersonville, TN 37075

615-498-4406


Influences: I find that all 31 flavors at Baskin Robbins are my greatest influences. Which is why I can never settle on who I am. I don't know where I am going but I know what must be done. So I wait for the day to present itself. The itinerary of my life is to make my plans but then tear up my schedule. I don't wear a watch and I don't own a T.V. The box that glows in the living room is a hypnotic mindless diversion that has the whole world sans an original thought. I would rather WRITE a television show. But if you insist then I shall state who has influenced me the greatest. Sly Stone, John Steinbeck, Bob Marley, Peter Mayer, Brad Sample, Bobby Brewer, Tommy Lovejoy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Linclon, Don Pendley, Jim Carrey, Racheal Ray, Marko Marcinko(chops Nazi), Any Finely Crafted Lager, CeCe in Pahrump(you were my personal independence day on July 4th 2008), Julia Hurteas(an amazing mind), Jann Arden, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Joss Stone, Chris Kent, Gretsch drums, Jeff Miller Signman, Julio at Compass, Jerk Chicken, Hermosa Beach and The Strand, Bob Bartram, The Caribbean and all its wonder, Switzerland, Al Green, The Holy Spirit who makes a way for all to know God. I think that is 31.
Sounds Like:
About The Sound of The Beach
The sounds that are coming from the Beach are not contingent upon the platform used to record them but rather they are hinged solely within the ideas, energy and world-class musicianship of the people and vibe that is present. If I get asked what program I am using one more time I am going to light my hair on fire. It aint in the Pro Tools or Nuendo, the plug-ins or the Sample Tanks, it is in the hands and ears. When a song leaps out of the speakers it is because it has legs to do so. I don't give a rip what pre-amp or mic is used, if the platform aint in your booty the recording is lame. I can't tell you how many multi-million dollar studios I have cut tracks in that don't have the balls the Beach has. Your custom LesPaul, tattoos, and rock-star hair cut is only going to jam your ego if you don't have studio chops. All the gear in the world is not going to produce an idea or cause a song to jump into your soul. The team of people comprised of Howie, Shelly and Ben is a fast horse ready to run the next race. There is no bag you can put us in. So, stay tuned for the unpredictable. ~malibu howie
Record Label: Libby's
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Gypsy Traveler-the meaning

I don't know where I am going but I know what must be done, so I keep moving like a Gypsy hanging on to a shred of dignity that allows no one who disrespects me to own me, control me or truly find me....
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:38:00 GMT

I'm Home_the meaning

It's true, you can never go home. Home has to be behind the eyes, something you carry in your heart, safe among your own....quoting James Taylor. However, there is a place that you can go to that is...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Pride and Guilt(The Ex-In-Law Non-Confession)

It's one thing to say, "Let Bygones Be Bygones", but it is another to be shamelessly unapologetic with words that are a self-righteous substitute for sorry. A person either admits their guilt, wether...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:06:00 GMT

You get a line, Ill get a pole

Literally, if kind words are said outside of the bedroom, (you get a line), a man has no problem at all with wanting his woman, (I'll get a pole). Cape Canaveral would be jealous to know the simplici...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:12:00 GMT

The Clock Upon The Wall

I boast that I do not wear a watch, nor do I own a television and, for that matter, I rarely know the date. I learned a hard lesson that has served me well, and that being, time is a fallacy. The way...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:09:00 GMT

Ham and Eggs

I just had lunch at a Mexican Grocery Store. Julio greets me with a toothy, "Hello My Friend, Where Have You Been". He is clearly taken at the buxom beauty I have with me. I really didn't even have ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:00 GMT

You Can’t Figure Out The Bag I’m In

All you need is a drummer if you are someone who only needs a beat. Drummers were the first to go into battle. Don't believe me ? Google it Baby ! If you want to know how I can stand and survive the p...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:16:00 GMT

Free Food and Attention

So I am sitting at the diner of this massive casino in Council Bluffs / Omaha, the Harrahs Resort, to be exact and the thought occurs to me that these place are nothing more than glorified retirement ...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:38:00 GMT