Howard Pattow - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am a musician (guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals), producer/engineer, currently producing the Wolfman Jack Radio Show. I'm also considering some new career opportunities. We'll see what happens...This and That:
I contributed some voice-over talent to the Monty Python & The Meaning of Life CD-ROM game in 1997 (I did an impression of Michael Palin on one spot and I did the entire "horse race" sequence). In 1998, I played the part of John Lennon in a revival tour of Beatlemania!. Vocal mimicry comes in handy sometimes.And the Other Thing:
I love the stage, but being in the recording studio is a much more rewarding experience. Very much a Brian Wilson trip for me. I did a lot of tribute bands for awhile there, it seems. It all started when I got the idea for a Partridge Family tribute band, Sound Magazine , in '93. It began as just an exercise for fun - an excuse to play around with Cubase and ADAT, but ended being a working band, which led to my getting involved in the Beatle world and other tribute-oriented projects. One milestone for me during that time was in 1997 when I produced Sound Magazine's remake of KISS' Shout It Out Loud with Bob Ezrin supervising the final mix. We followed it up a couple years later with an equally Partrified remake of Gene Simmons' Radioactive. Both of these tracks were released on a pair of KISS tribute CDs. These days, I sit in occasionally with Which One's Pink? and I will also be performing some shows this summer with Surfin' Safari . I'm also writing some original material for my first album project, as of yet still... Untitled .Performance Schedule:
Sunday, June 1 - Palos Verdes Street Fair
www.pvstreetfair.comFriday, July 4 - Universal CityWalk
www.citywalkhollywood.comSunday, July 13 - Calabasas, CA (Details TBA) These are some recordings I've done. I hope you enjoy them...The Trial YouTube video clip (from Grunzy)
Taped live with Which One's Pink? at the Canyon on October 21, 2006....(ahh, primal scream therapy) Come and Get It mp3 file (3.16mb) No Matter What mp3 file (4.20mb) Baby Blue mp3 file (5.04mb) Shout It Out Loud
(From "KAOL 2 - Creatures Of The Net")
Mixed by Bob Ezrin -- mp3 file (2.36 mb) Radioactive
(From "KAOL 3 - The Spirit of '78")
mp3 file (2.26 mb) Production Notes
I did all the vocals on the three Badfinger songs. On 'Come and Get It', I played the piano, shaker & tambourine. On 'No Matter What', I played the left-channel rhythm guitar. On 'Baby Blue', I did the acoustic guitars. Bass was Denny Gerard and the drums were Bob McBride. Rob Klein played the electric guitar on 'Baby Blue' and the right-channel rhythm guitar on 'No Matter What'. Gary Richardi played the leslie guitar and the solo on 'No Matter What'. We recorded at Cherrytone Recorders in Van Nuys. Brian Yaskulka and I produced the tracks.On 'Shout It Out Loud', I did the keyboards, orchestration (all those strings and horns, etc.) and the 12-string guitar. On 'Radioactive' I did all the guitars, bass & keyboards. Brian Yaskulka did all the vocals on both songs. He also played the tambourine on 'Shout It'. Rob Stiteler did the drums on both. Willy Levins played the bass on 'Shout It'. We recorded 'Shout It' at the legendary Greenhouse Recorders in Hollywood. 'Radioactive' was recorded at Cherrytone. Brian and I produced the sessions.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, singer/songwriters, actors, writers, producers, casting directors, voice-over artists, collaborators, people who can help me utilize my talents, and anyone with a good idea...

Music:

My musical taste is quite eclectic. I can usually appreciate the craftsmanship of most music, even that which is not to my own liking. As a child of the late 60s and 70s, I grew up listening to the best stuff on earth.As a guitar player, my inspirations include Neal Schon, Jimmy Page, Brian May, David Gilmour, Lindsey Buckingham, Steve Howe, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. I loved that big arena-rock sound, especially those Roy Thomas Baker-produced Journey and Queen albums (gotta love Brian May and the Red Special). Acoustically, I loved and still love James Taylor's guitar playing. W.G. Snuffy Walden is another one of my favorite guitar players and someone I try to turn people on to.I am a big fan of singer/songwriters like James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, Paul McCartney, Simon & Garfunkel and Harry Chapin. To this day, I still think everyone should own a copy of Tapestry. I spent many an afternoon after school listening to everything from Yes, Genesis, Boston, Journey, Styx, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin to John Mellencamp (I can remember when he was John Cougar), Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, the Doobie Brothers, the Allman Brothers (most of all the famous Brothers, really), the Police, KISS, Rush, Fleetwood Mac (did I mention I am a huge Lindsey Buckingham fan?), Eagles, Chicago (love their 2nd album), the Who, Billy Squier and Crosby, Stills & Nash. There's lots more, but these are just some "classic rock" artists that come to mind.It's very ironic that I got involved in tributes to both the Partridge Family and the Beatles, because the first two albums I ever owned as a kid were the Partridge Family's Sound Magazine and Paul McCartney & Wings' Band on the Run (still my favorite Macca album). I guess the Partridge Family stuff gave me an appreciation for studio musicianship. I can still recognize Hal Blaine's drumming whenever I hear it. It's a shame the Partridge Family music bears the stigma of bubblegum because it's really well-crafted sophisticated pop, very much in the vein of Pet Sounds, Mamas & Papas, Carpenters and Fifth Dimension. And yes, I still like the Beatles. Having been in the Beatlemania show made that music a part of my soul. I think Abbey Road is the masterpiece but really their entire career is Rock and Roll 101.In the fall of 2000, I saw the VH-1 Behind The Music documentary on Badfinger. Their story gripped my soul so much that I put together a Badfinger tribute called Come and Get It . I developed a major appreciation for Pete Ham's songwriting and guitar styles. I'm currently working on what could be the third CD collection of Pete Ham demo recordings. I've been listening to recordings of Pete's old demo tapes and they're just amazing. Some of them are extremely polished performances. We're talking about augmenting some of the tracks to make a "band performance" while retaining the sonic integrity of the recording sounds of the era. It's a tremendous honor for me to be a part of this project.One of the creatively challenging aspects of doing the tribute thing (recording or performing) is attempting to recreate all of this magical music. After a while, these influences swirl around in your head and eventually you want to create something new--something that's all yours. That is where I am these days.My new toy:

My Blog

Just Disappear

You disappear for over a yearand then with a smile you reappearyour story is tragic - your road's the worstyou act as if your life's been cursed I don't know why you still pretendthat you are such a t...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Sat, 31 May 2008 05:29:00 PST

Another Show

They love you when you're all the rageThey love when you get them backstageThey love when you take them behind the wallThey love it when you give them a call They want you in the very front rowto mak...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:38:00 PST

Still on MySpace? (Netiquette from MSNBC)

(I found this on msnbc.com. I'm not sure I agree with everything she says, but I found it interesting nonetheless. - H) OMG! YR still on MySpace? Loser! As the social networking site gets the b...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST

Comedian-in-chief? (from Hardball on MSNBC)

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Posted by Howard Pattow on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:13:00 PST

Why Al Qaeda Supports the Emergent Church

Why Al Qaeda Supports the Emergent ChurchBy Frank Pastore July 22, 2007The greatest threat to world peace is radical Islam. If not for the United States, millions more would be suffering under the ty...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:12:00 PST

Sometimes It’s Better To Say Nothing

There’s an old adage, "if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all." Well, that’s a very wise proverb, and it only goes without saying that we all could l...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:58:00 PST

James Taylor’s May 7, 1995 Speech at the Berklee College of Music Commencement

Ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class of 1995, President Berk, assembled faculty, family members, well-wishers and hangers-on, congratulations! I feel deeply honored to be with you here ...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:07:00 PST

Another round of Pink Floyd The Wall

There will be another performance of "The Wall" at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills. You really need to see this.
Posted by Howard Pattow on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:56:00 PST

Did anyone watch "Rome" on HBO?

I thought it was really well done. Great visually, and the characterizations of these historical figures were more three-dimensional than I thought they would be. Still, Titus Pullo and Lu...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Sun, 27 May 2007 02:55:00 PST

Chaplin's Speech in "The Great Dictator"

Probably Chaplin's finest film is The Great Dictator. A biting and satirical verdict on fascism, it was his first dialogue film which broke him through the silent age and into the "talkies." An anti-N...
Posted by Howard Pattow on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:50:00 PST