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wallysound

About Me

I run a recording studio out of my house- have for 13 years now- its mainly an analog haven- with gobs of cool old stuff that I have been collecting for the past 35 years. Old Guitars- amps- keyboards-mics-mixers. Lotsa broken stuff in the corner. It's all got class. I have been a musician now for 42 years now and have been in sveral bands- some known - mostly unknown- here's a few - Silver Hills, JJ180 ,the Realtors,Soul Gumbies, Pho Nets, the Thongs, Carmaig De Forest's band, White Stains, Wannabe Texans, Mingo 2000, Wellsprings of Hope, AC Chuckwagon, All Electric Kitchen , Hobbit NYC, Bart Bros. , Shamrocks, Super Tough. I am definitely part of an older generation, being 52 this year. My ear tends to gravitate towards older styles of music with real players and musicianship before the aid/disease of digital editing/pitch correction and all the other stuff that seems to be making todays music scene sterile. It's not that I don't use it- I have to to keep alive!. It's just that I prefer to be in the company of real people who are enjoying the real music they make- hairballs and all. For the last 10 years I have been working with Alec Palao (of Sneetches-Magic Christian-Chocolate Watchband *-Beau Brummels* etc ( *honorary member)) of Ace records London engineering lots of reissues of rarities including Zombie Heaven- Clarence White "Tough and Stringy"- Gary Paxton stuff , Sonics, Music Machine, too much to mention-I have mixed stuff from Gold Star, Capitol Records, Columbia Records. Vanguard, Norman Pettys, Zoetrope, Fantasy ..1, Radio Recorders, Golden State Recorders and many more . Here's some bands I've recorded:Action Slacks Ancient Astronauts Androgenauts Andy Drake Atomic Cocktail Avi Bortnick Barbary Coasters Beulah The Bickerers Big Barfer Bishop Norman Williams Septet Blue Gum Art BoatClub Broken Horse Captain Fatass Cari Lee and the SaddleItes Caribou Carmaig de Forest Cashiers Chubb Sessions Claim Jumpers Clark S Nova Cowbay Cruzboys Crapola Creamy Cribkickers The Cuts Dandeline Dave Goldman Bart Davenport Dial the Brown Star Dieticians Dieselhed Johnny Dilks Dimestore Radio Diminished Capacity Drunk Horse Duh-oh Dura Delinquent Easy Goins Eating Like Truck Drivers Electrophonic Victor Emannuel Est Car Go? Farma Fightmaster Fisherman Five Ticket Ride Fizzy Drinks Flakes For Stars Frisky Frolics Galumph Ginkobilobas Glenn Fong Go Van Gogh Green Means Go Brian Gregory Los Alvarados Neil Hamburger Hank Stram Hellamuffins Helen Lund Trio Hi Neighbor! Hob Nobbers Hopped Up (site has MP3s) Honads Hundred Watt Smile Invisible Cities J Neo James Simmons Jeff Davis Lee jeffriess JJ 180 Joaquina Pat Johnson Kitten on the Keys Lava Victor Krummenacher/ A Great Laugh Laslo Leisure League Lipsey Mountain String Band Little Fuzzy Bunny Little Johnny and the Giants Lisabell & Soul Tree Low Water Lula Miss Maggie Martin Majority Whip Jimmy Mamou The Man Ray Trio Plus Two Victor Manuel Mashie Nibblick Maydays Maxwell Horse Mike Therieu Mingo 2000 Minotaurs R.J. Mischo Johnny Mojo Moore Bros John Moreman Mr Machine Mustard Naked Barbies Nashville Station Nick Rossi Set New EZ Devils Old Joe Clarks One Step Shift Oniki Orange Ohm-a-Revelator Orson County Line P.P. Dickey Patty Waters Penelope Houston Planet Seven Pony Boy PostModern Pregnant Preston School of Industry Radio Reelers David Rapaport Ravines Red Meat Rounders The Runs Runt Records Sarnos Saturn V Scott Kannberg (Pavement) The Sermon Shamrocks Shimmer Kids Sir Spooky (Rythmn and News) Snap-her Social Unrest Soldiers of Fortune Cookie Sonics Spodee Odees Soul Tree Sweet Things Tang Tarnation Tee and Thee Crumpets Thee Intellectuals Thrush Timco TinyTree Records Troll Turpentine Uberhund U.K. Subs U.S. Saucer Vivian Girls Warm Wires Wasted Days Waycross Willow Willow X Tal Yard Sale Yes 'n Didi Scott Young Carlos Zialcita Jazztet Zip Code Rapists- whew!! check out my website http://www.wallysound.com

My Interests

Nature-Dirt-old stuff-old bikes- old guitars- old friends- new friends- old microphones anything with NO plastic on it-people and their feelings- free thinking ideas and individuals.CREATIVITY!- art art art and music music music- music with no plastic in it- art with nothing but plastic- but art in general- my children and wife-colors-smells-foods- the earth- the universe- the cosmos- infinity-beyond infinity- a grain of sand- molecules- things smaller than molecules- things that are living in things smaller than molecules. and of course- YOU.

I'd like to meet:

Roger Miller-Jackie Wilson- Ben E king-Willie Deville- Nick Lowe- Colin Blunstone- Sly Stone-John Fahey-Doc Boggs-Reverand Gary Davis- Iggy Pop-Tom Verlaine- Roy Smeck- Joseph Spence-Heck! everybody!

Music:

Doc Boggs- Rev Gary Davis- Johnny Cash- Scott Walker- Ray Davies- Reg Presley-the Kaleidoscope- David Lindley- Brian Wilson- Jan and Dean- David Gates- James Brown- Dyke and the Blazers-Music Machine- Standells-Sonics-Zombies-Toots and the Maytals- U Roy- Big Youth- Lee Perry- Swampdog- etc etc etc etc etc etc etc- ynow all that good music

Movies:

Singin' In The Waterfront ListKelly makes a splash as Don Lockwood, a Hollywood leading death camp during World War X by hiring them to work in his factory. Memorable performances all around,.;Score is highlighted by "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - a song that became visited by a guardian angel (Travers) and shown what the world would be like if he had never been born.

Television:

The Shamrocks- Eddie Money- I did this with the "Sham" of course

Books:

Really The Blues- Audio Cyclopedia- All EC comics-Temples of Sound

Heroes:

A 4 track ditty I did in 1979- kinda cool- unfinished , but i like the path it takesWOW- JohnCage and Roland Kirk!!- What more could you ask for??