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Billy Andrews

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Guitar Player, Singer, Live FOH Sound and Studio engineer...... I have toured with and/or produced recordings with: Ebo, Funny Money (w/Steve Whiteman from Kix. 3 CD's and 6+ years with him),The Tragics, Brian Jack (Childs Play), Bomb Squad, Sidewinder (NC), Cracked Actor, Devious, to name a few....... I came up in the 80's "hair rock" style but over the last few years I have been more into Brit-Pop and Alt stuff (see my music list) I can shred, get jangly or psychedelic and sing well too!!!........ I have great guitars and great tone (IMHO)........ I currently have been "guest" playing with "The Vicious Martinis" and other local friends.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Others in the business, new friends, old friends, those who can help me make a living doing what I love.... You can call me at 240-788-3557 to get in touch fast. Its usually voice mail, but sometimes I answer.... Noodle of the Day.mp3 To hear the noodle, you must pause my default song....

Music:

Oasis, The Verve, Travis, Massive Attack, Coldplay, Muse, Snow Patrol, New Radicals, The Wildhearts, The Music, love/hate, Athlete, Stereophonics, Richard Ashcroft, TNT, Dokken, Robbie Williams, KT Tunstall, Kasabian, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Enya, The Smiths, Fountains of Wayne, Greg Howe, The Beatles, The Who, Racer X, The Darkness, Catherine Wheel, The Cure, Flickerstick, 311, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Tears for Fears, Thompson Twins, Journey, Foo Fighters, 3rd eye blind, Van Halen (DLR era), Mansun, VAST, K's Choice, Kix, Enya, STP, Janes Addiction, Hendrix, Accept,Joy Division, Love Spit Love, Supergrass, ABBA, Echo and the Bunnymen, Level 42, U2, Riot, UFO, Def Leppard, Siouxie and the Banshees, Trust, Saxon, Iron Maiden, Duran Duran, Remy Zero, Ours, Palo Alto, Black Lab, Steve Vai, Monarch, Yngwie, Stroke 9, Better than Ezra, The Killers, SR-71, Garbage, The Sounds, Filter, Judas Priest, Coney Hatch.......

Movies:

A clockwork orange, American Beauty, Slingblade, Trainspotting, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Star Wars (Old School), Jesus Christ Superstar, The Wall, Groundhog Day, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Raising Arizona, lots more

Television:

Fox News Channel, House, Greys A, News Magazines (Left and Right)371 5/18

Books:

Jeppeson Private Pilots Handbook..

Heroes:

The usual suspects. Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister,

My Blog

A straw&the straw& (Amnesia, Part II) _UPDATED 9/5/07_

__Preface: Hi, I'm Billy. From 1996 until 2002 I played guitar for Funny Money with Steve Whiteman of KIX fame. In those 6  years we released 3 CD's that sold a few copies here and there. My band...
Posted by Billy Andrews on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:55:00 PST

THE VERVE, NOVEMBER 2007, READ IF YOU ARE GOING please? :-)

In 1996 i got "Urban Hymns" by The Verve.. It had a big effect on my listening habits from there on.. I was lucky enought to see the band in its original line up in 97 at the 9:30 Club in DC and was b...
Posted by Billy Andrews on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:30:00 PST

Funny Moneys "Even Better Live" wanna hear?

A side effect of my ranting blog is that I have heard that some folks would like to have the "Even Better Live" recordings. I have the individual tracks from when I mixed that record some of which did...
Posted by Billy Andrews on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:51:00 PST

Studio is functional

I have my studio up and running. Now, the truth is, it is just a little project rig. But I have recorded 3 Funny Money CD's with it and received pretty good reviews on those. I'm not looking to get fu...
Posted by Billy Andrews on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:39:00 PST

I'm always late to the party...

I got a ton of songs/albums from a friend of mine and on there is Massive Attacks "Mezzanine". This record came out in 98 and I just heard of it and it is really freekin' cool,,, lots of iPod play so ...
Posted by Billy Andrews on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:53:00 PST

Sayings...

"The family tree can safely be cut down and used to build our coffins"
Posted by Billy Andrews on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:40:00 PST

Contacting me

I can be reached here at myspace. via email at billy_andrews(at)hotmail.com or you can call a Voice mail box (that I sometimes answer) at 240-788-3557  .. billyandrews
Posted by Billy Andrews on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:19:00 PST

Google fun....

I put my name in quotes into a Google search... After a lot of paging forward I found some funny results... A radio recording of "Billy Andrews" intercepting Joe Namath and running for a defensive tou...
Posted by Billy Andrews on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:31:00 PST

"Overdue" on myspace.com/billyandrewsmusic

I put "overdue" on Myspace.com/billyandrewsmusicAnother Conelly/Andrews/Mikula/Smyth treasure... IMHO..This would be a jangly one that was born of malt liquor and David Conellys' vocal/lyrical talent....
Posted by Billy Andrews on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:18:00 PST

A little more music on "billyandrewsmusic"

I added another Ebo song called "Sunburn" that I co-wrote with David Connelly. I came up with the most of the music but he wrote and sang some awesome vocals.myspace.com/billyandrewsmusic
Posted by Billy Andrews on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:59:00 PST