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Vic Rivera

Be sure to live each day as if it were your last

About Me


Songwriter/Producer/Engineer/Multi-instrumentalist. Credits/Discography:
-w/ ADRIANGALE (2000-2004) featuring Jamie Rowe of Guardian/London Calling on lead vox:
Feel the Fire (2000)
Under the Hood (2001)
Reprogram (2002)
Melodicrock.com V2 Compilation CD (2003) - "Midnight Blue" (Lou Gramm cover)
Crunch (2004)
Live Program (2005) *2003 Archived live performance
-w/ TED POLEY (of Danger Danger)
Collateral Damage (2006)
Melodicrock.com V3 compliation CD (2006) - "Only Human" (Demo of the title track of the forthcoming 2008 Poley/Rivera release)
Smile (2007)
w/ CRUNCH (f/k/a Adriangale)
Starting Over (2007) - Limited Edition EP sold at Firefest IV, Nottingham, England
Upcoming projects:
POLEY/RIVERA - featuring Ted Poley and Vic Rivera (proj. release: Spring 2008)
RPG - w/ Shawn Pelata of Line of Fire and Anthony Gravely of Windup Rocket (details t/b/a)
Me in 100 words or less? Reclusive/dark/enigmatic/workaholic. Intensely private (often to the point of being anti-social) but somehow I manage to be a people person when I am out and about. I have no patience for persons wanting to change another individual to suit their ideal, instead of accepting someone for who they are. Generally, I lack faith in humanity as history has proven us most INHUMANE, the thin constraints of civilization and society we cling to not withstanding. "Tortured soul": yep, that's me...but it makes for good songwriting!
I have some fantastic friends (many whom I have met here) and truly wonderful fans who never fail to sustain the 1% of me that believes there is hope for humankind. Much thanks to you all for that!
Hope you enjoy the music! Thanks to all my fans for your support!
:: how jedi are you? ::
To purchase AdrianGale or Ted Poley CDs and merchandise, please visit Kivel Records at www.kivelrecords.com or simply click on the link below:
For Ted Poley information and merchandise, please visit www.tedpoley.com
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(*featuring Pete Lesperance of Harem Scarem)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/7/2004
Influences: Everything and anything good!
Sounds Like: ME!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Poley/Rivera signs to Angelmilk Records

Hey, y'all: Just wanted to duplicate this blog over from my Poley/Rivera page, announcing our signing to Angelmilk Records - we're thrilled beyond belief.  I'm posting a sampl...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:14:00 PST

Update - Poley/Rivera is just about done...

Hey gang! Most if you probably know that Ted Poley and I, having worked together with some great results for his COLLATERAL DAMAGE and SMILE cds, formed Poley/Rivera sometime back and have been hard a...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:53:00 PST

R.I.P KEVIN DUBROW

In my daily reading of the news on the Melodicrock.com board today, even before the site was updated later in the day, I was stunned/flabbergasted/saddened to catch Andrew's Noticeboard posting a...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:23:00 PST

BACK FROM FIREFEST IN ENGLAND...THANKS ALL!

Well....what can I say?  Just got back a few days ago with my Crunch bandmates from playing Firefest at Rock City in Nottingham....I've had to take care of some nagging dental problems (i.e. - te...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:20:00 PST

More Firefest IV photos posted

Much thanks to Bea, Fotis and everyone else for use of these pics here!  More to come - enjoy!
Posted by Vic Rivera on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:35:00 PST

NEW GIG! SHORT NOTICE! ME SORRY!! LOL

Hey y'all! I know its short notice but trust me when I say this happened just about overnight last Thursday - and with my schedule already completely booked solid, I've been finding new ways to squeez...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:31:00 PST

HACKERS SUCK..

Hey everyone.... My account got hacked and the piece of  *&*%  doing it apparently sent a bogus mail out to a number of you so if you have gotten ANYTHING from me prior to 9:00 EST ...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:12:00 PST

MUCH thanks..

...to everyone who came out to rock with CRUNCH this past Saturday night.  In spite of the (unnecessary?) delay in the proceedings getting started, for those many of you who stayed...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:46:00 PST

IMPORTANT UPDATE! Moving to Iceland at month's end! Great biz opportunity!

APRIL FOOL! OK, now that I've gotten that out of the way....here is the REAL update: (1) POLEY/RIVERA - my main project is still moving along, but it looks like we will be a little later on the r...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:15:00 PST

CRUNCH at Firefest IV, 10/27/07, Nottingham, UK!

OK gang, thanks to my schedule I'm a little late on this as it was announced a couple of weeks back, but my new (old?) act CRUNCH (formerly known as Adriangale) will be making an appearance at th...
Posted by Vic Rivera on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:52:00 PST