Mike Grosshandler - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I don't feel complete unless I'm making music in some form, be it recording, writing, or performing.
I want my music to be part of the world's life soundtrack.
I believe the only way to achieve a sort of immortality is through music.
I'd appreciate any help in spreading the word about my music, so please tell a friend?
Also check out my band, The Velmas , too. That's my main musical focus right now, but I'm still actively doing the solo acoustic thing, too. Gotta love the acoustic guitar.Check out The Velmas on Myspace.com!
If you like the tunes here on myspace, they're all on my 2 CDs - Wrote Myself and Scales. You can get them at CD Baby or Amazon.com , or iTunes .
I'll be recording and releasing a new solo CD this year hopefully. It'll be more than just acoustic guitars this time... 12 songs, 7 different drummers, and me doing all the rest. It's gonna rock. Mike Grosshandler, a.k.a. Mike G., a.k.a. "Harvey", has been making a name for himself in Albany, NY since 1997. He is currently singer/guitarist for the Albany-based rock band The Velmas .
While The Velmas has been his main musical project the last few years, Mike has also been busy writing, recording and performing acoustic material. Over the last few years, he has produced several acoustic recordings on his own. The original intent was to have some kind of demo for himself of each song he'd written.
Using only a single microphone and his home computer in his free time, Mike began putting together the tracks for these songs. After receiving some positive feedback from those he played them for, he decided to release these recordings as a proper CD. The first of these appear on his debut solo demo/album, "Scales" (2003). Mike released his second CD, "Wrote Myself", in October of 2004.
Mike began his musical endeavors with the Long Island based alternative/grunge rock band State of Nowhere . SON existed long enough to release one CD (alternately known as "SON" or "Demo") before splitting up in 1997, its members going on to various projects. Mike moved to Albany and joined up with the band pour.jayce, with whom he lent his guitar skills until 1999. That year, Mike and other former pour.jayce members Figaro and Bruce reformed as The Velmas . In January 2006, The Velmas signed with New York City based independent label City Canyons Records .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/16/2004
Band Website: mikegrosshandler.com
Band Members: Mike Grosshandler - Guitars, Vocals
Influences: The Beatles, Nirvana, Type O Negative, Alice In Chains, Days of the New, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, The Verve Pipe, Brian Vander Ark, Guster, Veruca Salt, Nina Gordon, Blind Melon, Sublime, Bush, Silverchair, Bach, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Incubus, Radiohead, For Squirrels, Big Wreck
Sounds Like: Days of the New, John Mayer, Alice In Chains, Guster, The Beatles, Brian Vander Ark, Dashboard Confessional, Jethro Tull, The Verve Pipe, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Elliot Smith
Type of Label: None

My Blog

top friends?

did anyone else's top friends get totally messed up? i just went through and re-added people i could find. if you think you should be in my top, send me a message and tell me why!
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Fri, 23 May 2008 12:27:00 PST

Caught up on that song...

I spent a few hours this weekend re-recording the missing parts from that song "So Long". I do quite like this song. So, now I'm back to where I was before with it, and I also have the new harmony ide...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Tue, 06 May 2008 12:44:00 PST

i guess they did go after them...

(This is a follow-up to my Spitzer/hooker/justice rant.) Suicide's pretty rough& But my observation here is on the tangential story in this article. It seems the "escort service" in Spitzer's case w...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Thu, 01 May 2008 01:36:00 PST

If it doesnt exist in 3 places, it might as well not exist at all

So I have a ton of new songs I've been working on, recording demos as inspiration strikes and when I have free time. Last night I thought of a vocal harmony for one of them ("so long" is the tit...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:32:00 PST

"scherzo pizzicato"

i had a dream last night that i was in an old parking garage that i apparently owned, with a bunch of "old" style cars, but they were new& the dream might have been taking place in the 1940s or so, i ...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:20:00 PST

lark tavern benefit show - on the news!

http://capitalnews9.com/Default.aspx?ArID=113274this is cool - capital news 9 did a story about the benefit show i was part of this weekend at lark tavern to help the clearview health art program. the...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:59:00 PST

Ten for Ten

So, a little over two years ago, my friend John told me about an album he wanted to record. He was writing ten songs for his wife, Danielle, and wanted me to help him record them as an anniversary gif...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:08:00 PST

on power, spitzer and hookers.

so, if a "normal" hooker was caught "hooking", as it were, i’m pretty sure she’d be charged with a crime, since as far as i know, prostitution is mostly illegal. right? if i ge...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:55:00 PST

is that ME in that palm ad??

i was just looking at the palm website to check out their stuff. http://www.palmcentro.com/flash/index.html?selectedflv=Chat& amp;&cid=palmcentro_25503370; on that ad page they have ...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:47:00 PST

i missed the eclipse...

i was ready for it. i had nothing to do last night. i was gonna go outside and watch the moon turn red. i had 2 hours to go, so i got to working on some new songs... then i not...
Posted by Mike Grosshandler on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:58:00 PST