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Phill

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About Me

Musician. Songwriter. Animal lover. Avid reader. Mild mannered music store manager by day, all round musical entertainer by night. During most waking hours I work on music in my head, or in my hands. It is constant, and all encompassing. Complex/dual personality allows me to exist as talkative, gentle, and unassuming...able to front both caterwauling tech metal juggernaut Fred Thompson Trio, and the gorgeous Bowery in the after hours. I spend a lot of time songwriting, singing and playing acoustic guitar. I try to be as good a listener as I am at motor mouthing. I love good beer, artsy cinema, working out, and cooking. Meeting new people is always good as well.
Currently I have 6 music projects. They are...
Bowery (sad, beautiful, and acoustic)
Fred Thompson Trio (indie rock/metal)
My Lover Gary (cynical/mean/acoustic/FUN! feat. Jane Adams)
Bum On Wheels (we're writing an audio cartoon)
Japan 4 (contains Chris Hartley and Doug Funny)
Diavaar (trip-hop/breakbeat/industrial)

My Interests

MUSIC. songwriting. production. engineering. dinosaurs. animals. urban outfitters. denim. sweet shoes. coffee. orbit gum. sitting around playing guitar. i play mad shows. really i do. let me entertain you.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can keep up with me drama free. Oh, and coffee talkers too.

Music:

God Lives Underwater, David Reilly, Stars, Damien Rice, Sloan,NIN, Erik Sanko, Snow Patrol, Baxter, Jenny Owen Youngs, Faith No More, Self, Wired All Wrong, Glassjaw, Head Automatica, Dresden Dolls, Minus The Bear, Botch, Tomahawk, Fred Thompson Trio, Kamilla, Helmet, Barkmarket, Curve, Muse, Moto, Poodle Metal, Failure, Skeleton Key, Smashing Pumpkins, Jellyfish, Mr Bungle, Dillinger Escape Plan, Emiliana Torrini, Regina Spektor, Nellie McKay, Eels, Shiner, Hum, Sneaker Pimps, Portishead, Mike Patton, Engine Down, Junior Boys, Stabbing Westward, Kent, Miles To Mars, Bleu, The Dandy Warhols

Movies:

Bruce Campbell VS Army Of Darkness, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn, Shaun of the Dead, Addams Family Values, Garden State, Napolian Dynamite, Donnie Darko, Children Of the Lost City, Trainspotting, Cube, Secretary, Edward Scissorhands, Princess Bride, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, Gimme an F, School Spirit

Television:

um, I'll pass...

Books:

Brave New World, Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way, also any and all dinosaur related books.

Heroes:

Bruce Campbell, Mike Patton

My Blog

Our Love Is A Ghost days 27 &28

What have we been doing? Where am I? I dunno. Life loses track in all this. What a long year already!!!Worked out the last bits on "Bah-Na-Na" which included Shanee's vox, my harmonies, keyboards, and...
Posted by Phill on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:29:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost day 25 & 26

One step forward, one step back.Finished drums for the record. Hooray!!!So, new advances in science include having drums and most music done for "Beleza", and also having sweeeeeet drum tracks for "Ta...
Posted by Phill on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:21:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost days 23 & 24

Burnt. Sore. Sleepy.Drums tracked for "Our Love Is A Ghost" as well as guitars, keys, and some bass stuff.What a monster track. Well deserving of being the namesake for the record, not only emotionall...
Posted by Phill on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:25:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost day 22

Well...hahaha. I fooled myself a lil thinking that we'd have IDEWW all finished up the other night. What ended up happening is we changed a bunch of the song around, and ended up doing a bunch more gu...
Posted by Phill on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:30:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost day 21

Big night last night. "The Reason" and "The Needle Never Ends" now join their buddy "Soundofaconcuscion" in the "waiting to mix" hanger. It's gonna keep getting more and more crowded in there everyday...
Posted by Phill on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:07:00 PST

What’s new Scoob?

New apartment.That's pretty big time. Still working on the Bowery album hyper overtime... but in addition to that, I'm about to start moving forward with a new project, and getting some long talked of...
Posted by Phill on Tue, 27 May 2008 04:48:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost day 20

So, I guess it's like, an anniversary or something, right? Like, 20 days in now Scoob. Zoinks!We worked up most of the rest of "Needle" last night. Horrifically enough, we have near 20 hours invested ...
Posted by Phill on Wed, 21 May 2008 07:45:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost day 19

One done. The first to the finish line is...."The Sound Of A Concussion". Completed bass tracks for it yesterday...and now it's done. Wait in the hanger til your turn to mix buddy. You sound great alr...
Posted by Phill on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:00:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost day 18

All systems go...all engines full forward. Late session last night. Productive. Encouraging. High fives all around. Worked up most of the rest of the music portion for "The Needle Never Ends". Sounds ...
Posted by Phill on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:54:00 PST

Our Love Is A Ghost is nearing completion!!!

And it's about time :)We're way over schedule at this point, but the end is very much in sight, and we'll be powering home to mix in just a few weeks. We've got drums to do for 3 more tunes, and a few...
Posted by Phill on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:46:00 PST