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RyanJ Recording

The Usual... With an Twist of Brown.

About Me

Bands I'm currently working with:
Dance Gavin Dance, The Chop, In Honor Of, Dancing With Aspirin, Devil's Walk, Solcraft, Bullets Can't Kill Danny

If you're interested in working on a record, hit me up, and send me an IM
AIM=doomempire

Bands and Projects I've worked with/on:
5am, After Maxwell, Ampulae, The Attack Plan, Bleed For The Answer, Bullets Can't Kill Danny, Counting Crows, The Dave Rude Band, Dgiin, The Down Lowe, Domeshots, Electric Vagina, Element Eighty, Eric Schoen, The Federalists, Hail the Tragedy, Is Nothing Sacred, The Lives of Famous Men, Lo Pro, Mavalour, Miz Mor Shir Reh, Mury, Myotonia, The Native Method, National Product, One Step Left, Poor Bailey, Red Ant Black Ant, Rosamilia, Scum of the Earth, Shadows Fall, Silverchair, Sons of Oswald, Split Level, Suspension of Graces, Tape Deck, Transpose, The Twitch, Unearth, Useless, The Zoopy Show... and a ton more but it's hard doing this from memory...

My Interests

Music, Concerts, Innovation, Movies, San Francisco, Boston, Recording, Guitar, Piano, Violin, Learning, Creation, History, Discovery, Jazz, Classical, Metal, Motown, Development, Creation

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in, or working in any form of music...View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

Music:

Much too much: Protest The Hero, Pat Metheney, The Cinematic Orchestra, US3, Hans Zimmer, Dredg, Finger Eleven, Charlie Hunter, The Recieving End of Sirens, Atreyu, Thrice, Killswitch Engage, Hero Pattern, John Williams, Further Seems Forever, No One's Kind, Unearth, Incubus, Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, The Dillinger Escape Plan, At The Gates, Beck, Cake, Testament, The Bled, Bleed the Sky, Muse, Moments in Grace, Pantera, Bleeding Through, Edgewater, 36 Crazy Fists, A Perfect Circle, Alanis Morrisette, Poison the Well, Pressure 4-5, Fiona Apple, Stabbing Westward, Sparta, The Mars Volta, Soundgarden, The Black Dahlia Murder, Megadeth, Jamie Cullum, Peter Gabriel, Blindside, As I Lay Dying, Cave-In, Coheed and Cambria, Jamiroquai, Dire Straits, From Zero, Propellerheads, Glassjaw, Los Lobos, Puya, Sevendust, Strata, Radiohead, Queen, Taproot, Minus Driver, Tool, Nonpoint, Sunset Black, OneSideZero, The Used, Tom Petty, Thursday, Armor for Sleep, He is Legend, Mae, Between the Buried and Me, All That Remains, Rage Against the Machine, Ray Charles, Michael Buble, Head Automatica, George Winston, Billy Joel, As Cities Burn, Anne Dudley, Mute Math, It Prevails, oh god the list goes on...

Movies:

Action: The Rock, Die Hard III, Killing Zoe, True Romance, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Panic Room, Gladiator,
Comedy: Detroit Rock City, Waynes World, Airheads, Four Rooms, Harold and Kumar, Mall Rats
Foreign: Amorres Perros, Rabbit Proof Fence, I'm Not Scared
Drama: American History X, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, The Pianist, Jersey Girl, Schindlers List, K-Pax, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, SLC Punk, Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, Trainspotting
Horror: Evil Dead II, Dawn of the Dead, Demons, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of the Lambs
Other: Oceans 11-13, Disney's Robin Hood,

Television:

Clone High, Prison Break, I love the 80's, History Channel, VH1 Classics, World Cup, Mythbusters

Books:

John Hersey's 'Hiroshima'
Donald S. Passman's 'All you need to know about the music buisness'
Lathrop's 'This buisness of music: Marketing and Promotion'
Strunk and White's 'The elements of style'
Anyone remember good 'ole Asterix?

Heroes:

Anyone that has gone beyond their imagination yet still not reached their goals.

My Blog

08/01 Bullets Can’t Kill Danny album DONE!!

You should listen to it. I can honestly say I'm nothing but excited for the band and for the record. It came out far better than I ever expected. Check it out on their page, and let me know what you...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:12:00 PST

06/14 Didn’t expect to be here...

A few years ago if you were to ask me what I'd be doing now... I certainly wouldn't have answered as I do now. Hell I'd probably have said I'd be married, playing music, living in Boston... Here I am...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:23:00 PST

04/25 Sleep is for the weak...

Ever get back and fumble with your keys, stumble around, only to realize, you were wrong, and you hadn't parked your car there? You call up the fella that dropped you off, and hope that he hasn't gone...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:47:00 PST

04/20 A Show and A Fiasco

It's sunday now, but it was an interesting night... It was a loooong day... After class all morning, arrived at the venue by noon. Spent all day setting up the system, testing troubleshooting, liste...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:00:00 PST

04/15 Bullets Cant Kill Danny... No They Cant...

The Bullets record is making me pee my bed it's so good. Those guys best do something phenomenal with that album, or I'll be really upset. This is certainly not a band to be trifled with, they will ...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:38:00 PST

03/13 Way to write a depressing blog

Ever feel like you weren’t ever actually appreciated for what you DID do? Anyways, I feel taken advantage of, and really just don’t feel like being on the west coast anymore. Either way,...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:44:00 PST

03/05 MI3 Audio Post Production Project...

This is actually from my MIDI 2 class... for Audio Post I'm starting on Transformers...All original Dialogue, Sound Design, and Score ...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:32:00 PST

02/28 I’ll give you a dollar if you can play this...


Posted by RyanJ Recording on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:01:00 PST

02/13 Dancing With Aspirin album

I'm quite excited to say this album is finally done... It came out sounding phenomenal, every track has a different yet cohesive drum sound, every track also has it's own ambiance. Honestly I love th...
Posted by RyanJ Recording on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:59:00 PST

02/04 What was I thinking when I handed this in?!


Posted by RyanJ Recording on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:51:00 PST