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the inimitable bassmike!

About Me

I'm a musician, primarily Bassist in Perceived As Equals, but also frontman/lyricist for the awesome vitriolics of Johnny's Last Resort (all in top friends, ch...ch...ch...check it out! I've been in other bands but most of them don't exist. I am also a recording engineer/producer with a (fairly basic) home studio set-up where I produce my own soundscapery as well as having worked with Percieved As Equals and Big Conversation (of them more will be seen over the coming months). The only fields of creativity I have not yet tried to infiltrate are visual ones essentially I have written a number of pieces of prose which I have since destroyed all record of when I unilaterally decided they were rubbish. The most important person in my life is Tracey, my long suffering fiancee, who despite a complete clash of musical tastes loves me and will even watch me play live!.. type="text/javascript" function GetThis(T, C, U, L) { var targetUrl = 'http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=postto&' + 't=' + encodeURIComponent(T) + '&c=' + encodeURIComponent(C) + '&u=' + encodeURIComponent(U) + '&l=' + L; window.open(targetUrl); } .. Share on MySpace!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/04/2006
Band Website: www.perceivedasequals.com
Band Members: it's a trio of Me Myself and I: Me: Guitars, Myself: Basses, and I do all the hard work on the production side and drum machine programming. Since there's only me I may as well use this space to tell you what I use, I run a PC based recording system using Cubase 4 as my recording platform, I get the noises in there with an M-Audio Delta 44 and an old phonic desk. Pong and Morningstar are Perceived As Equals tunes and hence feature Scott Hamilton, Craig StClair and Mike Reed (visit the band's page to find out what they may be doing), A Lie was recorded long ago by my good friend Paul Wood, not only did he write the music he was also in charge of all the engineering, production, guitar playing, singing, programming and keyboards, I wrote the words and played the bass on the recording (it is to my knowledge the only remaining audio evidence that I originally played a Tanglewood bass guitar before getting my A & P Richardson which is my main instrument and will remain so for some time!)

Which member of slipknot are you??
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You scored as Sid Wilson

(sic) ass mother fucker sid wilson probablly the most fucked up member in the head nice one fucking physco


Sid Wilson


84%

Corey Taylor


67%

Shawn "clown" Charahan


67%

Paul Gray


67%

Craig Jones


67%

Mick Thomson


50%

James Root


50%

Joey Jordison


33%

Chris Fehn


17%

My Blog

My blogs will be here from now on...

http://eljavastudios.blogspot.com/check it!Mike.
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:06:00 GMT

Please help the needy.

Perceived As Equals are 4 local guys with a passion for music, they enjoy playing their own distinct brand of metal, three of the guys enjoy Wrestling of various kinds, they have completed an EP entit...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:33:00 GMT

Coming attractions...

I know none of you fuckers are out there anymore (Terrorists & African Dictators don't read my blog!), that'll fuck with your non-existent heads!Ok now that I've guaranteed a comment at least (eve...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:31:00 GMT

The Stuff in my head.

I am writing this blog as a means of outputting the things in my head that could be generally absorbed by the public and stuff.Work, always a bipolar issue for me, not something I enjoy as a rule, not...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:57:00 GMT

Bateman (as part 1 of a musical history)

Bateman, there I said it, upon reflection, both in the holey bucket that is my mind and the audio visual media of "professionally" (only one CD we did was really done with a real professionalism that ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:18:00 GMT

Profit (Prophet) In Vegas, incorporating the Sunderland Sessions as Part 2 of a musical history

After the demise of Bateman a somewhat disillusioned bassist (my emotions with regard to the past have cleared somewhat now, and I no longer have the same emotional reactions I had at the very end of ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:42:00 GMT

Beauty in all its forms.

Right so, anyone who would level an insult at a physical trait is a coward (of the kind I have often had to endure jibes from due to my frankly awesome hair colour), these people should be made to com...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:02:00 GMT

Lets Move things forward, Gardening, Sunburn, Attitude problems.

Ok thanks to a recent hiatus in our gig schedule Perceived As Equals have begun writing again with a view to (after a few more gigs and a period of saving) going back into the studio, we are also putt...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:13:00 GMT

Recording, mixing and the production of coffee

Ok so I'm overdue a blog covering the recording of Perceived As Equals debut disc "All Reason Departs" but it was a long and involved process, and frankly it's only just out of my system!  This i...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 23:20:00 GMT

Depressed Moi?

Ok so my last blog came from a dark place, I was in a bit of a catch 22 situation, which I am pleased to say was all in my head!  Now PAE have had 2 successful gigs, thanks to all y'all who came ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 23:38:00 GMT