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Joe Auger

BOINK!

About Me

Singer Songwriter Recording Engineer and Record Producer Multi Instrumentalist Born not really too long ago and immediately made music a priority by memorizing all of the lyrics to every Monkees and Beatles song in existence.Discovered Prog rock, long hair and girls at an early age as well as the novel idea of being in a band in high school,(a band which played the gamut from The Moody Blues to Judas Priest and just about everything in between as well as touting seven members all of which are still my best friends in this cruel world! They still put up with me!)Discovered after being in a few bands in the Rhode Island area that band dynamics are a transient and fleeting thing. Decided to forgoe the band thing and become a freelance sound engineer and knob twiddler while also learning how to write better songs and sing standing up with a guitar in front of people who could give a shit! Hosted a famous open mic, (now sadly closed down) in Providence for ten years and released (3) albums and an EPs worth of music as well as two more albums worth of music that lay fallow in his archives until recently when he decided that it was time to get caught up with himself and get some of this music heard before it all goes KABLOOEY!The first release will be a limited edition vinyl 45 in a picture sleeve of the single "Other Pages backed with "Just Like You" on the B side. See the new songs above! Next will be the album "Taken MonAurally" which will be mixed in glorious Mono as well as Stereo like the old days of the 60's when it was common to have the choice!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/18/2006
Band Website: geocities.com/qorqprod/
Band Members: I am not sure how I count myself as a member,(as I certianly would not join a club that would have me as one). I know I can be a prick at times but I don't think that counts does it...?
Influences: A Desert island list that will tell you all you need to know. By the way I get 20 albums instead of the requisite 10!In no particular order: 1. Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones LTD The Monkees 2. Revolver The Beatles 3. Smile The Beach Boys 4. Thick as a Brick Jethro Tull 5. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis 6. To Our Childrens Childrens Children The Moody Blues 7. UmmaGumma Pink Floyd 8. Happy Sad Tim Buckley 9. We're Only In It For The Money The Mothers of Invention 10. The Madcap Laughs Syd Barrett 11. Black Sabbath Black Sabbath 12. Tommy The Who 13. The Dreaming Kate Bush 14. Apple Venus XTC 15. Security Peter Gabriel 16. Houses Of the Holy Led Zeppelin 17. Painted From Memory Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach 18. Art Of The Fugue Johann Sebastian Bach Canadian Brass 19. Dear Friends The Firesign Theatre 20. War Memoirs Spike Milligan Here is everything else. Procol Harum, George Carlin, Monty Python, Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, The Kinks, Pete Townshend, Laugh In, Cheech and Chong, Gentle Giant, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, Michael Nesmith, King Crimson, The Three Stooges, Yes, Zappa, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Brian Wilson, Bonzo Dog DooDah Band, Vivian Stanshell, The Rutles, Spinal Tap, South Park, The Prisoner, The Twilight Zone, Joni Mitchell, Thelonius Monk, Traffic, Jimi Hendrix plus more
Sounds Like: I have been told that at times I sound like The Beatles, The Monkees, Gentle Giant, The Moody Blues, Alice In Chains, Mike Nesmith, REM, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello,Tim Buckley, Peter Gabriel, Jethro Tull, XTC and that's just in the first song!
Record Label: QORQ PRODUCTIONS
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The thises and thatses of the whats upses

It's been a long time.I am finally back to making progress on finishing up my single and album, editing the master reels of analog tape,(Yes ANALOG TAPE YA"LL,!) to bring to the Mastering house and ga...
Posted by Joe Auger on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:55:00 PST

Led Zeppelin Vs. The Who

Way back in 2004 I was in the midst of reconnecting with my best friends from high school who were also my band mates in a supergroup called Gossamer Wing; emailing a huge amount of verbiage to see ...
Posted by Joe Auger on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:42:00 PST

Eric Armour RIP

    I had the privilege to Produce an album called "A Glasgow Conversation" with Eric Armour way back in 1993 for QORQ PRODUCTIONS. We recorded in the AS220 space on Richmond St. during...
Posted by Joe Auger on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:30:00 PST

Syd Barrett R.I.P.

So Syd has passed away. hard to believe in some ways since he had already been lost to us long ago. In my younger years when I first discovered Pink Floyd/Barrett I was naively romantic about madness ...
Posted by Joe Auger on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:07:00 PST

The era of the blog!

So Welcome to all things Joe Auger,(or at least all things musically or creatively about me.)New to this blogging phenomena I figure I'd jump head long in and see what happens.Leave come comments and ...
Posted by Joe Auger on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:31:00 PST