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Ray LaBay

About Me


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Hi, I'm 37 and a husband of 17 years to Jeri, my wonderful wife. We have 2 great little girls together. I'm in college(never ending) and a guitarist/musician. I also fiddle around with a mandolin and piano occasionally. I've been performing and recording music for about 20 years and counting. I've been in numerous band projects, "Daze Of Green" being the longest to date. Check the "Daze" page out by clicking on the "Daze" bubble in my top freinds. I have 3 videos posted and 6 songs. I'm currently working in a new band project. When I'm not busy with my family, school, or band stuff, I teach guitar to a handfull of bright young(and older) students and record local bands from time to time in my home studio. I write songs meant for lyrics, but also love to write instrumentals. I am currently shopping my stuff through Taxi and some other companys that deal with soundtracks and such.
Heres a video of me playing Allemande by J.S.Bach. This is one of my all time classical favorites. I perform classical for weddings and restaurant settings.
This piece below is one of my favorites also, Its from the 16th century and the author is unknown. This was the first piece of classical I ever learned, simple but pretty.
Below is a video of me performing an instrumental of mine called "Can't Rain Forever", with mistakes and all :) to backing tracks in my studio. I perform my instrumentals on occasion, but tend to be more of a studio hermit.
This is a video of me playing "Bron-yr-aur", an instrumental written by Jimmy Page. One of my favorite pieces of acoustic music. I did a quick video recording and ran the audio through my studio computer for the reverb, so it came out like quick video's do :-) I posted the audio a few months back and figured I'd post the rest of it. I used my Rode NTK tube mic, my studio workhorse microphone for the recording.

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Member Since: 7/6/2006
Influences: Jimmy Page, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray, Alison Krauss, Hendrix, Roy Clark, Fernando Sor, U2, Van Halen, Bad Company, Jerry Jennings, Stone Temple Pilots, Randy Rhoads, Mozart, Tonic, Elvis, Beatles....etc
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My Blog

The 6 posted tunes

1. "Yesterdays Gone Groove"   Written by me    Musicians: Me on all guitars and drum programming, Paul Hawley on bass, Steve Stizzo on Keyboards 2. "Return To You"&n...
Posted by Ray LaBay on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:41:00 PST

New name, same tune

This is a new mix of the tune "The Dead Bug Groove" that has been renamed to "Yesterdays Gone Groove". The 4th title change and possibly the last.
Posted by Ray LaBay on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:05:00 PST

Songs choosen for Compilation Cd.

"Return To You" and "Winter Lullaby", the two tunes I co-wrote with Emily Adams will be on a new Compilation Cd being sent to over 300 company's dealing with movie soundtracks. We were choosen over 10...
Posted by Ray LaBay on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:29:00 PST

On the radio!

You can here some of my stuff being played from this page and a couple other tunes not on this page on KSVY 91.3 radio in Sonoma. Check them out at www.ksvy.org Thanks Dave!...
Posted by Ray LaBay on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:53:00 PST

Whats a Digle?

That was the first word my daughter Nicole made up and said. Still havn't  figured out what she meant by it if anything. She just loved to say it.  The instrumental named "Digle" was ma...
Posted by Ray LaBay on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:57:00 PST

My former band

I created a site that list some of the aspects and plays a few songs of my former band "Daze Of Green". I wrote half the music for Daze Of Green, while Ken Koenig wrote the lyrics and the ot...
Posted by Ray LaBay on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:09:00 PST