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I list these musicians here because they are good and because I've had contact with them in some degree. If a musician has the "rock star" attitude that they don't have the time to answer my email, then I don't have the time to add a link to their website, I don't have the time to go to a store to spend my hard earned cash for their CDs, and I don't have the time to go to their concerts and spend/waste more of my money. With the advent of MP3 swapping, the tables have turned on the record companies and "artistes"; they have got to kiss their fans' behinds or else: the public will not buy their music, people will swap their music for free instead of buying it, and/or the public will consciously and conspicuously ignore them. The public will not tolerate arrogant rock stars anymore. Any sign of hubris from rock stars will cause their most ardent fans to abandon them in an instant.
"Bands" are something that the fans believe in to make "real." In "bands", you'll usually see one or two guys who write all the songs, and the other members are "hacks." The "hacks" are expendable. In "bands" you'll see the songwriters as being close friends while at odds with the rest of the members. Whoever gets the songwriting credit gets the publishing money, the non-songwriter members are sidemen and therefore expendable. "Bands" usually break up when the sidemen realize that they're working just as hard as the songwriters to make the band successful, but are getting paid a fraction of the profits because they are just expendable sidemen. "Bands" go through personnel changes when the expendable sidemen get too frustrated with the songwriters who will not allow them to record any of their songs on the "band's" albums. "Bands" disolve when the expendable sidemen realize that they're being shut out of the "band's" gravy train while at their commercial peak. No, unfortunately "bands" aren't the fraternities nor brotherhoods of friendships that everyone thinks they are, they're ephemeral businesses whose members often distrust and dislike each other. Even the most famous rock band of all time, The Beatles, had members who hated each other and didn't speak to each other during their last year as a "band" and didn't speak to each other for years after they broke up. It's the music business not the music friendship.
So enjoy music, enjoy rock concerts, enjoy the experiences of listening to music, but don't give yourself delusions about artists and imagine them to be any more than what they are. They're people just like everybody else.
guitarist for the legendary soul crooner, Bobby Wolmack, touring guitarist with The GAP Band or heading up his own band, The Mirror Image Experience Byron is a force to be reckoned with.
led by violinist/arranger Eric Gorfain, is Los Angeles' premier rock and roll string ensemble; includes Daphne Chen, Richard Dodd, and Leah Katz. Members of THE SECTION have toured or recorded with Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Smashing Pumpkins, Lowen & Navarro, Elton John, Faith Hill, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Better Than Ezra, Christina Aguilera, Grant Lee Phillips, Neil Diamond, Live, SheDaisy, Phoebe Snow, Dwight Yoakam and Clint Black.
alternative pop covers, beautiful voice, unfortunately she knows absolutely nothing of the music biz and is being managed by a svengali manager Michelle who is holding back her career by booking her into money losing venues and keeping her from meeting the right important people who could help her career.
masterful guitarist, talented singer-songwriter, record producer who plays on Friday nights at
Largo on Fairfax. He often plays with special guests including Eleni Mandell, Eliott Smith, Micheal Stipe of R.E.M., and others.
is a folk singer who has been garnering "buzz" in the music industry,
Eleni's music is very good, but you must separate the artist from the art. She's a very rude shallow person who only cares about "the beautiful people" (though she's not one herself) to the exclusion of all other people. Try to talk to her when one of her "beautiful people" acquaintances is nearby and she'll rudely snub you in second. I guess someone can get that way after years of getting critical acclaim but no commercial success, and by working a day job as a waitress at Millie's Restaurant in Los Feliz. I guess she has only so much time before the show starts that she needs to touch base with all the people that matter to her - "the beautiful people", but her personality stinks. I read a review of her show and they described her personality as being "rough." She has a following of hipsters, models, and celebrities. I've met many artists who have a lot more talent and a lot more/less success than she's has and they've still remained warm friendly people. Go to her shows, buy her music, but don't talk to her unless you're a model or celebrity. Her background singer is Kat Maslich who is in the Dreamworks signed band "Eastmountainsouth" which looks like is about to make it big.
is an excellent singer/songwriter/guitarist based in New York City, who appears in concert world-wide. She has currently released her third CD. She also travels internationally with Chris Martin performing at Martin Guitar clinics.
is a singer-songwriter, she plays guitar and piano. If you like performers such as Fiona Apple, Ani DiFranco, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, and Joni Mitchell, you should come check it out.
the best session/studio/tour drummer I have ever met is Mark Schulman, who has done more work for more famous artists on the major labels than anyone I've ever met. profile
led by bassist Cary Berger, has released their own self produced and recorded an EP and I would definitely sign them to an R&D deal right this second, after I'd sign Cameron DePalma because their demo was so good. Call them at (213)936-0415
Are a young LA band with an album on Epic/Sony Records. They are talented young musicians who are children of Hollywood show biz families; they are, as somebody else described them, "rich kids from the LA private school/snob circut ... except Darren ..." A few of them are professional actors and fashion models; their former drummer is a very talented fine actor. Their fanbase consists mostly of young teen and twentysomething girls, and not much outside of that demographic. They have great live shows, but their albums are lackluster, "toothless" is one way a critic described them. They're likeable friendly people, but they are in the Hollywood trust-fund studio-brat crowd, you know what I'm saying. This band seems to have turned from a real band into a boyband in exactly the opposite way "O-Town" turned from a boyband into a almost-real-band, but the result and their fanbase is the same. When this band-thing plays out or their fanbase grows up and moves onto the next boyband-with-guitars-of-the-month, the actors will probably move onto great fame and success. The other band members who aren't actors fail to distinguish themselves and will probably move onto something else. Darren should be allowed to solo more. I recommend seeing this band live because that's when they're great, as for their CDs, well, you listen to them a couple of times and you don't feel compelled to listen to them again. Their fanclub president Suzanne is kind of odd.
Update 8/03: Just as I predicted, their famous actor drummer Jason Schwartzman has left the band in the middle of their recording their next album. As soon as a good script with a big budget and big budget paycheck came along, he ditched them. They have lost their celebrity followings that used to hang out with them backstage.
Update 11/03: Just as I predicted, exactly as I have been advising them, they started their own label to sell recordings of their live shows: Phantom Planet Bootlegs
Update 2009: Just as I predicted, they broke up when the actors' careers started gaining momentum.
they are oh-KRS (Records) !!! listen for yourself. This was probably one of the most important rock bands of the 90's. Janet Weiss, drummer, is also a member of the band Quasi.
Sleater-Kinney
has the hottest demo floating around, they sound like Joy Division/Ambient House/Medicine/Mazzy Star type rock I've been scouring record stores everywhere trying to find copies of their latest. I might soon locate a store that carries their demo/album. A major should sign these guys, they're really good.
A few have told me they're on Tess Records. If I was an A&R exec, I'd sign 'em. Well, they're not on Tess anymore and are looking for a deal. If you'd like to get a hold of them - call Tess anyway and ask for Matt and he'll tell you how to find Elan (TTTS). The Tess phone # is (805)568-1601. Their CD on Tess Records is available, among other places, in the Darkwave/Projekt catalog (where my Eleven Shadows release is also carried stateside). Call Darkwave at 1-800-CD-LASER
Trance to the Sun, Projekt Records
Trance to the Sun, Tess Records
Trance to the Sun, MP3.com
they have a great albums that for unknown reasons, MUTE Records doesn't seem to be promoting. Somebody kick
MUTE's butt to get them to start properly promoting this great band.
alternative pop, beautiful voice, violins & world beat instruments, Lili Haydn, Paul Cantelon, Martin Tillman
Adam Ho
is a little kid who plays classic rock covers on his electric guitar on the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade, a street performer who gets paid in tips, (714)897-8768, (714)316-3469
Cambodian singer Chhom Nimol, Ethan Holtzman, Zach Holtzman, Dave Ralicke (of Beck's band), Senon Williams (of the Radar Brothers), Paul Smith. DENGUE FEVER yahoo-group. Chhom Nimol also performs with another band every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 8pm to midnight at the New Paradise Restaurant restaurant in Long Beach, CA. See my Los Angeles Restaurants webpage for the location of that restaurant. Send an email to Chhom Nimol to ask her when she'll perform next. DENGUE FEVER review
Halie Blackman's band enthusiatically plays reggae, ska, junkaroo. Their album "Jump to the Rhythm" has lots of great songs, (626)577-8463, (949)553-6949
Previously known as Kara's Flowers, now signed to Octone Records distributed by BMG. I was friends with these guys before they were signed. After they became famous, they ditched all their friends for their new celebrity friends. I still like their music anyway.
had hits in the mid-1980's as "Eddie and the Cruisers". The critics hated John Cafferty because he took Bruce Springsteen's musical sensibility to create better songs when Springsteen was just beginning to suck. The critics bashed John Cafferty because he was not Springsteen.
Los Angeles, CA based jazz guitarist; a truly remarkable talent, I really don't understand why musicians as talented as he don't try to promote their shows more aggressively, try to sell their CDs more aggressively, and try to gig with other musicians. There are many people who wished they had the talent such musicians have, and some of these musicians just don't do anything.
Los Angeles, CA based jazz guitarist, organizes concerts, showcases jazz guitarists at his "John Pisano's Guitar Night" on Tuesday evenings, see his website for details
Tom Ball has made some of the most incredible solo guitar albums. He's had releases on Fantasy Jazz. I don't know anything about him except he's on an indie label: Kicking Mule Records, PO Box 158, Alderpoint, CA 95411
and his mail address is: Tom Ball, PO Box 20156, Santa Barbara, CA 93120
Somebody from a major, please sign him! The music is already recorded, it just needs to be distributed worldwide. His talent is amazing.
Peter Poirier and Robert W. Van Sickel said he was good live. Tom Ball's albums are now being reissued on CDs by Fantasy Records.
current director of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery. fingerstyle guitarist and luthier, guitar, harp guitar, lyre, violin, tablas, shakuhachi and traditional flute, great CD albums on Canyon Records
percussionist. His music is amazing. He is the driving force behind The Repercussion Unit, a collective of percussionists. The line-up of the Repercussion Unit varies. From time to time, Ed Mann also takes part with them.
Caltech professor and musician has recorded and produced for audiophile reference recordings label Sheffield Lab and his own albums and his own label Performance Recordings. He also runs the Caltech Music Lab Auditioning Facility for subjective evaluation of components for the audio industry.
classical guitar virtuoso; Ellis is a great gtr player who has his own CD available. A major label should sign this guy for an r&d deal; the music is already recorded and he's serious about his career (310)396-7467. His CDs are for sale at McCabe's Guitar Shop
JOUYSSANCE SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE
probably the most educated musical group ever, each with Ph.D's and have made albums for tiny indie classical labels. Contact Belinda, Nina, and Jim at (909)626-2394, (800)980-1795 Nina Treadwell is also a published historian of early 17th century music.
Marcia Dickstein, harp; Angela Wiegand, flute; David Walther, viola. The Debussy Trio presents a unique concert experience of chamber music in the 21st Century. Its innovative repertoire includes styles from French Impressionism to American jazz-fusion and works by film composers. The Trio has appeared in Prague, Copenhagen, Geneva, and at festivals, nationwide tours, and numerous California venues. Individually, Trio members perform with the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, the Long Beach Symphony, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, and as freelance artists in film studios.
led by violinist/arranger Eric Gorfain, is Los Angeles' premier rock and roll string ensemble; includes Daphne Chen, Richard Dodd, and Leah Katz. Members of THE SECTION have toured or recorded with Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Smashing Pumpkins, Lowen & Navarro, Elton John, Faith Hill, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Better Than Ezra, Christina Aguilera, Grant Lee Phillips, Neil Diamond, Live, SheDaisy, Phoebe Snow, Dwight Yoakam and Clint Black.
sounds and personalities of musical innovation in America during the 20th century. Interviews with music-makers and discussion with San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas are highlights of the programs.
The Strokes, official site
Danielle Dax
World Kulintang Institute
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