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Don's Interests
General
If you're just trolling to get adds, don't bother, please. If you genuinely want to share music and your art, that's okay. However, if you do want me to add you, it's required that you check out the musicians on my top friends list. They deserve a listen, too.
Also, for the most part, I won't add:
rap
hip-hop
screamo/emo
dj/dance/trance/mashup
death metal
suicide punk
country
Again, not because they're not valid musical styles, I just don't listen to that stuff.
Music
Yes.
Movies
"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it was meant to be yours. If it doesn't, track it down and kill it so no one else can have it."
I've been involved in
music/recording for 30 years now... although I took a fairly lengthy
hiatus from recording (I got sick of hearing cover versions of Jesse's
Girl), but am now back into it with using ProTools. I've done CD's for
Even To The Stars, D-Railed, nativemind, and Cuba. All of these bands exhibit great songwriting, musical talent, and love for their music. Cuba has finished their second CD 'Epilogue' and it's quite awesome. Buy it or download it from the usual online sources. Please check these bands out! It's worth your time. I've also just finished a CD with Brent McPike - tremendous guitar player/professor at ISU, and am working with Christina Blust - amazing voice and songwriter, and the usual gang of musicians who are part of the Syndicate.
I do recording/producing at no charge to the bands because there's too much great talent out there that goes unheard as your typical working musician can't afford
quality recording. The bands and musicians I choose to work with share
a number of common attributes: creativity, talent, a joy for
performing, and openess to suggestion, as well as just being very
decent people. I do however expect that if the bands I work with get signed or makes significant money off of what we create, that a small part of it is shared with me. It's not greed, it's just that I'd like to buy more toys for the studio.
I'm not interested in doing metal, country, rap or
barbershop quartet music at all. This isn't a statement about the
validity of those musical styles, just personal preferences. Acoustic,
alternative, hard rock, jazz, classical are some of the genre's I'm interested in. I'm now
looking for a new project, so if you're in the Terre Haute area, and meet the criteria above, let me know, maybe we can work together.
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Your Personality Profile
You are elegant, withdrawn, and brilliant.
Your mind is a weapon, able to solve any puzzle.
You are also great at poking holes in arguments and common beliefs.
For you, comfort and calm are very important.
You tend to thrive on your own and shrug off most affection.
You prefer to protect your emotions and stay strong.
Crap. Forgot the reason why I actually went to make a comment. SO here it is... Do I need the other guys for Sunday? Just in case? Or do you have it figured out? Either way I'll be there. If only just to hear the violin. Also, if we need to add a cello later I've got the gal.
i have only ever seen 2 others in real life and both were pretty beat up but they were real player guitars. anytime you want give me a call. im open 9 a.m.- 9 p.m. or just write me. 1-765-376-5952 take care.
Hi Don, I now you busy this summer, but I was wondering if you had a day that I could come and record some stuff, and get your input on a few songs i'm working on?
I know! Isn't she? I found her on youtube one day and I just fell in love. She's a great harpist and she tours with Devendra Banhart a lot. I want to get her cd as well. Apparently, although I didn't know it, in one of my magazines like an old Spin issue, they were talking about her and giving her a review on her new album, but I just now found this. Anyway, if you get the cd can I burn it off of you?
I think I'm making progress on the guitar strap, too, though I'm still having trouble deciding. Maybe I'll just make a bunch and choose which one to use based on my outfit. teehe!
oh my GOSH I like feynman. Brilliant and hilarious. What else have you got by him? I read too fast.
and did david tell you he scored me an amp? oh geez. I am having so much fun. we need to finish this album soon so we can start work on the next one, yo! :)
question: what the hell am i doing wrong when exporting my cubase files to AIFF or MP3 that makes them sound considerably more quiet than others???????
your myspace video is, quite possibly, the largest gig a band could play, complete with extremely unsafe, controlled-electrical arc explosions to woo the crowd: i guess my idea for the hydraulic, lifting/extending/exploding/spinning lead guitarist stand that swoops over a given audience (as the front man does the splits in mid air in a sad cry for attention) during a guitar solo (say the solo for "psycho circus" by kiss, for example) has been topped and put into practical use!
Today I baked a mulberry pie. At least I think they were mulberries, since I based that fact on my assumptions and on wikipedia. Whatever they are, they grow in my backyard. :)
I can't wait! As for the shows, I'm now at 7th and elm every thursday at 9:30 and I'm playing the Terre Haute Cheese tomorrow and saturday. Laffoon is splitting sets with me tomorrow instead of me solo...as for the more distand future...I can't quite remember at the moment...I'll get em up tomorrow. weeeooo
Well, everyone else asked the question for me so I know that the studio did flood but it'll be ok. My question is... Was this the worst it's ever flooded? You have no idea how surreal it is to be out of town right now while Terre Haute is underwater. I actually saw south 7th street on CNN. Wow.
