Artist description Our protagonist sits in his bedroom composing and recording tracks alone like a mad scientist.

Music Style i like to call it melancholy pop

Musical Influences ooh, fun. jawbreaker and jets to brazil, bowie, smiths, cure, elliot smith lately, jawbox, burning airlines, hot water music, social distortion, 'and in the midst of life we are in debt et cetera.'

Similar Artists Well, some of it's pretty Jawbreaker style. Other things, I dunno.

Artist History I've been doing this longer than I can remember. Old analog 4 track cassette masters exist for everything since about 1989, and I've a backlog big enough to do about 4 good albums without writing anything new. But I'm always writing anyway. I'd say I've written 200 songs, 90% of which are pure crap. Bands: the Mistaken, the Lepers, Red Square Disaster, the Devil, Failure Bomb.

Group Members Just lil ol me. I may get some tracks of my old emo band up soon. Look for "Failure Bomb" if you dig it.

Instruments I'm an equipment geek. On these tracks, I used: a 1962 Gibson Melody Maker, plugged through an Ampeg V series head and playing through a Mitchell Sand Amp for speakers. Armed with only a Shure SM57 and Antares' excellent Mic Modeler plugin, I bend reality to my will. Some songs feature the Ensoniq ESQ1 keyboard. The acoustic is just a cheapo Fender. Rat distortion. A cheap Mexican Fender Precision for the low end. I couldn't do it without Cool Edit Pro and DirectX plugins aplenty. The drums are painstakingly programmed on an old Alesis HR16. Finally, a Fostex VM04 digital mixer pipes it digitally into the big beige box on my desk.

Albums I put out a couple of tapes in 1993 and 1994, but I'm embarassed to hear them. Once

Press Reviews Sadly, a boy alone in his room does not news make. Someday?

Additional Info As far as the laws of mathematics are true, they do not reflect reality, and as far as they reflect reality, they are not true.

Location Tulsa, OK - USA

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