Hey music lovers!!! What up???
07.30.2007- CST
Hey music lovers!! What up???
Bring the noise! Let's get cooking and start making some sweet music! Stratosphere Sound, an incomparable multi-level recording studio in Manhattan, and Gibson, a delicious cocktail consisting of gin, vermouth, and onions. Hey there, correction, Gibson is also a maker of fine guitars since 1902. Now the crazy thing about music is how we get wrapped around its little finger, just like Stratosphere Sound and Gibson. As mentioned in some of our other blog entries, Gibson makes great guitars and we got 'em at Stratosphere.
How many? Too many to count (actually we could count them but i'd rather not go thru that dark, dusty storage space where i thought i saw a mouse once).
One guitar that i love is a Gibson Hummingbird, a classic acoustic guitar seen in photos with the Rolling Stones and Beatles. It sounds great and you can sit back and play "Wild Horses" and imagine you're Keith Richards. Just back at Stratosphere is a 3 pickup, "tv yellow" reissue Gibson SG. Last year at an all-night, pick-up black jack game in Midtown, i had lost all common sense and bet everything i had including a certain tv yellow guitar...
Well, in the end things worked out but if you ever book a session at Stratosphere and are playing that SG, think about what it's like to shuck oysters on a boat off the coast of Nova Scotia in January. Have you ever wanted to play a gold Baldwin piano owned and signed by Les Paul? No problem, we've got one at Stratosphere Sound. This is no tired old lounge lady at the back of a club in the Catskills; this beautiful grand dame is living in Manhattan and cast in a scintillating gold. We are proud to house this piano and all the riches she brings (as in a rich sound!)!!
On to more music: i've recently done a remix for a band called the Grey Race on Andy's label Unfiltered Music.
I think they're a rock group but the remix i turned in is a little more Erasure and Euro-dance like. I hope Andy and the band will respect the beat. Later this month i will be recording a local Brooklyn band called Tiger City, who combine rock and disco. These stylish young men are not afraid to sing in a falsetto or bask in the warm glow of 70's easy listening funk. Also later this month, for the first time in 25 years, I will embark upon recording some solo rock. What does it sound like? Good question! I don't know but i'm hoping it will be electric and rock-like (but not too rock). Maybe folk?
Freak-folk? No probably a little bit shoe-gaze-y and atmospheric. Nope that's been done before, can't do that, hmm, i better not over think this.
Well music fans, keep your Ipods (or Iphones!!) in your ears and your finger on the pulse of music, Stratosphere Sound and Gibson Guitars, peace, j.
