Check out the latest tune I did with Jeanné Giddens @TuneTalks – “Tangled Up With You”. She’s on vocals and the rest is me, including all instruments, recording, mixing, and producing. It’s a little bit blues, pop rock, and country.
I was interviewed by CRUMBS recently and talked about Blue Skies Black, The Velmas, and Above The Flood. I performed a couple songs solo acoustic, including a brand new song “So Long” as well as “Without You” from Blue Skies Black. They also spun 2 tracks right from the album, “Fish in the Sea” and “Status Quo”. The interview is available as a free download or stream here: http://crumbs.net/cafe.cfm?season=11#152
CRUMBS has a blog post up about the interview and acoustic songs I recently recorded with them with some pictures. Check it out: http://blog.timesunion.com/localmusic/picture-this-mike-grosshandler-in-the-cafe/7717/ The interview airs on 97.7 WEXT and online on Friday, June 22 at 9:00pm. Tune in to hear all about my new album as well as two solo acoustic songs – Without You and a brand new song called So Long!
The moment has arrived! I’ve gotten the first single and title track from my upcoming solo album “Blue Skies Black” ready for your listening pleasure. Give it a listen – I’d love to hear any feedback! Drums on this song were performed by the incredible Michael Maenza (from The X’s, among other great bands). There are some other awesome guest musicians on this record I’ll be introducing in due time. I’ve also finally got the…
It’s been a busy year. I’ve been involved in a few new musical projects, as well as still playing with The VeLMAs. Here’s what’s new. First off, I’m playing in a new band called Above The Flood. ATF is a 4-piece hard rock band that’s me (lead guitar/vocals), Matt Shufelt (lead vox/guitar) and Rick Little (drums) from Split 2nd Alibi, as well as Steve Rajter (bass) from Hygeer. I’ve always enjoyed S2A; Matt’s got a…
Looking at my last post from almost a year ago here, it seemed like I was just about done with this album then. And maybe I was. But in the meantime, I decided I wasn’t happy with the mixes and brought in some fresh ears (and gear) to help take these songs up a few levels. I’ve been working with Tim Lynch over at the Recording Company remixing these songs nearly from scratch and they…
So I’ve been sitting on the mixes for my new album for two weeks or so now, listening for things that still bother me, and getting feedback from some friends. So far, the feedback has been good! Of course, it would figure that now would be when Avid/Digidesign finally releases a version of Pro Tools (8.0.4) that officially supports 64-bit Windows 7! I’d been dual-booting back and forth, depending on the song, between the version…
So, the album is coming together nicely. All of the vocals are sung, and I’ve been working on comping them and picking out the best parts. I found a great horn player, Bill Scholl, and we got together a while ago and recorded some ideas for the song “Drive Me”. After listening to the parts we laid down, we decided they might work a little better played less staccato than they were, so we’re getting…
I was making good progress, recording at a (relatively) good pace through the end of the summer. Vocals are done for 7 of the 12 songs, and that’s more than half. But then it went and got cooler outside and I went and caught a cold. I don’t think it was the pig flu or anything, but it knocked me for a loop for a few days and I’m still coughing now, almost two weeks…
I just put together this Michael Jackson tribute. It’s an acoustic cover of Thriller, with some self-recorded backing vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA-80k9lAQ&fmt=18 Check it out and let me know what you think! RIP, MJ!
