Groove Band is term I'm using to set my music apart as not quite like the rest but based on strong grooves and jams. By band I really mean me and my gear. The gear always shows up for rehearsal and aside from an isolated incident where an SR-16 took a single drink, the unit can't hold it's liqueur, they are always ready to play. Tygerman is a nickname my Grandmother used for me.

I'm a solo artist looking for gigs in the Bay Area doing my improvisational live looping show.

The music Industry is dead. It just hasn't quite stopped moving.

Back in the day the industry controlled the studios and the distribution of recorded music. The extreme expenses of recording and making records forced everybody to go thru studios. The studios were run for the most part by folks that loved the business. Studios and local radio stations controlled what reached listeners thru their investments in infrastructure and promotion.

In the 80s the Industry became big business with the introduction of the CD. Everybody went out and re-bought their collection of recordings on CD and music became a commodity based business as sales bubbled. The studios were consolidated and bought out by large corporations with no real love of music and a focus on the quarterly reports. MTV, an international mega radio station, added fuel to this fire replacing local radio stations as the main gateway to commercial success. It?s the grim end game now. Wall-mart is now the leading reseller of CDs. Seen their selection?

Technology has come to our rescue. The Industry was based on control of recording and distribution of music thru large investments like recording studios, manufacturing plants, and trucks.

Now we have home studios you can run on your PC for less then $100 which are more full featured and higher quality then say anything the Beatles ever used. We can upload and download the music we record using the internet and we dont need The Industry for any of it. The Internet can reach more people then MTV and soon we won?t need them either. The future will be musicians and audience with no more Music Industry middleman. And the best news, same thing will happen to movies.

The days of everybody listening to the same mega bucks musicians will be over. A new era of variety and innovation is coming.

If it pays more then my day job.

I've been in a number of bands but it has been sometime since I have played out with one. My first band, in high school, featured a singer that couldn't sing and two guitar players that couldn't play. We sure had fun playing basements and garages around Denver. I've been playing guitar ever since. I've been playing guitar synths for a couple of decades now. The earliest stuff I have posted is from 2001 when I made my first "album" Now I'm working on my craft enjoying the process developing my live looping show.

Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Fripp, and Adrian Belew.

Amsterdam, Paris, San Francisco, Dnepropetrovsk, Denver

I'm in the process of migrating to a new software looping rig. So far I've made major improvements in functionality and have been able to shed most of the gear.
New Rig:
Fender Mustang
Steinberger Spirite
VG-99, VG-8, Touchsmart notebook, Korg Nano Controller
Software: Jamstix3, Mobius, Bidule, Midi Yoke, Trancegate, Aftershock and Deelay

Old Rig:
18 pieces (15 powered) 5 sound sources and 6 separate effects chains all run off foot pedals:

Fender Mustang
Fender Bronco
Gibson Echoplex EDP4
Roland VG-99, VG-8, GR-33 and 2 US-20 unit selectors
Alisis SR-16
Electro Harmonic Voice Box
Boss ME-8 and DD-5
2 Behringer A/B switches and Ultratone K1800fx PA
Boomerang
DOD FX7 and VoTec
MXR Loop Selector
Audio Technica Gooseneck Mic
Nady 4 Channel Mixer

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