Chris Cass

Chris' guitar music writing started in 1994 with early riff-driven songs produced on a 4 track tape recorder. After a long hiatus, Chris began writing and composing original music again in 2009. Aided with an 8-track digital recorder, this account features low budget, lo-fi, rough cut home studio recordings of original songs written (or rewritten) by Chris since September 2009. Most of the songs were initially composed on acoustic guitar, and many recorded versions combined the original acoustic riffs with electric guitar overlays. Also included in the song list were some collaborative composing and recording works with Ian Henderson (noted as collaborative works in the song title).

Yes, but just open mic for my original material. Since 2014, I've performed live numerous times as the guitarist in a Seattle-based Celtic folk rock band called The Belfast Bandits.

Primary music influences include The Vaselines, The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, The Cure, R.E.M, My Bloody Valentine, Collective Soul, Foo Fighters, Violent Femmes, The Velvet Underground, Janes Addiction, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden, The Pogues, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles, etc.

I typically recorded with a Martin Dreadnought acoustic guitar and a Gibson Les Paul Studio electric, though many earlier songs were recorded with a cheap Epiphone electric guitar and Fender acoustic guitar. For a vast variety in electric guitar tones and sound textures a Line 6 Spider amplifier was often used. Drums for newer songs in this collection were composed on an electric drum set connected directly into a digital recorder. Drum lines for earlier-recorded songs in the collection were composed tapping on a computer keyboard and recording output with a condenser microphone (utilizing a computer drumming program, but no programmed drum lines are used). An Ibanez acoustic bass guitar was used in recordings after April 2011. All home studio recordings were mastered, roughly, on a basic 8-track digital recorder.