The Advisors

The Advisors - retrotronica with a splash of rock...shaken, not stirred. Rod Tucker - Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter Ed Gelmetti - Guitars, Bass, Synths, Songwriter After a ten year hiatus, Rod and I have teamed up again to write some songs and produce a CD. Unlike our previous work together in a local Portland band called Josephine Ocean, this is a brand new project with no legacy songs, no preset style, no limits on what we choose to write. Since my early days way back in the 80's, it has been my goal to record myself and my music. I can't say I'm %100 perfect at recording but it is something I continue to do to this day. The Advisors is completely recorded and produced here in our home studio. Not low tech, but certainly not a state of the art, acoustically designed space...

In 1996 Rod and I were in a local band called Josephine Ocean. I played bass and he was the singer. The band broke up and Rod and I went separate ways. In 2006 after moving back from Seattle, I wanted to get another project going and thought who was the best singer I've worked with? That was Rod. We've been slowly finishing songs since mid-2006.

The problem with bands is that they often evolve to become the reason for being rather that a vehicle to write and perform great music. Rod and I have decided that we will finish a CD, a hard product in hand, before pursuing a band situation. At that point, we will be supporting the music and not a boys club which becomes an uncontrollable entity in itself. The music is the most important aspect of what we do and a band shouldn't deteriorate that concept. Of course, I love playing live and can't wait until we can get something going on the live front. We will let you know when - and it will be quite a while yet - we play live.

My influences, while not nearly as broad as it should be are primarily electronic and rock - classic rock. Rod is more the smoothy - jazz and standards, and of course rock. What you will find me listening to these days are Queen, Frou Frou, The Cars, Tears for Fears (their new stuff rocks), Curt Smith (solo work, bass player and singer/songwriter from Tears for Fears), White Stripes, and Counting Crows - just can't get enough of that Telecaster twang! I'll have to ask Rod what he's listening to these days...

Recording AMD based dual 3800 PC, Cubase SX3, RME Hammerfall interface. Mackie mixers for monitoring synths Behringer MIC200 mic preamp Behringer 1955 Compressor DBX1066 compressor Rode NT2 Condensor Shure SM57 Dynamic Guitars Gibson Firebird, Gretsch Duojet, Fender Telecaster, Danelectro Hodad, Line6 Variax 300, Squier Standard Strat, Epiphone Les Paul Standard, Musicman Stingray 4 string bass, Yamaha RBX375 5 string bass. Vox AD60VTX and AD30VT amps Fender Performer 1000 amp Synths Yamaha: Motif ES, AN1X, EX5R, CS2X, and A4000 EMU: Audity, XL1, Orbit Roland: JV1080 Soft synths in the PC