Visitor
Visitor is a one piece experimental studio quintet which turns out very moody music while touching on many different genre's of sound.Band/artist history
When I was thirteen I figured out that with my Sony duel tape deck stereo that I could record my guitar on the a side of the duel deck and then while I was dubbing it to the b side of the duel deck I could record another track so on and so forth. Ever since then I've been writing and recording my own songs. I used that method for a couple years and then I upgraded to a beautiful 4 track reel to reel strait out of the 70s. I used that for about a year and then I talked my dad who also writes songs Billy D to buy a digital fostex 8 track. This is when I started recording songs that didn't suck. This is when I formed my own little style and this is when OK computer came out and changed everything, For me anyway.
I grew up in a weird way. The first band I really liked was Nirvana thats what got me into music. But I didn't like anything else at the time. I wasn't digging all the other "grunge" bands. When Kurt died I needed something else to fill the void so I started buying older albums. I bought the beatles Revolver and it changed everything for me. I started buying all the beatles albums one by one. And then when I had them all I started buying Jimi hendrix albums, then the doors, Zeppelin ect. I went through the decades pretty much in order until I discovered all this great music in my own time. So in a way I sort of grew up in the 60s 70s and 80s. I think you can tell if you actually listen to my music that although it's up to date and "hip" the influences are genuine and very noticeable. You'll hear nirvana mixed with the beach boys and Lennon mixed with DR Dre. Anyway After the Fostex 8 track We bought the beautiful Korg d1600 which has it's bugs but is a really good machine. And We moved the studio out of the horrible basement filled with bugs and bad vibes upstairs to a room with windows and a view. And most of what is on my page was recorded with the view. It's so nice to feel the sun when you're laying down tracks.
If you haven't figured it out Visitor is me, one person. There is no band. I'd rather have a band name then use my name. I've never found anyone who likes what I like and knows how play an instrument. I'd love to be in a band and write songs with other people but there's no one into the experimental moody sad music that I write in this town. So I was forced to learn more than one instrument. I started playing bass, then guitar, then piano, then drums. I'm still not good at all on the drums. I have one beat inside of me but thankfully it works with my music so I'm happy. I don't own real drums so I'm forced to play them with a drum machine. 90 percent of Visitors Drums I play on electronic pads live not programmed the other 10 percent I use stock drums or program them myself. I've never had a music lesson. I've taught myself pretty much everything I know give or take some pointers from my Dad Billy D but for the most he didn't really help me because he didn't want me to be a songwriter because of the whole no future thing :Have you performed in front of an audience?Nowhere to play my type of music in Youngstown Ohio. They like Crap Rock and metal. And Corney Bar bands that sound like Creed, ewwwww
Your musical influences
Radiohead, pink Floyd, Beatles, Flaming lips, Portishead, Gorillaz... Dan the automator!!! Nirvana... I like a lot of different styles of music. Most music today is really hard to sit through but some of it is Ok. I'm not sure if I'm influenced by them but I'll list them anyway. NiN, Tool, Old Wutang, Interpol, The chemical Brothers, CatPower, Bjork!!! Queens of the stone age, Sigur Ros Ect... And Older music, Led Zepplin, steely dan, Hendrix, OLD U2, The Smiths, The doors ect...What equipment do you use?
Korg D1600, Yamaha piano, Fender Strat, Fender P bass, and various effects. And a Dr Rhythm drum machine.Anything else?
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