highpriest + Musician in Oaklyn, NJ

SEEKING

ABOUT

I am a busy man. I already have 2 bands that I maintain, but they are more just studio projects. I want to play live again. I am a guitarist by trade, but I have been feeling the desire to stretch out and play some bass in a stinky, gritty reggae band. I have multiple guitar rigs, a solid bass rig, many keyboards, a Hammond organ (sorry, not a B3 or C3) and a full on recording studio with a great selection of outboard gear, microphones, and tape machines.

Also, I am always looking for artists to produce. I have a studio, as well as access to many others. Pretty much any gear you want, I can get my hands on. Grand pianos, many guitar and bass amps, vintage tube mics, 24 track 2" tape machines, Pro Tools, whatever. Any genre, almost any budget. Be reasonable. I don't do this for my health. I can develop artists, record, mix, produce the whole process, whatever you need. Well versed in rap, hip hop, country, jazz, metal, rock, folk, Celtic traditional (kind of a specialty, actually), dub, reggae, and singer/songwriter/XPN stuff. Send me a message with some demos and we can talk. Below is my contact. Don't bother me with "can you mix my song for $60?", then proceed to waste 2 weeks of my life. Find an intern with that budget. Not trying to be a dick, but generally, people have the attitude that because someone is an engineer they should be honored to mix some local hack act for less than minimum wage. Please, I've mixed Phil Lesh, Stanley Jordan, fun., Rusted Root, Doug E. Fresh, Vivian Greene, and the Eli Young Band to list a very small selection. I am not looking for charity cases, unless you are jaw dropping awesome and thriving on oodles of noodles. Then, maybe we can talk.

Screen name:

highpriest

Member since:

Jan 10 2011

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Committed

Years playing music:

20

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

2-3 times per week

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

reverbperv at dot com,

Peter Gabriel, Hank Williams (the first), The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Police, Patsy Cline, radiohead, Dead Can Dance, Joy Division, Tim Buckley, Portishead, A Big Name Act, Lyle Lovett, David Bowie, Mazzy Star, Willie Nelson, The Antlers, Jeff Buckley, The Magnetic Fields, The Cure, The Smiths, King Crimson, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Gabriel era Genesis, TV on the Radio, Mile Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Midnight Oil, Wilco, LOTS OF OLD PUNK and by old I mean Dead Kennedys, The Exploited, GBH, TSOL, MDC, The Damned and the like; Lungfish, Fugazi, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Rza, The Grateful Dead, Gentle Giant, Tom Waits, Voivod, Faith No More, Buena Vista Social Club, Godflesh, Iron Maiden, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, The Beatles (can't have enough Beatles!!!), The The, Billie Holiday, Scott Walker, Catherine Wheel, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Decemberists, The Mars Volta, Danzig era Misfits and Samhain, Slayer, The Mountain Goats, Queen, Great Big Sea, Supertramp, The Allman Brothers, God this list could go on for ever!!! Better off asking who I don't like. That list is shorter and much more entertaining.

EQUIPMENT

'75 Fender vibrolux reverb, late 60's Univox head, 70's EMC PA head and 2 - 2X12 cabs, 1 2X12 cabinet, 1 4X10 Univox cabinet, Dean Markley RM-80, Modified Berlant Tape Machine monitor amplifier-converted to guitar amp (all tube, circa 1948), Fender Jazz Bass vintage issue, SWR 350x head, Frankensteinian bass cabinet,'72 Thinline, Frankencaster loaded with S. Duncans, ESP LTD, many many racks, mics and such, 2 overflowing pedalboards, Hammond M-100 organ, Korg MS2000, Studio Electronics SE-1 monophonic analog synth, Roland JV-1080, Korg TR rack, gobs of plugins, nice 32 channel recording console, lots of tracking hardware. I'm loaded with gear.

MUSIC