ABOUT
I've retired from performing live to concentrate on my home-studio music video production hobby and adding new content to my be channel: Comfy At Home Productions.
- Screen name:
- rick524422
- Member since:
- Apr 05 2013
- Active within 24 hours
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 55
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
Influences
Steely Dan, Yes (and their solo works), Genesis/Phil Collins, Journey, Kansas, Toto, Queensryche, Chicago, Heart, Eagles, Little River Band, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Joe Walsh, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Spin Doctors (especially Aaron Comess), Gino Vannelli, Starcastle, The Allman Brothers, Crosby-Stills-Nash & Young, etc., etc. The list is just too long and varied to post it all here, but you get the idea!
Instrument experience:
- Vocalist:
- Advanced
- Rhythm Guitar:
- Advanced
- Lead Guitar:
- Advanced
- Acoustic Guitar:
- Advanced
- Bass Guitar:
- Advanced
- Drums:
- Advanced
- Other Percussion:
- Advanced
- Background Singer:
- Advanced
- Other:
- Advanced
- Keyboard:
- Moderate
- Harmonica:
- Moderate
EQUIPMENT
Customized Line 6 JTV-69 Variax guitar and (digitally integrated) Line 6 HD500X Floor Pedal system. Fishman TriplePlay and FC-1 wireless midi system controlling a Roland JV-1010 synth module along with an Edirol PCR-500 Keyboard/Controller. Bugera 333-212 amp. Yamaha FGX730SC Acoustic. Breedlove Pursuit 12-String Acoustic Guitar. 1996 Fender/Squire Precision Bass. Nady UB-4 Wireless Headset Mic system and (modded) Shure SM57. TC Helicon VoiceTone Harmony GXT harmonizer. Expanded and customized Roland TD-9SX V-Tour Electronic Drums. Alesis SamplePad. Customized Behringer Eurolive B115 for drums stage amplification. Behringer Eurolive B205D vocal monitor. My studio hardware/software and instrument list keeps growing and is just too extensive to include it all here.
MUSIC
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Comfy At Home
Comfy At Home Year: 2020 Genre: Cover/Tribute
This is the soundtrack to my self-produced Comfy At Home music video (available for streaming on my YouTube channel - "Comfy At Home Productions".
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Town Without Pity
Town Without Pity Album: Open Fire Genre: Cover/Tribute
This is my solo performed, home produced re-creation of the 1970's Ronnie Montrose instrumental version of a song that was a hit (and theme song for the movie that it was named after) for singer Gene Pitney in the 60's. Sadly, Ronnie past away a few years ago. From this first rough mix you can get an idea of my Lead Guitar and Drums skills along with my midi "virtual instrument" programming and production abilities.
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Kingdom Come?
Kingdom Come? Genre: Other
This is a song that was "under development" in my mind for well over 20-something years and I've only recently acquired the technology, personal studio, equipment and the time to commit it to a recorded form. It's the only complete original song that I have and it represents most of my influences and all of my skills as a musician, including my singing voice. I won't make it "downloadable" until I've spent more time on it to achieve the high quality of mastering that I prefer, but this example of my work will suffice for now.
