Music
Music, sound design, audio post-production
My "band", The Bohemian Fringe, consists of myself and whatever musician friends I can round up at any given time for performance or recording. I play bass and sing and occasionally play some guitar. I write almost all the material recorded by the Bohemian Fringe, but I occasionally use songs written by friends or well-known (and not-so-well-known) material by well known (or not-so-well-known) recording artists.
The Llama Situation
What did you do during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21? Like many people, I decided to use the down time to accomplish something. I vowed to get back into music, honing my playing and production skills. Unauthorized Music Event by the Llama Situation is the result.
This was originally planned as a Bohemian Fringe album and I thought I'd record some cover songs instead of originals, just to warm up first. But after a few songs I decided to create a new band just for cover tunes, The Llama Situation. I do the vocals and play all the instruments with one exception: I resurrected a 30-year-old analog master tape of myself and the late, great Joe Dady (violins and violas) covering the Pixies' Here Comes Your Man.
The album consists of 8 songs and runs just under 40 minutes.
Now available on CD
($10.00, including shipping in the US):
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1 The World is Not Enough (Garbage) |
The Bohemian Fringe
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The first studio recordings of the Fringe were done in 1986 by just myself plus Tony Gross on some guitar bits.
A year later I got a band together and in 1987 we released a 12-inch, four-song EP, Japanese Haiku Tour. This
was followed by a 7-inch vinyl single with the dance remix of "Walk Around the Wall" on the
A-side and a reggae version(!) of Bruce Springsteen's "Cover Me" as the B-side.
The first The Bohemian Fringe CD was released in 1991 and was titled "From Parts Unknown",
after the way we were billed in a local concert series. Since then there have been
public performances with several varied line-ups, but no further releases. However... there is a new Fringe album in the works now.
Arpad and the New Sons of the Industrial Revolution
I also produced projects for other artists, like a single by the Urban Squirrels ("Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore" b/w "Jesus at the Ground Round") and the album "Calm Down" by Arpad and the New Sons of the Industrial Revolution.
The Arpad project was pretty amazing as he was living in Canada at the time. He'd mail us a casette tape of two or three songs and the drummer and I would learn them (I was playing bass on this project, too) on our own. Then Arpad would come to town for a weekend of recording.
I'll have more recordings available soon.