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to book Mel for your project see styles at base
of page.
Please note: A sense of humour is a boon, though I'm not for Racoon
hats with all the alternative materials available nowadays.... PREAMBLE
[ INTRO: focus...there are many aspects to everyone, here we
focus on a fragment of one aspect of one person. Do you think Melanie has
written this? She's written most of the songs at this site, though this,
well, in any event she has contributed information here...
Hello, Well, I was asked as this basic independent artist ,
to list the wonderful venues , radio stations, televised programs,
and other I have experienced as receptive to the truly independent artist,
so that others may avail themselves of those avenues of artistic expression.
I answered that whatever I could list would be historical and ,
let's not get hysterical , some have changed form, and here
' comprehensive ' is a myth. *
= does mean list available ....Well, o.k,
list some now, some later....Let's start with NY ]
FIELD Live Performance *
:
ensemble and solo
NY : about
wonderful venues over the past years ; NH ; FL; PA ; MA ;
INTL*: Bermuda, Indonesia,
Italy, Ireland, India, Nepal, Switzerland.
VISUAL-PRINT performed and or interviewed in conscientious print
; independent video ; independent television exchange *
and open-minded radio * Idioms:
modern:
Rock, New Age, Metal, Blues; Baroque, Romantic ancient: Himalayan;
Native American [ stix and stonz ]
Public Domain Audio: original and cover version releases *
;
compilations with other music artists * ; internet
; indie-college radio *; hard copies
CATALOGUE soundtracks and technologies for programs and
movingpictographic portfolios
[ film related ] technique demonstrations
*
original, Rakatan Music Company, Broadcast Music Inc.
and interpretative schemes for modern ensembles *;
lyrical themes: love, nature, and sci-fi fantasy; vantages:
first, second , and third person.
[ should this be the next thing to list? ]
REVIEWS*_______________________________________________________
Performance - Recording - Production * : original and
cover, independent releases, compliations,
availablesoundtracks for independent film portfolios:
Musica Compagna Luganese; Arbor Day Festival ; Carl Fortunato; Charlie
Tuitt: Miles Davis ; Doc Halliday : B.B. King ; Graham Knox: Dom Perry
; Pepsi Robinson ; Catskills Music; Danny Miranda : Cactus, Blue Oyster
Cult; Noel Redding : The Jimi Hendrix Experience ; Alice's Fourth Floor
Rep. TheatreRobert Silverman: Junior Welles ; Bill Shanley : Eire Billboard
; Shawn Solomon: Ronnie Wood, Roger Daltrey, Nona Hendryx ; Mick Taylor
: John Mayall, Rolling Stones; Dave Amlen: Deep Purple ; Steve Wolfe: Hiram
Bullock, GroverWashington ;
Supporting Player *: guitar, bass, vocals: Rock:
Two by Four; Unatural Axe; Band Raj; The Ragdolls; Ace Harris and the Experiment;
Anthony Aquarius ; Mark Alexander; Andy Genovese ; Bruce Wayne; Paul Freefall
; World: Ghandarva Vedic Music; Blues/Funk/R-n-B: Brenda
Bell's Orange RecordsDelta Blues; Bill Sims; Blues Review; Casey Jones;
Kathleen Gerritsen; Jumpin' Jehosaphat; Maria Lee Carta. Metal/Punk:
Ages of Fortune; Elliot Essman; The Ragdolls; Mark Truth and the Liars;
Carribean
style: Ira Abel ; Folk Style: Ferrari Productions; Platinum
Island Keyboards: versatile
Studio: Hot Sound Studios; Electric
Lady ; Studio 900 ; Shadow Sound ; Sound-On-Sound; Lion's Den;
Millrose Music; Dessau; Playroom; Skyelab; Platinum Island, Absolute Audio;
Master Disk. Ireland: Sulan Studios; Air Studios; Compass Point *Recording
Studio songwriter's projects;
EDUCATION: MUSIC -Music Studies, B.A., SUNY Empire
Education other [ you'll need to write for a list, no just kidding:
Fordham University, Franklin College Switzerland, Instituto Allende, Mexico
]. LETTERS of REFERENCE: available
Guitar: Guitar Study Center; American Institute of Guitar ;
Steve Tarshis- Hendrix ; Phil Grande: Joe Cocker, BOC ; Eddie Ojeda: Twisted
Sister ; Daniel Debrit: Krokkus ; Jimmy Crespo : Aerosmith ; Howard Scherr-Muddy
Waters, Clapton, S. R. Vaughn ; Tommy Schiff -Billy Squier Voice:
Brenda
Bell: Spivey Records ; Keyboard:
Edith Penguilly ; Rhythm and
Meter: Yiqbal Singh: Ali Rakka ; Mitch Mitchell : Band of Gypsys ;
Sitar : Orissa Music School ; Ganesh Narayan : Ravi Shankar, Ali
Akbar Khan ; Mechanics of the Independent : David Peel : Elephant's
Memory Muzic Biz:
Anne Ruckert : T.Rex
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