Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who in March released his ninth album, fittingly enough, titled, “9 Dreams.” Based south of Los Angeles, he has gotten international airplay and media coverage from Portugal to Canada to the UK and more. He even has his own publishing company and record label. He is already planning his next album, plus he is working with a studio in Los Angeles on various multimedia projects. He was previously a guest on this show more than three years ago on Episode 471.
“I took my studio into a small bungalow down by the beach and I just worked.”
“All my nine albums, I play all the instruments, do all the singing, the writing, the engineering, the producing, promotion, everything. I've been in all those fields so I can do all that.”
“I use a Fender Telecaster. I had two little licks that I play just for fun, just tiny things. And I never thought of putting them together. And I did that and put the cigar box guitar in there. And it came out great.”
“I've got an 18-channel mixer. It's old. It's a Fostex. I've had different recorders over the years. I used to have a one inch eight track and Scully machine. Then I had a Fostex eight track. I think I went to computer from there.”
“I found I end up hating all my songs at some point in the process… And I will say, no, just hold out. Find out what did I love about, what caught me about that song that said, go do that song.”
“With AI right now you can do just about anything… but the thing that I don't like about it most is it takes all the natural adventure, discovery, imagination out of it.”
“You can just tell your AI machine, ‘Okay, write me ten songs.’ It's going to get to this. ‘You do three about love and do one about building spaceships’… but … I'm not doing that.”
“It was not me being the greatest artist in the world, it's me being a great promoter.”
“There's never any bad language in my songs. That's not entertainment really for me.”
“Eventually we got together and… we're going to be doing films, we’re gonna do unscripted TV, we already have one series, actually eight-episode series… we're pitching things to Lionsgate and Netflix.”
“On Cannery Row”
“See What Tomorrow Brings”