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Sex: Male
Relationship: Single
Location: Saratoga Springs, NY [United States]
Age: 37
Eyes: Hzl
Hair: red
Weight: 175
Height: 5'8
Race: White
Sexual Preference: Straight
Occupation: Film, Fine Art, Musician, Audio Engineering Studen
Education: Associate's Degree
Member Since: July.9th.2006
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My Bio: ~ MY MUSIC HISTORY AND MUSICAL LINEAGE ~
My new updated music starts with TRANSMIGRATION that is the beginning of the new 29 songs i just finished and updated. Some are the same songs but with different styles of digitally enhanced guitar effects. The program that I use to record is not on this Mac. It only runs on my crappy DELL PC and I'm totally annoyed with it because you'll notice that the music will suddenly jump forward out of rhythm. I use Steinberg's VST Instrument's WavLab that is causing a pause in the recording. As a producer, a final mix-down and final track is supposed to be flawless and as an Artist and Musician that will always play a song from beginning to end because of my work based on me being a perfectionist about it. Unless I'm recording. Normally when I mess up, I always pick back up at where I'm supposed to be in the song after some improvisational adjustments to sound like I didn't mess up from my good Ear. 12 years ago. It's my older electric guitar work with my first digital effect peddles for my old band, TRIP HAZARD as Robin Guthrie from the late Cocteau Twins has always been my greatest musical influence. My effect peddles along with my half-stack Fender Amplifier was stolen. the later songs were recordings that I remastered from when I was writing music along with a recording of my drummer Bj S. in Phoenix, AZ years ago. I was writing the new music for me to play these songs on my electric that was never used live or in any professional recording before our band broke up and went our separate ways when I was 22, 12 years ago.
I'm doing this to hopefully show my vast abilities and styles with my electric, fretless bass, synthesizer, 12 string acoustic guitar, and voice through digitally synthesized personal effects. I play all instruments, song writing, production and as an Artist, design my own sleeve art like i've done freelance artwork for other bands, advertising shows with striking graphic arts, and my great skills of logo design. My Drummer Bj S. is pretty famous now and we are doing a long distance project right now. Not out of the ordinary in any way. It would have sounded iffy when we were younger but there isn't anything abnormal about forming music as a long distant project now that were older and more professional with our experiences with the music industry. Our music was very original with Bj's intricate style of music form was written by his intricate rhythms that remind me of the unique and impressive style of Budgie from Siouxsie And The Banshees. The remastered and updated work with my electric guitar was practiced a little bit but my bass player was flaking on doing any work. Even after Bj and I made him a tape of us playing the new written music. The next thing I know I moved to work in the Grand Teton National Forest and Bj moved to Colorado where he became professionally recognized, and I recently heard that my bass player moved to Oregon and got hooked on heroin, then the next thing I heard is that he's in prison for counterfeiting money!!!???
Our band ended 12 years ago and I was first chair trombone in Orchestra, Symphony, and Jazz band since I was in third grade. When I turned 17 I picked up the guitar as the sixth generation of guitarists down one line of my family and with my vast abilities for musical style of playing and performing on guitar moved onto learning the rhythm guitar for every Metallica song in one month. To my own personal style that I've been told sounds like nothing anyone has ever heard before. That comes from my creative talent. My music is good but my Artwork is world famous. I always knew that my music would attract the attention of people that enjoy the same style that I do. Then see my Artwork when I grab their attention.
So I started creating my own music by investing in the instruments, besides an acoustic drum set because I live in an apartment and really want to purchase a good quality digital drum set where I can personally synthesize my own percussive sounds to go along with my Darkwave / Dreamwave / Rock style. Then started collecting the equipment that I need for Music Production and my artistic skills to design my album sleeve art. Work that I've been doing, freelance for other bands for years.
On...
http://www.myspace.com/drexer
Or...
http://www.bolt.com/drexer
My two iSound players for my music: DREXER SHIFT-DRIFTER and my work remastering my Father's music from a recent professional production at Cottonhill Recording Studios in New England. I rendered the sound quality much better than the professional producer work. Then I remastered my Dad's band GYRO's only four songs recorded that was on a dubbed tape from a demo peel session from 1974 that was dubbed onto an analog cassette tape from way back then. The recording also only played out of the left speaker. So using Steinberg VST Instrument's WavLab, I recorded onto that program with my walkman with a "Y" jack and plugged into my analog to digital USB Audio Interface. Then copied the recording on the left side and pasted it to the right in the program slightly off on purpose to help my task to make it sound perfect with a good quality stereo sound. I rendered the fade in / fade out / digital effects / plugins that I used to render two stereo expansion plugins, a very slight reverb, noise reducer that I had to work with this great equalization plugin with the noise reducer and am now being complimented by my family freaking out on it, the following of my Dad's band from the memories of their younger years and partying, and my Mother says that I made they GYRO sound so good, it sounds like they did when they played live, with the help of a slight reverb. The noise reduction worked with this equalization program enabled me to perfect the equalization and sound quality very well. My new remastering from the recent professional recordings, and a very difficult ten Folk Songs that my Dad recorded and gave to my Mother to impress her when they first met in 1971, before I was born. That was hard with limited sound perfecting plugins that I have because it was recorded on a mono recorder on an analog cassette tape with the annoying, loud hissing in the background that was hard to get rid of the best that I could.
The immense speed of development for my growth in my Mother's womb was the beginning of my already inherited talent as I would roll around inside my Mom when my Dad would play his acoustic Folk music.
In the production of my own music, I began collecting musical instruments like my fretless bass where I play keeping in tune by ear like the trombone mixed with my skill of guitar playing dexterity, while I'm reading lyrics and paying attention to my voice and lyrics at the same time. Now I produce and play all instruments for my own music to promote my abilities and ear for psychedelic guitar work and music for hooking up with a professional project with the use of my vast range of playing style, singer songwriter or composer and producer. I'm a good percussionist from when I would play my drummer's set and can play well. I lived with my drummer at the time and his parents and our band room was in the back of the house, so we played constantly when we weren't working.. I'm also currently in the Bakersfield Jazz Ensemble on trombone again.
My Grandfather and Grandmother met at Juliards during the depression in the early 1930's. Pretty radical for a woman to be in a private institution or College in those day's. She was opera and piano. My Grandfather plays every instrument and was a famous Upstate NY Folk Musician that played with Frank Wakefield, also known as the greatest mandolin musician in the world that I had the privilege to get to know when I ran into him and told him who my Grandfather is. My Grandfather's Brother was also a famous Operatic singer and my Grandpa on my Mom's side has always been the stand up bass in some three man Rockabilly band. I've played at the GOTTAGETGONE Folk Music Festival in Ballston Spa, NY and the 1960's Folk seen that has always been there in the Berkshire's and Adarondak mountains of Upstate NY. My Dad and I have played at Cafe' Lena's in Saratoga Springs, NY where my Dad was childhood friends with Bob Dylan and Arloe Guthrie that played often at Cafe' Lena's. Six years ago, I was there for six years and also played there.
I've never experienced stage fright. Before a major Jazz show a few years ago. I couldn't figure out why everyone else was acting so strange. Didn't realize until a couple of months ago that they had stage fright. I'm never like that. The more people out there, the more I can't wait to get on stage an start as a descendent of natural performers and entertainers.
This last Christmas, I worked on every individual song to upload onto My Dad's iSound "Loud Artist" account that I payed for him. My Dad didn't realize that I still had his old flyer for his latest work, "MARBLE HAT" that I used for his album graphics here on iSound. My Dad had another singer named Mike Koshgarian sing his songs under the proper way that it is supposed to be vocalized because my Dad is older and can't sing as well. But he still sings backup and breaks between singing verses with his neck braced harmonica while he strums. He has a bad habit of tapping his foot for rhythm, so the producer had to duct tape his foot to the floor LOL. The Producer at Cottonhill Recording Studios is a music professor in everything, mostly jazz at that time at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. A very expensive private institution. The Producer / Professor liked my Dad's music so well that he gave my Dad the rites of his music work to add to the recording of his MARBLE HAT project like, fantastic electric lead, acoustic lead, slide guitar, and piano and was honored to have his work in the recording of my Dad's music that was very impressive for this Professor Of Music at one of the most expensive Private College Institution. In the MARBLE HAT recordings, the producer was blown away that my Dad didn't need a hidden click metronome to keep in time with the rhythm and played perfectly on all first takes for the final mixdown. It took Mike weeks to perfect his singing. I don't know why my Dad didn't ask me? My singing is much better, and I have these huge air capacity lungs that I inherited from my Opera vocally talented ancestors. with the four GYRO songs and his 10 Folk to my Mother that I could only get it to sound the best that I could as it is in his iSound page. My entire (huge) family and my Dad's Cousins and their families, and so forth and so on are flipping out on what I did for his music. My Dad's friends from the GYRO days are so impressed on how well I did that they swear that I have an ability to make a lot of money.
I don't need money. I need the World to know of me and have my place in the History books. My artwork is well known now before I have died which means that when I do die after this life of a starving Artist, the Art Collector fiends are going to do whatever it takes to collect the total collection of all my artwork. The reason that an Artist's work becomes priceless after they die is because now that the Artist is dead, and now there's a limit to how much that Artist's work has been done in the Artist's lifetime. Most of it is in the Black Market as I've sold or given my work to people, from my 246 piece portfolio that I have been complemented on how I use just the primary colors, grey the colors down to any color I want by mixing complementary of opposite colors in the spectrum or color wheel to be added to the bulk amount of that color I would need with white. White is the bulk and the color has to be in the right value of tint or shade, warm or cool colors in an acrylic, oil or watercolor to create any color I want. It's like the Culinary Art of mixing the known strength of seasoning to be added to the bulk amount that is reducing in the pot, along with perfect timing. I've also been complemented that I don't have any particular style. I work with every aspect of art. Every medium, color selections, brush stroke technique, subject matter, and style
And how I can suddenly punch out 29 songs from nowhere updated onto my iSound player of 48 songs. Some songs are the same that have a completely different style. I have a problem though. I have what I need for school with the new iMac OS X Tiger and need the new $700.00 CuBass by Steinberg VST Instruments. I already have the effect rendering plug ins and the Hallion Sampler by VST of four disks of samples compatible with CuBass. The digital recording program that I have been using is by Steinberg VST too. But it only works on my PC and you can hear a lot of mistakes that makes me so frustrated about it suddenly jumping ahead in the rhythm. I noticed during a recording the sound meeter L & R suddenly drop and pick up again. The program is pausing the recording in progress. So I hope these mistakes that are very noticeable to a musician with the Ear of such a frustrating imperfection in the recordings. Part of being an artist, musician of good work is perfection.
http://www.isound.com/drexer_shift_drifter
My ARTWORK PORTFOLIO is located @
http://blog.myspace.com/drexer
My profile, iSound player's for © DREXER SHIFT-DRIFTER, my covers @
http://www.myspace.com/drexer
~ D R E X E R ~
I Like: Laid back people. I Dislike: Unsympathetic jerks. Craziest thing I've ever done: Everything that I would pull skateboarding and when I rock climb. My Quote: For all the people that think that they are so perfect... There are only two types of people in the World. People that want to help people and people that want to hurt people in everything that exists in Human Society. G.L.W. |
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