Dear Ronald,
Whoa! You don't listen to a lot of jambands (Phish, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, etc.) do you? I go on tour gigging for a week and you flip out on me. (And I though that that was a pretty together take for a liquid set at the Wetlands in NYC!) Do you have a lot of pent-up aggression in aggression/fustration inside you that you desperately need to get out? I supose that message board could be a good psychological venting tool (i.e. you string of unanswered comments), but isn't this supposed to be about constructive sharing among music professionals?
In any case, I am real glad that you are not with any of the nation and international acts that regularly book me as a professional drummer and percussionist or my carreer would really be in trouble!
If you (or any of you others out there) would like to hear some more of my work including some instrumental electronic tracks in quite a different style from my first posted offering, click on the website below!
Let me know you think, be well all you Kiwis, and see you soon!
Love,
NY2NZdrummer
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In the effort to make the music links easier for y'all (you all), here goes a littltle html:
anon-NYC-2-NZ-Drummer@craigslist.org
Hope it works you enjoy!
Dear Ronald
As I do indeed take requests, here are links to a live performance from The Wetlands in New York City, the late great Northeast epicenter of the U.S. jamband scene - this will give you a taste of a high-energy live show, but it is only one of the many styles, genres, and instrumentations I play (acoustic traps set in this case):
LoFi MP3:
Enjoy all you Kiwi's and please keep the edvice, comments, and conversations coming!
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Dear Ronald
As I do indeed take requests, here are links to a live performance from The Wetlands in New York City, the late great Northeast epicenter of the U.S. jamband scene - this will give you a taste of a high-energy live show, but it is only one of the many styles, genres, and instrumentations I play (acoustic traps set in this case):
LoFi MP3:
http://www.broadjam.com/songtracking/playsonglofi.asp?songID=45435&play_...
HiFi MP3:
http://www.broadjam.com/songtracking/playsonghifi.asp?songID=45435&play_...
Real Audio:
http://www.broadjam.com/songtracking/playsongreal.asp?songID=45435&play_...
Enjoy all you Kiwi's and please keep the edvice, comments, and conversations coming!
A New Zealander teaching a New Yorker about sarcasm: who woulda thunk it!?!? ;-)
Thanks & be well!
Dear Heather,
Thanks for tip, and please pass along any others you have.
I hope to see you in the King's Arms soon!
Be well!
P.S.
I do it for the love too, but the real world wants food on the table as well!
P.S. to samflux -
// wouldnt be caught dead watching that programme..
Personally I might agree with you on the content, but if they need a musical score, playing is playing and a gig's a gig! (and besides, maybe an emotive percussion score would raise the artistic quality of the shows!)
As to my beloved fiancee's taste in T.V. programs, what can I say!
// i wouldnt discourage you from coming to nz .. we always need good drummers.. just not chatty ones .. haha - kidding
Me, chatty? And you Kiwis have such a reputation for being such free and easy and friendly conversationalists! ;-)
But seriously, Samflux, where would you suggest that the best opportubties for a drummer coming to N.Z. lie?
Thanks & be well!
How did you guess? My fiancee's been addicted since she studied abroad in N.Z. in college. How are is their scoring? Thanks for reading and writing!
Actually, I have a great intest in doing electronic percussion soundtracks for your famous New Zealand soaps, a quick, easy, and effective mood-making technique used as a production standard on such leading U.S. soaps as NBC's "Days of Our Lives".
Does anyone have any knowledge of the local N.Z. television industry (especially soaps)?
Thanks and be well!
Dear Jemma,
Thanks for your post!
I am a Pro Artist Endorser for Grover Pro Percussion and Silver Fox Percussion, and I play Silver Fox SF-515 drumsticks with Delrin tips.
Please let me know what your experiences in the N.Z. music scene has been, and I'm always up for any advice for a newcomer planning a move from overseas!
Have a tuneful November!
I am a serious drummer relocating from New York half-way across the world a postings a brief and informal blind c.v. listing relevant experience so as to hopefully meet-up with apropriate people, oportuntities, and situations.
While musical performance is certainly an art and a passion, for those who love it so much they sacrifice a lot so as to at least partially support themselves through it, it is also a job. Just as a plumber moving to a new area would use a c.v. listing jobs he's done and people he's worked with and would not be accused of talking about how big a dick he has, so should a musician be no different.
If you believe their is a better way to try and make initial contact with local working musicians, I would greatly apreciate it.
Please contact me at anon-NYC-2-NZ-Drummer@craigslist.org
Anything from small local recording sessions to backing singer/songswriters to coevr and original bands in tourist bars!
Established U.S. Pro Folk/Rock Funk Jam Jazz Drummer Moving to N.Z.!
Established U.S. pro folk/rock funk jam & jazz drummer and percussionist (acoustic and electronic)with pro endorsement deal is relocating to N.Z. in the winter/spring of 2005 and looking for steady and established paying gigs!
I've performed and shared a stage with U.S., national, and international Folk/Rock, Funk. World, and Klezmer artists form the Jerry Garcia Band to Babatunde Olatunji (Drums of Passion), T.M. Stevens to Shlomo Carlebach, and many of todays top Jambands acts in National and Internation U.S. music festivals.
Online live performance streams and videos availible on request.
Looking for recording and performance situations in styles ranging form rock, funk, and psychedelia to blues, jazz and klezmer to folk, bluegrass and jamgrass to tribal, groove, and all out jam.
Serious, professional situations only, please.
I look forward to your responses!
Please reply anon-NYC-2-NZ-Drummer@craigslist.org ASAP!
Dear Robyn,
Thank you so much for your excellent post, and I'm sorry I didn't reply to your kind advice sooner but I was out gigging for the week with limited onlinbe access.
You hit the nail right on the head, and that emotion-heightening background score is exactly what I was talking about!
Please let me know if you have any other wonderful tidbits of industry info to share, and I hope I can buy you a drink to repay you for your help once I arrive on your shores!
Be well, and see you soon!
-NY2NZdrummer
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