How I Do
Standards And Practices
Hello Number One Musicians! The point of these newsletters is to avoid doing all those thank you notes. This is intended to thank everyone at once.
Thank You!
When it comes to cross promotion, what I do is look for the most Blincoins offered by any act and cash in on that, then once or twice a day share a song from 2 or 3 people from my network w/o any recompense. I'll try to do different names and get to every one, eventually. If I don't get to you, send a message and I'll make sure to count you in.
In each one of these, I'll attach a different song from my N1M.com page and explain what it is and where it came from. For example: Bimini Flow, above.
This song was recorded at Walls Have Ears recording studio and Bill Stace dialed the knobs. Ron Turner and Bill mixed it down. Ron Turner is a Milwaukee "band slut", as it were; which is just a mean way of saying he's a really good multi-instrumentalist and plays with a lot of bands. He played Bass, lap steel and six string Guitar w/me. He plays Bass on this track.
Mike Skeff plays the Drums. Don Turner, Ron's brother, plays an Accordion. Ron and Don played on a lot of my recordings. I played Guitar, wrote and sang it. I took those bed tracks over to my buddy Paul Setser, who had a home studio and we put backing vocal tracks on it. Mine for sure. I don't remember if anyone else sang on it.
Then we brought over Freddie Lee, a Milwaukee guitarist who makes his own records and had him play two lead parts, against each other. Then Paul mixed it all down.
That's Fred's picture on the front of this track. He's playing guitar at a place called Quarters in Milwaukee's Riverwest district. That picture was taken by Ray Hernandez; a person with Cerebral Palsy, who I work for as a live-in aide. You'll find lots of pictures of Ray and all the people I mention, in the images section of this page. Ray took a lot of them.
I guess that's enough for now. I'll do these once a week? Is that cool?
Goodbye everybody, goodbye!
