NEWS
ARCHIVE!!
Business-wise, I have just released
my new record entitled "ALL
THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE", with producer/engineer/mixer/Eventider/Red
Vines Licorice junkie Ronan
Chris Murphy, whose credits include work with Tony Levin,
The California Guitar Trio, King Crimson, Steve Morse, Robert
Fripp, Terry Bozzio, Steve Stevens, etc.
This "POWER DUO" album
features only myself and acoustic/electronic drumming madman Pat
Mastelotto (King Crimson, Mr. Mister, X.T.C, TU (with Trey Gunn), The Sugarcubes,
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, etc.) BEATING THE SNOT OUT OF original
instrumental compositions that were specifically written and orchestrated to
showcase
advanced
bass and
drums
textures! I could
have named
the album, "The
One Million Dollar Muffin" or some other clever title that references
the kidnapping
of my Grandmother....But, "ALL
THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE" just PLAIN rules!
**Here's a sneak peek MP3 from
the new record, "ALL
THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE", which exclusively
features my fretless 6-string bass: "Consequence". Sweet.....This
tune utilizes both a fretted 5 and a fretless 6-string
bass: "Wedren".
I had the record mastered at Threshold
Sound by Chief Mastering Engineer Stephen
Marsh, who has done stellar mastering jobs for KORN, Incubus, Ozzy Osbourne,
etc. I am not sure if he has done any work for Diddy. I know he
did some great things for CARNIE......But
most importantly, it was his genius work for Kenny Loggins that earned him
a Platinum
Record from The RIAA!
You can
check out some cool pix and videos HERE and
at Pat Mastelotto's website.
I am planning to play as many live concerts in the U.S.
as possible as well as a small-scale tour in the UK and
Japan to promote this record. The
Brits love me. They love my footie knowledge and affinity for hooliganism. The
Japanese love me because I hate Bok Choy and mushrooms. I love them right
back. I have a RED ninja suit and several Hello Kitty! trinkets and whatnots
to prove it. YOU CAN'T TRACE IT OR NUTHIN'!!!!
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1.) ***High Bass + Low Bass + Mad Drums = American Idol!!!
PROGRESSIVE ACOUSTIC/ELECTRONIC DRUMMER and INTELLIGENT/INNOVATIVE "LOW
END BASSIST" WANTED NOW!!! FOR PRE-SEASON
ALBUM SUPPORT TOUR!
2.) ***Jay
Terrien is pursuing legal action to expedite
a full
refund of over $7,650.00 USD (plus damages) from Heiko
Hoepfinger and BassLab
Basses GmbH (Kassel, Germany), pertaining
to the fraudulent
business practices, unsatisfactory amateur craftsmanship, and
poor service-level agreement (German civil code sec. § 437,
No. 2 BGB) regarding a custom bass that he purchased
from BassLab GmbH. Here's a partial photographic list
documenting some of Heiko
Hoepfinger's (BassLab Basses GmbH) craftsmanship
and construction errors.
This lawsuit, which has already been referred to Melchers
Rechtsanwälte in Frankfurt, Germany, the United
States Attorney General's Office (IL), The Federal Trade
Commission
(Washington,
DC), Wachovia Banking Corporation, VISA International, and
various Better Business Bureau satellite offices, will also
seek related punitive damages and all other miscellaneous/legal
costs (German civil code sec. § 437, No. 3, § 280
BGB) caused by Heiko Hoepfinger's fraudulent business BassLab
GmbH, its "North American" Distributor, Greg
Holmes' GH
Services based in Ontario, Canada, and their unauthorized
third-party credit card merchant "Kosmetik Claasen" (A
Flower Shop operated by Susanna Claasen) located in Muenster,
Germany.
3.)
***Jay Terrien has added a new custom Status
Graphite Stealth-2 6 String Headless Fretless Bass
into his prominent setup.
This flawlessly constructed Stealth-2 is an extremely lightweight
and balanced, one-piece graphite monocoque bass that possesses
a strikingly perfect
blue
graphite tint finish and
has the finest and flattest phenolic fretless fingerboard on
the planet!
You can check out some sweet pix here, here,
and here.
Here is an unbiased review of the Stealth-2
from a past issue of Bass Player Magazine, which also recognizes
UK-based Status Graphite owner Rob Green as a great businessman
with over
20 years
of construction and consumer expertise.
Terrien says, "From my experiences playing tons of high-end
composite gear such as Parker, Zon, Modulus, and Moses, Rob
Green, the owner and designer of Status Graphite Basses, undoubtedly
makes
the
most
stable
and
lightweight
monocoque composite-based instruments in the marketplace. I
can't imagine a more UNIQUE sound coming out of a fretless
bass. The fretless
sounds are to die for! The bass plays great and balances
well. I stopped playing two hours ago and it is still sustaining!! This
bass flat out
ROCKS!!! THANKS FOR MAKING ME A WORLD-CLASS INSTRUMENT!!!"
4.) ***Jay
Terrien, along with some of the top Chicago bassists, including
Billy Dickens and Jauqo
III-X Reality, demoed some new extended-range
bass gear and composite violins/violas from July 23-25, 2004,
at Nashville's NAMM
SUMMER SESSION!!
Jay met up with many innovative extended-range bass luthiers
such as Mike Adler, Carey Nordstrand, Jens Ritter, Kevin Brubaker,
Steven Mosher, Mark Eshenbaugh, Chris Benavente etc., as well
as several cutting-edge musical instrument companies interested
in exploring both endorsement opportunities and business development
initiatives that maximize his extensive product management
and
consulting background. You can also check out Jay Terrien live
at The NAMM Show, which runs from January 20-23, 2005 in Anaheim,
CA.
5.) ***Jay Terrien has added TWO
Parker Fly 5 String Fretted basses to his arsenal. The
Red one is tuned
EADGC and was signed by Ken Parker himself. The transparent
natural finish 5 usually stays in a DADF#C# tuning. You
can
hear the dominating sounds of both the Parker Fly 5 and
Status
Graphite Stealth-2 6 String Headless Fretless Bass
on some very cutting-edge solo bass compositions downloads:
1.) Fastidious
and 2.) Hereiam
You can check out the Parker Fly bass specs for yourself at
PARKER
GUITARS!!!
6.) ***COMPOSITE BASS SHOOT-OUT***
Jay Terrien is conducting a business analysis
of the most popular composite basses on the market. This
shootout will include compare/contrast reviews and pictures
regarding the craftsmanship, electronics, playability, and
customer service-level agreements that exist at companies
like Zon, Modulus, Parker, Moses, Status, and BassLab GmbH.
This highly-detailed and lengthy review will then be submitted
to Bass Player Magazine and other online communities surfed
by educated consumers interested in buying high-end bass
gear.
7.) ***Jay
Terrien got married to Elizabeth E. Jefferis in
Las Vegas on
February 18! The groom and best man, Jay's brother Chris
Terrien, were in fact, both decked out in the now infamous CHET'S
SHIRT, from Larry's David's "Curb
Your Enthusiasm"!! Check out Les
Deux Chet's shirts in action HERE!!! They
were fortunate enough to watch Sasha dance at
Palominos, which led to a nice mini-van escort
ride home by
a wonderful young gentleman named "Enoch
Flowers". He
was even nice enough to introduce us to a few
10 year olds, who at the time, were riding their
dirt
bikes through the outskirts of Las Vegas at 3
AM!!!
8.) ***Terrien
is submitting a competent demo CD to pertinent labels, producers,
and instrumentalists who are interested in getting involved
with a new solo album, entitled "DISARRAY". The
album will have an extremely diverse vibe, fluctuating between
alt rock and pop sensibilities, eerie film score pastiche,
and progressive rock textures. The album is essentially a compilation
of previous looping motives and instrumental demos, stripped
down and refinished into catchy bass-driven singles. Here's
what he has to say about the latest batch of new compositions:
"I wanted to record a full-length
pre-production demo project without any inhibitions or
distractingly incompetent
opinions. These types of projects are usually an abortion!
But in my case, it's been quite revealing and cathartic.
With that
being said, as a multi-instrumentalist, I tracked everything
on this demo record (all basses, acoustic guitars, vocals,
keys,
violas, midi sequencing, and drums) at my home Pro Tools studio,
recording 175 tracks in 55 days during the summer!!
My goal was to record an intense musical rough draft that
could pave the way for a future label release. There is
so much
going
on within this album from both a compositional and instrumental
perspective. At this stage,
I have posted a few rough quality
demos online for the most discriminating listeners."
9.) ***OK, so he's also working on a new website. The new www.jayterrien.com
site will launch in 2007. It will be a mess.........for
sure....... : )
10.) ***Terrien is also getting involved
as a producer/studio bassist on two up-and-coming Chicago
progressive/alt.
rock band's album releases. They
plan on doing all of their tracking at the Chicago Recording
Company
and
at
Electrical
Audio,
owned and operated by the infamous Steve Albini.
Don't
forget to check out the Downloads
section for the latest music!
