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March:
After a few weeks of intense transcription work and rehearsals,
we finally released the musical beauty known as SO & SO!!
We'll have one more show on Monday, March 8th at 10 PM at Molly
Malone's then we'll be off to Austin, TX to play a showcase at
SXSW on Friday,
March
19th at 2 PM at The Hideout Theatre. Come love us!! Here are
some great pix of our first show as well as some epic live videos! +THE
ICEMAN+ and Miss Muffet, SO
& SO, Miss
Muffet, Miss
Muffet and her superfan Mr. G!, SO
& SO, Drew
Bigda + Stu Luchs and Brandon Rogers! You can view all of
the SO & SO videos from our set at Jamie Rebel's YouTube page HERE!
Monday, March 1st was the 4/6th's full band debut
of North American supergroup "SO & SO" which consists
of Miss Muffet (Vocals, Guitars), Raisin Higgins (Guitars), Turtle
(Keyboards, Programming), +THE ICEMAN+ (Bass, Viola), Victory
At Sea (Drums, Programming), and SVEN (Vocals, Keyboards). Turtle
will be in absentia since he is competing for Team Canada’s
downhill ski team at the Vancouver Winter Olympics! SVEN is getting
new wigs manufactured in his hometown of Nora, Sweden. They'll
both be ready to play live soon!
Factoid
#1: Amie Miriello (Vocals,
Guitar), Jay
Dmuchowski (Guitars),
Rob Wells (Keyboards,
Programming), Jay
Terrien (Bass, Viola), Adam
Hanson (Drums, Programming), and Brandon
Rogers (Vocals, Keyboards), for legal reasons, are not
affiliated with this North American supergroup in any way,
shape, or form. Not a'tall!!!
February:
Super busy with Chris Mann shows, SO & SO rehearsals,
auditions, studio work, blah!! I played mad groove R+B
bass in a session with Chris Mann and his producer Bleu
for Chris' first
single,
"Gold
Like You", which will be a featured hit on his
new record! We also had another great show, this time,
we
played with
Canada's finest, JODI
KING! More here!
There's been discussion of a possible tour with Chris
Mann throughout
Canada in the Spring/early Summer!!! Stay tuned to
his MannBlog for
the latest news!
January
2010:
It was another crazy month of music for me!! Tons of live shows
and tons of arranging work. I was a
special guest performer at a VERY cool show on January 30th
at The Troubadour, where I played "closet
metal
viola" with unquenchable groovelust pioneers eENIK.
Great live pix here, here, here, here, here's
one of me with Alien Ant Farm's Tye Zamora,
and you can see The Glitter Girls, Mary Kate and Ashley
Glitter right here.
I wrote cool solo viola arrangements over 4 of the songs
on their new CD as well as some cool viola bits on two new
songs,
"Alive More Than Ever" and "Dirty Dividends" (Pussy Cow).
I look forward to working with these guys again!
I've been busy working on some
new music from songwriting partners and former Jive Records
artists Amie
Miriello and Jay Dmuchowski for their new "SO & SO" project.
I've been picked for bass, viola, and micro brew duties.
This is a very promising new project which just placed a
song
on the hit TV show, "One
Tree Hill"! I am also connecting with violinist/composer Chris
Murphy regarding some upcoming
concerts. I wrote a gorgeous string arrangement for my
dear friend Rachel
Haden , daughter of jazz bass legend Charlie Haden, for
her new record. Another Tim Armstrong project is on the horizon
as
well! Chris
Mann is currently
recording a new record which will be very exciting when it
is completed and released! Also, we are tweeting like mad
to get Chris Mann and producer Bleu on THE ELLEN SHOW! I
am looking
forward to more session work,
live shows,
and the
upcoming
NAMM show
in
Anaheim
in
January!
I
am dialing
in plans to play at the Westone in-ear monitors booth, the
Sennheiser
booth, and several bass luthiers. I am "allegedly" rooming
with secular doom fusion co-pioneering bassist Ruiner
Severhead. HEAVY METAL BITCHES! ;)
Thanks for all of the kudos from those that caught our nationally broadcasted
SONICATION string quartet live on "The Price Is Right". You can watch
the cool interview and glowing commentary from TPIR model Rachel Reynolds and
producer Kathy Greco right here, "TPIR gets Classy". Do you think
they liked me, Chris Woods (violin), Adrienne Woods (cello) and Melissa Reiner
(violin)? WOOT!! Our collective string credits include live and studio session
work with
Christina Aguilera, Dr. Dre, Adele, Rancid, Justin Timberlake, Linda Perry,
Kelly Clarkson, Michael Penn, Jessica Simpson, Faith Evans, The Jonas Brothers,
Clay Aiken, Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Metallica, etc.
The full episode from CBS TV can be viewed HERE at
The Price is Right.com website. Just find the video with an air date of 10/29/09!
December:
There was a phenomenal Chris Mann and Erin Boheme double
bill show, live at Room 5, where we debuted several new
MANN songs
for his MANN
fans. Our special guest for the evening, Erin
Boheme, a Concord Jazz recording artist, just finished
up recording her new album, produced by the great
MICHAEL BUBLE!
Erin joined us on stage later on for a special duet with
C-Mann called "First Love". We shot video of the whole evening, which
you
can view here.
I composed several string arrangements for the songs "Always",
"Who I Am", and "I.N.M.T.M.Y.C.". Here's
the gorgeous string arrangement for viola and cello for "I
Never Meant To Make You Cry". Watch it right here!:
I love the bass and cello groove that
cellist Adrienne
Woods and I threw down on during this new Chris
Mann song called "Who
I Am":
Tons of Room 5 pix here, here, here,
and
here, This
is cute one of me and Erin Boheme.
I love this one of Diana
Pops, the Queen of Winnipeg!
More here,
MANN Fans here,
there,
a funny one of Bleu
here, and there.
'Twas a very fun show which ended with the whole gang
celebrating Frank Sinatra's death with tequila shots
at Velvet Margarita. I even had the chance to "Shiva
Blast" actor Nick Kroll, who plays "Ruxin" on the new hit FX
show, "The League". I wussed out. SHOCKING!!
We also were very fortunate to be asked
to headline a charity benefit at an annual winter event
called "Meet
Me At The Fig Tree", held at the super posh Fairmont
Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in
Santa Monica. This year's event, emcee'd by KTLA's Ross King, featured
live entertainment headlined by Chris Mann, a Gingerbread
City, and a silent auction benefiting Chrysalis. Chrysalis
is the only independent nonprofit organization in Los Angeles
County exclusively
dedicated to helping homeless and economically disadvantaged
individuals become self-sufficient by providing counseling,
training and employment
opportunities. It was a fun outdoor show and we were greeted with
snow and
a great response from the @800 people in attendance. Pix here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
and here.
Special thanks to emcee Ross
King (a Partick Thistle footie fan from Scotland!) and to Jaclynn
Balas for her awesome coordination abilities and people
skills! Woot!
Also, E and I went to the "Charlie
Haden Friends & Family Concert! I finally met all of
my gal pal bassist Rachel "Nubs" Haden's
family including the infamous Jack
Black after the Charlie
Haden Family & Friends
show at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. More pix here, here, here, here,
and here.
November: I had a FANTASTIC
time playing bass with recording artist CHRIS
MANN, live
in Los Angeles! Chris has an amazing fan base
and they were really excited about the music that
we performed for them. Check out these live videos of
his compositions "8
Story Walk Up" and "Pieces". Chris put
a little something extra into "Pieces" which
has a sweet shout out breakdown to Disney gal Miley
Cyrus! Look for
great things from us in the future! It was good to
see producers Bleu (TV/TV, Selena Gomez,
etc.) and Steve
Lu
(The Jonas Brothers, Demi
Lovato, Miley Cyrus, etc.) make it out to this awesome
show!
"8 Story Walk Up" featuring
Chris Mann (vocals, keys), Frank Haggerty (guitars,
vocals), Jay Terrien (basses), and Anna Stafford (violin):
"Pieces" featuring Chris Mann (vocals, keys), Frank Haggerty
(guitars, vocals), Jay Terrien (basses), and Anna
Stafford (violin):
BASS PLAYER
LIVE PIX!:
I've gotten enough
e-mails to justify adding my epic Bass Player Magazine
LIVE pix up. I put up a lot of pix on my Facebook
page, but here's some more. Epic hang this year! It was so
great seeing all of my bass
peeps
again!
I
caught
some
cool
clinics
and saw some insane performances at the Key Club
live show. I finally got to see jazz bass legend Charlie
Haden play after he received the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD. My buddy Thom Brady. Here's a cool shot
of my good friend Vivi
Rama (bassist for Jordin Sparks, Orianthi (Michael
Jackson's new guitarist), Macy Gray, etc.) and Justin
Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch
Nails,
Beck, Garbage). Me, Vivi, and master experimental
bassist Steuart Liebig!:
I also finally met and hung out with The Mars
Volta/Vato Negro bassist Juan
Alderete and Hella synth bassist Jonathan
Hischke.
Super cool guys! Juan is trying out my pal Thom
Brady's sick
bass pedal!
Rock/groove bass show at Club
Good Hurt with the awesome Adrienne Woods Band! Pix here,
here, here, and here!
Rocktober!!:
Groovetards! Where
You At?
I'll be playing basses/gear at the annual "Bass
Player Magazine LIVE" event
here in LA at SIR Studios on Oct. 24-25, 2009. They
will be giving a lifetime achievement award to bassist
Charlie
Haden, which will eventually get stolen by his daughter,
my bestest
gal pal Rachel
Haden (Todd Rundgren's touring bassista)!
I've got some upcoming work
with the Torrance Symphony Orchestra on Oct. 10th as
well as
another epic concert with singer/songwriter/cellist ADRIENNE
WOODS on Tuesday, Oct. 13th at Club Good Hurt!
September/October:
I also played bass
with CBS TV's "Survivor 12, Panama" Million Dollar
Winner, ARAS
BASKAUSKAS at a showcase gig at The Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles.
Aras is ramping up on his new musical path, here's the full press
release
story
from CBS here and here.
I played bass on 6 songs in his set, "I Think I'm In Like", "Silence", "Save
Me", "Tree & The River", "Sword & Stone" and "Let
It Go". I look forward to future shows with him!! Pix of
me and Aras here, here, here,
and here. Here's
a cool shot of me and monster drummer Dan
Potruch, filling in
for drummer Craig
Macintyre who is on the road with Colbie Caillat.
It was another busy 2 months for my poor little fingers. Live
concerts, nationally televised game shows, private parties,
session work, orchestra work. You name it, I did it. I even
hung out with producer Mark
Batson. As a co-writer
and producer with Dr. Dre, he is responsible for Jay-Z's 2006
single Lost Ones, as well as tracks for Eminem, 50 Cent, The
Game and Snoop Dogg, Dave Matthews
Band, Alicia Keys, Anthony Hamilton, Nas, Maroon 5, and Beyoncé,
among others. We have many mutual friends including producer/mixer Steve
"Steve B." Baughman! Small world!!!! COME ON DOWN!!!!
I played viola in a phenomenal string quartet alongside violinists
Chris
Woods,
Melissa Reiner, and cellist Adrienne Woods during a live taping
of my favorite game show, The
Price is Right, at CBS TV studios! Our quartet SONICATION,
was an actual prize on the big Showcase Showdown ("The Big Wheel!"),
This game show, formerly hosted by the legendary BOB BARKER is
now
hosted by
soccer
fan
DREW CAREY. Chris Woods wrote a SICK string arrangement of "The
Price Is Right" theme song, which has the viola part sawing away
at full speed!! The national air date is late October,
so get your TiVo, DVRs, and 8-track recorders ready to tape this
awesomeness! Here's
a cool picture of our string
quartet! We all shook hands with
Drew Carey and the crowd and live TV crew REALLY LOVED our chops!
August-September:
Check out the new Rancid video for "UP
TO NO GOOD"!!! Here's
another sweet picture of Tim Armstrong and the RANCID crew
shooting the
video for one of the songs that I did string arrangements for, "Up
To No Good"!! Monster skater TONY HAWK
also added his own pictures on TWITTER,
His tweet was "Video shoot in the can for
Rancid's "Up
To No Good. Me, Staab and @ncshredda were the miniramp
champs. http://twitpic.com/a61s0", check it HERE!
Here are a few
GREAT pictures and videos from my KILLER concert with
The Adrienne Woods Band. Pix1, Pix2, Pix3, Pix4, Pix5, Pix6.
The Adrienne Woods Band featured Chris
Woods (violin: American Idol string section, Justin
Timberlake, Jessica Simpson, Clay Aiken, Faith Evans,
etc.), Jay Terrien
(bass, viola: Rancid, Pat Mastelotto/King Crimson, Kathleen
Blackwell, Promis, Paulina Logan, mad session work etc.), Jen
Trani (guitars: Jen & Abbey, session ace), Barrett
Yeretsian (drums: Lunar Sway, Art of Chaos (Project
Revolution Tour with Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance),
and Drew
Lawrence (keyboards: Lunar Sway, session player)!
It
was a fun show!!! Even actress/singer/songwriter Alicia
Witt came
out
to say HELLO!
Look at her amazing dress at the Emmy
Awards Red Carpet! Awesome, agree???? We'll be doing
another show in Rocktober 13th at Club Good Hurt! You
can check out the
live videos from our entire set HERE!!!
I also sat in on viola at The
Hotel Cafe with Janet Robin, whose band consisted of monster
drummer Nick
D'Virgilio (Spock's Beard, Thomas Lang, Tears For Fears,
Mike Keneally) and guitarist/bassist Jesse
Stern (Sly Stone, Hanson, Natalia Lesz, Weezer, Coolio)!
Pix here, here, here, here, here, and here!
Busy, busy viola JAY!! I was invited to play viola in
a string quartet for ALEX
NAVARRO at the CD release party
for his new record, "Closer Than You Think". Alex
has toured with Queen Latifah, Carly Simon and is currently
touring
with Engelbert Humperdinck, serving as his musical
director. Our string ensemble consisted of me on viola,
Robert
Anderson on violin,
Hiro
Goto on violin, and Adrienne Woods on cello. It was
a great live concert, with full brass, strings, and vocal
back-ups section! Here's the story from the OC
register newspaper!
August: I've
got a few concerts coming up in August in
Los Angeles, where I'll be playing viola and bass with
amazing singer/songwriters Janet
Robin and Adrienne
Woods!
With session work and a few orchestra concerts,
it's been a
busy month
for
my
fingers!
LOVE IT! Check
out my
Facebook and MySpace pages
for the latest awesome pictures and videos!
July: I had a blast
at the ELBOW show
at The Wiltern Theatre! They played to
a packed house in Los Angeles a week before the are
set
to appear
on "The
David Letterman Show"! Special thanks
to violinist gal pal Jote Osahn (LOVE YOU!!)
for
chatting with
me about
her Bridge violin
and hooking me up with VIP treatment! I
had great backstage chats with bad-ass
violinist
Stella
Page
(Gorillaz w/ Damon Albarn (Blur), Athlete,
The Cinematic Orchestra, The Good, The
Bad, & The
Queen), Elbow keyboardist Craig
Potter,
as well as nice guy Dominic
Monaghan from "Lost" and "Lord
of The Rings".
Rancid just shot the video for "Up To No
Good" with Tony Hawk! NO WAY! Check
out this awesome video shoot HERE.
I hung out with the band after their sick show at Los
Angeles Forum with Rise Against and Billy Talent.
May-June, 2009:
Busy, busy start to the summer. I just did some string
session work at Castle
Oaks Recording Studio on a record that featured bass pals
Bob Glaub (CSNY, Dylan, The Doors, Rod Stewart, Bruce Springsteen..)
and
Davey Faragher (Cracker, Elvis Costello and the Imposters,
Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow)! Good times!
I just heard that the new RANCID record that
I worked on debuted at #11 in the US, #7 in Canada, #3
in Japan!! Woo hoo! Congrats to Tim Armstrong and crew!
I also had a concert with the
Torrance Symphony Orchestra. When is my vacation again? "All
work and no play makes JAY a dull boy"????? LOL! Hey,
at least my wife and I carved out some fun time to hang
at
El C with my latest Silverlake partner in crime, Rachel
Haden, Todd Rundgren's touring bassist. Check out Rach's
new Lakland short-scale bass on my Facebook page!! We are Facebook
pals right?
Jay Terrien Composes And
Conducts Punk Rock String Arrangements For The New RANCID Album, "LET
THE DOMINOES FALL", In Stores June 2nd Via Hellcat/Epitaph
Records!
June 2nd is the US release date for the new Rancid record
that I worked on, "Let The Dominoes Fall". I've got some
cool session pix of myself, my homie Tim Armstrong, and my string section here, here, here,
and here.
Check out this cool video of
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Stax/Volt legendary Hammond
B3 organ master Booker
T. laying down a killer solo during one of the highlights
of the record, "Up
To No Good"! You can watch all of the Rancid webisode
videos HERE.
(**L to R: Hollywood's Finest "A" List String
Players Adrienne Woods (Cello), Joel Pargman (Violin I),
Tom Lea (Viola), Ina Veli (Violin II), Jay Terrien (String
Arrangements/Conducting), Tim Armstrong (Rancid front man!)**)
March-May:
More session work with a few awesome singer/songwriters!!!
Thank God I have my awesome Nordy vJ5
bass to track with!!!
Epic video of
my LA Hustlers Soccer Club lady ballers partying and playing
Wii
Boxing!
January-February,
2009:
I've uploaded tons of tracks and session/studio pix onto my
Facebook account. Facebook is where I hang!! Get on it and
add me now! Lots
of fun at NAMM 2009! Working on new string arrangements now
for some major label recording sessions in April/May! Woo hoo!!
I
just played viola in a string quartet recording session at
Stagg Street
with
Joel
Pargman (violin), Adrienne Woods (cello), and Miriam Mayer
(violin)! We went back in March to record 5 of my string arrangements!
You
can listen to some recent session work cuts HERE.
Plans to attend the Lodo Bass Bash in Denver, CO in August. Could
be a Demond Wilson sighting...........
My lady ballers are back for another great season of "A" division
soccer. Watch this crazy disallowed
goal scored by Catherine Davila!
It's in the net!
November-December:
I had a blast at the annual Bass
Player LIVE! event here in Los
Angeles, CA at SIR studios! It was great to catch up with all
of my bass pals and to meet some new friends such as fellow
LA session aces Bob
Glaub and Chris
Chaney.
I also met badass drum psycho Gary
Novak and f'in Duff
McKagen!!! Highlights
of the event included Stanley Clarke's epic bass throw down
as well as Chris
Chaney and Neil
Stubenhaus's clinics. I rolled
24/7 with mad Mike
Visceglia, new gal pal Vivi
Rama (Macy Gray,
Will.i.am, etc.) and Marty
O'Brien. It was great hearing Rufus
Philpot playing his new Carey Nordstrand Nordy VJ5. Here's
cool picture of me and a VJ5!
Congrats to my Los Angeles
Hustlers Soccer Club for sweeping the table, finishing
up with an impressive 14-0-0 record, and winning the
City of Los Angeles Rec. and Parks Municipal
Soccer League! Great job ladies!! Here's some video footage
from our 5-0
semi-final
win and this is a goals compilation video from our
3-0
championship
win! What?! What?!
Here are some pictures from
my string trio conducting session
at Ronan Chris Murphy's Veneto
West Studios for the new Kathleen
Blackwell record. I hired monster
violist Thomas
Lea and cellist Dave
Takahashi to work
alongside violinist Jeff
Gauthier for this session. I
wrote some tricky string arrangement and harmonic textures
that these guys knocked out of the park! 9th and 13th
stacked
hex
chords for
a pop tune? CHECK!!! Here's a shocker
group shot!
I also played bass on the entire record, tracking live bass
and drums with master drummer Victor
Bisetti. Cool pix here, here, here,
and here.
Rocktober:
'Tis a busy session work month for me. I am doing 3-4 days with
my favorite producer/mixer Ronan Chris Murphy for s/sw Kathleen
Blackwell's new record at
Veneto West. I'll be
playing bass on all tracks, providing viola work and string arrangements,
as well as hardcore transcriptions. I'll be laying
down basic rhythm section tracks with session drummer/percussionist
Victor Bisetti, whose
credits include Los Lobos, Leo Kotke, Matthew Sweet, John Lee
Hooker, etc.
I
am also playing bass and strings on 10
tracks for s/sw Joe
Vana's new
record, which will feature session work contributions from King
Crimson peeps Pat Mastelotto, Trey Gunn, and perhaps one Stick
track from Tony Levin. You throw THE ICEMAN TERRIEN into the
mix and you've got yourself one SICK ROSTER of musicians!
Viola-wise,
I
have a big concert with the Torrance Symphony Orchestra in mid-October.
My fingers are all fired up!!! The program will feature Chandler
Yu, Violin and Peter Myers, Cello!
August/September:
I just played viola in another concert
with the Torrance Symphony Orchestra.
My stand partner, John Paul
Tobin, is such a MONSTER violist!!!
Our program consisted of:
· William
Tell Overture, Rossini
· Holiday for Strings, by Leroy Anderson
· Selections from Carousel
· Selections from Carmen
· Selections from Wicked
· Tchaikovsky, Andante Cantabile from 5th Symphony
· Figaro's Aria, from The Barber of Seville, Rossini
Ralph Cato,
Baritone and Michelle Tseng,
Violin were the soloists at this annual "Concert in the Park"!
Lady ballers! Check out some sick goals, courtesy of my 4-0 undefeated
Los Angeles Hustlers Soccer Club!
Here's a great goal and cartwheel celebration by Lauren
Kloner. CUTESPORTSFAN gets another sweet goal HERE.
Another nice goal from Yoleine Dumarsais right here to
finish up an 11-0 victory.
Bass-wise,
I have been writing a ton of new music. I am eager to get
back my Parker 5 fretted back from Carey Nordstrand, who had Mike
Cooper install some SICK custom J pickups for me. He said
that the harmonics just POP out at you!
Film Director Joseph
Greco's
movie, Canvas (IMDB:"Canvas")
is at Blockbuster! I
played viola on
some session cues for this film at the Village
Studios, LA, tracking with engineer Jared
Nugent. Watch the film's trailer HERE.
Starring actors Joe Pantoliano (The
Sopranos, The Matrix, The Goonies (Ha Ha!), etc.) and Marcia
Gay Harden (Mystic River, Mona Lisa Smile, Law & Order: S.V.U., etc.),
the film received a great review in VARIETY online. The
end of film credit roll is HERE.
June/July:
Now that I have fully recovered from having a slew of gummy
worms (VIDEO!) packed
into my nasal cavity, I'm back to work on a new JAY TERRIEN record.
I also spent an afternoon at Carey Nordstrand's shop having him
tweak and re-setup my Nordy vJ5 jazz bass. I left my Parker 5
there so that Mike Cooper could put in some new custom Nordstrand
single coil pickups. I wanted to take out the DiMarzio pickups
and give that awesome bass some new life! I've also been busy
taking on
freelance
bass and viola jobs as well as auditioning several exciting drummers.
April/May:
I just got back from a well-known secret
studio up in San
Francisco (near Skywalker Ranch/Metallica country) where
I was co-producing my dear friend Demond
Wilson's new record, "The Jesus Fist Studies".
My partner in crime, co-producer Ruiner
Severhead, stayed on
top of the audio mangling while Demond laid down some of the
sickest, phatest, vicodin-laced basslines ever recorded. I
served as lead bass tech. This is Ruiner Severhead's 1st
big major
label release as a top tier producer for Interscope Recording.
This education-based "Secular Doom Fusion" record
is the long anticipated follow-up to the "Jesus Fist Tapes" (made
by the Satanic Clan, played in the Warrior's Room). Download
Ruiner's madness for free HERE.
Please be under 18.
I am optimistic that his
diseased audio reconstruction and illogical production methodologies
will surely turn some heads. For free. To kids. Here
are some live videos from
the recording sessions, which were filmed 24/7 over a span
of 4 long days, culminating in a live internet chat with over
569
devoted Jesus Fist followers.
Here is a sample of what got recorded, Etude
#2. "Let me control you, are you getting sleepy,
do you want to come to us?"
FYI.
Jesus Fist is auditioning SICK professional
acoustic/electronic DIY drummers. For
free, to kids. More
HERE.
January-March,
2008:
Tons of freelance orchestra gigs, NAMM demos, session work,
licensing my compositions, and of course, Silverlake
Antics with "Choir Girl" Adrianna
Nicole, The
Hudis, and The
Scarecrow. See?
December: Christopher
Campbell, a very talented s/sw/coffee aficionado, invited
me down to bassist Ian Sheridan's studio (bassist for Jason
Mraz, etc.)
to track viola parts on 9 songs for his new record. The session
was a blast and the songs, which are already AMAZING, will sound
so sweet once the record is mixed and mastered!
HAVE YOU DOWNLOADED THE "JESUS
FIST TAPES" YET? For
free....for kids.....
Check out some new "bass
+ drums + string quartet = AWESOME!" compositions from "The
Twelve" project! Right now, I am busy raising business
development awareness about this exciting recording project.
Also,
I am busy getting
geared up for the upcoming NAMM
Show in
Anaheim, CA in January. "I HEART Demond
Wilson". Need I say more?
November:
I
just sat in on a Los
Angeles Chamber Orchestra dress
rehearsal of composer Reza Vali's"Toward The
Endless Plain", a co-commission
of LACO and the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project.
I chatted with LACO's Director
of Operations and Education,
Devin Thomas
and expressed
to him how awesome of an organization
he is a part of. I also met orchestra
contracting guru Carrie Holtzman
Little, who is in charge of making
LACO as
musically kick-ass as humanly
possible. She surely
accomplished that feat! For 2
straight hours, I didn't see
one mismatched
sectional bowing, one bum note,
or even a dropped
tuner from the clarinet. OK,
there was one dropped tuner.
No violas
were beaten
at this rehearsal. Awesome.
Special
thanks to Michelle Weger, Director
of Institutional Giving for LACO,
for inviting
young composers like myself to
watch this rehearsal. Every bit
of insight
and knowledge helps us!! October: I just
played freelance viola with The Torrance
Symphony Orchestra
for their "Premiere
Musique"
opening concert for the 2007-2008 season. The program consisted
of Bernstein's Overture to Candide, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and
Juliet, and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto #1 (3rd & 4th
movements) featuring Chiai Tajima,
soloist. The concert closed out with Liszt's Piano Concerto #1 (whole
concerto) with Yana Reznik, soloist. Kick-assian
violist Thomas Lea was principal
violist for this particular concert.
Film Director Joseph
Greco's new movie, Canvas (IMDB:"Canvas")
is hitting the theatres this
October! Watch the film's trailer HERE.
Starring actors Joe
Pantoliano (The Sopranos, The Matrix, The Goonies (Ha Ha!),
etc.) and Marcia
Gay Harden (Mystic River, Mona Lisa Smile, Law & Order:
S.V.U., etc.), the film just received a great review
in VARIETY online. I
played viola on
some session cues for this film at the Village
Studios, LA, tracking with engineer Jared
Nugent. The end of film credit roll is HERE.
Also, check out
some recent session work tracks that
I did.
September: I
just played viola with The Torrance Symphony Orchestra in their
annual outdoor Summer concert . The extensive program featured
select vocal pieces for the GORGEOUS operatic musings of soprano Shana
Blake Hill.
Check out some links
to the "pop-styled" music of your fiendly
friends JESUS
FIST. THE
FIST is a daily reminder of what we all have to
be thankful for.
August:
I just returned home
to Los Angeles from a 3 week working stint in Wyoming
and Montana, followed up by a live bass/viola performance at
the Lodo Bass Bash,
in Denver, CO. Yes, yes, it's true. "THE
SHAPE" was in the house and he put
on a glorious/murderous show,
drilling through the frenetic paces and madness of all
four movements of the
new String Quartet No. 69, "The
Michael Myers Quartet".
Check
out many LIVE
LODO BASS BASH PERFORMANCE VIDEOS including Movement #1, "The
Night HE Came Home" right here on YouTube.
You
can listen to each demo version here
(MIDI plus 1 Track Of Bass):
1.) Movement #1, "The
Night HE Came Home" 2.) Movement #2, "Crushage"
3.) Movement #4, "Snuff"
and 4.) Movement #4, "Tabitha
Hides Behind A Tree".
The following scores for each of these movements can also be
viewed and listened to simultaneously with the "Scorch" plug-in,
within your browser. You can think of the Scorch plug-in like
the RealAudio Player; it is needed to play these files
and you can get it here free!
2.) Crushage 3.) Snuff 4.) Tabitha
Hides Behind A Tree
I've also saved
each movement as a .PDF file, if you would prefer to read
along with the
score
while
the
MP3s
from
above pound through your stereo system:
2.) Crushage 3.) Snuff 4.) Tabitha Hides Behind A Tree
July: THE TWELVE
Yes, yes, yes, here is the "99.9% percent finished work in progress" full
score for a new composition written for bassist extraordinaire/bullpen
lefty Jeff
Schmidt, acoustic guitarist Andy McKee,
powerlifter/bass guru Michael Manring,
classical metal misfits The Section
Quartet,
and bash-master/home-gardening expert Pat
Mastelotto called "SNUFF". This
is the third movement of my string quartet, No. 69, "The Myers Quartet".
This
particular composition is written for piccolo bass/acoustic guitar, fretless
bass, "prepared Eventide Harmonized string quartet", and improvised
drums/bashing. So
far, I've gotten lots of fantastic feedback from some LA sessionistas and Philharmonic
players regarding its uniqueness and dense string trickery! Fellow cutting-edge
bassists, drummers, Kronos S.Q., Turtle Island S.Q., Dask Quartet, and T.S.Q
(Tampon String Quartet, that's my own string ensemble). "The
Twelve" is poised for the budgetary involvement of pertinent record
labels and Grammy-centric musicians/producer candidates such as Edgar Meyer,
Andy
Summers, Bela Fleck, Dave Matthews, Sting, Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, Stanley
Clarke, Daniel Lanois, or Trey Anastasio. You've
been warned!! :)
I got hooked-up with a Backstage
Pass for the Jay
Leno Show, where I caught the Suzanne
Vega Band
playing their new single, "Frank And Ava".
Sandra Bullock and Chris Matthews were the special guests.
Check out
this "action
shot" of me and Sandra Bullock. So hot! Duh.
'Cuz that's how I roll!!
Throughout
August 3, 4, 5, 2007, Jay Terrien's signature
bass and viola madness will be in full
effect at the LODO
BASS BASH, in Denver, Colorado. Hope to
see you there!!
June:
Sure enough, my wife and
I were at the Tommy Hilfiger
Sessions at The Avalon, checking out the elegant
Emma Burgess as
well as string peeps The
Section Quartet. It was a great show!! Thanks to
Mastin Kipp for the invite. Awesome pix HERE.
Lots of Cougars were at the club. So hot.......
I was out at the Suzanne
Vega show at The Hotel Cafe, catching up with
bass bud Mike
Visceglia and Aussie-Ebow guitar madman
Ben
Butler.
Afterwards,
we went out for drinks and some light-dancing at "The
Spotlight Club".
They TOTALLY took care of us. Gross..... LOL! I also
got pix of "The
Gay Bigfoot" before The National Enquirer and
all the other tabloids!! 7-Feet
Tall With White Platform Shoes! NO WAY!!!
DOWNLOAD OF THE MONTH:
Go listen to this AWESOME track by singer/songwriter
Paulina
Logan,
"For
The Moon",
Track #6, produced by Gilli Moon, Engineered by Matt
Thorne. Hear those exquisite string arrangements of viola
textures? Awesome!!! You can also hear this track and
several other new songs on her MySpace page HERE!
I spent a few days at Chalice
Recording Studios, where I was tracking
bass parts in Studio A for producer Ethan
Mates, who was assisted
by Newfoundland's finest son, Mike Snow. Session pix
HERE!!
That's JR Rotem's Silver Lamborghini.
Gilmore Girls TV star and
stellar left-midfielder Alexis
Bledel spills the beans
on The David Letterman Show regarding her awesome soccer
team,
THE
HUSTLERS,
coached
by soccer phenom JAY "THE ICEMAN" TERRIEN!!!
Watch the interview here on
YouTube.
May:
33 1/3 Phoenix, AZ
The 33 1/3 in Phoenix was
a blast!!! I just uploaded a ton of pix and vids on YouTube
of live bass and viola footage!!
My pals from Italy, Hypnoise, have already posted some
cool
pix and vids on their site here.
Special thanks to Hugh Gilmartin and Steve Lobmeier at
D'Addario Strings,
to Richard Ruse and Nick Epifani at Epifani Custom
Sound Amplification, and to Dave Goldenfarb and Lee
Miller at The
Bass Place, Phoenix for getting involved
with this great festival on my behalf!! You guys RULE!!!
By the way, who is THIS dude?
Steve
Vai Bass Audition
Yes, yes, yes, I had a blast auditioning on bass for
esteemed
guitarist/composer
Steve
Vai for
his new European touring band down at Mates Rehearsal space
in NOHO! I've always been a fan of Steve's
compositions and business aesthetic so
I jumped at the chance to play with him!
Even though I only had about 10 hours
to prepare
2
of Steve's
complex compositions,
it was WELL worth putting in the shred time to focus on and
transcribe someone else's compositional madness!!
Playing with
Steve,
monster drummer/bench-press champion
Jeremy Colson, and
their genius 18-year old guitarist, Zack
Wiesinger from Pittsburgh,
PA conjures up some pretty powerful imagery! The highlight
of
the audition
was telling Steve that I would use my "Billy Sheehan Pedal" for
the middle part of "Freak Show Excess". Awesome.
And remember kids, as Uncle Steve Vai will tell you, "It
takes over 1,000 cows to make a McDonald's hamburger!".
And I thought that I was the only Vegetarian powerlifter?!
Thanks to Steve's publicist Aussie
Mike for creating such a
comfortable and organized audition process! You rule!! Look
at this picture of
me iPodding and transcribing "Freak Show Excess" in
the car right before my audition! LMFAO! Fortunately for all
of them, Vai and his crew were each
given an ancient blessing, well-known for its protective powers: THE
DOLLS!
Several gifted players
also came out for these auditions. Most notably, bassists Jon
Reshard, Ben White,
Taki, and
Kai Kurosawa were
selected to audition as well as bass peep Bryan
Beller,
who took a Moped all the way from Nashville to LA to play!
LOL! I'll place my money on Mr. Beller winning the bass chair
for this tour!! My good friend who I played with back in NYC,
violin-shredder pal Joe
Deninzon and
fiddle-master
Alex DePue also auditioned
for the newly created violin chair!!! Special thanks to Dunkin
Donuts' Jeff
Schmidt for forcing me to put my
bass in a 4ths tuning for the first time in 5 years and telling
me that he wouldn't give me Christopher Hitchens' cell phone
number unless I went to the audition! Kudos to the kid in Belgium
that bought my record and to bassist Mark
Fowler who both MySpaced
me about this unique opportunity a day before the auditions!! Better
late than never!!
April:
FUTURE CONCERTS!
While I am incredibly busy hammering
away sweet distorted col legno licks
for my new string
quartet composition recording project, I've
carved out a few days here and there for a few bass
and viola shows within the next few
months (ALL CONCERT DETAILS HERE):
1.) On Saturday,
April 21st, 2007, I played kick-ass viola with The
Torrance Symphony Orchestra, who accompanied Grammy-winning
vocalist RITA
COOLIDGE throughout a variety of hit tunes from her songbook!
2.)
From May 12-13, 2007, I'll be bashing
away with my bass and viola at the Super
Sessions 33 1/3 HOURS STRAIGHT
IMPROVISED MUSIC FESTIVAL (At Modified
Arts), 407 E. Roosevelt St., Phoenix,
Arizona 85004
"33 1/3 PHX": A world record,
one of a kind music event consisting
of 33 1/3 hours of non-stop improvised
music with some of the world's best musicians
including Pat Mastelotto, Willie Oteri,
Chris Michalek, Skinny Bishop, and maybe
even Alice Cooper!! This event, sponsored
by Fender Musical Instruments, D'Addario
Strings, Jule Amps, Veneto West Productions,
and Mojo
Music
is designed to promote live improvised
music in a world that is becoming blander
and blander from homogenized and canned
music. For 33 hours and 20 minutes, a
rotating plethora of musicians will perform
non-stop improvised music in the heart
of the Phoenix arts district! Don't miss
this remarkable event! There will be a slew of Bon Jovi covers
in 13/4, I promise!!!!!
3.)
Throughout August 3, 4, 5, 2007, Jay Terrien's signature bass
madness will be in full effect at the LODO
BASS BASH, in Denver, Colorado. The Lodo
Bass Bash is a non-profit event centered around educational
workshops and performances for
bassist of all levels. It is a great opportunity to meet and
learn from some of the best bassists in the world, check out
some of the latest equipment, and see some of the most amazing
performances by the masters of the instrument. 2007 is the
Second Annual Lodo Bass Bash, and features some of the most
amazing bassists from around the world, including,
but not limited to: * Yves Carbonne - France * Jay Terrien
- Vermont * Jeff Schmidt - Hell * Jean Baudin - California
* Trip Wamsley - Hell (Further South) * Gregory Bruce Campbell
- Montana * Darren Michaels - Georgia * Stewart McKinsey -
California * Christopher Cardone - Colorado * and more to come!!!
March: I just got hired to play viola with The
Torrance Symphony Orchestra led by Maestro Frank
Fetta, for
their "Celebration Of Youth" concert, which
featured the artistic and
technical
prowess
of
three young virtuoso concerto
competition winners. The program consisted of Schubert's
6th Symphony, Mozart's B-flat Bassoon Concerto featuring Pei-Wen
Tan, Bassoonist, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations
For Cello featuring Sifei Wen, Cellist, and Sarasate's
Zigeunerweisen
with
Joseph
Lee, Violinist. Heavy metal viola tux pix here.
Here's a cool shot of cello gal Simone
Vitucci and viola pal John
Paul Tobin!
February:
I was at a live taping of the "Last Call With Carson
Daly" show
on NBC, where my guitar bud Andy
McKee was
in the dizzle!! He
"electrified" the audience with a blazing rendition of his YouTube
video hit "Drifting". It
was funny watching Carson Daly's jaw drop wide open while Andy
destroyed his guitar. Do
yourself a favor and check out Andy McKee on MySpace NOW! Eric
Balfour, from FOX's smash-hit TV show "24" was the special
guest that night. The second taping included a local LA-indie
band called "The
Bird And The Bee" as well as actress Sofia
"CANS" Vergera.
"THE LIST"
I've added a few more bassists and drummers to "THE LIST",
which is a good way for me to keep track of unique "duos" and
string quartets that could be on my next recording project, "THE
TWELVE". I
think that Flea would work well with Tommy
Lee, Billy
Cobham matches up nicely
with Mark Egan, and Jason
Newsted would sound amazing paired with John
Tempesta! I would LOVE to listen to a track
with Adam Nitti and Keith Carlock or Ginger Baker, wouldn't
you? How about Bryan Beller with Chili's basher Chad
Smith? Perhaps Sting, Bela Fleck, Dave Matthews, or Daniel
Lanois would dig this concept? Here's a sample score!
I was also hanging out at NRG
Studios where Linkin Park just finished tracking some new
tunes. Ethan Mates and engineer Casey Lewis manned the
Neve. I met drum tech extraordinaire Jerry
Johnson and Royer Labs (mics)
VP John Jennings. Excellent guys for sure!!
Another
cool record review, this time from Movimenti
Prog: (Music Webzine In Italy)
"Grande Jay Terrien. Ossessionato alla pornodiva Jenna Jameson e da tante
bambole gonfiabili che porta con sè (persino in auto), il giovane bassista
tira fuori un disco molto interessante, che insieme all'ultimo Hypnoise proviene
dal prolifico ambiente Veneto West. Jay è infatti affiancato dall'ottimo
Pat Mastelotto, che alle percussioni acustiche ed elettroniche è lo "sparring
partner" del bassista. Con loro Ronan Chris Murphy, produttore intelliigente
e partecipe........."
January 2007:
NAMM SHOW PIX!
My annual NAMM show attendance in Anaheim,
CA was a blast again!! I
had a great time playing a ton of cool gear and seeing
all of my bass peeps including
mad dog Jeff
Schmidt, Andy "Ta
Dah!" Cervantes (Master of "THE
BRADY DANCE"), Scott Pazera, Stew
McKinsey, Darren
Michaels,
Jauqo III-X, Garry Goodman, Jean Baudin, Greg
Campbell, Mike Cooper, Carey Nordstrand, Jens Ritter, Mark Wright
(AccuGroove Amps) Paul
Delano,
Marty O'Brien, Fred Bolton (Bee Basses), Ned
Steinberger
(NS
Designs), Tony Levin, Jairaj
Swann,
Epifani Amps, D'Addario Strings, Parker Guitars, as well as other
great players that I have never met before: Brady
Muckelroy,
the insanity known as Trip Wamsley, Chris "C3" Cardone, Mike
Dimin, Mark "Fish" Herring, and Steve
Lawson! The
Bass Bash at JT
Schmid's was cool as well. Adam
Nitti, Bryan Beller,
and Todd
Johnson tore it up at the show!!
I also had some great business chats with Mick
Donner, Brian Bromberg,
Eddie Speedy (SIT Strings), the
guys
at Madison Amps,
and the kind folks at Eventide regarding
my "THE
TWELVE" recording project. Thanks
to
the magical VIP badge master Stickist Tom
Griesgraber, Schmidty and I hung out with Yves
Carbonne at the Tony Levin Band VIP
show at the Clarion Hotel. Todd Rundgren sat in for 5 songs! Dear
God. Can you say SKYLARKING?
THE TWELVE
Yes, yes, yes,
here is the "99.9% percent finished work
in progress" full
score for a new composition written for
bassist extraordinaire/bullpen lefty Jeff
Schmidt, acoustic guitarist Andy
McKee, powerlifter/bass
guru Michael
Manring, classical metal misfits The
Section Quartet, and bash-master/home-gardening
expert Pat
Mastelotto called "SNUFF". This
particular composition is written for piccolo
bass/acoustic guitar, fretless bass, "prepared
string quartet", and improvised drums/bashing. So
far, I've gotten lots of fantastic feedback
from some LA sessionistas and Philharmonic
players regarding
its
uniqueness and dense
string trickery! Fellow
cutting-edge bassists, drummers, Kronos S.Q.,
Turtle Island S.Q., Supernova
S.Q., and T.S.Q (Tampon String Quartet,
that's my own string ensemble): You've
been warned!! :)
December:
Film Director Joseph
Greco's new movie, Canvas (IMDB:"Canvas"),
starring actors Joe
Pantoliano (The Sopranos, The Goonies
(Ha Ha!), etc.) and Marcia
Gay Harden (Mystic River, Mona Lisa
Smile, Law & Order:
S.V.U., etc.)
just received a great
review in VARIETY online. I
played viola on
some session cues for this film at the Village
Studios, LA, tracking with engineer Jared
Nugent. The end of film credit roll is HERE.
I also spent a few days up
at the infamous "Laurel
Canyon studio", working on
a few string arrangement demos for the new Linkin
Park record produced by Rick
Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash, System
Of A Down, Jay-Z, Beastie Boys, Etc.). Ironically
enough, both of us have the words "Frederick Jay" in
our birth names! It
was a blast meeting the band and hanging out with their
hard-working engineering
team and security personnel. Here's a cool
picture of
me in action!
LA
JAZZ SOCCER:
What's more enjoyable than watching hot guys kick
ass, get turf
rash,
and destroy skilled Mexican-based teams on a sunny
weekend afternoon??!! Ladies
it doesn't get any better than cheering on your semi-pro LA
Jazz Men's Soccer Team of the Los Angeles Super Metro League. Here's
more Terrien blood and guts for ya!!! KNEE. ANKLE.
SHIN. Here's
a cool compilation video documenting
some sweet goals and of course, a few vicious tackles
by yours truly. Sweet......
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!!!
If you want to listen to individual 29-seconds long
snippets from "All
The Dolls In The Same Place", you can check them out here on
the All
Music Guide database entry for this album. You can also buy
individual downloads for your iPod here at
iTunes but of course in doing this, you would miss out on owning the most genius
album artwork ever!!!
Apparently, I've also signed a HUGE recording contract with NAPSTER. LMFAO. You
can listen and buy there as well. And as you can tell, my sophisticated "business
model" of being linked to "similar artists" such as "Guy
Campion, Duo Campion-Vachon, Mario Vachon (Gershwin), Amedeo Minghi, Barbara
Bonney, André Previn, Paul Smith, The Elysium String Quartet And Friends,
and Kyle Dawkins" is working to my financial benefit. WTF? I wonder
if André Previn has a Red Vines addiction? Meh..
I've also been busy with viola and bass session work as well. I
had a blast during a recent viola session with engineer Brian Hussey
at comp*ny
studios where I tracked 11 new songs for singer/songwriter Jose
Promis, under the producer/arranger guidance of David
Pascucci. The music falls under the "Old World, European Cabaret
meets New World meets Pop, Dance and Electronica" category. It was
a perfect match for my Vermont deer-hunting sensibilities. LOL!
Traction Avenue Chamber Orchestra Concert
At The Colburn School Of Music:
My Traction Avenue Chamber Orchestra just
had a great Winter concert at the Colburn School
Of Music, Zipper Hall. Led by our amazing concertmaster/LA session
ace Haim
Shtrum, we
played
a
program consisting of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2 In F and Corelli's
Concerto Op.6 Nr.2. Here's
a
cool, full
ensemble picture of the gorgeous
hall!
November:
Here's
a picture
of me, courtesy of master mixer.producer
Ethan
Mates, beaming with discontent
towards
Dallas Cowboys'
quarterback
Drew Bledsoe at Conway
Recording Studios, LA, where Linkin
Park was being mixed
in Room B and Britney Spears was working
with producer Scott
Storch in the adjacent
studio room. His orange
lamborghini = WOW!
Traction
Avenue Chamber Orchestra Performances At The "1st
And Hope Artist Exhibition"
I
recently played viola on
a huge skateboard halfpipe/concert stage with my Traction
Avenue Chamber Orchestra
at the "1st
And Hope Artist Exhibition", held at
Berra's underground skate park, in downtown East LA. This
event featured an exhibition of local
artists as well as
a short selection of previews for upcoming films created
by skateboarders including
the much-anticipated "1st
And Hope" movie created by director Brian Lotti. Alongside
the Traction
Avenue Chamber Orchestra (conducted by fellow composer Ali
Helnwein),
indie rock
bands "Blood on the Stereo" and "Moonrats" also
played live sets during the exhibition. The
movie trailers and music were followed by an impromptu
open skateboard
fiesta, fireworks, and of course, an awesome outdoor multi-kegger
cash
bar.
I also did a cool viola session
at Screaming
Turtle Music for producer Federico Gonzalez
for some new music by chanteuse Sianna Lyons. The
session was engineered by Bill Smith, who used to work
with Guns N' Roses. Awesome. Just awesome!! Session
pix here, here, here and
dude, look at this Guns N' Roses
platinum
record!
October:
Playing viola, my Griffith
Park Observatory
Orchestra just had a GREAT concert
last weekend at the Wells Fargo Theatre. Under
the guidance of esteemed Music Director
and Conductor Robert
C. Lippre,
our program consisted of: Gerber:
Fanfare for the Voice of A-M-E-R-I-C-A (West Coast Premiere)
Mark Schlesinger: Music for small ensembles (World Premieres)
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Mozart: Divertimento for Strings in D, K 136
Strauss: Serenade for Wind Instruments, op.7
Stravinsky: Suite from "L'histoire du soldat"
Also, I just finished writing
2 more tunes for a new record. One is called "Snuff"
and the other one is called "Amish". "Snuff"
has a primary piccolo fretted bass line (tuned CGCEG)
with phrasing structures of 11/8 and 10/8. Later
on, there are contrasting themes in 4/4, 5/4, and 15/16. It's
very "Emo" nasty. "Amish" is
terribly slow and elegiac in 3/4 at 40 bpm. Sibelius has
just arrived which means that it is string quartet writing
time, where I have to match up some sensible
counterpoint against the pre-existing bass math mayhem. Ugh!! But,
I'll make sure the viola parts from time to time, go
through THE GRUNGE PEDAL!!!
So, basically, I have one
more song to write and then I can dive into the ballsy
string quartet treatments which will ultimately bear
rich, Grammy Award fruit. I
have no idea what this tune will sound or feel like but
its title
is
already
done: "Mom
Accused Of Swinging Baby As Weapon". "Chytoria"??? Awesome......It
might even be another Track #69 "RCMIWYP!" fiasco.
September: It's "Judging By The Size Of Carnie"
month in Uzbekistan! Well, according to this album review
by PROGRESSOR in
Uzbekistan, it is.
Here
are two more reviews as well, one from
Crim bud Sid
Smith in the UK and the other from
a Arlequins,
a popular progressive rock website
in Italy.
Film Director Joseph
Greco's new movie, Canvas (IMDB:"Canvas"),
starring actors Joe Pantoliano (The
Sopranos, The Goonies (Ha ha!), etc.) and Marcia
Gay Harden. (Mystic River, Mona Lisa Smile, Law & Order: S.V.U., etc.)
will be premiered at the Hampton's
International Film Festival in late October! I
played viola on
some session cues for this film at the Village
Studios, LA, tracking with engineer Jared
Nugent. The end of film credit roll is HERE. The
film also had a private
screening for Congressman,
Senator Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island. You
do know about us TERRIENS and
our connection to the Martha Moxley murder, horse thieving,
and the Kennedy's, right? Congrats
to Joe and his crew on a job well done!!!
August:
Here's a link to a VERY
COOL 70-minute long i-Podcast interview with
David Burgess, live from Australia for BassCast! Serving
as co-host, David and I discussed TOOL's new album, Michael
Manring's THONK album, as well as THE DOLLS. You
can save the whole download here!
July:
I
just got back from the Pasadena Bass Day at the LA Music
Academy! The
clinics were a blast!! It was great to see bass pals
Todd Johnson, Kim Jade, and Mark Wright again and without
question, it was awesome meeting Jerry Watts, Alex Al,
and K.T. Tyler!
I've been extremely busy
writing some new compositions for another studio album!!! Currently,
I've finished 10/12 tunes as follows: 1.) What?! What?!
2.) The Chellis 3.) Crushage (in 15/8) 4.) El Diablo
5.)
The
Evil Of
Flow 6.) Tabitha Hides Behind A Tree 7.) Burbank 8.)
The Gay Wolf (Best song title EVER!!) 9.) It's
A Star Jones Christmas!! and 10.) Snuff 11.) Amish
Conceptually, I'd like to
bring on Pat and Ronan again. I would also like
to write some dense string quintet
arrangements (perhaps the normal string
quartet
scoring
plus
a banjo or guitar addition?). Maybe some textural
noodling by
guys along the lines of Bela
Fleck, Steve Vai, Bill Frisell, Trey Anastasio,
or Mike Keneally would work? We
shall see.......I'll also probably be shopping for label
$$$ to track this record.
June: It's been a WICKED
busy last few months for my fingers!!
Film Director Joe
Greco is in the final production stages of his new movie, "Canvas",
starring actors Joe
Pantoliano
(The Sopranos, The Goonies (Ha ha!), etc.) and Marcia
Gay Harden. (Mystic River, Mona Lisa Smile, Law & Order:
S.V.U., etc.).
I will
also be doing a live telephone interview from Australia
with David Burgess which will
be featured on BassCast.com. We'll
discuss my new record as well as the new TOOL album. I'll
lay into the details of drummer Danny Carey's AWESOMENESS on
this album. I think we'll also discuss Michael
Manring's "THONK" record as a "Bass Blast From
The Past!"
Cock
Robin played at great warm-up show for their upcoming
European Tour at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. I
was there hanging with drum bud P@. Stickist Tom
Griesgraber and I kicked
it "old school", fending off droves of single
mid-40's looking
COUGARS while Pat
Mastelotto rocked the drum kit per
usual!! MMIWYP!
May: I
just got back from Berkeley, CA where I stopped by The
Freight & Salvage Coffee House to
check out fellow bass pals Michael
Manring, Jean
Baudin, Jeff
Schmidt,
and David
Grossman creating solo bass madness at the Berkeley Solo
Bass Night. Check
out some live show pix here!!! I
said hello again to Bobby Vega, who was in the house as well! Many
props to "Epileptic
Peat" and
his band of merry bass fans who flew in all the way from Philadelphia,
PA
just
to see
Jean Baudin play! AWESOME!!!
I just tracked some weirdo
fretless bass madness for 4 hours at "Disco Studios" in
Silverlake with producer/engineer pal Ethan
Mates(Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park,
Pussycat Dolls,
Slipknot, Tupac, etc.) for several hip-hop/world/electronica
compositions which will be licensed for usage via Go
Big! Entertainment here in Los Angeles.
Esteemed
music journalist Greg Burk from the LA
Weekly just wrote
a very kind review of the new
Veneto West Records compilation
album that I contributed two
tracks
to, "Destroying
Silence: An Introduction To Veneto West
Records", that is bound to get a HUGE amount of visibility
here in California. Specifically,
the review says that "Jay Terrien cycles from loop to stomp
and back..... And
all of it is good." For me to POOP ON!!! Awesome. Full
review here or
here. Progressive
World.Net also did a cool review here.
I
just heard about an extremely genuine review
of "All
The Dolls In The Same Place" in
the June, 2006 issue of Guitar World's BASS
GUITAR MAGAZINE! Here's
the cover, click on the article for the full review!
Later this summer, Jay Terrien
will be a special guest at the San Diego Bass Alliance's "PASADENA
BASS DAY" at
the Los Angeles Music Academy (LAMA) on July 15, 2006 with
fellow bassists David Dyson (Solo Artist, Jonathon Butler,
Pieces
of a Dream),
Rhonda Smith (Solo Artist, Prince And The New Power Generation),
Todd Johnson (Solo Artist, Master bass instructor, Dave Weckl,
Mike Stern, Scott Anderson), Jerry Watts, Jr. (Head of Bass
Dept. - Los Angeles Music Academy, Denise Williams, Herbie
Hancock, Keiko Matsui, Sergio Mendez, Kevyn Lettau), Alex Al
(First call session player, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder,
Janet Jackson, Paul Jackson, Jr., Jeff Lorber) and many more!
Also, I plan on getting together with producer/engineer/mixer Jimbo
Barton(Queensryche, Rush, Metallica, Steve Perry (SWEET!)) to lay down some bass tracks in his studio!
April:
My
pal, LA drumming madman Glen
Sobel just told me that I am
in the May, 2006 issue of MODERN
DRUMMER, "The World's #1 Drum Magazine." SWEET!
Sweet
'stache right? Here's the cover, click on the article
for the full review!:
PODCAST MANIA!
David
Burgess from Basscast has
graciously added two tracks (EMO and
CONSEQUENCE)
from "ALL THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE" to a recent podcast
that was aired LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA! Feel free to listen
to this awesome Podcast by downloading
it here or
by checking it out on iTunes! Other
famous bassists sampled on this Basscast
include:
*David Dyson: "The Dawning"
*Kai Eckhardt: "Visions of an inner
mounting apocalypse"
*Andy Fraser: "Naked...and finally
free"
*Michael Manring: "Outerspaces" by
Sadhappy
*Joseph Patrick Moore: "Live in
05" and "Wherever
we go"
*Charlie Moreno: "So lonely"
*Brian Mulholland: "Deco"
*Rob Wasserman: "Cosmic Farm"
*Bill Wyman: "Just for a thrill"
*Step back in time: "Musical Massage" by
Leon Ware (Chuck Rainey, bass)
March:
SEEK AND DESTROY!
The
new Veneto West Records compilation album,
entitled "Destroying
Silence: An Introduction To Veneto West Records",
is already getting rave reviews! The album features
tracks from Jay
"THE ICEMAN" Terrien, Anthony Curtis, Willie Oteri,
Lives of the Saints (Ronan Chris Murphy & Bill
Forth), Hypnoise and features performances by
Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Jeff Gauthier, Mike Keneally,
Lewis Pragasam, Ephraim Owens and others. See the
details here. Here's
a cool review from "GROUND
AND SKY", Also, check out what reviewer
Donato Zoppo has to say about this killer compilation on
the Movementi
Prog website
in Italy! Go and buy it here!!!
FYI, Jay
Terrien has just been invited to contribute his signature
bass mayhem
to the "78 Hour
Non-Stop Improvisation Festival",
held at the CastelBrando (Italy's
oldest castle with 2,000 years of improvised music
and counting!!!) in the Venice countryside,
for 4 straight days starting on September 21, 2006
(originally scheduled for June 8-12).
Also
joining in on the fun are noisemakers Mike
Keneally (Frank Zappa,
Steve Vai, etc.), Willie
Oteri, Pat "K.C.
Stiletto" Mastelotto,
Markus Reuter, Stuart
Hamm (Joe Satriani, etc....Terrien
and Hamm holding the low end DOWN! What?! What?!),
Ronan Chris Murphy, and of course
the most magnificent Schroeder on drummage!! Don't
miss this special festival!!!! CIAO!
I
just heard from Belgian correspondent Pascal Samain,
that his review of "ATDITSP" is
featured in the Fevrier
issue of France's premier rock magazine, "Crossroads",
the one with Johnny Cash on the cover. Go
read the review (in French!) here!
Also,
Dear God, it's begun! I
am being discussed on some
awesome bass
board in France!! I
am holding bass bud in
France, Yves Carbonne accountable!!
Ha ha!!
January 2006!:
Now that CBS' Hit Reality
Show Survivor (Season 12) "Panama
-- Exile Island" is
airing, sadly, you
will notice that I am absent from the show!!
But,
I did make it to the
SEMI-FINAL round of the exhaustive
application process. I
think that contestant Bobby
Mason must
have beat me out for
the final spot. He's
the tattooed black
dude who played baseball
at
fellow NESCAC institution
Amherst College. On
the other hand, I am a white
guy who played soccer at
Bates College and in England. I
took pictures of Grammy. He
is a lawyer. He wins. That
RULES!
I SURVIVED ANOTHER NAMM SHOW!!!
Thanks to all of my music pals that stopped by the Adler
Basses booth at the NAMM Show to say "F.U.!" to
me. Mike
Adler had some amazing
basses this year and without question, Right after
Gerald Veasley finished his demo, I was fortunate enough to be
invited
to play "bass" at the Roland
Booth using a GORGEOUS Mike Adler Singlecut 5 string, where
I demoed their new line of Cube and D-Bass amps for Product Managers
Michael Barrett,
Peter
Swiadon, Dan Kirsher and some
visiting Japanese
executives.
It
was great to catch up with some close friends (Jauqo
III-X, Mad Ass Hillbilly Al
Caldwell, Joe
Deninzon (Inside The John
Lennon Bus),
Jens Ritter, etc.), to meet some cool drum dudes who were involved
in my record via P@ (Garrison
at DW, Rich
Mangicaro at Paiste, Bruce Jacoby at Remo),
and to give a shout
out to
Mike Visceglia with Steve from D'Addario Strings! I
also ran
into Adam Budofsky from Modern Drummer magazine as well as
my
good pals
Richard Ruse and Nick Epifani from Epifani
Custom Sound!
Bass-wise,
it was awesome to finally meet and hang
with fellow bass peeps Jeff Schmidt,
Stew McKinsey, Darren Michaels,
Stanley Clarke, Jean Baudin, Yves Carbonne,
etc.
There were also quite a few rumors
at the show, which I will quickly dispel:
1.) Adrian Belew DOESN'T
FEAR THE DOLLS and Parker DID
NOT make him a $10,000 Custom Guitar!
2.) I DID
NOT PLAY "Judging By The Size Of Carnie" on Carey Nordstrand's
new NORDY 5-String Jazz Bass, nor did I have a red thong in my NAMM bag!
3.) I DID NOT STALK Poison's
RIKKI ROCKETT!! 4.) I have
no idea who those Japanese dudes and that blond mohawked chick,
aptly named "ROXXI DOTT" (yeah,
she's the one that is hanging herself in this photo)
are!
Most Expensive Press Kit
Ever??!!
I've been busy sending out my latest demo reel to the
top producers and recording engineers in Los Angeles
so that I can take on more cool session work! I've also
been blasting off press kits to several media outlets
and music-centric publications. My
latest press kit "design" contains my new record,
some marketing one-sheets, and an honest, hard-working
blow-up doll named "Fatty
Patty" (who despite her gorgeous, flowing red
hair, still got barked at by Jenna, my cute Peke!). Bass
Player Magazine and Technical Editor Jonathan Herrera
got their kit which
will soon be followed up by submissions to Rolling Stone,
Spin Magazine, etc. Fear the $50 psycho
press kit!!! FYI,
I just heard about some more
unsolicited record reviews floating around
the Internet. Dude,
just check out what independent reviewer Kai
Horsthemke had to say about
THE DOLLS!!! NO
WAY!!! Dear
God.....He rules....
INTERNATIONAL
RECORD RELEASE CONCERT/PARTY IN MONTREAL,
QUEBEC!
Jay
Terrien (along with Les Habs sidekick
drummer Merlin)
was the featured
artist during
a live radio
interview
on Canada's
premier rock radio station in Montreal, CISM
89.3 with esteemed rock journalist
Christine Fortier on Wednesday,
January 4, 2006 at 8 PM
ET. Topics
of discussion included THE
DOLLS, poutines,
the future impact of digital music
distribution, as well as the manner
in which modern day musicians utilize
and leverage existing technologies
(recording
software,
VOIP telephony, BBS) to seamlessly
collaborate in real time despite
great geographic distances. Here
are some cool pictures from the kick-ass
Main Hall live show: Jay
Terrien and Merlin, FU!,
and Wildcat!!!
SILENCE
OF THE CARNIE!:
CONGRATS!!! "Judging By The Size Of
Carnie" and "Double-Entendre", two fierce "hard
jazz" Terrien compositions, have both been added to a
very cool industry
compilation CD
entitled "Destroying
Silence", which will be released
by Veneto
West Records.
December: MY
INTERNATIONAL RECORD RELEASE
PARTY WILL OCCUR ON JANUARY
6TH, 2006 IN MONTREAL, QUEBEC AT THE MILE
END CULTURAL CENTER (MAIN
HALL) AT
8:30 PM!! GET
YOUR TICKETS NOW AT TICKETMASTER FOR
THIS UNIQUE BASS AND DRUMS "POWER
DUO" CONCERT WITH
SPECIAL GUEST MERLIN ON
DRUMS/ELECTRONICS! METRIK
AND BISTOURI (DRUMS AND
LAPTOP) WILL ALSO BE ON
THE BILL!! DOWNLOADABLE
PROMO POSTER HERE!! SPECIAL
PRIZES FOR ANYONE THAT
BRINGS A BLOW-UP DOLL TO
THE SHOW!!
DO IT!! OBEY!! FEAR
THE DOLLS!
November: I was hanging out with RCM at Nick
D'Virgilio (Spock's Beard, massive session credits,
etc.) and Rick Musallam's birthday party on November
. I
finally met bass ace Bryan
Beller (Go
buy that record! He RULES!) and surprisingly enough,
I tricked guitarmaster and Zappa alum Mike
Keneally into
taking a copy of THE DOLLS!!! I told him that the
best way to handle the record is to not make any direct
eye contact
with
the front or back covers
whatsoever! He was immediately fearful of THE DOLL. Upon
initial home listening usage, you must use a similar
technique to the one that Indiana Jones used when
he
jackassingly
opened
the Ark at
the end "Raiders
Of The Lost Ark". In sum, I spared Keneally "the
fiery cataclysm" that has already consumed recipients Sean
Hayes (Will and
Grace), Steven Bailey (My
Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance/Grey's Anatomy), and many others. That
rules........
I am busy planning on a tour
to Europe. The maps are out. The Starbucks
locations are plotted out. It looks like London,
Brussels, Amsterdam, all over Germany, and Italy are
my top choices to play at so far. I've had some
positive talks with a few bookers/promoters over there.
Rocktober: FEAR
THE DOLLS!!! Go check out "ALL
THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE"
now! With a worldwide release date of January, 2006,
advance copies of this record will be available at the Discipline
Global Mobile Shop (http://www.nexternal.com/dgm/Product792), The
Vermont
Music Shop (http://www.vermontmusicshop.com/index.php?i=cd558),
CD Baby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/terrien),
Tower Records, and other fine outlets!
A
cool
bass and drums duo
from
Montreal, QC called "Trikme" (Merlin and
Patrik)
recently
contacted
me
about
my vacant
drums
and
bass
chairs. I
guess
internet
research
really
does
pay off
after
all!! After
many
phone
calls
and
e-mails,
the
duo
decided
to venture
out
West
for
a week-long
session
of nasty
odd-time,
poutines,
and hot
gang chicks!! We
even
got to hang
with THE
V during
his
visit
with Dar
Williams. By
the
way,
Mike "THE
V" Visceglia
just
contributed
a great
column
to Bass
Player
magazine
which
is apparently
a lengthy
treatise
regarding
how
much WE
RULE!!
We also got to hang out with
Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention alumnus Don
Preston and watch "SINISTER
FLESH", which
stars Preston himself as the fearsome Dr.
Ogo Moto!! Preston also came down to our studio
and played with
us for 2 hours (while Merlin threw
up due to a bad case
of food/poutines poisoning)! Check out this cool
interview with Don Preston!
October
7th:
I
was chilling at the Adrian
Belew show at the Key Club. It was an amazing live
show which featured Belew with his new Parker
Guitars, Mike
Gallaher
on bass,
and Mike
Hodges (a dead ringer for Tony Levin) on drums!!! It
just goes to show you that playing Thela
Hun Ginjeet as an encore
is a great call every time!! Thanks to P@ for hooking me
up!! More pix HERE.
September
24th: I
was hanging out at BassQuake in
Campbell, CA with other pro bassists such as Michael
Manring,
Adam
Nitti, Todd
Johnson,
Dave LaRue,
and my man, Vail
Johnson (Kenny
G's Man On
The Bass-shizzle!!). Check
out some live
pix here. It
was great to
catch up with
old friends
like Jeremy
Cohen
and AccuGroove's
Future Triathlete, Mark
Wright. I
brought my
Status Fretless
6 and
quite a few
people
were blown
away by it!! But
for sure, Todd
Johnson's new
Zon 6 RULES!! FYI,
The V is
hitting LA
in October. You've
been warned!
August-ish:
REALITY
TV RULES and who better to dominate the seen than JT!?
I have
been busy auditioning and interviewing for Survivor Season 12
(Survivor
S-12) The kind folks at SEG and Mark Burnett
Productions apparently enjoyed my application......and strategy
of cannibalism...since I was selected as a SEMI-FINALIST. If
I get on the show (which would rule), would the producers ever
find my hidden stash of allergy meds and protein bars????
I
was hanging out with bass compadre Marty
O'Brien (Bassist for Tommy Lee, Ben Moody, Methods
Of Mayhem, etc.) the other night after his new band "3-Faced"
played at the Whisky A Go Go. Marty was just recently
on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (and on The Jimmy Kimmel
Show)
playing
bass in a new project formed by Motley Crue drummer Tommy
Lee, who is busy promoting his new "Tommy
Lee Goes To College" reality
show on NBC.
July
31st: Fellow
bass pal Mike Visceglia was
in town for the long weekend while on tour with Suzanne
Vega
and Marc Cohn. A
few nights after the show, we went to the Sugar
Bitch show at
The Viper Room in support of our favorite gal pal hottie, bassist Kim
Jade. She rules
on the 4-banger!! Bassists
RULE!
We even ran into fellow bassist Lemmy from
Motorhead and finally, finally, finally, I shook mitts
with the indestructible 3-time Emmy winner Ron
Jeremy at the Rainbow Room. Awesome,
awesome, awesome!
July
23rd: Japanese
drum genius Tatsuya
Yoshida, the mastermind behind drummer/bassist duo Ruins,
was in town at the Knitting Factory Hollywood on his "Bassist
Wanted"
Tour. It just so happens that I was at this club for the
second half of my "Drummer Wanted" Tour. Oddly
enough, Yoshida just happens to like this
one band called
King
Crimson. I
chatted with him for a while and then my wife and I offered
to shoot some some amateur video for him....of his
bombastically precise pound your
ears
out
drums/bass
set!! We shot his entire set for him using his cool camera which
was quite nice despite the fact that my drink intake made
all of the controls appear to be in Japanese! Ok, they really
were in Japanese. At some point, I would love to write
some MONSTER riffage with him!! We would make a mighty
ferocious and tasteful drums/bass power duo!!
I
was fortunate enough to shoot some pretty sweet vids and pix
all throughout this show, which also featured Pray
To The Robots and Zolar
X, a band that quite frankly, scared the shift out of
me. I've
done the world of journalism a great service by providing
you all with some great footage of Zolar X's 3 biggest fans: Comic
Book Guy, Leather
Ass, and Mustard/Ketchup
Guy. Hollywood
alta-weirdos are awesome.....
But
the highlight of the night came when Collyn
McCoy, bassist
for PTTR and former Shaws employee in the great state of
New Hampshire, came to the rescue of Yoshida's
fill-in bass partner, who busted a D
string at the beginning of their set. McCoy kindly
handed the young bassist his own 6
string Warwick Bassuntil
he could tech the guy's bass with a new string. God,
we New Englanders are SO generous!!!
July
10th: Lads
and lasses,
I was at the "Princes
of Malibu" premiere
at record producer David
Foster's $40 Million Dollar Malibu estate. My
wife and I were guests thanks to some very cool friends of
ours who work their tails off on
Mark Burnett-related productions! The
jibby was in full effect. They gave us candy! There
were Red
Vines in the Guess handbags
(which as you can tell, featured Brandon and Brody doing
sweet model poses). More treats HERE.
I stalked
both "Growing Pains" alum Alan
Thicke
and fashionista hair dresser/shampoo mogul Paul
Mitchell with limited success. Under
the dizzying influence of In-N-Out Burgers (I am a vegetarian,
the
smell gagged
me!)
and
Coffee
Bean Tea
& Leaf iced coffees (I had 4 of them!), they proved to be
incredibly elusive!
June
23rd: Ronan
Chris Murphy had a sweet birthday
bash in Culver City. I
told many enchanting stories, most of which will help me
obtain the coveted status of "ACTIVE WELL-WISHER". Soon,
I will be inducted into the Fourth
Quadrant, where my Nintendo
skills will allow me to seek and destroy all non-active flashbulb
photo-wishers.........Rumor has it that Jeff
Goldblum was lurking
around and he even had the Kool-Aid guy bring over a nice
birthday gift!! SWEET!!
June
18th: I was all dolled up in 80's Metal
attire for
a wholesome night of ROCK AND MULLETS
at
the
Cinderella/Quiet
Riot/RATT/Firehouse
fiasco. As you can see, for obvious reasons, our new
friend from Long Beach is GENIUS! My
bloody and torn up Van Halen t-shirt (complete with sweet
deep-sea fishing shades, white high-tops, and my "I
Love Napoleon Dynamite" wrist
band ABSOLUTELY
RULES!
May
30th: It
looks like I have some competition by a young Japanese man
in the "Panty
Raid" space.
May
13th: I
caught one of my favorite bands, Scotland's finest sons,
the Trash
Can Sinatras live
at the El Rey Theatre in LA. The "show" was
fun but the sound man and his lack of technical skill,
should surely
be dealt
with. Just goddamned awful sound.....But they played
BLOODRUSH, so all was well with me. At one point
during the
show I was "SHHHHUSHED" by
a large Mexican girl because I was "talking too loud". I
then inquired if she was a representative of the "TREADMILL
POLICE". Look dude,
heavies and boozies do not mix well. May
1st:
Well, I am "trying" to
stay out of trouble! I am finishing
up
my new
record with Ronan
Chris Murphy and Pat
Mastelotto, doing some cool session
work in LA (Quarter notes..sweet!),
and catching as
many
live
shows
as I can. I
was hanging out with fellow composer and
stellar contrabassist Steuart
Liebig the other night, demoing some
of his amazing vintage bass effects as
well as checking
out his arsenal of Fodera basses.
April 30th:
I went to the Steve Vai show at
the Wiltern Theatre. This was a spur of the moment GET YER ASS OUT THE DOOR and create
some madness kind of event. Just as I was about to buy a ticket at the
door, an older Black gentleman came up to me and hooked me up with a free ticket,
which ultimately granted me access to within 3 feet of the main stage! Serendipity/Karma
truly is a BOOMERANG!! Just a few months earlier back in Chicago,
I had an extra Coheed and Cambria ticket
(I'm a big fan of CoCa and the Eppard's, Josh and Joey of "3")
and I gave it to
a
young
teenager, who without question, has no Playstation or girl skills
whatsoever! That's
why he got the ticket.
Anyhow, it was a great night!! I
even ran into Christopher
Guest and his wife, actress Jamie
Lee Curtis. You all probably know Mr. Guest from his infamous role as "Nigel
Tufnel" from Rob Reiner's cult-rock classic movie "THIS IS SPINAL TAP". Actually,
Chris is an insanely talented composer and guitarist so I was not all that surprised
to see him at the show. I am assuming that he is friends with Steve Vai,
but since there were no "pods" on stage or 12" Stonehenge
statues, this can not be confirmed.....or denied.
So, while I was walking down to my section in front of the stage, I turned around
to see Christopher and Jamie enjoying the opening band, blues master guitarist
Eric Sardinas. As
I passed them by, I looked right at Christopher and muttered the
following words:
"Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut."
He
quickly laughed his ass off in recognition of this brilliant quote, shaking his
head
in
disbelief, as
I conjured up this wonderful
line from another one of his great movies called "Best
in Show". Sadly, I neglected to tell him about my
slight Parker Posey
fetish and how my recent rental of Blade:
Trinity did very little to alter my
opinion
of
her.
Guitarmeister
Nuno Bettencourt was hanging out in the lobby..with a guy who had
a cowboy hat on. Nuno had a cowboy hat on......his friend had a cowboy hat on. Enough
said. But the best part of the whole night was around closing time, when
I found THIS guy stumbling and mumbling incoherently around the concession stand
(also known as the "Boozies" stand):
That's
hot!! And not only is that HOT, it's what goddamn
HOLLYWOOD rock and roll is all about, as he surely
informed me. I got the devil horns and everything. You
see the make-up, the headband, the arsenal of bracelets,
the amulet on his neck which for sure as shift, should
be able to resurrect some type of Egyptian Mummy/Demon
from the "Netherworld". I saw it all
that night.....The make-up, the excessive drinks, the
slurred speech, the fact that I became his best friend
in minutes, the make-up rolling down his face in small
beads of black and red make-up....All of it was pure
genius! And of course, I had forgotten my trusty
digital camera so I was only able to capture this madness
with my cell phone camera. Goddamn brilliant!! For
some, it might even conjure up images of Jame
Gumb from "The Silence Of The Lambs". Well, it
did for me and that's why I fed this cat lots of free
boozies. I gave him my business card and for
the love of God, I hope it is within my future to hang
with this guy again!!!
April
21st:
I also was chilling with fellow bassist Al
Caldwell after his concert with soul diva Vanessa
Williams. Mike Adler, Melissa Bunker and I made it to the show and
we had a blast! Check out Al's big 11-string
bass in my delicate Coors Light-ridden mitts!!!
March
11th: I presented several dollars
at the Echo here in Silverlake, which enabled me to
get in and check out Hella,
a Sacramento CA-based guitar and drums duo that give
new meaning to the sonic collision of "the sperm
and the egg". At some point, I would like
to contribute some edgy bass material to their already
chaotic musings. And I want to show them "THE
BOOK OF SHIT".
March
17th: I caught a cool show
featuring Michael Vlatkovich playing some incredibly
avant-garde trombone at Cryptonight in Culver City. Chris
Garcia was playing drums that night. He is AMAZING! Just
recently, he has been doing a few shows sitting in
with fellow bass pal Michael
Manring and guitarist Alex DeGrassi.
March
3rd: Contrabassist/gifted
composer and pal Steuart Liebig was holding down the
bass chair at Cryptonight in Culver City. Joe
Berardi blew my tits off with his forward thinking
drum chops. Wow!! Then later that month
on March 31st, I caught Liebig's "Splinter Group" creating "noises
and squooshes". It was truly a night of
6 and 12th string bass effects and experimentation
at
its finest!!
January-February-March
MIKE WATT-NESS!!:
Also, all of you LA hipsters missed an awesome HELLRIDE show (featuring fellow
bassist Mike
Watt, Stephen Perkins on drums, and Peter
DiStefano on guitar) at 14 Below on January 14, 2005!! I hung out with
this great bass legend after the show. Hell, I even went back on February
26th and caught them a second time, MUCH RESPECT to him!!! His
old handlebar moustache only rivals Mark Egan's 70's stache!
Then, I saw Mike Watt with Stephen Perkins' BANYAN project in Long Beach
(Nels Cline was in full-effect, destroying the room with sonic guitar
effectiveness)
with my good pals Mike Adler and
Melissa Bunker. And at this show, Watt's
good pal and mad dog drummer Jerry
Trebotic was in the house, feeding his wife apple martinis!!!
February
18th:
Guess who pounded Boddington's for his birthday/anniversary at the AMAZING Oh
My God! show in LA? Oh My God: Best Damn Band period!!! Billy RULED as did my boy Iguana on the organ!
Lastly, I just got an e-mail from OMG's Iguana, who said
that MTV wants to follow Oh My God on tour and film them,
day and night...basically, to document
a "real life touring band" on the road. This footage will then
be edited down to a three-minute film about the band that will air during MTV's
season finale of "Making the Band" on Thursday May 5th at 10 PM (Eastern/Pacific)! Brian,
Billy, and Bish: Kudos for all your hard work "legalizing
cocaine" and
educating the world about the trials and tribulations of McObesity!!! You
guys are truly my favorite American band!
February
16th:
I was hanging out with my good pal/guitarist extraordinaire Seahag and
his fellow Atlantic Records mates Doo
Doo, Tomato, and Reverend
Bill as they
tore it up during a great live scat set on Feb. 16th at their The
Sound Of Urchin show in
Hermosa. Besides, it's always nice to be greeted and addressed by Tomato as "Hey,
You're The Guy That Takes
Pictures Of Your Own Shift!"
February
2nd:
I just checked out the indefatigable Nels
Cline Singers project at Club Tropical. God, I need to borrow some
of his effects!!!!!!!! Nels is truly a sight to behold!!!
January
28th:
I was fortunate enough to be able to check out my pal Fareed
Haque's gig at the Jazz Bakery, featuring Billy Bangs in violin and Kahil
El'Zabar on Drums and Percussion. Fareed was so kind to both me and my
friend and stellar 7-string rock violin goddess Asha
Mevlana. I surely owe him one!!
January 23rd: Jay
Terrien was hanging out with his pal Alex Skolnick
from the Alex
Skolnick Trio at their show at the Viper
Room on January 23rd. Where
were you? He even ran into his pal
Amanda, a delightful lesbian
Suicide Girl who ultimately threw up her
Guinness intake upon returning home that night.
I guess I bought her too many birthday drinks?????
Amateurs...............P.S.: Whatever happened
to you MARGARITA????
January
6th, 2005: I finally
made it out to The Echo to see fellow string
player Eric Gorfain's Section
Quartet tear up some Radiohead tunes
arranged for classical string quartet like
nobody's business! Yes, of course I
was analyzing the violist's bowing technique!!! Luckily
enough, former Smashing Pumpkins drummer
Jimmy Chamberlain showed up and played a
very spirited
and improvised late night set with his new Jimmy
Chamberlain Complex project.
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TRADE SHOW APPEARANCES
Did
you see Jay Terrien tearing
it up on bass and viola at
the Winter NAMM
Show in Anaheim, CA from January 20-23, 2005??!!
JT
just returned from the Winter NAMM 2005 show in Anaheim
from January 20-23, 2005. What a blast!! He
finally got a chance to demo some of Mark
Wood's AMAZING product line of electric
violas. When he wasn't helping out his
good friend and prominent luthier Mike
Adler, he was chilling out with fellow bass cats Al
Caldwell, W. Anthony Joyner (Faith Hill's main
bass man!), Mike Stram, "Mad Dog" Michael
Brown, Scott
Pazera, Chris
Benavente, Fred Bolton of BEE Basses,
Adrian Garcia of Access
Bass in Las Vegas, Jauqo
III-X, and Billy
Dickens. He also got a chance to meet and
network with bass legends Chuck
Rainey, Doug
Wimbish, Tony
Levin, as well as an "extended range porn
legend" named Jasmin
St. Claire!!!
By the way, STELLAR bass compatriot Michael Visceglia (Suzanne Vega, Phil Collins,
Al Green, etc.) just mailed me a copy of his new book, "A
View from the Side". It's an inspirational book that every bass
enthusiast should check out!!! Michael has an uncanny ability to get
top bass pros like Tony Levin, Marcus Miller, Colin Moulding, Percy Jones,
etc. to reveal the pros and cons about their experiences as both musical innovators
and "artists". Michael's warm personality cuts through the
book and to boot, he even has a STALKER!! Look out J.Lo and Brad Pitt!! I
highly recommend picking up a copy of this great read!! I brought it
to the NAMM show and MANY great bassists and close friend's of Michael signed
it for him! I then Fed Exed the book back to Michael. I can imagine
his surprise to see his own book signed by so many bass legends and close
business associates! Mike and I had a great phone chat later that week. He's
a great advocate for our instrument and I hope to work with him someday.
ARCHIVE:
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.
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.
Lastly,
deceased al-Qaeda Hostage Nick
Berg was a friend of mine from my days in West
Chester, PA. I've dedicated my song SONIQUE to
him. If you have a moment, please read my Nick
Berg: In Memoriam Page**
PAST
NYC SOLO GIGS: *Sunday,
March 11, at the Living Room with Erik Rabasca (Guitarist,
Lunar Detour) and Joe
Deninzon (Violin, Stratospheerius with legendary
guitarist Alex Skolnick (Testament, Michael Manring,
Stu Hamm, etc.), Ritchie Blackmore, and Sheryl
Crow). The gig was an amazing display of virtuoso
fire and intensity! Special thanks to Erik and Joe
for sitting in and dazzling the crowd with their
imaginative improv chops!
*Friday, February 16, at The
Lion's Den, New York (with Glue)
*The Rising Cafe,
Park Slope, Brooklyn on Friday, February 2.
*Terrien played an energetic
and muscular solo set at The Lion's Den (on 214
Sullivan St., Bet. Bleecker & W. 3rd) on Friday, January
19. Thanks to all of the fans who came out to the show.
Jay was blown away by your enthusiastic response to his
hyper jam music.
*Previously, he performed an
intimate fretless "acoustic set" live at The
Living Room (http://www.livingroomny.com)
on Sunday, January 7.
Thanks for all of your support
at Jay Terrien's live shows!!
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