TERRIEN SIGHTINGS (TIDBITS OF
NEWS-WORTHY BLOGGING)!
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"!
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:
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
There's
some awesome new pix from
the Lodo Bass Bash show on my Flickr
page HERE. FEAR
THE MYERS!!! "Jay Terrien vs. Grey
Wolf"? Most certainly. Did all the
kids stalk me, repeatedly
inquiring about the power of THE MASK?
Yup. ATV
riding in Wyoming?
Check. Kickin' it in Yellowstone?
For sure. I don't eat
my friends and neither should you! Cuz
that's how we roll!!
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!!
Mike
V., Ben
Butler, and THE
YOWELL were in full effect. Here's
a shot of me with Mike
and Ben Dizzle, Leno's
DOPE ride,
Leno's Wrangler
Jeans, and of course, THE
BOOK OF SHIT. No picture archive would be complete
with CANNAGE shots.
Scarlett's
Fun Bags? Done.
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!!
I also attended a
PHENOMENAL jazz viola masterclass conducted by viola
master
Danny
Seidenberg.
This event was organized by Jennie
Hansen and the Southern
California Viola Society. Awesome!! Here's a group
shot!
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!
New!! Jay Terrien Video
Archive (Music And Shenanigans)
On YouTube.com. Just Awesome....Go Watch "Jay
Terrien vs
Sea Lion!!!" NOW!
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!
Some weirdo band named "KTU"
was in town playing Finnish-style reggaeton
Moosic at The Knitting Factory, Hollywood. Kimmo
Pohjonen, Pat
Mastelotto,
and Trey
Gunn would
be rolling over in their graves if they ever saw this
band play live!! It was great to hang with RCM, Bill
Hibbetts and Amy Priore of Inner
Knot Records/DGM,
and guitar masochist Bill Forth, as well as the whole
Crimson
posse. More live pix here: 1.) Animal
On Drums 2.) Knitting
Factory Dress Code 3.) End
Of KTU Show LA 4.)
Dr.
Jeckyl Gunn And Mr. Hyde Terrien 5.)
Backstage (Surprise!?) 6.)
Kimmo LIVE 7.) Kimmo
And Pat 8.) Kimmo
And Pat (Backstage) 9.)
KTU
Thanks The Crowd 10.)
Pat
And Escort Service Model!! 11.) P@
And Pal
12.) P@
And Drum Toys 13.) Trey
Gunn Warr Guitar Mania! 14.) The
Three Stooges
I've got tons of viola session
work coming up, including some improv. madness on a few
new songs by enchanting singer/songwriter Paulina
Logan, produced
by Gilli Moon. Here
are a few cool pix from that session at MT Studios, Burbank,
CA:
Jay
Terrien Viola With Royer Mic,
Paulina
Logan, Producer
Gilli Moon, Engineer
Matt Thorne, Solo
Viola, Laying
Down Viola Tracks, Matt
And Paulina
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?
Here
are some cool pix of Tom
Griesgraber and Jerry
Marotta, Skip
Fantry, Billy
Dickens, Ronan
Chris Murphy and John Rodd, Theron
Brison, Stew's
girl, Marty
O'Brien, Bill
Clements, This is
a great shot of Darren Michaels, The
Starbucks King,
and Yves Carbonne with the 12
string, southpaw hockey stick fretless
beast!
And
now you all know how
we roll.....
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.).
Playing viola, I
was invited to lay down
some GORGEOUSLY COMPOSED film cue tracks for composer Joel
Goodman at the Village
Studios, LA with engineer Jared
Nugent. It was a
blast to work with all of these cool
musicians including my viola gal pal Asha
Mevlana!
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!
February:
FWIW, I just donated some of my compositions to The
Vermont Music Library & Shop VT Jukebox
Project!
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 shoutout 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
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