26-Jul-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Another quick YOUTUBE VIDEO filmed by Local Band Review the other day. This one is a live performance of Hg, a fun little track off umop apisdn.

23-Jul-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Here's the long-overdue PARALLAX FACEBOOK PAGE! Head over there for tidbits & some exclusive photos. More to come.

23-Jul-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Here's a YOUTUBE VIDEO (shot by Michael Lawson of Local Band Review) of my classic ole 1980s Keyboard Solo Medley. Up until now this medley was only digestible as an older YouTube video shot by myself using the hiccuping A/V capabilities of a cheap digital still camera. Thanks to Mike you can now watch it with much better sound and video quality, with the added perk of the Axistron being used throughout the performance, and a crazy new twist to the ending!

19-Jul-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

I'm making web banner graphics for SIDSONIC LIBRARIES and I figured I'd post a teaser image.

16-Jul-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Here's a quick YOUTUBE VIDEO demonstrating my friend's Moog Memorymoog synthesizer in typical noodle-fingered style!

12-Jul-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

I'm pleased to announce that brand new monthly PACKRAT COMICS will be created for Keyboard Magazine, starting with this special half-page comic for their August, 2010 edition.

11-Jul-2010 -- 3 Comments. Add yours!

Here's a YOUTUBE VIDEO performance of "Ryu" off my album Visit the Entropics.

10-Jul-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Hello!

Due to the great popularity my 1980s Keyboard Solo medley has had over the years, and also after having so much fun playing "Enter Sandman" with Driven last night, I've decided it might be fun to arrange & record a 1980s GUITAR SOLO MEDLEY (performed on the Axistron of course!) for YouTube in the not-to-distant future.

I'm looking for ideas from you guys! Add your suggestion(s) for THE PERFECT '80s GUITAR SOLO in the umop.com Facebook comments right here, and I'll see if I can work it in!

29-Jun-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Yay! Finally a YOUTUBE VIDEO for a track off my Parallax album "Visit the Entropics!"

Poor audio quality (explody bass kills the camcorder), but fun stuff to look at anyway. Here's a live performance of the fat-assed track "Umlaut." Most of the song features my new Axistron, a custom red-keyed Roland Axis-1 artifact done up with electroluminescent wire in the style of a certain '80s movie (incidentally being projected behind me).

This performance took place at a hot & sweaty bashment in Buffalo, NY June 25, 2010 celebrating Divine Machine's new release "Eclectro," a great electronica project worth checking out. I was lucky to perform immediately following DM and was in analog bliss all night long!

28-Jun-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Hello umoppers!

It's that time of year again where I whore myself (and my wife & friends) out for some hot voting action for the Hartford Advocate Grand Band Slam. This year, the nomination and voting processes have been glommed Voltron-style into one process: winners will be determined by WRITE-IN AMOUNTS only.

Wanna help? GO HERE, enter your name and email address, and the security code shown, and then select "click for voting" write in all your nominations.

Please consider these nominations for the various categories, if you need some good advice. ;-)

Best Band --> Driven
Best Blues --> Bad Rooster
Best Cover Band ---> Funk Brokers, Inc.
Best Instrumentalist --> Dave Lovelace (Keyboards) - Driven
Best New Band ---> Fatgrip
Best Reggae ---> Boxx Of Roxx
Best Other ---> Rubber City
Best Rock --> Driven
Best Singer/Songwriter ---> Lee-Ann Lovelace

Thanks everyone for your help!!

1-Jun-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

My online friend & synth modifying genius, Jeff Toman of Customsynth, fell ill last week, so I made a PACKRAT "Get Well" card for him recently. Here is a blogpost on Matrixsynth all about Jeff, the card, and comments from his adoring fans.

As you may know, Jeff created my Roland JX-3PG, painted my Roland JD-800 (a.k.a. "Gandalf the White"), and just finished my Tron-themed Roland Axis-1 keytar (a.k.a. "The Axistron"). He has created custom keyboards, keytars, and modular synths for a slew of very cool people, including the Chemical Brothers.

1-Jun-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Speaking of Jeff, I added a page on umop.com (found via my GEAR PAGE) for my newly-modded, out-of-this-world Roland Axis-1 keytar he helped to create: THE AXISTRON.

28-May-2010 -- 0 Comments. Add yours!

Hey! Looky! A RETARDED ANIMAL BABIES film! WTF! Yessir, all the RAB characters have roles (or at least cameos) in this new animated short film, made for Sidsonic Libraries to promote their new "Tubes!" music library. It models Metasonix gear, stuff which the RAB characters have graphically "graced" in the past & are therefore apt spokespersons.

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