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the metro edition a companion blog for the latest news talk and music on the sideman show skip to primary content skip to secondary content the metro edition a companion blog for the latest news talk and music on the sideman show search main menu home about post navigation older posts ugh posted on october 17 2011 by metroedition reply tim cronin is one of the most genuinely funny people i ve ever met i regret the fact that i ve never spent more than a few fleeting moments with him before now and i regret even more that we probably won t sit down and talk again for another ten years or so though i ve known tim cronin for over decade our friendship mostly consisted of random visits to jack s music in red bank nj where tim doles out great swaths of musical knowledge to eager ears i d heard drips and drabs of his story as lead singer for monster magnet from mutual friends but never had the opportunity to sit down with him and hear the whole tale i m glad we finally rectified that tim is self effacing that s perhaps an understatement he expertly effaces himself with deft efficacy it starts the moment you first see him and ends as he s walking out of sight and you re certain that long after you ve parted he s still out there effacing himself somewhere people like tim hold a special place in my heart my brother was a sound and lighting guy for hundreds of bands and i know how grueling and unglamorous life on the road can be for the guys behind the scenes tim manages it with comic brilliance and i hope one day he writes a book about his experiences and if he doesn t i m going to base a screenplay on his story and hope he doesn t sue me i ll change his name to ted cronin in the script he ll be none the wiser tim s very interesting blog is http feedtim wordpress com posted in uncategorized leave a reply the sound and the honoshowsky posted on october 11 2011 by metroedition reply my favorite recording sessions are the ones where nobody in the room knows what s going to happen steve honoshowsky called me up recently with just such an opportunity no guidelines no vague adjectives to describe what he was looking for just plug in and play it was also the perfect opportunity to get steve on camera for the sideman show win win halfway through the evening i d made a discovery any time i have to play a session and work the camera the filming generally suffers from inattention to things like focus sound and generally being aimed in the direction of the subject oops it wasn t one of my more visually stunning segments but the music was an absolute joy to be a part of john noll owner of retromedia studios and engineer for the session got us up and rolling in seconds and before i knew it steve and i had recorded an album s worth of material for all of his amazing technical ability on the drums steve is modest and soft spoken rather than forcing a bunch of answers his interview consists of a few minutes of him playing drums that speaks volumes and it s a hell of a lot more interesting than me asking him what kind of drumsticks he uses posted in uncategorized leave a reply harmonize most high recording session part ii posted on september 13 2011 by metroedition reply michael lucio sternbach and daniel carter move way outside their comfort zones and experiment on different instruments to gives us an example of what pure expression is all about posted in uncategorized leave a reply harmonize most high recording session part i posted on september 13 2011 by metroedition reply it s difficult to put into words the energy joy and music that came out of this session musicians of every skill level interacting on common ground an equal amount of listening and wailing beautiful people beautiful sound posted in uncategorized leave a reply noordzy outtakes posted on july 4 2011 by metroedition reply here are some bits of musical footage from my interview with mike noordzy i absolutely love the droning bass part at the end and it seemed to go well with testing the lights too enjoy posted in uncategorized leave a reply even more bendel outtakes posted on july 3 2011 by metroedition reply this double drumming session was recorded via cell phone at turtle studios in philadelphia pa for dawn hiatt s upcoming release special thanks to jeff hiatt and jay levin for letting the magic be digitally captured and compressed posted in uncategorized leave a reply here there chocolate cake posted on june 21 2011 by metroedition reply i m a to do list idealist i like to fill up a college ruled page early in the morning with things i hope to accomplish in the next twenty four hours this is usually followed up by an oh shit around noon when i realize i m nowhere close to getting past item number three today number one on the list is coffee and number two is interview mike noordzy remember that movie cocoon from the eighties where aliens wore human costumes and underneath the skin was this overpoweringly blinding light a big burst of kinetic energy under a calm exterior that s mike noordzy i ve not asked if his dermal layer comes off and even broaching the subject might strain our relationship so i ll just leave it there damn it now i m having steve guttenberg flashbacks mike doesn t bullshit you about his plans for the future in music he tells you about an eight hour wedding gig littered with lady gaga tunes the same way he tells you about a free jazz gig in brooklyn he plays music and plays it and plays it and plays it well mike has a perspective that more folks in the industry should have i doubt he would turn down a high profile gig with fresh fruit in the green room but it s all about the music in the end he wouldn t live his life gig after gig after gig if that weren t the case everything is in the moment and you can tell he loves it the whole shoot was flawless but filming the bass segments were my favorite solid adventurous and beautiful we were talking about charlie haden a few minutes before recording and i could really hear it in mike s playing he wasn t forcing out something from the shape of jazz to come but hints of haden were there in a most respectful way class act that mike noordzy after grabbing tons of great footage we went north to record his afternoon session with guitarist dave ross maybe it was the excellent chocolate cake that mike s girlfriend karen gave us maybe it was aged mead we drank whatever the muse it was a stellar night of playing dave ross was superb mike was astounding i forgot to focus the camera at the end of the day with a sugar crash about to take hold i sized up my to do list i crossed out all items after two and penciled in sleep it was a full and perfect day it s important to note that i am not a lazy person posted in uncategorized leave a reply happy accidents posted on june 19 2011 by metroedition reply i needed some downtime my plan was to go to robert and elisabeth mckay s studio in red bank nj for the opening of afterthoughts an exhibit of the late john kochansky s art i was looking forward to soaking my brain in john s beautiful and provocative work not to mention eating a bunch of those stuffed mushroom thingies and drinking too much wine to my delight i ran into the always radiant ruth wright ruth and her husband alzo are alumni of the sun ra arkestra and i had the pleasure of recording in a free form ensemble with them last year after brushing crumbs from the corners of my mouth i had a great time catching up with her and hinted at the possibility of getting together soon to record again her smile made me hopeful over the course of the evening i kept drifting over to the guitarist playing in the corner it wasn t the typical soundtrack you d expect at a gallery opening but then kochansky s pieces require something a little left of center to make them come alive his solo playing landed somewhere between sonny sharrock and adrian belew spacious yet technical raw and sweetly melodic i asked bob mckay who this guy was that s phred morris he said p h r e d he parsed the letters in phred s name as if the spelling somehow explained the music and the person oddly enough it did after a quick conversation i knew i needed to interview him look for an upcoming segment on phred he graciously excused himself and went back to filling the room with great arcs of sound and looping arrangements by the time i got back to the refreshments the stuffed mushroom thingies were all gone but the tiny cheesy puffy things had arrived great art great music great people and great snacks every night should be like this posted in uncategorized leave a reply segment two outtakes posted on june 14 2011 by metroedition 1 improvisational outtakes from drummer tommy bendel enjoy posted in uncategorized 1 reply segment two tommy bendel posted on june 13 2011 by metroedition reply i don t normally speed but the light on friday was gorgeous and i wanted to capture it on film before it sank into the streets of fishtown say what you will about the show the sun looks damn good when it s setting even if the interview flops someone will at least say oooh that s pretty but it didn t flop it boomed and thwacked thanks to the subject of segment two tommy bendel tommy is one of those players whose musicality precedes his instrument you can tell he s thinking about his approach before hitting anything cymbals and toms get a cursory stroke of the brush before the rhythm develops it s like a pre game huddle pep talk strategy planning and suddenly the team becomes one oh and he s also a hell of a drummer i hate to use words like organic when describing musicians or produce but that s just how tommy s playing sounds it s not like he takes command of the drum and rolls out amazingly technically proficient fills for the benefit of the drummers in the audience though i m certain he s left other players slackjawed rather he lets the drum sound the way it would if it had its own set of arms organic there i said it again he set up a snare in the middle of the street and i did my best to gather remaining light the moment tommy started playing the whole of philly turned into his band sirens passing trains footsteps all built up around the foundation he laid down i closed my eyes which a cameraman isn t supposed to do and everything became music i hope that little bit of magic comes through in this segment this was the hardest editing job i ve ever done we recorded so much music but when tommy plays you want to hear the whole thing uncut it would be terribly unfair not to give you everything so look for a video in the next post tommy has been doing this for over two decades yet he still has a boyish charm when he talks about making music his fingers move through the air like he s twirling invisible sticks he sways to a spoken beat his eyes get christmassy when he talks about the sessions he has coming up somewhere between studios bendel finds the time to play with philly phenoms buried beds i could go on and on about their new album tremble the sails and how it s one of the best things i ve heard in years but i ll leave that to the pitchforks of the world who are spitting out metaphors about the band faster than a camel who spits during the drive back home a mile long row of safety cones on the jersey turnpike made a rhythmic whooshing sound as i passed them tommy could add some sick shit on top of this i thought posted in uncategorized leave a reply post navigation older posts archives october 2011 september 2011 july 2011 june 2011 meta create account log in blog at wordpress com the metro edition create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed the metro edition sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy the metro edition subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started