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Jazz, Jazz, Jazz!!
Back in the studio with the Jim Fisk Jazztet recording and mixing Jim's original composition "Beyond Words". Check it out HERE
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Sep 121 min read
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Greet Death
One of my favorite things about working at HOB Anaheim is seeing great up and coming bands opening for headliners. Such was the case last...
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Jun 111 min read
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Do You Want To Hold Me?
As an 80's kid, I grew up on KROQ bands like Bow Wow Wow. The band released this song when singer Annabella Lewin was 17 years old. Still...
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May 161 min read
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Please Mr DJ, You're Hurting Us!
You know those times when you feel like your earhole is getting raped with 5k?!
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Jun 20, 20241 min read
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April 2024:You Know You're Working A Rockabilly Show When.....
The drummer's snare drum is set up like this! #GangstaLean
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Apr 19, 20241 min read
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Sometime in the Mid 90's...
One of my first sessions as a recording engineer/producer was making this tape with Long Beach band Bargain Music. Heady times, we had a...
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Jan 1, 20241 min read
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November 2023: Must Be Nice!
When you have Green Day money, you can afford to have a Neve desk at Front of House!
smgravois
Nov 1, 20231 min read
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Sept '23-Jazzing It Up!
Feeling very fortunate to have christened the new tracking room this month with my good buddy Jim Fisk and his Jazztet. Jim is a long...
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Sep 15, 20231 min read
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Sept '23-More Is More!
Our stage at House Of Blues Anaheim was blessed recently with the virtuosic playing of guitar god Yngwie Malmsteen. Whilst setting up, I...
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Aug 31, 20231 min read
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Viva '23!
Last month I was back at the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly music festival at The Orleans hotel in Vegas. In between shifts mixing in the...
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May 27, 20231 min read
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Happy New Year! Jan 2023
My Christmas present this year arrived in the form of a dope new video by my old pal Capitol I-man (Capitol Eye, Tha Mexakinz), a long...
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Jan 6, 20231 min read
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Nov. 2022 Hooray For Hollywood!
Recently, I got tapped to take over FOH mixing duties on the Suede/Manic Street Preachers tour for a couple of dates, due to a Covid...
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Dec 8, 20221 min read
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Sept. '22 Vicky Tafoya Live!
I've been in the lab mixing some live recordings I made at Viva Las Vegas last April. Among these was a set by local roots powerhouse...
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Sep 28, 20221 min read
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May '22 The Planet Moon
I've been in the studio mixing a track for Long Beach rockers The Planet Moon, featuring my long time buddy Travis Guichard on guitar....
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Jul 14, 20221 min read
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April '22: VIVA LAS VEGAS 25!
Last month I was back in Las Vegas doing audio at the 25th (!) annual Viva Las Vegas rockabilly weekend at The Orleans hotel. Got to...
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May 24, 20221 min read
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Nov. '21: Shut Your Piehole!
This month, my niece Maxine, my son Jack and I released the first episode of our new podcast "Shut Your Piehole". It is basically a...
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Nov 14, 20211 min read
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Oct. 2020: Vegas Baby!
Last Month I was back at work in Las Vegas, mixing the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend. It was my first out of town gig post Covid and...
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Oct 6, 20211 min read
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March 2020:
The big news around here lately is the recent completion of the new studio: A purpose built space which features a modest tracking room...
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Oct 6, 20211 min read
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March 2013
This month, I had the distinct pleasure of working several of the sold out Social Distortion shows at House of Blues Anaheim. These...
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Dec 1, 20181 min read
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Sometime In the Mid 90's....
Growing up, one of my favorite bands was the Bad Brains, I Against I being one of my Desert Island albums. So I was ecstatic to have had...
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Sep 14, 20001 min read
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