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15 tracks | 69 minutes
Released Aug 2006
on The Dave Ryder Band
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Brightest Skies - Rock with heavy lyrics
Bio / Background
Dave talks a little about recording the band's latest CD "Brightest Skies":
"I got into recording music when I was around 14 or 15 years old - I borrowed a friends boom-box and played along with a drumbeat from a cheesy casio keyboard into the tape recorder on MY boombox. It was fascinating to me to be able to layer sounds like that, bouncing tracks back and forth between the tape recorders...of course, the sound was atrocious, and every time you bounced between them the sound degradation increased, but I didn't care - I spent hours and hours recording songs and lyrics and overdubbing harmonies and solos...I could get lost in the process for days."
"In the early nineties I acquired a 1/2" 8 track reel to reel, a Tascam 38.
↓ more ↓The recording process dramatically intensified, and I literally became nicknamed "the brown recluse" by my friends, because I would spend weeks at a time holed up recording music, smoking huge amounts of pot and hash and cigarettes, refusing to answer the door, not eating, falling asleep at the mixing board then waking up to do it all over again. Those were some very fucking intense years... I recorded an underground semi-hit of an album called "Electric Man" which people still freak out about, but I never did anything with it - I never sent it anywhere, or shopped it to labels or did ANYTHING with it."
"I could never keep a band together - every time things came together and we'd start booking gigs, something would happen to ruin it: things like people moving or divorcing or even worse things like injuries or death...looking back on it, it seemed like we we're cursed. It would be funny in a Spinal Tap sort of way if it wasn't happening to people I was so close to...during all that time I continued writing songs my friends and band would hear, and they'd shake their heads and say stuff like "dude why aren't you on the radio and huge?" I didn't give a shit about fame, or fortune or any of that crap, only getting high and writing music....it's all I lived for. So I kicked my habits. I wrote these songs as a way of saying 'look mother fuckers I'm back'."
"That's the story behind 'Brightest Skies'."
The Dave Ryder Band rarely performs in and around the St. Louis area (preferring to spend their time recording). The band members are Dave Ryder (guitars, vocals, keyboards, bass, and guitar synthesizer), Don Cole (keyboards, trumpet, guitars and vocals), Kent Hall (drumkit, congas, bongos, numerous percussion objects as well as vocals and keyboards) and Dan McHugh (bass, guitars, vocals and harmonicas).
They record their music in a pole barn studio Dave built off to the side of his house, a 24'x 24' building loaded with vintage instruments and recording equipment of all types ranging from the pristine and hi-fi to grungy and lo-fi - a mix of old and new that is reflected in their sound.
How to contact Dave Ryder:
Email: http://daveryder.com/contact.html
www.daveryder.com
www.myspace.com/daveryderband
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