Chris Reddy
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Genre: Acoustic / Progressive / Rock
Location WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Un
Profile Views: 17599
Last Login: 2/15/2012
Member Since 9/19/2005
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmNocmlzcmVkZHkuY29t
Record Label Self Released - Digital Kitchen Productions
Type of Label Unsigned
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Bio
Chris Reddy grew up in Leominster Massachusetts and started playing guitar at the age of 7. After studying acoustic guitar for a few years, Chris purchased his first electric at 13 and pursued a direction in local music in High school, helping create the progressive rock group Exius. The original members of this group eventually became Transit, a band which has survived 20+ years and continues to play out consistently to this day. After 3 recorded albums and years of shows, Chris began to explore the world of digital recording on the side in the mid 1990's and has not looked back. After several "singles" digital recordings, Chris initiated work on building the Digital Kitchen home studio, which became the catalyst for creating solo recording endeavors. Upon realization of the technology advances in the industry, Chris continued to expand on the Digital Kitchen studio and has just completed work on the follow-up CD "Sonification" which incorporates more vocals and acoustic passages. Citing artists as diverse as XTC, Brand X, Steely Dan, and Frank Zappa, the new album consistently points to a love for alternative musical direction and embodies a lifelong dream to create original uninhibited musical stylings. The song "Vortex" (check out the MP3 sample on the CD Release page. 2010 brings a new CD release, "2 Sides 2 Every Story" which incorporates the two sides of Chris' passion, instrumentals, and alt/pop! Check out the new songs Country Bumpkin and Stay on my profile page. ...... ..Myspace Editor.... ..Pimp MySpace.. .... .. xxxx=image tag ........ -
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Chris Reddy - guitars- electric & acoustic, drum programming, keys, bass, lead vocals -
Influences
In 1999 Chris began work on the "Info Junkie" CD which would become the first Digital Kitchen recording. The CD conveys the influences Chris had while growing up in the music rich progressive era of the 70's and 80's. The CD has been described as evoking styles reminiscent of Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Morse,and Eric Johnson .. all guitarists Chris has credited as influences. Chris also lists Brit bands such as XTC, The The, Francis Dunnery, The Smiths etc... for some of his favorite pop stylings which show in his 2nd CD release "Sonification" along with classic prog rock bands such as Kings X, Rush, Dixie Dregs and Blue Oyster Cult. Modern day favorites include Death Cab for Cutie, Beck, Peter Yorn, Coldplay Interpol, Wilco, Widespread Panic, String Cheese Incident among others ... -
Sounds Like
Certain reviewers have likened Chris Reddy's material to evoking touches of XTC, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello whereas many people find the mix of genres to hard to classify. Many of the instrumental passages have been compared to Tangerine Dream and certain fusion bands from the late 70's.
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10 of 188MoreUse Your ABILITY To Do Good Things Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT ABILITY ...
"ABILITY is what you're CAPABLE OF DOING.
MOTIVATION determines WHAT YOU DO.
ATTITUDE determines HOW WELL you do it."
~ Lou Holtz
YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON ON EARTH WHO CAN
USE YOUR ABILITY. YOUR GIFTS ARE UNIQUELY YOURS!
USE THEM WISELY!
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please take a minute and give my music a listen!
MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Sending SATURDAY LOVE Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT THE SOUL ...
"TRUE INTIMACY is the opening of ONE SOUL to
another. No GIFT ON EARTH could COMPARE with it,
for it TOUCHES US MORE PROFOUNDLY than our
imagination can envision. When two people SHARE
THEIR LIVES, FREELY, OPENLY, WITHOUT
RESERVATION, it is as if EACH had BECOME
COMPLETE ..."
~ Robert Sexton.
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please take a minute and give my music a listen!
MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Make Things That Matter your PRIORITY Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT PRIORITIES ...
"PRIORITIES - what's REALLY IMPORTANT -
HEALTH, and doing what one WANTS TO DO -
it's certainly not MONEY.
RE-CONSIDER your PRIORITIES
CHART your COURSE.
SET SAIL with COURAGE."
~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange
for it. Establish your PRIORITIES and GO TO WORK!
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please take a minute and give my music a listen!
MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Think you can HOLD BACK TIME Chris?
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT TIME ...
"TIME is infinitely more precious than MONEY, and there is
nothing common between them. You cannot ACCUMULATE
TIME; you cannot BORROW TIME; you can never tell
how much TIME YOU HAVE LEFT in the BANK OF LIFE.
TIME IS LIFE ...."
~ Israel Davidson
MINUTES ARE WORTH MORE THAN MONEY.
SPEND THEM WISELY!
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THIS PRECIOUS TREASURE?
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please take a minute and give my music a listen!
MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Give the man some RESPECT Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS THE HUMOR OF RODNEY DANGERFIELD ...
"I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back!"
"When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."
"Last week I saw my psychiatrist. I told him, "Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch."
"One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida."
"I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."
"I was so ugly as a kid, my mother had morning sickness AFTER I was born."
"A hooker once told me she had a headache."
~ Rodney Dangerfield
A DAY WITHOUT LAUGHTER IS A DAY WASTED!
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please give my music a listen!
Cool Jazz CD's @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
OR
CDBaby.com / ITunes
MY ALBUM "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR A WAMMIE AWARD AS JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR! LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS - AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Have a GREAT WEEKEND Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT INSPIRATION ...
"It is not the CRITIC who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man
who is actually IN THE ARENA,
whose face is marred by DUST and SWEAT and BLOOD;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and COMES UP SHORT again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions;
who SPENDS HIMSELF in a WORTHY CAUSE;
who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while
DARING GREATLY
so that his place shall never be
with those COLD TIMID SOULS
WHO KNOW NEITHER VICTORY OR DEFEAT."
~ Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President Of The United States
DON'T BE ONE OF THE COLD TIMID SOULS WHO SIT ON THE SIDELINES IN LIFE AND CRITICIZE THOSE WHO ARE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING! GET INTO THE GAME!
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please give my music a listen!
Cool Jazz CD's @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
OR
CDBaby.com / ITunes
LISTEN TO SOME SWEET SOUNDS FROM MY NEW CD "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Have a BEAUTIFUL WEEK Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS FROM DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ...
"I HAVE A DREAM that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.'
I HAVE A DREAM that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to SIT TOGETHER AT THE TABLE OF BROTHERHOOD.
I HAVE A DREAM that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the COLOR OF THEIR SKIN but by the CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER.
I HAVE A DREAM TODAY."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
WE CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND THE LEGACY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
HELP KEEP DR. KING'S DREAM ALIVE!
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please give my music a listen!
Cool Jazz CD's @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
OR
CDBaby.com / ITunes
LISTEN TO SOME SWEET MUSIC FROM MY NEW CD "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Happy 2012 Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT A YEAR OF TIME ...
As we look into 2012 we look at A BLOCK OF TIME.
We see 12 months,
52 weeks,
365 days,
8,760 hours,
525,600 minutes,
31,536,000 seconds.
And all is a gift from God. We have DONE NOTHING TO DESERVE IT, EARN IT, or PURCHASE IT. Like the air we breathe, TIME comes to us as a part of life.
The GIFT OF TIME is not ours alone. It is given EQUALLY to each person. Rich and poor, educated and ignorant, strong and weak—every man, woman and child has the same 24 hours every day.
Another important thing about time is that you CANNOT STOP IT. There is no way to SLOW IT DOWN, TURN IT OFF, or ADJUST IT. TIME MARCHES ON. And you cannot bring back time. Once it is GONE, it is GONE.
The NEW YEAR IS FULL OF TIME. As the seconds tick away, will you be tossing time out the window, or will you MAKE EVERY MINUTE COUNT?
~ Steven B. Cloud
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please give my music a listen and let me know what you think!
Cool Jazz CDs @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
OR
CDBaby.com / ITunes
LISTEN TO SOME SWEET MUSIC FROM MY NEW CD "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Hello Chris!
TODAY'S THOUGHT IS ABOUT THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS ...
"I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
and wild and sweet
The word repeat
OF PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD-WILL TO MEN!"
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I TRULY BELIEVE THAT IF WE KEEP TELLING THE CHRISTMAS STORY, SINGING THE CHRISTMAS SONGS, AND LIVING THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, WE CAN BRING JOY AND HAPPINESS AND PEACE TO THIS WORLD!
With LOVE, RESPECT, and PEACE my friend,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
Please give my music a listen and let me know what you think!
Cool Jazz CDs @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
OR
CDBaby.com / ITunes
MY NEW CD "LOVE'S SWEET SONG" HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED AND IS AVAILABLE @ www.RichardHarrisLive.com
Hi Chris!
It is an HONOR to have you as a friend!
THE THOUGHT FOR TODAY IS ABOUT AGE ...
"Anyone who STOPS LEARNING is OLD, whether at 20 or 80.
Anyone who KEEPS LEARNING stays YOUNG.
The GREATEST THING IN LIFE is to keep your MIND YOUNG.”
~ Henry Ford
AGE IS AN ISSUE OF MIND OVER MATTER ~ IF YOU DON'T MIND ~ IT DOESN'T MATTER!
With love and respect,
Richard
www.myspace.com/richardharrislive
OR
CD'S @ www.richardharrislive.com