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Altered State
Rock / Progressive / Metal

"ALTERED STATE "

Huntington Beach, California
United States

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Member Since6/22/2006
Band Websitealteredstate.com
Band MembersGregory Markel: The Voice/Guitar
Chip Moreland: Drums
Howard Ulyate: Bass
Christian Nesmith: Guitar


Past Members
Curtis Mathewson Guitar/Bass
Riz Story Bass (Debut Tour)
Paul Edwards Bass (:[dos]:)
Howard Ulyate Bass 1990

Show of Hands!!!

Chip/Curtis/Gregory/Rob Thomas/Scott Richmond.
Links
Altered State Official Fan Site/Tribute
Official Altered State Fan Site
Debut Tribute
:[dos]: Tribute Page
ghost beside my bed page

Altered State Merchandise
Altered State Merchandise
myspace/alteredstatedos Store

Altered State Group Message Board
alteredstatestepintothegroove

Altered State-Gregory Markel Interview 11/2000
Markel Interview w/rockrage

Altered State/Show of Hands
showofhands

Official Myspace "Strong As I Am" page
strongasiam

Gregory Markel
Gregory Markel Merchandise
gregorymarkelrocks
gregorymarkel
groups/markelrocks
"Strong As I Am" Gregory Markel Manhunter Interview
Markel Launch Yahoo Group

Curtis Mathewson
curtismathewson.com
Gentlemen of Leisure
bradmitchell

Chip Moreland
greennatives.com
dreadzeppelin.com
ziggyknarley
greennatives
dreadzeppelin
bradmitchell

Howard Ulyate
greennatives.com
bobknarley
greennatives
dreadzeppelin
bradmitchell

Riz
anyoneden.com
rizstory
anyone

Christian Nesmith
christiannesmith

Friends of Altered State
Cindy Alexander
Circe Link

Albums   
"Altered State" August 27th 1991

Step Into My Groove
Ghost Beside My Bed lyrics
Heal Me
Do What You Want
Reunion
One Small Boat
Outside -clip-
Surrender Now
Drifting
Like Father
Until The Music Ends

Produced by: Tony Berg
Additional Personel: Tony Berg (guitar); Nick South (bass); Jonathan Melvoin (percussion)
Eningeers: Ken Jordan, Jeffrey Lord-Alge, Susan Rogers.
Mixing: Bob Clearmountain


:[dos]: Oct. 5th 1993 Lyrics

This Just Might Take Me Down
I Wish It Would Rain
Life On A Skateboard
Where's Harrison Ford ('Cause This Must Be Bladerunner)
Angst
Made Of Gasoline
Strong As I Am
If The World...
The Waking Dream
Licking The V...
Darkness Visible
Thinkin' About Movin' To A Catatonic State -clip-
Eureka (Poem)
Machines In Space (Hidden Track)

Produced By: Ben Grosse
Luis Resto (keyboards)
Engineers: Ben Grosse, Greg Grill, Peter Doell, Dave Skrzynski, Bill Bingham, Red Telasatte.
Recorded at Music Grinder, Capitol Studios, Studio 55, Los Angeles, California; Pearl Sound Studios, Canton, Michigan.
All songs written or co-written by Gregory Markel.
Cover: Hugh Syme

"TRACE"
Find Your Way Home
Wake Me

  

  

  
Howard Ulyate "18 years old at Sunset Sound, with Altered State, my first bass." Howard is Back!


InfluencesAsk the guys!!!
Sounds LikeThe Coolest Shit Ever!
Singles Step Into My Groove
Radio Promo Single

Retail Singles:
Magic Single

Yer lucky if you got your hands this...

Maxi Single

1. Radio version
2. Psychedelic Mix
3. Album version
4. Psychedelic Instrumental
5. Like Father
6. Drifting

  

Ghost Beside My Bed (radio promo)

Strong As I Am (radio promo)

1. Radio version
2. Album version
3. Stuido Acoustic version

Life On A Skateboard (radio promo)

Darkness Visible (radio promo)

Compilations:

Step Into My Groove:
Follow Our TraxVolume VII.

All Roads Lead To Burbank.


Hitmakers Top 40 CD Sampler Vol. 58 September 13, 1991.

Follow Our Trax Vol. VIII "Groove" Psychdelic Mix.

Ghost Beside My Bed:
The Album Network Rock Tuneup Volume 77. February 3, 1992.


Life On A Skateboard:
Virtually Alternative (The Album Network 2/1/1994).



Strong As I Am:
WMMR 25 Years 1968-1993.


Made Of Gasoline (demo): Strength In Numbers - Metal World News Sampler 2.


Darkness Visible:
V/A.

Lana Lane's Cover of "Ghost Beside My Bed" album "Ballad Collection"

Sean Murphy's version of "Life Skateboard" can be heard at myspace.com/seanmurphymusic.

Press Kits

Beef up yer collection. gemm.com and ebay.com

Singed "DOS" copies availible at www.alteredstate.com

Request Altered State. Pirate Radio kqlz.org
Record LabelWarner Bros.
Type of LabelMajor




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"Ghost Beside My Bed" Ringtone!


Shhh listen some Curtis Mathewson guitar work for ya....



:[dos]: day with Chip Moreland (!)


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Today marks the day! Oct. 5th 1993 Warner Bros. Release :[dos]: by our favorite Altered State (!) So get ready to ROCK (!) Guess what Kyle has for you.... The Unreleased Studio Acoustic Version of "Strong As I Am" and the "Made of Gasoline" Demo (!) Crank it!

Chip Moreland will be performin' at Loffler's in Anaheim, CA with his cover band The Green Natives tonight 10/5/07. Come on down and tell him "Happy :[dos]: Day (!)".

"Ghost Beside My Bed" Live 2007 August 24th OC Pavilion Santa Ana, CA with Rusty Anderson!!!!
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Gregory Markel performs "Ghost Beside My Bed" Live at The O.C. Pavilion with Rusty Anderson August 2007!!!!
Paul Edwards!!!
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News!

Altered State is currently in the studio recording their third album "TRACE"!!!!!!
Gregory Markel Interview 11/2000 with rockrage.de.


Altered State


The Voice Gregory Markel a drummer at age 11, began his singing career with Guitarist Rusty Anderson (Eulogy, Ednaswap, Paul McCartney) in The Living Daylights. Scoring on the charts with “Colleen": 86 KROQ Top 100. And "Kat Box Beach" hitting 106. The Living Daylights landed a spot in Sidney Poiter’s film FastFoward perfoming “Mystery”. The band excited being a Sidney Poiter project. They jumped. The scene was filmed at Mid-Wilshire District Theatre.

Guitarist Curtis Mathewson and Bassist Rob Thomas were Des Neauveaux.

Gregory Markel left The Living Daylights and singed on board with The Prime Movers (Dread Zeppelin). The Prime Movers hit big with Markel's "Strong As I Am". "Strong" was chosen for the pivotal scene in Michael Mann’s flick Manhunter (scence). Michaell Mann liked the song so much that he personally financed the making of the "Strong As I Am" video. The video had considerable rotation on MTV. Filmed on the roof of the L.A. Stock Exchange Building. It was used in the pivotal spot in Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe as well staring Jesse “The Body” Ventura. Abraxas Scene.

1988: Gregory Markel formed Show of Hands in Huntington Beach, CA. Meeting Guitarist Curtis Mathewson through The Prime Movers Manager. Mathewson brought in band mate Dex Neauveaux Bassist Rob Thomas. Markel recruited Drummer Chip Moreland, introduced through a mutual friend. And Scott Richmond would come on to share guitar duty. 1989 Show of Hands, represented by Gallin Morey Agency (Michael Jackson, Faith Hill). And about signed with MTV Founder Bob Pittmans' Q Records.

Show of Hands:
One Million Things mp3
Angel On The Island mp3
Do What You Want
Blue Summer
Strong As I Am mp3
Mr. Motion Man
Chord Inside
Ghost Beside My Bed mp3
Surrender Now
Running On A Broken Leg
Big Fun
Faster And Faster
There's Nothing

1990 saw the changing of personnel and name: Altered State! Scott Richmond and Rob Thomas both left the band. Mathewson brought in friend Howard Ulyate to replace Thomas.

The band went the same route as others, four track demos, tons of local gigs. And signed on board with Dick Williams of Borman/Williams Entertainment. Their presentation tape didn’t take long to catch the attention of Warner Bros. Senior A&R Vice President Michael Ostin. With others knocking at the door, Dick Williams set up 5 Private Show Cases. And the band went with Warner Bros. Ulyate would later leave during recording and Mathewson covered Bass duties. In late 1990 they headed out to Bearsville, N.Y. to begin recording.

Releasing their debut (Debut Tribute Page) August 27th 1991. Altered State was an inventive band with unique arrangements, melodic vocals and great harmonies. Produced by Tony Berg and Engineered by Jeffery Lord-Alge. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain (Bob's Favorites: Altered State). The striking cover design is the work of John Van Hamersveld, one of the foremost graphic desingers of the '60 and '70s.

“Step Into My Groove” was the first single. The band packed up and went to England for the Video shoot. Two versions of the video, that the band fought not be released (photos). "Groove" was followed by the smash hit "Ghost Beside My Bed" which chainsawed it’s way to 1 on Rock Radio, in California, New York, Arizona and Florida. And went top 30 Nationally. At this point the band recruited multi-instrumentalist Riz Sotry to handle Bass duties for the tour.

“Ghost” flooded the airwaves on California’s Pirate Radio 100.3. Prompting Pirate Radio to set up a special show for the Band at The Roxy Hollywood, CA. Radio industry guru Bill Hard of The Hard Report dubbed the record one of the best of 1992. The success of "Ghost" on radio and no video, Altered State requested. Warner Bros. passed. Lana Lane covered "Ghost" in 1998.

“Heal Me”. Listen for –“Sanctuary, hey!”-
“Outside”. Compelling Acoustic Work.
“Surrender Now”. Curtis!
“Like Father”. A gutty hardend bridge.

“Into The Strange” recorded at the end of the sessions, was later to have a spot on the 2nd album.

1992 Altered State armed with new Bassit Paul Edwards (the guy who ran the rehearsal studio, a guitarist) the band began recording "The Best Fuckin' Album Ever Recorded!" The Ambitious and genre-challenging :[dos]:.

:[dos]: release date: October 5th 1993. Produced by Ben Groose (Disturbed, Filter, Sevendust). Cover: Hugh Syme (Rush, MegaDeth). Hand: Christopher Hart (The Addams Family). Altered State released Markel’s “Strong As I Am” which was beefed up, and recorded at the bands Manager insistence!

“Life On A Skateboard”, and “Darkness Visible” followed.

While Markel was in love with the debut, all hell broke loose on the second release. With a big budget and interested in pleasing themselves this time around. Gregory Markel shines within his writing and shares The Voice. Guitarist Curtis Mathewson: Exciting! Brilliant! Chip Moreland: Thunder-Drumming. And simply put, Paul Edwards! The band created cinematic moments, music that elevates interactive response weather it's emotional or intellectual. :[dos]: soars to grand, epic heights. Lyrically, Markel delves into demons few dare to glimpse: fear "Made of Gasoline", Family "Strong As I Am", and exposes himself nearly on the cusp of artistic madness with "Thinkin' About Movin' To A Catatonic State". :[dos]: is a record of amazing depth and execution.

Curtis Mathewson, illuminates this record with searing electric guitar solos and invokes beautiful acoustic passages. Paul Edwards: creative absurdly fast bass lines, and soleful fretless passages. The drumming is, well....Stellar!

“One by one, the songs impart the growing impression, that at any moment, anything could happen.”

“Where’s Harrison Ford (‘Cause This Must be Bladerunner)” a satirical account of a BladeRunner-like violent encounter at a Ralph’s supermarket.
“Thinkin’ About Movin’ To A Catatonic State”. Mind bending Attack!
“Angst”. Amazing!
“Life On A Skateboard”. Guitar sounds both rare and beautiful.
*Covered by Sean Murphy Sean Murphy (Skateboard).

"Made of Gasoline" Demo was released on "The Strength In Numbers compilation".

“Into The Strange” did not make :[dos]: this time around on account of “Catatonic State”. “Catatonic” the label's objection, the 11 minute Epic, both Grand and Explosive (no objection here) took up area for 2 other songs. Possible radio hits. And removed room for the opening -spoken poem "Eureka".-
<br> In 1994: Demoralized by the experience with Warners, band moral was down leading to the departure of Mathewson and Edwards. Moreland and Markel continued writing. But Warner Bros. never really played apart in the growth or evolution of Altered State. Warner's failed to market Altered State, not knowing how. Though Michael Ostin loved the band, the Promotion people just didn't know "what the hell" to with such a diverse band. Warner Bros let Altered State go late '94. And Altered State was officially over in 1995. Unfourtunate, for the world. FACT!

Mathewson: went on to produce Train, Foo Fighters, Motorhead, Formed Gentlemen of Lesiure releasing two albums. And joined Cotonormal in 2006.
Current: N/A

Moreland: Formed Strange Radio. Formed The Green Natives.
Current: Dread Zeppelin (Ziggy Knarley), Cindy Alexander, The Green Natives, Gregory Markel and Altered State.

Markel: Formed Mother Tongue with ex-Show of Hands Bassist Rob Thomas. Formed The Crashing Now with Sean Murphy.
Current: Solo. Alered State.

Riz: Formed Sylvia w/ Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters).
Current: Anyone.

Ulyate: Was in Six from 2003-2005 and played Bass on the latest album. Formed The Green Natives.
Current: Dread Zeppelin (Bob Knarley). The Green Natives, Cindy Alexander, Gregory Markel, Altered State.
Credits: Howard also has supplied his Bass-tastic skills to a list of video games: Ulyate Credits.

Rob Thomas has contacted Markel about getting Show of Hands back together for kicks.

Well……Altered State is back! And in the studio recording the upcoming 3rd album “Trace”. Markel enlisted Guitar Mad Man Christian Nesmith son of Monkees Mike Nesmith. Christian has produced Kings X's Ty Tabor and Doug Pinnik solo albums. Guitarist of Circe Link and from time to time plays for Cindy Alexander. Chip Moreland is and always will be the Beast behind the skins. And Howard Ulyate has rejoined on Bass.

Altered State Live 2006!  "Made of Gasoline".


"Strong As I Am" live video clip! Oct. 19th 2006 at The Gig Hollywood!
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Oh yeah! Howard Ulyate! "Made of Gasoline"!
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Live, Altered State Oct. 19th! At The Gig, Hollywood! Altered State performed "Strong As I Am", "Made of Gasoline" Live Video and "Into The Strange.

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"Ghost Beside My Bed" Live!!



"Where Is Harrison Ford ('Cause This Must Be Bladerunner)"!!






Stills from the Unreleased "Step Into My Groove" video!!!!
     

     

Show of Hands Live Shots 1988!! Show of Hands

Chip Moreland drummin' "Ghost Beside My Bed"...Curtis Mathewson rockin' "Do What You Want"...Gregory Markel "Running On A Broken Leg"...

        


Rob Thomas and Scott Richmond


Show of Hands "Ghost Beside My Bed" Live!


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Cobra Commander





Jan 31 2008 8:54 PM

did ever cleer fall again greg?
man I could have sworn there was a trace of that altered state here somewhere.
Anne





Dec 22 2007 10:02 AM


MySpace Comments - Seasons Greetings
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nick





Nov 27 2007 4:40 PM

hail to the most innovative progressive band in the world!!!

love from greece
Gregory Markel





Nov 17 2007 5:10 PM

Hello, I'm trying to reach ever cleer to warn him to be very careful before he falls on his head...G
BLACKBOW





Nov 7 2007 10:38 AM

what's up ??

hope all is cool...

have a rockin' week !

Rock On,

JUDAS GATES

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Cindy Alexander





Oct 5 2007 11:29 AM

LOVE the acoustic version of Strong as I Am - thanks for posting!
XO
CA
rodney murderface.





Sep 27 2007 7:43 PM

so what's up with the new album? i'm getting anxious.
Pepe Silvestre





Aug 31 2007 1:50 AM

Hola, muchas gracias por el add. Soy fan vuestro desde muchos años.
Un abrazo desde España
Mary





Aug 11 2007 7:03 PM

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Fabrice BLIN





May 2 2007 12:47 PM

Hello from Paris France and many thanks for the add, guys !
Since I discovered [dos] in 1993, I must have been listening to this dark masterpiece at least one thousand times !
Glad to be part of your virtual friends ! :-)
Kerry Leigh





Apr 4 2007 5:46 AM

THANKS FOR THE ADD!!!
I can't believe I found you guys on "My Space"...

I was turned on to you guys back in '98 while recording some demos at Pearl Sound. I was AMAZED, and by the end of "This just might take me down" I was begging for a copy of the CD. I've played the CD alot since then to many musician friends, all of which wanted to know who you were and how to get it....
It is DEFINATELY a gem. If you EVER get "trace" released, or go out and tour again, I will be Front & Center.

Thanks again for the great music...
Bass World Radio





Mar 13 2007 5:53 PM

Hi Altered State! Thanks for the add!

Best wishes,
Brian
BWR
Aaron Crane


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Jan 28 2007 4:43 PM

great,well-crafted songs played and sung with such conviction-a rarity
~Suz~





Jan 26 2007 8:01 PM

Truly AWESOME tunes...I love these songs...
Cindy Alexander





Jan 20 2007 5:04 PM

Greetings from Guam. I am holding two members hostage on an island of dead frogs in 100% humidity. But we're having a blast.
XO
C
YTDHAW





Jan 10 2007 2:11 PM

You guys are pretty much one of the best and most creative bands I've ever heard. I'd have never heard of you if my band hadn't recorded at Pearl soon after you guys. They played us your CD and I was hooked. Whats the scoop? Are you guys still playing?
Johnny Blood





Dec 17 2006 1:43 PM

Thank you for the add, and for your incredible music!! i can believe how this band is in the dark side of the music. See ya friends!!