Helping you take your music to it's highest level..................................................................
For information about my recording background, equipment, some mp3's and such see......
...................................................................................http://www.myspace.com/dobsound
Music
Beatles, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Queen, Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Randy Weeks, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, John Coltrain, Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Stax, Mowtown, Radiohead, The Clash, Iggy Pop, Buzzcocks, The Jam, Bad Religion, Prince, The Police, X, Herb Alpert, The Cars, Fugazi, XTC, The Ramones, Joy Division, Alkaline Trio, The Beastie Boys, Beck, Descendents, Queens of the Stone Age, Nick Cave, Ben Folds Five, Turbo Negro, Slayer, NWA, Squirl Nut Zippers, Weezer, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Outkast, Paul Westerberg, Flogging Molly, Cafe Tacuva, Ok, TV On The Radio, ...
Movies
Wings Of Desire, Blue Velvet, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Scare face, Falling Down, The Lover, PI, I Heart Huckabies, Lost In Translation (OK...anything with Scarlet J.), Beuna Vista Social Club, Farenheight 911, This Is Spinal Tap........
Television
not much.....
Books
We The Living, The Fountaihead, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Ana Karanina, Please Kill Me, Hardcore California, All You Need is Ears (George Martin), Good Vibrations (a history of record production), Brave New World, The Alchemist, Life In The World Unseen, An Urban Guide To The American Hipster, The Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), Fair Gods and Feathered Serpents (Terry O'Brien), The Stand, A Confederacy of Dunces, Biographies:(Little Richard, Elvis Costello Buddy Rich, Salvadore Dali, J. Paul Getty, Brian Eno) A & R - A Novel, Hype, Ishmael, Def Jam Inc., oh yeah - and shit loads of exciting audio production books and equipment manuels!!!
Heroes
Barack Obama, Theodore Rosevelt, Martin Luther King, Mohatma Ghandi, The Dalai Lama, Salvadore Dali!!, Buddy Rich, John Bonham, Stewart Copeland and Trader Joe
Who I'd like to meet: "Those about to Rock" The ones that make the music and the ones that keep it alive and well....................................................................................................................................................................................................
The Following is a growing list of folks I have had the pleasure of working with: Social Distortion, Agent Orange, D.I., Extra Fancy, The Adolescents, Lucinda Williams, Ry Cooder, Flogging Molly, Miss Derringer, Maxeen, The Briggs, Name Taken, Bad Smaritans, Wrecking Crew, Punk Rock Karaoke, The Cheaslea Smiles, Pulley, MXPX, D.E.K., Go Betty Go, The Slanderin', Michael Konik, Charmaine Clamore, The Deadbeat Sinatras, Year Long Disaster, Front Row For The Meltdown, Ted Russel Kamp, Bob Woodruff, Saturn, Comcast, T.V. Series: "Men In Trees", Music for:Indie Films & T.V Pilots..., Clem Burke of Blondie, Joey Castillo of Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Ford of Black Crows, Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio, Producers – Micky Patralia, Ted Hut..................................................................................................................................
Punk Rock Karaoke Feat. Mike McColgan of Street Dogs on vocals
(FRONT ROW FOR THE MELTDOWN) during the making of their album "Lillian's Last Stand Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Derek O'Brien. The Video was shot by Asia Mechikoff. 2007
The Adolescents - Welcome To Reality
The Adolescent - Kids Of The Black Hole
Early Social Distortion
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Hey, I'm always prepared for an emergency! If You were in Vegas I would have brought you to my apt. and sewed you up myself. I have sutures, steri strips, medical tape, I.V.'s, syringes, normal saline, the works! LOL
There will be plenty chances to win tickets to this year's Hootenanny on July 4th and Warped Tour on June 28th. Find out more at my blog and watch out for my bulletins :o)
How's my Big Brother doing? Looks like you've been busy with the new studio. I'm glad things are working out for you. Look's like Uncle Terry is headed back by your way. Just hard to stay away from the beach once you're accustomed to it! Take care. Love ya, Sis, Darla.
thanx for addin me !!!! you've been one of my favorite drummers for over 20 years !!! seen ya play quite a few times over the years and had a great time every time !!!! i still got an old buisiness card of yours from super long ago.... probably havent lost it cuz its solid day glow green !!! is that creepy !!!???? ha ha ha !!! im standing in your front yard right now !!!!! ha ha ha !!!!! cheers !!!!!!!
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