Too many to include all!
The Sundays, Nine Inch Nails, The Indigo Girls, Stone Temple Pilots, James Taylor, Lefty Frizzel, Buddy Rich, The Beatles!, Led Zepplin, The Alleman Brothers, Anything Jeff Beck is on, Buddy Miles, Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, Steel Pulse, Rush, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, Beck, Keane, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Peter Paul and Mary, Esquivel, Ratt, Dave Matthews Band, The Funky Meters, Pink Floyd, Steve Winwood, Jimi Hendrix, SO MANY MORE!!!!!!
I believe that communication skills (on and off stage) are incredibly important. Communication, humility, and understanding are vital components of the total musicain package. Whether I am doing session work with musicians I just met, short term touring, or hanging with a long term band, I want to have a positive, meaningful connection with the other people involved in the artistic process. Music is one way I express myself, but it also provides me opportunities to meet people and live a life that is unique and full of interesting adventures. I love my life, my wife, my family, my friends, and my students. I am incredibly blessed.
------TEACHING EXPERIENCE------
Director of Bands The Dunham School –- 2001-present
Advanced Band, Percussion, Jazz Band
Baton Rouge Music Studios, LLC – Owner -- 2006-present
------EDUCATION------
Northwestern State University – Music Education
Drum Set – Jazz Band
Percussionist – Wind Symphony – (Top Band)
Instruments – All Batter Percussion, Vibraphone, Xylophone, Marimba, Drum Set, Orchestral Bells, Timpani
Degree – BA in Music Education (emphasis in percussion)
University of New Orleans – Jazz Studies
Instructors – Ellis Marsalis, Ed Peterson, Hank Mackie, Leon Anderson
Drum Set – Hank Mackie’s Jazz Combo
Percussionist – UNO Percussion Ensemble
------OTHER INSTRUMENTS------
Acoustic Guitar
Bass Guitar
Piano/Keyboards
Kazoo
------TOURING------
TAB BENOIT - 2009
VOICE OF THE WETLANDS ALLSTARS (alternate drummer) 2009
KYPER - 1996 - Present (touring bassist)
STEVIE B - 1998 - Present (regional touring bassist)
THE ELEMENTS 2004-2007 (Fire, Air, Water, Earth Productions)
MICHAEL FOSTER 2001-2004 (Continuum Music)
------FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES------
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival -- New Orleans, Louisiana 2004 2005 2006
Fest For All -- Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009
Tropical Heat Wave International World Music Festival -- Tampa, Florida 2006
Lafayette Reggae and Cultural Music Festival -- Lafayette, Louisiana 2004 2005 2006 2007
Hollywood International Art and Music Festival, Hollywood, Florida 2003
Rhythm and Roots Festival, Charlestown, Rhode Island 2009
The Greater Ozark Blues Festival, Springfield, Missouri 2009
Brand New Day Festival, Baton Rouge, LA 2009
------RECORDING CREDITS------(Discography)
1. Voodoo Grove "Trippy Tele" 1994 Bluff Road Publishing
2. "Music:The Language of New Orleans Vol. 1" Red Hot Records
3. Child "Wide Eyed and Blind" 1998 TP Records
4. Wendy Colonna "Girls of Stone" 2000 TP Records
5. Cire "Adrenological" 2003 Genome Records
6. The Withholders "The Sky I Knew Before" 2003 Titanium Studios
7. The Emile Turner Quintet "This One's For You" 2003 ET Productions
8. Lingus "Heavy B Thy Name" 2004 Sleestack
9. 6 Pack Deep "This Party Called Life" 2005
10. Andy Pizzo "Bouncin" 2006 Plus Good Studios
11. Jason Stebly "Ever Since August" 2006
12. Chris Shearman - Solo CD 2008
13. Flame Shark - "Raw Flowers" - 2009 Hush That Sparrow Music
14. Flame Shark - "Farm Life" 2009 (In progress)
15. Jason Stebly - Currently Tracking Untitled Album - Dockside Studios
16. Gill Landry - Untitled Album in progress
------WORKS IN PROGRESS------
1. Solo CD - Dougulous - "Whole Lot O Junk"
2. Flame Shark - Currently Tracking "Farm Life" at Engine Studios
3. Denton Hatcher - Live Performances
4. Transonic - Live Performances
5. Andy Pizzo Project - Live Performances
6. Doug Gay and Friends - Live Performance
That tour schedule looks mighty fine. I'm excited for you just looking at it. You've earned it. We're almost done tracking for Farm Life. We just added mariachi horns last week.
droped by to say Hi! cut new track used weed wacker to play guitar! (tip use old guitar) beacuse it dosent sound that good anymore when huge chunks of wood is missing from the body! the song is called Chainsaws panflutes & weedeaters!
Hey Mr.G, wassup! i havent talked to you in a while, i have been checking out flame shark, yall are really good! i wanted to stop by and talk to you about rejoining the studio. lots of love man, chris
Doug, I am so impressed with Baton Rouge Studios! I just looked it up on the web and I can only hope that something like this will be offered when Liam is old enough to play (he does have some beats when he plays his bathtub drums!). I can't wait to see how your place grows!
Hey I see you are on tour from your pictures. ha ha How have you been? I have a 6th gradepercussion student that reminds me of you. It's all good, he looks a lot like yourself.
what up brother! im about to make you proud! just got a touring gig with paid rehearsals!! what up ? hope everything is rockin and rollin doug. miss you guys. btw check out my new myspace let me know what you think!
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