Just me. I play, sing, produce and mix everything, with an occasional guest singer. I'm a better player than a singer, but I make the best of what I have. Guitars, Bass, Drums (when not provided by Fruityloops), Keyboards, Soft Synths, random sounds, and least of all, vox.
Influences
Lyrics: The passion of Keith Green, the brilliant wordsmith work of Steve Taylor, the heart for God of David Bush and Matt Redman, the humorous and sarcastic wit of Bill Spooner and Fee Waybill (??...!!)
Music (in no specific order): Boston, Angel, Slade, The Sweet, The Tubes, The Cars, Peter Gabriel, U2, Skillet, Michael Omartian, Delirious?, Whiteheart, Tragedy Ann, Led Zeppelin, Be Bop Deluxe, Rush, Ramones, certain early British punk bands, and countless others...
Sounds Like
A lot like my influences. OCCASIONALLY I have original thought every now and then... :-)
Halcyon: Peaceful, Tranquil --- Hammer: To deliver by force
My name is Doug Bruce, now living in Oklahoma Green Country.
Check out the Butterfly music video to get an idea of what I'm all about: Butterfly Music Video
Another (a little bit more edgy) video just posted is called Ripped Off - a call to action for Christians to not get sucked down the drain of popular worldly ideas. Ripped Off Music Video
Since the beginning, it has been made clear to me that my primary responsibility is to use what God has given me to glorify Him and tell His truth through writing, performing and producing this music. It's all about communication, dude. Some of it is about God's greatness, some of it confronts issues, some of it just conveys observations. So if you ever get to the end of one of my songs and can't tell what I was trying to say, I will have failed in my objective.
Whether I have or haven..t, if you are looking for God, looking for some spiritual meaning in life, or you..re just dissatisfied and just don..t know WHAT you..re looking for, please check out the following link. The people that put it up really helped me get going at a crucial time in my life, and I am eternally grateful (literally):
Please let me know what you think of what you find there - I..d love to converse with you about it. That..s a huge part of the reason for putting my music out here for you.
Anyway, as far as the music itself, I wrote and played things in high school and college, but the modern era of all this started out in the early 90's going cassette tape to cassette tape as an experiment to try and recreate the great sound of classic rock. As technology advanced and I was able to acquire a bit of it and upgrade my gear here and there (finally now to decent mics and guitars and the multitrack luxury of Cakewalk Sonar Home Studio), things have hopefully improved from those early days. I don't play anywhere because I don't have anyone else in my "band" -- I just make music that I like and if you like it, you're welcome to enjoy what I put out here. But most of all I hope you got a little closer to Jesus Christ for having listened.
I appreciate any feedback you have, spiritually or otherwise. Thanks!
Thanks for inviting me into your circle of friends. Glad to have you in mine! The guitars on "Pick Up The Phone" sound GREAT! Your recordings are really well done. Don't stop.
if you dont mind we'd like to do some covers of some of your songs, i've also noticed that i(caleb) have given you all the comments that you have, but that would be sweet if you could give us some cord charts for "invasion" and "insane"
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