Born July 4th 1970 in Chicago Illinois. Along with my musical recording projects as a guitar player/singer, I am known in and outside of Los Angeles for being an underground jazz/rock/world music drummer. For the past 5 years I have been host/drummer/bandleader to regular weekly jam sessions at DUBES, featuring many of the top improvisational musicians in Los Angeles. Shea Welsh, DJ Bonebrake, Angel Lebron, Michael Fortunato, Michelle Coltrane, Evan Calbi, Amir Efrat, Max Perkoff, Oran Ben Avi, Lior Ron, Franz Merphert, Elvira Barjau, Gregroie Raymond, Shin Kawasaki, Tal Moore, BJ Dubin, Wayne O-Mills, Richard Hardy, Erik Krogh, Sam Riney, Pete Korpela, Robin Russell and many others. This is some of the most exciting music being played in Los Angeles!!!I was also the house drummer with The Pickering Street Players, a children's theater group with musical director Paul Cady from 2005-2008. We played top shows like Annie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Wizard of Oz and many others.And I played drums for the critically acclaimed A Night with Paul Lynde starring Michael Airington playing The Madrid Theater and a very successful run at Ultra Suede in West Hollywood in summer of 2006. Stay tuned for the resurrection of the exciting show!I&8217;ve also worked with Black Note, Eric Reed, Vernell Brown Jr, Gilbert Castellanos, Mike Elizando, Ray Campi, Skip Heller, Nicole Martel, Anne Keeler, Robert Drasnin, The David Becker Tribune, David Schiffman (Esalen Inst.), The Danny Gale Quartet (Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship), Jeff Jones (Italy), Rick Ness, Steve Uppling, Osama Affifi, Greg Erba and many others!!!As a guitarist, in 2007 along with my brother BJ, we formed 226 SOUTH WABASH to play at The Monterey Bay Blues Festival. That famous address is the former address of my family's FRANKS DRUM SHOP in Chicago, Illinois. The after party pro jam session at Sly McFly&8217;s on Cannery Row was AMAZING!I've produced two CD's The Little Red Box and Coming Back w/Greg Erba. Both available on iTUNES and CD BABY. I have two music video's Do You Get Me by director Jaret Sacrey produced by myself and James Bennett. And Butterfly Baby directed by Matthew Magnolia.In 2007 my group The Dubin Collective played on the short film Tonight Only providing an improvised jazz score to the Jaret Sacrey directed short. And in 2008 Jaret and I collaborated again on an Ashley Furniture commercial in which I wrote the music and performed on the stoop of a brownstone on the NYC Backlot Street&8217;s of Paramount Studios.I have been playing drums since 1972 and teaching drums since 1984. My grandfather Maurie Lishon and Uncle Marty Lishon owned the world famous FRANKS DRUM SHOP in Chicago, IL. I am a former student of Phil Stanger, Master Teacher Freddie Gruber, Gregg Bissonette, and Jim Ganduglia (Johnny Mathis). Babatunde Olatunji also became a tremendous inspiration to me after meeting and playing for him at Esalen Inst. in Big Sur, CA. inspiring me to study hand drumming with Leon Mobley.I grew up around the best drummers in the world like Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Alex Acuna, Chester Thompson, Phil Collins, Emil Richards, The Grateful Dead, The Doobie Brothers, and The Allman Brothers who were all frequent family friends/clinicians/customers of FRANKS DRUM SHOP. I've taught drums for The Music School in Sherman Oaks, CA, and Drummers World in Sherman Oaks, CA, and Woodlow Music in Woodland Hills, CA. And, I co-taught the three jazz bands at The New Rhodes High School in Santa Monica, CA w/Shea Welsh 2005-2006. I now teach private drum/guitar/percussion/bass/music lessons out of my home studio and live web cam guitar lessons via SKYPE on the internet.I am available as a drummer for recording, touring, private instruction, and clinics. Also, as a guitarist for writing, recording, touring and teaching. And I specialize in making other musicians and singers sound GREAT!!!
Hello All, I'm selling the album I did with Buddy Miles with no art
work, the reason is the music is very important to get out there and I
dont see printing them with art work for a while because of record
company delays . So what I will do is if you buy one now I will send it
to you and then when the ones with artwork come I will give you one
free of charge.
Please pick up as many as you can, they make
perfect gifts for friends and family. The music is cool seventies
styles rock with some new twists. The price is $15 dollars . If you
would like any of the other albums that I have done Third Stream or
Message from the tiki man, then those are also 15 dollars a piece.
Those two have art work.
Hi Mike!! I'm Victor, from Spain, used to study with you couple years ago, in L.A. ... like your music and your drumming... hope life treat you right! Greetings!
Thank YOU for adding me, Michael! You know I love your page...I admire your talent tremendously. I wrote to Marc saying that I want to jam with his cousin, Michael. lol I tried to send/email myself 'The Watchtower',from fb, you and your brother...I wanted to bring it up on my page so I could 'play' with the both of you. Ok, I'm a dork. lol
Have a nice holiday weekend! Stay in touch, Kiddo.
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