GoldenChyld and Scotty Does at Safari Sam's January 17th, 2006
Influences
underground hip hop, indie-rock, experimental, classic rock, instrumental, jazz, real country, and world music, some 80's 'cause....that's when i was growing up. oh bands and artists? cinematic orchestra, the roots, roots manuva, mingo,
tortoise, devotchka, lymbyc system, drunken immortals (of course), questlove, gannon, radar, cubanos los postizos, z-trip (who would have guessed?), calexico, philip seymour hoffman, fatigo, neko case,
corey fuckin' fogul, bjork, beck, reuben's accomplice, el oso negro, willie nelson, dr. ralph stanley, the beatles, moustache fight {a.k.a. the threads (are you for serious?)}, ac/dc, rush, opera singers in metal bands, steve miller, devo, john o'reilly, marc ribot, mark wahlberg (the actor), tom waits, the
hammertoes (no shit.),
thelonious monk, kris hill, blacksheep, the meters, steve gadd, the insects, james brown, jim brown {yeah the football/lacrosse player is my all-time hero.....why? because he didn't see black or white either but he did at the same time. get it? he called the champ "the champ" (muhammed ali), compay segundo because he didn't see either old or young but he did at the same time.......died at 93............, get it? eliades ochoa was his hero, [(and mine] he is the johnny cash of cuba], homie did so much shit i can't even mention......the original 32}, the artist formerly known as...., gorillaz, tin hat trio, meat beat manifesto,
jay beson, consolidated, anticon, led zepplin, the pixies, david byrne, david bowie, dave brubeck, david axelrod, dave chappelle, talking heads, zakir hussein, bill laswell, bootsy, chick corea, bernie worrel, jimmy smith, herbie hancock, herbie mann, talib kweli, kid koala, elvin jones,
medeski, martin, and wood, the stray cats, grayskul, awol one, 2 mex, busdriver, daddy kev, mercury program, the mars volta, sun ra, buckethead, jeff buckley, bob james, ruben gonzales, ibrahim ferrer, cachaito, raul yanez, ryan kennedy, aceyalone,
michael franti, brad b., mike cosentino, ohm, anglo, dj shadow, d styles, shh! the baby's sleeping! (c'mon now! that's a no brainer!), broun fellinis, cut chemist, gene wilder, jeremy dana, numark, chali tuna, rjd2, charles
mingus,
esthero, death cab for cutie, anthrax, slayer, minor threat, aggression, m.d.c., d.r.i., t.s.o.l., suicidal tendencies, die young, m.f. doom,
miles davis, kraftwerk, buena vista social club, steve malkmus, did i mention prince?, breakestra, antibalas, the marley's, jonas hurst (aka "foundation"), adrian goldenthal, fela kuti, de la sol,
j-live, horacio el negro, e.j. rodrigues, giovanni hidalgo, and changuito just to name a few and there's shitloads more just can't think of 'em right now.
i play drums and percussion in a few groups in a few different genres of music. i've been tooling around with rhythm instruments since i was 3 (as far back as i can remember.)
mom was a former performing artist who sang song stylist classics in front of a big band back in the late 40's early 50's. an officer's club in guam employed her where she performed. that's also where she met my father who was a captain in the air force. her music career came to a halt as they traveled the world military style and started poppin' out babies in the usual catholic fashion of the era.
i'm the youngest of six children. we all had piano lessons at some point in time in our lives. she started me out when i was 8 on piano alongside my 12 year old sister. i did that for about 2 years until i decided i didn't want to anymore. my sis and i both despised piano lessons so naturally she thanked me for protesting against any further instruction. from then i didn't touch anything musical or rhytmic until i was 13.
i met my best friend to this day jeremy beson in 1983. we were both little skatepunk kids who liked hardcore punk bands like youth brigade, black flag, d.r.i., the adolescents, m.d.c., circle jerks, etc. he was a damn good guitar player in those days of that style of punk music. my natural gravitation toward drums had me playing proficiently at a very swift rate. we teamed up with our bass player/mutual friend brett shell who was also nicknamed....."bubblehead." together we formed the group d.s.o.r. (a horrible acronym for demented sounds of rage.) ha ha! i laugh everytime i think about it! anyway, we started "crossing over" to a more metal punk style as we were listening to bands like corrosion of conformity, metal church, verbal assault, metallica (kill 'em all hell yea!"), etc.....at this point i had adopted a double bass drumkit. we played together for some time. never played shows. we just got together at this kid trent pittard's house who owned a half-pipe in the neighborhood where everyone skateboarded. we were background music. pretty cool. this all came to an end in around 1987 or so. i stopped playing music for a while........
1994 had me reunited with my friend jeremy beson, (now a bass player), once again playing in a band called the martyrs. this music was acid jazzy. over time i guess we had developed a little more sophistication in our musical tastes, (although i'm still a punk at heart), through listening to the jazz infused hip hop of the time. lots of guru, groove collective, brooklyn funk essentials, solsonics, james taylor quartet, etc. anyway, i started picking up on latin rhythms preferably of the afro-cuban variety and was now playing congas instead of a drumkit. the martyrs split after about a year or so. i met dj radar in that group and he and i continued recording and playing live together. through him i met dj z-trip, and dj emile. the three of them formed the infamous bombshelter dj's. i played live percussion for these break and hip hop dj's at local arizona spots called "the green room" and most popularly "nita's hideaway." it was during this time that i became further fascinated by these obscure percussion instruments. i obsessed incessantly at developing the skill required to play the rhythms designed for these types of drums. luis hernandez, dom moio, e.j. rodrigues, giovanni hidalgo, emilio caruso, eric udell, changuito, jerry gonzalez, and more peops became my teachers and influences both literally and through mere listening. soon i acquired timbales and bongo for my repertoire.
in 1997 i joined a band called the hammertoes. this was to be one of the more serious projects of my musical career where i teamed up with singer/songwriter casey wade and songwriter bob jacks to take on the title of rhythm captain. or later as i was coined, "the drum nazi." ha ha! that always makes me laugh! this band utilized a lot of afro-caribbean, polka, and odd meter rhythms over tom waits, velvet underground, and david byrne like songstyles. we tackled a vast vocabulary of styles both rhythmically and musically. it was quite the 6-year musical adventure i will never forget or regret.......a moment of silence please......
during the latter half of the hammertoes existence, i started delving back to my hip-hop roots by continuing to play live with dj ztrip and also lending my percussive services, (live and recording), to my now commited in full-time band the drunken immortals. we are an underground hip-hop band outta az. you could compare us to the roots, the crown city rockers, cinematic orchestra, or antedote, if you wanted......but don't get it twisted.....we are more of ourselves than anything else! word....
other groups i play in are "shh! the baby's sleeping" experimental, "loose threads" indie pop, and a new drums, turntable, and live art trio i'm very excited about with dj pickster uno and dumperfoo called "crusher sound system."
enough about me! what's goin' on in your world????.......
will be sold by Turntable Lab, Ernie B's, Deadly Dragon just to mention a few US retail shops.
also Pork Eater 45 is coming so look out!
and I don't think I really spread the word but there's a remix I did for one of Rob Symeonn's tunes off his album that came out on the B side of the 45. No More - here's a link to Deadly Dragon's site where you can check it.
R E V I E W Brooklyn is back in the building. Victor Axelrod is back in his Ticklah tracksuit. Rob Symeonn is back on the mic voicing a pair of future roots classics... READ FULL REVIEW: http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/0/0/68715.html
We hope to see you this Saturday, May 2nd, at THE HIP JOINT - AZ's original Funk and Soul party! Come dance to top notch vintage vinyl tunes played by an all-star line up of the best Funk DJs in the Valley and a live appearance by The Market!
Here's hoping you won't be missing the party!
The Energy Trio and the Sugarthieves
Wednesday, April 22. 9PM - 2AM
@ Sail Inn - 1st St and Farmer in Tempe
-Shea Marshall
Scott -
it's time - AZ's original Funk and Soul party THE HIP JOINT returns this Saturday, and we'd like to invite you to be part of it! We got a DJ line-up that'll blow you out of your funky sneakers, with rare 60s and 70s Soul and Funk records that you can't hear anywhere else in AZ!
We hope to see you there - April 4th, 9 pm, @ Paisley Violin, 1030 NW Grand Ave in downtown Phoenix!
so ofcourse i got your request and go figure as i was clicking accept i saw that there was a message there from you and then i was your friend and the message disappeared and for the life of me i cant find it :) damn a.d.d. haha all i got was "hi chels". so point being..what did you say? wow, dont you miss me :) hee hee
The Energy Trio and the Sugarthieves
Wednesday, April 22. 9PM - 2AM
@ Sail Inn - 1st St and Farmer in Tempe
-Shea Marshall
