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Late New Year's @ White Eagle in PDX with Howlin' Houndog, Drunken Prayer and Drugstore Cowboy 1/2/10!

January 2, 2010 at 9pm to January 3, 2010 at 1am – White Eagle Saloon

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Erik 4-A commented on FLYING OVER's event 'FRENCH TOUR NOVEMBER 2009 w/ THEE VICARS + WAILIN' YEAHS !!!'

I wish I could make it, but I am on the other side of the world. Keep me posted if they come to Seattle WA OK.

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Bad Motor Booty Night @ Club Motor in Seattle at Club Motor

November 19, 2009 from 8pm to 11:45pm

In association with Burning Hearts Burlesque I will be appearing at "Bad Motor Booty" night on Thursday Nov 19th at Club Motor (1950 1st Ave S) opening solo for Joey "The Saint" & The A-men as part of this monthly event. Come hear some Dirty Blues...

November 1

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Where do you live?

Seattle

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It's Complicated

About Me:

I am a musician and recording studio owner from Seattle Washington.

Website:

http://vagrantrecords.com

Favorite Music:

Mostly older stuff, but I also like film soundtrack stuff, acoustic blues, old country, banging on pots & pans, jangle-y 12 strings, howling, screetching and growling stuff too. Old R&B, Rock & Roll and anything with a Hammond Organ in it. The list goes on.

Favorite Movies:

David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and Richard Elfman's "The Forbidden Zone" along with too many AIP films to list here. Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilliogy" tops my list along with many Stanley Kubrick films and all the (original) Planet of the Apes series too. Bad films are Great! I also do soundtrack work as well.

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Howlin Houndog back on KPSU Portland 11/28/09:DOWNLOAD

OK for those of you out of range of KPSU (or didn't tune in!) Here is your next chance to hear me "Live On-Air" on "What's This Called" on KPSU (with host my old pal Ricardo Wang) Hopefully I will compile some of the best bits into a Howlin' Houndog "Live" CD at some point. Here ya go;

http://archive.kpsu.org/node/27423

I previewed some songs from my new CD "Goin' to the Country" and also a smattering of songs I did on my previous 2 CDs.

I hope… Continue

Posted on November 29, 2009 at 2:22pm —

Fall 2009 San Francisco Bay Area Tour Blues!

I am bummed. I had to cancel my mid Oct 2009 Bay Area "Mini Tour" from Oct 14 to 18th because I lost some dates and couldn't find any replacement dates for Oct 15th in the North Bay and 17th in Santa Cruz. It sucks, but it is done.

I'll hit the Road again in Spring 2010!

See y'all then!

Posted on August 24, 2009 at 11:00am —

Fuckin SAD!! Tom Pfaeffle RIP

This may not mean much to many of you, but he was one of my compatriots in the Music Business. I saw this on the news on Saturday July 18th! FUCK! I am in shock!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009497114_pfaeffle19m.html

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/tom-pfaeffle-local-sound-engineer-from-black-diamond-killed_100220137.html

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Comments?oid=1870630&cb=ca9d6b9da3c7768792b893ab4f74eee9&layoutId=PostCommentPopUp&view=comment… Continue

Posted on July 20, 2009 at 2:45pm — 1 Comment

The Old Days of Seattle Indi Radio (pre Paul Allen!) KCMU 90.3 FM!

A long time before Grunge and the Dot Com Boom/Bust made Seattle what it is today (YUCK!!) There was KCMU 90.5 (later 90.3) FM. It was a true community radio station (owned by the UW) It got me through Highschool and College. Someone sent me this archive they posted here;

http://kcmu.jc-coleman.com/

Sadly other folks had their (hidden) agendas and folks kinda took what they had for granted. I was a "Johnny come lately" to this environment, but I learned a lot and met a lot of interesting folks… Continue

Posted on July 18, 2008 at 1:00pm —

My RetarDead Weekend!

OK, I am gonna be down in the Bay Area for the premier of 4321films production of "RetarDead" at the Victoria Theater (of which the Soundtrack features music from Vagrant Records of Seattle Washington and San Francisco musicians! ) from July 11 to 13. Here is the info on that;

http://www.4321films.com

for ticket info go here;

http://www.victoriatheatre.org/calendar.htm

Advanced tickets can be order… Continue

Posted on July 9, 2008 at 1:27pm —

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At 2:41pm on September 15, 2008, Rene said…: hey man, i seen a lot of your posts on recording, and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions? I have a home studio thats just in one largish upstairs room at my parents house, and I'm trying to make old soul/ r'n'b recordings that have a real vintage vibe about them. You can check out my page www.myspace.com/chickadeerecordings , listen to the song mean man, its basically the style we are going to be playing. I like the quality of it, but I'm wondering if there are any hints you could give me so that I may achieve the sound I'm pursuing. I'm going for a basically a stax/old motown/ new orleans/ james brown sound, I record my drums using 2 beringer pencil mics as overhead, kick miced with some cheap peavey mic. I also own 2 akg mics, one small, and one large condenser mic. I always record my drums and any other live off the floor tracks into a 1978 akai tape casette recorder, hen i convert that into digital, and do everything else digital using a ART tube preamp for my close micing, and a beringer omni mic run direct into my mBox. Im having problems getting the kick to come out, and maby with the attack on the snare. I want more of these, but I always have found that less is more in my recordings. Im looking for a sound thats between hi fi and lo fi, any suggestions?

At 2:37pm on June 18, 2008, Timothy Gassen said…: FUZZZZZZ IT! :)

At 12:44am on February 29, 2008, jason weed said…: Keep rockin Erik. Having your own studio does ease the creative process, and I should know, I get to record at my family's studio for free. However,I do end up doing alot of yardwork....

At 3:06pm on February 21, 2008, Tommy Careless said…: i look forward to pickin yer brains about recording!
Drink up,
~T

At 4:51pm on February 1, 2008, Erik 4-A said…: I got 3 new songs from next couple of releases up! I hope you like 'em!

At 11:10am on January 13, 2008, Gualtiero Pagani said…: ERIK ROCK LIKE A MOFO!!!!!

At 1:56am on December 27, 2007, JP said…: Happy holidays Erik

At 2:46pm on December 26, 2007, Rosa said…: keep on a-rockin' erik!

At 2:01pm on December 10, 2007, Erik 4-A said…: I am gonna miss BeccaBear here at the Hideout! (she excused herself from things) I hope things will simplify themselves here soon so we don't loose other long term folks due to stuff like that.

I also heard the GP Forum is not doing PMs anymore. I cleared my box out a month ago,but still it is sad to know that a major avenue of communications has been closed.

At 3:21pm on November 24, 2007, Erik 4-A said…: Yeah JP, I understand, but since like Dave Lister of Red Dwarf says, " I only got two working taste buds left and one of them works on spicy hot foods."

While down in Portland Oregon the last few days I had some good Thai food in the Hawthorne section of town.

No habeñeros were injured!