LOU REED: "One Year Since"

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER LOU REED

  Are you one of the many who felt a deep loss when Lou Reed died on October 27th, 2013? If yes, and you would like to share your feelings, please join us at Studio 1444 (Sunset & Highland) on October 27th from 6-10 pm for as we remember him "One Year Since". This will be a simple night where the creative community can pay tribute to the man and the legacy he left behind. This is a limited space, family friendly event, and all are welcome with RSVP

(Thank you @DeyoGlines for donating your time and graphic design talent

along with generosity from @Amoebamusic and @digmusic; together, we hope

many others who love Lou Reed join us to celebrate his life.)

You may not know that he was one of the original founding members of The Velvet Underground, who recorded in our building when it was home to TTG Studios. Songs on their first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966), recorded at TTG were: "I'm Waiting for the Man, "Venus in Furs" and "Heroin"; followed by the third album The Velvet Underground, recorded in 1968, in it's entirety at TTG Studios.

We are calling out to all artists, poets, writers, musicians, performance artists, and those with personal recollections, in addition to those who practice Tai Chi, or other marshall arts, to be a part of this remembrance. We are dedicating 2 hours as an open mic/performance time; please come and share your thoughts, personal stories, music, poems, or express through Tai Chi. 1-5 minutes for each person, or group, by reservation only, first come first serve. Acoustic only. The studio will provide the stage, an amp, lighting and a bar stool. Depending on the response, we can extend the time frame.

There will also be one wall dedicated to art (limited space available, first come first serve). All works must be ready to hang with a wire backing only. For more information, please email: GatherTheArtists@mail.com. Deadline to submit works is Thursday, October 23rd.

To reserve a spot for the open mic, as an artist, or to volunteer, please email: GatherTheArtists@mail.com. Due to limited space, *RSVP is mandatory* (We have great respect for privacy, and names and list will not be shared.) More details will become available soon. We hope you will join us in remembering this remarkable, brutally honest man who changed music and so many lives throughout his. Special thanks to Amoeba Recordsand @DeyoGlines, creator of Graphic Design and Digital Art for Music Packaging, Print & Web. For more information on this evening, please contact: Shawni Groves at: (213) 255-0059.

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LOU REED: "One Year Since"
Monday, October 27th, 2014
6:00-10:00pm
 Studio 1444
(www.studio1444.com)
1444 N. Highland Ave.
(Studio entrance is off of McCadden between Sunset and DeLongpre) street and metered parking is available on surrounding streets and on Highland Ave. after 7pm.

Open mic: 7:00-9:00pm
FREE with RSVP: Facebook.com/studio1444

or

GatherTheArtists@mail.com 

OPEN MIC/ARTISTS/VOLUNTEER: GatherTheArtists@mail.com
List closes Oct. 26th.

Contact: Shawni Groves (213) 255-0059

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Guitar International interviews Wiser Time for their latest single XII and Learns more about Chuck Hammer's contribution with his signature "Guitarchitecture"

Wiser Time's latest single "XII" is now available at all digital retail outlets visit wisertimemusic.com to hear more

Chuck Hammer's Guitarchitecture Meets Wiser Time
By Deb Devi





How does a Jersey rocker with the kind of huge soulful voice possessed by only a royal few (think Paul Rodgers meets Chris Robinson) wind up creating trippy-yet-hooky, vintage-yet-futuristic, slammin’ rock-and-roll with seminal synth-guitarist Chuck Hammer (Bowie, Lou Reed)?

Not how you might think.

Although Hammer’s roots are in rock, what he wanted from Wiser Time singer and guitarist Carmen Sclafani initially was a bit–unusual.

“I invited Carmen into my studio to cut a couple tracks that required him to–on the spot–invent a vocal language,” Hammer explains. “I wanted something not in English. I wanted a kind of primitive, pre-language vocal. He did such a great job of layering his vocals in a completely invented language that I realized he was someone I wanted to collaborate with further.”

Hammer began expanding the guitar’s vocabulary when he toured with Lou Reed from 1978 to 1980, re-creating string parts from Berlin, Street Hassle and The Bells live with a Roland GR 500 guitar/synthesizer.  Back home in NYC, Hammer layered guitar and guitar-synth tracks to create “Guitarchitecture” instrumental works, like his Glacial Guitars album.

These caught David Bowie’s ear, who invited Hammer to record on Scary Monsters. Rolling Stone named him a guitar “pioneer,” in a select group with Robert Fripp and Allan Holdsworth. Today, Hammer is also an Emmy-nominated soundtrack composer for shows including Trauma: Life and Death in the E.R. and The First 48, and has collaborated with avant-garde artists like Laurie Anderson.

Sclafani’s classic-rock band, Wiser Time, had already released three fine albums of ‘70s-influenced rock–There and Back Again, All for One and Beggars and Thieves—when he met Hammer at a jam session. Once Hammer heard Sclafani’s latest songs, the two found common ground in a mutual desire to love and honor the rockness inherent in cranking guitars through vintage tube amps–yet nudge it into the future.

They co-produced Wiser Time’s new EP, XII, which flows without pause from the swirling instrumental “Renaissance” to Sclafani’s righteous rock anthem “Gonna Be Alright.” Former Gov’t Mule/Black Crowes bassist Andy Hess and drummer Steve Decker laid down thick grooves, and keyboardist Rob Clores (Black Crowes, Warren Haynes) added Hammond B-3 organ and bluesy piano. Sclafani’s Wiser Time partner, Jimmy Somma of Sommatone Amplification, contributed blues-rock leads, plus the pick of his sweet boutique amps.

“There’s a real sense of rebirth happening right now that I wanted to express on XII,” Sclafani notes. “We’ve all had to persevere through so much adversity over the last ten years, and I think many people are embracing the idea of ‘moving forward’ in a more positive direction. It’s gonna be alright!”

“I think people can clearly hear my rock ‘n’ roll roots in the flow of my first three albums,” Sclafani adds, “and with XII, Chuck brought Wiser Time’s classic sound into a more modern place with technology and the influence of his creative process. This EP is just a taste of what we've’ve got cooking!”

More tracks are in the works, including some with drummer Billy Martin of Martin, Medeski & Wood. These are some exciting collaborations with the potential to refresh and revitalize the guitar’s role in rock, so Guitar International had a few questions for Hammer and Sclafani.

For the Full interview visit  Guitar International

Learn more about writer Deb Devi the author of  "The Language of The Blues" Here.

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