Post by BootHamilton on Aug 31, 2017 4:00:59 GMT
I'm Boot Hamilton. I am a keyboard player. Born in '48. I live in Michigan.
By the age of 18 I was working underage playing Blues piano in the clubs on the Southside of Chicago with folks who are now in the Blues Hall of Fame - having gigged and/or jammed with Muddy Waters, Sam Lay, John Lee Hooker, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, James Cotton, Jimmy Reed, etc. For two years I was Sam Lay's piano player. Sam is the drummer on the controversial Bob Dylan at Newport 'first electric Dylan' record. Sam is in the Blues, Rock and the Jazz halls of fame (I am in no halls of fame).
In '69-'71 I was in a band that recorded an album ( I played a Yamaha grand and a B-3) produced by Bob Ezrin - who went on to later produce Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.'
In the '70's I had a very modest "reel to real" home studio where I wrote and recorded various experimental pieces.Sometimes songs, but frequently assemblies comprised of various combinatiobs of 'found sounds' (live recordings of various outdoor environments), loops of reversed recordings of my electric piano, various overdubbing and tape-splicing tricks and, later on, adding my 2-voice Oberheim TVS-1 analog synthesizer to the mix. I've 'cleaned-up' a couple of these and posted them in a collection on my SoundCloud site.
Eventually by the later '80's I had to get a 'real job' (shudder). I came very late to the VSTi party, they having been let loose on the planet circa '97 or thereabouts, me not discovering the potential of DAW + VST until 2011, when I reassembled my home studio based around REAPER on my PC.
I retired from 'OtherWorld' in 2013. I'm a one man show these days. I compose, record, mix then post online on SoundCloud and now, it looks like, here.
Current interest is as it has been -whatever sounds right to me. I don't know what to call what I'm doing these days. Currently contemporary classic-ish. But I'm self taught, fairly well-versed in theory, lacking in formalities of classic structure - well versed in Chicago Blues, dig Miles Davis, Richard Strauss (Ein Heldenleben), Louis and Bebe Barron, Bill Evans, Mose Allison, Talking Heads, Alwin Nikolais, etc. - there's so much out there. So if it seems to work - I do it. And I don't need the money - so l'm writing to please me - and some of you.
My newer works and a couple of the experimental '70's & '80's pieces can be heard here:
m.soundcloud.com/boothamilton
I'll be around.
See ya' in the weeds.
By the age of 18 I was working underage playing Blues piano in the clubs on the Southside of Chicago with folks who are now in the Blues Hall of Fame - having gigged and/or jammed with Muddy Waters, Sam Lay, John Lee Hooker, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, James Cotton, Jimmy Reed, etc. For two years I was Sam Lay's piano player. Sam is the drummer on the controversial Bob Dylan at Newport 'first electric Dylan' record. Sam is in the Blues, Rock and the Jazz halls of fame (I am in no halls of fame).
In '69-'71 I was in a band that recorded an album ( I played a Yamaha grand and a B-3) produced by Bob Ezrin - who went on to later produce Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.'
In the '70's I had a very modest "reel to real" home studio where I wrote and recorded various experimental pieces.Sometimes songs, but frequently assemblies comprised of various combinatiobs of 'found sounds' (live recordings of various outdoor environments), loops of reversed recordings of my electric piano, various overdubbing and tape-splicing tricks and, later on, adding my 2-voice Oberheim TVS-1 analog synthesizer to the mix. I've 'cleaned-up' a couple of these and posted them in a collection on my SoundCloud site.
Eventually by the later '80's I had to get a 'real job' (shudder). I came very late to the VSTi party, they having been let loose on the planet circa '97 or thereabouts, me not discovering the potential of DAW + VST until 2011, when I reassembled my home studio based around REAPER on my PC.
I retired from 'OtherWorld' in 2013. I'm a one man show these days. I compose, record, mix then post online on SoundCloud and now, it looks like, here.
Current interest is as it has been -whatever sounds right to me. I don't know what to call what I'm doing these days. Currently contemporary classic-ish. But I'm self taught, fairly well-versed in theory, lacking in formalities of classic structure - well versed in Chicago Blues, dig Miles Davis, Richard Strauss (Ein Heldenleben), Louis and Bebe Barron, Bill Evans, Mose Allison, Talking Heads, Alwin Nikolais, etc. - there's so much out there. So if it seems to work - I do it. And I don't need the money - so l'm writing to please me - and some of you.
My newer works and a couple of the experimental '70's & '80's pieces can be heard here:
m.soundcloud.com/boothamilton
I'll be around.
See ya' in the weeds.