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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Gazilcher and the new music page

I changed the Music link on the main menu at bobkurthy.com

It now leads to a basic page (work in progress) of my music related stuff (music players, videos, links, etc.), rather than funneling directly into the semi-moribund MySpace profile as before.

My solo-plus-guests music project is now called Gazilcher.

Gazilcher can be found on MySpace, Soundcloud and Facebook.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

BlowUpBlow videos

Paul Zanzler has assembled 2 videos of our band BlowUpBlow* (2003-2008) compiled from photographs, video and artwork.

One is for It's Time; a song that was often a live show closer/favorite. We did a great recording of at The Compound studio in Long Beach, CA. Unfortunately it was never finally mixed, mastered nor released...



The 2nd video features an audio track that for a song we were laboring over off and on for a long time during the twilight of the band's run. It may sound trebly, but, hey, it was just a practice recording, quite possibly on cassette...Visually, this is a pretty good nostalgic overview slide show. Personally, I felt that we were creating music better than that of each our previous bands.




*If you're new, I was the drummer in this band, and did the artwork for the releases, merch, flyers, etc.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Musical Telephone Game, Pt. 3: Listen to the results

Here are 2 mixes of the final outcome of the Musical Telephone Game I previously described HERE and HERE. Take a listen...

Musical Telephone Game, Round 1: Ass Massacre


Personnel, in order of game:
1) Jesse Wilder - Drums, Guitar (riff), instigator/moderator of the game
2) Bob Kurthy - synthesizers
3) Chris Paul Overall - Vocals
4) Filippo Costanza - Bass, Marimba
5) Chris Cacavas - Organ, Guitar (lead & chords)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

I Know This On The Real

New track based on some accidental voicemail audio semi-verité
(semi- as in names were edited out to protect the innocent/guilty)

I Know This On The Real by Gazilcher

Gazilcher by Gazilcher

Sunday, March 7, 2010

New computer

I finally got a new computer. I've been talking about it for a year or so, and I think I somehow picked the right time and place to get it.

It's going to be a long, drawn out process getting it loaded, fine tuned and running. But it's pretty nice. Should definitely be able to handle my CS4 Master Collection and the audio recording stuff that bogs down my old computer.

Little guy, you have served me well. We've learned and created some great stuff together. But 2GB RAM being the maximum...it's time to move on. And your vertical DVD drive never opens unless I tilt you on your side and try a couple more times.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Musical Telephone Game, Part 1

It looks like I've got myself involved in an experimental music game.

The game is experimental, not necessarily the music. Although it can be. And pretty much all my music is experimental, in that I know so little that every thing I do is an experiment. I don't consider myself much of a musician beyond playing drums. But I digress.

The game is something of a musical Telephone Game. No telephones are involved, although email, FTP, etc. will be. It's more like The Telephone Game many of us played when we were young.

Accomplished local tunesmith Jesse Wilder is the instigator of the game. I'm sure I'll refer to him as DM (Dungeon Master) at some point.

It will involve 4 other...musicians. I was going to say local musicians, but I know that one in this group is in Germany, and another is unknown.

5 musicians are picked.

1 musician is designated to start the game, creating/creating/programming 1 or 2 tracks for a piece of music/song that is no longer than 6 minutes.

Musician #1 sends the track to Musician #2, who adds his/her own 1 or 2 tracks to it, mixes it/them in and sends it to Musician #3, who does the same thing, and so on.

By the time Musician #5 is done, the thing will have mutated quite a bit. After that, everyone will give up their high quality wav/aiff files to be mixed. The DM will probably mix the final product, but I'm sure each musician will be able to do their own mix after all is said and done.

Sounds like fun. I'm in the first group, and I'll be the 2nd to add my tracks. Wish me luck.

I'll post the results when the game is over...unless it's crap.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Kurth Crisis

Those f**ckers cut the power, neutering the Honeycomb Hideout!

Luckily I was able to create a Valentine's Day card there by hand. They can't cut the power on bristol board, pencil, paint & scissors.

But musical projects will cease until this crisis is resolved. Personal bum-out.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Some music

Here are some random pieces of my music (from 2008, 2 from 2009) for no particular reason.

Bob Kurthy music by Bob Kurthy

Honeycomb Hideout

Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...or make do, anyway.

Chock full o' compromises, in a secret location...here is the current, temporary studio setup.
Working title: Honeycomb Hideout.*

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* Yes, I see that there are businesses, blogs, etc. with this name, but, hey, we all took it from the same fictitious place in the cereal commercials.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Fang Cover

Awhile back, I recorded a cover version of the song Landshark originally by Fang for fun.

Click below to listen.
Landshark (Bob Kurthy covering a Fang song) by Bob Kurthy
( Note: This track is not for download, nor is it for sale. Please don't hurt me, Slammy! )

Friday, September 18, 2009

Four Drummers

Last night I got to play percussion with 3 of the greatest drummers in Long Beach: Tim Bender*, Brandon Laws** and Chris Clawson***.

Bender has had the idea for an orchestrated 4-drummer project for a few years. One of the concepts was for it to be very division-of-labor; 4 cogs in the same machine, rather than 4 guys trying to dominate each other in chops or volume.

But last night was completely improvised, getting a feel for how we all can play together, the collective setup, etc.

I believe it was Chris who commented that it was probably the quietest jam session he ever had with multiple drummers involved. I agree with this, for in my experience, even with only 2 drummers, often dynamics quickly go out the window, and the whole thing turns cacophonous and unbearably loud.

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It went well enough for us all to agree to meet up again in a week.

Pretty cool for me, 'cos not only is it an honor to play alongside these guys, but it was nice just to play music with some other people. I haven't played since I retired from The Bolides, so I literally had to brush some cobwebs off a drum.
(Well, they are in a garage, so it doesn't take long for those to form, but...)

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* Project Shepherd, KNAC/DC, The Ringleaders, ex-Death By Stereo, ex-One Eye Open
** Forcefield On, Slippers, Mister Mister Miyagi
*** Telomere Repair, Look Daggers, The Year Zero, ex-Sexytime Explosion/Knives of the Eternal Disappointment

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Listen to this song (Soundcloud test)

I'm testing out Soundcloud.
Listen to this song and tell me how you would categorize it.

Menthol Ziggurat by Bob Kurthy

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Celebrity Studio Guests

Last night, I set out to record something resembling a hiphop vocal.

Of course, before long, it turned into something...else.

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(Marco and Tito)