2004 BLOG
Well another year goes by and we realize we haven’t updated
the ole’ website. So here’s a little gander of what went
on in 2004,
Touring
touring touring, Matt played a lot of shows with Joe Satriani,
Rick Springfield and Boz Skaggs. Matt just got off a G3 tour
with Joe Steve Vai and Robert Fripp in South America, a lot
of people got food poisoning but by the grace of God everyone
survived. Matt did another G3 tour earlier in the year throughout
Europe. Matt also played “An evening with Joe Satriani” throughout
the United States and in the summer opened up for “Deep
Purple” and also “Thin Lizzy”. Rick Springfield
as always kept up the touring pace throughout the United States
where “The Squirts” opened
up at many of the shows. Matt finished his solo bass instrumental
cd “Oh No,Bass Solo” and
is now available on the website.
It
features his brother Gregg on 6 songs with just bass and drums,(a
recipe for disaster) David Demeter plays drums and percussion on “All
around the world”, and the song “Bolivia” is cowritten
with Robert Fripp and Jeff Campitelli. Also Matt has been in his
studio writing a lot of music for tv and film. So that being said,
Matt would like to pass on his thank you’s to all the people
who have visited the website and a special thanks to all the people
who have purchased cd’s throughout the years. Matt is right
now laying down in his bathtub floating in one dollar bills, so thanks
for the support. God bless you all and have a great Christmas and
a joyous New Year.
Archives:
Matt played
with Ringo Starr and the Roundheads on a mini tour to support his
new cd “Ringo Rama” in late March, they played the Jay
Leno Show as well as Conan Obrian, Good Morning America, and other
New York tv shows.
Matt is presently
ontour with Boz Skaggs, they are recording a live dvd and cd May
27 that the Great American Music Hall in San Fransisco.
Matt has
continued his session work for commercials and TV in LA including
thenew Sharon Osbourne show.
Matt also
began recording on Joe Satriani’s cd and is preparing to go
on tour with G3 in October.
After Matt completed the
JoeSatriani tour earlier this year he came home to finally complete
the building of his home studio. He
immediately produced a couple of local cd’s then recorded
2 of his own cd’s.
Matt also recorded a cd with Rick Springfield and has been going
on tour with him with the weekend warriors.
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The first
one “The Squirts” is a three piece pop vocalband
featuring Matt on Bass and lead vocals, Rodger `Carter on drums
and George Bernhardt on guitar and vocals. They recorded the
whole cd in 4 days, (including vocals and overdubs) and it is
finally available on this website.
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The second
cd is called “Raising Lazerus” it features Matt Swindolls
on vocals and Gregg Bissonette on drums, Doug Bossi, George Bernhart
and Bobby Hartry on guitars and Matt on bass. The music has heavy
guitars ala Mustard Seeds, SoundGarden, Foo Fighters. This cd
is presently being mixedx by Brian Garcia and will be available
on this website around October 1st.
And as always
Matt is still in the middle of the third Mustard` Seeds cd which
could be ready bythe second coming of Jesus.
Recent
sessions for
Jughead
featuring Gregg and Ty Tabor from KingsX.
If you are interested on having Matt play bass on a track you can do
this also through this website. Just send an e-mail to this address - spotnspace@aol.com and
we will make arrangements.