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Wed, 4/26 - Satellite Park Recording Studios & Events Hosting (Malibu, CA)
Working to put this place on the map! Check out the view!! If you are interested in booking an event here or recording, please contact me in the "Send Email" link above.

Mon, 4/24 - BB King's at Universal City Walk (Universal City, CA)
Recently booked includes Tracy Thomas, a local singer-songwriter, for 7 pm on Wednesday 5/10. Listen to a clip from an original work she performs at Sunday Night at Kirby's.

Sun, 4/23 - Sunday Night at Kirby's show #4 (North Hollywood, CA)
Sunday Night at Kirby's was a huge success as one of the best crowds came out to see the show. As a result some of the best performances were displayed. Listen to "When A Child is Born," original material from Matthew Dickens

Sun, 4/9 - Sunday Night at Kirby's show #3 (North Hollywood, CA)

Sun, 4/2 - Sunday Night at Kirby's show #2 (North Hollywood, CA)
Sunday Night at Kirby's was another fantastic performance. Next week's April 9th show will sure to be a crowd pleaser as well, as the performance is really developing smoothly. It keeps getting better and better. This week, Asa was added to the bill, providing congas to back Jacole Kitchen's monologue. He also performed a song he wrote, called "What You've Done."

Audio Samples from April 9th show:
I Wanna Know | Fake Boobies | Kirby outro

Mon-Wed, 3/27-29 - Recording Prince and his band (Hollywood Hills, CA)
I was called into work Monday the 27th for an out-of-the-blue recording session in the Hollywood Hills. It turned out to be Prince and his bandmates at a very nice mansion :). We set up all the gear, which included Mark's Studer A-800 (yup, recorded to analog tape!), mic preamps, compressors, limiters, and Mackie digital console. I wish I could have taken pictures but that would not have been kosher. We set up in a large room that was adorned with purple velvet couches with matching pillows, etc. The elevator was even velveted in purple, the logo, and "3121" logos were everywhere. Monday was a full set-up day and recording commenced around 2 pm on Tuesday. The setup was quite intricate because the full band was in the dance hall above us. So we had to run the mic splitter snake from the band down to us in the makeshift control room. The drum kit was mic'd with at least 10 microphones, including a cowbell. We took direct and mic'd the amps for the bass and Prince's guitar. We also did a stereo sub-mix of Morris' keyboards. The songs recorded, which there were four of them, are for up and coming backing singer Tamar, with co-writing and producing by Prince. Here's an article about a performance earlier last month (Chicago Sun-Times).