johnnyvines

Well then.

Johnny Vines — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:37:25 +0000

Again, it’s been a while. With all the events of summer, band Practice, gigs, rcording work, etc., i pretty much forgot this existed for a while. So, a quarter of a year later, i return. I’m living in Glassboro now, renting a house, so i can practice a lot over the summer, and so i can live off campus for the next year at Rowan. Should be fun ,as now for the first time i get to cook my own food. Yay no more overcooked student center meals!

The Creeptones’ Cd was released the day before my birthday, with pretty much no warning from our record company. So it was a nice birthday present to open up the ol’ e-mail and see “hey guys, Guess what? We’re putting out your Cd. Right now. It’s going to iTunes and Spotify as we speak….97….98…..99……….. aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND……. it’s done. Congrats, your CD is out!”

I’m paraphrasing of course, but nonetheless, a great achievement at last.

Time to go work on the next one.

EXCITED

Johnny Vines — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:33:46 +0000

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Well a lot has happened over the past… Dang has it been more than a Month?!?! Crazy.

I’ve been extremely busy. My Track “Waterfall” that was set to be pressed to Vinyl in the UK by Fruits de Mer Records was played n the BBC twice, once paired with some flattering comments on my rendition.

Well, they arrived today!

No Matter what, this day is now awesome!!!I plan on stealing the Percussion Radiomatic (which has a Turntable) later to listen to it!

Men while in percussion world, I’m preparing juries, which is fun! Except, i also have to do all the other work for my non-music classes, which takes away from my practice time, which is REALLY ANNOYING. It seems i’ll never have all the practice time i wish i could have. Oh well.

The longer this post goes on, the less practice time i have, so i’ll end it here.

Spring Break

Johnny Vines — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:39:48 +0000

Well, as expected, the second performance of the Karel Husa Percussion Concerto 5 days ago went much better than the first.

Now, i’m away from school on spring break, at home in Toms river for band practice with the Creeptones. I’ll be going back Thursday, which is in two days. Yea ,i kinda missed out on my reporting duties until quite late in the break….

Oh well, it’s been fun! The band wrote, and more importantly, LEARNED, three new songs. I say learned more importantly because, while we’ve written a huge library of music already…

A list of all the songs the creeptones have written...

…learning them at an equal rate has seemed to be a problem.

Oh well, at least we don’t have to worry about writer’s block for a while!

I look forward to returning to Rowan soon! If not for the band, i would never leave!

Recent Performances

Johnny Vines — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:52:47 +0000

Now, with the first performance of the Karel Husa Concerto Down, and my performance of “True Colours” on the Departmental recital today, i can focus finally more on Merlin and the Marimba Piece I’m writing. I’ll post a video of the Husa after the second performance, there was some serious cerebral flatulence occurring at times in the first performance….

Check back after March 8th!

Merlin

Johnny Vines — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:28:25 +0000

Last week, i was given the Marimba Piece “Merlin” to work on:

This is going to be the most fun thing i’ve played!

Practice.

Johnny Vines — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:30:12 +0000

I have lots to work on! I’m playing Timpani in wind Ensemble, Vibraphone in Mudra by Bob Becker, Guitar in an instrumental metal track called “Olympia Pt. 2: The Rise of Thanatos” for one of my friend’s senior recitals, on top of my regular percussion stuff: “True Colours by John Thrower, the Tchaikovski Symphony 4 timpani part, and i’m now up to Etude 7 in the Delecluse Etude book.

Time to Work.

Back.

Johnny Vines — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:11:24 +0000

Well, i am now back at Rowan. GI got back Sunday, and have done alot of Practice / Cleaning, which is why i’m just getting around to Telling you about it now. Anyway, my 20.5 credit semester has started, though it doesn’t seem that bad so far. Only one non-music class, so it should be a pretty enjoyable semester.

With lots of practice time… like right now!

Good Times

Johnny Vines — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:49:12 +0000

So far, the break is going great. Over the past 2 days, the Creeptones have demoed more than 20 new songs, and plan on putting up snippets of each one, the plan being that people will listen and give us advice on which ones to concentrate on and develop first. I’ll post more as it comes together more, but that’s the plan right now.

I have officially met my pre-mandated requirement for use of the word Plan with this statement.

In the meantime; here is a sample from the forthcoming album; a product of a muti-day session much like those recently passed that, at this point, is favored by ACM records to be our first single. Enjoy!

Home

Johnny Vines — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:09:08 +0000

Well I’m Home from Rowan.

I’m also unemployed. Apparently the opening of the new Shoprite in my town has relieved enough of the business at the old one i worked at to the point where they don’t need me. Not complaining, this break is going to be awesome now!

I can Concentrate on the Creeptones and the New band i’m starting.

No name yet, but it’s going to be straight Prog, and i’m going to play drums.

Like this (Recorded on Monday!):

So i plan on getting in 160 more hours of Practice time that i wouldn’t have had if Shoprite had been able to hire me. Sweet!

ANYWAY, back to fixing the musical lair for while I’m home…

AND…. done.

Johnny Vines — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:37:31 +0000

Well, my semester has come to a close, with the exception of a final critique in Ceramics tonight and a Speech i’ve already written tomorrow…

…and I’m here until Tuesday. Can you say… PRACTICE TIME!

I received some awesome news a few days ago too. I was contacted by a small record company, Fruits de Mer records, a few weeks ago that wanted to press one of my songs to vinyl to release in Europe. Well, yesterday i got official permission from the company I’m singed to (ACM Records) to allow this. It’s going to happen! I’m really excited, there’s not may people my age that can say they have a song pressed on Vinyl.

I’m really looking forward to Break too, because I get to play with the Creeptones again! Maybe we’ll finally be able to finish our CD for ACM. Also, I’m going to be playing drums in a new band; the band the former guitarist of Aethereal is starting. This happened because I tried out for Aethereal, but the band broke up before i could finish the process. This new band should be really fun, and I can’t wait to see how it turns out.

Anyways, what was i doing for the next 5 days?

Oh yea, PRACTICE TIME!

If anyone needs me, i’ll be locked in my practice room for the next 120 hours straight