Mindless tunes for cruising along the coast on your way home from a sunny,6 ft session. From spanish to trance to surf rock, at the same time. Fast beat but thoughtful. Acoustic guitar inspired, filled with distorted melodic acoustic guitar solos.

7 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Acid Jazz, ELECTRONIC: Pop Crossover



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ABOUT LOOMIS
Loomis is the lifelong nickname of James Metzger, who started dragging around a plastic guitar around age five. Not to be confused with the band from Chicago, or the town in California. Although that was a pretty funny sign("Next Exit: Loomis") to see for the first time - driving from Lake Tahoe to have lunch with a home town friend, Julie, going to San Francisco for the first time. First time I touched the Pacific, pretty sure. The folks have a picture somewhere - of me with the guitar. Sitting next to a stereo speaker, singing along with no regard for the actual lyrics of a song, entertaining at least one person in the living room. It's been a long road since then. Playing with college friends, playing to keep warm with people in snow covered cabins in Tahoe, playing with a great group of musicians at the Red Rock Cafe Monday nights, and on and on. A guitarist who sings, not a singer who plays guitar. A picker and a grinner, not a virtuoso. Got a thing for campfires and playing guitar. More from that on upcoming "Humbucket & Before").
ALBUM NOTES
This album spans work over 8 years. It is the first to be released in an initial series of 3. Most of Accoustech showcases the collaboritive efforts and influence of Remix Artist Omnionn. Our work flow was something like this: I'd come home from work and lay down a guitar track, tracks, or include rudimentary ambient noises. I'd email it to Omnionn. Omnionn would typically add thumping bass lines, possible up to doing major complete rearrangements. Email it back. I'd say "Holy smokes...that's pretty cool. Different. But cool and well done. Smooth." Sometimes I would start with a click track, others straight from the hip. He often was amazed at my near perfect time over several minutes of strumming. Something about "quantizing the track". I had no idea what he was talking about. Of course, then there's the upcoming "Three_Drunken Band mix", and it's got it's own thing...but I digress.

The earliest of the Accoustech group is probably Tschaski or Mercy. Tschaski is my bastardization of composer Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. What a cool name. I was surprised Gibby like this one. Ok, done. Send it out. Now it's his fault : )

Originally recording commenced in the Rustic St. Garage studio, Santa Clara, CA. Mercy went the path of Omnionn, to the club- and Tschaski stayed home. Loomis probably went to Finnegan's Tavern. What ever that place was...Hey, Tommy.
Named for a surf break, nice folks there, Mantera's comparative audio cleanliness is not at all indicitive of the hairy bathroom of the College St. studio, where the "Guitar Wars" session was laid down in 72 hours at Leedo's place, Palo Alto. More of "GW" later.
Ocean Blue and Blue Cubic also have a similar under strum, but only meet there once in a while. A more guitar based derivation of the controlled looping track and over track production style. Mostly one shot takes. Just riffin.
PRODUCTION STUFF
First reach: Larrivee c-09 Maple. Beautiful looking and sounding.
Ibanez Custom made electric. Yamaha Bass. Records in Sony Vegas. Rhodes NT-3. Acid Loops. Reason. Creative XBoard25 Keys. Midi. But mostly guitar, some harmonica. Vocals on ocassion. Many thanks to the help of Omnionn for years of teaching me about sound, music and being an artist, and all other guitarists and teachers I've heard or played with along the way. Oh yeah, this is self recorded and produced. Omnionn recored his tracks. Any and all comments very welcomed. And stay tuned. No, I mean that.