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early 1970’s |
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Normal Montana childhood
stuff. That means "not a lot happened", since there wasn’t a whole lot
to do…
I was a very shy kid. Too smart for my own good. Not interested in
sports. Basically, I was bored… |
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A steady diet of my Mom
singing over album rock (Creedence, Eagles, etc.) and the occasional pop
song (Captain & Tennille, Elton John) in the car on our way to the
grandparent’s house every weekend or so. |
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Mom talked occasionally
about more soulful bands she liked as a bachelorette, like Sam and Dave
and Steppenwolf. I never got to hear them back then. She also talked
occasionally about her and my Dad’s time in a garage band together (she
sang and played some organ, he played guitar). My Dad still plays his
guitar from time to time and recently took up again. |
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I hear and am very
interested in early electronic pop like Switched On Bach and Popcorn,
but can’t do much about it since I don’t have any money or any means to
go to a store... |
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1978 |
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Moved to Seattle area. |
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Mom got me started in
school band. She steered me toward either saxophone or snare drum, so
that maybe I could join a “rock band” someday (like she and my Dad did).
I couldn’t stand the saxophone’s reed tickling my lips, so drums it was.
She was hoping it would help me be more social later. She was wrong
about that, but I’m glad she got me pointed into music. |
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1980 |
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I hear “Funkytown” by
Lipps Inc. for the first time on the radio. Electronic sounds and
sequencer basslines in particular attract me from that point on. |
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1981 |
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I buy my very first
records, 7” 45’s of “All Those Years Ago” by George Harrison and “Queen
of Hearts” by Juice Newton (both which I still have! somewhere... in a
box). Those we’re the only two the local store had that I recognized… |
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1982 |
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Moved to Idaho. |
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My parents got me my
first drum set from a garage sale (after I begged like a baby). I
proceed to drive them and the neighbors crazy. |
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I struggle to learn to
play my new toys. One of my Dad’s friends from work who used to play
drums pro in jazz and swing bands gives me a couple of lessons. He
figures out that I’m basically ambidextrous, but a tiny bit
left-dominant. He shows me how to flip my kit around to accommodate my
tendencies. I start being able to play kit (badly) within a week. |
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I’m trapped in a city
with only album rock and country radio. All my exposure to new music
comes from Kasey Kasem’s American Top 40…=( I do have Kasey to
thank for at least letting me hear a small amount of the early new wave
songs that managed to cross over. |
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The school I was in was
mostly farmer's kids (a K-12 school...). They live an insular, hard
life. That might explain why most of them weren't very kind to a shy,
bookish, geek. My first brushes with verbal abuse in school, being
bullied, and fighting begin here. |
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1983 |
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I join my very first
garage band, "The Spacecases” with some friends from school. Two girls I
might add, one of which I had a crush on. Guitar, drums, singer. We
learn a few Def Leppard covers and put on a show in the singer’s front
yard. Fame did not ensue. |
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Our neighborhood finally
gets wired for cable. I get MTV. I don’t move from in front of the TV
for two solid days. Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, etc. That, and Martha
Quinn was a babe. |
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Even with some decent
music, overall life still sucked pretty hard. I end up in my first round
of counseling for depression. |
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I begin Okinawan
traditional karate training as a way to get exercise and build
confidence. I achieve Shi-ryu (yellow belt) before we... |
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1985 |
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Moved back to Seattle
area. |
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I discover
C-89FM
and my world is permanently changed. Hiphop, breakdance/electro, club,
and new wave become my new musical vocabulary. I also discover
KJET
1600 FM and
learn indie-rock and more new wave. |
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I begin an obsession
with taping “extended versions” and “remixes” of songs off of the radio. |
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I get a dual-cassette
boombox for X-mas. I begin experimenting with trying to make my own
primitive extended versions using the pause button to edit with. |
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The family also gets a
cheap Yamaha keyboard. I begin experimenting with overdubbed recordings
of it (using two tape decks). I still have this keyboard and
occasionally use it for nasty distorted leads! |
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1986 |
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Life is still pretty
sucky. I get decked by one of the J.V. linebackers for no reason other
than it was "funny". |
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Round 2 of counseling
for depression, this time more serious since I was worse off and more
capable of doing something stupid. |
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I get recruited to play
drums in a one-off band for a school talent show. We work up a cover of
Black Flag’s TV Party. I got chosen because they didn’t want to work
with the stuck-up jerk from the school jazz band. I was the only other
drummer available, but they end up liking me. We get reprimanded for
having empty beer cans on stage and appearing intoxicated during our
performance.
My love of punk rock begins. |
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I hear a DJ (attempting)
to beat-mix for the first time at a high school function. He sucks. At
the time, it sounded like it wouldn’t be that hard to learn (bear in
mind, I had been drumming for over 6 years by this point). |
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1987 |
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I continued to be
intrigued by remixes and electronic/dance music in general. I find a
copy of Northwest Dance Music Association’s newsletter at a record store
with their current top 100 tracks. |
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C-89FM broadcasts live
from Club Oz – I hear beat-mixing done right for the first time, along
with a ton of songs that radio wouldn’t normally play. DJ Brad’s set
that night was my first exposure to club music in its natural form and I
nearly wore out my tape I’d made of it. |
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I buy my first 12” singles in a X-mas money binge at Tower Records. I
use the NWDMA top 100 list and my mental notes of the C-89 broadcast as
my laundry list. I end up buying nearly $200 worth. Among them: CCCP’s
American Soviets, Microchip League’s New York, and INSOC’s Running; all
of which I play to this day. |
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I put together another one-off band for a talent show with a guitarist
friend Derek Maxwell. This time it’s a punked-up cover of Weird Al’s
Happy Birthday. We call ourselves Buss Tü Drive (mocking a PA call from
our jobs at Dairy Queen). Derek recruits a guy he knew from the school’s
choir, Kevin Oss as our vocalist. |
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I get a Radio Shack gift certificate for a graduation gift and buy my
very first mixer. It’s a 9V battery-powered piece of crap with no
meters, no crossfader, no master volume, no cue volume, no EQ, etc., but
it was better than nothing. This plus an unmatched pair of garage sale
turntables (no pitch control, standard needles) form my first DJ rig. I
start teaching myself to mix, dragging my thumb on the platter to slow
records down to match beats. I listen to my tape of “C-89 Live at Oz”
for guidance. "Nasty" Nes Rodriguez's mixed sets on KRIZ are also a huge
help. |
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Kevin Oss, who had since learned how to play guitar, recruits me to play
drums in a new band, Four Basic Imbeciles (aka FBI) along with another
friend, Jay Vardeman (Bass). This band was an outgrowth of another band
called Apple Maggot Quarantine which Kevin was in with a gent named
Chris (who became out tour manager). There are only three of us onstage
and that’s part of the joke. The "fourth Imbecile" is variously our
manager Chris, our occasional fill-in bassist Derek Maxwell, or whomever
we felt like at the time. The style was melodic garage punk, with a
positive spin to the lyrics. We listened to dark stuff, but sang happy.
Over the course of that spring and first part of that summer, my parents
tolerate us rehearsing in the basement, twice a week.
The rest of the summer, we "toured" various youth-oriented events in
Western Washington and Oregon. "youth-oriented" is code for Christian...
yup, I was in a "Christian Rock" band. The "message" was never
sledgehammered. We were a band first. Jay and I both were not nearly as
devout as Kevin (I later fell away from church completely), but both
liked Kevin and certainly had no problem with him trying to "save a
few".
Near the end of this year, we rented a four-track recording rig and
recorded our album-length demo "One Fast Summer". |
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Having finally taught
myself how to dj, I play my first house parties. Most of the parties are
done as "Risque DJ's", partnered with Jay. Not all gigs go "as planned",
but I learn a lot. I also really have a lot of fun, come out of my
shell, and begin to understand the joys of "girls liking to talk to the
dj". |
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At some point in this
year:
Right before the end of the year, I discovered dj-remix services like Razormaid!
Records, etc.
I became a regular on Dayvv Brook’s "C-89 CD Show" and "C-89 On The Edge".
My mother picks me up a used
Reel to Reel tape-deck at a swap meet. I start teaching myself how to
edit music (at 7 1/2 ips...)
I discover "Industrial" music in the form of early KMFDM, etc.
I interview to be a volunteer at 89.9 FM KGRG (a local community college
radio station). Unfortunately, before I can start to participate I am
sidelined due to injuries from (my first of several) major car accident.
I discover "clubbing" and regularly go to The Omni in Kent & Club Encore
in Renton. I occasionally go to The Oz in Seattle. |
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From this point on, this
timeline is still in work. |
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1988 |
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Start college at GRCC
House Parties (more)
Summer Of Love
Start radio program and DJ’ing at KGRG
Cougar
Start going to Mirage
KGRG Dances (mobile DJ’ing)
Klub KGRG (JD)
Hire in at Mirage
Join NWDMA
1989
Start drawing “DJ Dude” comic (later re-titled “DJ Dood”) for the NWDMA
Newsletter
1990
Boeing
Mix tapes
Fun Tape series mix tapes |
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1991 |
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Rave!
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Mirage closes
1992
Meet Shawn
Jordan and the Jazz Cat Cairo
Caesar & Tim
Move to Kirkland / Marc as roommate
Foundation 451
Dayvv Brooks and Tom Mitchell “DJ D-lite”
Euphoria
LA Trip
Metallica’s sound system (Pro-Show USA)
Tripper & Blade
Mr. X & Fain
Liquid Sky II
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party II
VIP Passes
Wicked Grinch’s X-mas Rave
Halloween Rave
Racer-X
_________ / Howling Rave (disaster… abortive Direct Effect live PA).
Fill-in for DJ Dominator/Steve Austin/Donald Glaude at The Underground
for ________
M.A.D. (last rave gig).
Music reviewer for NWDMA Newsletter (Electronic / Rave) |
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1993 |
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Direct Effect
A.O.G.
Travel to SF for the Billboard Dance Music Conference |
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1994 |
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Start at KNHC 89.5 FM,
on the C-89
Underground Rave wednesday night mixshow (at DJ Tripper’s invite).
Start rooming with
James.
Join NetPool out of NYC and chart reporting to Net Magazine.
Hired as the Saturday night dj for the
2218 Nightclub (through a good word put in by Peter Grey. The owner knew
me from before as well).
Met
Janet. Haven't been the same since...
C-89 Underground Rave becomes C-89 Underground (as "Rave" was dead...) |
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1995 |
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My Dad had his heart attack,
requiring a lot of care from my sister and I. This pretty much ended me
being an "active" dj.
Leave 2218 due to conflicts with my Father's care.
C-89 Underground switches to taped-out (pre-produced), due to low ratings. |
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1996 |
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Leave C-89 Underground
due to lack of support from station management & lack of feedback. |
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1997 |
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After nearly ten years,
I leave NWDMA. |
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1999 |
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Form Second Hand Boyfriend
(with Caesar, Shawn, & Jesse), doing twisted, bizarre, punked-up,
loungey 80's covers. All rehearsals in my apartment, on headphones,
using a common headphone amp fed from the mixer. If it wasn't for the
"whack, whack" of my sticks on the crappy old Yamaha edrum pads, my
neighbors would have probably had no idea. |
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2000 |
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I get my Alesis edrum set for X-mas
from Janet & co. The first really good set of drums I have ever had
(and still do).
Unfortunately, I get to participate in the very first whitecollar
Boeing strike in history. 40 days of wages I'll never get back - but
self-respect I couldn't get any other way.
Got married to Janet during the strike.
Making light in dark times. |
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2001 |
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Registered djdood.com &
djdood.net for future use (and to keep someone else from getting them). |
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2002 |
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Bought my first house.
Remixes
none
Lots of re-edits and
simple remixes for my dj use. |
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2003 |
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Remixes
The Wideband Network - Orbit (DJDood's Planet Of Life Ext. Version)
The Wideband Network - Orbit (DJDood's Periapsis Vocal Remix)
The Wideband Network - Orbit (Radio Remix) [unreleased]
Basic Pleasure Model - Sunyata (DJDood Ext. Version) [unreleased]
Lots of re-edits and simple remixes for my dj use. |
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2004 |
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Remixes
Basic Pleasure Model – How To Live (DJDood Remix)
Lots of re-edits and simple remixes for my dj use. |
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2005 |
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Remixes
noneLots of
re-edits and simple remixes for my dj use.
Worked up
electronic-acoustic covers and originals with Caesar Filori (Wideband
Network/Basic
Pleasure Model) and
Shawn McGoldrick.
We've done a warmup gig, but haven't played out just yet. We also still don't have a name... |
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