Studio 603: News

Upcoming releases
Bofus
Letter 27
Nancy Site Nine
Rex Allen Jr.
Enron the Musical
G&S&I

Plus numerous commercials and promo videos
There ya go

This February 21st through the 24th the Dona Ana Lyric Opera will be performing the play ENRON the musical...it has a HUGE cast directed my Megan McQueen and produced by Mark Medoff.
Hope to see a great turnout for this show. For information you can drop us an email here or call the performing arts center at the university.

Play Dice Mogul

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2019605206

A new little dance ditty for you to enjoy...First
Check it out in the music section, just click the line right over there!
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Emmett J. Ientilucci is a drummer who has this great website everyone should check out...
On one page he has the tapes of Buddy Rich Screaming at his band for not playing up snuff, as well as a letter of rebuttal from an ex-trumpet player defending Buddy...Great Stuff!
I Thank Emmett for posting this content on the web, I've never found it before!

http://www.cis.rit.edu/~ejipci/buddy_rich.htm

Play Las Aventuras de Mr. Coo
Play Pu

Play Crash Test Dummy Curling
Play Hamster
Play Global Player


HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE 603's

Thieves in the Orchard came in this past month and laid down a few tracks for their new CD, and so I thought I would post a couple here on the site, go to the music section and check them out!

http://www.gamebrew.com/play-space-oddity


Just something new to keep any interest you may have gained by this point!

Leaving a trail of broken hearts in it's wake, The Club...home to every band in Las Cruces and hundreds of touring bands, closed it's doors for the final time last week.

Especially hard was the manner in which it was shut down, by a wealthy license holder too greedy to consider the music scene before organizing a sweeping sell-out, encompasing all of his liquor license holdings (except package stores, of course). Those who were there on the last day found their last call at a sudden early evening hour, then escorted out by police, as if they would trash or destroy their home away from home...pathetic...

Word on the street is that our old buddy with the magic papers is hoping for some type of bidding war between a local chain of convenience store's and a national chain...just what we needed...
Now, due to new state guidelines concerning alcohol and it's inevitable consumption, no liquor establishment can sell to an intoxicated person, or to an underage person. The package store has violated this ordinance TWICE (not the Club downstairs!) and all this office trembler could come up with is to close down the bar to make sure no violations happen there, even though none ever have. The package store will of course stay open for business, because he knows the sweetest plumb is that package buck ...again, pathetic.
God knows that Gov. Richardson has made it hard on the bar going public, his commities continually churning out new doctrine that is a veritable crash helmet for the public who may find themselves in a situation that involves booze of any variety. One little bit of bad brainage is the new mandate in which bands in NM can no longer have a beer on stage, as they are now "employees" of the establishment, and therefore can't drink on the job....and forget about the "bottle of Jack in the truck" routine, as the police can now, if they suspect you of drinking "too much", pull you off the stage and ticket you. Public intoxication I suppose... gestapo strong-arming comes to mind however, and I don't think the musicians should take this type sword wielding laying down...over the next couple of months, I hope to help organize some type of Union to let the musicians and servers have some voice in the going's on of these church mother led commities and focus groups...stay tuned for updates...

I remember loading gear up and down those steps to the Club, and joking with my bandmates how we should buy the place and put in an elevator back by the stage, and then when our kids would have gigs down there, they could sweep their band gear easily to the stage, and we would sit and say, "Hell, when we were kids, we had to load all of the gear down those steep steps over there", that of course falling on their unbelieving ears and comprehension.."no way, nobody would go through all that just to play down here!"

yes we did

As Wilbur, Chris and I were loading out the PA and lighting that last time, the sheer weight of the amp racks seemed to have doubled over the 8 long, full years since they had arrived down there, and when we finally heaved the last amp rack to the top of the stairs, I thought to myself...

those steps weren't really so steep, were they?

Ok, so I've been a little busy and didn't update my website...I think the 7 people who visit the site felt left out, even with the trivia tournament going on, what loyal fans of the scene!!
Been having a lot of fun with the new gear, and now we have gone ahead and started with the video production aspects of Studio 603...look for a new Jookie video coming out this fall...now we're new to this whole video thing, so we're not going to rush anything, but we are anxious as well...so take it easy! Something new is coming soon!!!
Thanks for all of the emails and concern, but no, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, but have felt a little light at times...perhaps that's a good sign....

Well, the new Pro Tools rig is on it's way from Sweetwater music...Finally the wait is over!

Studio 603 is now equipped not only for recording, but digital video editing as well. Within a few months, there's hope of making the back room into a foley studio dedicated to sound effects and voiceovers for film and video..

We hope to use this new tool not only to make band music videos, but all media involved with Las Cruces and Southern New Mexico...keep posted for details!

The dove's around the studio have become so bad that drastic measures needed to be taken....
My van has so much bird "sign" that you can hardly tell what color it is...but I may be in luck, because I found this guy out by the storage shed...

Funny Videos

He guarantees that I'll have no more problems with the poopy fly-bys from now on, and he seems fairly certain about that...

Ah yes, the days are getting a little longer, and the cold mornings are beginning to burn off in the early afternoon, it can only mean one thing....spring wind season in the Mesilla Valley! I inhaled so much dirt and dust this past month that I developed a new allergy to las Cruces...some would say that the allergy already exhisted, I can believe that also, but it took me out for a month!
Tab home, happy, huggies and snuglies, thanks to all for your concern, it's much appreciated. I had this little spelling dictionary that I kept by the imac so I didn't come across as so stupid, but I lost it and the real me is forced to spell long words without it, so if I sound like an idiot when I misspell something, I actually am!
Just wanted to write something down to let everyone know that the studio is still operational, and will be up and running this week when Jookie records "Chokula" and "King Vitamin" for the Breakfast Cereal Killers CD, more later!

Well, here we are at the end of January, really the third of February, and things are settling down after the birth of Jookie's Army's newest volunteers...and life is good...
Gonna start up with recording this month, seeing as a two month break is enough for anyone to get their thoughts together, so stay tuned, new year, new recordings, and the bar is ready...

The Las Cruces music scene lost one of it's most important figures this morning with the passing of Peirce Hubbard, founder of Hubbard's Music and More, and surrogate father to many of the local musicians, myself included.

When I relocated to Las Cruces in 1979 with my Mother and Sister, I quickly found a home at Pop's music store down in the Loretto mall, listening to Pop's views on the world, the music business, and bragging on his kids...to whom I still look up to these days.

I can think of no other factor to have a bigger impact on the Southern New Mexico music scene than Hubbard's music stores over the years, and am saddened to hear of our loss, yet I consider myself fortunate to have known the man, and to know I will still see his gentle ways realized through his Sons and Grandchildren.

By now many of you have heard the song and wrote wanting to know more about it...

(It's available for download here on 603.com in the music section)

It was produced at Studio 603 in December 2005 in response to the ridiculous notion that this fellow Paul Weinbaum has brought up about CHANGING THE CITY LOGO BECAUSE IT HAS CROSSES IN IT!! From all of us here at Studio 603 we collectively say to Paul....GET A LIFE!
This is the same guy who tried to enact a smoking ban in local bars..even though he never patronized any of the locations affected by the ban....get the picture?
Local Musicians rallied around the defense of business owners to run their own business their own way, holding fundraising concerts, raising public awareness, and the proposed ban was defeated...These empty lawsuits to pass laws are dangerous because others stand on the shoulders of these ridiculous laws to attempt even more ridiculous policy, and the result is the slow chiping away at our individual rights!

As musicians in Southern New Mexico, we understand that it's hard to be taken seriously by the general population, but once in awhile we are able to lend a hand to a good cause, such as this...and this tune explains the REAL meaning of the Three Crosses, and why they were chosen for the city name and logo...As a memorial, not a religious statement!

Three Crosses was written by Rick Eakens from the Beat Cowboys, and includes local musicians David Wheeler (from Beat Cowboys and Captain Jookie), Jason Chaffee (from Delgado) , Oliver Charity, and Scott Guthrie (both from Captain Jookie and Goat). It's a great colaboration of local musicians representing individual bands coming together to make a difference...

Want to help? Call your district representative and tell them to act against this frivolous and money wasting lawsuit brought against the city...and put the word out yourself!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah, and Kwazy Kwanza from all of us here at Studio 603!!

Frankenberry is one of our faves...Track it's progress at Garageband below!

The past couple of months have been busy ones, nothing exciting to write about, but I do like to let everyone know that we're alive and kickin down here...
Top news...Beat Cowboys done and Ten Seconds to Liftoff will be done this week! I'm meeting Bill at 4:30 to mix today...just thought you might like to know...
Captain Jookie is coming into the Studio this month to record some new songs for the "Breakfast Cereal Killers" release in early 2006...keep an open ear for that, it should be cool...
Delgado (fresh from their win at the GCS battle of the bands) has decided to re-record after the delay caused by the crazy summer of 2005....look for their new CD in early 2006 as well...
So there you go, chew on that for awhile, and I will update the calendar this week as well.....

Just a note to let everyone know about a few shows this month...
Captain Jookie and Division of Sound will be playing at the Club Friday the 28th of Oct. The Liars will be at Hurricane Alley on the 29th, and The Beat Cowboys will play with Delgado at The Club on the 29th as well, SO GET OUT THERE AND SUPPORT THE SCENE!!!

Despite several cancelations, the big sound went downtown right on schedule on the 7th. Stepping in at the last minute were downtown vets Zach Fountain, who played for almost an hour, before Jason Chaffee got up and played about 3 tunes to a young, but appreciative crowd. The band Not Yet Seven was in the audience, and grabbed some guitars, and made a great showing, look for them in future Big Sound events, they show the kind of spirit that's going to make this music scene work, no pussies allowed!
Barely legal was next, as the crowd started to gather up, and Cica finished the night to about 100 people, not bad for a cold friday night!
I'll keep you updated on the next Big Sound, should be just after the New Year.