Chamber Pop articles/promo

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Outboard Research | NS Design | Monster Cable | Thomastik-Infeld | EAW

Over the last few years I have had the pleasure in meeting and forming relationships with a number of musical instrument and equipment manufacturers. The generosity of many of these folks, supporting an "unsigned" artist, is something that I am very grateful for. Some of these companies manufactured instruments or equipment that I have already owned and use regularly, having paid for on my own, and others made available equipment that, after researching, I felt was the best products available for making my music. Most of these companies have their own websites as well, and along with some personal comments and photos, I have included their company links.

Onboard Research This small texas company years ago solved a regular problem for me and the musicians I work with - keeping acoustic instruments in tune. Their clever little Intellitouch gadget clamps to the head of my Gibson J30 acoustic, and stays there. It tracks my tuning better than any other device I've tried (and I have a pile of them around here somewhere), and the guys who own and run the company, Rusty and Mark, have turned into 2 of my biggest music fans and supporters. The true test of a music product like this: before a few of my string players found out I was an endorsee, they had already purchased one for themselves. website: http://www.tuners.com endorsement top

NS Design Up through college I played basses that I designed and assembled. Then one day in 1983 I played a Steinberger bass in a music store, having admired it's design in magazines and around the neck of Sting and Geddy Lee. From that day I realized I could never make a better bass, so I ordered one. A couple of years ago Ned Steinberger, whom I have had the great pleasure of getting to know a bit, showed me his new electric upright, even bringing it to a show for me to play. It was a monster. Not being able to afford one, I sold the BSX electric upright I had been playing and made my own, incorporating the best elements of the BSX and Ned's (atleast what I remembered). It has served me well since 1994, but I have finally decided to aquire Ned's NS Design Electric Upright. website: http://www.nedsteinberger.com endorsement top

Monster Cable These things are huge, these things are expensive, these things are great. I remember a gig in Bridgeport, in 1980 or 1981, when my progressive trio opened for Micheal Boloton (later to be known as Micheal Bolton), and I lost my favorite 1/4" guitar cable, a purple thing with copper ends. Cables have gotten ALOT better since then, and Monster Cables are the best there is - which is why they are all I use for my instruments and mics onstage. website: http://www.monstercable.com endorsement top

Eastern Acoustic Works Manufacturers of some of the finest PA cabinets and equipment in the world, my touring PA culminates in EAW LA Series PA cabinets and monitors. After researching the available cabinets and speaker manufacturers, I concluded that the attention to quality EAW puts into their speaker and cabinet design, as well as the portability of their LA series, made them my first choice for a partner in assembling my PA system. Fortunately, they seemed to feel the same way about my music. website: http://www.eaw.com endorsement top

Thomastik-Infeld For someone who plays pop, rock and classical music with the range of instruments and musicians those genres require, Austria's Thomastik-Infeld string packages are something I open on a regular basis. Most upright bassist have already known about Thomastik's strings for many decades, and their Spirocores have always been the only strings on my Quintas composite acoustic bass (and their violin strings grace my fiddle, as well). They also make great acoustic guitar strings. website: http://www.thomastik-infeld.com endorsement top

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The complete english lyrics as an html text file are viewable here. If you wish you can print them or save as a text file.

PDF Translation files
All of the lyrics from "Chamber Pop" are viewable and printable as Adobe PDF files or text files in all 10 languages (as included on the CD). You can download them by clicking on the proper language (below). Version 3.0 or later of the Adobe Acrobat Reader must be used to read the files (free from www.adobe.com). The Japanese and Chinese lyrics are text files, and Japanese/Kanji or Traditional Chinese fonts/operating systems are required.

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In June 1999 Chamber Pop was made available to over 500 college radio stations across the United States and Canada. The response was very positive, including 13 top 30s.

Read WVIA's George Graham's 1999 review of Chamber Pop here.

For promotion info, interview, additional promo materials and touring/booking info, call The Way Home Media at 818-373-7511. For tour info go to Booking.

US/Canada college stations currently playing CHAMBER POP (173 stations as of 26 Oct 1999)

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