Dan McAvinchey
A real focus on music without vocals
3,299 of these recordings are instrumental, which is what happens when you spend twenty years running a guitar label. 69,369 tracks in total, about 5,221 hours.
With guest musicians ranging from Bernie Worrell (P-Funk) to Al Pitrelli (Megadeth) and Chris Caffrey, bassist T.M. Steven's Shocka Zooloo blends metal, funk, reggae, rap and rock (and a dozen other genres), with the emphasis on his bread-and-butter - da funk. Stevens has worked with Joe Cocker…
Mosaics and sculptures, built out of bricks
They go up on Instagram as they are finished, which shows them well enough but has never been able to sort them. Every one is now sorted by subject. Where a piece began with someone else's artwork, that artist is credited.
Every film, and the threads between them
Cast, directors, keywords, genres and awards, all cross-linked — so a film leads to a person, and a person leads to five more films.
Counted one season at a time
20,861 episodes across 1,184 seasons, with every guest appearance recorded. Owning four seasons of six is not owning the show, so the record says which four.
Concerts, mostly, and then everything else
History, the natural world, and a great deal of live music. Kept separate from the films because they get browsed for subject, not for story.
Featuring Dutch guitarist Marcel Coenen on guitar and Hubi Meisel on vocals, EmOcean is set on the 30th of July in our time and space. The narrator is sailing on the Atlantic Ocean in a little boat and he is in a quite desperate situation. His compass behaves strangely and although his boat was…
A working library, pulled from the magazines
4,457 pages from Guitar Player, Keyboard, Electronic Musician and eleven others. Technique, recording and production — kept since the eighties to work from, and now indexed so going back to them is possible.
Emptied, kept, occasionally stacked
58 of them have been built into pyramids, which are cataloged too, because if you are going to keep the cans you may as well record what you did with them.
The cans
When learning something meant buying a disc
Guitar, bass, drums, recording, production. Most of it was never reissued in any other form.
The California heavy metal band Hightower is now offering their self-titled debut, a full-length CD with 5 instrumentals and 3 vocal tracks of pure, energy-driven, San Francisco style street metal. Spearheaded by guitarist Jake Palladino, this is the band that San Francisco Weekly readers voted the…
Reconstructed from stubs and programs
Shows, games and nights out, worked back from whatever came home in a pocket. The paper was the only record, so the paper became the record.
A reading log, not a shelf
What was read, when it was finished, and where the copy currently is — which matters when family keeps borrowing them and forgetting.
