Category: Records
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Engineered by Vince Perri. Performed by Vasas, Andy Bechtel and Matt Mepham.Just a bunch of fun in the basement, right? The City Mike Vasas May, 2004 GRHL11 01. The City 02. Drowning of Aaron Corpis 03. Mayor Shrub 04. Bus Stop Change 05. Tax-Return Girl 06. I Never Meant To Do You Harm 07. It’s…
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Acoustic guitar and vocals recorded one day in the Fall of 2003 in Kalamazoo while I was mixing/tracking other records. Collection on Desktops Folksongs by Mike Vasas November, 2003 GRHL10 01. It Aint Your Business 02. The Tale of a Woman Knitting a Skirt 03. I’m the One 04. This is The Feeling 05. New…
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This record should have been released about 9 months earlier but Vince Perri and myself couldn’t let it go…it finally came out with a tiny bit of fanfare…mostly because everyone on Kalamazoo’s campus was forced to listen to me play these songs…Tom Wilson, Vince Perri and Amanda Bechtel sang backup. Bad Luck Mike Vasas May,…
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Mr. Fusion was my first rock band…we played two shows in the same day and rehearsed just about as much…featuring some guitar playing by future Beast of Burden Brian Slagle, bass by Kristian Bjornard, and drums by the great Will Miller. I covered Bob Dyland and Wyclef Jean, too. A College Saturday Night Mr. Fusion…
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Dave Poytinger and I were two RAs in Crissey Hall at Kalamazoo College in 2001-2002 and felt that the world (but specifically K-College) was in a funk and needed songs about vampires, armadillos, bears, mice, hamsters, news reporters, flower people and incest to get the good vibes pumping. Chris Jackson recorded the album, and then…
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Based on Ray Bradury’s 1953 novel, the album was a co-production between my long-time collaborator Matt Mepham and myself. It was delayed a few weeks because of the 9-11 attacks. Possibly the only record to be previewed at an IMAX theater. Certainly not the only progressive rock record to feature a fairly lengthy final track.…
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An instrumental record that I guess you could call Rompler Synth music. It was made basically with a Roland XP-10, Fruity Loops, and the de-stress time from mixing 451. July Songs Mike Vasas September, 2001 GRHL06 01. Sunrise 02. Rollout 03. In The Routine 04. Again 05. Hands In The Air 06. Return (Telephone)…
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My first solo record, released in January of 2001, this record featured a lot of material right around the time of the “Pendulum” years…still in high school. This record marked the first of many records where the recording process was assisted by Mr. Vince Perri. The Lessons We Have Learned Mike Vasas January, 2001 GRHL04…
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All the tracks were recorded on a Gateway 2000 that was old, even at the time. It had 1.2 gigs of hard drive space, which included all operating files. We ended up having about 600 megs of space to work with. Because we wanted to save space (and we didn’t know any better), we recorded…