We will miss Lou Reed. Lou was and still is such an inspiration and influence for so many artists. His legacy is massive. I was able to dig out this Velvet Underground cover we played from the Changing Modes video archives. The gig was from 2012 at Arlene’s Grocery in the East Village. For better or for worse the band let me sing lead on this one :)
This one goes out to Lou!
Changing Modes CD release show “In Flight”- Arlene’s Grocery Friday April 13th 8:30p
I’m very excited about this special CD release show! I’ve been working with Changing Modes since 2004 and this will be the band’s fifth full length album and the third album I’ve co-produced with my mates.
Arlenes Grocery
95 Stanton Street
New York, NY
Cover: $10
Here’s a short video of Cell to Cell from the last show we did at Arlene’s Grocery, NYC.
Last summer I trekked up to the Connecticut woods with Changing Modes for the Cell to Cell video shoot. The band had a ball making the video and everyone was really happy with the final product. Special thanks to Paul Rondeau for the concept, location, and the direction of the video. I have to admit, robot-drumming was more challenging than I anticipated. I got together with Grace from Changing Modes, and her boyfriend TJ and we put together a short behind the scenes video from the separate footage that TJ shot.
Here is the behind the scenes:
And here is the final rendition of the video:
This was fun. I had my brother video record a few takes of “White Room” at seaside lounge studios in Brooklyn. I think we did about 10 or 11 takes. We were lucky to get this one on camera. This is what is sounded like in the studio:
And this is what it sounds like after production. I synced the audio using iMovie: