#james lee keltner

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Without You by Perfume Genius from the album Set My Heart on Fire Immediately out on @matadorrecords - Director: Kristin Massa

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Give it up for our musical guests!

We believe that live music is the heart beat of Austin's creative scene. So, each month, we invite a local musician to kick off our event with a short but mighty set.

Here is a running list of our musical guests… 

Mount Gretna - September 2024

The Soul Supporters - August 2024

THEBROSFRESH - July 2024

The Maxilus Project - June 2024

Christabel Lin - May 2024

Uncle Roy and Spice - April 2024

PAACK - March 2024

Daniel Fears - February 2024

Angel White - January 2024

Kelsi Creek - December 2023

Henry Invisble - November 2023

Tje Austin - October 2023

Jonny Jukebox - September 2023

Caleb de Casper - August 2023

Mama Birds - July 2023

Cecelia and the Broken Hearts - June 2023

Christina Marrs & Nevada Newman - May 2023

Craig Marshall - April 2023

Lou Priest (Kate Priestly) - March 2023

Jenny Parrott - February 2023

Rey Arteaga - January 2023

Lisa Marshall - December 2022

Time Traveling Wizard People - November 2022

Carolyn Trowbridge - October 2022

Leti Garza - September 2022

Poet Hawkins - August 2022

Urban Heat - July 2022

Zack Morgan and Eddie Robbins - June 2022

Ms. Mack - May 2022

Landry McMeans - April 2022

Nico Sanchez (from Superfonicos) - March 2022

Jonathan Horstmann (from Urban Heat), Mama Duke, and Kalu James (from Kalu & The Electric Joint) - February 2022

Jordan Matthew Young - January 2022

Kamilla and Stefan - December 2021

Mama Duke - November 2021

Ana Barajas - September 2021

Ray Prim - August 2021

Lesly Reynaga - July 2021

Savannah Red - June 2021

Miggy Milla - May 2021

Alesia Lani - March 2021

Sonya Jevette -Febuary 2021

Scott Strickland - January 2021

Henry Invisible - December 2020

Qi Dada (from Riders Against the Storm) - November 2020

Kalu James (from Kalu & The Electric Joint) - October 2020

Lisa Marshall - September 2020

Kate Priestley - August 2020

D Madness - July 2020

Dave Scher & Andrea Magee - June 2020

Ley Line - April 2020

Woody Russell - March 2020

Barbara Nesbitt - February 2020

MJ Torrance - January 2020

Matt Smith - December 2019

Ley Line - November 2019

Joseph Mach - October 2019

Eric Hanke - September 2019

Joanna Howerton and Michael Cross - August 2019

John Gaar - July 2019

John Pointer - June 2019

Guy Forsyth & Jeska Bailey - May 2019

Kathy and the Kilowatts - April 2019

Phil Hurley - March 2019

Lance Keltner - February 2019

Dave Scher - January 2019

MJ Torrance - December 2018

The Wiley Brothers - November 2018

Barbara Nesbitt - October 2018

Matt Smith - August 2018

Ben Balmer - July 2018

Eric Bettencourt - June 2018

John Arthur Martinez - May 2018

Brad Tretola - April 2018

Cynthia Lee Fontaine - March 2018

The Watters - February 2018

Michael Cross - January 2018

Jane Ellen Bryant - December 2017

Matt Giles Band - November 2017

Jamiee Harris - October 2017

Gabriel Santiago - September 2017

Alyse Black - August 2017

Leeann Atherton - July 2017

Fairbanks and the Lonesome Light - June 2017

Aaron Lack Steelband - May 2017

Danny Britt - April 2017

Guy Forsyth - March 2017

MJ Torrance - February 2017

The Reverent Few - January 2017

Sandee Conroy / Singing Bowl Lady - December 2016

Charlie Piece / Chocktaw Wildfire - November 2016

Eric Bee - October 2016

Skye Strickler - September 2016

Erez - August 2016

Grace Pettis - July 2016

Beth Lee and the Breakups - June 2016

Eric Baptiste / The Reeling Kind - May 2016

Uncle Lucius - April 2016

Jitterbug Viper - March 2016

Blind Leads the Blind - February 2016

Ghost Wolf - January 2016

Dave Scher - December 2015

Charlie Belle - November 2015

Alien Knife Fight - October 2015

Kacy Crowly - September 2015

Colin Gilmore - August 2015

Darden Smith - July 2015

Brandon Callie - June 2015

David Hamburger - May 2015

BeatRoot - April 2015

Britny Lobas and Ray Kainz - March 2015

Elijah Ford - February 2015

Nano Whitman - January 2015

Taylor and the Wild Now - December 2014

Elsa Cross - November 2014

Eric Bettencourt - October 2014

Julian Acosta - August 2014

Graham Reynolds - July 2014

Little Brave - June 2014

Nick & Paige - May 2014

Whalers - April 2014

Duncan Fellows - March 2014

Growl - February 2014

Matt Hines (of the Eastern Sea) - December 2013

Matt McCloskey - September 2013

Kathryn Legendre - October 2013

Leah Nobel - September 2013

Good Field - August 2013

Matt McCloskey - July 2013

Charlie Gore - May 2013

Taylor Baker - April 2013

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CJ current events 12 oct

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/i-called-everyone-in-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book/ is interesting.

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***On Sept. 30 just before 11:00 p.m., an unidentified person was walking by the church on St. Mary Drive and looked inside through windows and glass doors because the lights were still on. Police allege that the person “observed and had video of Ms. Cheng and Ms. Dixon” using plastic sex toys while engaging in intercourse on the altar with [Fr Travis] Clark, who was still partially wearing his priestly attire.***

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_828bb53e-09ad-11eb-9c98-fbed3af1d69a.html

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Channel 9 News in Denver brought Matthew Robert Dolloff, a Pinkerton security guard, to a Patriot Rally at the Denver Civic Center on 10 Oct.  Mr Dolloff was active in the Occupy movement and was more or less a Bernie Bro.  https://heavy.com/news/matthew-robert-dolloff/.  

Mr Dolloff shot Lee Keltner, a large man who had sprayed bear spray at him.  Mr Keltner died.

Doloff had his first advisement hearing Sunday morning. The judge declared the arrest affidavit will be sealed, and the defendant will be held on first degree murder charges without bond.*** https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/10/11/matthew-doloff-denver-protest-deadly-shooting-security-guard/

Mr Keltner was a custom hat maker who lived in the Denver area.  https://www.denverpost.com/2015/01/14/business-qa-crossfire-hats-brighton/ He did “a lot with Susan G. Koman foundation.”

Video of the argument just before the shooting may be seen at at https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1315087404202635266/pu/vid/360x640/0BBq3Rb2VV_iq63H.mp4?tag=10.  Video of the shooting may be downloaded from https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2020/10/10/7578787270608636841/640x360_MP4_7578787270608636841.mp4.  

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LOS ANGELES — An Orange County man who falsely held himself out to be a U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran and two-time Purple Heart recipient to fraudulently obtain veterans’ health care and housing benefits was sentenced Thursday to 16 months in federal prison.

James Stiles, 43, of Orange, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt, who also ordered him to pay $167,234 in restitution. Stiles pleaded guilty on June 18 in Los Angeles federal court to one count of health care fraud.

In November 2012, Stiles applied for health care benefits through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs by submitting and signing a fraudulent application.

On the form, Stiles falsely claimed that he had served in the Marine Corps from 1995 to 2005, and that he was awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded in combat*** https://www.pe.com/2020/10/09/oc-man-who-faked-marine-corps-status-gets-16-month-federal-sentence/

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced [7 Oct 20] that Marcos D. Guzman, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of theft of firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee, possession of firearms by a convicted felon, and fraudulent representations about the receipt of military medals, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Guzman was also ordered to pay $41,500 in restitution to August Chinappi, former owner of Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies.

*** defendant, along with co-defendants Dakota Sarfaty and Luis D. Marcano-Agosto, broke into Chinappi’s Firearms & Supplies, a gun store on West Ridge Road in Spencerport, NY, in the early morning hours of August 16, 2018. Defendant Sarfaty entered the basement through a hole in the wall and, together with Guzman and Marcano-Agosto, stole approximately 87 firearms, most of which were handguns. Many of the firearms were sold on the streets of Rochester.

In April 2019, Guzman pleaded guilty for his role in the gun story burglary. The defendant then lied to the U.S. Probation Office about his military service and being awarded two Purple Hearts in order to try to get a lower sentence on his pending firearms offenses. Specifically, Guzman lied about serving in the United States National Guard, being deployed to Iraq for 18 months, and receiving two Purple Hearts for saving another soldier on the battlefield in Iraq. The defendant provided photographs to the U.S. Probation Office that purported to show the two Purple Heart certificates. The Purple Heart certificates were fake.***  https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/rochester-man-sentenced-20-years-prison-chinappis-gun-store-burglary-and-lying-about 

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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – A 37-year-old man was arrested for allegedly beating a juvenile girl in the Coastland Center Mall food court after she denied his flirtatious advances.

Naples police responded to the food court on Tuesday around 4 p.m. in reference to a fight in progress.

Bruce Gordon claimed he was eating food when the victim approached him, called him a “bitch” and threw a cup of water on his shirt as he was leaving. Gordon told police he turned around and punched the girl in the face several times in “self-defense” before the victim’s brother hit him with a chair.

A witness told officers he was in line with both the girl and Gordon at Panda Express when Gordon began to flirt with the girl. The witness said the girl told Gordon to leave her alone and Gordon became irate and called her a “bitch.”***

According to ER staff at NCH North, the girl’s injuries are not life-threatening and it appears she has a severe concussion with multiple injuries to her face, jaw, head and lips.***  https://nbc-2.com/news/crime/2020/10/07/man-beats-girl-unconscious-in-coastland-food-court-after-denying-flirtatious-advances/

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Explain to me again how drugs are a victimless crime.

More level-headed publications noted that Megan Dauphin has been charged with manslaughter for leaving her infant daughter in a hot car on 2 Sep.  

“Through the work of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Toxicology Lab, a blood analysis confirmed that Dauphin was under the influence of methamphetamine the morning she left the infant in the vehicle. Dauphin, age 30, was charged with Aggravated Manslaughter of a Child and booked into the Bay County Jail.”  https://dothaneagle.com/community/jcfloridan/news/local/crime-and-courts/mom-charged-in-death-of-her-baby/article_8284f992-0926-11eb-ac9f-5fafce3622ae.html

The Daily Mail had to note that Ms Dauphin was not just high on meth, she was, uh, self-pleasuring.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8815337/Florida-mom-realized-left-baby-die-hot-car-caught-masturbating.html

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Strange bedfellows

One of the knuckleheads accused of conspiring to kidnap Gov Whitmer is evidently a BLM supporter.

Daniel Joseph Harris attended the rally out of concern for police violence.  “It is a shame what happened with George Floyd and instances where law enforcement officers murder an unarmed man/woman who isn’t resisting arrest, was complying with the orders is wrong and need to be stopped. You look at photos and videos of news teams and protesters being beaten by riot police when they are there peacefully, you see people losing their eyes because of an officer shoots them with a “non-lethal” round like pepper balls, or rubber bullets,” Harris said.  “I’ve gone through that sort of training and I can promise you weapons like that they can turn into a lethal round.

“We went to the BLM protest yesterday in Lake Orion to show our support that everyone’s voice should be heard, no matter the color on your skin. Protesting is important to me because it gives us all a voice to be heard,” he said.  *** http://oaklandcounty115.com/2020/06/08/lake-orion-protest-affirms-black-lives-matter-movement/

It has been reported that Mr Harris served in the Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune from 2014 - 2019 as an 0311 rifleman, attaining the rank of corporal.  https://conandaily.com/2020/10/10/daniel-harris-biography-13-things-about-gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-conspirator-from-michigan/

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VHS #381

Accordion Tribe - Music Travels!, American Masters - Muddy Waters - Can’t Be Satisfied, Blues Story, Concert For Bangladesh, Pink Floyd Live - Pulse, Soundstage: Bill Laswell: Axiom Sound System, Musical Freezone *** Accordion Tribe - Music Travels1&1/2 hr, sGuy Klucevsek, Maria Kaleniemi, Bratko Bibik, Lars Hollmer, Otto Lechner5/21Link TV Dolores · Bratko Bibic, Otto Lechner (https://youtu.be/IAZwxg6Byr8) Not this clip. Audio only.Itflykt M. Dacyckl (LH) - frenetic intros all the bandOtto rehearsing in Uppsala to record CD, Swither then onstage (https://youtu.be/LaV7OaRcpzc) Not this clip. Audio only.more rehearsalMaria: 'in the beginning, what was going to be happening', otto playing fast notes (https://youtu.be/OtWYAIcyRog) This clip.Cirkus 1 (LH)! onstage (https://youtu.be/AS7YifBkHR4) Not this clip. Audio only.Maria, Otto talking about Finnish music, Otto doing throat music, Maria talking. (https://youtu.be/EiDz5hvRN_s) This clip. Tune is Unikko (https://youtu.be/0VOa9gjCeHY) Not this clip. Audio only.unknown tuneOtto’s accordion, his sweetheart, plays short segmentsTagozide (GK) - nice tangothey all play a huge accordionsign accordionGuy’s hometown, his accordion teacher, Waltz, Waltz, teacher notes something he didn’t likeGras (OL), interesting up and down scalesWintersonnenwende (OL), slow, beautiful, w/ wavering notesBoeves Paselm (LH), Lars Holmer sweet simple tune with hook (https://youtu.be/6qBbkUCViqE) Not this clip. Audio only.Lars, Yes, I’m a romantic bastard. Lars and Otto jamming at the breakfast table. Maria goes back to sleep. unknown tunetrying to find the hotel using the GPS on the bus(Police - Walking on the Moon on accordion)Otto in his hotel roomconfused tune, Otto throat singingBratko Bibik tunes, extreme breathing intro - that was the title of the next song we were going to play.folk tune?, Slovenia, doing stone work, talks of his youth playing accordion in the 60s, Guy in NYC (Staten Island?), old family footage of Eastern PA, polka music, driving in NYC, minimalism wasn’t interesting to him after several years, then he wrote a polka, Happy Chappie Polka (https://youtu.be/HKuzZabjda8) Not this clip. Audio only.Otto on tv show. another confused tuneOtto throat singing, extreme breathing on the busMaria singing/playing, talks about doing music she loves, walking onstage, Finnish duo by lake (https://youtu.be/YpaJY9c8CuQ) This clip. (a Swedish version of a Scandinavian song called Ramund = Ramunder (MK and Marrianne Moore)Porteletype (love this one) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV50p1qjKyk&t=1012s) Not this clip. Audio only.Helsinki, Maria, lake with lily pads, Tuttuni (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV50p1qjKyk&t=2005s) Not this clip. Audio only.Maria at Lar’s studio. Slow song. Karelian love song!… frozen lake scenes (in compilation?), wolves howling at the moon… Otto ad libs at end, then coughs.Dark Side of the Accordion (OL) (Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon) as credits roll Compilation of clips from the movie (https://youtu.be/KYeQdKQUNXA) walk towards cam, otto, guy, group *** American Masters - Muddy Waters - Can’t Be Satisfied1 hr Long Distance Call (https://youtu.be/fe2LZYFaIho) This clip, BB King, Keith Richards, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Rollin’ And Tumblin’, Jim Dickinson, granddaughter, talks about family in car, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Willie Dixon, Catfish Blues - Robert Petway, Robert Morgenfield, You Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone, Alan Lomax, Ron Wynn, original Lomax recording talking to him, I Be’s Troubled, Still A Fool, James Cotton, street musicians in Chicago, I Can’t Be Satisfied, Marshall Chess, I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man, Juke - Little Walter, stepson, house he used to live in - abandoned now, watched baseball on tv all the time, Bob Margolin, She’s 19 Years Old, old girlfriends, at Newport, I’ve Got My Mojo Working, Chuck D, Charlie Musselwhite, beer bottle in his pants, Just Make Love To Me, painting the celling at Chess?, Electric Mud, I Just Want To Make Love To You, Honey Bee, My Home Is In The Delta, Westmont, IL, Crosseyed Cat, Mannish Boy (Dortmund, 1978), Bird Nest On The Ground. *** Blues Story1 hrall kinds of blues people circa 2003 See the whole thing (1 & 1/2 hrs) here: https://youtu.be/5qq_qnLHf74 Willie Foster - My Dear Old Dad, Koko Taylor, BB KIng, Honeyboy Edwards, Little Milton, Othar Turner and the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band - Fife & Drum Music, Philadelphia Jerry Ricks, Charles Brown, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lowell Fulsom, Blind Blake, John Jackson - Police Dog Blues, Charley Patton, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Rufus Thomas, Gatemouth Moore, Ma Rainey, Robert Johnson, Robert Lockwood, Honeyboy Edwards - Cross Road Blues, Snooky Pryor, Ruth Brown, R. L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie, Sonny Boy Williamson (1 & 2), Howlin’ Wolf, It’s Rainy Outdoors, Baby, Pinetop Perkins - How Long Blues, Robert Lockwood - In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down, Willie King and the Liberators, Roosevelt Sykes, T-Bone Walker, Clarence "Gatemouth” Brown, Louie Jordan - Caldonia, rope dividing audience, Bobby "Blue” Bland on (the new) Beale St, BB playing, Bobby "Blue” Bland - That’s The Way Love Is, WDIA, Pep-Ti-Kon jingle, Buddy Guy playing (If You Ever Been Mistreated), Snooky Pryor, Maxwell St, Snooky Pryor - Snooky & Moody's Boogie, Koko Taylor - Wang Dang Doodle, Williw Dixon was in the audience as an A&R man for Chess to hear Koko, Chess brothers, Little Milton - We're Gonna Make It, Magic Slim and the Teardrops, Howlin’ Wolf, Hubert Sumlin w/ Magic Slim, Muddy Waters w/ James Cotton, Philadelphia Jerry Ricks - Hey Hey, John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom Boom, Big Mama Thornton, Rolling Stones w/ Howlin’ Wolf. And lots of others. *** Concert For Bangladesh1&1/2 w/o some of the pledge breaksVERY edited…6/1/? See the whole thing here: https://vimeo.com/66413717 Jesse Ed Davis! Ringo and Jim Keltner on drums, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Badfinger Wah-Wah, Clapton lead gtrMy Sweet LordThat's the Way God Planned It - Billy Preston, gets happy at the end...It Don't Come Easy - Ringopledge break, reissueGeorge intros bandWhile My Guitar Gently Weeps, Clapton soloJumpin' Jack Flash - Leon Russell (medley cut out)Here Comes the Sun -George Harrison Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan pledge break/edited short by meJust Like a Woman - Bob Dylan w/ George and Leon SomethingBangla Dhun - Ravi ShankarBangla Desh - all *** Pink Floyd Live - Pulse 49:32, s2006 (missed beginning) Learning To Fly (https://youtu.be/tresPsC7WCA) This clip.Breathe (https://youtu.be/74tuTW8h0P0?t=127) This clip.Wish You Were Here (https://youtu.be/tiF-q2h7tSA) This clip.Comfortably Numb (https://youtu.be/vi7cuAjArRs) This clip.Money (https://youtu.be/smlOI4YWn6M) This clip. “Bullshit" edited out.pledge break I edit outTime (https://youtu.be/pgwjGrdieIY) This clip.Us And Them (https://youtu.be/JbGyNtKKK5I) This clip.Brain Damage/Eclipse (https://youtu.be/1Z39KZAryzk) This clip. *** Soundstage: Bill Laswell: Axiom Sound System, Musical Freezonemissed beginning52:24, ssaturated colors See the whole thing here: https://youtu.be/qurVdB-HwUU Ustad Sultan Khan, Zakir Hussain, Pharoah Sanders, Buckethead, Bootsy Collins, Toshinori Kondo, Hamid Drake, Abegasu Shiota, Bill Laswell, Foday Musa Suso, Aiyb Dieng, Karsh Kale unknown song (Indian)Pharoah Sanders sax, synth, Toshinori KondoFoday Musa Suso, Pharoah SandersFoday Musa Suso, Toshinori Kondo, Pharoah SandersBuckethead, Big D as Buckethead dances, then plays gtr, Brain on drums, dj Bootsy Collins - Keep That Funk Alive, Buckethead

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WCA #166 with Ken Sluiter

Working Class Audio #166 with Ken Sluiter!!!

Ken Sluiter is an American recording engineer/producer/mixer from Chicago, IL now based in Los Angeles, CA.

Ken grew up in a small town called Wilmington, IL, about an hour outside of Chicago, IL.  He was obsessive listener of 70’s AM radio and what is now called “classic rock”.  One day while walking through a department store with his mother, he spotted the cover of “Rock and Rock Over” by Kiss.  From that point on, he was hooked.  Every dime he could scrape up went to the record section of the department store.  More records from Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Sweet, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Beatles, Foghat, even Styx (Ken was young) were to follow.  This all naturally led to borrowing a friends’ Silvertone guitar, then guitar lessons etc..

While playing in garage bands with friends, Ken was the one that kinda understood how to set up the P.A.  That led to recording rehearsals, shows, cassette four tracking/overdubbing etc….  When his guitar teacher purchased an Oberheim OB-8, he gave Ken his “hand me down” Korg MS-20.  That combined with discovering a college radio station led to a passion (which continues to this day) for all things new wave/synth pop.  Soon Ken was hooking synths and drum machines to his Commodore 64’s MIDI sequencer.  After spending more time “in the city” and discovering the Wax Trax label and Medusa’s dance club, the guitar started collecting dust and the focus became the stiff, cold groove of the machines.

After graduating college in 1992, Ken started his studio career working on jingles in the ad industry-dominated studio scene in downtown Chicago.  The worked ranged from national ad campaigns to local furniture stores.  It was in this environment that Ken learned to record, edit (w/ grease pencil and razor blade) and mix fast to meet the tight deadlines the advertising industry required.  At the same time, he started assisting at studios that recorded local and regional bands.  In 1994, Ken bought his first Pro Tools rig (a four track version that was the size of a fridge) and started working with other engineers as an editor.  This enabled Ken to use his editing-skills learned in the jingle studios with engineers and producers that had previously never been exposed to the power/flexibility offered by the Pro Tools platform.  It also allowed Ken to bypass some of the “dues paying” associated with being as assistant engineer (more on that later).

By the mid-nineties, Ken partnered with Dave Trumfio and Mike Hagler, founders of Kingsize Sound Labs.  For many years, they made indie-rock records for the exploding indie/alternative rock scene that was happening in Chicago.  Some notable acts that worked at Kingsize included Wilco, Billy Bragg, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, Mekons, The Frogs, Archer Prewitt, Kelly Hogan, Jonny Polonsky, Steve Earle, OKGO, My Morning Jacket, Jesus Lizard, The Sadies and hundreds of other bands.  Label clients included Atlantic, Geffen, Warner Brothers, Virgin as well as Touch and Go, Sub Pop, Matador, Merge Records and Bloodshot Records.

During this time, Ken played and recorded with studio parter, Dave Trumfio’s new wave revival band, Pulsars.  Pulsars made two albums for Almo Sounds/Geffen.  Ken also co-founded local power-pop luminaries, Box-o-car, who in addition to recording two records, supported acts such as Iggy Pop, Cheap Trick, Teenage Fanclub, Mathew Sweet, The Kills and many more.

By 2003, as the indie explosion ran it’s course in Chicago, Ken re-located to Los Angles to continue his craft.  As Ken felt he “skipped” much of the assisting phase of a traditional engineers’ career path; he pursued assisting opportunities including assisting Andrew Scheps on Weezer’s “Red Album”, Greg Fidleman on Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “I’m With You” as well as Jim Scott on multiple records.  Ken also assisted on scoring sessions, in which he learned the ropes of orchestral recording from Sean Murphy and Dan Wallin among others.  Ken also stayed busy as a Pro Tools editor working on projects ranging from Barry Manilow to Pink to Metallica.

It was during this time that Ken got involved with EastWest Studios in Hollywood.  Ken was a key member of the crew that brought the studios back on-line as the rooms had been closed since Cello studios closed in 2004.  This included working with the technical staff to “shake out” the analog gear as well as configuring Pro Tools systems for each room.  Ken was also the recordist for the entire EastWest “Hollywood” series of orchestral virtual instruments.  

In 2009, Ken signed on to engineer/mix two records for Jerry Lee Lewis wth legendary drummer Jim Keltner as producer.  That project included doing overdubs with a “who’s who” of rock royalty, including Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, John Fogerty, Shelby Lynne, Kris Kristofferson, Robbie Robertson, Nils Lofgren, Aaron Neville, Mavis Staples, Gillian Welch and Jon Brion.  Ken also mixed tracks with performances by Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Sheryl Crow, Derek Trucks, Kid Rock, Daniel Lanois, Ringo Starr, John Mayer, James Burton, Leon Russell, Tim McGraw, Neil Young and Slash.  

Other projects Ken engineered and/or mixed include records by The Pretenders, Marshall Crenshaw, Heart, Andra Day, Veruca Salt, Flogging Molly, James Blunt, Divine Fits (Britt Daniel), The Format (Nate Ruess), Ron Sexsmith, Kathleen Edwards, Young Dubliners, MxPx and Dwight Yoakam.

Ken also worked closely with producers Wally Gagel and Xandy Barry on a series of “iTunes Originals” sessions for artists that that included BRMC, The Decemberists, PJ Harvey, Maroon 5, Metric, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and Best Coast  

As a producer, Ken has worked with Weezer (”Christmas With Weezer”), B52’s (“Squidbillies”-theme song), as well as soundtrack songs with Debbie Harry and Shirley Manson (“Tehran 1979” from American Gods), Siouxsie Sioux (“Love Crimes”-Hannibal) and Marc Almond (“Snakecharmer”-Hannibal)

Recently, Ken has worked closely with producer Joe Chiccarelli, mixing records for artists such as Morrissey, Augustines, Nightriots, Ivan and Aloysha and Victorian Halls.  Ken has also worked closely with film composer Brian Reitzell on several film scores and soundtracks including “Hannibal” (Season 3) on NBC, “American Gods” on Starz, “Kicks” for Focus Features, as well as ad’s for Nike and Apple.

About this Interview:

Ken Sluiter joins me for a great conversation about 90's era Chicago, his transition to Los Angeles, working with Andrew Scheps and Jim Keltner, having a great baby sitter, mixing in the box, social media and much more! Many thanks to WCA Alum Brad Wood (http://www.workingclassaudio.com/wca-095-with-brad-wood/ ) for introducing me to Ken at NAMM.  Enjoy!

-Matt

Show notes and links:

Audio-Technica AT5047: http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/wired_mics/f0d9ef584e0dda3e/index.html

The great Jim Keltner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keltner

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