Welcome to my page. This is the most recent project from my studio, The Chuck O'Conner Trio, or CO3 is now available on CD and various streaming services. The drummer Scott Wade is also the Dirty Car Art artist and his amazing creations can be seen online and at events like festivals and car shows.
We finally got Allan Gill and friends under way and in typical Allan Gill fashion, it's shaping up to be a very interesting project. I met Allan in 1983 and we've been threatening to work together for many years and I'm so glad it is finally happening. So after a couple weeks of installing new Gotham wiring in the studio, he brought his band in and tracked 8 songs live. We cut 26 tracks simultaneously without a hitch. The new wiring sounds fantastic. Other artists I'm working with include; Jay Stricklin, a very creative experimental music artist who is always coming up with unique ideas and ways to treat audio files. He recently put one of my tracks to video. Jade Day and friend Meshach Jackson have just wrapped 10 tracks of pure listening enjoyment. Very prolific and talented artists, I've been using my new WA-44 ribbon on their acoustic guitars and vocals and just loving it. Please check out the late Bob Slaughter with his latest CD 'Earth Warrior'. Mastered and sounding fantastic by Robert Rich. There are really great songs on this project. It features some of the hill country's finest musicians. Now available for streaming and also for sale at Bobslaughter.com Next is Sonoplasm, which is Lee Martin's latest synth/modular project. Lee is using A.I. voices on some of his pieces and it is wild how well that works. Jay Williams, a very talented songwriter out of Houston, Texas. I've been working with Jay now for over 20 years. Tom Ash, (a video shoot for one of Tom's tunes has just wrapped, shot right here using our newly restored green screen) Maeve Gallagher, an amazing vocalist, came over and wanted for me to hear an idea she had for a tune, sang it and left. I then took that vocal line and made a track out of it. I think it came out incredible. It wasn't the direction she wanted to take the tune, but it's right up my dark weird alley! check it out via the link to ReverbnNation by clicking her name above.
I'm also still working with two other talented artists, Scot Byrd and Ryan Malone. Scot is a musician/composer who moved here from LA a few years ago. He is always bringing me fun projects to work on that he's put together with his web based group of musicians from all over. Ryan is a guitarist composer, writing amazing tracks on his phone and then expanding on them. We re-amp his guitar tracks that he recorded at home on his phone and mix that back in. That 'boy' is scary talented.
I invite you to have a listen to my music here on this page and on Bandcamp. Also my ReverbNation page which you do not have to join (or accept their cookies) to enjoy. there you will find selections from as far back as 1982 when I was recording to 4 track cassette.
I've been a bassist/guitarist for over 58 years. I learned to play bass and guitar by copying licks from albums by King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Area, Flash, ELP, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Berlin, Stanley Clark, Gil Evans, Stan Kenton, Jeff Beck, Egberto Gizmonti, Ralph Towner, youi get the picture. : )
I also love spending time playing keyboards and drums. My true love is fretless bass. Over the past thirty years, I've spent a lot of time expanding my knowledge in the field of capturing and mixing audio. I started recording digitally in 1993 using Digital Performer when the entire program came on a single floppy disc. My studio 'MicSide Manor' is a product of three years work that I completed mostly on my own. I'm running 18 inputs of UAD Apollo, 8 inputs of MOTU and 8 inputs of Eventide interfaces using Logic, Luna, and Harrison Mixbus software. Basically, I'm living my dream and then some. Thanks for stopping by.
