Thursday, September 17, 2009

The History of The Gary Busey Experience


So this here is the final lineup of the Gary Busey Experience. When we did this promo photoshoot, we decided to make fun of the more popualr mainstream bands with really stupid looking promo pictures, since several of our songs were about ripping those bands into pieces and melting their faces off, along with other sort of punishments that could get you 25 to life.


No I'm joking, there was only one song where we melted their faces.


Anywho, we aren't really that gay looking, we are actually a really brutal metal band, with a sound that couldn't be put into a genre, so we wound up calling ourselves thrashgrindfuck when people asked.


We started this shindig in February of 2008, with a different lineup than you see in that picture (but that is another long and not so interesting story, we will just pretend the lineup started the same for the sake of this blog). We jammed out for a while on a bunch of different songs, and wound up writing our first song which was aptly titled "Aurally Penetrated Against Her Motherfucking Will."


See what we did there?


So after that was finished we started writing another song, and then someone heard us jamming in a dorm room and offered us a show that was in a week from then. So of course we did what any band with one song written would do, we said yes to a 15 minute set! Keep in mind, the one song we had was about 2:30 long. So in a panic we finished off our second song, and decided that at the show we would just jam out and act like it was a really song.


So fast forward to the show, we played Aurally Penetrated, and everyone really liked it. So from there, we decided that our next couple minutes would be spent jamming. Lo and Behold, we had a bigger circle pit for our jam session then we did for the actual song. Everyone came up to me after the show and was like "OMG THAT SECOND SONG WAS SO BR00T4L, WHAT WAS THE NAME OF IT?"


So I had to tell them that song was a one time only and you should feel priveleged because you will never fucking hear that again. But anyway, we decided to play our second song, and we told the crowd that we hadn't named it yet (which became something we would do on a regular basis), and instead of wanting to hear that song, one of our good friends Mike Kiddoo insisted we play James Taylor.


So what is the first thing that a metal band thinks to do? Well, lets melt his face. OH, and on top of THAT, lets name the song "The Melting of Mike Kiddoo."


Turns out that song was our hit, and everyone loved the show, despite us jamming for 10 of the 15 minutes of our set.


Ladies and gentleman, that is the first chapter in the history of the Gary Busey Experience.


Chapter 2 comes when I get around to it.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Words on a page

You may, be wondering, what in the hell does Gary Busey have anything to do with...anything? Well besides being a B-list (probably C or D list now), he was the inspiration for the name of my old band, The Gary Busey Experience.

I'm Nick, the original vocalist. I'm 20 years old, originally from Connecticut, but I've been living in Boston for the last 3 years. I went to Emerson College for 2 years in the Radio/Audio program, and that turned out to be the biggest $90,000 mistake of my life. Fortunately, I am now at NEiA or the New England Institute of Art, studying Audio as well. I guess it's going pretty well so far, but then again ive only been in this class for about an hour.

That being said, what I hope to get out of this class is a better understanding of what I already know, I've been fairly well versed in web applications and html/graphics for several years now, and I hope to expand upon that.