BradleyNeil + Musician in Edwardsville, IL

SEEKING

ABOUT

My current front-burner project is founder, frontman and pick-up guitarist of CAKEMIX, a tribute to the music of the band CAKE.

The goal of this tribute is not ape the band precisely, but rather to create moments of transcendence for ourselves and audiences through our interpretations of their songs in live performance. I'm an originals-band/aggressive-music/live band person at heart, and will bring as much of the ethos of those worlds to this project as the aesthetic of CAKE's music naturally allows. I want CAKEMIX first and foremost to be a tight live band that plays great songs-songs that happen to be written by CAKE. No clicks, no tracks. Excellent execution trumps fidelity to the original.

If you're not a cover band person but like this music, come have a look. I'm not a cover band person either. In CAKEMIX there are no multi-hour bar gigs, no "be right back after a break," no dialing back your emotions to get through a four-hour night, no song-picking for popularity.

Bassists take note: If you know CAKE's music, you know you will be the star of this show. Join us and show off your skills for us and audiences.

This is both a startup project and a creative, musical, live-performance challenge for me that is unrelated to money. If the project throws off money, I'm happy to distribute it to the people who help me make that happen. How I make my living and my musical work are separate and unrelated, and I actively guard the separation between my passion and extrinsic rewards, recognizing their potential for extinguishing intrinsic rewards. Hopefully you're at a point in your life where you can choose what to do and not to do based on what you want to do, and not what pays money, or are at least able to do so for a project like this. If you're not in that position, I will do my best to get money to you, but money will be at most a tertiary goal of the project.

I intend for this to be a going concern that talent buyers can rely on, and I therefore want to have subs/multiple players for all positions. If you have an interest in any role in the project, please get in touch. If you are a good fit, I will find a way to fit you in.

I don't have BandMix messaging, so don't make any inferences if I don't contact you after viewing your profile. I'm pretty easy to find via Bradley Neil dot net, dirtybombshellband dot com and cakemix dot club, and Bradley Neil Music on the book of faces. Calls work best to get things moving quickly.

More below to give you an idea of why I perform, and thanks for reading my blog.

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I play the drums. When I play a live show, I play like it's my last day on earth. I want the kid who's seeing his first rock concert to want to play the drums after seeing me. My primary professional goal is to play a role in the shared creation of sacred experiences of live rock concert transcendence.

I want to create for audiences live performance experiences that are emotionally moving, powerful, aggressive, fun and sexy, and that are a celebration of being alive and together with bandmates and audience. I've got CAKEMIX (dot club on the web), Dirty Bombshell (band dot com on the web), Trenage Amois (dot com on the web), and Tainted Angel (ButchWalkerTribute on the book of faces) as my own turnkey projects. I am also open to other projects, so long as they are serious, interesting, and help me accomplish my primary goal.

If you have strong emotions that you want to share with audiences, have some proficiency in and a track record of doing so, and are interested in iterative improvement, I want to hear about you and your projects. The right group performing live and delivering the goods is more important to me that the specific vehicle and genre that gets me there.

My capstone project so far has been all-original hook-pop hard rock band Dirty Bombshell. I also played in Solar Trance, and Doom & Disco. Both are on the camp of bands. I also played bass for Glitch Factor in the Biotech era, which is on Apple Music. I also songwrite, produce, engineer and mix, and have enough experience on guitar, bass and keys to communicate easily with players of those instruments. I am theoretically open to songwriting and/or studio projects, but playing high-energy live shows as a drummer is my #1 interest and value-add.

If you've got a project that you think is a win for you, me and audiences, please get in touch. It's easy to find Bradley Neil (dot net) drummer and Dirty Bombshell (band dot com) on the web.

Screen name:

BradleyNeil

Member since:

Sep 20 2016

Active within 24 hours

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

25

Gigs played:

50 to 100

Tend to practice:

1 time per week

Available to gig:

6-7 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Pop-culture influences: Tommy Lee, Roth-era Van Halen, Motley Crue, Poison, Bullet Boys, 80's top 40, Max Martin, Tom Werman, Bruce Fairbairn, Bob Rock, Desmond Child, Michael Lewis, Stephen King, 80's top 40,

Other popular music artists I like: Muse, CAKE, Green Day, Rob Zombie, Sum 41, Blink 182, Marvelous 3, Weezer, Rushmore Academy, Robyn, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Jackyl, Silverchair, Foxy Shazam, Phantom Planet, One Direction, Owl City, The Cars, Ylvis, The Lonely Island, Crunk Witch, Avett Bros.

Instrument experience:

Drums:

Expert

EQUIPMENT

My most important equipment is my mind and body and how I use them to both experience and create emotional reactions in myself and an audience.

I have lots of gear so I can optimize my kit for a specific application: best sound for recording, minimum space for travel, quickest set up speed, etc.

I absolutely rabbit hole on gear, and I love experimenting with sounds and learning technical details, particularly in a studio setting, but the importance of that stuff to me pales in comparison to my primary mission, which is transcendent live performance.

When it comes to live rock, an effectively-communicated, authentically compelling personality meshed with a tight group of like-minded performers trumps all gear.

MUSIC