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"...Dave Budzinski's telecaster guitar is smooth and the rest of the band ain't kidding, either..."

- e-music.online.com, June, 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music Style: Clapton-style electric blues and rock with mix of other styles (Aretha Franklin, nightclub standards) highlighting Lisa Y., our female vocalist.

 

Background: In late 1999 as my previous band was winding down, guitar veteran Dave Budzinski (who I had played with in 1993 in the band "Jelly Hollywood") called and asked if I was available for a new blues-rock outfit he was putting together.  He pulled in drummer "Techno Man"  from a reference and former bandmate Lisa Y. and very quickly the Uptown Playboys were up and gigging! 

We gigged primarily in the Ann Arbor / Chelsea areas during the year 2000 and had a great time (the photo on this page shows me playing at a very cold outdoor gig outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan). 

Dave had decades of experience playing great guitar riffs on his Fender Telecaster guitars, and we used that for our musical foundation.  The band naturally reached its conclusion near the end of 2000 as all band members began to move on to other projects.

 

 

Streaming/Downloadable MP3's:

"Wade in the Water" (2000) Fast blues rock with offbeat breakdown. I quote Flea's bassline from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's song "Knock Me Down"
"The Things You Do to Me" (2000)
Soulful blues song, I really liked how the bass part complements the guitar solo.
"Nobody's Business" (2000)
Slow blues with nightclub standard flavor, Dave's guitar really laid the foundation for the song's feel.

 

 

How were the recordings made?

All 3 of the songs above were recorded live (no overdubs) for a demo tape.  They were recorded digitally to a Roland 1800 series digital workstation and mixed down to cassette tape.  I then transferred the tape copies to .WAV files using my ZOOM PS-02 digital recorder, and converted them to MP3 format on my laptop.  They are decent recordings, since they were originally captured using pretty good digital equipment.  Note that on all of them I didn't play bass through an amp; rather I plugged directly into the recording workstation using an amp simulator (the Sansamp Bass Driver) to make it sound like my bass was amp'd up.

 

 

Where are they now?

Dave is still making music separately in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area..."Techno Man" has moved to Indiana/Chicago and is playing drums there...I believe Lisa Y. has taken a hiatus from singing.

 

 

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