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| MARCH 3rd 2008 Hey, it's been a while huh? Well, look for tons of new marchandise this year and a new GARY SCHUTT BAND. We had our maiden voyage gig at Boomerz on March 1st and although it was not flawless, it did rock! The 30 min set included Drama Queen, Animal Man, Act Of Sympathy, Love Me For Me (NEW), Better (NEW) and Psycho Bitch. Next out of the box is the long awaited guitar instrumental album "Loss 4 Words" featuring many other talents besides myself. It's almost done. A complete track list and guest list will pursue the release date and press release. Shortly after that is the pre-curser to the next vocal CD. The first single (which was released as a music video a few years ago on BrightHouse Networks and IdolUnderground and can be seen on YouTube), "Love Me For Me" will be released as a DVD single. The one song DVD will have two versions of the video, audio commentary, 10 subtitled lyric tracks, a how-to-play-on-guitar video, a special DVD-ROM extras folder that includes the MP3, both video versions and the how-to-play videos for your iPod player. AUGUST 1st 2007 I will be performing as bass player for Jeff Scott Soto once again on a short U.S. tour at the end of September leading up to the huge Melodic Rock Festival. Jeff tour dates at his website. Festival details at MelodicRock.com APRIL 26th 2007 After months and months of mass emails and myspace bulletins the MusicNation.com video contest is over and my "Love Me For Me" music video ended week 12 at #38. Thought I had a good shot when a month ago it peeked at #9! Oh well. Onward I go. The song "Love Me For Me" is currently unavailable on any of my CD's. So for those of you who have been asking- it will be on the next GS CD, tentatively titled "PUPPETS IN SYMMETRY". Actually it will be on the next after the next CD. The guitar instrumental CD "Loss 4 Words" is first priority, I managed to get a couple pretty big name guests to play solos on it. Details coming soon. I just finished a new GS DVD, titled "HIGHWAY TO NOWHERE" which compiles all of my music videos to date onto one disc. But here's the trick - it will only be available at my gigs, that included the Untouchables shows too. You get 14 music videos for $15. The videos include the new "Love Me For Me" (with alternate cut), "Baby Dinosaur" and 3 live songs with Jeff Scott Soto. Also, (man, alot of news, huh?), the "Love Me For Me" video can be viewed on Tampa Bay cable provider BRIGHTHOUSE NETWORKS on the Tampa Bay On-Demand channel 340. MARCH 28th 2007 The Gary Schutt catalog of CD's are now available at CDBABY.COM (catalog page here) and at the iTunes digital store (iTunes catalog page here). MARCH 16th 2007 The "LOVE ME FOR ME" video is up to 19th!! climbing steady!! Three weeks to go before voting ends. Please keep hitting it everyday!! Winner wins a deal with EPIC RECORDS!! http://musicnation.com/v3ef The Idol Underground song competition is still going strong, however after having the #1 & 3 spots 2 weeks ago, my songs are still in the top20. You can vote on these as often as you want. Please keep voting!! grand prize: A trip to Hollywood to perform at an industry showcase. "LOVE ME FOR ME" http://www.idolunderground.com/Player/Player.aspx?UserID=-1&MediaID=212944 "PSYCHO BITCH" http://www.idolunderground.com/Player/Player.aspx?UserID=-1&MediaID=212944 JANUARY 30th 2007 Pictures s from the Fender Fretfest on Saturday Jan 20th, NAMM weekend... http://kc_photo.tripod.com/NAMM07/index.html or just click here. I got to reunite with the old JSS band one more time. Neal Schon & Marco Mendoza joined us for Soul SirkUS's "Praise", then Neal stayed up for "Sepatate Ways". Another great memory in the scrapbook of my brain! Also... Gary Schutt's "Love Me For Me" music video is on another website contest. The Voting started on Monday. Goto www.MusicNation.com, type Gary Schutt in the search box, register and VOTE!! "Love Me For Me" is currently 83 rd place (of 551). Voting may only take place once a day, so don't forget to hit it daily!! This video has grown in popularity and has gotten great reviews since it's inception into the FUSE.TV contest back in October 2006. It can also be seen in it's unedited version on YouTube, MySpace and GarySchutt.com. The song is currently unavailable of any of Gary's CD's but will appear on a brand new album due out this year. Get your friends to text V3ef to NATION (628466) to vote for this video! About the Music Nation Contest: The Music Nation competition is a national online video-based music contest for entrants ages 14 and older. Every week, two quarterfinalists will be chosen. From that pool, semifinalists will be chosen during week 13. At the end of the 15-week competition, winners will be crowned in each of our three genres: rock, pop and urban. Those winners will be awarded global recording contracts with Epic Records and will also perform on Clear Channel's exclusive in-studio performance series, STRIPPED. JANUARY 9th 2007 Happy New Year! Sick of hearing that yet? ok, moving on... GARY SCHUTT music is on TWO internet contests! Music Nation is having a music video contest. Winner gets a record deal. Heard it before, blah blah blah... vote for my "Love Me For Me" video and keep those finger and toes crossed!! I can't win without your votes!! The direct link to the video click here. Also, Idol Underground is doing a song contest. I've got two songs on, "Psycho Bitch" and the brand new "Love Me For Me". Go there and vote too. Click on "LISTEN & JUDGE, LAUNCH PLAYER NOW". DECEMBER 2nd 2006 Thank you to everyone who voted and voted and voted for my video on FUSE.TV. As of today, sat 12/2, my video is the second highest rated and fifth most popular. 11/30 was the last day of submissions and the 8 finalist have been chosen. AND I'M NOT ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!! Details http://fuse.tv/feature.php?id=520 How can I be in the top 5 for the past 2 weeks and not make the eight finalists?!?!?!?!?!?!? Yet another big break passes me by. REVOLT!! NOVEMBER 9th 2006 FUSE TV's UNSIGNED BAND SEARCH!!!!!!! The new GARY SCHUTT music video "love me for me" is on FUSE.TV. Click on the fuse logo to the right, Then click on SURS: Unsigned Band Search Click on it, vote, rate, comment, refresh, refresh, refresh!!! Do whatever it takes to get it noticed!!!! Thanks for your participation!!! OCTOBER 17th 2006 The PALISADE album is done and has been sent out for reviews. Check out the PALISADE page for reviews as they are added. Also hear samples of the CD tracks and compare them to the old demos. A BRAND NEW GS SONG AND VIDEO!!!!! Thats right! get a preview of totally new GS that will be released sometime in 2007. click here! SEPTEMBER 20th 2006 Yes it's been a while. The cover band is gigging so much, it's keeping me from working on my projects at the pace that I'm used to. But I do have some things ro report. The Palisade CD is done. A link to the CD page will be posted soon. Also my Instrumental CD finaly has some new progress. Howie Simon guests on one song and drummer Jeff Thal will appear on 2 songs. Jeff is the brother of guitarist "Bumblefoot" Ron Thal who is currently on tour with Guns N Roses. My bass player Chaz Dykes will appear on one song. This will be the first CD of mine with other players on it since my debut CD with Jeff Scott Soto. I'm planning on releasing both new CD's at the same time. Also, a music video for a brand new GS song, "LOVE ME FOR ME", is in the editing process. MAY 29th 2006 10 songs are finished for the GS PALISADE album. It's been great fun playing some of my favorite songs from high school and early college days. MAY 12th 2006 As you can see, the news page has been moved to the main page - for your convienience. The news page is still there but there's no link at the top menu because it is not here! But you might notice the links didn't copy/paste over. so, if you need to view a link you can still access the news page at www.garyschutt.com/news. or click here! (HA the first link in the new news!!!) Also I have 2 MySpace pages now. I have one main GS fan page here, and the other is a sneak preview page of some brand new songs here. So check those out and add me to your friends list. FEBRUARY 15th I have an endorsing quote on the Celemony website. Celemony makes a killer pitch correction software for use with Pro Tools and many other various digital audio editing programs, called MELODYNE Cre8. Click here. Scroll down a bit. FEBRUARY 7th 2006 I don't know why but it always seems that I finish the album artwork before I finish recording the album. Well as I've stated previously I'm working on THREE new albums. The Instrumental, still and always will be titled "LOSS 4 WORDS" had completed art from about 3 years ago when I was planing on starting the recordings. The other two have undergone title changes. First, the one with all new GS tunes initially was to be called "DAMAGE CONTROL", later was changed to "PUPPETS IN SYMMETRY" (perhaps I'll call the next one that - so don't steal it!!!! LOL!!!) Now it is titled "CONTINGENCY PLAN". The CD art is done except for the track listings and it looks fk'n killer!! The other CD will be a compilation of some of my personal favorite GS tunes that I wrote in the 1980's. Most of these songs were performed and recorded with my band PALISADE. Since I didn't want to call it a GS album because my music has gone in a different direction, and since it's not a band album I didn't want to give it a band title, so for all intensive purposes I've thought the best thing to do is call it GARY SCHUTT'S PALISADE and title it after my debut cassette release, "LOST IN PARADISE". The album art is a little more morbid than the original cassette art (which was done on a dot matrix printer and assembled at Kinko's). You'll see it soon enough. A preview web page will be posted soon with MP3's of the original recordings so you'll hear the old songs before the album is done, but when it's done you'll hear the huge difference in quality and performance with the new recordings JANUARY 25th 2006 I had to write something since it's been a while. I'm still working on THREE new CD's, but I'm not working constantly on them. Some other projects have come up that pay $$$$, and I need that. I'm recording a female country singer named Cat Valentine. Anyone who knows me knows that I don't like country music, but the pay is good, it challenges my playing and it could lead to something. I might release a CD-ROM of all my music videos plus bonus stuff in QuickTime movie, specificly compressed for the new iPod Video. 15 videos total. If the demand is great enough I'll do it. I had another fun weekend at 2006 Winter NAMM. Got to meet and hang with Oz Fox of Stryper. Very, very cool guy and one of my favorite guitar players from back in the day. |
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