Blogs by Mike Seely

my friend nick kimbol wrote once that music is my life, my salvation.....
i feel this and that is why we performed together.....we had some common things but were very different.....he was a gifted poet and mc...he worked hard on his rhymes....i know now years after his... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago1

I love playing by ear.....its the most rewarding thing for me to jam with someone and play by ear...
I don't try to figure out what key they play in or what have you....I just like to try and harmonize....or create tension....sierenity is a place inside that moment for me.....I find the higher parts... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

i always do the whole track in one take....i don't punch in or out at specific parts....
I write for a couple days a week......and then gestate and just strum the guitar or plink the piano randomly.....I want to expand my artistic talent as far as it can go....I am very excited that I... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

is electro shock therapy? performance notes
I played all the parts (mike s.) and the keyboard effect was manipulating well.....I played bass....and programmed a beat.....the song is about the wall on the cell in the hospital where I was held... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

ajna performance notes
three acoustic guitar parts interlaced courtesy of mike seely View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

appolyons abyss performance notes
we played this on first take thursdays....kurt on the keyboard mike on the bass...... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

beyond abbaddons performance notes
the strings piano and drums are by kurtis bechtold and the acoustic guitar track is mike seely......this is a improvisational jam on first take thursdays which we had to take the first try at a track... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

by the fireside performance notes
mike seely on acoustic guitar....and kurt bechtold on acoustic guitar....this one was a long time in the making....it did't come easy...glad we stuck with it.....it is really a good little... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

organic improv performance notes
mike seely on organ and piano......kurtis bechtold on bass....eli devoss on drums.....a live improvisational jam....recorded at the fermented grape.......good times...... View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

sinister way performance notes
canned drum programmed by mike also a track of piano and guitar....kurtis bechtold played piano guitar and harmonica....this is a studio track recorded at kalona's house View More
By: Mike Seely | Posted over a year ago0

