A Restart for Gussie Miller
- Category: Artists
- Published on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:41
- Written by Mario
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About one year ago I featured Gussie Miller as Promising Newcomer here on 50K MUSIC. Now it's time to support him again. I talked to him about his upcoming single and the plans to raise money for his album on SellaBand... 50K MUSIC: In December 2009 you signed up to SellaBand and in January 2010 we've featured you as a Promising Newcomer here on 50K MUSIC. Please tell us what has happened since then. Gussie: I have been working on perfecting my profile on Sellaband and reaching out to the community overseas and here in the United States. I realized that I needed more video on the site, so I got together with indie director Jonathan Lewis and we produced a few EPK (Electronic Press Kit) videos to create more interest in my project. The first one is already posted on SAB and YouTube, and the next one will be posted soon to hype the release of my first single. 50K MUSIC: You have just raised about 800 € and you're still far away from reaching your goal. Are you disappointed that fan-funding on SellaBand has not worked for you so far? Gussie: I would have to say that I had hoped that things would have gone a lot quicker...but then again, I probably need to reach out to the SAB community more often, so I can't actually blame them. I have really worked hard to give them more content and more new music. 50K MUSIC: What are you working on at the moment? You have announced to release a single soon? Is that right? Please tell us something about it. Gussie: I have been working long and hard on the release of my first single from "Forever Plan" which was entirely self funded to show the SAB community that I am a viable artist and that I am worth investing in and believing in. The single is called "What More Can I Say" and was actually the first song I started recording back in 2001 one when I decided to start a solo CD. This of course was WAY before SAB but had a few things that slowed me down like a divorce, a custody battle for my kids, and then a incredibly bad hard drive crash that wiped out most of the data on two different drives, so I really had to start from almost scratch. After having to recover the drum tracks which were played by Tris Imboden of the legendary group Chicago, also had to put all the guitar parts back in the right places. The guitar parts were pretty easy since I had actually cut them first with my dear old friend Reggie Boyd Jr. who is a well known session musician here in Los Angeles. I then moved on to re-doing the keyboard parts which were originally all played by me into MOTU’s Digital Performer before I started using Logic Pro. Somewhere around 2007 I asked my musical director friend Alex Alessandroni to come by and replay all of my keyboard parts since he just smokes on everything he touches..LOL It was actually right after those sessions that I had my horrific hard drive crashes (they were Lacie Drives) and I would NEVER use one of their drives again! When I finally got back to working on the CD in 2010 after a bunch of personal stuff, I asked my friend Valerie Davis, who is a veteran L.A. session vocalist to come by and sing on the backgrounds with me, and at the same time we also cut the EPK shoot during these sessions so I have a lot of great stuff that we be seen soon. After that I asked my longtime friend Cleto Escobedo of ABC TV’s Jimmy Kimmel LIVE fame to blow some sax on the track so I would have some choices, and to rap it all together, my mentor legendary mega producer Peter Wolf to play a Bass part on the track which tied it all together! I am very excited about the quality of the performances and I’m very happy with my vocal as well! 50K MUSIC: What more plans do you have for the next few months? Gussie: My main focus will be mixing and mastering the single and getting it out on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Cdbaby, spotty, Napster and Emusic worldwide and producing a music video for the single as soon as possible, which will be directed by Jonathan Lewis and assistant-directed by my son Nate Miller and produced by Kellie Yackie. We will be in full PR promotions mode to get the word out about the CD project and use those funds from the sale of the CD single to help fund the rest of “Forever Plan” 50K MUSIC: And again my question: How can we support you to reach your goals? Gussie: I could really use all the promotion I can get. Links to my SAB profile would be great, and in general spreading the word about me and my music all across the world! So please support Gussie's efforts and spread the word. http://artismusicai.blogspot.com www.sellaband.com/projects/gussiemiller
