Bradley Neil

www.bradleyneil.net

www.facebook.com/Bradley.Neil.Music


Frontman of CAKEMIX (web, Facebook)

Drummer of Dirty Bombshell (web, Facebook)

My primary professional goal is to create sacred experiences of live rock concert transcendence.

Call me at     Six l Ate    7 Nein 5    3 6 EightAte

My blog deconstructing successful live performance behaviors.

Two of my favorite essays on live performance are:
Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences
Notes on Cheese


Drummer

As an artist, I try to share my emotional responses to music with an audience.

As a live drummer, my goal is to play like some combination of a throbbing industrial engine and a crazed animal.

Inactive project: Dirty Bombshell

All-original hook-pop hard rock.

Played 33 live shows as drummer.

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Inactive project: Doom & Disco

All original groove metal.

Played 6 live shows as drummer.

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Inactive project: Solar Trance

All original alternative hard rock.

Played 32 live shows as drummer.

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Success models

I am a drummer-as-entertainer. My success models are generally all about power, simplicity, theatricality, physicality and personality and include men like:

Tommy Lee
Butch Walker fronting Marvelous 3
Taylor Hawkins
Zoltan Cheney
David Lee Roth fronting Van Halen


Here's my Bandmix profile




Record Producer

Two of my favorite art forms are the 3 minute popular song and the long-play album.

I consider the long-play album an important art form. It's a snapshot of an artist's work at a moment in time, helpfully constrained by a genre's rules for artistic expression, audience entertainment, and enduring value.

It's also the foundation on which to base a cycle of live performances, the sina qua non of the project of popular rock music.

As a record producer, my primary strengths are nuturing a project's mass-appeal elements, critically evaluating all the elements of a project, and speaking candidly.

Member of The Recording Academy (Grammys)


Dirty Bombshell by Dirty Bombshell

Produced, engineered and mixed the album.

Played all drum and percussion parts.

Sang background vocals.

Played guitar solo and theramin on ThenD.

Sole songwriter of ThenD and 16 Sexteen.

Co-songwriter on rest of album.

Album art direction.

Spec'd and outfitted new project studio for pre-production, tracking and mixing, including mics, room treatments and electronics.

Tracked and mixed 100% in-the-box using REAPER digital audio workstation.

All foundation drum, bass and rhythm guitar tracks recorded simultaneously, live to tape.


Biotech by Glitch Factor

Played bass on debut album Biotech.


Solar Trance by Solar Trance

Played drums on self-titled debut album.

All drum tracks recorded live in a single day.

Album art direction.


Success models

My producer success models are generally multi-talented musicians with unconventional career paths who are somehow involved in mass-appeal pop rock and include men like:

Bruce Fairbairn
Max Martin
Rob Cavallo
Bob Rock
John Kalodner
Mutt Lange





Songwriter

Sole songwriter:
ThenD
16 Sexteen

Co-songwriter:
Pants/Off
Take It Sleazy (Heart On)
Slut Queen
R.E.D. Bikini
Aperitif
Drinking of U.
MicH377e
Deadman's Curve
F# Me Pumps
Vince
Walk of Shame
Van Halen Won

Success models

Desmond Child
Max Martin
Hall & Oates
Billy Joel
Butch Walker on his pop rock masterpiece Ready, Sex, Go
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry




Artist Manager

As an artist manager, I offer talent in the Midwest dispassionate counsel and development with a self-sufficient DIY/indie philosophy.

I look for popular music artists who have a clear artistic vision and are interested in engaging in an iterative process to determine what behaviors lead them to successfully achieve their professional and artistic objectives. I am interested in artists who base their careers on successful live performances.

Success models

Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch
David Geffen
Simon Cowell
Charlie Munger





For fun

Startup concept: Trenage Amois
Facebook @trenageamois

Dance party band playing electro-pop covers as hard rock.


Startup concept: Tainted Angel
Facebook @ButchWalkerTribute

Tribute band devoted to all of Butch Walker's high-energy sing-along pop rock from Southgang, Floyds, Marvelous 3 and his early solo career.


Live concert photography: Bradley Neil Photography
Facebook @Bradley.Neil.Music