Dan Short

Steely Dan are amongst that privileged elite of musicians which include The Beatles and Brian Wilson, who gave up touring at a certain point in their career to become the masters of studio perfection and release albums so good that they defined an era. In the case of Walter Becker and Donald Fagan the obsessive search for the "right cut" would see them use 42 musicians on the 1980s album "Gaucho" with its title track drum backdrop assembled from 46 different takes.

Hey peeps. The initial request for this was Dan Mumm's releases for Neo-Classical Collections of Beethoven, Bach, & Mozart which I have included in this release but as I went over them the classical treatments put on his takes of these symphonies, sonatas and the like led me to the realization that while awesome for late intermediate to advanced players, these were going to frustrate a lot of players. So I took it upon myself to put together a fully complete neoclassical shred package you could use even if you are starting from a beginner.

The voice and songwriting talents of George Jackson have graced four previous albums released by Kent. One of the finest writers to emerge from Southern Soul he created hits for Candi Staton, Wilson Pickett and the Osmonds and this collection shines the light on his earliest work, as a staff writer at Memphis label Goldwax, working alongside his friend and staff producer Dan Greer.

Throughout his decades-long career, Dan Hicks stood as one of contemporary music's true eccentrics. While steeped in folk, his acoustic sound knew few musical boundaries. He drew on country, call-and-response vocals, jazz phrasing, and no small amount of humor to create a distinctive, albeit sporadic, body of work that earned him a devoted cult following. Hicks was born December 9, 1941, to a military family then living in Arkansas, and grew up in California, where he was a drummer in a number of high-school bands. He attended college in San Francisco, where he switched to guitar and began playing folk music. He returned to the drums, however, when he joined the Charlatans, one of the Bay City's first psychedelic bands.

Mad God is a stop motion-live-action hybrid horror film written, produced, and directed by Phil Tippett. Completed in 2021, the film was filmed over a period of thirty years. It was released on Shudder on June 16, 2022.