Here's
our string trio performance of my string arrangement
for "Fine By Me', the new single from
popstar Andy Grammer, live on The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno! I was joined on-stage by my
wonderful violinist BRITTANY COTTO and cellist
AMANDA ZIDOW! FULL
HD LIVE VIDEO HERE.
I also had a blast recording VIOLA with composer @ZackHexum for the movie COBU
@Cobu3DTweets starring @BoA_USA and @DerekHough from @DancingABC! We tracked
strings for 2 days at Entourage Studios in NOHO. Best!
Here are two AMAZING videos from my LIVE EP CONCERT with Andy Grammer and Colbie
Caillat. This is Andy's cover of the hit song by my girl Rihanna, "We Found
Love":
This is the gorgeous Andy Grammer ballad, "The Heavy and The Slow".
I love my viola part on this tune!
I
HAD A BLAST PLAYING VIOLA AND WRITING STRING
DUO ARRANGEMENTS WITH 6-TIME GRAMMY AWARDS
NOMINEE MOBY ON
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY
LENO ON FRIDAY, APRIL 29TH! IN SUPPORT
OF HIS NEW RECORD AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK, "DESTROYED",
WE PLAYED HIS NEW SINGLE "THE DAY".
I arranged strings for viola and cello, featuring my first-call cellist, Adrienne
Woods (Diddy Diddy Money, American Idol, The Jonas Brothers, Duran Duran,
etc.). There were 11 of us on stage, MOBY, drummer Eric Gardner, pianist Carrie
Anne James, and 6 singers in our choir: Tiff Randol, Daniel Ahearn, Mindy Gaspar,
Angela Correa, Julie Mintz, and Sara Melson. LOVE THESE PEEPS SO MUCH! This AMAZING video
for the song features Heather Graham. Live pix HERE (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2047989523582.2130434.1359767654&l=1ef9a5247b)
and epic live video here:
Here's
a funny backstage dressing room video of our band playing "The
Band Name Game" with both MOBY and Jay Leno! X.T.C.
and Coheed and Cambria as answers = BEST!
Professional
Bassist/Violist/String Arranger/Music Director JAY TERRIEN,
played VIOLA with RIHANNA featuring
Kanye West and Drake at the NBA All-Star Game, LIVE at
The Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA on Sunday,
February 20th, 2011. The entire All-Star weekend aired
live on national TV on TNT. Lenny Kravitz, Cee Lo Green,
Keri Hilson, Bruno Mars, and Far East Movement also played
at the event This 60th NBA All-Star Game was the fifth
time that Los Angeles served as the site of the annual
celebration. You can view the live show video here as
well as some national and local
press from my hometown of Burlington, Vermont about
the event! SO MUCH FUN, pix HERE!
Jay Terrien
Composes And Conducts Kick-Ass Punk Rock String Arrangements
For The New RANCID Album, "LET
THE DOMINOES FALL", In Stores Now Via Hellcat/Epitaph
Records!
Be sure to check out the new Rancid record
that I worked on, "Let The Dominoes Fall". I've got some cool
session pix of myself, my homie Tim Armstrong, and my string section here, here, here,
and here.
Check out this cool video of
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Stax/Volt legendary Hammond
B3 organ master Booker
T. laying down a killer solo during one of the highlights
of the record, "Up
To No Good"! You can watch all of the Rancid webisode
videos HERE.
(**L to R: Hollywood's Finest "A" List String
Players Adrienne Woods (Cello), Joel Pargman (Violin I),
Tom Lea (Viola), Ina Veli (Violin II), Jay Terrien (String
Arrangements/Conducting), Tim Armstrong (Rancid front man!)**)
Check out the new Rancid video for "UP
TO NO GOOD"!!! Here's another sweet picture of Tim
Armstrong and the RANCID crew shooting the video for one
of the songs that I did string arrangements for, "Up
To No Good"!! Monster skater TONY HAWK also added
his own pictures on TWITTER,
His tweet was "Video shoot in the can for Rancid's "Up
To No Good. Me, Staab and @ncshredda were the miniramp champs.
http://twitpic.com/a61s0", check it HERE!
Business-wise, I have just released
my new record entitled "ALL
THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE", with producer/engineer/mixer/Eventider/Red
Vines Licorice junkie Ronan
Chris Murphy, whose credits include work with Tony Levin,
The California Guitar Trio, King Crimson, Steve Morse, Robert
Fripp, Terry Bozzio, Steve Stevens, etc.
This "POWER DUO" album
features only myself and acoustic/electronic drumming madman Pat
Mastelotto (King Crimson, Mr. Mister, X.T.C, TU (with Trey Gunn), The Sugarcubes,
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, etc.) BEATING THE SNOT OUT OF original
instrumental compositions that were specifically written and orchestrated to
showcase
advanced
bass and
drums
textures! I could
have named
the album, "The
One Million Dollar Muffin" or some other clever title that references
the kidnapping
of my Grandmother....But, "ALL
THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE" just PLAIN rules!
**Here's a sneak peek MP3 from
the new record, "ALL
THE DOLLS IN THE SAME PLACE", which exclusively
features my fretless 6-string bass: "Consequence". Sweet.....This
tune utilizes both a fretted 5 and a fretless 6-string
bass: "Wedren".
I had the record mastered at Threshold
Sound by Chief Mastering Engineer Stephen
Marsh, who has done stellar mastering jobs for KORN, Incubus, Ozzy Osbourne,
etc. I am not sure if he has done any work for Diddy. I know he
did some great things for CARNIE......But
most importantly, it was his genius work for Kenny Loggins that earned him
a Platinum
Record from The RIAA!
You can
check out some cool pix and videos HERE and
at Pat Mastelotto's website.
1.) ***High Bass + Low Bass + Mad Drums = American Idol!!!
PROGRESSIVE ACOUSTIC/ELECTRONIC DRUMMER and INTELLIGENT/INNOVATIVE "LOW
END BASSIST" WANTED NOW!!! FOR PRE-SEASON
ALBUM SUPPORT TOUR!
2.) ***Jay
Terrien is pursuing legal action to expedite
a full
refund of over $7,650.00 USD (plus damages) from Heiko
Hoepfinger and BassLab
Basses GmbH (Kassel, Germany), pertaining
to the fraudulent
business practices, unsatisfactory amateur craftsmanship, and
poor service-level agreement (German civil code sec. § 437,
No. 2 BGB) regarding a custom bass that he purchased
from BassLab GmbH. Here's a partial photographic list
documenting some of Heiko
Hoepfinger's (BassLab Basses GmbH) craftsmanship
and construction errors.
This lawsuit, which has already been referred to Melchers
Rechtsanwälte in Frankfurt, Germany, the United
States Attorney General's Office (IL), The Federal Trade
Commission
(Washington,
DC), Wachovia Banking Corporation, VISA International, and
various Better Business Bureau satellite offices, will also
seek related punitive damages and all other miscellaneous/legal
costs (German civil code sec. § 437, No. 3, § 280
BGB) caused by Heiko Hoepfinger's fraudulent business BassLab
GmbH, its "North American" Distributor, Greg
Holmes' GH
Services based in Ontario, Canada, and their unauthorized
third-party credit card merchant "Kosmetik Claasen" (A
Flower Shop operated by Susanna Claasen) located in Muenster,
Germany.
3.)
***Jay Terrien has added a new custom Status
Graphite Stealth-2 6 String Headless Fretless Bass
into his prominent setup.
This flawlessly constructed Stealth-2 is an extremely lightweight
and balanced, one-piece graphite monocoque bass that possesses
a strikingly perfect
blue
graphite tint finish and
has the finest and flattest phenolic fretless fingerboard on
the planet!
You can check out some sweet pix here, here,
and here.
Here is an unbiased review of the Stealth-2
from a past issue of Bass Player Magazine, which also recognizes
UK-based Status Graphite owner Rob Green as a great businessman
with over
20 years
of construction and consumer expertise.
Terrien says, "From my experiences playing tons of high-end
composite gear such as Parker, Zon, Modulus, and Moses, Rob
Green, the owner and designer of Status Graphite Basses, undoubtedly
makes
the
most
stable
and
lightweight
monocoque composite-based instruments in the marketplace. I
can't imagine a more UNIQUE sound coming out of a fretless
bass. The fretless
sounds are to die for! The bass plays great and balances
well. I stopped playing two hours ago and it is still sustaining!! This
bass flat out
ROCKS!!! THANKS FOR MAKING ME A WORLD-CLASS INSTRUMENT!!!"
4.) ***Jay
Terrien, along with some of the top Chicago bassists, including
Billy Dickens and Jauqo
III-X Reality, demoed some new extended-range
bass gear and composite violins/violas from July 23-25, 2004,
at Nashville's NAMM
SUMMER SESSION!!
Jay met up with many innovative extended-range bass luthiers
such as Mike Adler, Carey Nordstrand, Jens Ritter, Kevin Brubaker,
Steven Mosher, Mark Eshenbaugh, Chris Benavente etc., as well
as several cutting-edge musical instrument companies interested
in exploring both endorsement opportunities and business development
initiatives that maximize his extensive product management
and
consulting background. You can also check out Jay Terrien live
at The NAMM Show, which runs from January 20-23, 2005 in Anaheim,
CA.
5.) ***Jay Terrien has added TWO
Parker Fly 5 String Fretted basses to his arsenal. The
Red one is tuned
EADGC and was signed by Ken Parker himself. The transparent
natural finish 5 usually stays in a DADF#C# tuning. You
can
hear the dominating sounds of both the Parker Fly 5 and
Status
Graphite Stealth-2 6 String Headless Fretless Bass
on some very cutting-edge solo bass compositions downloads:
1.) Fastidious
and 2.) Hereiam
You can check out the Parker Fly bass specs for yourself at
PARKER
GUITARS!!!
6.) ***COMPOSITE BASS SHOOT-OUT***
Jay Terrien is conducting a business analysis
of the most popular composite basses on the market. This
shootout will include compare/contrast reviews and pictures
regarding the craftsmanship, electronics, playability, and
customer service-level agreements that exist at companies
like Zon, Modulus, Parker, Moses, Status, and BassLab GmbH.
This highly-detailed and lengthy review will then be submitted
to Bass Player Magazine and other online communities surfed
by educated consumers interested in buying high-end bass
gear.
7.) ***Jay
Terrien got married to Elizabeth E. Jefferis in
Las Vegas on
February 18! The groom and best man, Jay's brother Chris
Terrien, were in fact, both decked out in the now infamous CHET'S
SHIRT, from Larry's David's "Curb
Your Enthusiasm"!! Check out Les
Deux Chet's shirts in action HERE!!! They
were fortunate enough to watch Sasha dance at
Palominos, which led to a nice mini-van escort
ride home by
a wonderful young gentleman named "Enoch
Flowers". He
was even nice enough to introduce us to a few
10 year olds, who at the time, were riding their
dirt
bikes through the outskirts of Las Vegas at 3
AM!!!
8.)***Terrien
is also getting involved as a producer/studio bassist on
two up-and-coming Chicago
progressive/alt.
rock band's album releases. They
plan on doing all of their tracking at the Chicago Recording
Company
and
at
Electrical
Audio,
owned and operated by the infamous Steve Albini.
Don't
forget to check out the Downloads
section for the latest music!
