Road Dogs

There I was, on the road, in a 10 - piece multi-racial, Top 40 funk band.

Fresh out of 1st year music college.

Gigging was fun, gigging was addictive. 

It was "summetime and the living was easy", even the ugly musicians got laid every night.

Most musicians loved it and so did I. 

But I could see my future, and it wasn't looking pretty.

Life was unsafe sex, hard drugs and that good ole fashion rock n roll.

By the time we reached Montreal, after driving 5 hours from Toronto,

 it was obvious the drummer was an alcoholic.

I had to get out of there, I had to get back home.

 Unlike the other musicians, I was determined that going forward, I needed to play my own music.

But first we had to get away from the groupies...

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A L 101 (Acoustik Love Vol 2)

There I was playing with the best musicians in T.O. Sometimes I would spot someone playing Violin in the audience and call them onstage. There was the night when Jeff Burke (Bassoon) walked in, it was pure magic, everything Jeff plays is sheer perfection. One day while he was busking, Jeff had allowed to try out his Theremin ( Doctor Who theme song, Good Vibrations by Beach Boys), but that's another story. On stage playing Piano / Guitar while singing,I felt at home, although I was mainly focused things like not forgetting the words, making sure my guitar was in tune, etc... But it didn't matter, after all I was surrounded by the best of the best: The core group was Leh-lo on Drums, Tom Mckay on Guitar / Bass, Roger Williams on Bass, Dave (Soulfingerz) Williams on Keyboards. Oh yeah, back story: except for Tom, me and the boys met and played together years before at Humber College, during the 1st year Music Program. That summer I went on the road with a Top 40 and never completed college. At school I spent most of my time in the soundproof booths composing classical and jazz tunes, the musicians said I was Outside... They called me DOC as in The Mad Scientist, an Alien from another planet... https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pam-grier-centerfold-stormm-bradshaw.html female nude paintings

Acoustik Love Volume 1

After Electrik Sex Musik I was burnt out, the last thing I felt like doing was promotion... I needed to do something new. One day on Queen St west I ran into Roger Williams (bass player). Roger told me Tony (Leh-lo) Rabalow (drummer) was hosting an open mike at the Cameron House. I decided I would go and try out some new songs, I would sing them while playing guitar or piano just to see what worked. Most of the time when I went on stage, at some point other musicians would just join in. There were no rehearsals just spontaneous jamming, there was no way to predict what would happen. In hindsight, this was the best thing that could have happened. Fortunately I got the idea to pay the Soundman to burn a CD of each performance. Musicians would literally walk in off the streets, like what I was doing and join in. There was no way I could have planned this. This was life on the edge, there was no telling what could happen? https://fineartamerica.com/featured/julie-anderson-stormm-bradshaw.html

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Electrik Sex Musik

Electrik Sex Musik was my first album. It was to be my calling card, or so I though? Over the course of several years, on my days off from being an Extra and sometimes Actor in TV Film and Commercials. I would ride my bike across town, to Soundproof Studios at The Beaches (Queen & Victoria Park). Mainly I began by tranfering the basic tracks I had recorded / sequenced on my Ensonique ESQ 1 (synthesizer keyboard), and Kawai R50 (drum machine), into Logic Audio. Then I would record all the instruments: guitars, bass, keyboards etc.. singing all the vocals harmonies. It was a labour of love. Just me and the engineer / studio owner Stefan. The process: lay down the basic track, get a recording, go home smoke some weed listen to what I had, adding the parts I heard until each song felt complete. Once I reached 11 songs I decided the album was done. What I learned was the art of imperfection: whenever I got to the point where one - three changes were necessary to make a song sound perfect, that's when it was time to I stop. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sam-cooke-stormm-bradshaw.html celebrity pop paintings

Back In The Game

It's been a while, like 10 years. Took some time out to paint. Now I'm back in the blogging game... Sometimes one has to stop the routine in order to grow. Where did I go? What did I do? In time all will be revealed. For now I will be learning how to navigate this site. So much has happened, so many tales to tell. What more can I say. I bid thee WELCOME... https://fineartamerica.com/featured/fela-stormm-bradshaw.html musician paintings