Pangaea's People 

Dancey Lady Returns!

 (Written for and dedicated to Paula V. Sherwood)

Where the song name comes from...

"There was this woman in our town who used to exercise every morning by jogging, marching, and twirling an invisible baton in front of an imaginary parade. At the time, we thought that she must have been insane.

She regularly marched along the busy boulevard that I drove myself to work on, sometimes she marched down the center island. 
More than once, I imagined I saw her throw a real baton arcing skyward, only to see it vanish in mid air! 

She became known to a few of us as the "Dancey Lady"." 

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More About MDS

Currently residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Michael is the bassist for the musical group - Entourage, an ensemble featuring three vocalists - Susan Corley, Checky Okun, & Marisa Hausenfleck, with fellow musicians Matt Chavez-drums, Gary Kinchen-guitars, Chris Nolan-guitars, Laura Pirard-Trombone, Lora Zommer-flute/percussion, Paul Petersen-Trumpet/Flugelhorn, and Ken Gilman-violin/mandolin/banjo. For more information about Entourage, visit www.entourageabq.com 

 

Michael is also a member of Mister Right-Now, featuring - Chris Cordova-keyboards, 
Kerry Cooper-drums, David Gonzales-guitar, Raia Crane-vocals, Denise Gonzales-vocals/percussion, and Robert Sherwood-vocals/media. 

Michael's main gigging instruments are a vintage fretless Fender Jazz Bass, and a Fender Precision Bass. Other instruments he plays are a Hohner acoustic bass guitar, a Schecter-Stratocaster 6-string electric guitar, an Ovation 12-string acoustic guitar, a Seagull 6-string acoustic guitar, and a Pimentel 45th Aniversary classic guitar. 

Due to many years of computer experience as a graphic arts professional, and a consuming passion for composition, his recent compositions have been created using Logic Pro Studio on his computer. In fact, Digital Audio production has become his primary focus. 

"I was really excited when I started writing with GarageBand, the tools were all there to get off and running with just my laptop and a 49-key USB keyboard. Dancey Lady, which is modified Apple loops, was the first one I came up with as I was teaching myself the program, and it was incredibly Fun! Inverted was second, And Then Comes the Night was third, and I had just started on Remembrance when I realized GarageBand wasn't cutting it any longer. 

"The nuances and tiny details were getting increasingly tedious and time consuming to edit in GB, and I wanted to find a program that would give me some flexiblity to customize the interface and create my own keyboard shortcuts. Fortunately, the cost for Apple's Logic Pro had recently become affordable for me, because it's an amazing program and I just love it!! It has capabilities that are way beyond my grasp at this time, but the more I learn about it, the more I want to learn about it." 

His recording gear consists of a Mac running Logic Pro Studio, an M-Audio Keystation Pro 88 keyboard, a Keystation 49e, an M-Audio Firewire 410 recording interface, a pair of Mackie 8" studio monitors, a pair of KRK Rokit-5 studio monitors, and a pair of M-Audio BX5a studio monitors. 

Michael is also a freelance graphics consultant, software consultant,  and amateur photographer. 

 

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