February 24, 2003
Andrew will be performing with Robert Farrell and Charley Beck in Canadian Music Week 2003 this weekend in Toronto.
Details:
Friday, February 27
Robert Farrell Band
Opening for Jeff Healey & Morgan Davis
10 pm
Healey’s
178 Bathurst St
Toronto, ON
Saturday, February 28
Charley Beck
11 pm
Victory Café
581 Markham St
Toronto, ON
February 23, 2003
I’ve been busy doing various sessions and live gigs the last few months, I never seem to have enough time to keep the news section of the site up to date. Here’s my attempt at summarizing what I have been up to.
Since my last update in mid-November I have done some one-off dates with the amazing Carole Pope and a boxing day gig with funky/hip-hop band Cosmic Juice, featuring my old band mate Mike Goyette from Artificial Joy Club. Other dates with Charley Beck, Robert Farrell, J.J. Antrobus and lots of dates with The Long Goners.
I will be doing two shows next week with Robert Farrell and Charley Beck as part of Canadian Music Week in Toronto, see the live dates page for details.
Also in November I did some tracking at Dennis Cameron’s studio, DRC Music, outside Ottawa. I also tracked some tunes with a band called Unknown earlier this month at Distortion Studios.
I am also working on a new studio project right now that we are keeping quiet until we get some of the tunes recorded. We’ve been doing pre-production and hope to record in the next month or two.
As far as drum gear goes, I just got one of the Pearl Eric Singer Signature Snare Drums, it’s 10-ply maple shell, and it’s the only snare drum I have been using since I got it. It has a nice warm and rich tone. I also added an 18″x22″ Pearl Masters Studio BRX kick drum to my collection. I wanted to have the option of using different kick drums in different situations.
I have finally added lots of 30-second MP3’s of various recordings I have done with different bands and artists to the audio page. I still have more to out up, but there are quite a few now to keep you busy for a while if you want to check them out.
A few more video clips have been added as well, and more are on the way when I have some time.
Also new on the web site is the Mailing List. If you want to receive occasional e-mail updates about upcoming live dates, please sign-up.
February 2, 2003
Andrew has just completed recording drum tracks for an upcoming album by Ottawa-based band, Unknown.
November 17, 2002
Just added a few more videos to the video page finally! I still have a few more to add in the next little while.
Also another new track from Robert Farrell‘s upcoming CD is on my MP3.com Station page. Robert also has a best of CD coming out as well as the full length CD Sunhouse Fury.
I’ve been doing various sessions and lots of gigs with The Long Goners in the last little while.
I have also been tying out a new product called H3 DrumStick Wax. I have to say it’s an excellent product, it improves your grip on the sticks, so it allows you to play a bit more relaxed without having to worry about your sticks starting to slip.
July 14, 2002
It’s turning out to be a bit of a slow summer for gigs, but with my downtime I am just relaxing and trying to practice a bit more. I have added some more photos to the site and added a new Robert Farrell track, “Jolee”, on my MP3.com Station page. The Robert Farrell Band also performed this song on Canada AM back at the end of May.
The new THERMOclinE EP was just mixed in North Hollywood, CA by our producer/5th member of the band, Jay Ruston. It’s four tracks with the current line-up. I am working on the artwork for the disc right now, but we are still trying to finalize the title. Sample tracks will be posted on the THERMOsite soon.
I did about ten tracks on American artist Sonni Haskill’s new CD with producer Steve Gould. He flew up to Canada and we did the tracks at a studio in Franktown, just outside Ottawa.
And in the last week I got to see quite a few of my favorite drummers. I saw my buddy Randy Cooke with Long John Baldry, Kenny Aronoff with Melissa Etheridge and a clinic by Dave Weckl. These guys are all different, but they are so inspiring to watch.
April 14, 2002
The Aaron Saloman show from Cafe Dekcuf is now available at LiveandDirect.ca. Or see the Video page.
April 3, 2002
You can see the entire THERMOclinE show in March from Cafe Dekcuf at LiveandDirect.ca. Click here to see it (Windows Media Player).
Robert Farrell also just won two awards for “MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR” and “MALE ROCK ARTIST OF THE YEAR” at the NAR (New Artist Radio) Awards in Park City, Utah. They also have video of The Robert Farrell Band (Windows Media Player).
March 27, 2002
Just finished recording new songs with Robert Farrell, Larry Carroll and Bill Lascelles. Also some more new songs for the new THERMOclinE album.
February 15, 2002
From GodsofMusic.com
ARTIST: THERMOCLINE
SONG: VACANT LOT
GENRE: ROCK / RADIO PLAY!
SIMILAR: THIRD-EYE-BLIND, TRAIN, LIT
Reviewing THERMOclinE’s “Vacant Lot”, 2.13.02
First Impressions: Are these guys signed??
THERMOclinE hails from Ottawa Canada and their current line-up consists of Steve Gardiner on Lead Vocals, Aaron Kronis on Lead Guitar and Vocals, Jay Ruston on bass, and Andrew Lamarche on Drums.
This is what today’s radio play pop-rock is all about! These gentlemen liken themselves to Stabbing Westward, Econoline Crush, STP, and Filter, but do not let this influence your decision to listen to them. I am a fan of most of the aforementioned groups, but I do not hear them in this tune. What I do hear is an original song, which if played every day at 5:PM on the radio, would generate platinum status album sales! If you are into today’s hits from such artists as Nickelback, SUM41, Train, Lit, and Third-Eye Blind, then I guarantee that you will like THERMOclinE!
“Vacant Lot” is a 3:29 A&R dream. This song has everything it needs to satisfy both the musician AND the average audience. It is short. It is to the point. It has absolutely no wasted space. The chorus sticks in your head, and it is FUN to sing a long with! The musicianship is tight, slightly difficult and very well produced. The dynamics rise and fall appropriately from verse to chorus. I can find very little that I would have done differently in this song. Even the guitar solo falls directly into the category of “Today.”
Since the fall of the guitar solo (most commonly noted as being destroyed by Nirvana and Nevermind) guitar solos have become much shorter, less flashy, and more hooky. Aaron’s solo in “Vacant Lot” adds a hook to the music without distracting you from the song itself. It belongs here, and it would be missed if it were removed. I absolutely love the mode contrasts from the verses to the choruses as well. Especially in the middle when the crunchy guitars emphasize the eighth notes!
I will be singing along with this chorus for quite some time!
“I want to forget now
I want to forget now
It’s the way you looked at me
If I don’t remember you
Then you will remember me”
I am adding this song to my station on Mp3.com because it is THAT good!
John E. Tate IV
February 6, 2002
One of Aaron Saloman‘s tracks I played on, “Muse’s Whip” will be track of the day at Garageband.com, in the hard rock genre, tomorrow, Thursday, February 7th. If you want to hear any of Aaron’s other music see his MP3.com page.
There’s some new photos on the THERMOclinE site, and I posted a video clip of THERMO from Breakfast@the The NewRO on my video page.
January 17, 2002
Just finished recording some tracks for the upcoming THERMOclinE album, we also had some TV stuff last week. I’ll try and get some video up soon. You can download a MP3 sample of the new version of “Vacant Lot” off the THERMOclinE site, which features Steve Gardiner on vocals.
And here’s a photo of my new Pearl Kit. That’s at about 7am at the Breakfast @ The NewRO show we did last week in Ottawa.
January 3, 2002
The new year has started, there have been many ups and downs in the last few months, hopefully this will be the start of a good year.
Lots of THERMOclinE stuff coming up in the next week and a bit, lots of TV stuff. Have a look at the live dates page for updated events. We have already started working on new songs for a new CD that we’ll hopefully be doing soon. My long time friend Jay Ruston has stepped in to play bass for us, and it’s been great. I have worked with Jay producing in the studio so many times, but it’s cool to play with him now (Jay co-produced the last THERMOclinE record).
I am now using Pearl Drums, I just got a beautiful Masters Studio BRX (Birch) kit and a few new snare drums, everything is cool, very well built and great sounding drums. Check my gear page for what I’m using (I haven’t updated the graphic yet!). I should have some photos soon.
Other shows coming up this month is the Charley Beck (AKA: Sarah Sedgman) CD Release Party at Barrymore’s in Ottawa on January 25th.
November 4, 2001
Just completed recording for Sarah Sedgman‘s upcoming album. Look for a CD release party in January 2002.
I also was in the studio with Robert Farrell, tracking some music for a instructional video for a sports product.
The Artificial Joy Club web site is back up, thanks to Craig Schock who has been looking after the server where it’s hosted. I still get quite a bit of e-mail about Artificial Joy Club. The site doesn’t have anything new on it, it’s just up for all the fans who are looking for it.
I have been using the Pearl Rythm Traveler Kit for The Long Goners gigs and some rehearsals. It’s very cool and it’s really portable. It is quite good sounding as well, for the size of the drums, they are very punchy and have good attack. I’m hoping to try it out in the studio some time soon.
October 16, 2001
After I posted this the first time, I am having so many memories and thoughts. I have personally had so many calls and e-mails from friends, fans and musicians. I also maintain the band website and generic mail accounts, I have been forwarding the e-mails we have been getting to the rest of the band.
We are bringing one of Jay’s basses to the wake to put with our flowers. We talked about it as a band today, and we decided if it were us, we would want a piece of our lives there as well that people would remember.
Jay in no way seemed to me as if he was having trouble or distressed in any way. He was the same as all of us, trying to do stuff to make money to pay bills — basically he was living life like all of us. Sometimes we have no money to pay bills, to do something fun, whatever. It’s life and we all deal with it and live with it.
I’m not the only one who can not understand why he would take his own life. It doesn’t make sense. So many people have said that they could never imagine Jay doing that. And some of these people have only met or talked to Jay very few times.
We have used the band site and I use my site only for positive stuff, I never thought I would be sitting here writing stuff like this.
Today when I was doing the picture of Jay for the THERMO site, it was some of the deepest sadness I have ever felt. When we wrote the statement as a band and proofread it over and over I could only cry. I am trying not to. We are human, we have feelings and I am not afraid to show — I am sad, confused, hurt and even broken hearted over this. And I am sharing it with you.
I know the music and the shows we played as a band will live on in memory and spirit. This was part of Jay. Music is a big part of all our lives, even if we don’t know that. It really doesn’t matter if you like it or not, it was/is an artistic and creative moment in time.
Peace,
-drew