Promotion: Garry King (Exorcism / Darkyra Black / Jeff Beck / Joe Lynn Turner /Achillea) - Drummer / Producer / by Lior "Steinmetal" Stein
July 15, 2014
METAL TEMPLE presents Garry King, a variety styled, high standard and multifarious drummer, a proficient and diverse rhythm section mastermind in the arts of Rock and Metal music, yet can also master other fusions and genres with the same dexterity and form. King is also an owner / producer of an in house studio, recording himself and other artists through various medias and options.
Garry provides services as a session drummer and studio producer / mix engineer. His work will surely upgrade and escalate any project / EP / Album. His vast experience and influence can become a vauleable asset to any musician / group that wishes to reach to the top.
METAL TEMPLE recommends Garry King, a veteran in his field and quite an artist to be working with.
For more info, please long in to:
https://www.garrykingmic.com/
Inquiries for Garry:
artists@laforetgroupe.com
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Steinmetal had the distinct chance to talk to Garry about his experience as a musician, earlier works and his view of the future.
Hey doing great
I'm originally from the UK, lived in the US for many years and had the opportunity to work with some amazing musicians including Jeff Beck and Joe Lynn Turner. I run a small recording studio (mainly for drums) in South West France.
I think the first one for me had to be working in the studio with Jeff Beck, which was the coolest thing and he is a real nice guy. That's where I got my real passion for guitar even though I can't play one. Second was getting the chance to work with Joe Lynn, something we actually arranged and produced taking the shows to Brazil in 2009 and 10, Joe is a total professional.. I also ran a music / motivation program which was very successful in the US. This to me showed that music had the power to instill life skills to young students; music is very powerful and will always get people's attention.
Actually I joined Exorcism and was also asked to record drums for the second Ravenlord record at the start of 2014 but I'm not involved in that.
There was an ad that went out looking for drummer, I submitted a demo track to the guys for Exorcism that was sent to me "End of Days" and recorded a demo drum track for it and that was it really, I'm not sure how many people went for it but it worked out well for me and the recorded came out well. Everything was done via the internet which is a pretty normal thing's these days and works real nice.
Yes this is in my opinion a great piece of work and as we like to call it 'Theatrical Music'
I was asked to originally do one track though my producer friend in Greece George Boussounis from Online Recording Masters for the song 'Tears by Candlelight' At the time I was working with Paul Jupe a long term friend from the UK on some new songs he wrote which we gave the working title 'Achillea'. Darkyra heard what we had done and the mix, liked it so bought me in to do the whole thing with George, so we got in our guys to play and work on the record including the orchestra guys (Lords of the Strings) and I mixed it here in my studio and George mastered it.
We have just finished the main recording of her second record which is amazing and will mix it later this year. I'm sure she will get a lot of interest with these two great records as its unique, interesting, heavy and rather special.
Yep for sure, I have always been lucky with most of the things I have got involved in, but of course things go wrong and you look back and say "If only I had not done that" but these things happen. When I was in the US I had many problems due to not dealing with things that needed sorting out in good time, I learnt from that mistake straight away. Also the biggest problems come from trusting the wrong people. I think you know what I mean; you get that gut instinct that tells you this is not going to go well with this guy but you go along with it to show willing and then it comes back to bite you on the ass, so go with your instincts! But again it's all learning about the right way to do things. Being a musician today is not just about playing well or fast, it's about being a complete package that has a business head on their shoulders, most people think they have this but in reality very few do, I could go on forever about this!
I like the gear and I think I have a good ear, so for me just being a drummer is only a small part of my industry, if I relied just on drums I would not keep busy enough. I got into more of the mixing and editing a few years back and I love it, I just do my own thing and hope people like it. It's all about being part of the whole process but of
course we can't do it all, so I don't pretend, like many that I also master music, I don't, that's a specialized job that need a pro just in that field, so we send anything that's mastered to George who is a professional at this.
I think being able to take someone's ideas and work with them to make a great end product is an amazing thing to be able to do. I always get involved with them one on one as well so it's not just about the end result it's about the connections you make along the way.
I live in a big old restored barn so I have lots of room. I built my drum room way back and now actually have two drum recording rooms, a small and a large. The sound seems to be good and controlled and as most drummers know this is the hardest thing, getting a good sound and not driving neighbors mad.
I spent a lot of time researching to build the rooms and treatments, are they perfect? NO! but they work. I also have a nice little separate control room that's set up and looks and feels great. I love being in there and I built a lot of the stuff like desk, speaker stands and so on myself, so it's all very personal and looks retro. I do most of my stuff 'In the Box' using plugins but have some select ones I like to use like the SSL and Oxford stuff. I'm able to record up to 24 tracks of drums simultaneously which is cool for room mic's and so on but normally only use a max of 16.
Well basically to keep working and getting my name and product out there, after all it's a job and my living so the more I do the better, plus it's what I love to do. New recordings day to day and editing for some new clients, basically to keep going and to get out and tour again this year.
Thanks a lot M.T, yes all I would say to anyone who reads this, Music and being an artist is hard work at the best of times, but keep going and believe in what you do, it makes it worthwhile in the end. Please for anyone else, Buy Music! Don't automatically look for the free download pages, its killing the industry and the people who make the music, it makes it difficult to keep recording and making original music and, music is cheap these days so support bands, their recordings and help us all to keep doing what we love to do.
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