Erich V has been playing guitar since it was invented and is the owner operator of Allwebco Design Corporation as well as SQuare Peach Music. Erich composed and played all instruments for the SP Drama and Piano sets, and co-wrote all other SP sets other than the Bass set by Rob and some songs in the Acoustic Guitar set done by Mike.
Erich got his start building websites with the creation of Bud Uglly Design in the late 90's. Bud Uglly, and it's sister sites like Ow! and Craaaazy Joe's Interent Bungie Jump, garnered many popular internet awards including a Cool Site of the Day (Back when it was cool) and has been written up in many magazine articles in publications like Yahoo Interent Life, Internet Underground, Web Designer Magazine, Shutterbug Magazine, and Windows Magazine. You can hear his work on the Drama Set page.
Erich plays the guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, bass, fado guitar, flute, piano, keyboards, timbales, and drums as well as engineering all the SP mp3s and designing and maintaining the SQuare Peach website. He also is gifted as far as putting the correct amount oregano on a frozen pizza for snacks during the recording sessions.
Mike is lead guitar player for Heinous Dwayne and has been playing guitar since Tuesday. Mike wrote or co-wrote all songs in the SP Rock, Ambient, Mix, Jazz and Acoustic Guitar sets. You can hear some of his unique lead guitar work on the Jazz Set or Rock Set pages.
Mike plays the guitar, bass, dulcimer, charango, ukulele, shells, gong, erhu (a 2 stringed Chinese fiddle thingy), and china cymbal for SQuare Peach. (He has a particular fondness for the china.)
Rob is the bass player for Heinous Dwayne and has been playing bass guitar for like... a really long time. Rob composed all songs in the SP Bass set and co-wrote the songs in the SP Jazz set. If you listen to the song playing on this page you can hear his rather wicked James Brown impersonation. You can also hear some of his bass guitar work on the Bass Set page.
Rob plays the bass guitar, drums, bongos, congas, djembe, marimba, guitar, piano and keyboards, as well as some more unusual instruments like; beer bottles with a stick, pocket change, punching bag, violin with a guitar pick, and a rolled up carpet for SQuare Peach. He also can eat pizza.
All mp3s on the SQuare Peach website are unique mp3s created by hand using only the very freshest ingredients. These songs are not available on any other website and were written specifically for this website to offer for website music, video and movie soundtracks, on-hold music, Powerpoint and other presentations and any other type of media project without usage restrictions.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS:
Once a week the artist's for SQuare Peach get together to write new songs. Generally we will grab an instrument to get some new ideas about what to write this week, or we will pick the theme we are working on, like Jazz or Rock. The songs are composed on the spot and recorded in a single night. Generally we can do one song in a 3 hour set, but have completed as many as 3 new songs in a single night.
EXAMPLE RECORDING SESSION:
The song on this page "Funkin Wit Dat James" was actually started as a 19 second intro for the intro set (soon to be available). Once we added the voice to the intro we were pretty excited and thought that we could also make a 2 minute song as well with this idea. We started this song with a drum sample from an older Korg Triton keyboard, added some extra cymbals to the beat, then layed down a bass line written by Rob. Once the bass was completed the song was so cool we could have called this done, but being musicians we could not leave well enough alone, so Rob, probably experiencing some sort of drug flashback, started adding some James Brownish "YEAHS", "HAS", and "GET DOWNS" during playback. We decided to add this to the song as well as a Michael Jackson "AHHHHHHHHHHH" from his "Scream" song. Wispering "chucka chucka" seemed to fit in the bridges, so that was added as well. We did some other questionable impersonations during the song that you can hear near the end of the track including a Christopher Walken line from Pulp Fiction and some Wilford Brimley from the 80's Grape Nuts commercial. The last touch was adding the lead guitar with some nice echoy Line 6 sound. So there it is, 3 hours after we started we had the "Funkin Wit Dat James" song that we will offer in our upcoming "Humor Set" mp3 packet.
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