Eric VanLandingham Blog

Video Compilation

pcs800 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:37:45 +0100

A band I play out with "Bottom Feeders". A few seconds of several songs recorded on 06-26-2010 at "The Outer Limits", a local rock bar here. The sound on the video was so surprisingly good that I thought it was worth using as a promo video.

"Great Mistake"

pcs800 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:48:51 +0100

is the name of the latest song posted to my MixcraftLive account. I played drums, guitar and bass on this one, and a Friend of mine who happens to be the vocalist in the band I play out with, did the lyrics and vocals. The song was done as a mixcraft tutorial video which isn't done yet.

Uploaded three cover tunes

pcs800 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:32:35 +0100

Over the past few months I have been on a cover song kick, mostly because of doing drum checks in the studio which I end up playing the whole song and going from there. Anyway, here are some covers for your listening pleasure!

1000 Voices Video Released 05-29-2009

pcs800 — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:11:13 +0100

After months of shooting, editing, tweaking, watching it over and over, it is finally here! This video is for the song "1000 Voices" from the CD "Meet My Demons" which was released on Retrospect Records in December of 2008. The CD is a concept which explains the mind of an anxiety ridden man. This video sums the entire thing up very well. I would like to thank everyone involved: Rick Mendoza - Camera man "A", "B" and "C", video editing and general devotion to the completion of this project. Mike Case - Camera man "D", still photographer, video editing, direction, props and everything he did for the project. Elizabeth Luchenbill - Came up with the video storyline and directed the whole thing. Elizabeth drove to us from Georgia twice during this, now that is devotion! Actors: Mike Case - Guitar Bill Bradley - Drums Matt Hunt - Bass Eric VanLandingham - Vocals, guitar, bass, drums Drums on the recording were done with Beatcraft!

1000 Voices

A couple Cover Tunes

pcs800 — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:07:15 +0100

I posted a cover tune by "Judas Priest" a couple weeks ago or so, and now I'm about to post another one. Today I had some plans that fell through so I decided to come down to the studio and continue my research on why I can't seem to get a good drum sound when recording live bands. After lots of trial and error and talking to other studio engineers, I have come to the conslusion that I need some better mics designed specifically for drums in a studio environment. That is not a cheap solution so I will have to continue using the Shure SM57's and 58's for now. Many of you might know I used to be the "James" figure in a Metallica tribute called "Damage Inc" in the 90's. We toured all over the United States and had one hell of a great time. One of the tunes that used to kick peoples asses right from the start was "The Four Horsemen" (we used to call it "the four whores man"). I did this in about 6 hours, all drums, vox, guitars and bass, mixing, etc etc. So without further rambling, here are links to the songs. Metallica - The Four Horsemen Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

Artist Photo Uploading Help

pcs800 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:38:08 +0100

There seems to be quite a few default artist images floating around out there. I think a lot of you are having trouble finding the area to upload your image. So here it is. control panel>artists>modify artist>upload new artist image

WVOX Interview at 8PM

pcs800 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:36:54 +0100

I will be on WVOX for a live interview at 8pm Eastern time. For those of you in the Rochelle New York area, tune in! If you are not in the area, listen in at www.wvox.com

Radio Interview from January 3rd, now available on web site

pcs800 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:20:35 +0100

Hey people,the "Meet My Demons" promo is going great, I am getting lots of interest from "good to know" people all over the world! The latest big promo effort was with the biggest heavy metal radio show on the net over at theclassicmetalshow.com with Neely and Chris. I interviewed with them in 2005 when this CD was just a concept and just interviewed again on January 3rd. I put the entire thing up on my web site if anyone wants to take a listen. Check it out at... Eric VanLandingham Official Web Site

Interview and CD Review Posted

pcs800 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:32:21 +0100

I did a telephone interview with Hard Rock Haven magazine which is now posted at their web site, there is also a short cd review of my new one "Meet My Demons". Check it out! Listen to the review at Hard Rock Haven's web site here

For Immediate Release

pcs800 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:07:53 +0100

After 5 years of writing, recording, mixing, mastering, artwork, photo shoots, pressing, waiting....the time is finally here. Read the full press release, storyline, see all the artwork, lyrics, and more including how to purchase your physical copy directly from Retrospect Records, or get the downloadbale version from Amazom, iTunes, Emusic, Lala, Napster and other mp3 stores. Click the link below for the press release web site. View Press Release Here

"The Final Battle" uploaded

pcs800 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:27:28 +0100

This song is a pre to the end of the "Meet My Demons" story, it leads you into the final battle which is actually titled "Welcome To Your Funeral. This is the final of three songs that are used as promo for the 12 song CD, no others will be distributed freely as these have been. This song was originally all acoustic guitars, with my first serious use of MIDI added later and is now the final version which will be on the cd and distributed by Retrospect records.

Accepting friend requests

pcs800 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:02:38 +0100

Someone PM'd me asking "My question is... How do I accept friend's requests?" You go to your control panel, then click "fans", there should be an "approve" button next to people who are awaiting your approval.

Adding people as friends/fans

pcs800 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:51:34 +0100

Ok I am sure I am not the only one who looked all over the place trying to add people as friends. It's that whole myspace addiction thing. Go to someones profile and click "fans" at the top, you can request their "friendship" that way. Just thought I'd help clear this up.

Glad to be here!

pcs800 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:25:36 +0100

Alright, let's start building our Mixcraftlive profiles!