BLACKSTONE
RIVER BAND
George Lallier and H.V. Tyler are unique, universal, seasoned musicians, who both have careers in the music industry spanning over 35 yrs in the business, as performing artists, songwriters, studio musicians, and record producers. They currently own JAG Productions, which is the mother-company to JAG Records, JAG Publishing, and JAG Merchandising.
Semi-Retired, they spend a great deal of their time writing, recording, and producing, whether it be on their own band material, or with some of their many musician friends. Their love for music has inspired them to take an interest in the development of many of the young artists of today, and are intrigued with the amount of talent that flows over the world wide web.
Both play numerous instruments, enjoy singing, and are open to all styles and music genres. They are friends and fans to many in the business, and continue to enjoy meeting and working with new and upcoming artists and performers, and are always more than willing to lend an ear in the studio.
They currently record under the band name: BLACKSTONE RIVER BAND, (named after an actual river that runs through George's hometown of Cumberland, RI), but have both performed and recorded with numerous other musicians and bands, both big and small, and are scheduled to release an album in early 2013, with a promotional US tour.
The entire Hotel Room Demos album was written, recorded, and produced in an actual master suite of America's Best Value Inn Hotel, in Virginia Beach, VA, on a Tascam dp-03, portastudio multitrack digital recorder. The only instruments used were a Yamaha midi-controller keyboard, and three guitars, (Tyler's custom Gibson Les Paul, and Taylor guitar, and George's Ibanez V-series elec/acoustic guitar), and a Line 6 500 series effects pod. The vocals were recorded in classic garage style fashion, by placing a Sure SM-58 vocal mic in the tile section of the hotel room bathroom.
"We were just bored out of our minds, so did what musicians do when they're bored,,,,make music. When we realized we had enough songs for an album and was bored with writing, out came the Tascam and we began laying tracks. By the end of the trip, we had a complete album written, recorded, and mastered in as basic a format as you can get, so we pressed the album just the way it was when we got back to Nashville, with that stripped-down raw sound. John Lennon did it all the time".
A&R reps for JAG Records reviewed the album, and were just blown away with the bare bones approach to the making and results of the album, and insisted the company release the album, stating it was a rare collector's album, that would one day be considered a classic album. Newspaper headlines in the entertainment section has sparked sales of the album making it a #1 seller in the private music sector.
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