M.A.P. Ep.07

Hey friends,

it has been a while but I'm back with a fresh new episode of M.A.P. Check out these groovy summer jams. Hope you all are having a good summer so far!

M.A.P. Ep.06

Hello all you lovely listeners out there. Special episode of MAP today. Since I'm moving this will be the last episode for about a month or so. Today is all sorts of trippy and awesome. Music that connects together. Today is packed full of amazing rock and roll. Please enjoy and I will catch on the next one!

M.A.P. Ep.05

Another lovely Friday and another delicious episode of the Music Appreciation Podcast. Please enjoy the goodness with your ears. 

M.A.P. Episode 4

Another music filled episode of the Music Appreciation Podcast. Today I feature just one artist. This is not to be missed.

New song demo, dead music project.

Hello all,

it's been a while since my last post. the craziness from Summer has settled and now my favorite season Autumn is upon us. I'm hoping to have more time to spend on acting and music projects now that I'm not traveling every other weekend. Although the holidays are right around the corner so we shall see.

I wanted to share a new song demo with you today. I normally would not post a song at this stage in the writing process but the music project I was working on with this guitar player is no more. The trouble with musicians is that they are flaky and unless everyone is really dedicated then everything can fall apart very easily. 

So before you listen, I have just a couple notes about this song. I did not write the instrumental part. When I start working on a song I work on melody and chorus first and then write the lyrics later. So in this case I wrote the melody and chorus but I just made up lyrics on the spot. I have always been good and bullshitting lyrics if needed. I don't meant to say that the words I sing on this are well done and or make a lot of sense, but I think it's OK for being spontaneous. 

I hope you enjoy the track and I'm bummed nothing more will come of this but such is life. I have made this available to download if you end up loving it for some reason.

 - Ryan

Friend of Mine (Lily Allen)

Hey friends,

I got a new mic preamp today that now allows me to record 4 people at a time which is great for future podcasts. But with the tradition of getting new equipment it also needs to be tested. So far I'm happy with the results but I still have some tweaking to do. But without any more explanation here is my newest recording test which just happens to be another Lily Allen song. I always wanted to do a proper cover of this song but that will have to wait for another time. For the moment you get some glorified karaoke. This is the actual instrument track from her album Alright, Still in 2007. Please enjoy and I will talk at you soon. 

Update of Things

Hello friends,

It has been a while since my last update so I just wanted to touch base and let you know about the things that are going down. During Super Bowl weekend I traveled to visit some friends in Reno. I decided to drive since plane tickets were a bit pricey plus I'm always down for a good road trip. Leaving that Monday my girlfriend and I ran into some serious storms that ended up closing a majority of the highways that would take us home. Only one mountain pass was left open so we decided to take it. To summarize this long story the snow chains broke on my tires and we got stranded on a mountain in the middle of a Blizzard! Thanks to local law enforcement and Cal Trans they saved us from being crushed in an avalanche. After we recovered my truck from the snowy mountain the next day, we had a horrendous 14 hour drive back with a messed up brake line. On top of all that I ended up getting bronchitis and my voice has still not fully recovered from it. 

On the bright side a lot of changes for the better have been happening. I recently purchased some new music equipment as I'm currently in the process of working on a new music project. It is in the very early stages but progress is progress. Pictured below is a before and after of my little makeshift studio. On the left is a homemade vocal booth that I have had for almost ten years. I had a hard time parting ways with it as I started my whole voice acting world in that booth. It's where I did all my pro auditions, vocal reels, independent songs and amateur voice work. After so many years the thing was starting to warp and I wanted something that was a little easier to transport. So the vocal shield is what I have now and I also picked up a Shure SM7B. 

I had originally planned to finish a new vocal reel last year and that never happened. That is now back on the books. In tradition of buying new music equipment I always like to do a song test recording where I mainly sing a song performed by a female artist....which is also going to happen. I'm pretty much just waiting for my voice to get back to full strength. 

In other news my buddy Josh will be visiting San Diego at the end of this month and we plan to record an episode of the podcast. I wish the podcast was more consistent but the schedules of us real humans deems it not so. This year actually marks the 10 year anniversary of the album I made with Villains of Vinyl. My plan right now is hijack my own podcast and turn it into a Villains of Vinyl appreciation thing for many weeks. My goal right now is to play the album and demo tracks almost no one has ever heard. I will talk about the songs and give a little insight into the process of these songs. So I will be straying form the subject matter of the actual podcast but who cares it's my show right? 

Last but not least I'm toying with the notion of doing a new podcast that is strictly on this website and will be featured on the Long Walks and Robots blog. It would be a music appreciation podcast where I could intro some songs I have not written and then play them for you. It would be like a mini radio show. I would only be able to have it on this website due to copyright laws. Again this is just an idea I'm tossing around but if you see it pop up on here then I guess you will know it's out. I hope all is well with you dear readers and I'm looking forward to sharing all this new stuff with you this year.

In short I'm glad I did not die on a snowy mountain and my voice should be better soon cause if not what the hell good am I!?

Podcast ready....sort of.

Just a quick post today. I wanted to give a little update on the podcast. The first episode has been recorded but I still need to take care of a few things before I post it. I have a small amount of editing to do and I need to record a little intro song which I think will be quite humorous. Overall I think the first episode went well and as the episodes progress we will sort of ease into the formula we have set for ourselves. Again once the first episode is posted you should expect new episodes on a weekly basis. I also plan on making an email address so we can receive hate mail. I hope you are all well out there and I will speak at you soon.

  - Ryan

In the Beginning!

Hello internet people,

Welcome to my website. Over the years I have experienced many aspects of many different industries. I have worked in music,film, animation and the alcohol industry. While all my work has been spread out over these fields I have never lost my love or passion for art and or the arts. But the amount of consistent work in the field of art/entertainment has been quite lacking on my end for many years. 

My goal is to jump back into this creative pool with a full blown cannonball! I want this site to be my hub of all the things I plan on doing in the next few weeks and for years to come. I have never been the best at social media but I realize that to stay in the game you need to play with the new rules intact. Enough of the old testament and goodbye grandpa pants! 

With that said here is some news about the up and coming. I have been working on a new voice reel that is geared towards animation/video games. I'm hoping to have that finished by the end of the week. I also have a few songs being worked on that will be falling under the We're Only Robots group name. I have been wanting to finish the "1st album" of We're Only Robots for years but since it's a spare time project, I work on it when I can. I hope to have the first album finished by the end of the year...but I have been saying that every year for about 5 years now sooooo please don't hold your breath.  Also on the horizon will be my first ever podcast, all the details and format are still being planned. New episodes will be posted here on the blog/podcast tab and then will be posted to Itunes and other podcast services.

Please keep in mind that this website is a work in progress. As things progress for me so will the site. It's a bit bare bones right now but I plan to keep on adding to it. If you want to read the stupid things I say and see what I'm drinking you can follow me on twitter @Ryan_Lance.

I'm very excited about all my new projects and I'm glad you have found this site.

 - Ryan