New 3-D Joe Satriani concert film Satchurated featuring Mike now available on DVD and Blu-Ray:
Mike & Joe Satriani in 3D!
Mike joins Joe Satriani and the rest of his band for Joe's new 3D theatrical concert film Satchurated, now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Here's a 2D clip of the song "War."
Updates from Mike:
From Mike on Monday, April 23, 2012:
Free show! Wing Beat Fantastic news!
I wish you good day! Seriously!
Allen Whitman and Mike laying down vocal layer upon delicious vocal layer for a Wing Beat Fantastic song. (Photo by the camera in Allen Whitman's right hand.)
Checking in to say howdy and let you know that I’ve been back hard at work on the new album, Wing Beat Fantastic, after my return from Australia and New Zealand with the G3 tour (which was a bloody fantastic time. So many thanks to Joe and Steve and Luke and everybody! My wonderful buddy, Satch bassist Allen Whitman - who just came down to SD to sing [beautifully] on my album! - has done a much better job than I could possibly do recapping the tour on his wildly entertaining blog, which you can and should visit here). So now I’m bearing down hard on Wing Beat and I will not lift my head until it is complete. (Brief recap: this is the album based around a group of songs I’ve co-written with the extraordinary Andy Partridge.) During the last year of working on this I’ve generated a bunch of material, more than makes sense for a single CD, so there will be a special edition featuring a second album called The Cavanaugh Chronicles (unless I decide to call it something else – but there will definitely be a second album). More soon about all of this!
San Diegoids! The rarely seen/heard rock MegaTrio THE HAIRCUTS (Nick D’Virgilio/Rick Musallam/Me) will be appearing in my little hometown ofSan Diego, at UCSD’s The Loft on Monday, May 7. Nick and Rick will be in town performing with Cirque Du Soleil for a few weeks so we are seizing the opportunity to expose our mellow beach town to the same Haircutty madness which has driven Lost Angeles county into a state of mild diversion on at least three occasions. We, The Haircuts, play a delightful selection of our favorite rock and/or funk and/or pop classics, trading instruments wantonly as we go. And the show is FREE! I’m serious about that. And a bunch of Nick and Rick’s Cirque Du Soleil pals will be in attendance, both playing music onstage and cavorting in the audience. Spontaneous acrobatics might erupt!
Some of you may have experienced difficulties with our merchandising arm Moosemart lately-- sorry about all that. It’s currently back up and running, but for the moment only accepting PayPal (which DOES accept credit cards) and checks/money orders. A general upgrade of our online merch world is underway; we’ll keep you quite informed, I promise.
Does anyone have any questions? Feel free to send them to me at mike@keneally.com and I’ll answer them in a future Keneallist, ‘cause why not?
I love you guys!
Mike
Foot For A Day
Mike was asked by his friends in Chickenfoot to provide keyboards and background vocals during their Thursday, March 1, appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Hanging backstage are (l. to r.) Mike, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani, Kenny Aronoff and Sammy Hagar. Their performance of "Different Devil" can be viewed here (they're in the last segment at 38:40).
The Haircuts at UCSD May 7, 2012
Mike and pals Nick D'Virgilio, Rick Musallam and Stan Ausmus tore it up during a free concert at UCSD's The Loft on May 7. The Haircuts project is their way of letting their hair down outsude of their regular gigs. Haircuts members swap instruments during the show with dizzying regularity. The crowd thrilled to Haircutting versions of songs from Shuggie Otis, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys and many more.
G3 + 1
Mike's doing double (some may say triple) duty on the G3 tour-- keys in Joe Satriani's band, plus guitar and keys in Steve Vai's band. Onstage here in Adelaide, Australia on April 3, 2012 are (l. to r.) Steve Vai, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani and Mike Keneally.
Keneally Concert Calendar:
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
Mike Keneally Band NEARfest Apocalypse Zoellner Arts Center Lehigh University
420 East Packer Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18015-3006 Phone: 610-758-2787 Ticket Info
New Guitar Player book features Mike:
Triumphant US premiere of The Universe Will Provide November 18 in LA!
Five years after the Mike Keneally Band's Guitar Therapy Live triumph at LA's intimate Baked Potato club, a most worthy sequel is born. This time, Mike raises the stakes by adding guitarist Griff Peters to the mix, allowing the quintet to rise to new heights of musical power, diversity and subtlety. Live favorites are mixed delectably with seldom-played gems from Mike's catalogue to create a truly astonishing DVD and CD set. The region-free NTSC DVD of the entire September 15, 2010 concert features stereo audio, DTS 5.1 Surround, Dolby 5.1 Surround plus two band commentaries, and the CD comes in scant seconds short of the maximum possible 80 minutes.
Mike Keneally Band is Mike Keneally: guitar, keyboard and vocals, Bryan Beller: bass and vocals, Rick Musallam: guitar and vocals, Griff Peters: Guitar, and Joe Travers: drums and vocals.
This handsome new Mike Keneally Band t-shirt takes the concept of head-rippage to a whole new level. Based on Exowax genius Atticus Wolrab's canny subversion of a once-popular image, this brown beauty sports the disturbingly pleasing logo on the front in two colors (both kinda orange). On the reverse is a small but effective QR Code. Anyone with a smartphone can use it to be zapped instantly to keneally.com! As always, it's a soft, thick, 100% cotton icon o' fashion. A future heirloom, perhaps?
ESCONDIDO, CA, June 2, 2011: The Mike Keneally Band and the Bryan Beller Band (two in the same) gathered at Griff Peters' hilltop retreat to rehearse for their two-night bakin' @ the potato! DVD/CD release concerts at The Baked Potato in Los Angeles on June 3 and 4. Taking a fresh-air break are (l. to r.) Rick Musallam, Bryan Beller, Griff Peters, Joe Travers. New MKB T-shirts and copies of Mike and Bryan's new releases will be available at the Potato. (Photo by Griff Peters)
Recording the bakin'@ the potato! DVD commentary
LEUCADIA, CA, April 24, 2011: The second audio commentary for the Mike Keneally Band's upcoming bakin' @ the potato! DVD was recorded by (l. to r.) Griff Peters, Bryan Beller and Mike Keneally during a late-night session at Chatfield Manor. Bryan was tracking an album by his new band The Aristocrats (featuring Bryan, Marco Minnemann and Guthrie Govan) in Chicago, so he contributed in real time via Skype. Mike, Rick Musallam and Joe Travers recorded their commentary live in the same room the week prior. Mike Harris engineered and Steve Laub videotaped both sessions for the archives.
KMB@UCSD!
LA JOLLA, CA, March 11, 2011: Keneally-Minnemann-Beller rocked a plump house at Porter's Pub on the University of Southern California at San Diego campus. Also on the bill were Kronomorfic and Jeff Kaiser, which resulted in some sweet cross-pollination in the middle of KMB's set. Oh, and artist Vincent Gordon created live paintings during the entire show.
Mike's Recording and Mixing Adventure
LEUCADIA, CA, March 10, 2011: Mike continues to spend his days at Chatfield Manor with engineer Mike Harris mixing and recording a variety of projects, including a new live MKB CD/DVD and Scambot 2. Here he overdubs tabla percussion on a song he co-wrote with XTC's Andy Partridge.
Keneally-Minneman-Beller Hit Holland
TILBURG, NETHERLANDS, February 14, 2011: The first KMB concert of their short February European tour was a great success. The band premiered live renditions of some Evidence of Humanity selections before a full house. Some audience members traveled from the UK and other countries just to see this show. (Photos and video by Paul Berkholst)
You know what you are? You're Evidence of Humanity! This 100% cotton thick n' soft black cotton shirt was frickin' made for you! It's a beautifully simple design-- the empirically accurate EVIDENCE OF HUMANITY statement on the front, Mike and Marco's names and www.keneally.com on the back. What more does any human need? Order yours from MooseMart.com!
One bright morning, world-renowned drummer Marco Minnemann settled down behind the DW kit in his secluded hideaway, punched the record button, and proceeded to pound out an astounding 52-minute improvised solo. When it was finished, he christened it Normalizer 2 and offered it as a sort of gift to a handful of his favorite guitarists, relishing the prospect of each adding his own signature madness to the mix.
Mike Keneally was someone Marco hoped would dig the idea. In the throes of recording his intense and complex Scambot 1 opus, Mike leapt at Marco's offer-- the creation of Evidence of Humanity would be a joyous, freewheeling counterpoint to his meticulous work on Scambot. "A fun ride," Mike would recall. (Of course, Marco recorded his own fantastic version, too, available at marcominnemann.com.)
The ecstatic result is two of the world's foremost musicians improvising together, but not at the same time. It's a record unlike any other that Mike has recorded (but probably closest to Nonkertompf, his indefinable, mostly instrumental 1999 solo extravaganza). Evidence of Humanity seems to have a life of its own, mutating and maturing with each listen.
Accompanying the Evidence of Humanity CD is a region-free NTSC DVD containing a tasty reimagining of the original concept. This time, Mike and Marco got together in real time and vaulted into the ether for another 52-minute musical improvisation, a feat that was videotaped for your pleasure. The DVD also includes an insightful conversation between the two kindred musical spirits, shot in the back seat of a car hurtling toward the cover shoot in the Southern California desert's dilapidated Salton Sea.
Evidence of Humanity's songs:
Respect?
Evidence of Humanity
Three People Run Naked Through School
Tooth and Cold Stone Pew
Now
Bastards Into Battle
You, And Your Problems
Bad Friday
Rough Time At The Hotel
Whoa
Kaa
Clown Removal
Forgive and Remember
Apex Music
Our Collective Wisdom To Date
Trying
A Place to Stay For The Night
Evidence of Humanity DVD's selections:
Elements of a Manatee -- live duo improv (54:54)
A Conversation with Mike and Marco (39:59)
Click here for your free "Evidence of Humanity"
song download!
It's a free song download from Evidence of Humanity, the astounding collaboration between Mike and renowned drummer/Keneally cohort Marco Minnemann. "Evidence of Humanity" is the title track (track 2) of the Evidence of Humanity CD/DVD (a high-quality 256k VBR mp3, a 4.6 MB zip file) direct from the master recording. Enjoy!
When Mike and Marco Minnemann collaborated on Evidence of Humanity, Mike composed and played on top of Marco's prerecorded drum solo. But it raised the question, what would happen if Mike and Marco improvised together in real time? So they met at Marco's secret storage locker/rehearsal studio hideaway and let 'er rip. The startling result (augmented by some overdubbed Keneally bass flourishes) appeared on the DVD that accompanies the EOH CD. So by popular demand, the audio portion of Elements of a Manatee is now exclusively available here at MooseMart as a very high-quality, reasonably priced download. Six bucks, dude!
Guitarist/keyboardist Mike Keneally and notorious drummer Marco Minnemann improvise twice together on the new Exowax CD/DVD Evidence of Humanity. The CD contains the amazing result of Mike composing over Marco's pre-recorded 52-minute "Normalizer 2" drum solo, and the DVD features them coming back for more, this time in real time. Here's a short clip from the DVD's live improv session (entitled Elements of A Manatee) in Marco's lair. (Elements of A Manatee directed by Dave Foster)
Evidence of Humanity Interview DVD Excerpt
The Evidence of Humanity DVD also includes an insightful conversation between these two astounding musicians. Here's a short clip from that discussion, from the back seat of a car hurtling toward the California desert's dilapidated Salton Sea.
Richard Gehr of The Village Voice calls MK a "prog-rock humanist" while previewing the NYC show.
Ytsejam.com calls Scambot 1 "a masterpiece, if you allow it to be."
The June 2010 issue of Guitar Player features an article about Mike, Scambot, Zappa and Dethklok by Barry Cleveland (print only; additional web links here).
Barry Cleveland talks with Mike about the upcoming Normalizer 2 project at GuitarPlayer.com
Kerry Chicoine and Sean Tonar interview Mike about his relationship with music at ProgressiveEars.com.
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Mike and pals Nick D'Virgilio, Rick Musallam and Stan Ausmus tore it up during a free concert at UCSD's The Loft on May 7. The Haircuts project is their way of letting their hair down outsude of their regular gigs. Haircuts members swap instruments during the show with dizzying regularity. The crowd thrilled to Haircutting versions of songs from Shuggie Otis, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys and many more.
