New Single Release BEATIN ON A DRUM

It is with great pleasure that I release my latest single "Beatin on a Drum" this first release is going out to my closest fans and friends then I will release a lyric video and then later as the official music video which is slated to be release in a few months. For now this is the official single. I recorded this in Copenhagen, Denmark at Viktoriagade Studios. I used a several pieces of very vintage gear in doing so. Its all recorded analog meaning I did not edit it digitally in any way, meaning vocal harmonization, tune pitching, or rhythm tracks what you hear is what you get. Which is how I love it. 

The personnel on the recording is a three piece. 

Gregory Boyd- Vocals/Electro-Acoustic Steel Pans
Joakim Øster - Electric Bass
Jens Damm - Drumset

The idea of this song stems from the aggravation that one feels when the world and everything  around us seems so out of control and one just has to do something about it. Beatin' on a Drum is a metaphor for doing whatever one has to do when one is faced having to do something. Standing up for yourself and someone else joining a movement, speaking up for those who cant speak for themselves, creating a way of seeing life all of these things are "Beating on a Drum" in my book and there is nothing like. 

G 

FRESH SONIC EXPERIENCES IN LATVIA

I will be embarking on a new performance opportunity next month. In a way when one writes about something they will do it is kinda like predicting the future as we all know when someone claims thier own adventure one is calling thier own shots and creating thier personal destiny. I am looking forward to calling these. Latvia is a part of the world that I always wanted to explore I visited Riga once by accident on the way to Odessa Ukraine for a festival in 2013 and missed my flight in a fit of Rock Star confusion but we won't get into that.  One can say being an artist is akin to being an explorer. We get to find a place, go sprinkle some magic dust on the situation and then try to bring some kind of new idea to the conversation. I have been living this way for some time now and I cherish every moment. I am a child at Christmas at the idea of going to a place I have never really been to perform music that people there have never really heard. On February 27th of 2016 we will be there in the former Soviet Union to do such a thing. I am in the process of studying all there is to know about the area to show myself approved to conversations concerning history, culture and music. If these topics  indeed come up. I have decided to call this group of performances Caribbean Blues. Because my plan is to hopefully break into Latvia and the rest of the Baltics as the rock blues pop performer that I am. Bringing my signature Hendrix inspired New Orleans shouts and Gospel literal get down. The last time I was this far East people rocked so hard I could have played for them all night and it would not have bothered me one bit. I get the feeling there is a similar energy in Latvia so my spirit tells me it's a good place to begin putting this idea out there. My set will be a mix of original songs, some New Orleans standards like Big Chief, Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Party By the Wild Magnolias and a nice assortment of Blues and Blues inspired old school rhythm and blues songs. There is something to be said about some of these old songs being put on Steelpans especially encorporating my 4-Mallet Quadra-Grip. With my technique I can make the Pan sound like a four note piano so it does these tonal firebrands real justice. There are some riffs that fit so well on Steel Pans I scarcely can imagine another instrument playing it. At least in my head it just belongs there. When I first attempted to deal with Jazz as a place to begin my journey, I was taken aback by the relative ease certain licks or melodies play on steel pans. With this I decided not to play them or basically avoid them all together due to what I saw was an ease of use issue. I simply do not support these ideas anymore.

GREGORY BOYD AT THE WHISKY A GO GO LOS ANGELES 2015

Hope ya'll are good

There is nothing quite like the Amsterdam Vibe! G 

FOREVER LOVE - Gregory Boyd

Got My Steel Pans - Gregory Boyd

Gregory Boyd

Gregory Boyd

Amsterdam was again killer we also performed at Haarlem in a place called Stiels Music Cafe killed that too. Working on June 2014 along with Danish dates we will be back in Holland.

Peace G 

The Case for Independence

The case for independence. I have for many years enjoyed the idea of carrying my own gear to a performance. There is something about having my house on my back that turns me on. Its a strange idea and one that could give back aches as well. But for me it is more an idea of having ones own idea and making it happen for yourself and giving it to the world.

There is just a fierce and proper indepent spirit that drives me and I am in love with it. This is a scope that I will simply make happen until the end. I am leaving for Amsterdam again. I love performing in Holland there is an artist spirit there that I have not felt since living in New Orleans. A kind of abandon that simply feeds my desire to express myself. For those who know me well you know what I am speaking of. This feeling of art, music, and love ripping one completely apart ahhh that feeling I live for. I am working on a few new songs so I decided to chase some old songs and look into how they were written in order to gather some inspiration. One of the artists/bands that I am looking at right now is HOLE. Many may say oh dear the 90's Rock music reckoning yeah in some ways it is but there is a raw completly naked way that many of these songs attract me. So with the looking into this it gives me a another look at my own work with a bit of freshness.

Lord I need loud. I need sound. My Steel Pans are not afraid of Volume. Only I. I am in need of that public that lets me be me. I found it in Japan. I am looking to go back and find them again. I love them in Osaka for letting me out.

G

GREGORY BOYD - KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING

A solo version of one my creations groove along with me the pan is in the mix. Peace G

Odessa, Ukraine 2013

Good Music

Horns Singing

People Jamming

I sweated more that night....