Johnny Genius

Pailboy Is Featured On Fuzz!!!!

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:19:14 -0700

Pailboy will be releasing several mixtapes using the DeckoRator mixtape during our feature here on fuzz. If you have not checked out Pailboy, GO DO IT NOW!!!! We will be putting up several tracks for free download next week to entice your ears. If you like what you hear favorite us for updates and alerts for free downloads from us in the future.

Aspiring rappers and R&B singers check out our Pailboy Beats and Production page here on Fuzz. On that page you will find beats we have for sale starting next week.

Check below for this post for another mixtape from Pailboy. This one we are showing off our rocking tracks. Most of these tracks were recorded in a small practice room at Soundwave Studios and were performed by various members of the now defunct band The K.G.B.

Rock on,
Johnny Genius
Pailboy. Maldroid. Royalty.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:03:43 -0700

How Bout this frickin' site!!!! Give it up to "The Goat". You guys have made this site look so rad. Congrats!!! I know you have all been working hard on it for the last few months. I have to say it has been well worth the wait.

I to have been hard at work recording, mixing, and producing several projects that will soon be unleashed on your ear holes. Maldroid went into the studio a couple of weeks back to record a few more tracks to round out what will be Maldroid's first full length album. The next record we will be releasing, prior to our full length, will feature the songs "He Said, She Said" and "You Can Have It All". These two previously released songs have been spiced up thanks to the "Backbeat Wizard" Michael Urbano and pure brilliance from DIvine Genius. We have had our fingers crossed in hope of Amp Live doing another remix for us this time around and it looks like it is going down. Pailboy has been hard at work on new recording new material. We are going to be releasing a bunch of "Decorator Mixtapes" of unreleased material, b-sides, and songs that have samples we will never get cleared. Check out our Halloween Mixtape at the bottom of this post. "Halloween Story", "Cherry Bomb", and "I Want The World" are all up for free download until next Thursday when we will put up new songs for download. Royalty is recording a new E.P. and it is sounding great. I am also working with local darlings Panda who are changing their name soon. Send them your ideas for names at panda.fuzz.com ... they need help!! Last, but not least, I'm mixing the Switchblade Riot record. These guys have put their blood and guts into this album and I think we got that visceral feeling on the record.

Anyway, I'm back and will be starting a recording tips, tricks, and advice Blog here on Fuzz beginning next week. I will be taking questions from Fuzz users about the vast world of recording music. I will do my best to give the info you need to make your home or studio recordings the best they can be. I will also feature interviews with other music makers that can show us all a few things. So start thinking of questions you would like to have answered. It could be anything from how to make the best home recording using a four track (do they even make those anymore?), to advanced questions about recording with Pro Tools or other professional recording gear.

Till Next Time,
Johnny Genius
Maldroid. Pailboy. Royalty.

Hi-Fi Royalty Video (Fuzz Exclusive)

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:57:38 -0700

Hello everyone,

Many people have been asking for a high quality version of the "Rights" video. Thanks to Fuzzygroove your wish has been granted. See the high quality version exclusively on our Fuzz page. Click the link below.

On a another note...On August 9th Royalty will play with Maldroid at The Stork Club in Oakland. THIS WILL BE ROYALTY'S LAST SHOW (before we take a sabbatical). In our time off Tommy will be working for National Geographic in Washington D.C., Mike will be going to graduate school in New York City, Ronnie will be building the skyline of San Francisco, and I (Johnny) will start work on Royalty's long awaited 2nd effort in recorded music as well as working with other bands such as The Phenomenauts, Maldroid, Switchblade Riot, Panda, Pailboy and the long awaited solo album from the "Backbeat Wizard" Michael Urbano titled "Drums,Drums,Drums".

Till next time, be good but not to good.

JG

On My Block

Tue, 22 May 2007 01:58:56 -0700

On my block tonight I have heard gun shots to numerous to count. So far it's been two gun fights about 20 minutes apart. The cops are driving around now, but they look lost.

Being a recording engineer and musician I am fascinated with sound. The strangest thing about tonight is that besides the gun shots, it is silent outside. No screaming no crying no sirens no "ghetto bird" no cars signing names in the pavement. Just silence and a bird chirping.

I live in Oakland, the city I grew up in. I love this place but sometimes it gets to me. Every city has it's dark sides, but this one has such a bright one as well. The music and art coming out of this city is some of the best I have experienced in my life. Oakland needs to be recognized for something positive soon. There is something bubbling up here, and when it pops, this city will go down in the books as the home to one of the most influential, forward thinking, and powerful art scenes in the world.

The cops gave up and are no longer driving around looking lost. The bird stopped singing. It is silent.

Royalty Tonight!!!!!

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:52:04 -0700

Kinda last minute but if anyone is looking for something to do tonight.....

Royalty at Bottom Of The Hill Doors at 8pm we are first at 8:30 or 9:00. We have shirts for sale for the first time ever thanx to Todd of Maldroid. The rest of the show is going to rad as well. DESA, Facing New York and An Angle. Hope to see ya'll there.

JG

This last week I...

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:55:44 -0700

This last week I...

discovered that the album we are recording with the Phenomenaut's may be lost forever due to some jimmy rigged hard drive. Possibility the whole album is gone. We'd almost finished the record as all that was left were some Genius mixes.

dealt with a blow dealt to my '73 Les Paul Signature by Ryan's flailing arm at a practice just 3 days before our show. Fucking ass hat.

learned ridiculous amounts about wine from Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, and Chile. Tasted 20 different wines or at least that's where my memory cut out.;-)

found out that The Phenomenauts hard drive might possibly, maybe be able to be fixed. If so it would F-ing kick ass.

nailed down some recording time with Switchblade Riot to finish the album we started recording last year.

fixed my guitar my own damn self with old parts. Truly fixed? Probably not.

solidified the dates to record The Hot Toddies record. I am so excited to record some more with those girls. Those girls are really swell.

I killed Adam from DESA... for the Royalty video. He took a guitar to the brain. A noble way to die.

Pailboy finished and submitted a remix of the Eminem song "Jimmy Crack Corn" for a contest. We will be featuring it soon on our page here on Fuzz.

played a kick ass show on Friday with Maldroid. Thanx to all the Fuzzies for coming out, thanx to all the friends who came out, thanx to all the new fans for checking us out, thanx to the rock gods for shining upon us all.

Next week....
More death, vino, girls and mindless internet tv.
'Til then

JG

P.S. Check out Maldroid's latest episode of doldrums and despair on MaldroidTv.

Here's a little story I like to tell...

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:35:27 -0700

I was running down the hall with Ronnie on my back fresh off a kill, we passed Mikey as he thrust his sword into a unsuspecting passer by. Tom just in front of us now as I pick up speed, slices the head off of an A's fan. Ronnie riding on my back, hoists a bloody severed leg up over his head swings and hits the head (now lying on the ground) a perfect polo shot. Then it happened...I hit a pool of blood that sent me skidding like a 16 year old driver in the rain for the first time. Ronnie still on my back, "Big tree fall hard". The video for "Rights" is looking great and my body is looking beat up. All in the name of art or something.

JG

The Codes!!!!!!!

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:22:44 -0700

the codes are lost. save me Obi Won Kenobi you are my only hope. we hit it with a hammer, nothing. it is currently in the freezer at the command center. say a prayer. might be the best demos we ever did if all fails. fuck.

JG

P.S. coming soon...."Johnny and The Ryans"...........

Featuring Ryan from legendary band DESA and Ryan from buzz band of the year Maldroid. Also appearing...Ryan that guy from that other local Oakland band Switchblade Riot (Riot!!!). Last and least Johnny from such famed bands as afore mentioned Maldroid, Soul-Punk-Rock group Royalty and the dark and seedy Pailboy.

My First Blog....

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:09:21 -0700

Just wanted to break the seal on this blog thing. I can't be sure why anyone would care about anything I have to say but you are going to start hearing it anyway. Royalty is playing on Friday at the Stork Club in oakland on friday the 6th. If you can you should come hang out as it is "First Friday" as well. For those of you not in the know, "First Friday" is when a bunch of cool art gallerys have open houses. It all happens around the area where the Stork Club is so come and check out some good music and good art.

JG