About

Sky Flying By, is a music project. The term “solo project” doesn’t seem to sound right, so this is just a “project.” Its something I do to help make me not so depressed, a vehicle to release anxiety and a tool to use to cope with a world that does not always make sense.

I’ve been in and around the music world for a long time, I’ve played in bands, toured, recorded, been signed to indie labels and didn’t actually care for the “life.” But I love the music. I have a passion for recording (as bad as I am at it) and what I have learned is that by actually doing something with the music I produce actually gives me something to look forward to. That does wonders when you have a major depressive disorder. It also helps that I have Asperger’s Syndrome, this music gives me something to put my laser-like focus on to something, something I care about.

The name comes from a song by Samiam, off of the “Soar” LP. No, I’ll never cover anything, but the imagery of that song and the melody that that amazing band accomplished with that song, it just seemed “right” for me.

My Music Past

Music and I got to know each other when I was but 5 or 6 years old when I would pretend I was Keith Moon, and I would setup my “drum kit” (which was cardboard boxes and pan tops) and would play along with “my generation” and “magic bus,” which would end with the colossal finish with me kicking over my kit. A few years later and I learned to play drums for real. I can remember helping my older brother rig out first real drum kit with these cheap mics we got from Radio Shack and recording along to playing Abacab by Genesis. A few more years past and I joined school band, took lots of lessons (from a great teacher) and generally grew more and more interested in the hardcore punk scene. I received a rather warm welcome into the open embrace of the local hardcore scene by routinely being beaten simply because I was different than the rest of the degenerates that made up the scene. It wasn’t till 1990 and a move to Upstate NY and I started playing in hardcore bands, oddly enough as a guitarist (I had been teaching myself guitar since I was 16).

I played a bunch, did some minor touring, and did a fair amount of recording. I fell in love with recording. I loved the studio, I loved being around all that gear. I would send away for brochures for the likes of Studer, Neve, SSL, Universal Audio, Neumann, Otari and the like. I would read and digest any and all information I could get on gear, and recording. I started building my own little studio, which started out as just a 4-track Tascam cassette recorder. The last band I was in, from 1994 recorded an 8-song record for a tiny little record label in Detroit and the music marked the first real “departure” for me (from the hardcore world).

As the years past, I wasn’t doing anything with music. I was just slowly putting together my own little home studio, which had become a full pro tools system. I hadn’t been doing anything except recording incomplete compositions and posting them in my journal on Slashdot, and that was it.

So as you can see, I am, without a doubt, a nobody. You’ve never heard any of my music. You don’t know my name, and that’s the way it will stay. I’ve chosen to not credit anything I do and all of my music will simply be “Sky Flying By” (unless of course someone else helps, then they get lots and lots of credit!)

My music will remain as anonymous as possible. I’m not a name.