Episode 311 - Steve Issacs of Skycycle & The Panic Channel
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12/01/22 • 46 min
On this episode of Abandoned Albums, Steve Isaacs stopped by Thunderlove Studios to chat about his career. Now Steve is one of those guys who generate positivity.
After paying dues on the coffee house circuit in Los Angeles in the early 90s (that he helped create), he packed up and moved east to become a VJ at MTV right when grunge broke.
From there, he auditioned - and got the gig - for a tour of a broadway play (no spoilers, you gotta listen).
And then, he fronted his band, Skycycle. A band named after the rocket that Evel Knievel (Wile E. Coyote personified ) tried to jump over the Snake River. Skycyle released one EP - Breathing Water - and one LP - Ones and Zeros.
And then fronting another band with 3⁄4 of Jane’s Addiction... while keeping a day job!
Steve Isaacs has one helluva work ethic and a whole lot of creativity.
And he’s a super nice guy!
Listen for yourself!
On this episode of Abandoned Albums, Steve Isaacs stopped by Thunderlove Studios to chat about his career. Now Steve is one of those guys who generate positivity.
After paying dues on the coffee house circuit in Los Angeles in the early 90s (that he helped create), he packed up and moved east to become a VJ at MTV right when grunge broke.
From there, he auditioned - and got the gig - for a tour of a broadway play (no spoilers, you gotta listen).
And then, he fronted his band, Skycycle. A band named after the rocket that Evel Knievel (Wile E. Coyote personified ) tried to jump over the Snake River. Skycyle released one EP - Breathing Water - and one LP - Ones and Zeros.
And then fronting another band with 3⁄4 of Jane’s Addiction... while keeping a day job!
Steve Isaacs has one helluva work ethic and a whole lot of creativity.
And he’s a super nice guy!
Listen for yourself!
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Episode 310 - Matt Mahaffey of sElf - Breakfast with Girls
Geoff Calhoun joins Keith as they talk with Matt Mahaffey, the frontman and visionary behind the band sElf... and so much more. Oh, trust us, you know Matt's work.
Matt Mahaffey grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee, and started writing songs and playing the drums at age 4. He would often perform with his brother, Mike Mahaffey when they were growing up.
By age eleven, he played drums at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge. In the mid-nineties, he moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and attended MTSU. He lived and worked for ten years in Murfreesboro, where he co-founded Spongebath Records and formed the band sElf in 1994.
In the early 2000s, Mahaffey relocated to Los Angeles.
Matt has performed with and produced artists like Pink, Beck, Liz Phair, Tenacious D, Snoop Dogg, Beyoncé, Keith Urban, and on and on and on. He has also worked with various filmmakers, including Ivan Reitman, Michael Mann, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Andrew Adamson, & Hans Zimmer (for film score).
He's also written jingles and composed music for Pedigree, Jumbone, Medicare, and Lexus. His music has been featured on numerous shows, including CSI: Miami, DanceLife, Entourage, MTV, E! Entertainment, Dirty Sexy Money, Weeds, and 60 Minutes.
You get the idea.
He's done a lot.
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Episode 312 - Jordon Zadorozny of Blinker the Star
Blinker the Star is Jordon Zadorozny, and Jordon Zadorozny is Blinker the Star.
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Jordon spent some time in Los Angeles in the 90s, recording the Dreamworks album August Everywhere. While in LA he even lent a helping hand to Courtney Love with Hole's album Celebrity Skin.
It's a testament to his strength that he survived both.
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