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Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II  has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.

 

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Entries in Beck (3)

Way Gone Wednesdays: Edo. G

We've come full cirlce. Here's a fresh rhyme that gives a nod to a Beck classic. Edo. G on the mic - the legendary Pete Rock on the beat. Dig it.

Feel Good Fridays: Vacation

Sorry that I've been away for a week. Just had an incredible and much needed getaway with the fam. We hit Forecastle Festival in Louisville, KY and saw the likes of Beck, Jack White, Outkast, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Dwight Yoakam, Jenny Lewis, The Replacements and Spoon. So good. Then we headed to Nashville and got to tour Blackbird Studios (amazing). Then I spoke to the students at Blackbird Academy (thanks to my friend Mark Rubel for both of those). We hit up the Third Man Record Store as well as a ton of other really cool spots. Then we headed northwest to St. Louis. Museums, shopping, the zoo. Good times. I'm back home long enought to get a haircut, do some laundry and go to a wedding - then off to L.A. for another recording session at Warner Brothers. Pfew. 

Feel Good Fridays: St. Vincent

For those not in the know, Beck Hansen has been curating a project called Record Club - which calls on a hodge-podge of musicians to sit down and re-record an album in one day.  Some projects include The Velvet Underground's Nico, The songs of Leonard Cohen and Kick by INXS.  Here's St. Vincent grooving through "Need You Tonight" - quite possibly my favorite INXS song.  Feels good, right?