Phillip Dresser

1. “NO.tHingXb” [MP3 (In Briefcase)] [REAL AUDIO]

2. “Staring Out Windows” [MP3 (In Briefcase)]

3. “You Ate Them” [MP3 (In Briefcase)] [REAL AUDIO]

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“Cool overdubs, I like the melody on the cymbal or whatever that was. The vocals were too distorted to make sense out of what you were snging, but the whole vocal thing had a cool vibe on it.”

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Born: July 22, 1983... I was raised by parents who consantly listened to whatever was on country music radio stations, and this is really the only music i knew until 12 or 13. I was very introverted in my childhood and early teens and became quite content with finding ways to amuse myself alone. I had always fiddled around one little toy keyboards as a child, and easily figured out melodies and chords.

In my early teens, being sick to death of country music, I started developing my own musical taste which at the time was basically mainstream rock, lots of post grunge. At 14 I decided I wanted a guitar for christmas. I got i crappy little guitar from sears and taught myself partially by ear, partially by books and guitar magazines. I caught on pretty quickly and became very absorbed in playing guitar. It consumed the majority of my spare time through highschool.

After i had been playing guitar for about 2 years i decided to start taking classical guitar lessons, mainly to expand my knowledge of theory and to improve my technique and to become familiar with a different style of music. I took on quickly and my teacher skipped me through a few grades, until i was playing grade 6 pieces. Eventually i played my first solo at a local music festival. I really hated the environment, with all of the snobby phony type people that were watching me play. I then decided that I did not want to work in order to entertain that type of person... I really hated how formal and proper everything was. Finally I realized I had gotten all that I wanted out of classical lessons and I decided to quit. By this time I was listening to a lot of radiohead, silverchair's neon ballroom, portishead, and some more underground artists.

Since quiting classical lessons i have never sat down to practice guitar. I lost all interest in improving my technique and attempting to pull off impressive solo's. So I just began writing.. writing lots and lots of songs.. only recording ideas onto a little stereo. After a while I bought an analog 4-track recorder and for a while I worked on finding my own sound. It took a while. I experimented with many different sounds, styles, approaches to songwriting, singing voices, etc... eventually i developed into what i felt was right for me. To me the most important aspect was putting all of my emotion into every song, and the result was my sound.

I've currently finished recording, mixing, and producing my first cd (which i will gladly mail to anyone who wants one, by the way) . I currently work in a pet store, because i really love animals and live a vegan lifestyle. Some of my favourite artist and greatest influences are: John Frusciante, Nirvana, Radiohead, Smog, Neutral Milk Hotel, Portishead, Fugazi, Tori Amos, Flipper, Slint, Bob Dylan, (new) silverchair, Syd Barrett, Clinic, The Residents, Chainsuck, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Jandek, Beck, June Of 44, etc.