photo by Jason O'Donnell- http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonod/ -2008
The Hot Place continues to record tracks for their upcoming 2010 release . The band is currently working at Southern Tracks Recording, and a few satellite locations, under the houndstooth cape of "Sir Dandy" himself, contributing musician and Producer Jeff Calder. Working with the Hot Place in the studio at Southern Tracks are Greg Fern Quesnel, and engineers Tom Tapley and Darren Tablan. Also contrubuting to the recording team is Tim DeLaney of Electron Garden Studio. Mike Lynn, formerly of Betty's Not A Vitamin and Unminded continues to work with Lisa, and act as both a contributing guitarist and Executive Producer on the project. Swimming Pool Q's alumnus Robert Schmid is playing drums with the band, and providing a most excellent rhythmical backbone for the sound. Lisa King is acting as songwriter, and she is playing the majority of the instruments on the album, including bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, and vocals.
The band's first single, 20th Century will be released in 2010, which will feature both a Stereo and Mono mix of the song. A limited edition of hand-silkscreened CD singles will be available for a short while, of this release. A full-length recording is expected to be released in late 2010.
A Background of Lisa King:
I started playing music when I was five. Piano was the first instrument that I was drawn to, although I did like my air organ, tambourine, and xylophone a whole lot as well. The first albums that I spun as a kid, were my Mother's Doors, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Eagles, and Johnny Rivers records. I would play those along with my Dad's Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and Platters albums. It was a mishmash of several styles, but Jim Morrison's voice, and ominous presence on the first Doors album cover, and Robert Plant's whine, and mess of rock and roll hair really made an impact on me as a child. I remember lying in a patch of sun next to a french door, and listening to those albums, and thought THIS is what Rock and Roll means. Like, if someone referred to Rock music, I thought they meant Led Zeppelin!
Pretty soon, I started subscribing to sheet music magazines, where they would include Roxy Music, Steely Dan, Queen, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and David Bowie's stuff. I learned to play these songs on piano, and sought out their albums before I had even started High School. Along with jazz and classical pieces that I had to learn for piano recitals, I enjoyed banging out some rock piano in my spare time...
Soon, I discovered Punk and New Wave, when I started listening to my cousin's album collections. I'd spend the night at their house, and stay up all night listening to Blondie, the Ramones, Adam and the Ants, and would hijack my friends' older brothers and sisters Siouxsie and the Banshees, Iggy Pop, and Sex Pistols albums. In High School, I started buying stuff like Bauhaus, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins and Christian Death albums (along with "questionable" clothing) from England, and was won over forever by the British Post-Punk sound. I was a big fan of 4AD, and Beggars Banquet, and bought everything they put out. Much to my parents horror, around age 13, I picked up a bass guitar. I was totally won over. I borrowed a bass from a friends older brother, and I played it thru my Marantz stereo speakers, (I don't know how I didn't blow them out!) I played along with bass lines of The Cure, Jesus and Mary Chain, and The Church,... and that was it. I wanted to get a band together.
My first High School "garage" bands, so to speak, were with friends Rob Knight (drummer) and Travis Kotler (guitarist). I occasionally sat in with their band, Grave Shift. However, most of my time was spent collaborating with Travis, who went on to play with Pineal Ventana. Rob played with The Blacktop Rockets, among other bands. In the late eighties and early nineties, I worked with Andy King and David Courtney in an experimental modern-classical and industrial band called Threshold. This band made a lot of recordings, amounting to about 3 albums worth of material, and was very prolific in the home studio. David went on to play with The Spectremen, and has a new project called Tenguzame, which will be releasing a single on an Australian compilation CD with a very special version of Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne." Andy and I formed Unminded in the mid-nineties. Joining Unminded were Mike Lynn and Ivan Ruyle of Betty's Not a Vitamin. For a short while, at live shows, Unminded was joined by Vic Richard, a Los Angeles based bass player. Also joining the band onstage was Chris Lynn, who currently plays in Citizen Icon. In early 2001, I began playing keyboards with the Glenn Phillips Band, and with the Swimming Pool Q's. I played and toured with both bands for around 3 years. In 2005, I started writing new songs, and recording material in a small studio, which would be the basis of my most current band, The Hot Place. Although I am playing most of the instruments on the recordings to be relased in 2008, joining me in the studio as both a producer and player in the project, is Jeff Calder of the Swimming Pool Q's. To complete the lineup, Robert Schmid, also an alumnus of the Q's is playing drums with the band, and returning to work with me once again is Mike Lynn, as both a contrubuting guitarist and Executive Producer.
With the Hot Place, I hope to release a single for the song, "20th Century" in 2010, and by year end, a full-length first album.
Here's to a long time of rocking,
-Lisa King