Ned Smith Recordings

BIOGRAPHY RECORDINGS LESSONS -New FAVORITES MUSIC STYLES & DRUMS CONTACT

1975 Gary Smith Wind Singer

Folk. Vanguard Records, Gary Smith, Larry Smith, Mike Christiansen, Reid Cornwallis,

Featured on CBS on 60-Minutes program with Robert Redford. Gary also published a book, "Windsinger".

1977 Sky View Jazz Ensemble

Sherry Buck director

Sounds Unlimited Get on a Honda and Ride

A suite of jingles

1978 Smith Family

Recording to document the family the month before I left on my mission

1983-87 Studio Drummer

Sandy Martinez, New Sound Column Band, Mormon Seminary Film Series, Eddie Colone, Heidi Magleby, Safety Kids, TV commercials, radio spots, documentary sound tracks, country western demos, rock demos, pop demos, punk demos, Steve Flygare (jazz fusion), Ed Pratt (Funkijazzified Folk Rock), Salt Lake City, UT

1986 Rick Hancey

Rick Springfield style 80's pop-rock

Osmond Studios, Orem, UT

1987 Croak

Speed metal, Central Massachusetts

Scott Andersen

Roots rock, Cambridge MA

Four On The Floor

70's covers.Oddly, this recording received alot of airplay, Medford, MA

1988 1940's Radio Hour bootleg video

Nickerson Theater, Norwell, MA

Darrell Scott If I were the Devil.

Trio with Darrell and his brother Donny. (Just heard him in Aug 2006 on NPR). Darrell, a Tufts grad, encouraged me to apply to Tufts, and helped me with the admissions process.

1989 Calamity Jane Mississippi

A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA (Aerosmith, Zeppelin, with Eagles harmonies)

Featuring

Shane Smith - Vocals

Mike Parnin - Guitar (Mike stayed in Hollywood to play metal and daylights as a studio engineer)

Andy ? - Guitar

Jonah Jones - Bass

Ned Smith - Drums

Good Gravy

Blues Rock. Tony Corologos Studio, Salt Lake City, UT

Guy Tyler Vampire Dance,

Duet. Guy was with Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Parnassus, Speculum Musicae, Boston Musica Viva, the New York Chamber Ensemble, New England Bach Festival, Bang-on-a-Can, Boston Symphony, The Pops. I played with Guy as a duet and in a band with harmonica player, Sebastian Junger, who wrote "The Perfect Storm".

1990 Used Blues Hey Everybody!

Trio with John Gerry Putnam and Ed Hodge. We're all unknowns. This band was one of the best bands of my life.

1993 Used Blues Good Gravy

I wrote the tune so I wouldn't have to change my front bass drumhead bearing the band Good Gravey's logo. It had been drawn on the head by a dear friend, Angela Andersen, and I couldn't part with it. We recorded it live on an Emerson College WERS broadcast. Good Gravy became the opening theme song of the WERS Blues Hour for the next year or two.

Dakota Smith & Wesson Dolphin Dance

Duet with Scott Dakota.

Recorded and performed Scott's songs and my poetry and short stories.

Dan Sterns Blue & Spangled Dangling

Dan's MySpace 20th Century Classical meets thrash meets everything else from about 1969 on.

Quartet with Sterns, Bart Malio on Bass, and Mike Connors on vibes.

Used Blues The Ring

(Still in the cans) Waltham MA.

1995 Rootlock I Drink Listerine (to take the edge off)

Chris Mascara's first recording with me on drums. Waltham MA.

Precursor to the Mascara CD.

1996 Renée Randall Blues Band Sugar Coated Love