Rockworks

The musical works of Glenn Shatz

If there's one thing that can be said about my music, it's that most everything you hear will either be a very rare ultra raw live recording or electronic tracks that were revised and generated from the instrument to the computer with electronic music. The reason for this is simple; cost. It costs nothing to play the instrument, nor does it cost anything to apply those notes into a computer program and create the song with what I have to work with, which is nothing more than a handful of tools to make music in the current environment from which I exist. Some tracks are actually recorded in basements, restaurants and other music venues. Many years ago I had the luxury of 3,500sq.ft. studios, but in my advancing years I've decided that professional recordings cost more money than I care to afford so I chose to save a nickel and create the music flowing through me in any means possible without it digging too far into my pocket. The reason for these decisions is not because I cannot afford it, but it's more for those younger up and coming musicians to show that it doesn't matter how it's recorded, for as long as it's recorded because better versions can always be revisited later on in life. Music should be fun, not expensive. Just like poetry, it should tell a story and nothing more.

Of course it would've been a much different story if music had become my professional career, where I would spend most of my time in professional recording studios, but early in life I decided that music would only become a hobby and never a business, because that way I feel it would then never lose it's value. It was a hard pass on the life of a rockstar. It was fun in my early teenaged years, but far mucho better as a hobby further down the road in my later years.

Had I kept going with music I can only imagine that I'd look like Keith Richards by now...rode hard and put up wet.

Want to hear the irony of it all? The cost of my own voice is free, yet it is precisely the one single instrument that I cannot perform without the neighborhood cats and dogs all arriving at the doorstep...this is exactly why you'll find that all of my music happens to be in the instrumental form -- because I cannot sing to save my life...

If you can find the one and only track that I actually and legitimately sing in then all the power to you. but beware that I have over one hundred tracks in my music catalog...

Enough about my vocal inefficiencies, let's dive in to a few tracks from the old music catalog:

WARNING - ACTUNG - ATTENTION - HALT - STOP - WHOA

(I must forewarn that my music could give small children nightmares at night. Discretion advised)

{Voted Fastest Drums in Canada (1991, 1992, 1993) Vue Magazine 1993}

Band - Obsizzion

Members: Cam Kroetsch - Guitars, Glenn Shatz - Drums, Colin Post - Bass Guitars

Track: Second One to None

Length: 3:49

Format (Original): Cassette

Reformat: .MP3

Video(s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAtL1APhtm4

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