From my Brooklyn apartment, in 2005, I made my first solo record, 'Outside'. It's a record where the ideas are sometimes forthright and sometimes perverse, and where the music experiments with different sounds, styles and instruments but always remains within the realm of rock/pop music. 'Outside' helped get the attention of avant-gardist, Rebecca Moore, and she subsequently invited me to be a part of her Prevention of Blindness band, playing bass in the Fall of '06 on the group's West Coast tour and guitar the following summer in Europe. Between tours I was fortunate to play a handful of shows with Rebecca in New York City.
During that time, I was putting together my own band, John Frazier and the 8 Year Olds. I'd started the group in early '06 with Dug Winningham on bass. In the Spring, Dug and I were joined by Veronica Olvera on drums and the three of us played a few shows that Summer. While on tour with Rebecca in the Fall, I met Pinky Weitzman, violist for Prevention of Blindness, and invited her to be an 8 Year Old, too. She accepted and returned the compliment by inviting me to join Not Waving But Drowning, the band she was then putting together with her musical cohort, Mason Brown, and drummer, Jeremy Forbis. Both bands have since finished their debut records. Not Waving But Drowning, 'Any Old Iron' and John Frazier and the 8 Year Olds, 'Boogieman'.
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