<div id="container"> <div id="widecontent"> <h1>Autobiography</h1> <div class="newsitem"><div class="fltlt"><img src="i/about/delaney1.jpg"></div> <p>I'm a piano player, originally from a small town called Ashtabula, OH. I've played keyboards, written songs and recorded with a few different rock bands, but currently I'm working on a solo project. My first full album of my own music is called "Open Mic Nights, Empty Bottle Mornings."</p> <p>For the most part my shows now are solo - playing piano and singing. But I'm lucky enough to have a couple great musicians on stage with me from time to time - Cory Healey or Darren Garvey on drums and Jay Marino or Brian Aiken on bass. Darren and Brian played on my album, as well.</p> <p>Thanks to Ryan Bradley for this picture, from a Delaney show at Pacific U in Oregon. </p> <p>I'm glad this isn't the time I face-planted. Of that event there are no pictures, only scars...</p></div> <div class="newsitem"><div class="fltrt"><img src="i/about/baja.jpg"></div> <h2>South Bend & Chicago</h2> <p>From 2000 - 2004 and summer '06, I played keys in a reggae/surf band called Bajawalla. We had Lawrence Santiago on vocals, Dave & Pete Miller on guitar & drums, and Bobby Seus on bass. We got a little attention from labels, but mainly did things ourselves and just played out as much as possible. We decided to call it quits so various members could start families and other careers, but there's still a pretty good EP and a live recording from Martyr's in Chicago floating around somewhere that you might want to check out.</p></div> <div class="newsitem"><div class="fltlt"><img src="i/about/audit.jpg"></div> <h2>Cleveland</h2> <p>In 2004 I graduated from college and took an auditing job at KPMG. Soon after, my buddy Bryan and I formed a corporate-metal band called Audit Slave. This band was more metaphorical than musical; mainly we just rocked out on workpapers.</p><p>I didn't last long as an auditor...</p></div> <div class="newsitem"><div class="fltrt"><img src="i/about/delaney3.jpg"></div> <h2>Portland</h2> <p>In early '06 I moved to the west coast and co-founded a new pop/rock band called Delaney. The vocalists are Bobby Seus (still on bass) and Lee Barbara, who plays guitar. This is not Spinal Tap, but we've had a lot of drummers in just 2 years together: Steve Seus, Mike Fremeau, Brendon Collins, Drew Shoals, and Earl Talbot. All are still living as of this writing (I hope). We've toured on the west coast, and recorded an independent album (release date still TBA), but for now we're taking a break.</p></div> <div class="lastnewsitem"><div class="fltlt"><img src="i/about/delaney2.jpg"></div> <p>While contributing to the songwriting of these bands, I was also writing my own music. At some point, like all band members who co-write I'm sure, I realized that I still really liked some of the "scraps" that my bands didn't use. And then at some other point I started playing those tunes and it seemed like they kind of went well with each other. So I recorded demos of about 10 old songs from October 2007 through March 2008, as well as writing about 10 more.</p> <p>From April to August 2008 I recorded 11 of these tunes at the IV Lab. The album is called "Open Mic Nights, Empty Bottle Mornings," and I think it turned out great - thanks mainly to Manny Sanchez engineering and mixing, Darren playing drums, Brian on bass, as well as help around the studio from Jay Marino, Chris Harden, Jon Alvin, Rollin Weary, Tom Schlacks and Emmet Farley.</p></div> <p>If you can read this, your broswer does not support frames.<br><br>My site, and lots of other websites work best using a browser called Mozilla Firefox, which you may download <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/" target="blank">here</a> for free!<br><br>I'm currently working on a no-frames version of my site for anyone not using frames-enabled browsers, but for now you could check out my music and more at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mikemaimone">www.myspace.com/mikemaimone</a>. <br><br>Thanks for listening!</p> <!-- end #mainContent --></div> <!-- end #container --></div>