Sunday, April 25, 2010

Mike Topozer - Fire and Rain

Mike Toperzer - Drum Solo



Mike Toperzer is a Sophomore acting major here at Adelphi. He's been playing drums for 10 years, and guitar for 4. He hopes to some day become a professional actor or musician. Some of Mikes hobbies include Frisbee, golf, and fishing. His inspirations are drummers such as John Bonham, Kieth Moon, and Dave Growl.

Monday, April 5, 2010

The Underground Cafe



On March 30th Delta Sigma Pi hosted an acoustic music social event for the student population. The musician's John Peters and John Rizzo performed some 90's classics, both whom are members of Delta Sigma Pi.

Rizzo has been playing the past few years in a 90's cover band known as Artificial Flavor. Peters has been playing guitar in several different bands from the time he was young. Peters is also featured in my first blog post.

This event was set up as a fundraiser for the fraternity and had a pretty good turn out. If more people begin coming to these events which are hosted every other week a cash bar will be set up for students 21 and over in future performances.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Bass Jam - Luke Hausermann



AP: How long have you been playing for?

LH: I've been playing for five years now.

AP: What are your favorite styles of music to play?

LH: Funk, jam band type stuff, rock and roll, blues, jazz, I really like it all.

AP: What are some of your influences?

LH: Got to say Flea, Victor Wooten, and Phil Lesh to name a few.

AP: What can you tell me about the pieces you just played?

LH: The first one was made up on the spot using slapping techniques, mainly funk stuff. The second piece I actually was messing around with the chords I used for my audition here at Adelphi. The third piece was a song called "Sinister Minister" by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones with a little improvisation at the end.

AP: Is there anything you want to add for the readers out there?

LH: Yes, for all you people out there who want to see good bassists, defiantly check out Stanley Clark, Jacob Pastorious, and Aram Bedrosian.