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Corey Hallsted joined Spitshine Records at the beginning of 2007 as a partner and co-conspirator. He resides in Seattle, WA and mans the new official headquarters of Spitshine Records. On top of that, he's a night owl who is usually just on his way to bed when I'm getting up (OK, yeah, I know, I keep farmboy hours.). What that means for you is, Spitshine is 24/7! |
FIVE QUESTIONS WITH COREY OF SPITSHINE RECORDS | 1. Where did you grow up? 2. When did you first know that you wanted to sell your soul for rock 'n' roll? |
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 Corey at the helm in the control room of Perennial Sound Recording |
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| 3. You're a studio engineer with your own recording studio in your house. Give us the low-down on that. Many many years ago, this guy recorded my first band's 4-track demo in his South Seattle condo. I instantly fell in love with the process, and that $5-per-hour demo sounded so good (which left us rather annoyingly giddy) that I knew someday I'd have to do the same thing for other bands. So, with the help of my co-investors Andrew (lifelong friend), K.T. (the original bass player for Best Revenge!), and my brother's slave labor construction skills, we finally put together a rather snappy home studio! Even though I have to charge more than $5 an hour, it will always be my goal to give bands a product that they feel is a whole lotta bang for their buck. |
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4. You're an avid reader, with books being one of the main features of your house. What was the last book you read? Jonathan Lethem's great "Motherless Brooklyn", which in hindsight read like a Dick and Jane mystery, as I'm now drowning in "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace. |
 Ryan and Corey in Seattle on the Best Revenge tour in 2002 |
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| 5. And finally, the important question: Did you know that your last name (albeit, missing an L) is also the name of an infamous, but long gone, sex club in Los Angeles (and an accompanying adult film)? No, I did not... but that's way hotter than another fact about my last name: the spelling (extra L, and the missing A at the end) is thanks to a criminal way up on my family tree who changed the spelling so he could "legally" enlist in the Union Army. At least he had SOME ethics. |
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