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The latest CD Thanks In Advance and the special edition DVD To Nothing are AVAILABLE RIGHT HERE! Click the link for preview audio, plus a DVD video preview of the tracking of "Greasy Wheel."

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Beller's Gig Calendar will now live at his MySpace profile page and his Reverb Nation profile page until the website redesign is complete. Click the links for the latest info!

Announcing MyKeneally - the launch of the Mike Keneally & Bryan Beller customized concert series, where fans host the event and call the shots! We've got a window (August 6-20) and we're getting responses already. Wanna find out more? Just head over to Keneally's website and look on the front page for details.

Brand-new YouTube clips just posted up at the Bryan Beller YouTube Channel: Clips of Beller playing his solo piece "Life Story" and Steve Vai's "Freak Show Excess" from the 4/1/09 clinic in Monroe, NY.

I'm Tweeting like crazy on Twitter @bryanbeller. It's become my main source of micro-blogging. New to Twitter, or don't know what I'm talking about? Click here for my Twitter page and check it out. Then follow me!

Something terrible has happened that Mr. Beller must share with you. Skozzo Moval, Lord Of Logistics, has died in the line of duty. Who is Skozzo Moval, you ask? Click here to read about this heroic, no-longer-living legend.

So what is this Keneally-Minnemann-Beller project everyone keeps talking about? Check out these seven live performances videos just posted online to see KMB in action.

The Bryan Beller YouTube Page features exclusive clips of Beller tracking "Blind Sideways" and the whole band tracking "From Nothing" live in the studio. Both clips are excerpts from the To Nothing DVD, available exclusively here at the bryanbellerdotcom online store.


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Meanwhile...THE BELLER THANKS IN ADVANCE PRESS ONSLAUGHT CONTINUES!!

Hande Burg of The Prog Files interviews Mike Keneally and Bryan Beller in Peoria, IL. Complete with interview audio!

The rave reviews are still coming in! This month's Bass Frontiers Magazine features Kirk Eberhard's extended review of Thanks In Advance, plus Brent-Anthony Johnson goes in-depth for a Beller feature interview.

9 out of 10: Eduard Antoniu of USA Progressive Music issues another rave review, and stumbles onto a couple of as-yet unwritten insights about the album's concept.

Bass Player Magazine Senior Contributing Editor Chris Jisi calls Thanks In Advance "a bonafide entry for bass album of the year" in an introduction to a Beller interview in the January issue (Chris Squire on the cover).

Beller goes further in-depth than ever before about Thanks In Advance for a four-page feature interview with Jake Kot of Bass Musician Magazine - check the whole thing out right here.

Corey Brown of the cool new bass-focused website No Treble gives Thanks In Advance a little love.

Brian Sharples' Bass World Radio is playing tunes from Thanks In Advance close to every hour on the hour. Tune in on his Live365 Internet Radio station.

90+ out of 100: Jazz.com's Walter Kolosky reviews the songs "Love Terror Adrenaline/Break Through" and "Life Story" from Thanks In Advance.

Pete Pardo of Sea of Tranquility is at it again, this time penning quite the favorable review of the Thanks In Advance special-edition DVD To Nothing.

Four stars: Sea Of Tranquility's Pete Pardo digs on Thanks In Advance in this tasty review.

Hande Burg of The Prog Files gives Thanks In Advance a five-star review, and posts an interview with Beller as well.

The December issue of Guitar Player Magazine features Barry Cleveland's rave review of Thanks In Advance. Pick it up and see Keneally, Peters, Musallam, Olekshy, Cottros and Dees get their well-deserved props in one of the biggest music mags in the country.

The December issue of Guitar World contains a full-page Bryan Beller article/advertisement for Eminence Speaker, the drivers in the SWR Megoliath 8x10 monster speaker cabinet.

Four stars: The Boston Globe's Nick Zaino reviews Thanks In Advance for Skope Magazine.

Damien Erskine reviews Thanks In Advance for Bass Musician Magazine.

Beppe Colli from Clouds and Clocks has posted a 10-question interview with Bryan Beller about Thanks In Advance.

Check out Beppe Colli's rave review of Thanks In Advance for Clouds & Clocks...and read Peter Hodgson's complete Beller interview for Mixdown Magazine while you're at it...and also check out Kevin Hoover's review for the Arcata Eye.


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Behold the launch of BBTS: Bryan Beller's Transcription Services. Custom-order transcriptions delivered with flair and panache (or something like that). It's realy simple - just send Bryan an e-mail and let him know BASS part you'd like transcribed from any song under the sun, and he'll quote you the best deal he can.

Wanna read up on last year? Beller's blog about the 2007 Steve Vai tours exist right here for the U.S. tour and here for the European tour.

Meet Mike Keneally and Bryan Beller in this very professional five minute video (11MB download), courtesy of DC3 and Lost Coast Live.

Celebrate the ten-year anniversary of The Life Of Bryan with the latest weighty installment. Grab a cup of coffee and read a three-part novelette about car accidents, trapezes, death and rebirth in Act 44 - Relearning To Fly.

Read the exclusive bryanbellerdotcom Steve Vai/Metropol Orchestra May 2004 show report, including over twenty pictures from rehearsals in Hilversum and the Paradiso in Amsterdam. Newcomers from Vai.com (welcome!) may want to check this out to get a sense of the Beller/Vai connection from years past.

 
 

Thanks In Advance - the second solo album from Bryan Beller
AVAILABLE NOW - CLICK ABOVE GRAPHIC TO ORDER!!

"The featured stars clearly are Beller's compositions: newly-minted amalgams of vintage rock, blues, and jazz feels fostering fresh harmonies and angular muso melodies...Beller engaged in some sonic soul-searching for his sophomore effort Thanks In Advance, and the welcome result is a bona fide entry for bass album of the year."
--Chris Jisi, Bass Player Magazine

I love Bryan's playing! He's solid, supportive and creative with tone for days. Thanks in Advance is full of cool ideas, inspired performances and deep grooves. I definitely recommend it.
—Michael Manring

"Thanks in Advance brings us a wealth of amazing tone, wonderful compositions, killer grooves & pure musicality... When it's time to solo, Bryan throws down like a big dog, but when he's playing bass he's every bandleader's or songwriter's dream. Thoughtful, appropriate, soulful and tasty all at the same time."
—Damien Erskine, Bass Musician Magazine



Critics' praise for View

"Just when you thought Beller couldn't possibly be good at another thing, he releases a solo album so good it makes you wonder why he bothered doing anything else…View shows how terrific Beller is as a bassist, but it also establishes his real musical talent as a writer. It's a thrill to witness an artist like Beller find his voice with such a self-assured debut." - Bill Leigh, Bass Player Magazine

"Seven Percent Grade shows that charging fingerstyle fusion is as comfortable for [Beller] as a fine rock riff...and both "Bite" and "See You Next Tuesday" show he can rock with the best....Inventive solo pieces such as "Elate" & "No" show that Beller isn't going to fall into any clichés either. Inventive and creative, View end(s) up as a complete and compelling album, which I'm still enjoying right now." - Adrian Ashton, Bass Guitar Magazine(U.K.)

"Bryan is one of those bass players who just knows how to put the right note in the right place at the right time…monster playing and good vibes."– Michael Manring (solo artist, Attention Deficit)

"A unique blend of solid old school playing with modern sensibility and lots of edge." – Andy West (Dixie Dregs, FWAP)

"Every expectation you may have about this album is going to be blown clear out of the water when you hear it. It's really, really good, unique and intricate and ballsy and beautifully performed." – Mike Keneally

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Bryan Beller onstage with Steve Vai in Germany, summer 2007.


Upcoming Bryan Beller Appearances

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Sunday, June 21, 12-5 and Monday, June 22, 11-5
Private Lessons Available
at Guitarworks
996 South State Road 135
Greenwood, Indiana 46143
For sign up information, click here to e-mail Kevin at Guitarworks

Monday, June 22, 7pm
Bryan Beller and Kira Small joint clinic/performance
Sunday, June 20, 12-5 and Monday, June 21, 11-5
Private Lessons Available
at Guitarworks
996 South State Road 135
Greenwood, Indiana 46143
Admission $5 (free with private lesson)
Info: (317) 885-1510

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Thursday, June 25, 6pm
with Kira Small
House Concert/Private Event
Fundraiser For Children w/Special Needs
Boston, MA
Donation: $30
e-mail me for a private invitation if you're interested in coming

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Saturday, June 27, 5pm
Bryan Beller solo bass clinic
at Guitar Center Boston
1255 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 247-1389
Free admission!

Note: Very close to Berklee! Just past the Fens on Boylston St., near Fenway Park.

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Tuesday, June 30
with Kira Small
House Concert/Private Event
Watchung, NJ

interested in booking your own private house concert with Kira and Bryan? Just e-mail them right here!

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Wednesday, July 1, 5pm
with Kira Small
at Chris' Jazz Cafe
1421 Sansom St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 568-3131
Price: $10

Kira sez: We're excited to add this award-winning happy hour series to our East Coast itinerary. 1/2 price food and drinks! Come on out, Philly...

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Friday, July 3, 8:00pm
with Kira Small
at Indy Hostel
4903 Winthrop Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46205
(317) 727-1696
Price: $8

More Kira sez: A super-cool lodging option located in the hip Broadripple district, the Indy Hostel regularly hosts shows by singer songwriters from all over the world. This venue is a favorite among traveling performers. And since it's BYOB that means cheapest drinks in town!

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Friday, July 17 (Nashville NAMM Weekend)
the Bryan Beller Band
at The Rutledge
410 4th Ave S
Nashville, TN 37201
Info: (615) 782-6858
Also appearing: Roy Vogt, Doug Johns, and Sean O'Bryan Smith!

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Saturday, July 25 - daytime/nighttime
Bryan Beller teaches (solo) and the Bryan Beller Band plays
Pasadena Bass Day
at Los Angeles Music Academy
370 South Fair Oaks Ave
Pasadena, CA 91105

BB Notes: Daytime will be a registration-required instructional seminar, nighttime will be a band gig at a TBD club in Pasadena. Watch this space for more details!

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Saturday, August 22
with Kira Small
House Concert/Private Event
Knoxville, TN

interested in booking your own private house concert with Kira and Bryan? Just e-mail them right here!

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Saturday, September 5
with Kira Small
House Concert/Private Event
Mobile, AL

interested in booking your own private house concert with Kira and Bryan? Just e-mail them right here!

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Thursday, September 10, 9pm
with Kira Small
at Genghis Cohen
740 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 653-0640

Note: This one's just Kira and Bryan as a duo, our "house concert" act in a great listening venue. Come see for yourself what we've been yammering about all year.

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Sunday, September 20, 6pm
the Bryan Beller Band
at Alva's Showroom
1417 W. 8th St.
San Pedro, CA 90732
Info: (800) 403-3447
Admission: $15

Note: Probably the last Bryan Beller Band show of the year in SoCal!


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