Hello my name is:
John Frazier
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 rock/pop realm. You can listen to it here.
Outside helped get the attention of Rebecca Moore, and she subsequently invited me to tour as part of her band, Prevention of Blindness, playing bass in the fall of '06 on the group's West Coast tour and guitar the following summer in Europe. I was also fortunate to play a number of shows with Rebecca in New York City, including one at Town Hall on a bill featuring Lou Reed and John Zorn, and one at Issue Project Room which got covered in The New York Times online.
During that time, I was putting together the 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, produced and engineered by Stewart Lerman, and John Frazier and the 8 Year Olds, Boogieman, produced and engineered by yours truly. Both records are available on iTunes and at CD Baby, and Boogieman is also available in the MUSIC section of john-frazier.com where you can listen to every track, download mp3s and order CDs.
