hizEd 101

Youtube, Projects and Mountain Dew

hized — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:08:37 +0000

I’m sitting here watching “The Mentalist” at a super low volume, probably too low to understand what the f is going on. I’m not really paying attention anyway. Anyway, I’ve been doing lots of Youtube parodies lately. Parodies are cool, but I’ve been doing so many of them that I am itching to do more original music. I would love to start writing some original music for some of these really talented youtubers. I really really really want to write and produce a couple of original songs with Jodie Rivera aka Venetian Princess. I’m hoping we can do that in the near future.

I also had the chance to play guitar for “One Love” which is a project created by Adam Scott. He’s a super talented singer/songwriter and I got to play guitar in his band for a gig at Six Flags in NJ. I hope I get the chance to play with them again. I am also involved in an interesting project called Red Handed Jill. Deana, the singer of RHJ just got back from Seattle, where she recorded a duet with legendary Queensryche front man, Geoff Tate. I’m looking forward to hearing the final mix and hoping it makes our record.

I’m still chugging away with the guys in The Unattended, gearing up for a cool festival gig in CT. I’ll also be writing some music for a workout dvd, and hopefully writing and recording some more music for fitness celebrity John Basedow.

Anyway, enough updating for tonight. I’m tired and The Mentalist is boring the shit out of me.

hiz

Happy Holidays!!

hized — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:39:18 +0000

So I’m having an interesting, fun experience this festive season making a holiday jam for Fitness Celebrity John Basedow. The song is called “Lets Make Fitness a Part of Christmas” Its a fun little rap, and I had a blast creating the tune. It seems like everyone else out there was using “Carol of the Bells” as their platform to put a beat behind. I decided to just throw the main melody behind the verse beats, and rock out the chorus’ with some loud ass guitar. The tune is traditionally in 3/4 but I switched it up to flow as 4/4. The hook is pretty bad ass, with amazing female vocals by Caroline Barringer. John has made some videos about it, and will be releasing the whole song soon.

Tofurkey Day and the Latest VP Parody!

hized — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:08:38 +0000

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! My girl and I had a wonderful tofurkey. It might not look that appetizing, but god damn, it was good!

Tofurkey

I also wrapped up the “3″ Parody for Venetian Princess.

I’m working on a few things for Fitness Celebrity John Basedow! I have a bunch of other things I got asked to work on, but I can’t let the cat out of the bag yet!

Follow Steve on TWITTER
http://www.twitter.com/hized

Steve on FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/hized

Steve’s Personal YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/hized

Steve on MYSPACE
http://www.myspace.com/frontlightfailure

Steve’s band on YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/theunattended

Latest Music Collaborations

hized — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:18:36 +0000

Here is one big update of my latest Youtube collaborations. Ready. Set. GO! Check out these super charismatic youtubers!!

http://www.youtube.com/venetianprincess
http://www.youtube.com/KSicsFaces
http://www.youtube.com/thecomputernerd01

Music Made Simple

hized — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:57:37 +0000

I’m currently working on some short jingles for Fitness Celebrity John Basedow. I actually met John through Twitter. He came in to the studio on Sunday night and I captured all of his vocals. Right now I’ve been laying down the beats and adding some funkadelic style music behind the vox. Sounds great so far! Hoping to wrap it up this weekend, after I add some female vocals down.

Steve Goldstein (aka hizEd) and John Basedow

Check out John Basedow on:

Twitter:

http://www.Twitter.com/JohnBasedow

FACEBOOK:

http://www.Facebook.com/JBasedow

YOUTUBE:

http://www.YouTube.com/MantaComm

hizEd back from the dizEd!!

hized — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:26:58 +0000

My name is Steve Goldstein. I am a starving musician, well actually I’m not starving right this second, I’ve had 2 and a half dinners today. But anyway, I am, more or less, a starving musician—and I’m trying not to be. I work a 9-5 job in ad operations and I fill every other hour with music. I’m trying to be a very full, very paid, very successful musician/songwriter—and I’m kind of on my way.

I’ve had the incredible good luck to work with a number of bands including The Unattended, The Rosies, Eva Adalai and recently some very cool, very talented and influential artists including YouTube superstar Venetian Princess, Jill Hanner, The Computer Nerd and some other cool people that I won’t tell you about just yet (this is the part where I keep you interested and you keep coming back. )

This blog is my way of keeping track, and sharing my experiences with you and letting you into my crazy music-filled world, and maybe you will let me into yours.

Cheers!

Steve

I composed music for “Twilight – The Parody” music video!

hized — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:39:14 +0000

Check it out!! I composed the music for Venetian Princess‘ “Twilight – The Parody”

I hate the LIRR series – 2/24/09

hized — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:23:00 +0000

Since I finally caved in and got myself an iphone, I can now blog on the train and bitch about how many inconsiderate assholes there are that breath the same air I do. This is just a basic introduction to see how well this application works.

Venetian Princess vs Miley Cyrus

hized — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:30:13 +0000

Here’s another collaboration I did with Venetian Princess! I created the music!

Everyone shave your head for Winter!

hized — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:24:15 +0000