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On the left is the Mediazoic Player. I have been chosen as "The Creature of the Week"by this music industry innovator team..
The Backstory: I have been making music for almost as long as I have been making visual art. My first formal music training was on the saxophone.  My first electric rig was  a Silvertone Amp and Stradalin Bass. I played in a few bands. In college -I started jamming and sometimes recording with people. By about 1980 I had gotten a few interesting instruments and started my first recordings with 2-cassette recorders. Next I bought my first electric guitar and finally a decent "recording setup" a 4-track tascam cassette recorder. I recorded hundreds of hours of tracks. Many of these original tracks worked very well as source material in the digital recording era. The Tascam eventually died. But not before I added a moog rogue which I got by incredible luck in New York in 1985. Continued to add assorted sampling keyboards and percussion machines a Fender Strat and a Gibson Sonex which was tweaked with a Demarzio Screamer Pickup and yes I still have the Stradalin Bass. I now have one computer that is dedicated only to recording my music and "song making" has become a pleasure.Snce about 1990 I have recorded with several other people on some material-primarily  David Wheatley and Tim Chambers. I've recorded over 500 hours of raw tracks and actually assembled 12 complete albums. I've had some "Internet chart success" on music web sites from time to time, Lately I don't bother with these. Incredibly some of my stuff is used as incidental music by the state television network of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia And I do seem to have a small cult following in the USSR. and My monthly downloads have gone thru the roof

In June of 2011. My music is featured on their website and the player is available to all Mediazoic Listeners. It plays a "radio show" selection of the best of my music. Below it is the Ustream Player.

Both play my music 24 hours a day 7 days a week

click on either of them to play

MY MINDS MINE
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redone guitars
2015 will be the 50th birthday for
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my Stadolin Bass which I have had since 1965. It retains the original neck, pickup and electronics. The body has been "sculpted" from an upside down strat shape. The metallic blue color is new as are the tuning machines, knobs and bridge. The Kay acoustic from 1972 has been refininshed and has a new pick guard.
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my 2 Strats, Fender Sonex, Yamaha, Moog Rogue, Korg Nano with m-1 software and Casio Sampler

Since 1987 I have released close to 200 songs many of which are available thru the streaming radio above and at numerous music websites. In addition I will be assembling a subscription download web page. For now many of the songs are available at http://www.zuzula.com/artist.php?id=64.

I have had to remove downloadable songs from my site because anonymous automated downloader agents are seriously effecting the integrity of my bandwidth usage by downloading the same songs up to 200 times a month every month.. The albums I have made are blackONwhite, The Rick Hoffman Set, Perfect Tommy, Frotage, The Boom Boom, Songs of Common Denial,, Dream Within A Dream, Rejection, Humiliation & Betrayal, Corduroy Hat, Rag Devil, The Secret Marine Band Sessions and The Mote in Gods Eye. All of the songs from these will be available on the subscription page. All you will have to do is subscribe by email so I know you are a person. If interested contact me at bkonwh@gmail.com . Otherwise listen to the streaming stations. They play 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Rick Hoffman 24 hour a day Streaming Radio http://www.mediazoic.com/creatures/rick-hoffman/ and http://www.ustream.tv/channel/corduroy-hat-2010

more links and downloads - Facebook Band Profile: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-Hoffmans-Original-Psychedelic-Music-from-the-Garage/154689804548537

Reverberation: http://www.reverbnation.com/rickhoffman and https://www.reverbnation.com/blackonwhite

Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/rrickhoffmanartcom

Click on any of the underlined links on the page to hear or download any of the songs Click on this ikon to go to the index of all of the pages in my website

Click on the picture to go to My Rock and Roll Art & Collectibles

click here to send me an email or to subscribe to my download library