Musician Profile #3: Jimmy D

Jimmy began his music career the same as Jason and Harry with piano lessons at a young age. He then played in his high school band.

It was on October 10, 1993, when he walked into Metal XOR Studio as Jason was recording the song "Two-Tone Rhythm Kill" (a song appearing on the 1993 NueroMorgue album Devis Tortura). Jason decided to have Jimmy sing the verses of the song. Thus began a long musical relationship with the Studio.

After that song Jimmy was invited back to sing vocals with Jason on "Pedestal Song", a NueroMud song that was on the 1994 album ...Libra 971. The song also appeared on the 1994 album Binary Pipedream.

Jimmy soon became a regular in the Studio, not only recording vocals but eventually playing bass guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, recorder, and whatever else was needed for the songs. By now Jason and Jimmy were working on their own project which they called ORC.

In 1999 ORC released their first album, Purging the Great Abyss. After the album's release they immediately started work on the next album with several recording sessions. But Jason got married and there was not as much time for music as before. So ORC was put on hold.

While in ORC, Jimmy was also a member of Isthmus from 1996-1998, performing on three of the four Isthmus albums. He was primarily the drummer but also played some bass and sang when needed.

He has since founded his own studio called Attic Works Studio and has recorded various songs in the last few years. He has yet to release his first solo album.

As of the writing of this article ORC is back in the studio, finally recording their second album. While Jason does his recording at Metal XOR Studio, Jimmy does his recording at Attic Works Studio. Then the two will combine their material in ways yet unknown to produce an album destined to be greater than the first.

Update - The second ORC album has yet to be completed.  But in late 2010, Jimmy provided bass lines to half of the songs on Mune Mud's The Zodiac Road.  This was the first time he appeared on a Mune Mud album.  He also mastered the entire album. 

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