Advantages: transcends genres, totally original, cool guy Disadvantages: too varied for some, perhaps
'Custom', the stagename used by artist Duane Lavold, is a very hard man to come across. The name is such a common word that searching for him on any search engine comes up with almost nothing relevant, he's produced only one album, never tours, has no exposure any more... for a six foot eight tall man he hides well! This, 'Fast', is Custom's debut album, and as it was released in 2002 (it now being mid 2006) it could well be his only album.. Only ... ...his fingers in many pies - film directing, pro- skating, etc...
Anyway, he received some notoriety at the time for the controversy over his song 'Hey Mister' - it was banned from MTV apparently on the grounds of paedophilia [the song features lyrics such as "Hey mister, I really like your daughter", but it is of course entirely innocent, as every female is someone's daughter..], and I personally found out about him thanks to Kerrang! magazine, to ...
Pyrokeet 10.07.2006
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Fastis an interesting album, and Custom is an interesting fellow. With an opera-singer ... more
grandfather and concert-pianist mother, he's been playing music since the age of three. However, his first breakthrough came as a filmmaker, his debut movie,Loafing,...
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