BLOGLINE ENDEAVOR, The Beginning...

Nemesis, Polymorf Stel, Legend of the Midnight Ace...

Playing in a band, or several bands. Maybe this was something to occupy my weekends while I was in high school or maybe it was something to do to be cool. Either way there were a couple of bands I played in that involved me and my brother, Kendal. Nemesis was the first band that included Griff Townshend on lead guitar, various bass players including Tim Ackerman, Steve Ott, Tim Krapf, and I would also fill in from time to time. The drumming duties went to my brother, Eric Seitz, and Tim Harrell, my duties also included lead vocals and Kendal played guitar. This band lasted only a period of 6 months before forming another band with a drummer by the name of Jason Wert, Steve Ott on bass, Kendal on vocals and guitar and I played keyboards. The name of our band was Polymorf Stel and we ended up playing one gig with this lineup for our high school's Spring Celebration. After this performance we decided to look for a new drummer and Tim Harrell was chosen. From there, the rest of the band history branches off.

What was interesting about the new lineup of Polymorf Stel was our entry into the local Star Search competition in the spring of 1987. We won first place in the band category and were called back to play a 2nd round for the competition. It was rather exciting but it ended up being the last time in a long time that I would play in that type of setting until 2001. Kendal went on into a rich history of playing in bands and singing lead vocals for such local favorites as This Mistress, Handly Paige, Titanium, and eventually Veritas. Veritas was also a band that I played in for about a month before I decided the road they were taking wasn't for me. I have never had any interest in playing Heavy Metal music. Although it's the type of stuff that gets a crowd pumped up and it is such a high to get off on that type of energy, the music just wasn't for me. Kendal went his way, I went my way.

And I did it MY WAY!

Blogline Prologue... Band Geek...

"What you're feeling is an URGE TO MARCH..." This is me circa 1988 donning my marching band outfit. I was a member of SASHS Senior High School marching band from my sophomore year, 1986 to my senior year, 1989. The instrument of choice? Sousaphone! The real MAN's instrument. Being in marching band, musicals, orchestra, chorus and band is what inspired me to write music whether professionally or just as a hobby. The recording and production aspect is something that takes years to perfect and I'm still learning to this day. Recording is a very challenging and exciting aspect of music considering the technology is constantly changing.

Unfortunately, the marching band outfits were rented and that means I can't use this type of uniform as a stage prop or for a SUB ONE photo session. Heck, I probably wouldn't even be able to fit into something like that now.

Blogline Prologue... High School Musical...

During high school I got involved with dramatics, music, and the arts. Here is a picture of my performance as Li'l Abner. I believe this performance was during my sophomore year in high school which was the Spring of 1987 if I'm not mistaken. Gotta love those overalls! If I remember correctly, the group of people behind me were doing some sort of crazy dance... CRAZY MAN, CRAZY!!

Blogline Prologue... Humble Beginnings...

Ah yes, here we see Thee Tiny Sub One Genius looking for an URGE TO SLAM or could it be that I'm jonesing for a piece of paper specifically since I have a crayon in my right hand? Could it be my first inspiration to sit down and write lyrics? Or crawl around and write lyrics? Who knows?

I'm thinking this is circa 1972, possibly during my first year of existence! Looks like I'm having fun, doesn't it?

Blogline Prologue... Family Influence...

This is where it all began. My Grandfather, Jerry Chandler (aka Jerry Booton) was a very accomplished musician who had a career playing theatres and night clubs in the Chicago, and East Dubuque, Illinois area. Jerry was also a co-developer for the Lowry Organ and hosted two radio programs on KDTH in Dubuque, Iowa.

The above photo is a promo card that would be distributed throughout the tri-state area for The Circle night club located in East Dubuque, IL. Granddad Chandler played the Hammond Organ exclusively at his gigs and was also known to produce his own recordings at home. That's right, it's in the genes!!

Special thanks to my father, Ronald Chandler, for further input on this blog entry.

2009? Where did it go?

The year is almost over! 2009 came and went in the blink of an eye. Before we come to the end of this year, there is one more month to deal with and that is the month of December.

I want to take advantage of the last month of this year and the last month of this decade to present a project called "The Blogline Endeavor." For each day during the month I will be posting archive material. This material will include works from my early days as D.H. Chandler (D. Chandler, or just DHC) to the Prismatic days and brand new material from SUB ONE. Some of you will hear and see stuff that's very familiar and not so familiar, cheesy, ridiculous and surprising.

I look forward to working on this project and stay tuned.

Thee Sub One Genius

SUB ONE - Inner Nine

Inner Nine

I entered this song into the John Lennon Songwriting Contest back in 2007. Session I finalists were announced in August of that year and it turned out that I won first place finalist in the Electronic Category. More information on 2007 Session I Finalists can be viewed here --->CLICK HERE!<-----!! This was a rather exciting and proud moment for my songwriting career and the prizes I won were cool to boot! Yet it also came as a surprise since I considered this song one of my throw away or "filler" songs. I guess with Fergie, Bob Weir, Eminem, Barry Gibb and Yoko Ono rooting for you you can't go wrong!

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