Keyboard and sequencing specialist
for the digital age.

Personal

Voice/FAX (805) 934-1903

tlawless@aol.com

www.terrylawless.com

reside in Santa Maria, CA

Education

Thomas Jefferson H. S., Council Bluffs, IA., 4.0 GPA, Summa Cum Laude

Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 3.7 GPA, with honors; B.A., Education; B.M., Music

Additional courses in Applied Music at the U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and in Computer Science at Pierce College, Canoga Park, CA

Awards and Honors

Discography as a player.

Experience

Operate "Lawless Studio Services", a complete multitrack tape / Digital Performer / ProTools digital recording, remote recording, digital manipulation and design facility (since 1984). The business is primarily a vehicle for post production and overdubs, although synthesizer manufacturers, touring staffs and CD producers have used the services for synthesizer programming, sequencing, sound & FX design, and sampling; specializing in offstage sequencing for live touring productions.

Operate Lawless Vintage Keyboard Overdub Studio. This complex, in Santa Maria, CA, is designed exclusively for keyboard and horn section overdubs and mixing or remixing. The collection of vintage keyboards (over 30 years of assembly) and the incomparable arsenal of cutting edge virtual synthesizers are readily available for tracking sessions in a variety of the most popular digital formats, specializing in Digital Performer and ProTools. They can be accessed in the newly constructed Santa Maria studio or via high speed internet web session. Tracking is adaptable to any DAW format.

The facility is also the home of Rackley / Lawless Productions. This is a music composition partnership that creates original production music for international libraries and original compositions for film, TV, radio and web media.

Affiliations

American Federation of Musicians, Local 308, Santa Barbara

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

Audio Engineering Society (AES)

Iowa Rock & Roll Music Association

Touring highlights

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band "Magic" World Tour, 2008

Sirius Radio live Independence Day 2008 broadcast

U2 "Vertigo" Tour, 2004-2006 (most successful tour in history)

Live 8 Opening Ceremonies with Paul McCartney

The Cannes Film Festival (2007)

Tokyo After Hours

Reopening of the New Orleans Superdome (with Green Day)

The 47th Annual Grammy Awards

The 48th Annual Grammy Awards

The 49th Annual Grammy Awards

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Awards and induction ceremonies

"Tops Of The Pops (BBC)"

Cher "Living Proof" Tour, 2002-2004 (most successful female artist tour in history)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 10th Anniversary

CBS live broadcast of tour in Miami

U2 "Elevation" Tour, 2001

Saturday Night Live

Late Night with David Letterman

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The 44th Annual Grammy Awards

The 45th Annual Grammy Awards

The 46th Annual Grammy Awards

The Academy Awards

Superbowl XXXV

The Today Show

halftime of the NBA Championships

Chicago 25th Anniversary Tour, 2002

Memorial Day at the White House

Backstreet Boys "Black and Blue" Tour, 2001

The Today Show

Stevie Nicks various benefit concerts, 2000

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band US "Reunion" Tour, 2000

Hanson Tour, 2000

Jackson Browne with the Eagles "Shows of the Millenium", 1999

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band World "Reunion Tour", 1999

The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Inductions

Janet Jackson "Velvet Rope" tour, 1998-99

Saturday Night Live

The MTV Music Awards

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Late Night with David Letterman

The Jackson Family Honors

Phil Collins "Dance Into the Light" Tour, 1997

The Oprah Winphrey Show

Boston "21st Anniversary" tour, 1997

The Artist Formerly Known as Prince various shows, 1997

Chicago summer tour, 1997 rehearsal programming

David Bowie "Outside" tour, 1995-96

Late Night with David Letterman

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The VH-1 Fashion Awards

Saturday Night Live

The Brit Awards

The White Room with Jools Holland

David Sanborn "Hearsay" tour, 1996

Janet Jackson "janet." tour, 1993-94 & Australian / European tour, 1995

The Academy Awards

Saturday Night Live

The MTV Music Awards

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Late Night with David Letterman

The Doobie Brothers "Reunion" tour, 1995

Bonnie Raitt "Caravan of Rhythm & Blues" tour, 1995

Paula Abdul "Spellbound" tour, 1991-1992

The MTV Music Awards

Don Henley "End of the Innocence" tour, 1990

Jimmy Buffett "Fruitcakes" tour, 1994

The Moody Blues Casino tour, 1996

The Moody Blues "Threshhold" tour, 1994

Michael Jackson "Dangerous" tour, 1992; rehearsal synth programming

Sheena Easton "Lover in Me" tour, 1990-91

Al Jarreau "European Jazz Festival" tour, 1993

Al Jarreau "Heaven & Earth" tour, 1992

Jon Anderson "Latin America" tour, 1993

Barry Manilow "Big Fun" tour, 1987-88

Barry Manilow "On Broadway" tour, 1989-90

Gino Vannelli "Inconsolable Man" tour, 1991

Gino Vannelli "Live in Montreal" tour, 1991

Audio / CD's / DVD's / Video

U2, U2-3D, (3D film) Island, 2007

U2, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign To Save Darfur, (CD) Warner, 2007

U2, Window In The Skies I, (CD Single) Island, 2006

U2, Window In The Skies II, (CD Single) Island, 2006

U2, U218 Singles, (CD/DVD) Island, 2006

U2, U218 Singles - Live From Milan, (DVD) Island, 2006

U2 and Green Day, The Saints Are Coming, (CD single) UMVD Import, 2006

Mary J Blige & U2, One, (CD/DVD) Universal, 2006

Leonard Cohen & U2, I'm Your Man (Tower Of Song), (CD/DVD) Verve Forecast, 2006

U2, Vertigo//U2: Live From Chicago, (DVD) Island, 2005

Cher, Living Proof Tour, (DVD) NBC, 2003

Cher, Live: The Farewell Tour, (CD) Rhino / Wea, 2003

Tommy Drake, Tommy Drake Live, (DVD) , 2003

U2, U2 Go Home - Live From Slain Castle, (DVD) Island, 2005

U2, Elevation Tour 2001 - Live From Boston, (DVD) Island, 2002

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Live at Madison Square Garden, (CD) Columbia, 2001

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Live at Madison Square Garden, (Video) HBO, 2001

Crowded Head, Voices, (CD) BlackBall Music, 2000

Conversations with Lourdes, Theme For Lourdes, (TV theme song) Terry Lawless ©2007

Janet Jackson, Live At Madison Square Garden, (Video) HBO, 1998

David Bowie, Bowie's 50th Birthday at Madison Square Garden, (Video) HBO, 1997

Janet Jackson, janet., (CD) Virgin, 1994 (Multi-platinum, multi-Grammy)

Paula Abdul, Spellbound, (CD) Virgin, 1992 (Multi-platinum)

Bonnie Raitt, Road Tested, (CD) Warner, 1995 (gold, Grammy nomination)

David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World - live, (CD) Warner, 1995

Brian Simpson, Closer Still, (CD) Noteworthy Records, 1995

Al Jarreau, Tenderness, (Video and CD) Warner, 1993

The Meeting, The Meeting, (CD) GRP, 1990

Barry Manilow, Live on Broadway, (Video and CD) Arista, 1989 (Gold)

Hardline, Double Eclipse, (CD) Warner Brothers, 1992

Uncle Festive, That We Do Know, (CD) Denon, 1989

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