Travis Dickerson

Travis Dickerson is an American musician and producer, best known for his work with Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen. He also runs TDRSmusic, a recording studio with its own record label that has recorded and released albums by Bill Laswell, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, and Vince DiCola. Dickerson can be heard playing keyboards on many albums he recorded and produced.

Life and work

Dickerson built his first recording studio, writing and recording songs in Michigan. Soon after he moved the studio to Los Angeles where he met the punk band X. In his new studio in Chatsworth many of the band's releases as well as some solo projects were recorded. Singer Exene Cervenka introduced Dickerson to Viggo Mortensen, starting a long friendship. Nearly all of Mortensen's albums since then were recorded or distributed by TDRS.

In 1994 Dickerson recorded and played keyboards on County Fair 2000, an album by Phil Alvin (of The Blasters) and throughout the 1990s worked on projects with X, The Plimsouls, Viggo Mortensen, Vince Dicola, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, L7, Eliza Gilkyson, Top Jimmy, The Negro Problem, and many others. In 1998 he produced and played on Shocking Pink Banana Seat by singer–songwriter Susan James. He also wrote the liner notes for the anthology Beyond And Back by X in 1997.

Buckethead and Dickerson met in San Francisco, and Buckethead being disappointed of major record labels found a new home for his many releases in TDRS. Dickerson produced and played keyboards on several Buckethead recordings and in 2001 they formed Thanatopsis, a band combining progressive and rock styles. Released as a Buckethead album, Population Override likewise featured a large contribution from Dickerson in both composition and performance in 2004. In 2006 Chicken Noodles, a series of jams, followed. Additionally Dickerson remastered the early Cornbugs albums, a project Buckethead was involved with actor Bill Moseley and played on the last two recordings of the band before they split up.

In 2008 Dickerson, Buckethead and Brain formed the band The Dragons of Eden and released an album of the same name.

In 2009 Travis released his highly anticipated solo album which has been said to have been in the works for years. On one of Buckethead.tk's annual Binge Support Days, Travis sent supporters a special thank you CD with two unreleased tracks, one them of Legerdemain was later included on Iconography. Some participating artists include Buckethead, Bryan "Brain" Mantia, Lindy Dickerson, Paul Ill, Scarlett Rivera, Ramy Antoun, DJ Bonebrake Doane Perry and Cameron Stone.

In 2012 Travis released his second solo CD, The Owl Dives Through The Crescent Moon. The CD includes Travis on keyboards and vocals, his brother Lindy Dickerson on guitar and Paul Ill on bass and X's drummer and long time collaborator DJ Bonebrake on drums.

Discography (partial)

Solo

2009: Iconography
2012: The Owl Dives Through The Crescent Moon

Collaborations

1994: County Fair 2000 - Phil Alvin
1997: One Less Thing to Worry About - Viggo Mortensen
1998: Recent Forgeries - Viggo Mortensen
1998: Shocking Pink Banana Seat - Susan James
1999: The Other Parade - Viggo Mortensen
1999: Tunnel - Death Cube K
1999: 13th Scroll - Cobra Strike
1999: One Man's Meat - Viggo Mortensen
2000: Cobra Strike II - Cobra Strike
2001: Thanatopsis - Thanatopsis
2001: Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse - Buckethead
2002: Funnel Weaver (album) - Buckethead
2003: Axiology - Thanatopsis
2003: Pandemoniumfromamerica - Viggo Mortensen
2003: The Other Parade - Viggo Mortensen (re-issue)
2004: Please Tomorrow - Viggo Mortensen
2004: Carry Me Away - Lindy Dickerson
2004: Brain Circus - Cornbugs
2004: Donkey Town - Cornbugs
2004: Population Override - Buckethead
2004: This, That, and The Other - Viggo Mortensen
2005: Gorgone - Gorgone
2005: Intelligence Failure - Viggo Mortensen
2006: Anatomize - Thanatopsis
2006: Crime Slunk Scene - Buckethead
2006: 3 Fools 4 April - Viggo Mortensen
2006: Chicken Noodles - Buckethead & Travis Dickerson
2007: Chicken Noodles II - Buckethead & Travis Dickerson
2007: Time Waits for Everyone - Viggo Mortensen
2008: At All - Viggo Mortensen
2008: Running After Deer - Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson
2008: The Dragons of Eden - Buckethead, Brain and Travis Dickerson
2008: Albino Slug - Buckethead
2010: Left Hanging - Travis Dickerson, and Buckethead

Sources

External links

Website of TDRS Music

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Buckethead Brain Dan Monti Travis Dickerson Bill Laswell Bootsy Collins Les Claypool Bernie Worrell Serj Tankian John Zorn Pinchface Extrakd DJ Disk Maximum Bob Efrem Schulz Saul Williams Gigi Maura Davis Azam Ali Bill Moseley Melissa Reese
Studio albums	Bucketheadland (1992) Giant Robot (1994) The Day of the Robot (1996) Colma (1998) Monsters and Robots (1999) Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001) Bermuda Triangle (2002) Electric Tears (2002) Bucketheadland 2 (2003) Population Override (2004) The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004) Enter the Chicken (2005) Kaleidoscalp (2005) Crime Slunk Scene (2006) Electric Sea (2012)
Special releases	In Search of The (2007) Acoustic Shards (2007) From the Coop (2008)
Videos	Young Buckethead Vol. 1 (2006) Young Buckethead Vol. 2 (2006)
As Death Cube K	Dreamatorium (1994) Disembodied (1997)
Songs	"Big Sur Moon" (1998) "The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999) "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004) "Jordan" (2006) "The Landing Beacon" (2009)
Related	Buckethead discography Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Cornbugs Deli Creeps Bolt on Neck Guns N' Roses Praxis Science Faxtion Shin Terai Thanatopsis
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