Christopher Maloney

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Christopher Maloney
Christopher Maloney in Japan with Cosmosquad, September 2008
Christopher Maloney in Japan with Cosmosquad, September 2008
Background information
Birth nameChristopher Patrick Maloney
Born (1969-03-22) March 22, 1969 (age 55)
OriginSyracuse, New York, United States
GenresRock
Instrument(s)Bass guitar, guitar
Years active1993–present
LabelsSunset Records
WebsiteChristopher Maloney Official website

Christopher Patrick Maloney is an American singer-songwriter, bass guitarist and music educator. He is widely known for his work with instrumental hard rock band Cosmosquad, his stints in Hardline and with Dweezil Zappa, as an independent solo artist, an instructor at the Musicians Institute, the co-owner of Absolute Music Studios and the co-creator of the online music education site Practice Warriors.

Biography

Early life and education

Christopher Maloney was born in

Oswego State University from 1987 until 1991 graduating with a double major in Music and Broadcasting. It was here that he was mentored by jazz composer Stan Gosek, who helped shape Maloney's skills in composition, odd meter, reading, performing and music business.[3]

Maloney relocated to Los Angeles in 1993 to attend the Musicians Institute. He studied with many notable musicians, including Jeff Berlin, Steve Bailey, Scott Henderson, Joe Diorio and visiting artists Victor Wooten, Gary Willis and many others. He graduated with Vocational Honors in 1994 as the bass program's Outstanding Student of the Year.[4]

Bass career

Maloney spent much of the mid to late 1990s working as a freelance bass player in Los Angeles. His first major label recording was with drum prodigy

Music For Pets. Maloney spent much of 1997 recording dozens of songs for a Dweezil solo album. From those sessions, only "Automatic" (featuring Blues Saraceno) and "Dick Cinnamon's Office" (featuring Lisa Loeb) were included on the Favored Nations release, Automatic.[5] He concluded the 90's by doing recording and performing with Jon Stevens (INXS), Donnie Vie (Enuff Z'Nuff
), and jazz keyboardist Lao Tizer.

Maloney's recording and performing career continued to rise in the 2000s. He performed or recorded with

Spyrogyra, Chris Botti, The Rippingtons, Average White Band, Jethro Tull, Tom Scott and others.[6]
His work with Cosmosquad, and its guitarist Jeff Kollman, brought him to Europe and Japan and produced three albums. Cosmosquad released their first live DVD Light...Camera...Squad! in 2008, with Maloney also handling all the video editing duties. During this time, he continued to record and perform as a sideman to independent artists in Los Angeles. Over the years, Maloney has been endorsed by Linc Luthier, Carvin and Fender Basses, Trace Elliot and SWR amplifiers, and Dean Markley and D'Addario Strings.

Christopher Maloney performing an acoustic set in Hollywood, CA circa 2004

Solo career

In 2000, Maloney decided to begin to make a solo album that would not feature his bass playing, but his voice and song writing skills. Although joined by his friends, drummer Shane Gaalaas and guitarist Brett Garsed, Maloney played most of the instruments himself. The result was the CD Control, released in 2002 on Sunset Records.[7] Spending much of 2002 on the road with Lao Tizer, Cosmosquad and $ign of Four, Maloney had to wait until 2003 to promote the album. He did so mostly by performing solo acoustic shows in coffeehouses throughout Southern California.

In 2004, Maloney continued to promote Control while writing songs for a new album, entitled The Terrors of Intimacy. The album was released in March 2005 on Sunset Records, and Maloney promoted it by doing a solo acoustic tour of the southwest US and full band shows in Southern California.

In addition to writing songs for his solo albums, Maloney has made three production music CDs for

ASCAP
award-winner songwriter. Maloney's writing of his third CD, tentatively titled Lost And Found, has been interrupted by his work with De Wolfe Music, tours and recording with Cosmosquad, producing the television pilot Backstage Pass, running a music school in south Florida and starting his online music education site Practice Warriors.

Christopher Maloney performing an educational concert/clinic in Tokyo

Education career

In addition to his work as a bassist and singer-songwriter, Maloney has been very passionate about music education. Upon his graduation from

Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) as part of an interview-style television pilot called Backstage Pass in 2007.[12]

Maloney has toured as a clinician for many of his endorsing companies, including

Hal Leonard Publishing entitled Progressive Rock Bass, which was released in January 2010.[14]

In September 2008, Maloney wanted to expand his knowledge of music and education, and he once again enrolled full-time at the Musicians Institute. He spent nine months studying his fellow instructors' teaching methods in voice, keyboards, drums and guitar. In doing so, Maloney has the unique distinction in being the only person in MI history to be a full-time student and full-time instructor simultaneously.

In August 2009, Maloney and his fiancee (now wife) Kristina opened Absolute Music Studios, a state-of-the-art music lesson facility in Jupiter, Florida.

Tears For Fears, Korn, Alan Parsons and many others.[16] The Maloneys closed the studio in March 2022 to focus on their online music education site Practice Warriors.[17]

Charity Work

Maloney is the vice president of the charity Peace, Love & Music, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization founded by his wife, Kristina. In addition to offering scholarships for private music lessons, the charity provides educational clinics and instruments to public school music programs, after-school programs, summer camps and other organization that work with those underserved in their community.[18]

Practice Warriors

In 2022, Christopher and Kristina Maloney launched their music education site Practice Warriors.[19] The site includes a Masterclass on How To Practice Music, hundreds of video lessons covering essential musical skills, interviews with top session players (who have worked with everyone from Thelonious Monk to Katy Perry), interactive Q&A sessions and a membership forum.[20]

Musical equipment

Basses/Guitars

Maloney had a long affiliation with Linc Luthier Basses,

Fender Musical Instruments by conducting clinics around the US with Cosmosquad, playing at Fender University[22] and performing two years in a row at the annual Bass Bash. In 2009, Maloney switched to D'Addario
Strings. For his solo acoustic shows, Maloney has exclusively used his Martin JC16-GTE acoustic guitar.

Effects

  • Digitech – Whammy Pedal
  • Digitech – Digital Delay
  • Boss – RC-20 Loop Station
  • Tech 21 – Sansamp Bass Driver

Amplifiers

  • SWR Goliath SR 6x10
  • SWR 350 watt head
  • SWR 2x10 extension cabinet
  • Fender – Deluxe Reverb

Discography

Solo work

  • Control – 2002
  • The Terrors of Intimacy – 2005
  • Indie Rock Chart (with Evan Beigel) – 2008

with Jeff Kollman/Cosmosquad

  • Bleeding The Soul – 2004
  • Guitar Screams Live – 2006
  • Acid Test – 2007
  • Lights...Camera...SQUAD!! (Live DVD) – 2008

Selected discography with other artists

  • Jacob Armen – Drum Fever – 1994
  • Jacob Armen – Breakthrough – 1998
  • Jack Avalon – Headnoise – 1999
  • Gilli Moon – Temperamental Angel – 2000
  • Dweezil Zappa – Automatic – 2000
  • Lao Tizer – Golden Soul – 2000
  • Jack Avalon – Strange Kind of Light – 2001
  • Hardline – II – 2002
  • MetaFour
     – 2002
  • Donnie Vie – Just Enough! – 2003
  • Lao Tizer – Diversify – 2006
  • Debbie Hennessey – Good As Gone – 2006
  • Jack Avalon – Six of the Best – 2008
  • Arlene Kole – One Day – 2008
  • Jami Lula – There's a Healin Goin On – 2009
  • Lucero Almazan – One Day – 2018
  • Allison Valentine Fernandes - Beacon Of Light - 2020
  • Sally Fox Maple - Upswell - 2021
  • Keith Calveric - Untold - 2022

References

  1. ^ Public records shows a birth date of March 1969 for Christopher Patrick Maloney in New York.
  2. ^ "ES-M Alumni Records". Archived from the original on March 29, 2007. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
  3. ^ Reed, Michele (Summer 2005). "40 Under 40 Arts & Entertainers" (PDF). Oswego Alumni Association.
  4. ^ Titus, Dale (November 10, 1994). "BIT's Outstanding Student Of The Year Christopher Maloney". Bass Frontiers Magazine.
  5. ^ Marshall, Steve (2001). "The Night Owl Reviews".
  6. ^ Hughey, Cheryl (October 5, 2003). "Lao Tizer: Rising Among The Ranks". All About Jazz.
  7. ^ Moore, Kate (June 2003). "Some Fellas You Just Can't Shut Up, And One Of Those Is Christopher Maloney". Strangers in the Night.
  8. ^ "De Wolfe Music UK".
  9. ^ Titus, Dale (November 10, 1994). "BIT's Outstanding Student Of The Year Christopher Maloney". Bass Frontiers Magazine.
  10. ^ "MI Tokyo Maloney Clinic". Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
  11. ^ "Tiger Beat". Archived from the original on April 6, 2009. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
  12. ^ "Glenn Hughes at Musicians Institute".
  13. ^ "Free Concert and Clinic in Jupiter".
  14. ^ Maloney, Christopher (2010). Progressive Rock Bass. Hal Leonard Publishing. p. 80. UPC884088403836.
  15. ^ Balobeck, Kristina (October 18, 2009). "Music Teacher Gets Taste Of 'Fame'". The Jupiter Courier.
  16. ^ Feldman, Olivia (November 12, 2019). "Music Studio Strikes All The Right Chords". The Palm Beach Post.
  17. ^ Halstead, James (April 2022). "Why Did Absolute Music Studios Close?". AMS.
  18. ^ Silverman, Alexa (December 12, 2019). "Peace, Love & Music: Providing music education to at-risk kids". The Palm Beach Post.
  19. ^ Halstead, James (April 2022). "Why Did Absolute Music Studios Close?". AMS.
  20. ^ Ben Childs and Hector Diaz (October 7, 2022). "Episode 75 Christopher Maloney". 561 Music Podcast (Podcast). 561 Music. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  21. ^ "Linc Luthier Homepage".
  22. ^ Goodman, Ben (November 2008). "Fast Times At Fender University". Bass Player. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2009.

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