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This site turns 25!

Kinda hard to believe... markmarshall.com was registered on September 8, 1999 - which means it's just turned 25 years old. My, how time doth fly. The shot above is how it looked the day it launched. (You can take a gander at it from 2001…

On this day in 2017…

On this day in 2017, a bunch of you fine folks helped me finance the Born Wired album. The first album I had professionally pressed, packaged and released. I'm celebrating that day by giving it to you for nothing - just for one day. You…

CRUNCH

My dear old friend Brock Purdy suffered a devastating loss over Memorial Day weekend. Mother nature took it upon herself to grace Brock's van with a monster-sized tree - a total loss. I put together a little compilation EP called…

Happy Birthday to Let It Go.

Happy Birthday to Let It Go. This little gem turns 4 today! You can hear the YouTube playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mb2K66ts8xfapgBuJaw7gAVFDJMBZhMRI Stream it, or buy it for 5 smackers - at Bandcamp: htt…

Farewell to a friend…

Rick and I weren't close buddies... but we connected - for over two decades. Sometimes, he was like a big kid, and others, he was ethereal, mercurial and all-knowing. 

NightRail 2024

I honestly can’t remember if the music was inspired by the video – but I suspect that it was just a happy meeting of the medias.

A word of heartfelt thanks.

Just a note of thanks... Bandcamp wrote me this morning to say that I had the best month on BC since I started there back in 2009.

The more you dig…

In searching for files after the ASR-X video last night, I stumbled upon this shoot of a rough vocal session from 2011.

Storm…

A calming view - 2024 audio remix & master of a 2010 recording, from the 62 album.

It’s alive!

On the heels of unearthing a bunch of old tracks, I went to seek out some sounds, and got some wonderful surprises...

As promised…

In my video update, I talked about re-releases of videos to coincide with the release of 62....

Rebuilding the desk

Well, it turns out that the sonics in my room were suffering because of speaker placement - which meant I had to rearrange my desk - a bunch.

CC Jam 72

In which naughty Mister Lee gleefully waves around a prized old unreleased Mark instrumental.

Lotsa Gratitude and an update…

An update from MM.... who also reminds himself that one must remember to check one's batteries before shooting a video.  Sigh.

62

I was born in 1962. This January, I turn 62. At the end of October, I got this crazy idea.

The 62 Listening Party & Birthday Bash

Come help me celebrate!!!

Interview on Radio Kingston

I had a chance to visit with Kevin Godbey of Kingston Happenings, for an hour of conversation about life and the 62 album. And I got to hear some of 62 live on the radio for the first time.  What a treat. You can hear the interview…

My yearly ode…

Decided to switch it up... maybe my doing it on guitar all these years was messing with the universe's juju. Thank you for being here, and being you. Happy New Year!

I FINALLY recorded a holiday track.

Those of you who know me know that I've been recording for a REALLY long time. Seems like forever... but in all that time, I never recorded a holiday song. Well, a lovely 'net DJ named Anne Alma, who has been very kind in spinning…

A new video!!!

I released a new video over the weekend!!!! It's "From the Inside", from the Let It Go album.

Anatomy of a song… that damned riff.

So here's how it works, sometimes. If you're VERY blessed, a song comes to you in one fell swoop. I am hardly ever blessed in that department. Most of the time, my songs come in the form of musical riffs, verses, choruses, solo sections…

I TAPED an update, Dave…

(The title is a loving dig at Dave Lee from The Bugcast, who ribbed me for saying that I was "taping" an update for Patreon.) I just posted a video update to Patreon, in which I discuss a guitar build, plans for an upcoming video and the…

RIP, Dave…

  Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved making music. He taught himself piano, with a little help, then guitar, then drums and bass, and eventually some awful saxophone. As he grew older, he started recording music and writing…

This Town

I wrote this sweet, sad thing once upon a time.  I had to revisit it for possible submission for a festival performance, so I decided to marry it to an appropriate video.  I found a lovely one by Matthias Groeneveld of the Netherlands. (You…

Do you love your guitar?

Well, I obviously do. And if you do.... I'm working on a new track, and a video to go along with it - and I'd love to include a pic of you loving your guitar (or bass) in it. (You'll be in the credits, of course.) So if you'd like me to…

News for my 60th spin around the sun…

Greetings to you and yours... I hope this finds you well at the start of a new year that, I HOPE, won't be as crazy as the past couple have been. I thought that my 60th birthday would be a good time to reconnect with you all, and give…

My yearly ode to you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtBw9RCmd6Y

A little tease…

I've been working on a bunch of new tracks in the studio... here's just a little tease.

A blast from the past… 2007 interview

In 2007, I did an interview  (with a sore throat) , on an NYC TV show called "The New Yorkers". It was originally only available on MySpace, and when they revamped, a bunch of old videos were lost. It turned up on a hard drive here, and…

Born Wired turns 4

A precious Van Halen memory

It was a Saturday - March 25, 1978. Which would have made me 14. I was hanging out in my room in New Jersey... with WPIX-FM, my favorite station, playing - I listened to it all the time. They had been playing this single - You Really…

Uncharted!

My dear friends from across the pond, Dave and Caroline Lee of The Bugcast, featured me for a full half hour on their DN12 Live Broadcast. I was totally chuffed (see what I did there?) that they'd ask, and that they included me.  Plus, the…

A lovely review of Let It Go

A lovely review of Let It Go, from my dear friend (and awesome musician) Dave Fields. Very grateful. Dave Fields review of Mark Marshall’s LET IT GO by Dave Fields Big City Blues Magazine First of all let me start of by saying that I’ve…

A wonderful conversation

I had a wonderful talk with Sal Miccio of Woodstock Regional Artists, which aired on 7/7. Many thanks to Sal and David Laks for making it happen!

Lover, please…

Lover, please has waited a very, very long time to be released. It's the second video from the Let It Go album. Rather than make it a performance video, I decided to make it a lyric video, backed by manipulated public domain footage. It…

Let It Go is here.

Into Each Life – the room!

I always loved "making of" featurettes... and now I get to share one! I first heard Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - a record by Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots - while playing a video game called Fallout 3.  In F3, you are wandering…

Into Each Life – the video

In the beginning of 2019, Lara Hope agreed to do a duet with me - a cover of an old Ella Fitzgerald/Ink Spots tune.  Rather than doing a note-for-note cover (what's the point?), I decided to swap genders on the track - she was a trooper and…

The Bandcamp DISCOGRAPHY sale!

  In light of the difficult times artists are facing right now, the very kind folks at Bandcamp are suspending all their fees for sales - for 24 hours - from midnight to midnight (Pacific) today. I have three albums up there, plus…

My Yearly New Year’s Ode

  In the last remaining hours of another year about to end I just had to take a moment and thank you for being my friend The world was better 'cause you were here and the moments we shared were dear to me And I can't…

Something I did for the Geezüs Butlers

I did the audio mixes and video editing on these, for my dear friends in the Geezüs Butlers band.

Once upon a time…

Once upon a time, two universes collided... Sal Caltabiano was the first person ever to invite me into a studio to create and co-create... me at the ripe old age of 15, when he was in his early twenties. It was the first time I ever got to multitrack.…
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My Yearly New Year’s Ode

  In the last remaining hours of another year about to end I just had to take a moment and thank you for being my friend The world was better 'cause you were here and the moments we shared were dear to me And I can't…

Playing O+!!! – The O Positive Festival

  I've lived in the city of Kingston, New York for over 10 years. It is my home, in a way that no other place has ever been. Which makes me particularly proud to have been accepted for a wonderful, nationally-growing event - The…

A lovely review…

As anyone knows who already has the album... When I set out to make Born Wired, I wanted to honor the rock and roll that bit me as a kid. Well, I just got a lovely review from Mike Campbell at The Chronogram magazine, who totally got…

My Yearly New Year’s Ode

  In the last remaining hours of another year about to end I just had to take a moment and thank you for being my friend The world was better 'cause you were here and the moments we shared were dear to me And I can't…

Girls Like You – the video

I LOVE making videos.  I love planning them, shooting them, and editing them. The idea for this one was  (for the vast majority of it) to shoot it with a single view, and create most of the activity with just edits.  And to heighten the…

The Born Wired album is here.

Come get KICKED this weekend!

Gonna be joining my friends from Mister Kick for a freewheeling night of music at Keegan Ales on Saturday, July 22nd at 9pm. To make it even sweeter, we'll be joined by my longtime friend and guitar genius Dave Fields for the night. …

A custom line of MM strings. Too Cool.

So those of you who have been following the Born Wired Indiegogo campaign know that the fine folks from MJC Ironworks have kindly offered custom sets of strings for the campaign. And just today, the first prototype for the tin that will contain…