Hi, my name is Phil Soussan, welcome to the new site. I am glad you stopped by!

You may know me from my bass playing with OZZY OSBOURNE, BILLY IDOL, VINCE NEIL, JOHNNY HALLIDAY, JOHN WAITE or STEVE LUKATHER as a bass player/writer or some of my production work.

The purpose of this website is to provide information about what is current, to allow people to reference past and present work and to provide an area for contact. You can also visit my site on MYSPACE as well.

That having been said, I welcome you to search through the text for the various and numerous links on this site that take you to your topic of interest.

Please note that this site is constantly being added to, so keep checking in!

JANI LANE, singer and songwriter of WARRANT, has been asking me to do some shows with him for some time now. So at this time the timing is perfect and I shall be playing with him in his band starting on September the 29th in Ohio.
We shall be playing mainly warrant songs and we may slip in Shot in the Dark for any Ozzy fans out there!
I am really excited to play in the band; Mike Fasano on drums - we played together in Gilby Clarke's band, Dario Lorina on guitar and Shawn Zavodney on keys.
I will also have copies of my solo album "Vibrate" should anyone with to buy a copy and have it autographed.
See you out there and please keep an eye posted on this site for more upcoming dates. Please also visit JANI LANE'S SITE for the latest gig dates.

CURRENT DATES:

Sept 28th Choctaw Coliseum, Durant OK

Sept 29th Crystal Beach Arena, Woodward OK

Oct 3rd Whiskey rance, Toledo OH

Oct 4th Whiskey rance, Cleveland OH

Oct 5th Whiskey rance, Massillon OH

PHIL ELECTED TO GOVERNING BOARD OF THE GRAMMYS -

After the ballot and voting process, Phil was elected to the Board of the Grammys - NARAS. "This is a real honor and a great opportunity to give back something to the community and industry that has been so good to me..." Phil said after attending his first NARAS Board meeting and receiving his special minature GRAMMY lapel pin! "...Everyone is familiar with the awards show but there are so many other things to be involved in such as Grammy Camp, Grammy in the Schools and of course MusicCares, that helped so much with my friend Randy Castillo. I also want to make a personal target out of helping to change the way on which artists are fairly compensated for their music over new technologies and distributions. The first step of this is through the MusicFIRST campaign that seeks to support artists and explain their fight to receive income for their perfomances and recordings played over the radio, something that most countries do but that the USA does NOT do - together with China, Iran and Rwanda!" Phil quips!

Phil would like to please ask everyone to at least visit and sign the petition at the MusicFIRST website It only takes a minute.

LIVE WEBCAST -

Friday after next, being the 30th of March presents a unique opportunity to see a show that I shall be performing at KULAK'S WOODSHED here in the Valley. In case you don't know what they do here - they have a very small funky kinda "front room" in which many very talented and eclectic artists perform, either acoustically or with a skinned down band, and they broadcast a live video webcast on the internet. You really have to see the quality of this - it is quite spectacular! This is a great way to see a show without having to pay for a plane ticket from wherever you happen to be!
Anyway, I shall be performing a few songs off my Vibrate CD helped out by my dear friend SHANE FONTAYNE and then we shall be performing some songs off of his fantastic CD that I am going to attempt to help him out on... Should be fun as this is something that I have wanted to do for a long time!
Time and Place:
As I said it will be on Friday March 30th between 8 to 10 pm (Los Angeles time!) and you can simply direct your browser to :
http://www.kulakswoodshed.com
scroll down the page and click on the link that says "live webcast" and there you go! You can even send in live emails with questions, comments or whatever that can be read out.
So grab a few beers and pretend that you are right here in the beautiful spring weather and enjoy an evening of some terrific music from Shane, myself and other musicians.
If you have not done so I really encourage you to check out some of Shane's solo material at his website:
http://www.shanefontayne.com/
His "What Nature Intended" is one of my favorite CDs of the past couple of years and well worth picking up. There are clips there and details on how you can purchase a copy.
IF YOU MISS THIS EXCITING EVENT IT WILL BE ARCHIVED ON THE SAME WEBSITE.
Finally, Kulak's is solely supported by voluntary donations, If you like the way they support independent music and what you see there, why not consider making a donation? It would certainly be appreciated and there are details on their website on how you can do this.
See you there...
Phil

GIG AT CAFE CORDIALE (featuring Glen Sobel, John Stack, Johnny Griparic) ON APRIL 18th at 9 PM CLICK HERE

VIBRATE gigs are getting better and better! For more news click HERE

BIG NOIZE LIVE DVD - latest. The live DVD was successfully taped on Saturday the 2nd of September before a live audience. Current plans focus on marketing the DVD to the corporate concert industry but a commercial release has not been ruled out. The repertoire features well-known songs from each artist's catalogue. Here's a link to a recent article in THE TENNESSEAN about Big Noize.

NEW HOT ANNOUNCEMENT- attention metal fans! We are in the process of assembling a new supergroup consisting of members of associated bands. The line up is JOE LYNN TURNER-vox, VINNY APPICE-drms, CARLOS CAVAZO-gtrs and Phil Soussan- bass. We are rehearsing a new set in Nashville this week for an upcoming live DVD to kick the whole project off. Please keep an eye here for more details!

Two Solo shows at the Baked Potato in Los Angeles coming up on the 12th and 26th of September. The band features John Stack-gtr, Johnny Griparec-bs, Matt Laug-drms and many musical guests!

Phil has been writing with ISOLATION, the band that features Trevor Lukather. They absolutely kick butt! Please check them out on their websites by clicking HERE

LINKS TO NEW ARTICLES ON OTHER SITES:

If you missed the chat on Toto's chatroom last Sunday you may find the transcript here:http://www.toto99.com/totospeaks/transcripts/philsoussan012006.shtml

Please check out the great interview and review page on Toto's website by clicking HERE or by going to www.toto99.com

Also check out the interview at Steve Lukather's website by clicking here

NEW SOLO ALBUM! I have been working since the end of January on a solo record. Although I have been writing for years for all of the artists that I have worked with I finally felt ready to record some songs that I had written for my own record. I had collected about 20 songs that I thought were in the vein and while I was still writing it was Steve Lukather who convinced me one night that I had the record based on what he heard! I narrowed it down to 12 songs and started recording. The material is varied between commercial rock-pop and some funk influences. There are a couple of really cool ballads and many of my influences can be heard; from Zep and Pink Floyd to Seal and Coldplay! I have some wonderful musicians guesting and I am singing - it is a completely vocal album. all the drums were cut by Simon Phillips or Gregg Bissonette and guests include Steve and Trev Lukather, Jeff Babko, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Shane Fontayne and Richie Kotzen.
The album cover is a spectacular 6 panel Digipack and includes a 12 page lyric booklet too. Plans are to distribute the record through the usual internet channels and also on this site. If you buy it here though it will be personally autographed for you for a limited time!

SAMPLE CLIPS are available to be heard by clicking on this MYSPACE link. When you get there I would invite you to join my page; it is free and all you have to do is click the red "add to friends" button!

Phil is the featured artist on Chris Standring's excellent website and tipsheet A and R Online. Check it out!

PHIL WILL BE APPEARING AT THE SUPERBOWL 2006!
He will be performing in the Lingerie Bowl halftime show in a star-studded band with Jani Lane, Kerry Kelly, Glen Sobel, Danny Wagner and Patrick Hansen. Also appearing will be Dennis Rodman and Jenny McCarthy; be sure and tune in!

Richie Kotzen: NAMM appearance We will be playing on Fri 21st January 2006 at Tone Merchants, 1521 W. Collins Ave. Orange, CA 92867. I will also be making NAMM appearances at the Dean Markley, Tascam and Ernie Ball Music Man booths.

Toto: Recorded a track for Toto as a duet with the singing group Tokio for Japanese release. This came out great and I am looking forward to working more with the guys.

Hydra: Part D'Eau This is the second recording for this great band featuring 5 new songs; One Night Stand, Severed, The Girl Who Got Away, Alone and Destiny. They are really starting to create some excitement between their shows and their material. Please go to www.hydramusic.net

Hydra Featuring Trevor Lukather: Steve's son's band with Trevor writing singing and playing guitar. Just finished a 4 track EP which will be going out to shop at this point. Main tracks recorded at the Steakhouse and the overdubs done at my facility on HD systems. More details to follow.

Motley Crue: I have been assisting Tim and mixing some of the 5.1 remix tracks on the upcoming Universal release of Motley's greatest hits DVD (in surround).

I have been working with Tim Weidner. Tim engineered and mixed Seal IV and we have been doing a European dance remix on "Get it Together."

Bronze Records: I have now left Bronze Records due to conflict over integrity issues as well as the fact that as house producer I was missing out on some greater opportunities in favor of having to produce some projects that Bronze signed that I did not believe in.

James Blundell: The well known Australian country singer has been signed to our label and I am helping re-invent him for Bronze Records. I have started writing some new songs with him in the Petty / Mellencamp vibe. We are hoping to have finished product by early next year.

Jet 68: Well the Jet 68 album is finished and is sounding amazing! We got a bit behind schedule due to the passing away of Randy Castillo and my duties with regard to that. Please visit their website at Jet 68

Bernard Fowler: Main background singer for the Stones for many years now approached Steve Lukather and myself with a view to write and produce his album. We wrote two songs at first, titled "Reach for the Sky" and "New York Time". Both songs recorded by myself and were really well received and are now being shopped for a deal. The album will be very exciting as there shall be many well known guests coming together to appear on it. Bernard can be caught weekly with his star studded "Big Beat Sunday" band appearing at the Mint on a Sunday and The Joint on a Monday, here in Los Angeles.

City Girls Boys: Features Leslie Sanders, Matt, Pepper and Dale. I originally recorded an EP for them for Apollo Records in 1998. Four tracks were licenced to MTV for their "Undressed" series and picked up a fair bit of interest. After a line up change I just finished a four track demo of new songs that is being shopped for a deal right now.

Guest: An English band that I am in the process of developing for Bronze Records. Belle, the singer, is in the Melissa Ethridge/Alaniss Morissette style but with a funkier influence and I am doing a type of atmospheric R & B production.

LA Guns: Finished mastering their "Man In The Moon" album.

Ball: Featuring Brian Tishy Finished Mastering Brian's excellent Ball album for Spitfire Records. The album was produced by Gilby Clarke.

Dokken "Live from the Sun" DVD.

Dokken "Live from the Sun" CD I was asked to co mix this album recorder by Tom Fletcher for CMC records. The concert was recorded at the Sun theatre in Anaheim and was transferred into Pro Tools where it stayed until the end. After, I was asked to remix the album in 5.1 surround sound for the DVD of the same concert which I did alone. This proved to be a great success in the way it came out and I look forward to doing more of these types of mixes.