| The Boogiemen began as a side project for
Kevin Heckeler and Lewis Benko. Sitting in on vocals and doing some
lyric writing is Kevin's old friend Scott Watts. In 2007 and 2008 Kevin started collaborating with some musicians he met
online. Their contributions have been immense, both through the
excellent contributions as performers and for their honest feedback.
Scott Watts has since moved on to pursuing other interests unrelated to
music, but has expressed interest in working with Kevin on a long term
multimedia project (details soon). Lew has not contributed much in 2008 but could on future
tracks.
It should be noted that the Rudy Strooglitz page was
Lew's creation, Kevin helped with photo-chopping some of the pictures for
mock advertising. It remains incomplete as a tribute to something
deep.
Kevin Heckeler: Self-taught producer of such other
hit bands as Slightly Dimmed and
Dischord, Kevin
was really stretching his mental capacity by using absolutely any part of
his mind during these recordings. Biggest influences are Rush, Frank
Zappa, Tool, Pink Floyd, QOTSA, Dream Theater, Primus, Yes, Opeth, Porcupine
Tree... the list
goes on.
Lewis Benko: Lewis, also known as Lonesome Lewis,
is from a small town in CT. He began to play the guitar at age 11, and
was introduced to the blues by age 15. Some of his favorite artists
include Mississippi John Hurt, Prokofiev, Cecil Taylor, Captain Beefheart,
and Buckethead. Click here to hear some songs from
Lew's prior projects.

Scott Watts:
singer, songwriter, screenwriter, filmmaker and
schizophrenic, is a proud resident of Los Angeles, California (and by proud
he means (yes he, don’t act so surprised, he is clearly writing this
himself…) he means that he regularly suffers from intense road rage, refers
to himself as a transplant and as a proud New Yorker (at which time everyone
assumes he means New York City) and has consumed Avocado in the last twelve
hours) took vocal lessons at a very young age from a wild pack of Hyenas and
an old, wise Howler Monkey, who liked to sit in the sun and listen to Jazz
because of how it made his hair feel when the trumpet player hit those high
notes, in a one room school-house in a very remote part of Maine that
smelled like feet and fresh-cut flowers.
Today he thinks he still likes music. He
says it helps him make sense of all the chaos! Or maybe he’s thinking too
much!
Mike
Vieira: Mike and Kevin met through an online bulletin board.
After hearing Mike's rough tracks, Kevin offered to help remix his work.
Since then Kevin has taken an active role in helping produce Mike's music,
as well as sit-in on bass for many of the newer recordings. You can
check out more of Mike's music by visiting his
website. Mike appears as guest vocalist/lyricist on
That Deadly Night, which also features drumming by another online
collaborator Josh Bennett (a.k.a.
dross).
Brian
O'Connell: Brian was introduced to Kevin through Mike Vieira
while working on new music for Mike's upcoming album. Brian is a
talented guitarist and a master drum programmer. You can
check out more of Brian's music by visiting his
myspace
page. Brian appears as guest drum programmer on the remix of
That Deadly Night,
which will appear on the Mike Vieira's soon to be released album.
Oliver: He's a
cat and meows on "I have thoughts in my mind". His favorite people are
silly, passionate, and willing to clean his litter pan.
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