Culture of Greed

Culture of Greed started as just me on stage. Backing tracks ran from a MacBook Pro, and its VGA output drove a projector showing videos synced to the music, while I sang and played electric guitar. I played five or six shows that way before Micheal “Jet” Hendricks joined on synths. Jet knew MIDI and gear inside out.

The album, Dasein, came out on Toxic Shock Records in 2008. I recorded the whole thing on a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro I upgraded myself, with Ableton Live 7 and the original FireWire Apogee Duet. The title comes from Heidegger’s Being and Time.

People kept assuming Culture of Greed was a metal band. After a label showcase went badly, I left Toxic Shock, and Jet and I started over as Push/Button/Press.