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Placer grad scrambling for rock stardom in
contest
By: Gus Thomson
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Devlin Murphy, Placer High School graduate,
is hoping a radio station contest will be key step in his
music career. Courtesy Photo Devlin Murphy is
one of those umpteen thousand musicians who strike out from
their small towns every year to make their fortune in
recording centers like Los Angeles.
For the last four
years, the bassist and keyboard player has lived, worked and
gone to school in L.A. while trying to catch a break in the
recording business.
There have been a few dents in the
corporate structure that is modern music, with one high point
being inclusion of one of his songs in the direct-to-video
movie "National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2." In another, Michael
Soares of NBC's "Access Hollywood," gave him a mention as
"full of promise."
Performing solo, Murphy has his
YouTube site up and feelers out for opening gigs. Murphy, in
fact, was jockeying for a slot warming up the audience for a
Beach Boys performance this weekend and is still banking on a
tour in Japan later this summer with Manadu Ohsio, a major
artist from that country.
In L.A., musicians take
their opportunities where they can find them. For hundreds,
it's a video contest on a popular rock station.
Murphy
is confident going in that his video is on the fast track to
win him the advertised record deal with actor Keifer
Sutherland's Ironworks Music.
Murphy, 23, graduated
from Placer High School in 2003 and he admits he was pretty
much ignored by the scenemakers there. He lived six years in
Auburn and then moved to the South State after graduation to
pursue rock stardom. There have been three different bands and
plenty of original songs written since then.
His
latest is called "I'm On A High," an opus he says digs into
the pop of the Beatles for some of its inspiration.
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