deadliest music

Deadliest Catch Music:  ROB DICKINSON 

Song featured in Deadliest Catch:  Storm

This is another song that’s featured at the end of an episode…Specifically, it plays as the crew of the Cornelia Marie are on deck, on the grind, hauling in crab.  Thanks to another fan, we know the episode was Crossing The Line.  Rob Dickinson has been around for some time.  He originally hails from England and put out 6 albums with a previous band.  Then he seemed to spend a few years away from music and now has emerged as a single artist.  This is part of what is written on Rob’s website…Dickinson it seems is a complicated man. What he has very definitely been doing is writing songs. Whatever merit his past with the band may confer on him, Dickinson’s inevitable stardom would appear to be as a solo artist with a breathtaking new collection of music celebrating the extremes of the human spirit. If ever a slice of modern rock music deserved the adjective ‘deep’ “Fresh Wine For The Horses” is it.   You may listen to a sample of the track Storm on the Home page of his website–it’s selection #8.  You can also visit Rob’s myspace and listen to other song selections such as My Name Is Love.

Here is an acoustic version of the song Storm

Deadliest Catch Music:  JON HEINTZ 

Song/Score featured in Deadliest Catch:  RAIN 

05/25/07  You know…that new Song at the end of the last Deadliest Catch Episode that’s been baffling everybody?  MYSTERY SOLVED!  Thanks of course to Jon Heintz, Greg (for leading us to Jon), and everybody else for being so peristent in looking for information on this elusive artist!  At the end of episode 8, Caught In The Storm, we were introduced to a brand new Deadliest Catch song called ”Rain”.  It’s by Jon Heintz who now has a brand new myspace.  Check it out but keep in mind that he just got it up and going today so it’s a work in progress.  You can listen to “Rain” while you’re there and for now, we get to download it for free!  I sent him a little message earlier and he was generous enough to respond.  He seems surprised and happy with the inquiries so I will post his message here for all of us…

What can I say…I’ve kinda been layin’ pretty low for the last couple of years…I just relocated from Los Angeles to Washington DC so I’m a little behind when it comes to getting my music out there.  I got this song placed in Deadliest Catch and people seem to dig it…which is great…and I’m getting phone calls and emails about the song…which is great…and people are trying to find it on the internet…which is great…and until this morning I didn’t even have a myspace account…which is not so great. So now I’m playing catch up…trying to build my sight quickly…as of now people can download “Rain” for free and I’ll post the lyrics ASAP…The good news is I have a lot of other recordings so I’ll try to get them up quickly as well. If you have any specific questions I’d be happy to answer them. Thanks so much for your help and for taking the time to find me out here in the digital universe.Jon Heintz 

If you’re a myspacer, drop him a note or request to be added as a friend that way when he comes out with the other new tunes he’s got in the works, he can send us all a bulletin about it!

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Deadliest Catch Music:  SUPERSUCKERS

Song/Score featured in Deadliest Catch:  PAID

05/08/07  Man…I no sooner post about Indigenous and…Bam!  More new music on this episode of Deadliest Catch!  Supersuckers rock!  The song featured on tonight’s episode–The Last Lap–is Paid.  You may have heard the lyrics, “…Gotta work, Gotta get paid!”.  It comes from their album of the same name, PAID, and you can listen to it and a few other Supersucker tracks on their website.  They’ve been around for some time, they’re not shy, and there’s alot of info available on these guys.  Catch videos of Supersuckers on youtube, and check out their myspace.  And what a coincidence that they hail from the same area as so many of our favorite Deadliest Catch fishermen–Seattle!  Read part of their bio…

“THE GREATEST ROCK N’ ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD

You’ve heard our name, you’ve seen our records, our t-shirts and our stickers. We’re probably the favorite band of someone you know and yet we’re still a mystery to you. Well my friend, that’s okay, I’m here to fill you in and help you to get to know the greatest rock-n-roll band in the world, The Supersuckers.
Our story is almost impossible to believe. This band is literally a human cartoon. We all grew up among the dead-ends and cactus needles of Tucson, Arizona and have known each other since grade school. We graduated from the same high school together at the same time (a school immortalized in our song “Santa Rita High”) and we chose to play in a band together because we liked to hang out together, not because we were great musicians or anything. I truly believe that a band is defined by their limitations, that what they can’t (or won’t) do is just as important as what they can do. I guess that, in this era of pre-fabricated, put-together-to-have-a-hit bands, we’re kind of an aberration and I gotta tell ya that that makes us smile a little every day.

We formed the band in 1988 and we were initially a five piece called The Black Supersuckers (a name found in some quality “adult literature” we had laying around in our impeccably clean band house), with me on bass, Dan “Thunder” Bolton and Rontrose Heathman on guitars, Dancing Eagle on drums and a lead singer by the name of Eric Martin. After firmly proving ourselves to be the best band in town we decided it was time to get out of Tucson and try our luck somewhere else. So we tossed a coin with heads as New Orleans and tails as Seattle. Tails it was and in May of ‘89 we packed up and went north.

We had no idea that Seattle was about to become “Rock Mecca USA” we just wanted to go somewhere where we could wear our leather jackets a little more often. It was exciting and encouraging to see all of the great bands there, doing their own thing and making some kick-ass, aggressive rock-n-roll that we could relate to, so we started recording immediately. After some classic “creative differences” with our lead singer, we decided to try it as a four piece with yours truly as the singer (I was the only one who knew all the words) and The Supersuckers, as you may or may not know them today, were born. ”

Full bio on Supersuckers website 

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Deadliest Catch Music:  INDIGENOUS

Song/Score featured in Deadliest Catch: LEAVING

05/08/07 The music of Indigenous:  The F/V Timebandit crew spent a little time hauling crab to the soulful, bluesy beat of Indigenous last week.  The tune seems to have caught the ear of a lot of Deadliest Catch fans, including myself.  The lead singer, writer, guitarist of this group is Mato Nanji.  He and his brothers and sister–all native-american–formed a band in the late 90’s and seemed to become immediately successful and very productive.  This from the Indigenous website…

Mato first formed the band with his brothers and sister back in the late 90’s.  They released Things We Do in 1998 and the family band from Nakota Tribe of South Dakota never expected the mass reception they received from the blues and rock communities. As with some bands that are together for a long time, the siblings were eager to try new directions and explore their own musical potential.

Now, this new Indigenous CD, Chasing The Sun, finds Mato expressing himself as never before.  His songs, his instrumental skill, always critical to the band’s success, thrust his abilities to the spotlight.  Some of the highlights on the CD include, “Runaway” and “The Way You Shake.” with all the Indigenous trademarks, explosive guitar hooks, inventive solos, and an inexorable sense of rhythm ala Jimmy Reed.  “Fool Me Again,” one of the disc’s pivotal moments and first single, finds Mato in Robert Cray mode, with a gorgeous guitar motif, inspired solos and the record’s most memorable chorus.

Produced by Indigenous and Steve Fishell, Chasing The Sun, is sure to bring Mato a step closer to being hailed as the next great guitar hero!

To learn more, hear more of Indigenous, you may visit their myspace where you can also listen to a few of their tunes.  To hear the song, Leaving featured last week on Deadliest Catch, check out amazon.com.

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Deadliest Catch Music:  BRUCE HANIFAN AND PAUL HEPKER

Song/Score featured in Deadliest Catch:  DEADLIEST CATCH CD (see below for info) 

05/05/07  The musical scores of Bruce Hanifan and Paul Hepker.  Don’t know if anyone ever really noticed before, but starting as far back as Deadliest Catch season 1 or even Deadliest Season, each fishing vessel was assigned it’s own music clip, so that as we view an episode and we hear Mike Rowe say something to the effect, “Meanwhile, back on the Maverick…”, we hear specific F/V Maverick music.  Same goes with when we view each crew while they’re “on the crab”, working away on deck.  The music clips aren’t arbitrary–they’re fishing vessel and crew specific.  And I speak of the instrumental scores, not actual songs such as by Vienna Teng or Silver or the current Indigenous that we hear at other times.  The music was written by Bruce Hanifan and Paul Hepker.  You can visit Paul’s myspace and read up on other creative projects he’s involved in.  While there, you can click on the Deadliest Catch itunes cd icon and go straight to itunes and see the listing of 22 scores of the Deadliest catch cd and listen to a clip of each selection…if you’ve been a fan for a while, many of them should sound familiar.

     Bruce Hanifan also has his own website, and he says of Deadliest Catch “…This last year has brought some interesting and challenging projects to the table. I completed scoring for a ten-part series for DISCOVERY CHANNEL about Alaskan Crab Fishing called “Deadliest Catch”. The music has Americana elements, as well as intense drama, as the American fishermen are faced with various dangerous situations and ordeals. The highly acclaimed series premiered last spring and began its third encore broadcast this November. I’ve just been signed on to provide music for the second season of “Deadliest Catch”, airing early in 2006. I also will be scoring an additional series for DISCOVERY dealing with more of “the world’s deadliest jobs”. “

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Deadliest Catch Music:  BON JOVI 

Song/Score featured in Deadliest Catch:  WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE 

04/14/07  The music of Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi has been an incredibly productive and successful artist for many years. Per Widipedia…”Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi on March 2, 1962, is an American musician, actor and lead singer of the band, Bon Jovi” 

 You can read additional info on his bio and work at wikipedia, or if interested in details of all his work and his current touring schedule and appearances, please go to Jon’s website where there is a vast amount of information.(Great website!)

     The song we’ve all become familiar with as the “anthem” of Deadliest Catch is of course, Wanted Dead or alive.  It was originally released in 1987 on the Bon Jovi album titled Slippery When Wet.  According to Wikipedia…

According to Wikipedia…”Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by Bon Jovi released on August 18, 1986. It is the band’s most commercially successful album, selling over 12 million copies in the US. Today it stands as one of the six best selling hard rock albums ever, and spawned two #1 singles, “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Livin on a Prayer”. The third single “Wanted Dead or Alive” was a Top 10 hit, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The fourth single, “Never Say Goodbye”, the album’s signature ballad, reached #28 on the strength of airplay alone. Slippery When Wet stayed at #1 for 15 weeks, the record for a hard rock album on the Billboard 200. The album is the band’s biggest selling album in the USA and the world. The album has sold over 27 million albums worldwide.

“Wanted Dead Or Alive” is currently the theme song to the television show Wanted, Dog The Bounty Hunter,and a short section for the opening theme of Deadliest Catch and was in the 1991 film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.

The song’s title pays homage to Jon’s admiration for Old West heroes, and how he identifies with them as being both liked (wanted alive) and hated (wanted dead). On the band’s Behind the Music special on VH1, it is even revealed that the band had originally planned to do an Old West-themed album in the 1980s, but scrapped the idea.

Due to its amazing popularity, Jon Bon Jovi declares this song to be their national anthem in some of their concerts today.

Bon Jovi also has their own myspace where you can listen to several of his tracks. (They have over a million friends!)

This is a youtube video of a 2006 Live New York City performance of Bon Jovi singing Wanted Dead or Alive.  The original video is available to watch on Bon Jovi’s website.

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Deadliest Catch Music–Vienna Teng

Song/Score featured in Deadliest Catch:  BETWEEN 

My first entry for the music of Deadliest Catch.  Slowly but surely, I’ll be listing the music we hear in Deadliest Catch (They’re always such catchy tunes and we only get to hear a snippet of them during episodes).    Vienna Teng is an artist who creates and sings lovely songs.  One of them, Between, is repeatedly played in Deadliest Catch, mostly season 1, but a time or two in season 2 as well.  If  memory serves me right…and usually it does when it comes to Deadliest Catch, we hear the haunting melody of Between at the end of an episode as we watch the Maverick heading back out to sea for a second run of opilio crab in season 1. 

(the video is only an album cover but it’s the music that is important…and it was one hard song to find.)

     You can find Between on Vienna’s album titled Warm Strangers.  If you’d like to hear more of her music, visit her myspace.  There is also a Vienna Teng website, where there is a wealth of information about this artist…If interested, I recommend going there.

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Deadliest Catch Music: SILVER

Song/Score featured in Deadliest Catch:  TRANSMISSIONS  & TURN IT UP 

04/05/2007. Silver is a California-based indy band whose tracks have been featured in several  television series. If you haven’t heard of them it’s because they’re still indy but they’ve been on the scene since 1999. Clips of two of their songs are heard in Deadliest Catch, season 1 and 2. They are Turn It Up and Transmissions. The track Turn It Up, has never officially been released on cd however, you can listen or download the song from Silver’s website here. You may also visit their myspace here and listen to Transmissions. On their myspace you can view a video clip of scenes from different shows featuring their music including of course, Deadliest Catch. Silver’s music is catchy and will probably grow on you if you listen to it much…fair warning.

New addition here…Watch Silver’s musical autobiography and catch clips from all television shows their music is featured on…