Mikey Welsh climbed a stepladder Jan. 19 at the Maven shop in downtown Burlington and almost in the same motion began painting a mural on the skateboard-and-snowboard boutique’s back wall.
He drew a series of red squares with an oil stick. Within minutes, a primitive alligator took shape around the squares that became the beast’s teeth. Welsh drew a long outline of the gator’s body, including a pointy, upturned tail and four stubby legs, then painted the body a rich, vibrant acrylic green.
“My paintings are all about color,” said the bearded Welsh,Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room. whose paint-splattered tan pants and blue Burton Snowboards hoodie were all about color, too. “I keep it really basic. I think that’s why people respond to my paintings. They’re not abstract and obtuse. They’re personal, and it really hits people in the chest.”
Welsh, 37, was the bass player for the alternative-rock band Weezer before a nervous breakdown prompted by drug abuse and the stresses of playing in a hugely popular band drove him out of the music business. He turned from music to art and moved to Vermont six years ago, where he hooked up with Burton, the hometown company that has used his energetic, childlike designs on its snowboards. He’s in the midst of another high-profile job at Maven, which will celebrate the conclusion of his weeklong mural project Friday, Jan. 23, with a reception at the Cherry Street store.
Welsh’s mother is a painter, and he took up art when he was about 3 and living in Brookline, Mass. Art took a backseat when he was 10 and his uncle took him to a Van Halen concert at Boston Garden. They sat in the third row and heard the rockers at the peak of their loudness.
“It just blew me away. I was terrified,” Welsh said.By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. He was also intrigued; he remembers leafing through a concert program with photos of Eddie Van Halen in his cool-guitarist poses and vocalist David Lee Roth partying with women backstage. “There’s no way there can be a better job than doing this,” Welsh recalls thinking.
He got his first guitar at age 12, switched to bass at 15 and played with a variety of Boston-area bands. He and Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson formed a group called The Special Goodness during Weezer’s hiatus in the late 1990s. When Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo decided to re-form the band, he asked Welsh to replace original bass player Matt Sharp. Welsh played on the 2001 self-titled disc that’s known as “The Green Album” and includes the songs “Hash Pipe” and “Island in the Sun.They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market.”
Welsh and Weezer performed sold-out shows in the United States and Europe and appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” The latter was Welsh’s final Weezer gig; he left in October 2001.
“I got really unhealthy toward the end of my days with Weezer,” he said. “I lost about 40 pounds and had a nervous breakdown.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical,” Welsh was abusing cocaine and Ecstasy. He also tired of the trappings of rock ‘n’ roll, with young fans following him wherever he went and having to wear his hair a certain way to appease record executives.
Welsh said he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital outside Boston for six weeks during his final days with Weezer and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. He went to live with his parents but continued to abuse drugs, including heroin, and returned to the hospital. He said he spent $60,000 (mostly on heroin and cocaine) within four months of leaving Weezer.
His mother gave him art supplies during his first hospital stay, and that therapy turned into his new vocation. He was still on coke when he began painting, but he said he’s been clean of drugs for six years. “With heroin or cocaine,” Welsh said,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose , “you either stop doing it or you die.”
He said he doesn’t miss music, though sometimes when blasting Queens of the Stone Age in his car he imagines playing on stage. “My paintings exude the energy a rock ‘n’ roll show does,” Welsh said, adding that his paintings are 85-90 percent spur-of-the-moment.
He drew a series of red squares with an oil stick. Within minutes, a primitive alligator took shape around the squares that became the beast’s teeth. Welsh drew a long outline of the gator’s body, including a pointy, upturned tail and four stubby legs, then painted the body a rich, vibrant acrylic green.
“My paintings are all about color,” said the bearded Welsh,Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room. whose paint-splattered tan pants and blue Burton Snowboards hoodie were all about color, too. “I keep it really basic. I think that’s why people respond to my paintings. They’re not abstract and obtuse. They’re personal, and it really hits people in the chest.”
Welsh, 37, was the bass player for the alternative-rock band Weezer before a nervous breakdown prompted by drug abuse and the stresses of playing in a hugely popular band drove him out of the music business. He turned from music to art and moved to Vermont six years ago, where he hooked up with Burton, the hometown company that has used his energetic, childlike designs on its snowboards. He’s in the midst of another high-profile job at Maven, which will celebrate the conclusion of his weeklong mural project Friday, Jan. 23, with a reception at the Cherry Street store.
Welsh’s mother is a painter, and he took up art when he was about 3 and living in Brookline, Mass. Art took a backseat when he was 10 and his uncle took him to a Van Halen concert at Boston Garden. They sat in the third row and heard the rockers at the peak of their loudness.
“It just blew me away. I was terrified,” Welsh said.By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. He was also intrigued; he remembers leafing through a concert program with photos of Eddie Van Halen in his cool-guitarist poses and vocalist David Lee Roth partying with women backstage. “There’s no way there can be a better job than doing this,” Welsh recalls thinking.
He got his first guitar at age 12, switched to bass at 15 and played with a variety of Boston-area bands. He and Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson formed a group called The Special Goodness during Weezer’s hiatus in the late 1990s. When Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo decided to re-form the band, he asked Welsh to replace original bass player Matt Sharp. Welsh played on the 2001 self-titled disc that’s known as “The Green Album” and includes the songs “Hash Pipe” and “Island in the Sun.They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market.”
Welsh and Weezer performed sold-out shows in the United States and Europe and appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” The latter was Welsh’s final Weezer gig; he left in October 2001.
“I got really unhealthy toward the end of my days with Weezer,” he said. “I lost about 40 pounds and had a nervous breakdown.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical,” Welsh was abusing cocaine and Ecstasy. He also tired of the trappings of rock ‘n’ roll, with young fans following him wherever he went and having to wear his hair a certain way to appease record executives.
Welsh said he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital outside Boston for six weeks during his final days with Weezer and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. He went to live with his parents but continued to abuse drugs, including heroin, and returned to the hospital. He said he spent $60,000 (mostly on heroin and cocaine) within four months of leaving Weezer.
His mother gave him art supplies during his first hospital stay, and that therapy turned into his new vocation. He was still on coke when he began painting, but he said he’s been clean of drugs for six years. “With heroin or cocaine,” Welsh said,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose , “you either stop doing it or you die.”
He said he doesn’t miss music, though sometimes when blasting Queens of the Stone Age in his car he imagines playing on stage. “My paintings exude the energy a rock ‘n’ roll show does,” Welsh said, adding that his paintings are 85-90 percent spur-of-the-moment.
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