User:Silascjgoss/Ryen slegr

Ryen Slegr Ryen Slegr (born April 14, 1979 in Ithaca, New York) is a founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Ozma. He is also a current recording and touring member of The Rentals most notably contributing to their 2014 Polyvinyl release “Lost in Alphaville” for which he engineered and played all the guitars. Matt Sharp said he “was the person who was most involved with me on the record from its inception to seeing it through and I would rely on his ears. . . [he] was that person for me throughout all the different phases. . . “ He co-wrote the Weezer song "Eulogy for a Rock Band" on their 2014 Universal Records release Everything Will Be Alright in the End, and performed the song with the band at their record release show at Fingerprints in Long Beach, CA. In 2012 Rachel Haden performed shows with a backing band consisting of Adam Phaler of Jawbreaker on drums, Warren Defever of His Name is Alive on guitar, and Slegr on guitar and keyboards.[6] They performed several shows in Los Angeles and at Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco the same year.[7]  Slegr currently produces and engineers bands in Los Angeles in addition to pursuing other experimental projects. [8][9][10][11][12][13].

Education
Slegr hast a History degree from UCLA where he also studied medieval Japanese court music called Gagaku. After graduating in 2003 he took various music classes at Pasadena City College including Equal Interval Harmony with Michael Mitacek.