In 2003 and 2004, as both a Guitar Institute of Technology, and Voice Institute of Technology student at Musicians Intitute in Hollywood, California, Dean wrote and recorded demos of many original songs.
ABOVE: Photo of Dean Strickland in the Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, Calofrnia in 2003 unknown photographer
(Click video still above to watch performance)
ABOVE: Video still of Dean Strickland performing his song "Fuck All Those A & R Guys" live at Musicians Institute in March 2003 unknown camera man
ABOVE: Photo of the RIKKS PIKKS VOLUME 1 including the song "I've Learned by Dean Strickland
ABOVE: Dean's story as told by the Musicians Institute Music Business Program in Hollywood, California in the Spring of 2003
ABOVE: Photo Dean Strickland taken at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California in the Spring of 2002 in the Musicians Institutes MI CD VOL 4 including the song "Bassist And Drummer Wanted"
ABOVE: Photo of Dean Strickland at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California as a Recording Artist Program student in the Spring of 2002 working to produce his "Some Girls To Blame" CD unknown photographer
The Denton Scramble advertisement for Dean Strickland's "Suicide Note(I'm Doing This)", and a quote from Elizabeth With, Vice President for Student Development, University of North Texas
ABOVE: Photos of the front and back side of the Suicide Note CD
ABOVE: Photos of the front and back side of the You Make Me Smile (I Want You To Know) CD
/projects/6/1/0/4/610478/uploads/I_Wish_You_Would_Kill_Yourself.pdf
(Click link above, or picture below to read Dean's story "I Wish You Would Kill Yourself Like Your Brother Or Like Kurt Cobain")
ABOVE: Portrait painting of Dean Strickland in 1998 when he was a student at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas by Bobby Griffith
ABOVE: Photo of Dean Strickland in the Hollywood Hills in Hollywood, Calofrnia in 2003 unknown photographer
The Creative Line write up in which Jimi Yamagishi of SongNet.org gives mention to Dean Strickland's song "Fuck All Those A & R Guys"
(Click video still above to watch performance)
ABOVE: Video still of Dean Strickland performing his song "Fuck All Those A & R Guys" live at Musicians Institute in March 2003 unknown camera man
Released on April 16, 2004, Dean's song "I've Learned" was featured on RIKKS PIKKS VOLUME 1 indie compilation CD.
ABOVE: Photo of the RIKKS PIKKS VOLUME 1 including the song "I've Learned by Dean Strickland
ABOVE: Dean's story as told by the Musicians Institute Music Business Program in Hollywood, California in the Spring of 2003
Dean's song "Bassist And Drummer Wanted" is featured on the Musicians Institute MI Volume IV compilation CD.
ABOVE: Photo Dean Strickland taken at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California in the Spring of 2002 in the Musicians Institutes MI CD VOL 4 including the song "Bassist And Drummer Wanted"
As a student at Musicians Institute, Dean mailed out his "Some Girls To Blame" CD for review.
Cole Reviews
(Click links below to read the "Some Girls To Blame" CD reviews)
Click here to buy this CD online
ABOVE: Photos of the front and back side of the Some Girls To Blame CD
ABOVE: A scanned image of Dean Strickland's original DBA for Never Die Records
ABOVE: Photos of the front and back side of the Some Girls To Blame CD
ABOVE: A scanned image of Dean Strickland's original DBA for Never Die Records
In August 2002, Dean started his Never Die Records label for an assignment given to him by Kenny Kerner, an instructor of Dean's while he was a student of the Recording Artist Program, while at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California, and for which class assignment, Dean designed his first Never Die Records logo, which he first published on the cover, and the back of his "Some Girls To Blame" CD.
ABOVE: Photo of Dean Strickland at Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California as a Recording Artist Program student in the Spring of 2002 working to produce his "Some Girls To Blame" CD unknown photographer
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The Denton Scramble advertisement for Dean Strickland's "Suicide Note(I'm Doing This)", and a quote from Elizabeth With, Vice President for Student Development, University of North Texas
ABOVE: Photos of the front and back side of the Suicide Note CD
ABOVE: Photos of the front and back side of the You Make Me Smile (I Want You To Know) CD
/projects/6/1/0/4/610478/uploads/I_Wish_You_Would_Kill_Yourself.pdf
(Click link above, or picture below to read Dean's story "I Wish You Would Kill Yourself Like Your Brother Or Like Kurt Cobain")
ABOVE: Portrait painting of Dean Strickland in 1998 when he was a student at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas by Bobby Griffith