![]() ![]() “We’re not doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. “Pacific Records has been going for a while now, and I’m getting more focused,” Brian said. He passed the bar exam a month later on his first try. He has rarely stopped since, even when working double-time running Pacific Records while earning his law degree in 2019 from the San Francisco Law School branch campus here at Alliant International University. “‘Garage Band Heroes’ sold about 300 copies.”īrian worked tirelessly to get Pacific Records off the ground. “The Warrior Finches album sold less than 100 copies, at $10 each,” Brian recalled. ![]() Brian sold them out of the trunk of his car at gigs and before and after his classes at Torrey Pines High School. Success was not measured in the number of records sold, but by the fact that the recordings were made and existed in physical form. In 2004, Brian dropped the Real2Reel trademark - which had been copyrighted by another company - in favor of Pacific Records. ![]() Two of the bands on the album - Warrior Finches and Shut Up Sigmund Freud - counted Brian among its members. It featured songs by such colorfully named bands as The Eccentrics, Gasoline Please and A Vital Few Vs. The 16-song compilation album, “Garage Band Heroes: The Best of So Cal Music,” was released in 2003. Pacific’s initial releases were all on CD. “I handed her my card, and she said: ‘I should talk to this guy?” I said: ‘I am this guy!’ ” She came into my record store and asked how she could work there,” Brian recalled. “Nicole was on the events staff at Epicentre. They now live in Carlsbad, with their 8-year-old son, Jordan, who is a budding singer. ![]() He also moonlighted as a security guard at the venue, which is where he met his wife, Nicole. In 2004, Brian opened a Real2Reel Records store at Epicentre, an all-ages indie-rock club in Mira Mesa. The label was created to put out music by Warrior Finches, his and Sean’s first band of note. In 1999, Brian - then 14 - started Real2Reel Records in his family’s basement. The label’s 2003 launch by the then-teenaged Brian preceded the inception of Slack Key Ohana by 17 years. Pacific Records’ studio and offices are near Pechanga Arena San Diego, Rock & Roll San Diego and Soma Live. (Alejandro Tamayo/The San Diego Union-Tribune) ‘I am this guy!’ But with Pacific and Brian and Patricio, I feel so supported. Sometimes, you feel like a tiny drop in the sea. “Pacific offers songwriting classes, voice lessons, song placements (for TV shows and movies) and more. “My producer at Pacific, (label president and COO) Patricio Pickslay, is almost like my life coach to continue growing as an artist,” Sako said. “Pacific provides me with all of the tools I need to create and to build myself and my brand,” said Sako, 27, a Hilo native whose full name is Kealani Lehua Kanani. He will also perform with Hawaiian singer-songwriter Kela Sako, who is opening the five-hour anniversary bash and is the newest artist to sign with the label. Sean Witkin, who records for Pacific as a solo artist, will drum with Slack Key Ohana at the all-ages show. All four Witkins will perform this Sunday at downtown San Diego’s Music Box, where more than a dozen bands and solo artists on the Pacific Records roster will be featured. (Alejandro Tamayo/The San Diego Union-Tribune)Īll four Witkins are featured on Slack Key Ohana’s upcoming second album, “Hawaiian Cowboy,” which will be released in April and features three-time Grammy Award-winning Hawaiian slack key guitarist George Kahumoku, Jr. ![]()
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