Brian Garth#Chrome Werewolf

Garth formed Black Camaro with Tom Miller in 2001 and began writing and recording songs for the band's first album, which they released in 2003.{{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/12/12/music/cd_reviews/music03.txt |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127100426/http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/12/12/music/cd_reviews/music03.txt |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 27, 2013 |title=Black Camaro |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=December 12, 2003 |accessdate=2012-02-17 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/albums/black-camaro-white-people/ |title=White People Fucked Up the Blues |publisher=Las Vegas Weekly |date= |accessdate=2012-02-17}}{{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/12/24/music/music01.txt |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120903132643/http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/12/24/music/music01.txt |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 3, 2012 |title=Horny goat weed: Black Camaro sticks neo-psychedelic music in its pipe – and smokes it : Music |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=December 23, 2003 |accessdate=2012-02-17 }} A close bond formed during the two-year writing experience between Garth and Miller, who continued to write and record original music together. Black Camaro would take on several US tours and release four more albums (Hang Glider,{{cite web|url=http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/rhythm-and-views/Content?oid=1081343 |title=Rhythm & Views – Black Camaro |publisher=Tucson Weekly |date=August 25, 2005 |accessdate=2012-02-19}} Miniature Panthers,{{cite web|url=http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/nine-questions/Content?oid=1084915 |title=Nine Questions – Black Camaro |publisher=Tucson Weekly |date=August 10, 2006 |accessdate=2012-02-19}} Pistachio Moustachio,{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2008/dec/04/stocking-stuffers/ |title=Stocking Stuffers: Black Camaro, Skooners hand out new CDs at co-release party |publisher=Las Vegas Weekly|date=December 4, 2008 |accessdate=2012-02-19}} Radio Capricorn[http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/08/black-camaro-emerges-new-album/ Las Vegas Sun, "Black Camaro emerges with a new album," July 8, 2009]{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jul/08/black-camaro-radio-capricorn |title=Black Camaro's Radio Capricorn |publisher=Las Vegas Weekly |date=July 8, 2009 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}), and a DVD that spans the first five years of their career titled What's Your Favorite Movie?.{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2004/06/23/cover_story/cover.txt |title=The 6th Annual Local Music Issue: Interstellar Overdrive |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=June 23, 2004 |accessdate=2012-02-17}}{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/mar/30/whats-new-local-music/ |title=What's new in: local music |publisher=Las Vegas Weekly |date= March 30, 2011|accessdate=2012-02-17}} Around the same time, Black Camaro also released a soundtrack to the DVD, composed of previously unreleased material, titled B-Sides and C-Sides (2003–2008).{{cite web|url=http://blackcamaro.bandcamp.com/album/b-sides-and-c-sides-2003-2008 |title=B-sides and C-sides (2003–2008) | Black Camaro |publisher=Blackcamaro.bandcamp.com |date=June 21, 2003 |accessdate=2012-02-17}}{{cite web|url=http://weeklyseven.com/ae/2011/06/30/black-camaro-discography |title=Black Camaro Discography |publisher=Vegas Seven |date=July 30, 2011 |accessdate=2012-02-19}} As a mainstay in the Las Vegas music community, Black Camaro has influenced other notable local bands to cover their songs during live shows.{{cite web|url= http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2010/dec/08/skorched-earth/|title=Local Music:Skorchamenza reunites at Bunkhouse|publisher= Las Vegas Weekly |date=December 8, 2010 |accessdate=2012-11-06}}

On July 4, 2012, Black Camaro released their long-awaited 6th studio album Black Camaricans. Garth told a reporter, "To me, this is a gift to whoever's been listening to us for this long...In my mind, my goal was to completely please our fan base with it."{{cite web |url=http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/behind-scenes-black-camaro%E2%80%99s-new-album.html |title=Behind the scenes with Black Camaro's new album) |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=July 5, 2012 |accessdate=2012-07-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711011711/http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/behind-scenes-black-camaro%E2%80%99s-new-album.html |archivedate=July 11, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}{{cite web|url=http://weeklyseven.com/ae/2011/06/30/slow-ride |title=Slow Ride |publisher=Vegas Seven |date=June 30, 2011 |accessdate=2012-02-20}} On January 31, 2013, the band released B-Sides & C-Sides Vol. 2, a 20 track follow-up to Black Camaricans, which consisted mostly of the band's "large back catalog of unrecorded or unreleased material".{{cite web |url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/someone-sent-us-black-camaro-%E2%80%98b-sides-c-sides-vol-2%E2%80%99.html |title=Someone Sent Us This: Black Camaro, 'B-Sides & C-Sides, Vol. 2' |publisher=Las Vegas CityLife |date=February 14, 2013 |accessdate=2013-02-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315031543/http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/someone-sent-us-black-camaro-%E2%80%98b-sides-c-sides-vol-2%E2%80%99.html |archivedate=March 15, 2013 |df=mdy }}

Since the release of B-Sides & C-Sides, Vol. 2, Black Camaro has released several LPs, singles, a podcast, and multiple music videos, which include: The Last Menagerie (2014), Xmas Jings (holiday single), The Holy Landfill (holiday single), the 4-part podcast miniseries Standing in Your Shadow (2017), a vinyl release of Protocol of Dreams (2019), and most recently their 2020 LP Daydream Delphi, from which the band donated the sales to charity.

Between tours with Black Camaro, Garth worked in the film and television industry. Garth has worked with several stars including Gene Simmons, Ice Cube, Cheech Marin, and Mariah Carey, among others.{{cite web|url=http://badideapotluck.blogspot.com/2011/04/bad-idea-potluck-vs-brian-garth.html |title=Bad Idea Potluck Vs. Brian Garth |publisher=Bad Idea Potluck |date=April 21, 2011 |accessdate=2012-11-25}} He appears uncredited as a limo driver in the episode "Wingman" in season two of Gene Simmons Family Jewels, and also appears uncredited as a card player beside Ian Wright in the episode "Las Vegas City Guide" in season six of Globe Trekker.

In 2008, Ian Wright returned to Las Vegas and invited Garth on his new show for the Travel Channel titled America The Wright Way. In the episode, Garth gives Ian, along with the television audience, a tour of the Downtown Arts District's First Friday event. Afterward, Wright heads to the Bunkhouse Saloon where he performs tambourine on stage with Black Camaro during a live concert. [1]

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From January 2011 to November 2012 Garth was the owner of and sound engineer at Chrome Werewolf, a studio in the arts district of Downtown Las Vegas. In that brief time period, Garth recorded over 50 bands, while also putting the final touches on Black Camaro's 2012 album Black Camaricans.{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2013/feb/06/trevor-and-joneses-end-chrome-werewolf-studios-run/|title=Trevor and the Joneses end Chrome Werewolf studio's run on a high note|publisher=Las Vegas Weekly|date=February 6, 2013|accessdate=2013-02-16}}{{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2012/01/05/music/fear_and_lounging/iq_50055969.txt|title=Fear and Lounging: 12 for '12 |publisher=Las Vegas Citylife |date= January 5, 2012|accessdate=2012-02-19}} His career has included co-writing and performing with fellow songwriter Thomas Miller on several Black Camaro albums as well as production on multiple other musical acts including Hawaii Music Award winners Haleamano on their self-titled debut album Haleamano (House of Sharks), which won the award for best "Dancehall Reggae" album.,{{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2010/10/21/music/fear_and_lounging/iq_39166562.txt |title=Fear and Lounging: Swimming with the sharks |publisher=Las Vegas Citylife |date=October 21, 2010 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}{{cite web|url=http://showandtellhawaii.staradvertiserblogs.com/2011/02/13/hawaii-music-awards-honor-hanaialii-slack-key/ |title=Hawaii Music Awards honor Hanaiali'i, slack key |publisher=Star Advertiser |date=February 13, 2011 |accessdate=2012-02-19}} and the albums Nocturne (2012){{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2012/jan/25/vegas-big-friendly-corporation-releases-third-albu/ |title=Las Vegas' Big Friendly Corporation releases its third album |publisher=Las Vegas Weekly|date=January 25, 2012 |accessdate=2012-02-19}}{{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2012/01/27/music/stories/iq_50587722.txt|title=A quieter, more incorporated BFC |publisher=Las Vegas Citylife |date=January 26, 2012 |accessdate=2012-02-19}} and ...and so it goes (2009){{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2010/01/08/music/fear_and_lounging/iq_33522873.txt |title=The family that plays together... |publisher=Las Vegas Citylife|date=January 7, 2010 |accessdate=2012-02-19}} by Las Vegas' The Big Friendly Corporation.

Garth appeared on the cover of Las Vegas CityLife alternative-weekly newspaper's music issue in March 2011,{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/archive/ |title=Archive: 2011 issues |publisher=Las Vegas Citylife |date= |accessdate=2012-02-21}} and has appeared in several interviews on KNPR public radio in Nevada.{{cite web|url=http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2.cfm?SegmentID=6574&ProgramID=1814 |title=KNPR's State of Nevada |publisher=KNPR.org |date=December 22, 2009 |accessdate=2012-02-17}}{{cite web|url=http://www.knpr.org/son/archive/detail2.cfm?SegmentID=7652&ProgramID=2181 |title=KNPR's State of Nevada |publisher=KNPR.org |date= |accessdate=2012-02-17}}

In November 2012, Garth announced his plans to move his gear out of Chrome Werewolf after nearly two years of operation, and into the home of Crazy Chief's Jesse and Roxie Amoroso, owners of Cowtown Guitars, where Garth will record Crazy Chief's debut album.{{cite web|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/wolf-closes.html|title=The Wolf closes|publisher=Las Vegas CityLife|date=January 19, 2006|accessdate=2012-08-04|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150414142455/http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/wolf-closes.html|archivedate=April 14, 2015|df=mdy-all}} The move will also give Garth, who is a political science major at UNLV, time to focus on school work and his health. He tells a reporter, "I'll always be a musician, I'll always be the guy from Black Camaro, but I also want to be the guy that can get you off of your drug charges or the guy that can help you out with your immigration status."

In March 2013, Garth recorded a benefit concert for Clay Heximer (drummer for The Mapes & Civic Minded Five) who was diagnosed with renal carcinoma. The recording was released as a downloadable album with the proceeds going toward the payment of Heximer's medical bills.{{cite web|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/music-stories/someone-sent-us-various-artists-cash-clay.html |title=Someone Sent Us This: Various Artists, Cash For Clay|publisher=Las Vegas CityLife|date=March 13, 2013 |accessdate=2013-04-02}} In November 2013, Crazy Chief released their debut single Angel Dust on vinyl 7". The song will be featured on the band's full-length album entitled Chrome Werewolf, that the band decided to name after Garth's studio where they began.{{cite web|url=http://www.lvweekly.com/ae/music/2013/nov/13/local-music-news-notes-ministry-love-squidhat-more/ |title=Local music news & notes: Ministry of Love, SquidHat and more – Dust and Chrome|publisher= Las Vegas Weekly|date=November 13, 2013 |accessdate=2013-11-27}}{{cite web|url=http://vegasseven.com/2013/11/18/concert-review-crazy-chief/|title=Concert Review: Crazy Chief|publisher=Vegas Seven|date=November 18, 2013|accessdate=2013-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123113951/http://vegasseven.com/2013/11/18/concert-review-crazy-chief/|archive-date=November 23, 2013|url-status=dead}}

Garth has worked with several musical artists for over a decade, some of whose projects were produced by Garth, while some were only tracked or mixed, or both tracked and mixed by Garth. The following list attempts to provide a comprehensive list of those artists while also providing details as to the nature of Garth's involvement.

• 4 am Fatality (tracked and mixed)
• Aboriginales (tracked)
• Action Cat (tracked and mixed)
• After School Special (tracked, mixed, and produced)
• Against Me! (live concert multitracking)
• Alexander's Ruskie Trio (tracked and mixed)
• Bacon (tracked and mixed)
• Bad Samaritans (live concert multitracking)
• Bear With Me (tracked, mixed, and produced){{cite web|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/teenage-wasteland.html|title=Teenage wasteland|publisher= Las Vegas CityLife |date=October 31, 2012 |accessdate=2012-11-04}}
• Battery Holocaust (tracked and mixed)
• Big Friendly Corporation (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2012/jan/25/vegas-big-friendly-corporation-releases-third-albu/|title=Las Vegas' Big Friendly Corporation releases its third album|publisher= Las Vegas Weekly|date=January 25, 2012 |accessdate=2012-04-29}}
• Black Beans and Hippie Liver (tracked)
• Black Camaro (tracked, mixed and produced)
• Bob Log III (live concert multitracking) [http://bgmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bob-log-iii-live-at-the-cooler-lounge/]
• Bored Sober (tracked and mixed)
• Braineaters (tracked, mixed, and produced)
• Civic Minded 5 (tracked, mixed, and produced)
• Close To Modern (tracked, and mixed){{cite web|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/fear-lounging/local-band-close-modern-makes-killer-new-ep.html|title=Local band Close to Modern makes a killer new EP|publisher= Las Vegas CityLife |date=August 29, 2012 |accessdate=2012-11-04}}
• Country Smokers (tracked, mixed, and produced)
• Crazy Chief (tracked and mixed)
• Cute in the Face (tracked and mixed)
• Daniel James of Leopold and His Fiction (tracked)
• Die Laughing (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=http://vegasseven.com/ae/2010/october/21/cd-reviews|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205174734/http://vegasseven.com/ae/2010/october/21/cd-reviews|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2013|title=CD Reviews|publisher=Vegas Seven|date=October 21, 2010|accessdate=2012-11-04}}
• Dirty Sanchez (tracked and mixed)
• Donna Street Crips (tracked and mixed)
• Dude City (post production tracking)
• Egon (live concert multitracking)
• Elements of Now (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=https://www.punksinvegas.com/interview-nate-robards-boba-fett-youth-part-time-whore-elements-now-part-2/|title=Interview: Nate Robards (Boba Fett Youth, Part Time Whore, Elements of Now) Part 2|publisher= Punks In Vegas |date=January 21, 2014 |accessdate=2019-10-07}}
• Enkor (tracked and mixed)
• Evil Twin (tracked and mixed) [http://bgmusic.bandcamp.com/album/evil-twin]
• Exit Ghost (tracked and mixed)
• Faceplant (tracked and mixed) [http://bgmusic.bandcamp.com/album/faceplant]
• False Cause (tracked and mixed)
• Feather Print (tracked and mixed)
• Fear and Loathing (tracked and mixed)
• Fredward (tracked and mixed)
• Fuzz SoLow (tracked and mixed)
• GFI (live concert multitracking)
• GOC (tracked, mixed, and produced) [http://gocmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dispenser]
• Haleamano (tracked, mixed, co-produced)
• Half Ast (live concert multitracking)
• Highdro (tracked, mixed, and co-produced)
• Hoka Hey (tracked and mixed)
• Humanoids (mastered)
• Jack & The B-Fish (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/music/music-stories/record-look-local-indie-recording-studios.html|title=For the record: a look at local indie recording studios|publisher= Las Vegas CityLife |date=July 18, 2012 |accessdate=2012-11-04}}
• Jack Johnson of Dude City (tracked and mixed)
• Jacob Smigel Tribute Album (post production) [http://showmeblurrylines.bandcamp.com/]
• Jeremy Gratzke (tracked)
• Josh Ellis' Legba and Sons w/Tara Bratton (tracked) [http://legbaandsons.bandcamp.com/]
• Katie Mourning (tracked and mixed)
• Kash Klown (tracked and mixed)
• Knowmadix (tracked and mixed)
• Life's Torment (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=http://vegasseven.com/ae/2010/october/28/mad-max-snake-plissken-scary-playlists|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208225138/http://vegasseven.com/ae/2010/october/28/mad-max-snake-plissken-scary-playlists|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 8, 2013|title=Mad Max, Snake Plissken and scary playlists|publisher=Vegas Seven|date=October 28, 2010|accessdate=2012-11-04}}
• My First Rodeo (tracked and mixed)
• My First Rosalie (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=http://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/music/2015/may/07/local-music-spiritual-shepherd-demon-lung-dracula/|title=Local music news & notes: Spiritual Shepherd's atmospheric doom metal and a new Demon Lung LP|publisher= Las Vegas Weekly|date=May 7, 2015 |accessdate=2015-05-11}}
• Paroxysm (tracked and mixed)
• Penetrator (tracked, mixed, and produced)
• Pet Tigers (tracked and mixed){{cite web| url=http://vegasseven.com/ae/2013/01/03/different-stripe| title=A Different Stripe| publisher=Vegas Seven| date=January 3, 2013| accessdate=2013-01-03| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211015730/http://vegasseven.com/ae/2013/01/03/different-stripe| archive-date=February 11, 2013| url-status=dead}}
• Red Feather (formerly Dirty Somethings) (tracked and mixed)
• Restless Suns (tracked and mixed)
• Rusty Maples (formerly Honest Engines) (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2011/03/11/music/stories/iq_42768904.txt|title=The Honest Engines|publisher= Las Vegas CityLife|date=March 10, 2011 |accessdate=2012-11-04}}
• Safekey (tracked and mixed)
• Sara Patterson (tracked and mixed)
• Sheep on a Cliff (tracked and mixed)
• Sin City Ditch Diggers
• Skorchamenza (tracked and mixed)
• Spit Game (tracked and mixed)
• Strange Mistress (tracked, mixed, and produced){{cite web|url=https://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/music/2017/apr/13/strange-mistress-keeps-rockin-gets-divisions-right/|title=Strange Mistress keeps rocking 'til it gets 'Divisions' right|publisher= Las Vegas Weekly |date=April 13, 2017 |accessdate=2017-04-24}}
• Suite 666 (tracked and mixed)
• Surrounded By Ignorance (tracked and mixed)
• Swamp Gospel (tracked and mixed)
• The Kill (tracked and mixed)
• The Ku (tracked, mixed, and produced){{cite web|url=http://archives.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2010/12/30/music/fear_and_lounging/iq_41032402.txt|title=Best year on record|publisher= Las Vegas CityLife |date=December 30, 2010 |accessdate=2012-11-04}}
• The Mad Caps (mixed){{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/nightlife/news-notes/2011/jan/19/local-music-news-notes/|title=Local music news & notes: Twin Brother, HOTS and Lou Lou Roxy|publisher=Las Vegas Weekly |date=January 19, 2011 |accessdate=2013-11-27}}
• The Mapes (tracked and mixed)
• The Marquees (tracked and mixed) [http://themarquees.bandcamp.com/album/clouds-under-the-sky]
• The Remedies (tracked and mixed)
• The Rooks (tracked and mixed){{cite web|url=http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/2010/03/11/vegas-meet-the-rooks/|title=Vegas, meet The Rooks|publisher=The Rebel Yell|date=March 11, 2010|accessdate=2012-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118103251/http://unlvrebelyell.com/2010/03/11/vegas-meet-the-rooks/|archive-date=November 18, 2011|url-status=dead}}
• The Psyatics{{cite web|url=http://rnrrantsnraves.blogspot.com/2013_05_01_archive.html|title=The Psyatics CD Review|publisher=Rich's R'n'R Rant & Raves|date=May 1, 2013 |accessdate=2013-06-14}}{{cite web|url=http://www.punksinvegas.com/music-psyatics-stream-songs-famous-monsters-release-show-aug-19-double/|title=Music: The Psyatics stream songs from 'Famous Monsters,' release show Aug. 19 at Double Down|publisher=Punks In Vegas|date=August 18, 2013 |accessdate=2016-08-19}}
• The Unwieldies
• The Voodoo Organist (live concert multitracking) [http://bgmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-voodoo-organist-live-at-the-cooler-lounge]
• Tierra Buena (tracked and mixed) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510205724/http://music.tierrabuenamusic.com/]
• Toys That Kill (live concert multitracking)
• Trevor and The Joneses (tracked, mixed, and co-produced)
• UNLV student convocations (tracked and mixed)
• Urchins (from Japan) (live concert multitracking)
• Value (tracked and mixed) [http://value.bandcamp.com/]
• Venom (tracked and mixed)
• Volta Do Mar (live concert multitracking)
• Zach Ryan and the Renegades (mixed) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130423060249/http://zachryantherenegades.bandcamp.com/]
• Zero One Amazement (tracked and mixed)

In 2022, Garth's essay I Was a Teenage Teenager appeared in Las Vegas Writes Volume 13: Neon Riffs and Lounge Acts: Las Vegas Writers on Music, an anthology series published annually by Nevada Humanities.{{cite web|url=https://www.nevadahumanities.org/las-vegas-writes |title=Las Vegas Writes|publisher= Nevada Humanities |date= |accessdate=2024-02-15}} In the essay, Garth recalls the formation of his first band in the 1990s, and highlights the events of the band's first concert staged in the Las Vegas desert. The title of the essay is a nod to the Black Camaro song Teenage Teenager, in which the band proclaims, "I was a teenage teenager, hanging in the ditches with the dogs..." [https://blackcamaro.bandcamp.com/track/teenage-teenager]

• [http://www.blackcamaromusic.com/ Black Camaro Official Website ]
• [http://www.chromewerewolfstudio.bandcamp.com/ Chrome Werewolf ]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYAfL8W1s-A/ Garth on America The Wright Way]

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