BICYCLING MEMBER
ERIC ANEST
AGE 55
FROM North Hollywood, CA
WHY I RIDE To feel better mentally and physically.
The musician and recording producer opens his email app and drafts a new message to himself. He quickly types out a few notes about a song on an album he's working on. "The vocals need to come up and there are too many effects," he writes, before hitting send and clipping back in.
The industrial, ethereal alternative sound of his band, Collide, resumes in his ears. His bandmate, KaRIN, sings, "Are you better now? Are you feeling on overload?" Anest is enjoying his ride-he loves being out in the hills north of Los Angeles, where he might go miles on his Scott Foil road bike without seeing anyone-but he's also hard at work.
Anest is listening intently for inconsistencies, imbalances, and imperfections in the track. Back in the studio, he constantly tweaks and improves the songs, a mad scientist with an entire laboratory of levers and knobs at his disposal. But when he's on his bike, he can't resort to any of his usual tricks. All he can do is listen and reflect. "After a ride," he says, "it's super easy to change the things that need changing."
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