Beyette (the musical project)

The first version of the band that played the live performance of "Beyette" songs heard on "Change"

As opposed to "Dustin Beyette " music, songs written by Dustin Beyette for a project called "Beyette " are intended for a more typical delivery of a mainstream style vocal format of music. "Beyette" music is where the music heard is wrapped around a vocal theme and focus, rather than the instrumental sounds by themselves being the focal point of the productions which is the chief interest of the "Dustin Beyette " project.

FIRST ALBUM

Change

The first full length album by Beyette is "Change". 14 songs that were realistically prepared for live performance by a band of 6 or less musicians. Songs of [unstated genre/genre-bending] that combine the sonic palette of alternative rock, ambient, hip hop and industrial genres.

SECOND ALBUM

Since 2009's "Change", Dustin has been constantly working on and refining the followup, "Growth", the album that has been described to others by Dustin Beyette as "the first in this particular musical format." "Growth" is expected to be another independent release that will be available for online purchase as well as physical release on Compact Disc, it's another release that features many new sounds as well as sounds familiar to Beyette fans. The sounds are also divided into three partitions for people less interested in shuffle style genre mixing and a more consistent track list.

THIRD ALBUM

Growth

In 2014 Dustin had originally started campaigning for "Growth" because most of the songs were finished but needed finishing touches. Since there were so many alternate versions of songs and Dustin had always loved remixes and crossovers the same song would be on the same album presented in different mixes and remixes creating a giant world of an album that would be around 400 songs anyway so 365 days of the gregorian calandar seemed appropriate since people will notice one song a day but not one album a day.

The album stats were overwhelming and once again popularity from strangers didn't seem controllable so Dustin wanted to make sure his friends and family were on board and started a bunch of private listening parties and figured out a way to include everyone he cared about in case it did get too popular at least his friends and family would know he cared about them and sadly found out that the care was not mutual.

Amar

Harris Shot Biden

He started a job at Jason's Wine & Spirits and while they didn't care about his music for the entire job as well, the owner, Deep Sidhu (also known as Amar or Amardeep or Jason or Bobby or Bill or God or Satan or Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy yeah you get the idea) seemed to care about Dustin. Another million-faced man, but a good one. But like Dustin, it didn't seem he controlled his faces either and they were the faces others wanted him to wear. The two got close over the years according to Dustin and had a falling out, but during covid and the results of lockdown being lifted, Dustin had started campaigning for the original 19 songs that were released before "Growth" being cancelled. He had recently been listening to Bad Witch and Year Zero a lot and decided to use an alternate reality campaign to promote the original 19 songs, now named "Harris Shot Biden", because the entirety of "Change" seemed like an album about abuse, that was an album about autism before that. Dustin has been trying to describe the final assessment of what these albums were saying. "Growth" was originally promoted with a cover that secretly had the word "american". More about that album can be found on it's own page. "Harris Shot Biden" was released on December 4th, 2022 along with two other Beyette singles.

LIVE BAND

The first line up for the first show which is pictured above was:

• Mat White: Guitar
• Morgan Palmer: Bass
• elsworth: DJ
• Dustin Beyette: Vocals

Songs performed in the first show were from the record "Change" which was not released yet, "Nothing I Do", "Still Afraid to Ask", "The Box" and "Guided without Direction".  There was a second show performed at The Big Easy in Portland, Maine with a second lineup:

• James S. Lowry: Bass
• Nick "Nicktendo" Ridley: Lead Guitar
• Matt Awkward: Keyboards
• Cornell Welch: Percussion
• Dustin Beyette: Vocals

Since then other people have been involved with the project and have practiced and learned parts with the intention of booking shows, those who have been involved to participate in a roll in the band have been:

• Tim Britting: Bass
• Marc Beatham: DJ
• Jakob Pike: Bass
• G Dubbs: DJ

In late 2012, guitarists/instrumentalists Joshua Africa and Hans Grether joined the live aspect of the band and have been practicing vigorously as the Lead and Rhythm guitarists respectively.  Dustin has expressed great excitement on the official facebook page with every update on their progress.  Hans has unfortunately left the Los Angeles area and is no longer in the band because he lives in Los Osos.  Josh has practiced his parts for every song on "Change" and has presets of the effects for each song on his guitar hardware.

The original forecast:

It is likely that Beyette will be booking shows in the Los Angeles area performing songs from "Change " as well as trying out new material from "Growth " to gauge crowd reaction, and once "Growth" is released, a live campaign organized now that Dustin has relocated to Los Angeles.  This project is not on hiatus, but rather in it's coccoon stage where everything needs to be a certain way before it is appropriately presented.  Ideally Beyette is a 5-6 piece band for the songs to sound exactly as they do on the records.

The current forecast:

After the disappointment from the release of "Growth ", it likely that this project will be discontinued.  Everything has been privatized and archived.  Nothing has been deleted.  All released that were public before "Growth" are still public, and available for purchase and streaming.  A physical reissue of "Change" might still be released, as it is currently rare and out of print.