HBO - Harrison Brady Overdrive

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John Isaac Lyons


"Drawings and Paintings by Isaac Lyons"


November 2025



Isaac Lyons grew up in an artistic family in the woods west of Madison Wisconsin. While surrounded by nature in his youth, Lyons was drawn to the urban aesthetic of trains, street art and Hip Hop culture. As a teenager he spent most of his free time painting graffiti in abandoned buildings, under bridges and on trains. He has also completed many murals around Wisconsin and the midwest. Isaac’s recent works on canvas have moved away from the Postmodern Figurative/Symbolic, as he is now embracing a Neo Abstract Expressionist aesthetic. These paintings, exude raw brush work, and reveal his knack for color and...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

Harrison Brady Overdrive, or "HBO" (not to be confused with HBO, the premium cable channel that offers such fine programming as "The Sopranos", as well as a number of other shows that contain lots of swearing, that being the whole raison d---etre of cable television), is a string/percussion duo consisting of Randal Harrison and Geoffrey Brady. Employing such instruments as the violin, the vibraphone, Randal's vocals, the theremin, the electric cuica, and the chincello, HBO features improvisations based on the original compositions of the duo's (two) members, as well as EXCITING NEW interpretations of the works of such diverse composers as Debussy, Piazzolla, Schoenberg, Monk and others. Plus, HBO, like HBO, uses a lot of profanity and charges a reasonable fee for this service.