I had a great time last night at Spike Hill! We started out the night with Xavier Cardriche, a dude I met a few years back in Astoria, when we both used to hit the open mic at the Quays. Great positive vibe from the guy, who brought it even though he was a band…
I’m in the process of moving from Sunset Park to Harlem, and the studio stuff is going to be the last stuff to be packed and moved. Yesterday I went and packed a few boxes, and then figured since it was all hanging around anyway, might as well use some of this stuff and work…
To say yesterday’s show was a commercial failure would not be an understatement, but I did get to have a nice drunken conversation with a dude I met when he was 22, who is now moving and shaking in Pittsburgh pretty well. We’re going to plan some shows soon — more on that as it…
You stand with 7 strangers on the backline. Either someone who runs the jam you’re at, or a peer with ambition, steps out and gets your one-word suggestion. They step back in line with you, and the eight (ten, including the representatives of the host team) of you stand there, digesting the suggestion. For an…
I planned, when Here Goes Nothing came out, to take a giant Megabus tour, but was thwarted when their customer service people told me I would not be allowed to bring my guitar with me on a Megabus! I’ve worked out the kinks, so now I’m exploring my options. It’s time for a roadtrip: 7/13:…
It’s tab time again! “Here Goes Nothing” is a fairly droney album, and as we move into “the peoples’ key” of G, you’ll see that thread continuing:
I changed my video page today, so that rather than be redirected to my youtube page, you’ll stay here, with a variety of playlists for your perusal. I’m trying to find a cheap but clean solution for a multi-platform video slider so I can put everything in one neat interface, but I may have to…
In my life as a professional musician, I’ve come to distrust people who tell me we need to get a scene together, because that usually means they want to form a new community, and place their own project at the center. The improv world is nothing like that. Nobody gets anywhere if everybody else doesn’t…
Maybe I should have just put the primer up ahead of this album, about the whole thing being in a droney “E” key, but just in case you’re not trying to learn every song and have started with “Enough,” here is a quick-and-dirty key to the fingerings of these chords as I’m noting them (since…
This song will work your arms right! Each hit in the verse is a downstroke, with a muting downstroke immediately following. I play the Dm7 in the fifth position, the C in the third, the Bb in the first.