Last night, I overcame a whiskey hangover (water is a miracle) to deliver 3 hours of quality at the Red Lion! My friend Silbin Sandovar called me in to sub for him while he gets over some kind of death cold, but it felt to me more like he was doing me a favor than…
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…