I’m not sure if my voice was this brittle back then, or if the tape is a bit sped up, but every attempt I made to regulate it made it sound like a different mutant, so what Keith Irwin’s copy yielded is what we have: There were different little triumphs before I started playing out,…
Just to do a reality check on myself, I looked it up, and Ben Harper’s Welcome To The Cruel World and Fight For Your Mind both came out before this tape, so that right there is your explanation, in particular, for what happened here: I was trying to sing like Ben Harper while carrying the…
The reason I called this tape Sally Forth was two-fold: First, my manager Philip Harris used to give me an order to “Sally Forth and conquer” when he would get tired of talking to me (it’s telling that one of the closest group of friends I had developed the term “Paulerance.”) The other was that…
In prep for the new album, I’m going to have some fun talking about myself and my stuff for a while. Maybe I’ll learn something in the process. In the spring of 1996, I was in Stone Soup, and we had recorded our album. We were waiting on the final mixes for what seemed like…
I’m not going to fall into the habit of making this a bi-weekly thing, I promise. First things first — there’s a new Song Monkey video up, you should click the link on the homepage and go look at that. You can also, as of today, either use my site store or bandcamp to pre-order…
The album is mixing, the album is being mixed, the album is amidst mixing, the album is amixt. I’m passive for the first time in the process, waiting for Brandon’s first pass to stick its head out, and I’m nervous as hell all the time. It’s not that I don’t trust Brandon. It’s that the…
I missed one! I forgot one Monday to indulge my need to vent to the internet. If you were waiting for that content, I’m very sorry to have disappointed you. This past week was an unusually work-heavy one — my boss at the day job was off on a vacation all week, so I did…
Well, we’ve moved. Yesterday, Ana and I lifted our posts and hitched a ride from FlatRate all the way up to Bedford Park, an area in the Bronx heavy on art deco but light on crazy rents. We have a lot more space, almost more than we know what to do with, and it’s pretty…
I’m finding that updating this thing takes discipline that I haven’t been forcing on myself, so here goes — every Monday I will just dump my thoughts out whether there’s a cogent post in it or not. You can read it or not. Eventually I’m gonna find something, hopefully a balance between the prosaic and…
Another ball has dropped, leaving us all to pick ours up and get moving. I’m out of the cliché NYE resolutions — I’m drinking less, eating healthier, losing weight, recording, experimenting with riffs — for once I’m coming into a new year in full swing of getting everything I need to get done, done. That…