Oct 31, 2009
Sep 29, 2009
Last night's sunset
Okay, now I'm stepping out of the office, just had to post this photo and share the beautiful evening last night.
Sep 26, 2009
Stepping out of the office
Stepping out of the office for a bit, please feel free to comment or carry on conversations in the comment section.
S
p.s. random thought: It's hot out today and all that's left in the box are grape flavored popsicles, that always seems to be a problem. All the other ones get eaten up quickly and the grape ones are left. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think I know anyone that likes the grape ones. Maybe they should just make the box with only orange and cherry instead.
S
p.s. random thought: It's hot out today and all that's left in the box are grape flavored popsicles, that always seems to be a problem. All the other ones get eaten up quickly and the grape ones are left. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think I know anyone that likes the grape ones. Maybe they should just make the box with only orange and cherry instead.
Sep 14, 2009
reflection
Caught a good reflection in the computer screen while working. The typical recording day, Cosmo on lap.
Sep 13, 2009
This Weekend
So much for the Bears winning their first game on Sunday Night Football.....
Sitting here listening to the rain outside as I write, a very pleasant sound. We actually had some thunder storms yesterday morning! Not very common around these parts but great to hear, I think it's left overs from the tropical storm down south. About to have some chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. For some reason, I had a major craving for it so I quickly went out to the store and picked some up. I ran almost 2 miles this morning so I feel it's okay to have ice cream tonight.
Speaking of the store, when I was there they had green chiles from New Mexico! Had to grab a bunch of them to take back with me. I was thrilled to see that they carried them, it's that time of year that they're in season. Can't wait to roast them this week.
So I've decided to give the movie Quantum Of Solace another try, just got it on net flicks. I'll let you know what I think. Wasn't sure about it the first time through a few months back. As you know, Casino Royale has been one of if not my favorite movies of all time (I'm sure those of you who have been following my blog already know this) so I set the bar pretty high for Quantum.
YESTERDAY:
I spent yesterday afternoon and evening hanging with my pal Luke out in Livermore Ca at the Guitar Player Live 09'. Man, it's gotta be about a year and a half since I've seen him and it was really cool of him to invite me down to hang. When I got there we walked over to one of the stages and watched the Travis Larson Band rock out for a while, man they were great! Great players and their live sound was killer. We all hung out after their performance, really nice cats. Soon after I went with Luke over to the Bankhead Theater, he was on the judging panel for the guitar player competition. Hung out backstage with him, Jennifer Batten, Earl Slick, Elliot Easton and Greg Hampton. I also sat behind them during the competition and listened to them critique the guitarists after they performed. It was almost like American idol, there were some pretty funny comments back n' forth between the judges. All of us were thinking it's got to be hard to get up there and play in a competition like that. That kind of thing is not for me but I give lots of credit to the players that got on stage.
Sitting here listening to the rain outside as I write, a very pleasant sound. We actually had some thunder storms yesterday morning! Not very common around these parts but great to hear, I think it's left overs from the tropical storm down south. About to have some chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. For some reason, I had a major craving for it so I quickly went out to the store and picked some up. I ran almost 2 miles this morning so I feel it's okay to have ice cream tonight.
Speaking of the store, when I was there they had green chiles from New Mexico! Had to grab a bunch of them to take back with me. I was thrilled to see that they carried them, it's that time of year that they're in season. Can't wait to roast them this week.
So I've decided to give the movie Quantum Of Solace another try, just got it on net flicks. I'll let you know what I think. Wasn't sure about it the first time through a few months back. As you know, Casino Royale has been one of if not my favorite movies of all time (I'm sure those of you who have been following my blog already know this) so I set the bar pretty high for Quantum.
YESTERDAY:
I spent yesterday afternoon and evening hanging with my pal Luke out in Livermore Ca at the Guitar Player Live 09'. Man, it's gotta be about a year and a half since I've seen him and it was really cool of him to invite me down to hang. When I got there we walked over to one of the stages and watched the Travis Larson Band rock out for a while, man they were great! Great players and their live sound was killer. We all hung out after their performance, really nice cats. Soon after I went with Luke over to the Bankhead Theater, he was on the judging panel for the guitar player competition. Hung out backstage with him, Jennifer Batten, Earl Slick, Elliot Easton and Greg Hampton. I also sat behind them during the competition and listened to them critique the guitarists after they performed. It was almost like American idol, there were some pretty funny comments back n' forth between the judges. All of us were thinking it's got to be hard to get up there and play in a competition like that. That kind of thing is not for me but I give lots of credit to the players that got on stage.
Sep 9, 2009
websites
Just closed my linkedIn page. Not that I had anything going on there because I didn't spend any time on it so having it open was serving no purpose. So that's another one of those "in things to do" that I've decided not to deal with anymore. That along with facebook, myspace and twitter. I think out of all of them, I enjoyed twitter somewhat but not the rest. I remember spending up to 30 min or more putting in tour date information on myspace and half the time something went wrong and I had to do it over (because the way they had it set up completely sucked). I could have spent those 30 min practicing, writing music or anything more productive.
Myspace always has a ton of spam emails or promotion emails about things I could care less about. Some of the emails I would get that were concerning me, (questions about my gear, music etc) I'd replay back with a nice responce but most of the time I never received a reply i.e. thank-u email (which I feel is rude). So to say the least, I'm over it. Maybe there is some art form to it and some people have a knack (if there is such a thing or shall we really call it luck) for being very successful in achieving amazing success through those sites and if so, more power to you. I personally think it's just the "in thing to do" and in my case, I would rather spend time working on my music and having somewhat of a life when not recording/practicing/performing/networking then knacking around on these sites.
Now, this post is obviously more on the serious side, don't worry though I'll get back to more of the music and silly stuff soon - in the mean time, I've been busy working on new music.
Myspace always has a ton of spam emails or promotion emails about things I could care less about. Some of the emails I would get that were concerning me, (questions about my gear, music etc) I'd replay back with a nice responce but most of the time I never received a reply i.e. thank-u email (which I feel is rude). So to say the least, I'm over it. Maybe there is some art form to it and some people have a knack (if there is such a thing or shall we really call it luck) for being very successful in achieving amazing success through those sites and if so, more power to you. I personally think it's just the "in thing to do" and in my case, I would rather spend time working on my music and having somewhat of a life when not recording/practicing/performing/networking then knacking around on these sites.
Now, this post is obviously more on the serious side, don't worry though I'll get back to more of the music and silly stuff soon - in the mean time, I've been busy working on new music.
Aug 31, 2009
music update
Wow, chilly out tonight! Okay, it's 60 degrees out, am i allowed to say that?? I do live in California, I've been getting used to these 80 and 90 degree days so 60 with a light breeze feels freezing to me. Okay, moving right along here... Thought I'd check in and give you an update since it's been eons!! Been plugging away at the new music and recording more electric guitar this week. I took a picture but it didn't turn out so great so try to imagine a photo with an electric guitar in it.
I tend to not work on only one song at a time. I like to jump around from song to song. I'll work on one song for a few days and move on to another. I then listen to what I've worked on when walking or driving to go run some errands or whatever (I get ideas that way). So there are a bunch of tunes that I have in the works and 3 of them are about 98.333% finished (as of this afternoon!). I just need to add some bass, other then that they're ready for mixing. Going to work on the next set of 3 tunes and get them up to speed and so on. So that's what's going on over here. Now I don't feel so cold but now I'm hungry... uh oh, I just saw that Cosmo is chewing on something, I better go and deal with this..
I tend to not work on only one song at a time. I like to jump around from song to song. I'll work on one song for a few days and move on to another. I then listen to what I've worked on when walking or driving to go run some errands or whatever (I get ideas that way). So there are a bunch of tunes that I have in the works and 3 of them are about 98.333% finished (as of this afternoon!). I just need to add some bass, other then that they're ready for mixing. Going to work on the next set of 3 tunes and get them up to speed and so on. So that's what's going on over here. Now I don't feel so cold but now I'm hungry... uh oh, I just saw that Cosmo is chewing on something, I better go and deal with this..
Aug 19, 2009
Ottmar Liebert - The Aladdin Theater (Portland, OR; July 26th, 2009)
A nice review and some great photos from our show at the Aladdin Theater in Portland.
The atmosphere was mellow throughout the night. Everyone: sat and enjoyed the performance; clapped exhaustively after every song; panned around, from right to left and back, taking at least one glace at each and every musician on stage; locked sight with Ottmar in the center, then clapped and cheered again. The entire length of the concert was around two hours. I can tell you right now that time truly flew by. It was an amazing experience hearing ten years worth of my near-obsession with Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra’s music, live.
Here's the link -
The Aladdin Theater (Portland, OR; July 26th, 2009)
The atmosphere was mellow throughout the night. Everyone: sat and enjoyed the performance; clapped exhaustively after every song; panned around, from right to left and back, taking at least one glace at each and every musician on stage; locked sight with Ottmar in the center, then clapped and cheered again. The entire length of the concert was around two hours. I can tell you right now that time truly flew by. It was an amazing experience hearing ten years worth of my near-obsession with Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra’s music, live.
Here's the link -
The Aladdin Theater (Portland, OR; July 26th, 2009)
Aug 13, 2009
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