Each year I try to look back and figure out what I actually got done that year, since my default thinking is, “I didn’t get shit done this year!” which is not always true. Plus it helps to set specific goals for the next year, so I don’t just wallow. Anyway, here’s 2016: Shit I
Recently came across this picture of me sitting in with Dad a couple of Thanksgivings ago, and it made me laugh. I believe the expression on my face is, “What fucking chord are you playing?”
I’ll be playing guitar in singer/songwriter Raquel Lindemann‘s band this Thursday (June 16) in the Foundation Room at House of Blues Dallas. Show starts at 9 PM, and we get a forty minute set. Fun songs with a fantastic singer and an amazing rhythm section, and we will definitely do some rocking out and jamming
Each year I try to look back and figure out what I actually got done that year, since my default thinking is, “I didn’t get shit done this year!” which is not always true. Plus it helps to set specific goals for the next year, so I don’t just wallow. Anyway, here’s 2015: Shit
So my wife and I saw Mad Max: Fury Road, and it was greatness. It’s the only movie to date we have actually seen twice in the theater, since we both went home after the first time and couldn’t get it out of our heads. When Jenny announced, “We need to see that again,” I
Got my grubby mitts on a handful of very nice microphones for the evening, and I thought I’d do a quick test using each as a single front-of-kit mic to get a feel for them. I placed all four mics in roughly the same spot about five feet from the front of kit. Not super
I started learning drums on a very nice set of Roland V-Drums (a TD-12), often running the midi output through BFD 2 to get better sounds. I thought that was more-or-less fantastic. Then I had a jam session with a real drummer, so I miked up a crappy kit a buddy left lying around at
SACRIFICES, album cover, show dates
Lots going on! First things first: SACRIFICES, the third book in the Arcane Underworld series, will be out in the world on July 19. Woohoo! That’s the good news. The somewhat less good news is that there were not enough orders from bookstores for the publisher to justify printing physical copies of the book,
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