This is highly off the music topic, but it might be useful for someone. I wanted my music blog to show one article on the main page, and then an table of contents of ALL the posts on the blog so visitors could click on them to read more. This was AMAZINGLY difficult to do: [...]
Updates Maverick Saloon was fun, and thanks to Mrs. Brown for hosting us.
Full length version of “1985″ from the Surfrider Stoke fest – me, Chad Schmid, and Jordan Martin. We were told 100 people might show, capacity of the place was 150, and final count (after all the bands had played) was 300. A pretty good night… Lyric: “Brooks Brothers / A vote for Ronald Reagan Before [...]
Full length version of “Snow and Dust” from the Surfrider Stoke fest – me, Chad Schmid, and Jordan Martin. A happy little song about the end of the world. Lyric (for the Cosmologists out there): “Girlfriends / Want to know the ending / Want to know if we are just / Snow and dust pretending…”
I’m getting ready to record a new record – which usually means, time to suffer through getting drum sounds. In the past, I put too many mics on the kit, rushed placing the mics on the kit (and didn’t listen to what the mics were getting), and ended up turd-polishing in the mix – struggling [...]
I had an UNBELIEVABLY great time at Stokefest ’08.Here are some photos, video and audio coming soon:You adjust the scroll speed with the little slider on the right side of the player, there.
I’m psyched to be playing the Surfrider Stoke Fest ’08 in Shell Beach, CA – Feb 23d, 6pm at Old Vienna (thanks, Jen!). I’ll be playing a few songs solo and some backed up by Chad Schmid and Jordan Martin. Chad is also going to play a set of his songs, as is the inestimable [...]
The other day, driving back from San Francisco, I realized how much I hate fairness and democracy – in the music / open mic context. (See my previous rant on the subject of open mics here). But wait, you say, isn’t fairness the very thing your typical venue DOESN’T have? i.e. lame booking agents that [...]
