The moment has arrived! I’ve gotten the first single and title track from my upcoming solo album “Blue Skies Black” ready for your listening pleasure. Give it a listen – I’d love to hear any feedback! Drums on this song were performed by the incredible Michael Maenza (from The X’s, among other great bands). There [...]
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Blue Skies Black – Listen Now!
December 22, 2011
Above The Flood, “The Painted Caravan” Collaboration Project, and BSB update
December 12, 2011
It’s been a busy year. I’ve been involved in a few new musical projects, as well as still playing with The VeLMAs. Here’s what’s new. First off, I’m playing in a new band called Above The Flood. ATF is a 4-piece hard rock band that’s me (lead guitar/vocals), Matt Shufelt (lead vox/guitar) and Rick Little [...]
“Blue Skies Black” – The Album
July 2, 2011
Looking at my last post from almost a year ago here, it seemed like I was just about done with this album then. And maybe I was. But in the meantime, I decided I wasn’t happy with the mixes and brought in some fresh ears (and gear) to help take these songs up a few [...]
Nearing completion
July 10, 2010
So I’ve been sitting on the mixes for my new album for two weeks or so now, listening for things that still bother me, and getting feedback from some friends. So far, the feedback has been good! Of course, it would figure that now would be when Avid/Digidesign finally releases a version of Pro Tools [...]
It’s coming together…
January 31, 2010
So, the album is coming together nicely. All of the vocals are sung, and I’ve been working on comping them and picking out the best parts. I found a great horn player, Bill Scholl, and we got together a while ago and recorded some ideas for the song “Drive Me”. After listening to the parts [...]
What’s new?
October 21, 2009
I was making good progress, recording at a (relatively) good pace through the end of the summer. Vocals are done for 7 of the 12 songs, and that’s more than half. But then it went and got cooler outside and I went and caught a cold. I don’t think it was the pig flu or [...]
I just recorded a Michael Jackson tribute
June 26, 2009
I just put together this Michael Jackson tribute. It’s an acoustic cover of Thriller, with some self-recorded backing vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA-80k9lAQ&fmt=18 Check it out and let me know what you think! RIP, MJ!
Update
June 25, 2009
Quick update. I’ve found myself using Twitter (which in turn updates my Facebook page) a whole lot lately, as it’s easier to write a 140-character “what I’m working on now” update than to write a full blog entry. And more people tend to read Twitter and Facebook than my blog here. But to recap, for [...]
Guitars, guitars, and more guitars. And computers.
May 16, 2009
Over the last two weeks, I’ve recorded the guitars for just about half the songs for the new album. It’s quite the process. I’d done fairly fully-fleshed out demos for most of these songs, and so started out the “real” versions by importing the demo parts as a road map once the drums were tracked. [...]
Back in the saddle
April 22, 2009
I finally got my Pro Tools setup stable on the new computer and got some work done on the solo album over the last couple of days. I decided to start with the guitars in “Everything’s Fine”. I re-recorded over the imported demo tracks (which were time-shifted as I imported them to fit the song’s [...]