a hawk!

…i think, or maybe an eagle?  i think a hawk.  i saw this on the ualbany campus a few minutes ago.  i used the only camera on me – my phone – and took a few shots.  i thought it was pretty neat. this is a cropped version.  i took 3 other shots, but i was the closest for this one…  i was surprised it let me get that close even!

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drummers, garageband, and wordpress

random thoughts: i’ve got 7 drummers lined up now to play on 11 songs i plan to record for my new side project/solo album. can’t wait to start tracking. need to come up with a name for that “band” as well as the album itself. after using pro tools for years, and then trying to do something as simple as a quick edit on a song in garageband just now, i wonder how anyone can…

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face down in cabo

i spent a couple hours last night after finally deciding that i wanted to be able to play cabo wabo (van halen) on guitar.  while there’s still a couple spots that trip me up (some crazy syncopations in there!), i can officially play like 95% of the song now, minus the solo, since i don’t have a whammy bar and didn’t feel like trying that part yet.  but i can rock the rhythm part at…

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Caught up on that song

I spent a few hours this weekend re-recording the missing parts from that song “So Long”. I do quite like this song. So, now I’m back to where I was before with it, and I also have the new harmony ideas recorded. Cool. The song was inspired by an awful article I read last year about a kid who was killed. Apparently, this kid was at the site where his friend died in an accident…

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