Tag: Playing Music
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October 29, 2011
Back in 1995, I was living in Tucson, AZ and working in a record store. The "senior" staff there had control of what music was played over the sound system and, aside from a number of industrial dance beat shifts a week, it was a great place to be forcibly introduced to new mu...
July 10, 2010
Dan updated his blog a month or so ago, with some updates and in turn "released" another track from the Yes, Mayhem album. Neatomatter I have finished up my tracks, with a new song called Whores Shoes and Hand Grenades. The rest of the songs are instrumentals, so hopefully any...
September 20, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, the rest of the Yes, Mayhem pseudo-band traveled to Seattle and played PAX 2009 in front of thousands of adoring fans without me as pseudo-band Metroid Metal. See the video below for much face melting: Dan mixed and arranged a couple of Yes, Mayhem songs...
April 18, 2009
Last fall, I took a week off and recorded an album. Pretty much start-to-finish, soup-to-nuts (please e-mail me if you even know what that means), from the vaguest ideas to ready for mixing product. Seven days. There was a warm, sunny Saturday last summer, that I spent an hour...
November 27, 2008
I have spent the last couple of weeks recording and mixing a new album of new songs called SOUR GRAPES. The recordings utilize midi drums, bass, and keyboards with live guitars, vocals, and percussion. I am getting used to this new recording technique and tools. These recordin...
January 5, 2008
I went over to Tom's house last night to jam on drums with some of his friends. I had a great time. I haven't played drums in a long time, sadly. Most of the time, when I do play, it is just for recording purposes. I haven't sat down with other musicians in a long time. The ja...