Music I’m making
After getting in a little before 3:00 a.m., I slept like a log. Eleya took the kids to the playground while I was passed out this morning, so with the total silence and all, I ended up sleeping until the unconscionable hour of 11:00. It strikes me as interesting that …
Tomorrow night, hitting the road again for another kick-ass show at Andy’s on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Unfortunately, our brilliant cellist Okorie will be down for the count since the chicken pox has made an unexpected visit at his house. Could be worse; at least there’s no buboes involved. It does …
Errands. One of the errands hanging about was a state inspection for our van, so I went to take care of that today after taking off work early. Seems a lot of people are off for Good Friday, but not me. In any case, I found that our service station …
Last night we had our official record release gala at IOTA and everything went swimmingly. The band even backed the completely fabulous Edie Carey for a few songs. Rich and I had wanted to do this for some time, since hearing her at a previous show, and both of us …
Just in case you hadn’t gotten one of my many spam emails, the band is having its record release party tomorrow (Sunday) night at 8:00 p.m. at the IOTA Club in Arlington. Our very special opening guest is the lovely and incredibly talented Edie Carey. If you don’t have her …
Don’t you love, with a sort of geeky fetishism, getting an official carrying bag for some new gizmo or other? Oh… you don’t. Above all that, are we? Well, sadly, I’m not. Nope, I love tucking a gadget into its perfectly-matched, accurately-sized carrying case, especially if said case carries some …
Yesterday the band finished recalls at the studio, so our final mixes are now ready for mastering. To be a little bold, they sound fabulous. I’m really looking forward to hearing the mastered product; I hope after the tracks have gone through that phase they retain the power and snap …
The True Friends returned to catch our show last night at The Loft, and a purty dang good show it was, too. My voice has yet to recover from the cold I had last month; in the past couple of days I’ve actually felt like my throat was backsliding into …
I came home from the music store today with a pair of brand-new Behringer Truth B2031A studio monitors. I am really impressed with their sound and depth, especially given their low cost. We’d all like to be able to buy $1000 or $2000 monitors, but the life of a part-time …