So Colin is going to register our music with ASCAP for our publishing.  This made the band and I discuss songwriting credits.  It’s a funny dynamic because Anks is not a 2+4 kind of drummer and I feed off that when I’m writing dynamics, time signatures and feel.  Kyle is so in tune with my sense […]

Just spoke with Adam who’s in NYC for CMJ.  Things are still a go to start recording with him before the end of the year.  Considering how well our show went on our first trip to NYC this summer, maybe we should fly out there for a few shows a year.
I’ve Tivo’d Fred Armisan’s priceless impression […]

Caught my friends  Zack Broocke  and Stonehoney at the new Bank Heist club in NoHo.  That was Monday night and it’s taken me until tonight to get over my headache. Too many Jacks for my friend Tara and me.  Zack’s got a new track on the Feast of Love soundtrack and a real Tom Petty Americana sound which is great. 
I tried the […]

I’ve begun customizing my new Mexican made Tele into something special.  A short while ago my buddy and guitar repairman extroardinare Leland Jackness bought me a Telecaster with EL DORADO hand tooled hardware .  This is the coolest hardware on planet Earth. My friend Jillian offered to make a custom hand tooled leather cover for its entire […]

I’ve just tried Keeley’s modded Boss BD-2 Blues Driver. This is an incredible improvement.  With the gain at the minimal setting it sounds like a great cranked tube amp without the piercing top end.  Keeley actually touts it as “the pedal if you are looking for the cranked Fender Super amplifier sound.”  The dynamic response I coaxed with my […]

My Keeley Compressor is here. My very own.  I’m also going to try BBE’s Soul Vibe at rehearsal today.  It’s a rich, lush phasey/rotary speaker sound that I’d like to try in “First person,” “Six white horses,” and a few other songs.  If I get it I’m totally removing the heinous “Lady’s Man” character BBE […]

I am preparing a set list a week and a half prior to our show at the Mint on the 20th.  Here’s why:

This will be our first show since returning to LA from our first big national tour.
It’s not every day a promoter in this city offers you a primo Saturday night 9:30 showtime.
I’ve recently watched […]

Monday

Discussed the morning weather with Kenny Burrell
Bought a neat green bottleneck slide.  It was cut by a kid named Emi Rios who coincidentally went to the same high school as Kyle and Colin. He wisely cut room for me to bend my finger just above the joint.  He even imprinted mine with a cool cutaway guitar design.  I’m […]

I’ve just received this message on the band’s myspace:
“ok fellas, i dig the music but i;m freaked out by the fact that my name is kyle beswick (louisville, ky variety of beswicks) i went to high school at seneca high school and our mascot was the redhawk. care to explain………i’m wiggin out.”

Turns out he was […]

I went to the Viper Room last night to see Bigbang perform.  They’re a trio from Norway who’ve just moved stateside after touring with the Racantours last year.  My friends have been talking up their live show and they got it done.  Oystein, their frontman, played with a slide on one tune and I thought, “Hey, that might be fun […]