A friend of mine who works at a nice post production studio rented the Culver City Ice Rink for a massive game of broomball tonight.  It consisted of about twenty people taping up some brooms, running around in sneakers and falling on our asses for two hours.  It was the funniest thing I’ve ever fucking […]

One of my favorites, Johnny Cougar (Mellencamp) was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The man has rocked a Gibson Dove for more than a few years now. . .
Actually, I don’t have a steel string acoustic.  It’s consuming me.  I’d really like to get my hands on a […]

“these narrow streets”
“Dozen hearts”
“Sundown”
“Finding a way home”
“take a deep breath”
“you’re sweet”
“suits you fine “

I’ve usually written songs in batches of three of four.  It was a bit of a cold, dark winter and I’ve happened to walk out with about seven new songs in the past two months.  New songs are my saving grace.  Six […]

Man, Quyen takes fantastic shots.  These are from our first show at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood on 02.15.  These are just a few I’ve combed through. We’ll sort through and post a few more on our main site. May have to use these and make posters to put up for our Hotel Cafe return April […]

I’m no delay expert.  But MXR’s new Carbon Copy analog delay sounds beautiful to me.  I opened one up yesterday and you can adjust width and rate mod settings with a little flathead if you’re so inclined. Plus it has a small footprint.  Mad Professor’s Deep Blue Delay is really worth trying if you can […]

Here’s a demo of a song I wrote on Valentine’s Day last month. It’s for gal I’m sweet on. It’s unlike most of our songs and unknowingly my best Gram Parsons attempt. After writing it I picked up a new Boss Micro-BR mini recorder which really captured a good sound. Anks the engineer put […]

Just got an email from Colin who says April 18 we’ll be returning to Hotel Cafe in Hollywierd.

Backstage Cafe 03.06 (for some of the folks from Myspace)

Hooker (definitely not new)
Finding a way home (newish)
Suits you fine (new)
Dozen hearts (spankin new)
Las Cruces (new)
Sundown (new)
Restless sea
“Main St.” (new)
Bloodburner

We took some liberties and called out six new songs Thursday night.  “Main St.” is still untitled hence the quotation marks.  I can’t wait to record these […]

While working on new album songs with the band I tried the Janglebox compressor.  This thing is outrageous.  The kind folks at Janglebox are sending me one and I can’t wait.  Seriously, I want to have it for our Myspace show tomorrow night.
I played with Demeter’s Compulator today and it sounded really great. I’ve already […]