Rehab

I will be at the Rimrock Rehab facility until the 23^rd of February.
Hope to talk to every one then.

The Band?

well, yes premonition was going to end, but now we are going to carry on for another year. alot went on the last few months, yes, no, maybe, to loosely quote phil collen from def leppard, life is full of difficult bastards, why not stick with the one's you know? or in my case, why not stick with the one's who put up with me being the worst guitarist that ever got paid to play?

i will get to more questions this weekend, and feel free to ask more, but to answer the question about leather pants? no, i have never worn them, but i have worn my wife's, which makes her very unhappy when i do.

but they fit so good!

15 From The Woodpile #3

the second week of june uncle bill flew up and added some new mandolin parts to the 15FTW album, as well as going through the songs with me on other production issues. it is sounding much more like an album now, just got to get my bass parts down right. we decided we liked how his mandolin recorded in the vocal booth, so for 2 days straight we chatted with each other through headphones. him seated in the corner of the claustrophobic 3' by 3' foam padded vocal booth, and me relaxing at my partially finished recording desk.

here are some pics form that week:

the vocal booth

smokey bear

uncle bill, and bmmw, whose ibanez guitar i borrowed for one of the songs

mandolins don't float so well with those "f" holes in the face............

i like my shirt in this one

uncle bill sitting in the corner

bmmw listening in to us recording, with unkie howards gibson overseeing things behind her.

and this would be daryl the photographer, trying to keep up with the blistering lead uncle bill is layin' down!

makes sense!

I just read an article on the dangers of heavy drinking....
Scared the shit out of me.
So that's it!
After today, no more reading.


*excerpt from an email sent to me

up next: photo's from the recording thrash with uncle bill. which will answer a couple of the questions i have had in the recent past about particular guitar and recording gear.

the band

this weekend i get to go camping for the first time this year, the downside to being in a good band is you end up booked all summer with only a few weekends off. the link above is to the posters from last weekend when we played with black oak arkansas at a motorcycle rally. below is a few photo's, the bottom one has john, one of the sound and light guys in it. it was really fun playing a good stage with great sound guys, most of the people we end up dealing with are jerks who think they know everything there is to know. which would be fine if they were able to back it up. just normal. also, i took my digital recorder to the show and recorded 2 and 1/2 hours, so i will finally have some good quality songs to load on the website!

abandoned? nah.

it's been a very hecktic last year, that's for sure. and unfortunately, the blogging has suffered. But, things are finally slowing down so that i can get back online. last week, uncle bill flew up to redo some mandolin parts on the 15 From the Woodpile album so that is coming along nicely. and Premonition has been busy, last weekend we played a motorcycle rally with Black Oak Arkansas. and about a month ago i hit 2 deer and rolled my jeep liberty, which sucked because i really liked that thing oh well. this first picture is a drawing one of my friends drew on the board of the wreck.




i've also been coaching hunter's little league baseball team, here are a couple pictures from that:





more pictures from the recording session later.


And, a happy belated birthday to Anita in denmark! hope you had alot of fun!

i know, it's been awhile.

all is well, finally getting everything set up in the basement to get back to recording, and i have some pictures to post as soon as i get permission to use them. more later, including some interesting things i've learned after becoming a step-dad to an 8 year old who i can only outsmart when 8 pm rolls around and he has to go to bed.