Okay, so I waited a little longer than I would have liked to post my first tour blog, but I’m going to try to give a quick rundown of our first couple of stops: Our first stop was at the Applegate Lodge in Applegate, Oregon, which was a great first show because we had played […]
Category: Music
Tour Post #1
Upcoming Tour Blog
It’s less than a week now from when I will be on the longest tour I’ve ever done, three and a half weeks to New Orleans with the Polyrhythmics, and I haven’t done a tour blog since the first tour of my career, when Hardcoretet went down the coast to Los Angeles 5 years ago! […]
April Excitement
I had a nice excursion North to Bellingham the last couple of days; Theoretics had a solid first Bellingham show at the Wild Buffalo, and I was able to spend the following day with Karl, drummer for the band Polecat, who the Polyrhythmics have shared bills and festivals with pretty frequently. It was good to […]
Happy Holidays!
One of the many Love’s Truck Stops in the great state of Idaho: The end of this year has been punctuated with tours to Los Angeles and Montana, as well as working with new recordings and new musical ideas. I’m still trying to find a sound and approach that I can consistently use in all […]
Jazz, Teaching, and Lucky Brown
A couple of really fun performances around town over the past couple of weeks: Claudio Rochat-Felix and Michael Marcus at 418 Public House: Drums, Bass, and Saxophone. Really cool chance to stretch on things and mess with forms in interesting ways. Claudio, Tim Kennedy, Ian Sheridan, and Thomas Marriott at Vito’s: First time playing with […]
New Photos Up
I added a new gallery of photos taken from Hardcoretet’s performance at Central Washington University. The show was after an evening clinic/master class with some of the music students there, our second one at CWU, and the reception was very warm and enthusiastic. I enjoy playing music at bars and smaller clubs; I think the […]
Road Post
Posting from my phone for the first time, while riding in the van with the Polyrhythmics in Idaho! I plan on putting up an album with some of the more beautiful views when I get back home. This is the longest amount of time that I have been on the road, traveling and playing music, […]
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up
It’s been a really fun run of performances the last couple of weeks. Polyrhythmics had a memorable mountain show at the top of Heavenly Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, Hardcoretet played the Comet Tavern for the first time with two great bands in Industrial Revelation and Skerik and really got to rock out, and […]
New Listening
WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE I love that movie. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve enjoyed a real boost in new stuff to listen to. When I heard that Easy Street Records in Lower Queen Anne was going away, I headed over to Sonic Boom in Ballard. I hope to make it a monthly trip. I […]
Festival Mode
The hot weather took its time, but it is finally here, and my schedule has been pretty effective as far as getting me out there to enjoy it! Festival performances with the Polyrhythmics and Theoretics have been really fun, especially because I hadn’t really gone to many music festivals before, either as an audience member […]