I am really looking forward to playing with Andy B. and Matt U. tonight at the Acadia Cafe in Minneapolis. We have never gotten together to practice so there is a great spur of the moment improvisational feel to the show which makes it a lot of fun for me as I play the songs so much the same way on my own. We open the show at 9:00pm.
Haven't been listening to much music the last couple of days. Mostly NPR and Coast to Coast. Listening to a great Coast to Coast program about the spiritual experiences of extreme atheletes like mountain climbers and base jumpers that is really interesting.
As I mentioned yesterday I am trying to sell a bunch of gear I am not using on Craigslist and what not. I have gotten some pretty amusing spam scam messages that say things like "Hi,
I have instructed my assistant to send out your payment as soon you provide your full name,phone number and address. I can only pay via money order as am on business trip." Hilarious. I guess it is like telemarketing though, send it to a million people and a certain percentage will fall for it.
I have about 15-16 songs written for a new album, but I am really wanting to let the songs develop over a longer period of time, I have recorded some multiple times and doing performances of the songs with different groups has definitely helped the process. Enjoy the Process. While the new album will not be recorded or released any time soon, demos of about 10 of the songs are up at my online music archive site.
Also, if you haven't gotten a chance to check out my collaboration with local MC Hyphon, it is now available for free streaming and download. It was fun for me to work with music and musicians that are outside of my comfort zone so to speak.
I also have a track that my good friend Michelle Lynn and I collaborated on that will be on the new album she is working on. Until that comes out it is definitely worth taking a couple of minutes to check out her previous albums.
Objective Subject is another project I am really excited about. It is a collaboration album with my good friend Adam Ptacek. We always worked well together in Rearview Mirror and it has been great working on another project with him. The album is slowly but surely coming together. Haven't released any tracks yet but until we do you can check out some old collaborations we did together and also some of Adam's solo work.
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