Chaos Ensemble – Chapter 4
A common form of chaos deals with organizational skills, or the lack of, and the resulting effects. Without succumbing to going totally global here, I refer to coping with individual projects and how to keep...
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Chaos Ensemble – Chapter 3
Chaos can occur in a multitude of settings. It pops up when a group of players attempt to play together or when a group approaches a craft or new technique from various levels or angles. Everyone learns from different directions...
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Fresh Start – The New Year
New Years Resolutions. How can the concept be avoided when it has been around for so long? I...
Read MoreThe Solo Artist Adapts – Part 4
The need to adapt, improvise and overcome continues for me even after coming off the road. It’s odd how often I return from a tour and find myself hammered with some sort of temporary human illness that is –...
Read MoreThe Touring & Concert Business
We understand, EVERYBODY would LOVE to open up for that SUPERSTAR (insert name here) CONCERT coming up! You & ‘what Army’! You need to UNDERSTAND the Concert & Touring business to see where you fit in & what you need...
Read MoreLife On The Road
"I have facial tattoos and a methamphetamine problem that makes if difficult to acquire or hold a regular job…. I work as a stage hand a few times a month to make the rent on my trailer then I tell the girls in the...
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Musical Travel Adventures Chapter 1
Once again I had one of my great thrills of the touring year with my third visit to the Frankfurt,...
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Cabin Fever Combat – Chapter One
Touring as a road musician can conjur up new definitions to the words tedious and resourceful...
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Light My Fire – Chapter One – Burn Out
Entering the new year of 2010 brought on the usual questions for me which were along the lines of...
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Road Adventures – Chapter 4
Whether to go or not is the question. That’s what I thought as left Florida for North Dakota...
Read MoreHot Guitars Are Cool, but Hot Guitars Are Not!
I’ll set the stage by saying that I decided to record my latest CD, Hula Girl Highway, (released July 29th) in Nashville. As you can imagine, a lot of pre-production work goes into maximizing efficiency when recording a...
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Music Around the World: Salt Lake City & Rock Springs
From Germany to New Zealand to the USA. How’s that for picking up some air miles and extra...
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