This tune was recorded in the box and sounds perfectly fine to my ears that way. But sometimes during listening sessions, it's great to version your music out and simply hear it differently! I've had my soundtrack 6000 mixing console…
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Don't wait to buy that bass...
If you are a guitar player, I highly recommend that you don't wait as long as I did to get yourself a bass.
Why? Because the approach and technique are so different and yet we sort of know this instrument…
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On solid songwriting. Can any road take you there?
Vince Clark of Erasure, Depeche Mode and Yaz fame, was asked once why he had an acoustic guitar in a studio, when he's primarily known as a synth keyboard player.
He replied that all his songs are first fleshed out…
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The beginning of everything (my first instrument)...
It was the early 1970s…
We had just moved into our first home in Shutesbury, MA and my old man decided to get us a piano. It was a 1971, matte-black, baby grand, Yamaha G2 and it played like a…
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Same Old Dream - Part II
It took some months but the lyrics for this one are finally coming together (along with the recording)… The tune is now called Phantoms. More on that to come…
Each night I wander the halls of my old school
And…
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That Same Old Dream
Have you ever had a dream that continues to repeat itself over weeks, then months, maybe even into years?
The challenge with this thing is the retaining of it. I think we're all wired to try to make sense of…
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A Letter from the Desert...
For most of my life, I've been a working stiff. A “9-to-5er”. The Midwestern guy who played it safe.
My Old Man's family came from Indiana, where I think a lot of that sentiment comes from. We don't take risks…
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