Month: December 2011

This was a very good year for music. So much so that listening to all this stuff is sometimes a major distraction when trying to focus on one’s own work as an artist. Still, it’s good to know that there is such a variety of good stuff out there, both ...

Besides being built like trucks, ElectroHarmonix (EHX) pedals just sound great. They have the perfect combination of quality single purpose and multi-purpose built into each of their pedals, so no single pedal is a one trick pony. My current arsenal for electro performance and recording includes: One of the things ...

Going all the way back to my first musical experiences, I was always interested in synths, drums machines, etc, but never took time to really dive into that world too far because I couldn’t produce the music live without a large band. Other musicians were not really interested in the ...

“Forget your records and your CDs. Don’t need cassettes or MP3s…” – From the song “8-Track Underground” on my album Cadillacs & Tarantulas. My father recently unearthed two 8-track tapes of his mom, Frances dePrisco, singing some old gospel tunes. Recorded in her living room in 1979, these tapes (which ...

1 Reason RPG8 Experiment – “Hermano” 2 Thorgan (transition) 3 Record Player 4 Somethin Funny (with samples from recovered 2006-07 Minidisc recordings) 5 Ghost Adventures – Are You A Witch? 6 Ghost Adventures – Play With Ya 7 Ghost Adventures – Bass Tuning Weirdness 8 “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe (using material from LibraVox.org) 9 Vampire ...