Category: Blog
Enjoy the latest updates and musings from the studio.
Robert Dorschel is one of the many friends that I made at Electro-music 2010, a festival dedicated to electronic music. Ironically, while most of the festival was electrified, it was during the acoustic jams that we really got to talking. Robert brought his melodica and Zen drum, which added some ...
Matt and I met while attending classes at PSU Hazleton. He was working on his BA right out of high school. I was there in a two-year Associate program for business, after taking a year off from high school to work. I was still very much exploring the completely acoustic, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Over the past couple weeks I’ve been listening to studio experiments and fragments created in a recording program called Riffworks 2.6.5 by Sonoma Wire Works, a tool geared toward guitarists (but not exclusively for guitar). I first discovered the tool in mid-2009, and used it heavily for a little while, ...
Last night’s show at Avenue 209 coffee house in Lock Haven was a good mix of experiences, combining an appreciative audience, great stage ergonomics and good sound. I had some fun with a few of the Irish tunes that have been rattling around in my songbook since before the Ireland ...
So we made it to Dublin after several other dubious musical experiences, and one day made our way to St. Stephen’s Park. Beautiful gardens, people feeding swans and ducks in quaint ponds… a guy with a beer in his pocket. Pretty laid back. So I pull out my guitar to ...
Some bikers approached me while leaving Franco’s Lounge after dinner Friday night. I was in Williamsport playing at Alabaster Cafe earlier in the evening. They saw me carrying my guitar, “Hey guitar man, where can we find some blues?” I told them to check the Bullfrog. “We checked there. The ...
The Electro-Music festival and conference in Huguenot, New York in early Sept was another great experience and I came away inspired (if not well-rested). It was bittersweet however, as this was also the same weekend as the flood in Central PA (from the aftermath of Tropical Storm Lee) and my mind ...
