You read that right: Weird Al Yankovic. Debbie & I attend a lot of concerts. It’s pretty much our go-to choice for entertainment and between us we have pretty eclectic tastes, so there’s a lot to choose from and there are a lot of very talented people out there playing[…]
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Hi everyone, remember what I said last time about getting newsletters out more regularly? Well…I’ll keep working at it. But thinking about how to mention this oversight led me to one of my favorite songs, and that seemed interesting. As I was hunting for some background on the quotation involving[…]
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Where does the time go? I was just spreading the word about the Make Music PDX (MMPDX) program and I realized that it’s been 5 years since my first trip down that particular road. A lot has happened in my musical career since then, and much of it was made[…]
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As promised, there is new music! Ocean Amblin’ This is a song that has been in development for many years. It all started at a jam session when someone suggested we groove on a 2-chord progression that was quite pretty. The person who suggested it said that he was working[…]
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Yesterday was really productive. I spent the day at Pyrate Llama Studios to catch up with some new tracks and explore some recording techniques, and thanks to input from those present, a new project is starting to take shape! The New Project While we were setting up, I was talking[…]
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Wow! It’s been a busy month–seems like I just wrote a newsletter and now it’s time for another one. It was a multi-flavored weekend, with 4 music events in 3 days. On Friday I played a gig at Girasole Pizza Company, which was fun and delicious as usual. I spent[…]
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As long as I have been playing guitar, I never get such strong imagery as I do when I sit at the koto. I was playing at the Tigard Bull Mountain Farmers Market today, and I took the koto to add some variety. The response was nice, although many people[…]
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Greetings all, The biggest news is that we’re finally in our new house, which means that while taking breaks from emptying boxes, I actually get time to work on music stuff. I have been looking forward to getting back into the swing of things and making use of the various[…]
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It was one of those things you always hear about, but seldom run into if you’re lucky. And if you’re luckier still, it turns out well. Last Sunday I had a gig at a local farmers market. We’d set up the date at least a month ago and it was[…]
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Good analogies get harder to find all the time. Everybody’s seen everything and every possible kind of comparison has been made between everything because you never know when the right set of variables will trigger a marketing algorithm. So when a good analogy comes along, it deserves to be celebrated.[…]
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