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Archive for April, 2007

Guitar Purse

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Sometime over the past few years, I made my life easier by preparing for gigs in advance. In the busy summer months I keep an amp in the car, my travel bag keeps all my pedals plugged-in, and every guitar has it’s very own guitar purse.
My guitar purse is an extension of the pocket […]

Voltaic Vaudeville - May 05, 2007

Monday, April 16th, 2007

What: Voltaic Vaudeville
When: May, 05 2007 - 3pm & 8pm
Where: The Regent Theatre - Arlington, MA
Who: The Beat Circus Vaudeville Orchestra, Uncle Shoe, Ben Matchstick, Bony Lil, Jason Escape, Miss Aventure, Karen Webb, The Legacy Dancers.
Valerie asked me to play on her score for Bony Lil’s film: Creation earlier this year. Creation is an […]

Spring Practice Regimen

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Currently, I’m focusing on two major projects in my practice time. The first is a Ralph Towner tune titled “Oleander Etude” from his new Album: Time Line (and his transcription book: Solo Guitar Works - Volume 1). It’s a technically challenging piece that works on the left hand & descending pull-offs, and when […]

It’s about time!

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

This is an unusual post for this blog, but I think this is pretty cool. From the iTunes website:
“With the new iTunes “Complete My Album” service, music fans can now upgrade their singles into complete albums and get full credit for the songs they have previously purchased from iTunes. “Complete My Album” is a […]

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Here are two Beatles related upcoming events from the wonderful people at Brookline Music School:
BMS PERFORMS THE BEATLES:
Tickets on Sale Now!
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of The Beatles’ album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, almost 100 Brookline Music School students and faculty will perform all 13 songs from this groundbreaking record on May […]

The Future of Lousy Tabs

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

The saga of online tablature continues with Musicnotes.com new site: MXTabs.net. The New York Times had an article in yesterday’s paper mentioning that Musicnotes has reached an agreement with the Harry Fox agency to publish music in tab format on MXTabs in exchange for a portion of ad revenue.
The MXTabs website describes their new […]

April is for Fools

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Valerie & I had some fun this week. We put together a semi-elaborate April Fools prank and launched her new website. I’m really excited about her new design and proud that I could help make it happen. After learning so much about Wordpress for her site, I think I’m going to do […]

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