Category: News

Merry Christmas. I woke up and found that the ground was all covered in white. Santa was here and brought me some cool gifts. Including a kick ass new pair of skis that are just beggin to be used on the fresh new powder. I can smell hot chocolate with bacon and eggs. Oh man this a great morning. The only thing that would make it better would be a phone call from U2 asking me to open up their next world tour.

What, wait, whoa, you mean I’m really gonna open for U2?!??!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!!?!?

Ah, that’s right it’s April Fool’s. But seriously, there is some good news happenning. I got wind that Taylor Guitar’s next issue of Wood & Steel (due out this month, April) will contain a review of Practical Insanity. As well, they will be hosting the video of Falling In on their website. This is quite exciting as I simply love their instruments. If you don’t own one, you really don’t know what you’re missing. Make sure you get out and get one. NOW.

Other little things that are happening include… Falling In is headed to The Fuse, it’s also going into rotation in retail locations around the country roughly in late May. Keep an eye out for it and if you see it, let me know. Also, I’ve started writing music with someone from a famous band, but I gotta keep hush hush for the time being. Needless to say, we’re coming up with some cool material that will be making the rounds soon. Also wearing the producer hat for another project based on a solo instrumental guitar record (no, not mine).

Additionally, I have already started meeting with a kick ass photographer by the name of Paul Gregory. I’m excited as now we’re working on my image, to bring it in-line with the music. That’s been one of my biggest weaknesses, not looking like the music I create. Well, in the next few weeks there will be a bit of transformation and that will all change. Then at the end of April when we’ve got it all together, the band and I will be shooting the next video for the song Closer To Ourselves. Byron Turk will be trying some interesting things for this shoot and the band and I will have to keep up.

Do you know someone really famous? I’m contemplating a 2 part video as the final videos for Practical Insanity. For Searching For You and Tabloid Affair. Obviously these songs are about finding, meeting, and dating someone famous, like big movie star famous. Thus if you’re friends with someone like say, Kiera Knightley, Cameron Diaz, Charlize Theron, Natallie Portman, Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton, Jennifer Aniston, Uma Thurman, Selma Hayek, Jessica Biel, Ali Larter, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, maybe even Angelina Jolie, then I would be forever indebted to you if you could help me befriend one of them for the videos.

Are you an avid listener of Frosty, Heidi and Frank? Based out of Los Angeles they are LA’s number one rated noon show. They do a segment on fridays known as Should I Stay or Should I Go? Well, a while back I was on and did very well and even got high marks and praise from the triplets themselves. You’ll actually see some of the quotes pop up on the left side of the screen there under “things you say”. Well a few weeks ago on the show Frank had mentioned that they didn’t have a theme song. I figured what the hell, I’ll write one. I whipped this up in a few hours and sent a copy to the show and never heard from them. So at this point, I’m just going to call it the un-official Frosty Heidi and Frank theme song. Here’s the links: Full Version, Short Version.

Maybe if enough of the fans of the show decide that they like and ‘complain’ to them, they might take notice. Who knows. For now I’ll leave it up to you, the fans of Frosty, Heidi and Frank to decide if its a good theme song for them. Send me a comment about it when you’ve heard it.

Working on finishing up the video podcasts from the last trip out. Will likely post part 3 and part 4 today then part 5 tomorrow and that will close it out. I’ve also posted a ton of pictures in the Atlanta gallery.

Working on making a nice edited video of the APCA showcase as the video turned out great and I had a second camera filming. That’s got some great shots of the band and the sound is pretty darn good too. Also massaging several of the schools that saw us to work on more shows.

One more part of the trip back that I hadn’t mentioned yet. We had an accident involving the bus. That’s right, I’ve now officially been in my first accident. Fortunately everyone is ok, there were no deaths and no serious injuries. The bus is in the shop getting worked on as we speak. I’m glad it wasn’t like a Metallica moment.

As you can see the website has undergone a bit of an update. Let me know what you think about it.