There should be an album.
Pictures and Set List from mo’Betta 10/18/2014
Set One (6-7) Chasing the Mantra Mr. Phatpants 30 & Counting Building a Better Tree Flight of the Neo-Cerebral Peace Iguana Number 42 Set Two (7:15-8) Watching Water Brofoya Somewhere East of Omaha Upper Ethereal Song for the Children Toxic Chili Set Three (8:15-9) Change Ode to John Francis Jamangottu Ricky Loves LuLu HippiPOTamus Remember Peace Read more →
Derek Bailey: Playing for Friends on 5th Street
Bailey at his best. Also, a great story about his days teaching lessons.
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.
Graphite Addiction Plays The TAC Project
Join Graphite Addiction at Mo Betta Gumbo in Loveland, Colorado this Saturday (October 18th) for an evening of thoroughly confounding music. Tim Carmichael, Pete Ehrmann, and I will be playing Tim’s Watching Water album in its entirety, along with a smattering of old and new originals. There will be heavy grooves, burning solos, introspective ballads, and oud. Because oud makes… Read more →
The Battle by Andrew Treto
Great track from Andrew Treto’s OUT Studios, who studied with me in Longmont.
Rip Club Jingle
This is a quick ad Tim Carmichael and I did last Friday for Rip Club Sewing Lounge in Loveland, Colorado. We recorded it on Tim’s Boss Micro BR using my Acoustic Image Clarus 2R as a preamp for both the microphone and guitar. A bit of post in Audacity and we were done. Not bad for an hour’s work…. Read more →
Another Big List: The Index of Movement in Diatonic Sets
My previous book, the Thesaurus of Diatonic Sets, describes the relationships between the content of the subsets of the diatonic or other seven-note scales. It served that purpose well, but I soon found a basic flaw in its approach to pandiatonisim. It is careful about the set content but woefully lacking in concern about how sets move, treating all sets… Read more →