Was going to post about some music I put up at soundcloud but couldn't figure out how to get the widgets to appear! I did it before - I got frustrated because I couldn't do it NOW! So I didn't post. But there is quite a bit of more recent stuff now, including stuff from the first couple of years of hieronymous (2002-2004), as well as stuff from our ( Read more... )

August was a very eventful month for hieronymous! Longtime hieronymous drummer Greg DeGuglielmo flew out for a couple of weeks, so we had a couple of rehearsal/jams, then went in to the studio. I was able to record parts of the rehearsals - used a single mic on the drums, recorded the bass and bass pedals direct. It sounded surprisingly good - if I ( Read more... )

A quick post for this weekend's track: the tune is called Next to Last - the drum track is from a drum & bass improvisation back in 2005 recorded at Oxbow Studios (in its original location), but I didn't like the bass part I played so I overdubbed everything and created a new song! Greg DeGuglielmo is on drums as always - the fact that a song ( Read more... )

I began recording my own music in 2002. I had just spent 8-9 months back in Massachusetts getting my house ready to sell after my parents passed away, and during that time formed a band called "Zodiac Mambo" with Greg DeGuglielmo on drums, my old partner from Jiggle the Handle Gary Backstrom on guitar and Max Creek keyboardist Mark Mercier. ( Read more... )

Apparently, scientists don't know how cats purr. It's also unclear why - of course, if you are a cat lover then you know that they purr when they are content, but they can also purr when they are excited or even when they are about to die ( Read more... )

Remastered another old track: over thereI recorded this one while I was living in Kyoto, Japan, and it features the bass that is pictured in my userpic. It's a late-'60s Gibson Melody Maker Bass - this was Gibson's budget line, but it has the same "mudbucker" pickup found in their other instruments like the EB-2 and EB-3. The original color was " ( Read more... )

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I've had an idea on and off to try and post some music each Friday, but it hasn't happened. Friday seems like a nice day to post something new (or at least relatively new), but with everything that's going on in "real life" it's just too much. I have some ideas, but often the idea never materializes into reality. It's hard enough to get some time ( Read more... )

I got so excited to have new strings on my 4001 that I recorded a short sketch! I call it, "a free one". I actually have a bunch of stuff posted at soundcloud - take a few minutes to check some of it out.

Not much to report - just cleaned up my Rickenbacker 4001 - it was kind of grungy after my last recording session at Robot Envy Studios in Berkeley last August with Greg DeGuglielmo. The strings were completely dead and so dirty that it was hard to slide my fingers along them! Not necessarily a bad sound with the dead strings, but to me the Ric ( Read more... )