Hoping to do some final mixes on “Mustang Sally” today. I worked on it all day yesterday and got it pretty close to what I wanted. Right now it just needs some final tweaking. Vocals are too loud, rhythm guitar is too low, and the lead guitar needs to be a hair louder. But all […]
Thanks to the good graces of Brother J. C. Rice, I got to go to the Clearwater Sea Blues Festival this year at Coachman Park, in Clearwater, Florida. I suspect J. C. had ulterior motives, in that he might’ve hoped that by inviting me and Wolf, our drummer, that we would steer the band in […]
Only in America could people who wrap themselves in the flag and blather on about fighting a war against Terrorism applaud a Terrorist act when it’s committed by one of their own. If you haven’t heard, Joe Stack was a 53-year-old software engineer who crashed his small plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas […]
I’ve had the honor of being mentioned as the “Artist Of The Day” in the Tampa Bay Times’ online music blog, Soundcheck. The blurb was written by Jay Cridlin, who is a damned nice guy. Long story short, Jay noticed my name popping up on occasion, and looked a little closer, where he learned of […]
The band is coming over tomorrow to record the vocal tracks to the songs we recorded last week. I’m looking forward to getting the songs ready and up online, and then using those to help get the band some gigs. We’re all hoping we can make a living doing this, and we’re certainly good enough. […]
[podcast]http://www.wicasta.com/music/mp3/tush.mp3[/podcast] I finished a mix of Catdaddy Pirates’ version of ZZ Top’s “Tush” on our ReverbNation and MySpace pages. It’s one of seven that we recorded last week, and hope to have completed and online by the end of this week. The general plan is to use this to get some gigs, by having a […]
[The ever-reliable Paul Krugman posted an article at the NY Times (excerpted below) about the Republicans’ latest efforts to dismantle Medicare. It’s always amazed me that many of my elderly relatives who depend on Medicare faithfully vote Republican. To me, that’s like a chicken voting for a fox to be protector of the hen-house. – […]
I don’t normally re-post information here, but since my Blog seems to have fallen by the wayside of late (my interests seem to lead me into posting in my other Blogs), this seemed like the perfect place to mention something that disturbs me on an almost primal level. It’s the Chinese’s appetite for tiger parts. […]
We had a good rehearsal last night at Market On 7th, firing up the band as a 3-piece for the first time. We cut it a little short because J. C.’s arm was hurting (against his wishes), but it seemed better to call it than to exacerbate a problem. We’ll need J. C. in fighting form for […]
My new band is officially up and running. I look forward to making a lot of noise in the Tampa Bay area with these boys. We have a hell of a lot of potential, and it looks like it’s going to be great fun in the company of gentlemen who already feel like family to […]
