Thursday, September 13, 2007
One more Will Rize session
We did another session last night, what turned out to be our fourth of five, I think. It was a late one but it was a lot of fun. The tracks have been coming out great. We've been working at Sound Best Studio in Garden Grove. It's a nice studio. We've had Mike Best and Patrick Clancy engineering. I love it when the drums are all set up and dialed in...it makes it so easy to get up and running.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Podcast
The podcast that I did with Beth Hirsch in New York is now available for download. You can hear us perform live in the studio as a duo on acoustic guitars. Beth is a great singer with some great tunes and we had a great time doing this.
Man it's hot!!
The weather man says it's 106 in Hollywood now. It sure feels like it. It's a lazy, sticky day...good time for a blog update.
The Rae Indigo session last Friday went really well. My old pal Darren Ross was on drums, Andre Collins was on keys and Keith Barrows produced and played bass. We tracked at the Jungle Room in Glendale. We got four tunes done. Two of them had song forms in the computer for us to play to and the other two we arranged on the spot. I think the stuff came out great.
This week I've got a session with Will Rivera on Wednesday. This will be the third (of 3, I think) session that we've done for this project. He's got a great lineup of people and I know it's gonna be funky.
The Rae Indigo session last Friday went really well. My old pal Darren Ross was on drums, Andre Collins was on keys and Keith Barrows produced and played bass. We tracked at the Jungle Room in Glendale. We got four tunes done. Two of them had song forms in the computer for us to play to and the other two we arranged on the spot. I think the stuff came out great.
This week I've got a session with Will Rivera on Wednesday. This will be the third (of 3, I think) session that we've done for this project. He's got a great lineup of people and I know it's gonna be funky.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Session Log
Wheeew...this has been a crazy week of sessions.
I just finished what was easily my most unsual/wacky session. Will Faeber and his wife Karen Loshbaugh are just finishing a film that needed some acoustic guitar on the soundtrack and they enlisted me to do the session. I don't know too much about the plot but I do know there is a character who thinks he's Jerry Garcia from the Greatful Dead. There's a scene with him jamming by himself on an acoustic so I pulled out some Jerry licks on my Taylor 312-CE. I always liked Jerry's playing so this was a lot of fun for me to do. It looks like it will be a cool piece of indy film work.
The other thing I recorded today was a slow gospel track for an artist named Tangy Reed. This is the third tune that I've done in the past week for this project which is being produced by Mica Fisher and Nate Tschetter from the songwriting team Jomina. I'm the Jo in case you're wondering... I got to bust out my Yamaha nylon string prototype and did a track of ES-335 through my Dr. Z Route 66 while also recording direct. I'm looking forward to doing more sessions like this at home! I love to experiment with sounds and it's very liberating not having anyone waiting for me to "deliver." Nate and Mica are two of my most favorite people to work with as well and I can still feel the chemistry in the tracks even though they are in Nashville and I'm in LA.
I've got a couple of other sessions for Rae Indigo coming this week as well. We'll be doing live tracking with a full band on Friday and one night this week I'll be doing overdubs on some stuff that's already in the can. These sessions will be produced by Keith Barrows.
I just finished what was easily my most unsual/wacky session. Will Faeber and his wife Karen Loshbaugh are just finishing a film that needed some acoustic guitar on the soundtrack and they enlisted me to do the session. I don't know too much about the plot but I do know there is a character who thinks he's Jerry Garcia from the Greatful Dead. There's a scene with him jamming by himself on an acoustic so I pulled out some Jerry licks on my Taylor 312-CE. I always liked Jerry's playing so this was a lot of fun for me to do. It looks like it will be a cool piece of indy film work.
The other thing I recorded today was a slow gospel track for an artist named Tangy Reed. This is the third tune that I've done in the past week for this project which is being produced by Mica Fisher and Nate Tschetter from the songwriting team Jomina. I'm the Jo in case you're wondering... I got to bust out my Yamaha nylon string prototype and did a track of ES-335 through my Dr. Z Route 66 while also recording direct. I'm looking forward to doing more sessions like this at home! I love to experiment with sounds and it's very liberating not having anyone waiting for me to "deliver." Nate and Mica are two of my most favorite people to work with as well and I can still feel the chemistry in the tracks even though they are in Nashville and I'm in LA.
I've got a couple of other sessions for Rae Indigo coming this week as well. We'll be doing live tracking with a full band on Friday and one night this week I'll be doing overdubs on some stuff that's already in the can. These sessions will be produced by Keith Barrows.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Back in the swing of things..
I had a great gig this a.m. with my trio in Long Beach. I had Andrew Ford on bass and Tyrone Fleming on drums today. We played last Friday in Chino so we were able to gel pretty quickly today. Soon after I got home I got a call from Keith Barrows to do a session. He was working on a track with singer Rae Indigo and needed some acoustic guitar and some slide. It was a cool tune and probably the shortest session I've ever done... maybe 35 minutes.
Off to Long Beach again tomorrow morning to do another trio gig. This one will feature David Hughes on bass and Tyrone Fleming on drums. Then on Thursday I get to do another one with Chris Roy on bass and Ty on drums again. What a great week...
Off to Long Beach again tomorrow morning to do another trio gig. This one will feature David Hughes on bass and Tyrone Fleming on drums. Then on Thursday I get to do another one with Chris Roy on bass and Ty on drums again. What a great week...
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Back to LA
...jetlagged and waking up at 7 a.m. Ouch...
I've just returned from a 3 week vacation and a 1 week mini-tour. The vacation was my annual summer trip to the beach in Rhode Island coupled with a party for my parents' 50th anniversary. Wow...50 years.
The tour was with singer Beth Hirsch. The band consisted of Chris Roy on bass and Jorge Villanueva on drums. We played Buffalo, Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had a blast. They're a great bunch of people and extremely talented.
I've just returned from a 3 week vacation and a 1 week mini-tour. The vacation was my annual summer trip to the beach in Rhode Island coupled with a party for my parents' 50th anniversary. Wow...50 years.
The tour was with singer Beth Hirsch. The band consisted of Chris Roy on bass and Jorge Villanueva on drums. We played Buffalo, Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had a blast. They're a great bunch of people and extremely talented.
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