Updates – Music related
2023 was a great year for me musically. By the end of it I was a part of 3 bands, learning many new songs, and getting more acquainted with my…
2023 was a great year for me musically. By the end of it I was a part of 3 bands, learning many new songs, and getting more acquainted with my…
I was hoping to exercise some skills by documenting and posting my learnings of the VR-09, and as so often when happens, curiosity triggers additional questions and tasks. My original…
I am feeling the excitement and happiness that music should bring you again, not the dread of trying to coax something from an outdated board that it was never designed…
On March 6 I was able to join my bandmates for a live performance/practice at Mockingbird Music. We hadn’t been together since the middle of 2020, but we pulled together…
Release Date – October 12, 1987 Like many bands in the 80’s, or pre-Internet in general, INXS had a pretty good career going for themselves before becoming huge mega stars…
Release Date: April 30, 1982 Band: Michael “Mike” Score (lead vocals, keyboards); Alister “Ali” James Score (drums), Francis Lee “Frank” Maudsley (bass), lead guitarist Paul Reynolds. Definitely a quintessential album…
With a slight change to my home-office set up I find myself putting on background music more often, and I’m always looking for ways to keep up with new music…
Brief history – when I was around 16 I saved up my paperboy money and bought a slightly used Yamaha DX-7 for $1,000. Most of my synth time had been…
One of the many perks of working at a record store in the late 80’s/early 90’s was grabbing the promotional CD’s that got sent to the store. After a few…
I’ve been in garage bands, basement bands, dad bands, marching bands, jazz bands … even a wedding band (for one night). I have probably forgotten how to play more songs…