08 30 04 8:46 |Only one comment Signing off from Philadelphia
This will be my last entry from our apartment on Broad Street in Philadelphia. Tomorrow we pack up a truck and head to Detroit. I'll be back...
08 25 04 2:59 |Only one comment Vroom Vroom
After recovering from the Prince concert Chrissy and I have been busy packing up for our move to motown. we'lll be getting on the road on Tuesday for the two day jaunt. Played a great show last night with Woodenbox at the Fire. Great sound guy there. Also worked last night. Mixed and episode of Makeover Story for TLC. It was a long night but enjoyable. Working in the stuido a lot this week. I've got two new Drum and Bass things in the mix. I pulled a track from my music page. I'll repost after remixing. The snare sound sucked. Vroom Vroom.
08 23 04 12:09 |No comments yet Prince
I was absolutely floored by the Prince concert tonight. He is a master entertainer, brilliant songwriter, and inspirational musician. His band was slammin'. The stage in the round was beautiful. He played about 30 min worth of solo acoustic stuff. He played for maybe 18000 people but he made it feel like 100. This will stick with me. It was a great event.
08 20 04 10:24 |No comments yet What's going on?
Woodenbox is playing at the Speakeasy Cafe tonight at around 9PM. Go to the Speakeasy website for directions. It's a fun little pool bar. Cheap drinks! I did another excellent session with Vivian Green last night. She killed the lead on a new song, Under my Skin. Whew! This week has been full of packing up for Detroit! Yum.
08 19 04 10:31 |No comments yet Vivian session
Had a great session with Vivian Green last night. She's working on more stuff for her new record. She sounds amazing. Her first record 'A Love Story' is a killer.
08 17 04 01:00 |No comments yet RedLine
Couldn't sleep tonight. Stayed up workin gon a new thing. Jungle track. It's called RedLine. I'll have it up here son. It's got a real busy buzzy bassline. The Olympics. Forbidden Planet. I remember Isotope 217.
08 15 04 12:52 |No comments yet Hurricane
Worked on some new bass sounds late this morning. Playing around on the K2000. Amazing synth. Had lunch with Pascal yesterday which was nice. He just finished up a jazz record for Verve. Details to follow. I'll have a few new guiar peices to upload this week. Cinematic themes. Colorful. The Wodenbox gig at the new Grape Street was a success. Does anyone have any interest in me posting photographs here on my site? Maybe from Detroit to keep my Philly crew updated. Hummmmm.
08 12 04 5:09 |No comments yet Three for Detroit
I heard from a Detroit Indie Hip-Hop label, Rock City Records. I whipped up three beats for them yesterday. Go check 'em out on the music page. Hope to see everyone at the Grape Street Pub on Friday.
5:07 |No comments yet Farenheit 9/11
Saw Michael Moore's film Farenheit 9/11. Probably the scariest film I've ever seen. Wow.
08 10 04 10:28 |No comments yet Dice, ah Dice Raw!
Had a very good session with Dice Raw tonight. Worked on a number of good tracks. Top notch MC. Looking forward to working with him some more. Also, I launched woodenboxmusic.com. Go check it out.
08 05 04 9:33 |No comments yet Live n' direct
Had a good session today with James and Zukhan. Kenny Lattimore came through., as did Vivian Green(looking terriffic) and Dice. Looks like I'll be doing some work with Dice Raw. Which will be nice. Itomar and Dave are on their way over to rehearse. woodenboxmusic.com will be up tomorrow or the next day. Just waiting for the DNS servers to adjust. Peace and Golf.
08 04 04 11:48 |No comments yet Anwar 'rapping' up!
Spent the night working on Anwar Hassan's Stranj Daze project. His beats are amazing. I was sprucing up some percussion and bass parts and mixing a bit. His kind of hip hop sounds great. Looking forward to finishing that up before the move to Detroit. Boom Chik. Another track is also in the works. Stay tuned....
09:15 |No comments yet Woodenbox web!
Making great strides with the WoodenBox website. It'll be up on Thurs. or Friday @ www.woodenboxmusic.com. Stay tuned....We're also working on a gig @ the Fire in Philly and getting Dave Dworanczyk to play drums. Oohh yeah.
08 03 04 4:33 |No comments yet Using terror alert as campaign commercials!
So, Tom Ridge announced on Sunday that the terror alert level was raised to orange for some financial centers in the north east. It was raised in responce to intelligence that named certain buildings as potential targets. Ridge than went on to praise the Bush administration's new intelligence policies and vigilance that was responsible for the information. He than mentioned that the offensive in Iraq was helping us gather this kind of intelligence. What he didn't mention was that these buildings were threatened in terrorist communications THREE YEARS AGO, and there has been no new threats to these buildings since. So why raise the threat level now? Well a week after the DNC the Bush administration needs to pull the news cameras and commentators back to their deeds and campaign. This is a disgusting use of terror as a campaign tool. Greed and Malice, said Herbie, Greed and Malice. Don't forget to vote.
08 02 04 6:36 |No comments yet Great weekend!
Went to see Th Cure in concert at The Tweeter Center. Great show. Robet Smith is still very depressed, which is odly comforting and makes for a great show. The Muse were great, Interpol and Rapture shoudl give Gang of Four their act back. Played golf all day Saturday and saw Jenn Stang rock Doc Watson's pub. She's getting better with every show. Remember the gigs in August------>>>>>>. Working at Axis and Stairway this week. Still looking forward to getting paid by Philadelphia International for a session cut last year!! Whew!
