Tahoe Jam

Had a whirlwind trip to Tahoe City, CA a couple of days ago. Left at 1pm on Wed, driving a rented 4-door Chevy Aveo, sans chains. Unfortunately I hit a snow storm right around Truckee. Fortunately, chain restrictions were lifted about an hour prior to my arrival at the summit. The drive was very [...]

Obsession for Matt

Ok, so i have an obsession…, well, many obsessions, but one which i will disclose today. Borderline OCD, i think. The original idea of this endeavor was to expand my musical horizons by increasing my exposure to various bands.
Back in the Spring of 1995, I decided that to curb my boredom while trudging to classes [...]

Orchestration???

Thought about the orchestration for WTH#5 today. I’m considering a sort of droning sound throughout the album. To achieve this effect, I’m thinking about fitting my old acoustinc guitar, an Epiphone DR-200, with a couple sets of sympathetic strings (I bought a new Martin for a solo scheduled for the WTH#4 recording session, freeing this [...]

Los Angeles trip

Plane flight really sucked, but the banjo made it. It got special treatment (gate check), which was more than what we received. Chuck and I had a good guitar/banjo jam this morning. We assessed the demo that I recorded recently and listened to a little Custom Deluxe. We’ll get him set up here to [...]

Karaoke, etc.

So, last night Krissy and I went to the Legends Hall of Fame Bar and Grill in Waltham. They have karaoke on Thursdays and Fridays. We met up with her friend Katie. Krissy and I sang the Dire Straits tune, “Walk of Life”. Later I managed to get through “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” by [...]

First Post

Good evening. This is the first post of, hopefully, many. Chuck and I have been working diligently on the songs for your next album, as of yet untitled. We have 9 demo tracks currently recorded, some old songs, some new. We’ll be rehearsing later this month when I return to the SF Bay area next [...]

Hello world!

This will be Matt’s blog soon.