Music News Vol. 2

1. Found out today that Mark Smilor has been booked for 2 dates at the Aroma's in Newport News and 2 dates at the Aroma's in Williamsburg. This is important because Mark is one of the few original Americana singer/song writers in the area and I'll be playing guitar with him. Good stuff right there. I'm excited and have two different sets to learn.

2. This is pretty awesome and I would like one.


3. These videos is awesome.

(I didn't set out to post 2 videos by the same band...but I can't not post this 2nd one after seeing it. Note: I don't necessarily promote violence and setting fires in high occupancy buildings.)

(these guys were not around long enough)


4. I saw Bonnie "Prince" Billy last night at the Birchmere in Alexandria. In my life I've probably (realistically) seen at least 200 bands live. Before last night there were two shows that I have seen that left me awestruck. Isis on their Panopticon tour and Sonic Youth on their Sonic Nurse tour. Last night added a new show to that list. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if he had played "Gulf Shores". It was so good even Jess really liked it.

Ooops...Did I Just Threaten You?

Tonight I was sitting around being frustrated over numerous attempts at getting some songs into the correct format when...what is this...a knock at my door? I was confused. I was a little scared. So I get up and look through the peep hole. There is a strange woman outside. Not an old lady. But one about my age. I'm nervous. Do I open? Do I not? What if she's hurt? She doesn't look hurt. But I open. She asks if we are a military couple? (At this time, for reason of full disclosure I have to admit that I have had some beer this evening. But not enough that I would have to apologize to anyone about it.) I say no...no we aren't a military couple. She then says she is doing marketing assessments for couples age 19-30. Which we are. But I say we aren't interested. Thinking that, it's almost 10:30...gimme a break. I want to finish with this music stuff then go to bed. So she asks..."is it that this is just a bad time?" And "can she come back tomorrow evening?" WHAT?!?! WHAT?!?! This is where I'm not certain if I threatened her or not. I said..."I wouldn't do that if I were you." She then replied..."a 'I'm not interested' would be a proper response." and that was it. I was really just trying to say..."please don't come back. I don't want to talk to you." But when I was telling Jess about it she said that she probably thought I was being threatening. I wasn't. I would never ever threaten anyone, much less a strange woman, who was not being overtly hostile. So...did I threaten her? I hope not.

New Demo

I just spent the past 5 hours demo-ing a new song. If you would like to hear it leave a comment with your email address and I'll email you the mp3. If you do this, then you have to immediately send me feed back once you've listened to it.

---->Scott

Music News

1. This summer I'll be playing some music with a guy named Mark Smilor. He's an americana singer/songwriter from VA Beach. Go check his stuff out on itunes or lala.com. Hopefully there will be some shows coming up in the next few months. I want to see you all come out to at least one.

2. I've started following this gentleman's youtube channel. He goes by the alias of "gearman dude". He does awesome demo's. You should check his stuff out here. If you google his name you will that there is a lot of talk about him being Jack Black. But he's not.

3. Thanks to gearman dude I've been turned on to what might be the best overdrive pedal I've ever heard? The Klon Centaur. The cost...about $345 and around a 12 week wait for them. The majority of the reviews on them are astounding. The haters...are probably just that or had completely unrealistic expectations of what a pedal can do.



4. This summer there are some new albums of note coming out. The new mewithoutYou drops next week (I believe). I'm a pretty big fanboy so I'm pretty stoked about this. Also the new Wilco album comes out soon. You can stream it here. I've listened to the first half two times. It's good stuff. Nels Cline continues to inspire. He's made me consider putting a bigsby on my telecaster.

Or Should I Go?

I go. I arrive. No one is there. I is angry. Please don't waste two weeks talking to someone, then schedule an audition, then fall off the planet the week of.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

In my search to play music I have been talking to these people in Norfolk for the last two weeks. Ideally I would like to be playing in a regularly gigging praise band and in another band that's stylistically my taste. These Norfolk-ians (husband and wife) play for a praise band, and I had been in regular contact with them and scheduled an audition tonight at 8:45. Well on Monday I emailed and received no response. On Tuesday the same thing. On Wednesday I called...and...both of their phones are no longer accepting incoming calls?!?! So I go back and look at the emails and realize that all the emails came from Blackberry's. So it's possible that maybe they canceled their service or they both got stolen or something like that. But the question is...do I go to the scheduled audition? Or do I not? What do you think?

Best Veggie Sandwich Yet

I'm about to leave to go to my last study session of the semester. After 9pm tonight no longer will I be in Calc 2. Tomorrow I find out if it gets to stay that way. Anyways, on to the food. I got home from the gym and wanted lunch. I started thinking about grilled cheese. Then I thought that tomato on grilled cheese is better. Then I thought that I sure would love some mushrooms on that. I grabbed a skillet, put some olive oil in, some minced garlic, then added mushrooms, onion, green peppers, and jalapeños. I then sautéed with some Texas Pete. After I was done sautéeing I put it on top of sourdough bread with fresh tomato slices finishing it off with some cheddar on top. I then cooked the whole thing like you would a regular grilled cheese. It was wonderful. The sourdough cooked up so well. I highly recommend it.

Shake It Off

Here are two awesome Wilco videos that I wanted to share. The guy playing the solo during "Impossible Germany" is Nels Cline (the guitar player all the way to the left). Possibly one of the most inspiring guitar players I've come across. Check out his website here.

Am I Becoming A Hippie? Pt.2

I'm tired of having a buzzed head. I'm think I'm going to let it grow. Now I said this same thing about 3 months ago and we see how well it turned out. But I'm going to try it again. When I see pics of me I feel like I'm looking at some old man. It depresses me. Also, in High School I had long hair past my shoulders. Not that I think its going to get that long again. But hey, while I'm changing lets do some changing. Right?