Tonight is a special show. My first conducted composition for large ensemble. It’s big. It’s beautiful. Piece to Celebrate the Proximity of Pearl Harbor Day and the Death of John Lennon on the only date it can happen – Mon Dec 7 @ The Makeout Room in San Francisco. Rehearsal last night was very productive, [...]
I’ve been crazy busy with music goings on… Just finished a great tracking session with The Bodice Rippers at New Improved Recording in Oakland with the wonderful Eli Crews at the board, and I am doing some more tracking for my next instrumentals release with Wil Hendricks and Pat Spurgeon in a few hours…aaaah!
However, the [...]
My friend Moe! Staiano did a duo set with another junkyard percussion legend, Z’ev. It was wonderful to see the mayhem unleashed upon the Boise unsuspecting.
My favorite moment occurred when after a deceptively mellow first 15 minutes, Moe! up-ended a box of torn up cymbals and started throwing them around. The crowd, which had crept [...]
