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 [...]
After much free improvised work the past few years, I am careening back into the realm of more structured music. It is a necessary yin and yang balance, but pendulum always swings…and to that end, I am working several angles.
One is becoming a better musician and player – more practice, learning, listening, theory, etc. [...]
…played a cool gig last night at the Temescal Arts Center in Oakland. The trio of myself, Morgan Guberman and Pat Spurgeon (spawn of the Ivy Room Hootenany late night jam) have now officially played two gigs. For this second one we actually had a name, Impish Lizard – quickly pointed out as already taken [...]
I am presently enjoying a Young’s Double Chocolate Stout, recommended by my musical comrade, Rob Price. Rob is a wicked guitar player and beer aficionado, amongst other fine things in life. As to the Double Chocolate – it is hard to only sip. In fact, I admit to taking several large gulps.
But I digress. The [...]
Downtown Oakland went bat-shit last night. Everywhere, the sound of multiple cars horns ricocheted around tall buildings, people danced, high-five’d, hugged, kissed and blocked the streets (despite the OPD ten-car phalanx attempt to break it up), with black and white seeking each other out – beautiful stuff and alot of fun.
Earlier in the evening at [...]
Albany CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the [...]
Yesterday I was listening to Low‘s new cd Drums & Guns, trying to decide whether I liked it or not (the jury is still out), when I received a call from none other than my friend, former bandmate and stellar drummer Pat Spurgeon of Rogue Wave.
Pat was standing in front of the Acme Bar in [...]
Great news. My friend and excellent musician, Pat Spurgeon won the ‘organ lottery’ and received a kidney transplant a few nights ago. He has been trying to find a donor/match for a year and this gift came along suddenly and thankfully.
Heal well Phantom Drummer!!
Reverend Screaming Fingers (Lucio Menegon)
& Phantom Drummer (Pat Spurgeon)
Composed and improvised instrumental music to juxtaposed found slide images and 16mm film prepared by San Francisco filmmaker Thad Povey.
The music – based around the electric guitar and drums and incorporating keyboards, loops and other devices – consisted of composed and structured improvisational pieces cued by [...]
