…played a really great gig this past saturday night with Joe Rut’s Super Burrito – which adds the smokin’ fiddling of Jason Klineberg, the fat bass of Dave Jess, homemade trap drumming of Bernie Jungle and myself on electric guitar to Joe’s great songs, voice and guitar playing.
This is a group of people that [...]
…played the ‘Free Country Music Sundays’ at SF’s Thee Parkside with Val Esway & El Mirage this past, well Sunday. It was really nice. Afternoon gig, good crowd – laid back fun – it’s not always crazy improv noise around here!
Had one of the special $5 pulled pork sandwiches that Matt ‘there’s Budweiser [...]
Sat. Sept 13 9pm $$
Starry Plough – 3101 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA
It seems I will be onstage all night…At the top of the bill, I’ll be backing up Mr. Dylan Champagne for the CD release of his fantastic new CD, New Equation. Before that I’ll be playing with the fab Val Esway & el [...]
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 [...]
I’ve got some SF Bay area shows and a short West Coast tour with two extremely talented NYC based players, Rob Price and David Grollman. Every time we’ve performed our brand of NY improv/noise it has really clicked.
Do come to a show – there are none planned beyond this, although some will pop up, [...]
I have tinnitus – a common problem amongst musicians and people who work and/or live in noisy environments. Quite a few well-known music personalities do also and have spoken up about it (Pete Townshend, Roger Miller of Mission of Burma, etc), but for those who are unfamiliar with it, tinnitus is a general ringing in [...]
…off to play a few shows around the CA central valley with Val Esway and El Mirage. It’ll be a neat little trio with Val on bass, myself on guitar (with my new Gretsch 6120!) and Berge Thomasian on acoustic guitar. We’ll be doing shows with our LA friends, Nellie Bly. If you find yourself [...]
