Music hits me

This week the telecaster is out to play. Something about this that I like

The sketchpad is where I put down ideas. So this is the new music sketchpad, a way to try out new music. Maybe they become songs maybe not. Feel good enough to record the ideas.
And it is my first acoustic effort here. The guitar is my Martin D-15. Check it out.

Yes, I’m working with my tele today. First idea uses the bridge pickup, a Dimarzio. The second part starts with a riff using the neck pickup a Bill Lawrence single coil. Bouncy. Singing mostly for the rhythm of it. Bzzz is using some electronic pads just for the ease of it. Not to mention the [...]

Hey how’s everyone today?

So this girl broke up with me, probably deserved it. But I get to write about it in a song.
This is the result. And it made me want to get out of Dodge so much that I moved to New York for a couple of years.
Until another girl broke up with me. [...]

John Grey explorer is the guitar. Love this guitar, love the feel of the neck. It has a Gibson Les Paul thickness with an ebony fretboard. Just feels great. Big piece of mahogany with lots of sustain.

Ahh back to the black Les Paul. Sweet stock humbucker in front with cover removed, Dimarzio in back.
You’re in the big time too.

Here is a new idea I’m working on. It’s what I do and what I’m working on. So let’s all tune it down to sexy and let’s play all day. A new original song. Cha.

Yes, I’m an American. That was once a good thing. We used to be the good guys. Our standing in the world has fallen. I believe we can recapture our glory. But we can’t do it with apathy, greed, self-indulgence on a personal level. We can’t do it with those things and torture and war [...]

This is an original song about a subject dear to a man’s heart. The guitar is an Explorer copy I had made by John Gray long ago. Bill Lawrence double coil pickups and ebony fretboard. Gibson style neck, has a great feel. Don’t tell the Tele, this is my fav guitar to play. It’s got [...]

First verse and chorus for “I’ve Got Wood”. I’m playing the Telecaster from 1971 and Bzzz is on the SPD 20. No stripped down kit, just the SPD. We most often use a hi hat and snare with the SPD for rehearsal. I am playing through a Marshall tube amp with a straight front 4×12 [...]