I played Viento y Agua’s open mic last night in advance of my show there tomorrow. It wasn’t as packed and crazy as the last time I played there but it was a strong crowd and the performers were eclectic again. It’s a great space and has a great welcoming vibe. I played “Frankly.” It went well, I thought.
Title: Open Mic at the Fretted Frog, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
Location: 1200 N Alvarado, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Link out: Click here
Description: I’m playing the Fretted Frog’s new open mic between 7pm and 8pm on Saturday night.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-08-28
Title: Open Mic at Viento y Agua
Location: Long Beach, CA
Link out: Click here
Description: I’m playing the Viento y Agua Coffee House’s Open Mic tonight. Assuming I get there on time.
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2010-08-24
I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World over the weekend. It was awesome and I loved every second of it. Ignore the press. Go see it.
You get to see George Michael punch out Anne. And he also fights that wang from Fall Out Boy.
It was a tad too long. When you go over 90 minutes, Mr Director, consider trimming. It’s like a pop song with too many choruses. If people want to sing-along again, they’ll just replay it.
I bought a baby Taylor a few weeks ago. I found it used at Guitar Center which was odd enough. It was in good shape but it needed some adjustment. Hoping for a quick fix, I gave it to the tech at Guitar Center. He didn’t have the right tool to adjust the neck so he wasn’t able to do much. So I took it to the Guitar Doctor.
Doc played it, looked it over, told me exactly what was wrong. I decided it was worth the cost of a full setup. It was ready a day later and it played like a new guitar. He’d fixed the neck and the frets and just improved the overall play and sound of the instrument immensely. I can’t stop playing that guitar now.
I’ve been going to Doc for all my guitar setups and adjustments. He put the electronics in my main guitar. I love the vibe of his shop. He’s a guy that you can immediately tell knows what he’s talking about. And I trust him with my instruments because of it. Nothing against the guy at Guitar Center who is probably a fine technician but he didn’t diagnose the problems like Doc did. And he wasn’t going to give me the advice that Doc does. Doc is worth every penny and more.
So now that this post on my new awesome baby Taylor guitar has turned into a big, wet one for Doc, I guess I should punch out. Go see Doc.
I was talking to my friend Josh today about songwriting. He played me a demo he’d done in GarageBand which sounded almost like a final production. He was telling me that he’d just learned about a looping feature in GarageBand and it was a cool technique for him songwriting-wise. He could record the guitar part [...]
