New SPOON album coming!!!

They want my soul..... Spoon already has mine!!!!

My new wheels

The cart is just as important as the keyboards....

A Musician or an Artist?

Some people tasted that food and said "I need this recipe, I want to make this" so they did. Some of them made a career of it, they're called cooks. But what makes someone a "chef", is when they make their own creation. There are many examples of this same principle. For me, I heard great music and said "I must learn how to play this song". So I did for many years. It occurred to me I am only a musician and not an artist until I create my own music. It wasn't until I started writing or creating my own music that I found I appreciated those songs I love even more. To be a musician is easy, but to be a good musician takes alot of practice. To be an artist is also easy, but to be a good artist takes something very special that simply not everyone can do.

My new baby!

My review coming soon!

my beat laboratory

my beat laboratory
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What is the point of critics... really?

I cant imagine someone would ever base their own opinion based on a critics review. So whats their purpose? Why are they paid? Whats their value? Critics are just shitting all over the new Daft Punk album, fuck those guys! Daft are light years ahead of any listener. I guess that's what happens to artists ahead of their time. Random access memories is the new one from them, yeah its a departure for them, but I "get it". For once I get it... These guys are my age, maybe that's a part of it.

I get their whole gig..... I dig it

 

The day the music died...

Ray Manzarek "organist" of 'The Doors' died this week at the age of 74 due to cancer. For me and I'm sure for many keyboardists this is very sad news. I know for me, he was a huge part of my life, sounds weird to say about someone I've never met, buts its true. Every time I sit at the piano and play certain riffs, I think of him, because he taught me most of them. Its almost a curse for me, because I spent so much learning all his music as a young keyboard player that it permanently embedded playing habits that I cant break free from. He was a great musician and a great story teller. I think I have seen every interview and dvd he has been in to hear his stories of the Doors days. I was lucky enough to see him in 2004 with Robby Krieger playing the hits.

Now Ray can join Jim up in the ether somewhere and make music again...