I’ll be visiting Pittsburgh for Easter. I’m playing at the Double Wide in Southside on GOOD FRIDAY. Only 5 bucks to get in! It’s gonna be recorded and clips from that evening will be posted under the “Bootlegs” portion of this website which is coming soon. So, if you’re near Pittsburgh, PA for Easter, your invited to the show.
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A few weeks ago, I attended this great event “Rock My Soul” held at the Village Studios in Santa Monica, CA. It was put on by the Grammys to recognize today’s top engineers and producers. It’s a good time for them to actually hang out with each other and not have to think about mixing or mastering for a change. Several companies had their respective newest gear on display including Shure, Neve, and Fender. The Fender display, which was actually setup in Studio B where many many legends recorded, was where I tested out some new guitars, basses, and amps. The guys at Fender were really nice. They ended up giving me a beautiful book about the history of Fender Amps at the end of the night for demonstrating the new gear for the passersby. Here is a short news segment from CBS.com where I pop up in the middle very briefly playing a Fender Jaguar.
I went to the record store and came across a record with a little blue “Buddah” label in the corner. 
Thinking back to last week’s score I found on Buddah label, I figured I’d test this record out: There’s No Hole in My Sole by The Barry Goldberg Reunion. It sounded really bluesy mixed with 60′s organ, fuzzed guitars, tasteful blues harp (harmonica), and nice reverberated drum tones throughout. ‘Could be considered Bluesy Psychedelic. I looked up the year and found out it was released in 1968. And there’s a cool instrumental version of “Fool on the Hill” by The Beatles with organ taking most of the melody. I’m gonna say that the record is quite listenable from start to finish. Good job, Barry!!!
I’m going to be flying to Pittsburgh, PA for my birthday weekend. I’ll be playing at Harvey’s (1620 Pennsylvania Avenue West Mifflin, PA 15122— phone 412-466-1331) on Friday the 13th (the day after me and Honest Abe’s actual birthday)! If you are gonna be nearby, you’re invited to my show/birthday party! We start playing at 9:30PM. Hope to see “yinz” all out!
I was trying to see how fast I could spin in my office chair on the hardwood floors.
They already played the audio on the air in Pittsburgh on 102.5 WDVE! Now it’s time to check out the video I made for it out of photos pulled off the internet (I didn’t take these photos, just google searched them- gotta give credit where credits do- haha- Thanks Mr. Interenet and all the people whose pictures I borrowed for the better of the Steelers Nation)!
Super Bowl Commercial for Victory “DEAD BIRDS” Steelers Fight Song
Mean Mister Mustard is one of my bands, and we play around LA every week. In this 4 piece band Matt Einsten sings, Andy Alt plucks bass, Jon Wouters bangs the drummies, and “GUITAR ZACK” plays clavichord… sike… Guitar, of course! This band does half covers/half originals. It started out as all Beatles music (hence the name), but we expanded it to all late 60′s early 70′s music and some blues. Check us out on the Sunset Strip Feb 7th…
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I was invited to perform at this thing called the “Guitar Geek Festival” by its host Deke Dickerson a few months ago. Of course hearing the title alone peaked my interest, so I quickly agreed to play.
I must say this past Saturday was definitely one of the neatest festivals I’ve ever attended. And it was certainly an honor to be asked to perform as well. I would still have loved to be there even if I wasn’t on the bill. They set up a ton of rare, vintage museum-quality guitars and gear all along the walls of the Anaheim Plaza Hotel’s Ballroom walls. There were old Rickenbackers from the 1930′s, a slew of extremely rare amplifiers from Sho-buds to Standells to Magnatones, several Mosrite guitars (one of which even had the original shipping box), a heap of Ecco-phonic tape echo machines, awesome double-neck guitars with their respective artists holding the actual guitars pictured on album covers, and so much more. But one of my personal favorites was seeing what is believed to be the late great Link Wray’s actual Danelectro Longhorn guitar! It was so much to take in at once, so I came back to it after our set to really get a chance to read the placards and take a few pictures.
I brought my three-piece band out which ended up being Andy Alt on the bass and Jon Wouters on the drums. I had a great time playing for people who are all genuinely excited about guitars and guitar players! The overall vibe is more geared toward the vintage guitar sounds of the 1950′s instrumental country picking and 1960′s reverbed-out surf! So, our set was mostly instrumental originals with lots of reverb, and the two covers we did were “Red House” and “Caravan”. Some awesome performances throughout the day included Dave Wronski’s “Slacktone” band, the original Crickets who backed up Buddy Holly over 50 years ago, a guest appearance by Larry Collins (who played on the last double neck Mosrite that Mr. Mosrite ever built before he passed away), and the man of the hour and host of the event Deke Dickerson ripped it up throughout the day with several of the groups. Also, the guy who built the Batmobile and the Munster Coach was there, and they gave him a shout. I hope to play it next year, but even if I don’t, I’ll probably still go, cause it’s an awesome time!
I also got to meet John Bryant, son of the late Jimmy Bryant. He’s such a nice guy and is so interested to hear any stories about his dad. Here’s a link to the website where you can join a forum discussing Jimmy Bryant: Click Here.
And I wanna give a special thanks to Bruce Zinky for providing us with 2 hand-wired tubed Supro amps to add an extra sparkle of tone to the show! I played through my Fender “Bassman 50″ with its two 15inch cab along with the Supro 15inch combo amp! I was pushing 45 inches of air (but probably more if i did some math). Check out Supro Amps.
So if you enjoy old guitars, good old-fashioned live music, and reverb and tape-echos check out the 7th Annual “Guitar Geek Festival” next year! And here’s Deke Dickerson’s site to follow the man behind this event at Deke’s Site.
