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Bay Area Tour Leg

So my whirlwind world-tour continues with efforts for the next few months to be focused in the Bay Area. At least until the spring time...

Played three times in San Francisco last week:

The RipTide near Ocean Beach;

Irelands 32nd on Geary;

 

(ugly shirt, usually I try to dress more professionally...) 

And The Hotel Utah south of Market Street.

Opening Act

Got a gig to play an hour of music as an opening act for a couple bands at the Astoria Bar in Eugene on Saturday Dec 6 starts around 9pm. There might be a small cover charge. 

Drums

Everything's eventual

Haven't posted a vid in while. Got really sick for a few weeks and couldn't do much of anything. My live performance schedule has involved at least making an effort to play out some place once a week. 

Drafting a demo

Spent some of last weekend working on figuring out how to go about doing multi track recording with my laptop. I had hoped to avoid multitracking since it so tedious but to get the kind of fullness of sound there may be no way around it. Other thing is that I am debating whether or not to use some kind of drums and bass on the multitracked songs.

Riff rough

The other day I was playing in down town Eugene and made a brief recording of what I was doing with my digital camera's microphone. Just an improvised riff. 
 
It turned out to have kind of a cool sound in that it picked up a nice snare effect with me slapping on the guitar, the little amp I was using was breaking up with a natural distortion, and the whole thing got severely compressed probably due to the cameras auto gain control. The feel of the groove was just real good and tight.

Portland Tour

For most of September I was in Portland playing the open mic circuit in that area.

Some screen caps of the various locations I performed:

 

 

 

 

July & Aug 2008 Clips

Finally got around to processing some video

Rare clip where I play with another musician:

More Human than Human at Mulligans with Larry on the African drum on July 2.

You Wreck Me at the Axe and Fiddle where there was no sound from my guitar on July 22.

My set at a place that I had not played before, World Flavors, on July 29;

July 2008 Dues

Still at it, playing about once a week now. 89 performances since Aug '07. Really glad I started this blog to document that as much as possible.

July 08 was pretty much a wash

Clip update

Posted a clip from the June 10 2008 Habitat for Humanity benefit performance at the Axe and Fiddle in Cottage Gove, Oregon. It was a pretty quiet night there and I didn't get on until relatively late but it was still good experience and its a nice venue to play.

I played:

Fortunate Son

Blackbird (end in clip)

Angel from Montgomery

Satuday Night

Little Prelude Bach

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