So in the midst of my online Christ­mas shop­ping orgy, I some­how hap­pened onto John Mayer’s web­site. I’m not a big fan or any­thing, and I don’t have any of his CD’s, but I’ve heard some stuff, and he’s a seri­ously good player in the SRV mode, when he’s not doing his “Your body is […]

This is some­thing else I found from Ana­log man’s seri­ously cool web­site. I’ve actu­ally seen this before, as it’s been kick­ing around for a while, but I thought I’d drop it in here just for fun. The one thing I’ll was George Carlin’s line: “White peo­ple ought to under­stand … their job is to give […]

Mon­day morn­ing, 5:30. My alarm goes off, and I stag­ger out of bed, curs­ing the cold and the dark­ness. What kind of dire emer­gency could get a pro­fes­sional musi­cian like myself up at such a hor­ri­ble hour? Live TV, baby! That’s right. Alli­son was booked on Fox 7 for their morn­ing news show. We’ve done it twice […]

Check out this cool arti­cle from NPR. It’s about a guy named Tommy John­son, who was the lead­ing ses­sion Tuba player in LA. His Wikipedia bio is here. The short ver­sion is that he just passed away, and 99 Tuba play­ers gath­ered at a memo­r­ial to all play together. There’s a clip on NPR that […]