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Medicine Hat is reconvening for practices and an EP, and we're in songwriting mode for the first time in 30 years. I put this together yesterday. A random guy burst into our practice space one night in 1991, like a seal through the surface of the water, and shouted "Bates I knew I'd find you!" at our singer Sean (Bates). These things stick in your head and you refer to th...

2021.03.26.Slidey Idea mix. This study focuses on a thing we spent a lot of time on in rehearsal, the problem of finding the pocket in these tight interlocking things. If you listen to each part, you'll hear rhythmically precise slides and mutes. 2 notes, but 5 actions: mute string, pick, slide, mute string, change position. Getting these parts right in isolation is one problem, the next is to...

"2022.03.21.Metric Mods" A raft of ideas from the notebooks, strung together for a sextet of guitars. Maybe the GC? Or maybe just added successively as layers in a looper. Here's the notation of the section that starts around the :50 mark. Link to the post.

The first little Low Clouds Blooming idea, all via loop pedal. Link to the post.

One of many Guitar Cult demos I lost track of once we started our move to Olalla. At the beginning of the pandemic I took my typical run from 61st + 8th in Ballard to the ridge above Golden Gardens, where the panorama of dramatic weather from the west is always crazy to see. So fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. On this particular day, I sat for 5 min and watched as storm clouds seems to...

Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording. I found a raft of great rehearsals for a Chapel show from 2023. We'll be picking this thread back up as a duo, Neil and I–here are some spots that work. Link to the post.

Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording. I found a raft of great rehearsals for a Chapel show from 2023. We'll be picking this thread back up as a duo, Neil and I–here are some spots that work. Link to the post.

Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording. I found a raft of great rehearsals for a Chapel show from 2023. We'll be picking this thread back up as a duo, Neil and I–here are some spots that work. Pic: I'm so psyched to be running again. A new person where a husk once was. Link to the post.

Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording. I found a raft of great rehearsals for a Chapel show from 2023. We'll be picking this thread back up as a duo, Neil and I–here are some spots that work. Link to the post.

Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording. I found a raft of great rehearsals for a Chapel show from 2023. We'll be picking this thread back up as a duo, Neil and I–here are some spots that work. The guitars finally on the wall, the snow outside. Link to the post.

Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording. I found a raft of great rehearsals for a Chapel show from 2023. We'll be picking this thread back up as a duo, Neil and I–here are some spots that work. Pictured: farewell OP-1 - you were a fun little synthesizer. Link to the post.

Getting ready for more duo rehearsals with the drummer Neil Wilson and reconvening with Guitar Cult for recording. I found a raft of great rehearsals for a Chapel show from 2023. We'll be picking this thread back up as a duo, Neil and I–here are some spots that work. Link to the post.

Already on the way home. Too short! I'm a day off - this was taken yesterday from the air. Link to the post.

At the Jonquil roadside motel in Bisbee we found a poetry installation. The spoken word is from "The Ballad of the Jonquil Motel' by Elizabeth Hellstern. More here. Link to the post.

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Biosphere 2, day 2 - we came back for a second look after being overrun by visiting school groups on day 1. Link to the post.

Biosphere 2 is incredible. Our guide Claudio straightened us out on the bias we've heard in documentaries and media coverage at the time of the first mission. Link to the post.

An amazing velvet cat painting at Connie and Mick's private gallery. Link to the post.

In the air to AZ. Out for a long weekend to see Connie and Mickey, check out the desert north and south of Tucson. Link to the post.

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Newly in love with Chega de Saudade and many other Jobim tunes. I'm having a good time channeling Ribot and sticking to bass and melody. Link to the post.

Snow again! Link to the post.

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Snow started today - a totally different weather pattern than Seattle. Link to the post.

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