miscellaneous

We got the proofs back for the cover, insert, and tray card for the new BCM CD -- everything looks good and the cover looks AWESOME. We have GOT to make posters of this cover...

Played some oozey blues licks for another guy's game today...

Newman has joined the blog nation! Check out his notebook by clicking HERE

Speaking of blogs, I was reading Steve Vai's journal from a few years back, and was really knocked out by this one entrance he'd made. (a little background -- at the Chaos Theory performance in Duluth, there was a kid sitting close to the stage who was talking during the ENTIRE performance -- loud sections, soft sections, solos, whatever -- I could hear him rattling on, and unfortunately I allowed it to distract me from giving my best towards to the performance):

Date: September 23, 1986
Band: David Lee Roth
Where: Indianapolis, IN (Market Square Arena)

This guy in the front just kept yelling "you suck Vai", "you stink", "f*** you" etc. I just played the whole show to him with every bit of honestly I had. I forced every note from my heart into his and was playing great. At the end of the show, he gave me a thumbs up.

Ah, victory. I hate losing.

That, my friends, is very, very cool.