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Tour Diary, Feb 24, 2022

Driving up the 101 past the Summerland exit and memories of the first year we lived in California come back to me. That was when I was playing guitar in Sonny Mone’s band. Sonny was the singer in Crazy Horse…

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Tour Diary, February 18-21, 2022

Tracy and I leave a day early so we can mix a small bit of vacation with our shows. I booked a motel in Solvang that is about 300 feet from where I’ll be playing next week. It’s a nice…

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Spam Spam Spam Spam

Recently I got in the habit of checking my spam folder daily and was shocked that many non-spam emails were getting filtered there. I apologize if in the past you wrote me back and never heard from me. After today's…

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December 18, 2021 

Merry Merry and Happy Happy to you all. 

It’s been a while - this is a long one. 

I’ve been laying low the past few weeks prepping for 2022 and hoping to return to safe and healthy touring out there…

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December 10, 2021

I've been hibernating for a few weeks. It's a good and necessary thing. Re-charge the batteries and all. I had about 2 months were I was really kind of down and bleak. That shit comes and goes and finding ways…

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Off-Tour Tour Diary - November 1, 2021

The first time I went "on tour" was with my buds in The Gyspy Mechanics back in the late 90s. I say it was a "tour" but really we drove from Pepperell, MA to London, Ontario for one show in…

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2021

In the early 00s a friend was doing a recording up in Malibu and he asked me if I could come to the next days session because the guitar player on the session wasn't cutting it. We winded our way…

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Sept-October 2021 Tour Diary

Tour Diary Day 1 - September 10, 2021 

Woke up in Cape Cod ended up rocking in Lowell. The first club shows I ever played were in Lowell, MA. The Last Safe and Deposit was a former bank that had…

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on being an "Artist"

I have always felt slightly uneasy when someone referred to themselves as an "artist" unless they were some kind of painter, sculptor, Van Gogh or Michelangelo. I would see it while traveling and be staying at "the artist's flat" in…

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STORYTIME!

In the early 2000s I used to work in this rehearsal studio just south of Los Angeles. It was a mostly easy job where I would set up bands for their rehearsal and then hang out playing my guitar most…

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