Wednesday, January 6, 2010

New Year, new outlook, big plans!

Hey folks,
After the Dec 18th show I took two weeks off from work and all band business. Here are a few great reviews from the Rock Revival show.
Deniz Tek's review
Retro Kimmer's review
AnnArbor.com's review

Big thanks to Kim Maki for all her help making the show a huge success.

I survived another new years eve working at the Bang. The pics are over here. It was a good time but exhausting.

2010 is here and I've got big goals.
First off, my wife and I want to have a baby this year. We weren't so lucky with that in 2009, but if at first you don't succeed...

I would really like to get in shape this year and lose 20 pounds. It would be awesome to get on a healthy diet and start eating better healthier foods. In the spring Theresa and I want to get a garden started. You never know, it could happen.

As far as music goes, I want to record three albums this year.
Up first will be the IrRationals album with Scott Morgan. I'm really looking forward to this one. We'll be recording it at Jim Diamond's Ghetto Recorders at the end of Jan/early Feb. I love playing with those guys cause they are all such great musicians and the best part is we've got a label to put it out and we get paid to record it!
Shortly after that in the early spring I hope to get Mazinga into the studio over at Pete Bankert's place. We've been writing new material for a while now. Both Marc and Alex have contributed two really good songs. We're shooting for 12 songs. If everything works out we should have Deniz Tek appearing on a track or two as special guest guitar player.
Also coming down the pipe sometime this year is a debut recording from my newest group Blue Snaggletooth. the band's music sounds like Hawkwind mixed with a dash of early speed metal and 70's glam rock. I'm singing and playing guitar with that group. So far it's been a blast and the songs we've written are really fun to play. I enjoy writing songs about ancient epic barbarian battles, getting wasted, and my favorite board game Fireball Island.
Besides all the recording plans, I hope to see the three groups doing bigger better shows outside of the Ann Arbor area.

So there you go. That is just a taste of what 2010 has in store for me.
Hope you all have a great new year!