— Daily Journal Entry 024 — To be perfectly honest (not that I would normally be dis-honest, on purpose), I have complete faith in my ability to occasionally come up with a pretty good musical idea, whether on guitar, or piddling around on the keys; however, I still worry about the audio quality of any…
— Daily Journal Entry 023 — I’m talking about the old TDK, Memorex and BSAF cassette tapes that I used to use for 4-track cassette tape recording on my Tascam Porta 05 multitrack recorder. I mean, just taking off the outer plastic cover of one of these blank cassette tapes excited me and made me…
— Daily Journal Entry 022 — I wish I would have the same level energy in my would-be home studio as I used to have at creating potential “album art” back in the day. I mean, I had no problem spending time on the things that really just didn’t matter thinking the whole while that…
— Daily Journal Entry 021 — First, let me say that I have never attempted sync licensing, or writing music that could eventaully be heard in a movie, or television commercial. I do like the idea and would like to muster up the courage to submit something in the future, but for now, I’ll stick…
You know, just because a guitar was purchased at a pawn shop, Goodwill Center, or in this case, the Salvation Army, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not capable of producing halfway decent music. Especially, once you give it a little bit of love in the form of giving it a good cleaning, polishing, providing it with a…
— Daily Journal Entry 020 — Ok, so you’re sitting down, playing the guitar and gold strikes. You have a new idea that you really love and so you ensure that you capture it in voice memos (if you’re using an iPhone), or wherever… That’s fine and dandy, but if you never get to turning…
— Daily Journal Entry 019 — I should make a better effort to get back into programming my drum tracks as a more intentional endeavor. Of course, playing an actual set would be the most ideal thing to do, but that’s just not on my realistic radar at the moment. I’m jealous of a few…
— Daily Journal Entry 018 — The Sigma is another one of my past guitars that I cannot believe I let go. It originally cost me about $250 (I think) over 35 years ago, and I only got, maybe $100 for it on eBay. This was back during a time when I thought I was…
— Daily Journal Entry 017 — First let me say, that I’m not a “real” drummer. i.e., I can play the drums to some degree. I can keep a simple beat and maybe even throw a few clever fills on occasion. To top it off, if you needed an extreme emergency fill-in, on-the-spot drummer, I…
Bottom line… Of course not!… The first guitar I ever really learned to play on was a Fender Squire, made in Japan. I loved it, but for some incredibly “less-than-intelligent” reason, I got rid of it. I used it, and another guitar as a trade-in for (what I thought) was a better guitar. Photo Caption:…