Sorry it’s been so long! I uploaded the demo that I recorded for my friend Mike’s band. We recorded them in the Spring. They turned out pretty nice.

We recorded the drums in a studio and then recorded the rest at Mike’s house. Lots of pretty guitar riffs and the music is quite relaxing! I hope you enjoy!

This summer has been going really well. School hasn’t been too bad, and I’m getting way ahead for this fall. My plans are getting really exciting. As of this fall, I will be about a year ahead as far as physics goes. I’m going to be in some fun math classes, as well, and I have been talking to a professor in the physics department about research.

I’m still waiting/hoping to hear back about the Dean of Science scholarship. It’s $2500 a year, so that’d be really nice! That would be $2000 a semester in scholarships I have so far which is a little over half of my tuition. Keep your fingers crossed!

Other exciting news… I’ll have been with Olivia for a year and a half on Saturday! Yay!

I hope everyone is having a great summer.

Sorry, it has been so long since I last posted! Things have been going very well.

A couple days ago, I recorded my own version of the song Little Wing, by Jimi Hendrix. I learned how to play it about four years ago, and it’s a song that’s always kind of stuck in my mind. The cool thing about it is Jimi Hendrix used to improvise his guitar riffs off of a simple chord progression. For that reason, it’s nearly impossible to duplicate what he recorded on his original version. So, everyone’s version of it is unique. You can also find a version by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I was able to record the guitar with two mics recording my amp, and it turned out great! A couple of weeks ago I put some really thick strings on my guitar, so it’s in a much lower tuning than the original, but that gave it a heavy, almost SRV-like, bluesy tone. The drums are fake and the bass was recorded kind of sloppily just to give it some umph, but the guitar solo turned out really great! This was the first time I’ve recorded distorted guitar with mics in a long time for my own music, and it turned out really nice!

I hope you enjoy!

Mike and I have been recording since my computer is back up and runnin’. It’s sooo much easier on this computer. It has been so much less frustrating than it used to be. Actually, we stopped recording before my computer shut down last time, and it was because I got so frustrated recording with him. But my second monitor makes it nice. While he’s laying down a track, I can surf the web or chat on AIM or play freecell, which allows us to be a lot more productive.

One of the new songs up on here is called “Go ahead, make my day.” The name was inspired by Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry. The other is called “everysundayilistentorockmusic.” The first was record a long time ago, but I’ve made changes to it and it’s finally ready to be on here, and it was the first song I’ve recorded with real drums in it. That was really fun. The second was the one we just recorded the other night. It’s got a really different feel to it. It’s only two guitars, one really clangy one, and the other really bassy, and both of them over electronic hip-hop beats. So, it’s kind of fun.

I hope you enjoy them!