Musician, Writer, and Photographer
It was when I was drenched in rain water, holding wet boxes of shot glasses, and reaching my arm through a chain-link fence to grab hold of a passing plastic bag in the breeze that I realized I might have made a bad decision in life. No, I wasn’t living out of my car at …
Ego: most people have a negative view of the word. They think that “ego” is a synonym for arrogance or they think it means that someone with a big ego has an extreme sense of being in love with themselves. Listen, “ego” simply means “I” and there is a difference between having a healthy ego …
I live in Louisiana and if I have a gig coming up I’m not going to call my New York friends and be like, “Hey guys, I have a gig next week in New Orleans! Wanna come?” You know why I wouldn’t do that? Cause they would stare at the phone and wonder why I’m …
Recently I made a post about some things you can do to prepare your house and personal property before you go out on tour. One of the things I said I did was change my vehicle insurance so that I’m not paying out the ass for a car that’s just going to be sitting at …
Today I found out that one of my biggest influences on the bass has passed away: Randy Coven. His music played a major role in my development as a bass player and he helped shape my approach to the role of bass in a band setting.
Over the years I’ve run into several types of musicians. Basically, you can lump them into two categories: musicians I’d work with again and musicians I hope get hit by a car. Here are some of the real musicians I’ve encountered in my life and what makes them intolerable to be around.
I got into instructional videos much later on into my musical training. I’m talking about twenty years into it. See, the way I started out was taking private lessons; I then supplemented these private lessons by going through all the lessons in magazines like “Guitar For the Practicing Musician” and “Bass Player.” I had a …
Ahhhhh, the joy of using in-ear monitors. How I have grown to truly love life with my set. I honestly can’t imagine a life now without them. Once you start using in-ear monitors, and get over that initial hump of getting used to them, there’s simply no going back. The advantages they bring can dramatically …
now that you’ve got the audition, here’s how you screw it all up… Well, I got my official Cirque Du Soleil invitation and now all I have to do is schedule the appointment time. I figured I’d better schedule a late audition because I have trouble sleeping. I knew that I would have trouble sleeping …
I don’t know what it takes for an acrobat to get an invitation for a Cirque Du Soleil audition, but for me, a musician, it was quite a process. I’m sometimes asked about exactly what I did to get an invite, how I prepared myself, and how the audition actually went. Well, let me take …
