While we’re not 100% set up, we’re at least about 95% there in our new studio. Rich and Charlie really did an excellent job moving everything, painting and carpeting. It is an absolute pleasure to work in the new room. We realized after our first rehearsal that the old bluish-grey room actually inspired us to [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Chris
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We didn’t get a whole lot of playing music done on Friday, but that’s OK, because Rich and I helped Charlie get six different keyboards set up in the studio. Damn, that’s a lot of keyboards. Check out the whole Flickr set.
Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Chris
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Sunday night was great. It was our first opportunity to hear Rich play our stuff (after he’d been listening to it for almost a month), and he was just about spot on. The songs really seemed to take on a new life with him behind the kit. Charlie and I are even considering adding an [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2005 by Chris
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OK, there is no Thunder Rhodes. I must have had Bruce Springsteen on the brain when talking to Charlie. There was the Fender Rhodes; there is the Springsteen song Thunder Road, and of course there’s Cleveland Indians pitcher Arthur Rhodes. But none of those is what Charlie got. The Rhodes Piano, which used to be [...]
Posted on August 7th, 2005 by Chris
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You might ask what I’m doing awake at such an ungodly hour. But I made a great deal with a colleague; I’m proctoring one of his classes, and he’s going to do academic advisement for me later this month. I truly love my job, but it’s a job, and there are parts that flat out [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2005 by Chris
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A couple of years ago, I spent a few months changing my bass strings every couple of weeks, in order to find the perfect set for me. And I succeeded, falling in love with DR’s Hi-Beams, .45 to .125. So off I went to visit Charlie and Erik at their salt mine, and to buy [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2005 by Chris
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There are a lot of things to love about my day job. The impact I have on students’ lives and careers; the opportunity to become a better computer programmer. This week, though, I’m loving the time off. Now that all my Stick gear is in one neat little rack bag, it’s easy to quickly get [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2005 by Chris
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We’ve been working rather hard lately on finishing The Kansas Tune. There’s one more transition to write before we’re ready to play it the whole way through. And over the past three weeks or so, any time we haven’t spent on that song, we’ve spent playing through the older material — getting Erik up to [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2005 by Chris
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