I've been playing with a Saxaphone player, (Matt) whose style is a perfect fit. It is nice to finally be playing with someone else who can add so much depth to these songs. We are going to start playing live as soon as I have all of the copyrights in place. It is more work than I ever imagined it would be, but should be completed in about a week.

In other musical news, I will be heading into the studio May 6th to add some guitar work to the recordings of a singer/song-writer that I have been playing with lately. She is recording about 5 songs and is going to post them on her myspace when they're finished, so of course I will put a link on this page.

Also, my friend Mike, who built a studio into his house, is doing some really cool ambient soundscape recordings that are so abstract and out of the ordinary, yet sound so cool. So I will be adding some guitar work to that also.


-John

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I just finished playing with a Saxaphone player, and it went really well. The songs sounded tight, and the sax fit perfectly. The horn Filled the empty spaces in the music like a missing puzzle piece.....that jazzy, smooth, stream of melody is music to my ears.


GO HANG A SALAMI - I'M A LASAGNA HOG

Wonder

I wonder if she’ll love me, or ever grasp my hand.

And when next time her tears fall, on whose shoulder will they land?

Will she ever say goodbye to me, or slowly walk away?

Will she call for no real reason, on a darkened rainy day?

Will she tell her friends about me, the way that I’ve told mine?

Has she ever been truly hurt, but when asked replied, “I’m fine”.

Her hopes, her dreams, her biggest fears, what she hates most about herself.

I wonder if she wonders these same things for someone else.

-JB

Running had always been an escape, and after hearing the news, I gave it all I had, maybe a little more.

Stopping after the pain became unbearable, I shuffled into the house like an aging prize-fighter, limping and beaten.

It was then that I realized, my true injuries lay in a deeper, more hurtful place.

My heart, once capable of inspiring others so completely, could no longer inspire so much as itself.

It beat now only out of habit.

It beat now only because it could.

Me---Wonder Boys

The Elephant Man

I am amazed at the life of Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man), and I have begun writing a song about how closely his thoughts, dreams, fears, aspirations and worries mirror my own feelings toward life and love.

He was an amazing poet and songwriter, and I feel honored to be inspired by him.

"Tis true my form is something odd,

But blaming me is blaming God.

Could I create myself anew, I would not fail in pleasing you.

If I could reach from pole to pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span,

I would be measured by the Soul,

The mind's the standard of the Man."

-Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man)

No Longer King

I officially lost my title as "King of the Diamond Lane" yesterday at around 4:30 p.m. Pacific daylight time. I was issued a $101 dollar ticket for an H.O.V. violation (High Occupancy Vehicle), these lanes are reserved for cars carrying two or more persons.
So after one year of Royalty, I have to step down and join everyone else who waits in traffic.
Musically speaking, I am finishing and polishing these songs, and hope to start playing them out around december. I have decided that this new computer recording is a better fit for me right now rather than the studio, although the studio is more fun. I am compiling some 60 sec snips of songs and have named them the "Naked Sessions" mainly because there are no effects of any kind....me, my voice, and my guitar.

Studio

So I have 2 songs completed in a 3 song demo. The vocals are going good, and the atmosphere in the studio is really cool. I will post some pics of the studio soon. Unfortunately there are no other musicians on the demo yet. But the former drummer for the 90's band SVENGALI, is going to lay down some drums....and in the words of Chris Martin...."Wewl das cooo(without the british accent..."Well that's cool"