“The graze” was the name of my solo music/recording project until I renamed it “Sun Tunnels.”
The graze was mentioned in the Seattle Times on the 4th, which is really neat. You can read it here.
I should point out that I’m no longer averse to spandex and makeup, so if any of you want to see some of that in the live set, you just, you know, just let me know.
Hiya. There are some new tour dates added to the tour page, which is good. Chicago and Baltimore, ‘sup? The Baltimore gig is interesting, because it means I have to drive 10 hours to Charleston the next day, then 10 hours back to Arlington the day after that. All those years in the Kiss Army have made me equal to this task.
In other news, I played with Rosyvelt (my other wife) and a band called Mouseheart Factor on Friday in Anacortes. It went really well, and if you get a chance to see Mouseheart Factor, you definitely should. They were essentially prog rock, if they’ll forgive me for calling it that.. kinda Muse, kinda Radiohead, kinda Yes. The band employs two keyboardists and some very sophisticated (proggy) songwriting, but they’re also seriously emotive and melodic.
Speaking of cool bands, I saw wesafari at a house party. They were yet another ridiculously talented local band that I’ve never heard of, that ought to be widely listened to and admired. Among the more instantly notable aspects of this band is that their drummer plays what sound like Bjork techno beats — which he does continuously — and the singer plays a Rhodes electric piano through an array of effects pedals. Lots of Line 6 delay modelers all around, and they know how to use them.
I played on Seattle’s KEXP 90.3 FM last Saturday (the 19th). You can check it out for up to two weeks after the fact here — the date to select is 6/19/04, and the hour was 8:00pm.
Thank you to everyone who came to the show last night at Chop Suey. By all measures, it was a complete and fantastic success, and probably the most fun show I ever played. Even with the heckler, which turned out to be one of the guys from Dorkweed (I’m looking at you, Forrest).
Yesterday was the first the graze practice featuring other members. That’s right! We’re like a band now, on occasion. Joining me are the (other) members of Rosyvelt — Jeffrey and Sam on bass and drums, respectively, as well as Julian from Pelusa on guitar. It was funner than heck, and next Tuesday we should be playing four or five songs together at the Chop Suey gig.