Musicians Nutrition
Having been in town and off the road a little bit in the past few weeks, I’ve been hanging with my good friend Thai Long Ly. Not only is Thai a great bass player, one of the major forces in music engineering in Los Angeles, …
Practice tracks and bass musician magazine cover story
It’s been a fun week and I’m really proud to not only have launched a new business – www.livepracticetracks.com, which I hope is going to help the way you practice, but also to be on the cover of Bass Musician Magazine this month. It was …
I dare you to be this original
and of course by daring you, I mean I’m absolutely daring myself right now! When I hear things like the video posted below it always gives me a pause for thought to ask if I can strip away more stuff from my music that I’ve …
How to stay positive in the blogging arena
As I get ready to launch my book in just over a month, I’ve spent more and more time doing last minute research to see where public opinion is on a number of topics I’ve written about. I’ve been checking out lots of blogs, and …
Is Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom going to be slaughtered by the FBI?
I don’t think he should be, and here’s a blog post on why I think piracy is an out of date topic, and why we should be directing our energy to growing our following by including our fans and not alienating them. I can’t believe …
What is melody? Lizzy Loeb knows!
It’s a question I ask myself a lot since working as an assistant on a radio show back in 2007 with my good friend Richard Niles that was simply called “what is melody?”. I was fortunate enough to sit down with Richard over the course …
Making mistakes could be the most important part of the creative process
And you don’t have to take my word for it that making mistakes could be the most important part of the creative process, I recently came across this outstanding lecture from 1991 by John Cleese that talks extensively on the subject, and thought I would …
The perfect band
I’m not sure the perfect band exists, because after all what is perfect? just my opinion or yours. But my perfect band was always been a trio with Levon Helm on drums and Pat Metheny on guitar. Playing songs with Levon singing. That will never …
It Only Happens Once Documentary Trailer
We’re hard at work on the documentary for It Only Happens once, and have a rough cut of the trailer up and running for you to check out. Take a look inside the studio at the inner workings of the recording process with video footage …
When is a record deal worth something these days?
So when is a record deal worth something these days? It’s a question I get asked a lot as people see me traveling around the world playing concerts, releasing my music without a record label, and at the same time not living in complete poverty. …
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