A lot seems to be happening quickly up here. I'm very intrigued by the little bit of Portland that I have come to know in these past months. Musically First Name Michael has been going strong. As March is nearly over, we played 5 shows this month!! Here 21 days have passed and I have come from a stage nervous newbie to fairly confident guitar player of a band that really has some good things going for it. We all play well together, and have a great time. I seem to be noticing that people who have no expectations for us are generally impressed or at least we out do their expectations. Maybe we are just un-assuming or a strange group of dudes but bottom line is when it's go time, we get after it. Check out some of these events if you are interested in seeing some local talent.
15th Street Pub, Vancouver Washing - Great bar w/good stage set up.
Open Mic Night - Hawthorne Balcony (bar attached to the hawthorne theater)
Ash Street Saloon - Downtown bar just south Burnside and 3rd
For now we have a few weeks off then we'll be hitting the stages around the area pretty hard for a few months. Hopefully we'll have the album actually recorded and available for purchase by our next gig. We are getting there! Ryan does a great job keeping up the myspace page. If you want to try to catch a show the calander there has all the information you could need.
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I have come up with an idea for this blog. It's going to take a while to get going, but if you keep an eye on this blog it could be an interesting tool. I'm planning on doing a weekly, bi-weekly, monthly jam. Mostly what I plan to do is at the end of every week or whatever I'll record a riff I've been hanging on, or a new song I'm working on writing. As this blog develops it could prove to be an interesting tool to track the way I develop a song. Maybe it will help take a critcial look at the songs developments later and have some magnificent revelation... or it'll be crap and this blog will have been expired due to the internet turning against people and for once.. making people work for the internet.
Have a nice weekend
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Documenting my adventures in creativity, music and art in Portland Oregon.
Blatherings
I can't stop the ramblings inside my skull, I get along with most of the people in there anyway. I wear a lot of hats. I love God, my Wife, Dog, Construction, Guitars, Snow, Paint, Music and general noise. I think people are fascinating, enraging, complex and generally interesting to study.
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