Saturday
Feb042012
into West Africa
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 12:20PM I'm heading into a journey of a lifetime next week. I'm going to Mali, in West Africa.
The big picture:
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 12:20PM Monday
Nov072011
Invisible Rays (of Antarctica)
Monday, November 7, 2011 at 10:47AM The latest disc is now out. Invisible Rays with guitarist Henry Kaiser and drummer Morgan Ågren.
In addition to his guitar wang-fanglings, Henry is also a research diver in Antarctica. He took some of his incredible diving footage and merged it with one of our tracks:
Thursday
Nov032011
IB Expo 2011 - Halmstad, Sweden
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 1:03AM 
October 30, 2011 -- Iceland
I was just in Sweden for a week with the IB Expo 2011. IB stands for Isidur’s Bane, the name of a music group based in Halmstad, Sweden. (Not International Bride, as some youtube clips would lure you into believing.) The IB Expo’s have been going for several years and I am now a complete convert. The basic idea is that IB brings in a group of very different musicians to work with them, and each other, for a full week of intensive rehearsing/arranging/writing followed by a concert on the Saturday night. My buddies Pat Mastelotto, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, Markus Reuter and Marco Minnemann have all participated in the past. So, now I am in the club.
tagged improvisation, sweden
improvisation, sweden Sunday
Aug072011
Mastery and Innocence (SF Aikido Project)
Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 1:33PM 
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
- - Franz Kafka
I am coming to this entry much later than I thought. However, Life has pulled me forward more diligently than my typing fingers could keep up. So I am now taking this moment to return to June 27th, when my son and I left San Francisco after spending several days at the San Francisco Aikido Project.
Friday
May062011
Texas with TU & Chrysta
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 11:13AM ;)
April 25-30, 2011 Texas
Another wonderful trip with family, guns and music. What could be better?
First out to West-ish Texas to blow cans, buckets and pumpkins to smithereens with large amount of firepower. Yes, it is possible to vote progressive AND shoot things. Just as it is possible to vote conservative and support Planned Parenthood. Both of these happen more often than you would suspect, even here in the Wild West of the Tejas Territories.
Artistes with Guns (myself and Phillip Schalekamp)
tagged TU, chrysta bell, pat mastelotto
TU, chrysta bell, pat mastelotto Thursday
May052011
The Gap of Frustration
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 11:25PM 
I don't usually share insights from particular meetings with my coaching clients but, following on from the Ira Glass quote above, I did see something the other day worth sharing.
Sunday
Mar202011
Sweden: Coaching and Performance
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 11:59PM 
I am just on my way home from ten days in Sweden. I was invited over by Thomas Olsson as part of the music education IB Expo. Also along for the journey were guitarist Henry Kaiser, drummer Morgan Ågren and the Swedish group Midaircondo.
We basically set up camp in Varberg in this fantastic hotel and traveled out to different cities each day. The hotel was probably the nicest place I have ever stayed. Not because it was a fancy place – it wasn’t. But it was just right. Small nice rooms, open buffet for breakfast 6-10am and for dinner 6-10pm. It had a wonderful open dining area around the entire main floor. There was a whiskey bar and smoking room. And the ‘special sauce’ on the place was a bathhouse on the first floor that was a remake of Lenin’s favorites bathhouse in St. Petersburg. More than a wee bit strange to have busts and photos of Lenin all over the place, but it was very, very nice being down there. See the photos:
tagged coaching, henry kaiser, midaircondo, morgan agren
coaching, henry kaiser, midaircondo, morgan agren Tuesday
Nov302010
Travels in Russia with TU & KTU
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 9:07PM Pat and I went completely around the planet on this tour. I don't think I have ever traveled so far and so fast. We were in Russia for 16 days and having been home for over a week now, my body's clock is still completely miswired. Fun, fun, fun!
Our first gig was in Vladivostok, which is basically right next to Japan and practically touching North Korea. Seven (that's right, SEVEN) time zones east of Moscow. So, being right next to Japan you would think I could just fly straight there from Seattle. But, no Mr. Wizard. Nyet, nyet. I left Seattle on Monday morning and flew overnight to Amsterdam. Then to Moscow, arriving on Tuesday. After about five hours in Moscow with my pal Pat, and our promoters <the Two Dmitry's>, we got on another plane and flew overnight to Validovostok. Arriving on Wednesday afternoon.
VLADIVOSTOK