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Today started as a lazy sunday, I popped on some music and continued lounging around the house. As I was listening to Wiretap Scars by Sparta, (it’s been a few years since I last gave it a listen) I remember really liking the production on it and the album as a whole. So I did a little wiki-searching for who produced/engineered it.. A man named Jerry Finn.

I had never heard his name before, but the list of albums he’s had his hands in blew me away. Records I grew up listening to. Here are a few:

Green Day
Dookie!
Insomniac

The Vandals
Hitler Bad, Vandals Good

Rancid
Life Won’t Wait
…And Out Come the Wolves

The Living End
The Living End

Blink 182
Enema of the State

Sparta
Wiretape Scars

Alkaline Trio
From here to Infirmary
Crimson

I continued reading on, and noticed that he had passed away a little less than a year ago in 2008. As unfortionate as that is, it’s quite possible that without this man doing his job, records that motivated me towards developing a taste in the music industry could possibly have never done so the same way. Or possibly never even created. I tip my hat to you Jerry Finn, thanks for doing what you did, and doing it well.

In the studio recently, other than Graham – the warehouse kitty, is Victor Villareal (cap n’ jaz, owls, ghosts n vodka). He’s had a slight break from music to fulfill other interests, and is now back in action and recording albums and playing out.

He’s been working on a solo album recently and plans to have it out within this month. The album features 3 songs recorded and mixed by me, here in Dekalb, and a handful of others completed in Chicago.

Light Pollution record: 75% done.

Gardens record: Coming along great (I’m getting ahead of myself when I say .05% complete.)

Dr. Manhattan record: Drums are finished, the rest is in the hands of Casey Bates and Chris Conely in Seattle, WA.

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The House Cafe is still hoppin’

Web design is still clenching it’s feet on my shoulders like an angry pirate bird. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.. Spending a week in Austin, TX. at SXSW doing sound at a friend’s stage.

Vacation anyone?

With winter hitting at full force, it’s feeling as if things are finally picking up after that dreaded moneyless month known as December. Spending much more time recording while keeping the mind stimulated and on track. The blower in my car officially descended from a loud tractor engine roar, to a blank nothingness. Finishing the winter with no heat/defrost should be an interesting encounter. Dekalb may seem like the coldest place on earth right now, but at least this winter finding warm places isn’t nearly as hard.

I am embarking on a month long, over anticipated, stimulant-fest known as a Dr. Manhattan tour in just a few days. Although I feel ready, I am completely blind to what is coming my way. The bus starts out in Tennessee, and the first show is July 23rd in Mansfield, MA at the Comcest Center. Each show is nearly back to back with only a few days of down time over a ~26 day tour.

If for some reason you never hear from me again, it’s because I’ve become brainwashed by over excited clowns and forced to eat funnel cakes 9-5 everyday until I explode.
Farewell..

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See you around!