Dang Thunderstorms

Another thunderstorm today, bah. was not raining all morning so I tried to beat it by heading out on my bike but sure enough it started raining 10 minutes later. Why's it gotta rain on weekends :(

I jammed with a guitarist playing for 25 yrs, sounded pretty good just for the 45 minutes we played. He has a gig booked on Aug 14th, and will be looking for a drummer.
It's the type of music i want to play, Rock based improvisation but whatever influences we have
are brought to the table. the search now goes to finding a good drummer to form up the trio.

Studio jammin

Neighbor called me up today, he set up a jam between him(keyboards) a drummer and guitarist.
It was fun to play again.
My neighbor is a great keyboardist, with a pretty unique style. The drummer and him were in a Acid jazz band in the early 90's around the bay area so had a MMW vibe going on.
I made it a point to play simple grooves, sounds better most of the time.

Tomorrow i meet with a fusion guitarist and drummer, and Sunday with a group of Alternative rock guys. As well as a jam band in two weeks. Hopefully one of these work out and i can get in a regular band again

Stone NYC

Checked out the stone NYC it's a place run by John Zorn for avante garde bands, It was really tiny and Humid in there.

There was a band called the secret chiefs 3, it's pretty much the project of
Trey spruance. Very wierd mix of music, at times they would
sound like a surf band then bust into a middle eastern tinged riff, with violin screeching melodies
and then end in a haunting passage etc...Unique, odd and cool sounding stuff.

Trey looks a lot like Frank Zappa i realized, surrounded by 6 musicians he was pretty much band leader making lots of hand signals and gestures to all the young musicians in his band.

secret chiefs myspace

The only memory i have of Trey is Mr bungle playing at Tom's house back in the day,
I gotta get more of his stuff.

4th

Landlord hooked us up in the backyard with a good BBQ and booze, The apartment tenants and about 30 other people showed up. My neighbor across from me is also from SF and producer in the daytime, we had quite a few things to talk about in terms of NYC music scene, recording etc...

Afterwards we got to check out the rooftop fireworks, a really good view of the fireworks from the city and we did not even have to go anywhere!

4th july