Thanksgiving 2015 Music Buffet
I didn't make this, but kudos to whoever did! This past extended Thanksgiving weekend was a cornucopia of new music creation. The calendar was completely empty so I made it a goal to [...]
Bridgewalker
Once again it's drab, cold, and grey outside. Perfect weather to sit down in front of the computer and make some new blip-bleep music with my trusty Fishman Tripleplay MIDI pickup-equipped Les Paul. This magical [...]
“Credit Card/On Sale (Credit Card reprise)”
Dad's tape recorder I've been obsessed with recording ever since I was a little kid. My favorite thing to do was make my recorded voice play back at higher or lower pitch. The first time [...]
My music is old enough to drink.
Here's an interesting little nugget from my past: the J-card from one of my old demo tapes: Click to zoom According to the year that the Kinko's copy machine was barely able to [...]
“Peter Crisssssssss…. the drummer from KISSSSSSSssssss”
^^That's a quote from Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati. I remember seeing that episode when I was a little kid thinking "Really? Peter's gonna be on the show?" Sadly for me he wasn't. [...]
Earthlings
These obviously aren't the greatest photos in the world, but that's because I'm not looking at the subjects when I take them! When I'm out and about and inspiration strikes I like to entertain myself by [...]
Sparkling Shade of Green now on the Youtubes
I think this song is 11 years old now...? It started with a completely different meaning but eventually took on the identity of my Grandma Eppel and her car that she had just bought around [...]
Magic carpet ride on the Halen Van
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away on a planet called My Childhood there were two major forces that hip-mo-tized me into buying an electric guitar and figuring out how to make [...]
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My solo acoustic music has been on the back burner for the past 10 or so years after getting burnt out on playing it for hours on end at weddings and cafes. I recently got [...]
Crazy Eyes
I haven't written a new Iced Ink song since last September. It was time to change that with a lil ditty called "Crazy Eyes". "Crazy Eyes" was a particularly tough one to get out of my [...]
“Steve Buscemi Overture” goes Guitar-Capella
What do you do when your drummer is on vacation, it's rehearsal night, and there's evildoing musical demons that need exorcising? Go to rehearsal anyway. Last night I did just that and video-ed a few things [...]
The Answer to Everything
Thou shalt covet Bruce Kulick's blue Charvel When I was a kid I watched the KISS Animalize concert on VHS nonstop and it made me want an electric guitar So. Bad. I even went so [...]
Under the House
This is sort of how I see under the house in my memory/dreams. My siblings (and perhaps even parents) can attest to the fact that the crawlspace in the basement of the house we grew [...]
The making of “Pantree”
As promised on the Instagrams, here's the creation of my daily punny from 3/1/2015, "Pantree", in its warp-speed entirety accompanied by a shortened version of an oddball song I composed entitled "Honker":
Honker
'Twas 1987 when I read that the first Frehley's Comet album was finally coming out. I pert near pooped my pants. My numero uno guitar hero Ace Frehley's first solo album in almost 10 years! [...]
Otto Lipton Built a Robot
Chuckie and Archie in HIGH SCHOOL USA As far as I'm concerned there's nothing like some good old fashioned wacky 1980s movie robot comedy. One fateful night in 1984 I flipped on HBO and stumbled [...]