Friday, December 27, 2013

2013 Drumming year in review

Hello again folks, it's been a while! So getting right to it I stopped writing in this drumming blog last fall (September 2012 to be exact) because I became so busy. I would recap the second part of 2012 but that journal/calendar is in storage and today is the only day I have to write this. Today, I am going to run down 2013. If you are reading this and you helped me out this year by letting me sleep on your floor, feeding me, giving me a ride some place or calling me for a drumming job, THANK YOU! You are helping me make my dreams come alive. This year has been a wild ride jumping out of one van into another but I wouldn't change it for anything.
OK.....here we go.
*if you've been reading my blog from the beginning I leave out all rehearsals and drum lesson's, remember?

January
1/11 Played with The Abe Lincoln Story at The Down and Out in DTLA (good show!)
1/14 Played with The Burning Dolls at The Redwood in DTLA (another good one!)
1/19 Played with Bell Gardens at Origami Vinyl
1/25 Played with Bell Gardens at Hotel Cafe
1/27 Played with Fort King at The Echo Country Outpost
1/30 Recorded at The Cave (Josiah!) with The Burning Dolls
1/31 Played with The Burning Dolls at The Universal Bar and Grill

February
2/8 Record again with The Burning Dolls
2/15 Played with Fort King at 3 Clubs
2/16 Record with The Burning Dolls
2/23 Played with The Burning Dolls at Permanent Records (good one!)
2/25 Played with The Burning Dolls at The Redwood in DTLA
2/28 Played with Bell Gardens at El Cid

March
3/2 Played with Fort King at The Overpass/ Jam with Christina Hale/ Played with Fort King at The Church of Fun
3/4 Burning Dolls at Skinny's in NOHO
3/6 Fort King at The Echo
3/8 Bell Gardens at TAIX
3/17 Record with Bell Gardens
3/18 The Abe Lincoln Story at Skinny's in NOHO
3/23 Fort King at TAIX
3/24 The Ritchie West Band at The Lyric (backed up Frank Black on 3 songs)

April
4/5 The Abe lincoln Story start residency at TAIX
4/6 Fort King at a private party
4/9 Bell Gardens start residency at 3 Clubs
4/13 Played with Dylan Dray at El Cid
4/16 Bell Gardens residency at 3 Clubs also played with Dylan Dray on the bill.
4/22 The Burning Dolls at The Redwood DTLA
4/23 Bell Gardens Residency at 3 Clubs
4/28 The Burning Dolls at The Down and Out DTLA
4/30 Final Residency night Bell Gardens at 3 Clubs

May
5/3 ALS at TAIX
5/9 The Burning Dolls at The Complex, Glendale
5/17 Blue Eyed Son in Flagstaff, AZ
5/18 Blue Eyed Son in Phoenix, AZ
5/19 Blue Eyed Son at The Hotel Cafe
5/27 Record at Ocean Way for the Aoede recording with Scrote/ Record with Fort King in the AM at The Kitchen with Yohei Shikano

June
U.S. tour with Blue Eyed Son (about 25 shows)



July
7/4 Fort King at The Echo Country Outpost
7/5 Blue Eyed Son start Witzend residency
7/6 Fort King at The Echo Country Outpost
7/13 Abe Lincoln Story webcast live concert
7/17 Record with Bell Gardens
7/20 Fort King at The Palms in 29 Palms Desert
7/25 Fort King plays the last Mad for Sadness at TAIX
7/26 Blue Eyed Son at Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff, AZ
7/28 Blue Eyed Son in Costa Mesa
7/31 Fort King at No Vacancy, Hollywood

August
8/4 The Ritchie West band at The Steve Allen Theatre/ John Ennis Show
8/9 Blue Eyed Son at Witzend
8/11 Drunk on Crutches at The Grand Ole Echo
8/17 Blue Eyed Son playing with Desi and Cody at Ted Cohen's house
8/18 Fort King at Echo Park Rising (good one!)
8/21 Fort King video at Lot 1
8/22 Fort King at Echo Country Outpost
8/31 The Abe Lincoln Story at El Cid

September
9/1 The Ritchie West band at the Steve Allen Theatre
9/5 Bell Gardens at Hotel Cafe
9/6 Bell Gardens at Desert Stars Fest at Pappy and Harriet's in Joshua Tree
9/13 Blue Eyed Son at Witzend/ Jam with IAMEVE
9/14 Fort King at Echo Country Outpost
9/20 Blue Eyed Son in Santa Barbara
9/21 Blue Eyed Son in Ojia
9/22 Bell Gardens at The Satellite
9/28 Blue Eyed Son at The Make Out Room SF, CA

October
10/11 Blue Eyed Son at Witzend
10/12 Bell Gardens at El Cid
10/13 Caitlin Anne Weber at Villains Tavern DTLA
10/19 The Abe Lincoln Story at Festival Supreme/ Santa Monica Pier
10/26 Goldenboy at El Cid
10/30 Magic Wands at Harvard and Stone
10/31 Magic Wands at The Roosevelt Hotel

November
11/8 The Abe Lincoln Story at TAIX
11/9 The Burning Dolls at The Airliner
11/22 Blue Eyed Son in Flagstaff
11/23 Magic Wands at Echo's West Festival at The Echo
11/27 Magic Wands at Loaded, Hollywood

December
12/3 Magic Wands at The Detroit Bar
12/13 The Abe Lincoln Story at TAIX
12/15 The Ritchie West Band/ John Ennis Christmas Show at The Steve Allen Theatre
12/20 Goldenboy in Flagstaff, AZ Hotel Monte Vista
12/21 Goldenboy in Phoenix, AZ The Lost Leaf
12/31 Matt Van Winkle at The Muddy Leek. Culver City