Roads

Hello subscribers! It's been a little over a year since I written here in my blog and I've definitely been busy drumming. I want to let you know that most of my content has been on Facebook and Instagram since August 2014. Until I get back to this blog I urge you to follow me on those. There are some cool drumming things coming up that I will share on those platforms very soon and here to. Until then add me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/charliewoodburn and follow me on Instagram @cwoodburnz . Also, another goal is to do updates and drumming videos on YouTube. You can check out videos now in the My Drumming Videos section at www.YouTube.com/chardrum
Hope to get back to blogging soon. Keep music alive! Charlie

Tour Dates, Record Releases and Other Cool Insider Stuff

Hello all! Charlie here to talk about drum happenings.  This month has been CRAZY! So much so I was not able to get to everything :( One thing is I was going to do the Modern Drummer Blog again. I had an amazing photographer, video person and studio all lined up too. But this has to wait because......

We (Bonfire Beach) are super excited to announce we'll be direct support for The Dandy Warhols fall tour. 

September
12 Minneapolis, MN, First Ave. Nightclub
14 Indianapolis, IN, Vogue Theater

16 Ferndale, MI, Magic Bag
17 Newport, KY, Southgate House Revival
19 Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg
20 Brooklyn, NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg
21 Washington, DC, Black Cat
22 Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club
23 Philadelphia, PA, Theatre Of Living Arts
25 Toronto, ONT, Lee's Palace
26 Cleveland, OH, House Of Blues
27 Milwaukee, WI, Turner Hall
28 Omaha, NE, The Waiting room
30 Denver, CO, Bluebird Theatre
October
01 Salt Lake City, UT, Urban Lounge
02 Boise, ID, Knitting Factory
03 Seattle, WA, Showbox Theatre



This Summer I was up for so many tours that did not work out. NO, Haunted Summer, Goldenboy, Telescopes, LSD and The Search for God etc. So this was a happy surprise. 

On to record releases. This summer I did do a lot of sessions to make up for the loss in touring. Currently there about 10 records I am waiting for to come out:

Cashew and Cleary- Volume 2 on Weiner (Burger) Records
Repeater- Untitled Record/released this Fall 2014
Magic Wands-Stranded On Earth (working title) release Fall 2014
Bonfire Beach-Lit on Cleopatra Records
Sister Mystery- EP/LP? Jennifer Goodridge (Seaspin) 
Bell Gardens- Slow Dawns For Lost Conculsions October 27th 2014
Blue Eyed Son-3 Singles with accompanying video's
Christian Deitch-Melody of Young Love EP
The Richie West Band- LP
Fort King recordings probably to be re-recorded

And finally I seem to be getting back on track with my Blogging....well sort of. Here is August so far.

8/3 Recording with Cashew and Cleary
8/4 Cashew and Cleary at Good Times at Davey Wanyne's
8/11 Fort King at Harvard and Stone
8/15 Monosky at The Satellite
8/17 Bonfire Beach at The Echoplex for Echo Park Rising
8/30 Bonfire Beach at Los Globos (early show) and at The Satellite (Late Show)

Well that's it folks! And P.S. I have a good idea that there will be more touring for some of the artists listed about in the Fall and into next year. Photo: Angela Holtzen

June/July Summer Drumming

Hey there I'm back after a small hiatus from writing in my blog. Here's the drum happenings since the beginning of Summer and a couple of week's back to the beginning of June. I did a lot of recording and one off shows in June which was fun. July brought several new artists to work with which was very challenging and satisfying.
One of the highlights was playing The Levitt Pavilion free concert series with my band Bell Gardens. Here are some photos taken by Melissa Wilson and Shon Sullivan

August looks to be shaping up nicely! More recording (which I love) and some other surprises too. So see you back here at the blog soon! Here was my schedule since June 4th:

6/4 Bonfire Beach at The Satellite
6/14 Ryan Traster Record Release at The Satellite
6/15 Blue Eyed Son at San Deigo County Fair
6/16 Record with Vega Schenk
6/19 Bell Gardens at Levitt Pavilion Pasadena
6/21 Matt Van Winkle Band at The Muddy Leek, Culver City

7/2 Bonfire Beach at The Complex
7/4 Magic Wands at The Bootleg Theatre
7/6 Cashew and Cleary at The Grand Ole Echo
7/8 Magic Wands at The Echoplex
7/10 Bonfire Beach at Del Mar Speakeasy, Venice CA
7/12 Matt Van Winkle Band at Summer Solstice Skyline Party
7/17 Record with Christian Deitch at Bedrock Studio's
7/21 Bonfire Beach at Harvard and Stone
7/22 Session with Susan Tunney
7/23 Record Precussion for Christian Deitch Record
7/25 Session with Mike Monosky

April/May Drumming Blog Post

Hello All! I'm writing today to get you caught up in my drumming world. I've become off by half a month in writing so now I'm getting back on!
There were a lot of schedule conflicts the last 2 months where I was not able to play with some artists but I'm sure I will play with them in the future. Specifically, John Wolf's Math and Science's band, Charlie Clark and Miranda Lee Richards. Also, it didn't work out but I almost toured with The Telescopes and played a show with LSD and The Search For God. Come to think of it, I was up to tour with Dean Wareham and play with Tom Jones too! Just goes to show how my little world goes sometimes. But no worries, there are plenty of great shows and gigs coming up this Summer and Fall. And I bet I will record or tour with some of these artists just mentioned in the future and/or other amazing opportunities! OK here is what I have been up to:

April 20 St. Timothy's Easter Church gig
April 27 Bonfire Beach at Los Globos opening for David J (Love and Rockets)
April 28 Bonfire Beach at The Church on York

May 1 Bonfire Beach at Harvard and Stone
May 3 Magic Wands recording at Redbull Studio's Santa Monica
May 6 Bonfire Beach at The Virgil (All Scene Eye Event)
May 7 Recorded with Sister Mystery
May 11 Recorded with Sister Mystery
May 18 Record with Composer Inon Zur for movie soundtrack
May 23 Magic Wands at The Troubadour
May 30 Matt Van Winkle Band at Taix

June 1 Caitlin Ann Wester at The Grand Ole Echo

BONFIRE BEACH "Spit U Out" official video out TODAY

January through April Drumming!

Hello all! Today I have a chance to sit down and write my blog. I've been busy since January and have not have a chance to write. I know it's the middle of the month and I usually do it at the end of the month but I need to take this opportunity to do it. If you have any questions please write them to me in the comments section below. Oh yeah and here is picture of me playing Coachella's Vestal Village party with Bonfire Beach:

Jan. 1st: Record with Red Sun Red Sea
Jan. 4th: The Ritchie West Band for The John Ennis Show at The Steve Allen Theatre
Jan. 5th: Matt Van Winkle at The Escondite
Jan. 10th:  The Abe Lincoln Story at Taix
Jan. 16th:  Bonfire Beach at Loaded, Hollywood
Jan. 25th: Bonfire Beach at The Satellite

Feb. 1st: The Ritchie West Band at The Steve Allen Theatre
Feb. 2nd: Matt Van Winkle at The Escondite
Feb. 5th -7th: Record with Magic Wands at Redbull Studio's Santa Monica
Feb. 10th: Bonfire Beach at Bardot, Hollywood
Feb. 11th: Magic Wands at Harvard and Stone
Feb. 20th: Bell Gardens played live on Dublab.com online radio show
Feb. 21st: Cashew and Cleary at The Echo Country Outpost
Feb. 25th: Bell Gardens at Hyperion and Hi Bias Music showcase/courtyard party

March 5th: Cashew and Cleary at The Standard, West Hollywood
March 13th: Commercial music recording with Producer Dain Luscombe
March 15th: Magic Wands at Insert Coin in Las Vegas, NV Redbull Racing Party
March 17th: Magic Wands at The Standard Downtown LA
March 20th: Bonfire Beach at The Troubadour
March 27th: Magic Wands at Los Globos
March 29th: Bonfire Beach at The Rock Formations Fest at The Palms Restaurant in Wonder Valley

April 5th: The Ritchie West Band at The Steve Allen Theatre for The John Ennis Country Show
April 9th: Record with Blue Eyed Son at The Ship Studio in Eagle Rock, CA
April 11th: Bonfire Beach at The Vestal Village party at Coachella Indio, CA

There's more gig's to come this month and I will post them on the next blog I do. Until then, here is my updated information for session drumming. Take Care!

Charlie Woodburn/Session Drummer
Email: charliewoodburn@gmail.com
Website:  www.charliewoodburn.com
Discography: http://www.discogs.com/artist/558065-Charlie-Woodburn?type=Credits
Video Link: www.youtube.com/chardrum
Twitter: www.twitter.com/crwoodburn
Facebook: www.facebook.com/charliewoodburn
Press:
LAWEEKLY ARTICLE
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/interviews/favorite-drummers-charlie-wood/

MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE ARTICLE 8/7/12
http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2012/08/charlie-woodburn-2/#.UCrmwRws2jQ

SOULTONE CYMBALS
http://www.soultonecymbals.com/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistID=488

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

New Modern Drummer Blog Post

Here is the link to my new Modern Drummer Magazine blog post that came out today.http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2012/08/charlie-woodburn-2/#.UCF61vZlSAZ Thank you Billy Amendola and Adam Budofsky.

May/June Drumming Gigs and Recordings

It's been a while since I posted here, but I'm back! I will start with my activity/gigs since mid-May, then talk about what's been going on with me currently on drums.

May 4th The Abe Lincon Story at Taix 

May 15th Drunk On Crutches at Los Globos

June 1st The Abe Lincoln Story at Taix

June 2nd Recorded new material with Bell Gardens

June 15th Bell Gardens in Caramel, CA

June 16th Bell Gardens in Big Sir, CA

June 17th Bell Gardens in San Luis Obispo, CA

June 21st Emily Grace Clark at On the Rox

July 6th Abe Lincoln Story record release party

July 7th Emily Grace Clark at The Oyster House

And here are some new releases I'm on:

The Abe Lincoln Story "What Time Is It?! It's Story Time!" record is available Itunes and on CD at  http://abelincolnstory.bandcamp.com

The new Bell Gardens single 'Through the Rain' is available for pre-order at http://shop.southern.com/bell-gardens/ with the album "Full Sundown Assembly" to be released in September on Southern Records. Check out Bell Gardens at www.bellgardensmusic.com

Burger Records just re-released the Bell Gardens "Hangup's Need Company" debut EP on hand numbered, limited edition cassette. You can get it at: http://www.burgerrecords.org/apps/webstore/products/show/3154919

A very cool thing that happened recently is that at a music swap meet at BedrockLA (massive rehearsal/recording studio in Echo Park) I won some rehearsal time in a raffle and then met the Mapex drum reps. I am now talking to them about an endorsement. They let me borrow a kit the next weekend to do some gigs with, and I loved it. Also, I was hired as a drum tech for Bedrock the following week, which has all new Mapex kits. After doing that, I know all about the company!

 Something I want to address is since the beginning of June I've been contacted by so many artists but didnt get the chance to work with them. I usually do a shout out to them every couple of blog posts or so. Some of these go back to January. Thank you to IAMEVE (Tiff Randol), Dylan Dray, Pony Boy (Marchelle Bradanini), Raven Hughes, Max Tepper, Soul Rillah, Light FM and The Electra (Shelina Louise). All great artists!

April rehearsing and Summer record releases

In April I did lots of rehearsing with Bell Gardens We are getting ready for the summer release of the first single "Through the Rain" and the album "Full Sundown Assembly" Preview the album artwork here on Southern Records UK. Also, the first EP "Hangups Need Company" with be released on cassette (yes, a tape) through Burger Records. No official dates yet. 

Also, I have been rehearsing with The Abe Lincoln Story In April we played our first Taix residency show (every first Friday of the month til July). Tonight we are playing with Josh Haden's band Spain. They are going to play there 1995 album "Blue Moods of Spain" in it's entirety. ALSs' record is also coming out this summer with a projected June release.  

February Drumming and Drum Lessons

On February 18th and 19th I did a studio recording with The Richtie West Band at Company studios in Burbank. The session was great because it was recorded to 2" analog tape live. It's been a while since I've recorded with everyone in the same room. Plus, recording to tape gives that warm, rich sound that I love. I played brushes and Hot Rods to 9 songs and got to work with an amazing cast of players. Be Hussey was the engineer and was very easy to work with. He had a vintage set of Ludwig drums that sounded great under mics. I used a Ludwig Black Beauty snare drum and a Pearl Free Floating Maple Snare that sounded amazing with brushes (note to self!)

I am still giving drum lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays. My students are currently Max Berolzheimer and Jesse Phelps. Both students are coming along fine. I teach Max at his father's studio and Jesse at his house. The fact that they are both sight reading drum charts is pretty amazing. I forget that they are both 16!

Tomorrow night Sunday March 11th I am playing with Bell Gardens at The Echoplex. I played there once before with The Digs. I am looking forward to the show. If you are reading this we play at 9pm.   

DECEMBER DRUMMING AND THE NEW YEAR 2012

Here are the gigs and recordings I did in December and the beginning of January. Happy New Year 2012! Looks like alot of the hard work from the past year is going to pay off this year in records coming out and touring. Looking forward to 2012!

12/5 Started rehearsals with Bell Gardens

12/6 Played with Laura Meyer Group at Silverlake Lounge

12/7 Played with Drunk On Crutches at The Falls in DTLA

12/13 Finished recording The Abe Lincoln Story Record

12/29 Bell Gardens show at The Satellite

12/30 Drunk On Crutches show at Pappy and Harriet's in Joshua Tree

1/9 Recorded 4 songs with Allison Hennessy

1/12 Started rehearsals with The Richie West Band

Drum happenings in November and a little bit of December

Hello all, here is a run down of what I did in November and some of December on drums.

Nov. 15 Returned from tour with Drunk on Crutches
Nov. 19 More recording with The Abe Lincoln Story
Nov. 28 Started rehearsals with Bell Gardens
Nov. 29 Played a show with Y at 3 (of) Clubs in Hollywood
Nov. 30 Played at The Old Town Pub in Pasadena with Drunk on Crutches
Dec. 1 Started Rehearsals with Laura Meyer

Tonight Dec. 6th I am playing with Laura Meyer and Eric Golding at The Silverlake Lounge at 9pm. It's Laura's first show in LA with full band and it's a show you don't want to miss.

Cool fact from my tour: When I was on tour with D.O.C I was walking around Dallas, TX in the Deep Ellum area of town and randomly ran into Mark Burgess of The Chameleons Vox, who I have worked with before. They where playing that night at Trees and he gave me a pass to see them perform. I was surprised because I had no idea they were playing. Also, I got to hang out with my friend Wanz Dover.

DOC October / November Tour dates

Hello from Cleveland! Here are the Drunk On Crutches tour dates. Sorry to post so late in the tour, more dates to be added soon.

Oct.14th Honkey Tonk BBQ Chicago, IL
Oct.15th Old Miami Detroit, MI
Oct.17th Nancy Whiskey Detroit, MI
Oct.18th The Summit Columbus, Ohio
Oct.21st The Garage Cleveland, Ohio
Oct.26th Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC
Oct.27th Blue Plate Special Knoxville, TN
Oct.28th Relix Variety Theatre Knoxville, TN
Oct.29th Ostuw's on the River Ranger, GA
Nov.2nd Deep South Raleigh, NC
Nov.3rd The Red Light Cafe Atlanta, GA
Nov.7th Howlin Wolf New Orleans
Nov.8th TBA Houston, Tx
Nov.9th Hole in the Wall Austin, TX
Nov.11th Adairs Dallas, TX

September Drumming

September has been a month of starting up new projects and scheduling up and coming tours and record releases for me. Bell Gardens record "A Series of Farewells" is projected to be released in the beginning of 2012, with a tour to follow. I will be hitting the road with
Drunk On Crutches in October/November 2011. Also I am recording with Laura Meyer, Red Sun Black Moon and Invitation to Love during the holiday's/new year.
Here is the link to the Kickstarter page for the The Last Two Step in Texas project by The Richie West Band that I am drumming for. Brittney Westover (The Damselles and the TC4) is putting together an amazing line-up of musicians to honor her fathers music.


Last months schedule: (remember I am not mentioning rehearsing with all other projects, just shows and when I start with a new project or studio session)

Sept. 2 Abe Lincoln Story @ Taix
Sept. 6 Abe Lincoln Story @ Harvard and Stone
Sept. 15 Started rehearsals with The Richie West Band
Sept. 23 Finished recording drum tracks for ALS record
Sept. 25 Started rehearsals with Drunk On Crutches

See you on the road!

Summer Sessions

Hello all! So it has been 3 months since I have blogged but here I am to fill you in on my summer. I am going to basically run down my schedule from my calendar to recap. June started out slower and then things (gigs, studio, rehearsal etc..) started to pick up mid June through the end of August. I am going to leave out all the rehearsal dates with the bands except for when I started with the band. So here is the run down......

June 3rd played Burger Records in Fullerton w/ Bell Gardens
June 4th played The Satellite w/ Bell Gardens
June 16th started rehearsals with Abe Lincoln Story
June 17th started rehearsals with Laura Meyer
June 24th played drums at Sky Palkowitz's party

July 1st played with The Abe Lincoln Story at Taix for their monthly residency
July 21st started rehearsals with Invitation To Love
July 24th started rehearsals with Raugust
July 27th rehearsed with The Sisters and Brothers band
July 28th recorded 3 songs with The Sisters and Brothers Band

August 4th played The Last Book Store in Downtown LA w/ Raugust
August 5th played with The Abe Lincoln Story at Taix for their monthly residency
August 7th started rehearsals with The Living Dolls
August 10th played Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa with Laura Meyer
August 12th played Fais Do Do with The Living Dolls for International Pop Overthrow
August 13th played drums at Rachel Murry's party with Lenny Pops and sat in with Whispering Pines
August 20th played La Cave in Costa Mesa with Laura Meyer
August 26th recorded with Abe Lincoln Story / started rehearsals with Mime Crime
August 28th "played" with Mime Crime opening for That Dog at The Troubadour

April and May drumming

It's been two month's now that I haven't written in the blog because well, there hasn't been alot going on, which is sort of a lie HAHAHA. Not much moonlighting on drums but LOTS of Bell Gardens going's on.

Lesson's have been going well. Also I played on some more Lenny Pop's songs and some commercial stuff coming up soon.

I played a show with The Sara Radle Band at The Satellite (formerly Spaceland) opening for Walking Sleeps residency on April 18th

Played with Bell Gardens at The Echo opening for Dirty Beaches on April 28th

I have been doing a lot of demo recording with Bell Garden too. At practice space's, home studio's and out in the desert in 29 Palms (fun weekend).

Also coming up soon Bell Gardens is playing at the Satellite with Damon and Naomi and Amor de Dias on June 4th, should be a good one.

Stay tuned: Alot more sessions coming up this Summer! Me coming to a club near you! :)

P.S. I was at The Silverlake Jubilee this past weekend and about 6 or 7 people asked me if I was playing or they had just seen me play! Wow, I get around. I think people thought I was the drummer in the Black Apples. I think.

March recap in drumming and SXSW!!!!!!

Well'p I just got back from Austin. It was good to see old friends and play a bunch of shows. Here is what I was up to:

I played several shows with Bell Gardens:
>Wednesday 16th 8:30 PM - Central Presbyterian Church
****200 E 8th St

>Thursday 17th 9:00 PM - Beauty Bar/Palm Door
****401 Sabine Street

>Friday 18th 8:00 PM - Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive In (with visuals by Luke Savisky!)
****2326 E. Cesar Chavez

>Saturday 19th 7:00 - Spiderhouse
****2908 Fruth Street

>[EL PASO,TX] - Monday 21st - Lips Lounge
****510 N. Stanton St.

Here is the video of the Blue Starlite Drive In show:

I played drums on Lenny Pops songs which turned out awesome.

I am continuing to give lessons (also now on Skype) but I need more students so if you are reading this send people my way. email me here: charliewoodburn@gmail.com

Bell Gardens is playing April 28 at The Echo here in Los Angeles so come on out for that one.

I am also playing with Sara Radle April 18th at The Satellite (formerly Spaceland) supporting Walking Sleeps April Monday night residency.

The Top 5 Video's Of Me Drumming On Myspace And Youtube

First of all let me preface this by saying all of these video's have decent sound quality (cause alot of the video's of me don't!) Also, the criteria for these is that the live show was good for me and the viewer. So with that said here we go!!!!

Number 5!
The Digs ///at Mr.T's Bowl in Highland Park 2008

THE DIGS - ‘Speaking Of You’

The Digs | Myspace Video

Number 4
Hexham Heads at The Satellite in Sliverlake 9/9/2010


Number 3
Sleepmask at The Bordello Downtown Los Angeles 3/14/2008


Number 2
Bell Gardens at Hotel Utah, San Francisco 5/16/2010


And Number 1!
Mark Burgess (The Chameleons) at The Echo in Echo Park 8/30/2009

Drum happenings in January 2011 / Bell Gardens at SXSW

Well, the potential for 2011 is definitely showing. Some cool things are brewing. I'm ready to get to work! So here is what happened in January:

My drum tech prayers where answered from none other than the awesome drummer Daniel Goldblatt! This guy knows his gear and is a great drummer. Having a drum tech in the studio will help out immensely!

Drum lessons are shaping up. I am now doing them at Bedrock Rehearsals in Echo Park. Contact me for rates and times. charliewoodburn@gmail.com

Bell Gardens has been accepted to SXSW this year. We will be playing our showcase in addition to several other shows and parties. I will post as the dates become available. Until then we are rehearsing and recording. Man, it will be good to go back for a visit. I miss Austin.

Bell Gardens "Through The Rain" Video:

Bell Gardens - THROUGH THE RAIN from ZF FILMS on Vimeo.