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.