my best friend lives in seattle, so i get out there a fair bit. my experience is always the same: i fall in love with it for 3 days because i am out of nyc and it's beautiful. then by day 4 i want to shoot everyone. seattle's scenic and offers great quality of life, esp. if you want to live a health...

i don't follow a lot of 'pop' music but i've totally grown obsessed with these tunes, especially 'bound.' that chorus is just insane--i sing it all the time. billy's playing is tremendous, and shinn sounds like a gutsier don mclean to me. all the musicians are badass. it's awesome to hear hookier so...

i'd actually consider getting this. hadn't been to an md fest in years then got a last-minute invite to the event and pretty much enjoyed every performer. missed the 2 rileys though, which was a shame. tain's thing is all performance, no clinic. if i recall correctly, the only speaking he did was ca...

elvin did a clinic here in nyc on 9/12/2001, the day after the big day. he truly was larger than life. said we needed to be together to hold each other up through music. what most impressed me was that he could sense the audience's bewilderment--it was a surreal day. after looking at everyone, he sa...

**and i've even got a mullet like his**


very funny!

aw, man--i wanna do this! there's nothing i enjoy better than having my ass handed to me on a platter by great drummers.* but unless some miracle transpires, i will be working on a website launch til april. blows my mind that corporate america decides we need a team of 37 people to create a website,...

well, if you are listing your occupation as musician, and you are indeed getting paid for your gigs, all of those things, as well as some meals and entertainment, are deductible up to a cap [an accountant can advise on said cap]. and as was stated, you can state a loss on income for 3 years, after w...

shuby, did you make it? post pics if you got 'em. i was stuck in the office til 10. feh. he's going to be there again on the 17th with one of his projects, but i would've preferred the class. he offered me private lessons a while back, but frankly i think i'd be wasting his time. plus his schedule i...

recently saw ferrone with oz noy and will lee in nyc. he absolutely killed the groove stuff, then in the last 30 minutes went crazy-ass odd-meter fill-rrific fusionista psycho on our asses. amazing player. love his conviction.

my main background is dance, and that's how i've always related to music--through the body. i feel and express music physically. i've been told i have a nice pocket, and i think that comes from dance. but when i'm really trying to work out subdivisiony/coordination stuff, my time wavers a lot, coz i...