...with a broken upright in hand

My latest album project, entitled "Obscure Objects" is entirely written and about halfway recorded.

I have an upright bass with a crapped out bridge. I have the new bridge, but I still need to have it fitted, which costs a decent chunk of change. Hopefully I can come up with the money (or at least justify spending it) so that I can get on with finishing the record. I've been waiting to get it fixed before working on the record. I've decided that the best bet is to just keep working on it, even without a working upright bass. The mother of invention, as they say, is necessity. Often, there is some ingenious solution lurking in the recesses of desire.

Here's a preliminary list of the tracks that will be on the record (in alphabetical order):

Before You Know It
Born To Cry
God's Highway
Heartbroken Shoes
Jealous Woman
(Never Saw Her Comin') - not sure about this one yet.
Seven Nickels
The High Road
The Obscure Object of My Desire
Why Simply Say It

One of these days, I hope to implement some type of flash player to facilitate sharing preliminary tracks. I have more time on my hands since the unpronounceable broke up.

Lamentation

The other members of THE UNPRONOUNCEABLE and I recently played our farewell show to a rowdy crowd of our fans at The Funhouse in Bethlehem, PA. I'd like to send out a thank you to anyone in attendance at that show who happens to find his/her way to this blog. And I'd like to thank anyone else who's supported us in any way over the last ten years. We ran a good race, saw some sights, met lots of wonderful people and realized the other night that we'd made a mark on the world - in the hearts and minds of other folks. Which is all I've ever really hoped for, when all is said and done. For a wonderful synopsis of the night (along with beautiful photography) check out Bill Kates' blog here.

I plan to keep busy writing and performing music. I'm currently working on my latest solo album, entitled "Obscure Objects". My first solo album, entitled "antidepressant blues" can be found for free here. I plan to start performing the new material live one of these days. As soon as I work out all the kinks.

Thanks again. I love you all.