Oh No! Not again!

I swore to myself that I would never do this blogging thing. It has become such a buzz habit for some people that it is mundane at best. Add to that, the fact I have been around computers for more than twenty years, and you have yourself a one stop horror shop for writing on the net. But what the hell? Sometimes I have nothing better to do than to sit and ramble on about nothing of great value, political wise, and german sausage. It also seems that people are so bored with there own lives that they feed off of reading about others. Well, here is your chance to feed off of me for a while.

I thought I would start with my love for music. I have been playing the guitar for some time now, I guess more than twenty years, but I have only been taking it seriously for about 2 years now. My wife and kids are always complaining that I listen to songs over and over again to the point they go crazy, but oh well, that is how I learn. I am actually working on an album right now. My good friend Mark Frick who ownes his own label and does his own recording, turned me on the very cool world of computer based recording studios. He was gracious enough to give me some software and I love it. It allows me to sit at my home and record ideas, sounds, and samples into the computer and edit them on my own time.

Lately I have been having a fascination with blues, both old and new. I have been pouring through Eric Clapton, John Mayer, SRV, Jack Johnson, and the like. It is strange to me that I can find so much meaning in the simplest of sounds, odd musical phrasing, or what seems to be petty lyrics, but I have found that blues music really speaks to me. So, I think my first album will be bluesy. Ha! There you have it.