Month: March 2018

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High Sierra!

New show announced! I will be playing at the High Sierra Festival in Quincy, CA with The Family Crest. We will be playing on Saturday the 7th, the second to last day of the 4 day festival – I’ll post more when I get more information.

I had not heard of this festival until a couple years ago when a co-worker (who is really into Bluegrass music) mentioned he was going. Upon some research, not only are there concerts during the dates of the festival, but there are also masterclasses and jams with some of the musicians who are playing at the festival too! The lineup for the festival is pretty sweet too – I’m excited to see some shows while I am up there!

It should be a fun time, bring your camping gear, sunblock, and your ears – we’re going to rock the forest!

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New 2018 Dates!

I will be doing a short mini tour with The Family Crest in May!  We will be playing up in the Pacific Northwest in Washington and Oregon.

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The Family Crest will also be playing at the Great American Music Hall on April 12th with Godnight, Texas for the release for The War: Act 1.

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I was also in Austin, Texas last week for SXSW subbing in with the Super Soul Bros for my good friend Chris Haman.  We played the kick off party for the SXSW Gaming Expo as well as in a booth in the vendor hall of 2 days!  It was a lot of fun – those dudes are always a blast to play with.

I also got experiment with an electronic set up in the vendor hall as well.  We had to keep the music under a certain amount of decibels so I was told to bring some electric drum pads!

These Roland SPD-SX are pretty amazing little devices.

In the photo above we have the following Roland pads:

Roland SPD-SX

Roland BT-1 

Roland KD-7 

I was able to build a kit with samples from the directory sample files in Apple Logic (snare drums, tom- toms, and bass drums) and then I built some samples from YouTube videos of Zildjian K Special Dry cymbals and put those into the sample pad as well.  The KD-7 is definitely what made this kit way more comfortable to play.  I was a little skeptical about it due to the inverted kick beater, but it felt like a normal kick pedal!  If you are looking for a kick pad that is easy to transport I highly reccomend this one!