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New single and new amp… JEDAMP V18

Happy New Year y’all! Here’s a new track that I hope you’ll enjoy called “V18”. It was created specifically to showcase the new JEDAMP V18 amplifier I got my hands on recently. It’s a killer little “18 watt Marshall-style” amp with a few new twists. I love it for it’s simplicity and it’s rich and warm tone.

The tune is a simple straight ahead rock tune that I recorded using only the bridge pickup of my Grosh Electrajet VT. I just plugged straight into the amp with no pedals. Cab was my Mojo 2×12 loaded with Scumback M75s. Mic’d with an SM57 into a Duet 1 and then into Logic. BAM!!!

Check out the video and then if you would be so kind, hop on over to itunes and pick yourself up a copy for posterity for only .99 cents. I thank you with all of my heart… in advance. Oh… and if you have any questions about the tune, the amp or anything else I can help with please comment and I’ll be happy to rap wit’cha!

 
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Site Sea Change…

Hey y’all… I’m about to drastically change the appearance and functionality of this site over the next couple weeks so here’s hoping it doesn’t get too bumpy… Happy Holidays and Yee Haw!!!

 
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TV Cue…

Published on September 13th, 2011 by in Music

Been doing a lot of TV work recently. Some things I can post, some I can’t because I don’t have the rights. Here’s one…

 
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Rhodes Colossus Demo.

Published on September 11th, 2011 by in Music

I recorded this little ditty for my buddy Kyle Rhodes who was kind enough to let me hold onto his Colossus prototype for about a week. It’s a monster 4-channel tone machine- a veritable “colossus” if you will. Super fun amp and I got to get my “chunk, chunk” on!

 
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Music for television…

Published on August 30th, 2011 by in Music

A couple months ago I was working on some music for a TV pilot and I wasn’t touching the guitar at all- just using the computer. I really enjoy that kind of work sometimes and I feel really at home doing it. Anyway, I was going through some of those files today and I found this little piece that really had no chance of ever being used because it was way to, well… way too much…

I suppose I should give it a name but for now it shall remain “#8″. Dig!

 
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Rejected Sports Theme…

Published on August 21st, 2011 by in Music

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything because I’ve been locked out of my wordpress dashboard! I think I have most things under control again now.

Anyway… the music…

A fun session I did for Jerome Gilmer. It was supposed to be a TV Sports theme but turns out the client wanted something heavier so this wound up on the scrap heap.

Gear = HH Electrajet- Guitar Rig- Boom!

 
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“Garbage Man” 2010

Published on March 21st, 2011 by in Grosh Guitars, Music

So sometimes I do a gig and everyone brings in a new tune to play. The idea is to make these little groove tunes that are easy to play and don’t need rehearsal. This is one of those tunes.

Whenever I write a tune I almost ALWAYS record a demo because a chart alone never seems to convey all the information I need. This is a quick demo- I played everything on it- and it has the worst solo in the history of the world BUT it’s filler so the guys know what I’m thinking. Here’s the bass chart I made.

I played Don Grosh’s personal tele on this track. I also had my Deluxe Reverb miced up so that’s the amp. Garbage man!!!

 
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“Mini Black Sparkle” Video

Published on March 17th, 2011 by in Grosh Guitars, Video

Finally got to record a video for “Mini Back Sparkle”. It was done VERY fast so…
a) It doesn’t look very good
b) It doesn’t sound very good and…
c) I could have played it better. Blah, blah, blah…
Looking at my schedule I can see that it will be awhile before I have time to work on the craft of quality “youtube video making” so for the time being… voilà!!!

 
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“Atomic Orange” – 2009

The final track on the “Grosh Tunes” disc and the first song I recorded for the project (before we even knew what it would become). I recorded this track in my teaching space back in Louisville, CO in June ’09. Originally intentioned to showcase Grosh’s first in-house humbucker model called the G4, it has since been rechristened the 302. I used my first Electrajet which has a finish conveniently called “Atomic Orange”.

At the time I cut this my wife was staying with friends in LA while our children and I were staying at my mom’s house in Longmont. We had rented out our house and were in the “in between” phase of our relocation to CA. The way I had to sequence the drums and bass while sitting on the floor at my mom’s, recording and mixing on the run in between students and after hours made it feel like I was 20 again with no real place to make noise and record. It sucked in many ways but was good to remember how to do that.

Out of all the tunes I recorded for the record this one displays the least of my own personality. I intentionally tried to keep it sounding like a generic rock guitar demo thing because I thought I was just showing off some different tones and had no idea it would turn into an album project. Oh well…

 
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“Snow White” – 2010

This tune started out as vehicle to demonstrate Strat sounds but then took some goofy turns along the way. Because of the weird hours I had to track this I played through a Mesa Electradyne, Mesa Lonestar Special, Guitar Rig 4 and an Axe FX. The title refers, once again, to the color of the guitar I was working with…

 
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“Douzen” – 2010

This is moi playing an EJ Standard with Blown ’59 pickups. These pickups are hotter than what I’m used to but man… the harmonics were just jumping out of the guitar! RAWK!!!

 
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“Gold Metallic” – 2010

When Grosh sent me this guitar I was a little lukewarm on receiving it because I had never been a big fan of P90s. Not that I dislike them -I love hearing other people playing them- they just never worked that well for what I do. That all changed when I started tracking this tune. The tone is big, dark, chewy- nothing like any other guitar I owned. I dug it so much that refused to send it back to Grosh. It soon became mine. Ha!

Another cool little aside is that before I received the guitar it had spent a few months with Mark Knopfler in England. Grosh had sent it to him so he could try out the new Grosh P90s.

The pic is from the “session” for this tune…

 
 
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