Month: April 2003

Today I came across a CD from the band Laughing Colors. It was their 1998 album, The Pattern Seed, and I had heard of the band because we played Grape Street the same night once or twice. The CD was signed, “To Jen. You Rock!” followed by a random band member’s signature. Jen must have…

It wasn’t my first time at Fergie’s, but it was my first time stopping by their Monday night open mic. It was pretty popular compared to the times I visited Adam Brodsky’s antihoot there. I took the speedline over to Philly and someone on the train said they remembered me from the Living Room open…

You can vote online for your favorites in the Philly Music Awards. I wonder how the nomination process works. I know part of the nominations are done by people turning in ballots at local venues, but these have to be stuffed by people who work for the bands or are in the bands themselves. Hopefully…

John Shaughnessy recently attened the open mic at Harper’s Pub in Clementon, NJ, home of some of the area’s most dangerous roller coasters.Well, Clementon, NJ is not exactly my neighborhood, but I actually met myfolks (yeah, M & D) at Harper’s Thursday for some wings and beer, and to play some songs at the Open…

Someone please tell me what the hell was going on this morning on 42 southbound? It was closed until 12:00PM to make way for a million motorcycles heading somewhere. Dozens of people were watching and cheering them on along the highway. I couldn’t turn around and ended up getting dumped onto a heavily crowded 295…

If you’re a registered user you should see a few links at the top of this page for MP3s of my April 8th set at the GSP open mic. Because one of my database tables became corrupted last week everyone has to log back in if you haven’t done so already. Sorry about that. The…

I’m treating my guitar poorly. It’s had a broken string for 5 days now and I still haven’t replaced it, although I did buy some new strings. I’m going to try out Elixirs and see how they sound. I’ve been listening to my new recordings a lot and I think I’ll post the “99%”, but…

By now most people are fans of the Iraqi Information Minister, but did anyone know he broadcasted a few messages about me? Clip 1 Clip 2 Thanks Brian for sending me the links!

Collingswood favorite Jason Wheatley has some gigs coming up, courtesy of Happy Cat Records. Thursday April 24 @ 7:30pm Coffee Works – Voorhees NJ (near the ritz theaters) Tuesday April 29 @ 8:30pm $5 cover Grape Street Pub (upstairs Acoustic Lounge)The current poll is pretty popular. The masses have spoken out in force against the…

Roz wrote a short recap of our show last weekend, which is a first for his website. BenGarvey played my break and did a pretty good Job.I always enjoy hearing him play.Unfortantly I had to take car of some stuff in the truck so I missed part of that aliens on 206 song that he’s…