11 August - The Title

Why yes, I do have a title chosen for the EP. It will be called "Over The Water," but I'm not going to explain why until it drops and I'm in the frenzied throes of the initial promotion for it.

10 August - The Words

The "keeper" lead and background vocals have been added to three of the five songs going on this next release. After I get the others recorded, it'll be time to put down the lead guitar fills and solo passages. And that'll be it. The thing will be ready to mix once the fancy guitar stuff is done. There are some simple keyboard bits that have already been taken care of, but there really isn't much embellishment on any of these numbers. Guitars, bass, drums, and the words. It's enough.

Anyway, progress. Thanks for listening.

26 July - Minty Fresh

Traded some stuff yesterday, and came home with a new Les Paul. New to me, that is. It's one from the Muse series by Epiphone. Lighter in weight and with a few modern features like coil-splitting and a phase switch. Alnico pickups, Grover tuners, top-shelf hardware and wiring. It's in ridiculously excellent shape, almost like it had never been played before I took it down off the hanger. Well, it's gonna get played now.

12 July - Show Poster

 

23 June - Show Poster

15 June - Maine

Whenever I am downeast, I am extremely reluctant to go back upwest. Please note that the yawl moored offshore is not my yacht. I'm more of a sloop guy.

26 May - October Show Announced

Group DeVille has confirmed a booking for Saturday, October 17th at Studio 30 in Florence, Massachusetts. I have played this particular venue a couple of times, but it will be the first time our trio will be appearing there. It's a wonderful room.

In other notable music news, today would have been Mick Ronson's 80th birthday. 

11 May - Reverb Part Two

Arrived today. Checked it out, put it on the board. Beyond impressed. At least five of the eight reverb types are going to be useful to me. Three of the five more often than the others, but still. There are superb sounds in this thing.

9 May - Reverb

A new reverb pedal is on the way. It's got eight different types of reverb built in, and the one which sold me on it is a tremolo/reverb setting that will allow me to blend in bit of that old school wobble when a song calls for it. I have missed having tremolo available to me, but didn't want to add another pedal to the board. The second selling point to the new 'verb is that it's still a compact pedal like the one that's on the board now. It won't require any additional space. Third point is that the other settings sound good, too. Sure, there will be a couple I won't go to often, but that's true of all pedals. We set them for the sounds we want, not for the things they can do that we don't need.

5 May - New Show Confirmed

Group DeVille (we've decided to drop the "trio" addendum because everyone still just calls us Group DeVille anyway) will be playing Tangle Chocolate on June 28th. This is the place where I played that solo show back in March. It's a fun room, so mark your calendars now.