Hey? Where Have I Been?

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Playing and writing songs. That’s where. Lesson learned? D’Addario EXLs suck. Cheap, cheap, cheap guitar strings. They just don’t last.

For whatever reason, my guitar is helping to center me far more then my ravenous addiction to news feeds. I just gotta step away from the keyboard… if ya know what I mean.

Part of that has included digging thru old songs I no longer play, some for as much as ten years, and then freaking out. Where have I been for the past ten years? Getting my life together. It’s funny how old tunes can still be relevant. It’s funny how much, and how little, we change.

Speaking of guitar, thru GeoURL I found Ben Garvey. Great songs. Local acoustic rock. Gotta check him out.

Shannon Campbell earns the coolest girlfriend of the year award for buying her guy Seymor Duncan Humbuckers. Her great, great song, “Oblivion” was downloaded almost 2000 times last month.

And Mark’s The Phoenix Trap keeps on rocking. They make better use of MP3.com then almost anybody. Plenty of songs for you to dig there. They are being listed to on a whole bunch of MP3.com radio stations.

4 thoughts on “Hey? Where Have I Been?”

  1. The nice-guy side of me is glad you’re back into playing and songwriting. I had a similar experience getting re-centered when I got to jam with my son’s friend’s dad, a drummer with a cool new electronic kit. It was a lot of fun just improvising over his beats, and I got to do the sort of dark-progressive-rock that I like to listen to but rarely get to do in the TPT context.

    The cynical side of me thinks you’re name-checking so as to fish for comments… guess you’ve succeeded on that point. 🙂

  2. Not fishing… yet 🙂 hehe. Soon I hope. Just felt like doing a tour of my favorite musical webloggers for a change.

    BTW – Somehow I missed getting into Social Distortion during the 90s. I feel ashamed. They rock!

  3. Fished in! Thanks for mentioning my site. Geourl is a great service and it’s helped me find lots of great local sites.

    Don’t be ashamed. I think Social Distortion stinks, but that’s just my uninformed opinion.

  4. Hello Ben. Welcome to the site 🙂

    I used to think Social Distortion stunk too. Then someone introduced me to “When The Angels Sing”. Listen to “White Light, White Heat, White Trash”. It may just change your opinion.

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