2015 Belated Year-End Recap

Lifted from my FB music page:

2015 year-end recap!

Seems like I just did one of these. Where has time gone?!?

Checking my calendar I played 144 dates with 15 projects, traveled from Arizona to New York City and most points in between. NYC, Washington DC, New Orleans, Sedona AZ (had my 41st birthday there!) and Colorado are all highlights.

Bleu Edmondson Band was my main project with 55 dates, followed by Adrian Conner (& The Sickness) (17), Eric Tessmer Band (15), Thunderosa (14) and Ocean of Stars (13). Got to do a few with the legendary Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys) as well. Made a lot of great music with a lot of great friends and met many new ones, but also lost some along the way.

Played bass for "Little Wing" on Adrian Conner's latest "Hush" album, finally released the Ocean of Stars EP, and attempted an RPM Challenge album that I didn't finish but would still like to. Ocean of Stars is currently recording a single.

Added mandolin and slide guitar to my repertoire, in addition to becoming mainly a guitar player again after years of bass as primary instrument. Very happy about that development (tho I love bass, don't get me wrong).

Glad that Ocean of Stars, my first original project since Ironclad, has been active this year. Hoping to continue that trend.

I also finally got my SVT back into service.

This was a good year! Looking forward to what 2016 has to offer \m/,

First post of 2016

Thank you for your patience, loyal readers.

Haven't here much tho there is certainly much going on. Almost too much, but in a good way.

Been travelling like crazy past few weeks.

Quick midwest (MO, IA, NE) swing with Bleu right before Christmas. Just did an AZ run with Thunderosa, which despite some catastrophic vehicle problems and a cancelled gig and later return, was a blast. And hitting the ground running with Bleu in Little Rock last weekend, Ocean of Stars finalizing tracking, the Ortiz Brothers starting their jam back up (now at Beerland on Mondays), rehearsals with Taking Back Thaxton and Adrian and the Sickness (in prep for Houston area next weekend), looking for a gig Friday, playing Bat Bar on Saturday with Kevin Winsman and Chris Trafton, and playing the Texas Rollerderby season opener with Thunderosa on Sunday.

That and there have been some very heavy losses in the worldwide music community past several weeks.

So yeah. It's not that nothing is happening in my life, it's there is so much I can't keep up with it. That Thunderosa Arizona trip is worth recapping because just, wow.

And I need to do my 2015 year end recap. Wasn't a bad year at all.