An introduction

So here I go, I guess it's time to start blogging. All the cool kids are doing it, so maybe I should too. I've always been a sucker for peer pressure.

Seriously, though - here's the gist of it; lots of musicians are on the web, hawking their band, selling their album, talking about gear, etc. So I thought that this would be a nice way for me to do that and more - share experiences with musical oddities like modifying guitars (I do that a lot), circuit-bending (I just started playing with that), and creating insane guitar or bass rigs with all sorts of bells and whistles (I've done that for myself as well as helped others with it). So I'll be talking about a lot of that sort of stuff as it occurs to me to do so. I'll probably ramble on about old musical projects, neat toys, long lost instruments I never should have sold, etc. Hope that interests you.

Who I am is a lifelong musician; son of a vocal/general music teacher (Mom) and a former music major/club musician/music store owner - and now, boss (Dad). My primary instruments are voice and bass (bass guitar and upright bass), but I'm a multi-instrumentalist and therefore own a large collection of other stuff - keyboards, drums, guitars, mandolins, didgeridoos, trumpets, and much more. I have my own studio, which I call Digital Din; my training is purely "on-the-job" as far as engineering goes, but last November my group Din Within released our debut album; it's an album that (with writing partner Josh's help) I recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered myself. Of course, I was also responsible for much of the performance. It's done quite well worldwide; it's available for sale at Amazon.com, CDBaby.com, iTunes, Napster, and many more (check out the Digital Din Homepage for a list of many of the retailers at which it can be purchased.)

So that's about it for now. I think my first post of real content will probably be about my "new" bass - actually a 4-banger from the 80's that I bought to recreate my first bass - one I wish I still had (for sentimental reasons only) but don't because I sold it to a former co-worker (Tom Wetzel - you still have my bass, man?)

Anyway, tune in soon for that post. Thanks for reading!