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New Song: You Raise Me Up

Posted in Guitars, tagged new song on January 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Funny how you hear a riff that triggers your creativity. I was watching a video last week at church, and there was this really cool acoustic riff that was played underneath that inspired me. There was something about the chord pattern I really dug: 6-5-1 with a minor root. So I started playing around with [...]

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New Song: Come Together

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

No, it’s not a Beatles cover… This is a song about getting over ourselves and listening to God’s voice and feeling His presence in our lives; putting ourselves together with His help. I got a little inspirational kick while I was recording with my little VHT Special 6 which I used for the electric guitar [...]

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New Song: He Is the Rock!

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song on September 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I wrote this song several years ago as a fun, foot-stompin’, rockin’ blues crowd-pleaser to close out church services, and like my previous song, The Way The Truth The Life, finally got around to recording it – actually I attempted to record it a lot over the years, but just couldn’t get a good vibe [...]

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Sometimes Simple Is Better…

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, new song on August 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »

I’ve written about this with respect to gear before, but that also applies to lots of things in life. For instance, I just put the finishing touches on a new contemporary christian song demo this morning. I was thinking about adding all sorts of percussion, another guitar, perhaps some keys. But in the end, all [...]

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New Song: I Could Never Live Without You Lord

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song on August 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »

My older sons have gotten a lot into Reggae over the past couple of years, and it has sort of rubbed off on me. So while I was jammin’ to a song in the car a few days ago, I got an idea for a praise and worship song with a Reggae theme. Here’s the [...]

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New Song: Never Trade

Posted in Guitars, tagged guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song on February 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Never Trade is about a working mother whose life is busy and chaotic, and she just wants to get away, but her devotion to her family overrides her sense of breaking free; thus, as I say in the song: She’ll never trade in her life… It’s also the first song that I’ve written and recorded [...]

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Song: 80′s Punk Angels We Have Heard On High

Posted in Guitars, tagged GAS, guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song on December 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »

My church bandmates were a bit tired of this bluegrass-style “Joy to the World” that we’ve done for the past few years at Christmas Mass, and they asked if we could do a new song. Well… in keeping with our much more straight-ahead rock style, I came up with an 80′s punk version of Angels [...]

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New Praise Song: The Light of Your Love

Posted in Guitars, tagged amp, guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song on November 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Wow! Been a long time since I’ve written a song – worship or otherwise – so I’m pretty jazzed about getting the inspiration to be able to get something down. I was getting a bit worried about not coming up with any ideas, but this one just came to me yesterday, so I worked out [...]

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The VHT Special 6 ROCKS!!!

Posted in Guitars, tagged amp, amplification, amplifiers, amps, GAS, gear, gear reviews, guitar, guitar effects, guitar gear, guitar gear reviews, new song, overdrive, VHT Special 6 on October 21, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Since I’ve gotten it, I’ve been absolutely digging the VHT Special 6. It’s such a versatile little amp, with bright cleans and capable of creating some gorgeous, sustaining overdrive. And while I do certainly appreciate its clean tone, this amp totally shines when it’s cranked to hilt. To demonstrate, here’s a clip I recorded this [...]

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Nothing Like Vacation…

Posted in guitar, guitarists, Guitars, Music, new song, tagged guitar, guitar gear, guitarists, Guitars, Music, musicians, new song on August 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »

…to get me inspired. I’m on vacation right now up at Clear Lake, CA. It’s one of those family vacations where we do pretty much nothing but chill out. Our resort is on the lake, and it’s absolutely gorgeous! We don’t have any plans, no itinerary; there are places to go, but we have 10 [...]

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