Thoughts From The Townedger June

Must be June in Iowa.  Fucking water in the basement.  Diggy Kat gets to interview me as I promote my new album Forthcoming Trains.  Being A and R of the band, he pointed out I omitted Drinking Again on the album cover.  Fuck me running.

I still hope to partake in The Bacon Jam in the near future.  If and when that happens remains to be seen.  As for Alex and that get together, nothing has happened and if we don't connect before he goes to days next month it ain't going to happen.  There's been a lot of bitterness of Mike toward his ex wife.  There's a time you have to let go and a time to moan and a time to complain about it.  I know he's hurting and truly angry.  Better to write a song about it rather than continue to badmouth via the social networks.  That never got nowhere with me.  As much as I would like to, I doubt if Mike will return to do any new songs with me or the band anymore.  He rather do Karaoke.  His choice but not mine.

I think it's pointless to talk about the past loves of my life.  They made good songs for that certain place and time.  The majority of them can be found on social networks. I recall Janice wanting that family life back when she was chasing me around high school but really we couldn't have been more opposites.  Besides we don't look the same as we did back then.  We're both old.  And not exactly good looking anymore.

I miss Donna Will, she was a good friend when talking music and glad to see her in DC ten years ago.  She's kinda disappeared from the computer the past year and hope she's still around.

The next project, I'll be using the Zildjian lineup of the Road Less Traveled for cymbals.  Out of all the Z lineup's they're my favorite.  However,  I do have the Paiste cymbals all locked away for the right project.  I do have to say though, the Paiste cymbals used for the 30 album (The 3000s, 2002 and Signature all added a bit more aggressive sound.  Any cymbal lineup can work for you.  Even the copper tins of beginner cymbals, Paiste PST 7 highly recommended.

http://www.grassrootsy.com/2012/02/22/an-open-letter-to-venues-that-exploit-their-musicians/