Video of the Day 26 June 2013: Boris Plotnikov, “Hair Up”
Figuring out the Loop Layers for “Mellow Down Easy”
I’m back in my home studio, working on my looping, getting the songs and the related sounds together. I love big low-frequency layers, because it’s a new sound for the harp with a lot of power, so I’m making lots of stuff that sounds like…
Video of the Day 25 May 2013: Pablo Fagundes, “Voo da Mosca”
Video of the Day 9 May 2013: the Ford Brothers Band, 2006
A blast from my past, courtesy of Randy Singer
Randy Singer is one of the best-known harmonica players in Miami and thereabouts, and we’ve known each other since roughly 1980. Randy just unearthed the clip below and sent it to me, and I was glad to get it. It’s a solo I played on…
Recording “Copper” Episode 19: An RP255 and a Fireball V Does It
As I noted in a previous post, I got a call Friday night from Brian Keane, a composer and producer that I’ve done a number of sessions for. Brian wanted me to record acoustic harmonica for a scene in a BBC series he’s scoring called…
Getting all Emotional for “Copper”
I got a call last night from Brian Keane, a producer I’ve worked with on a number of projects. Brian is scoring this season of “Copper”, a BBC series about a detective in New York City in 1864, directed by Barry Levinson. The episode Brian…
Goodbye to the Maw Band
Brian Maw and I decided to part ways this weekend. It’s too bad. I loved playing with the Maw/Preston/Hunter trio. But Brian wanted to put a different band together–a more conventional rock band, as opposed to the decidedly unconventional trio–and the fact that I had…
Unforced Error of the Day; Or, How I (Almost) Fried My RP255
I’m going to be delayed delivering tracks to Brian Maw for the new EP. This afternoon I was setting up to record some tracks for the EP in my hotel room in London. I brought my Digitech RP255 to London with me for that very…
Preparing to record my first EP with Brian Maw
Brian Maw is going into the studio in Idaho Falls this weekend to record some tunes for a new EP. I’m waiting for the mp3s so I can lay down the harmonica tracks in my home studio. One of the first couple of songs will…
