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I walked into Boo Boo records today, for a lack of something better to do, cause I can always discover new music and waste countless hours keeping up with all the new releases. I went over to the new release listening booth, which is usually full of a broad range of cds, all genres and styles, mainstream and indie, but all national releases. I think it’s a national service that boo boo’s subscribes to, cause I’ve seen the same displays in many stores around America. So I make the rounds, checking everything out, trying to catch a listen of everything that catches my eye. I’ve discovered some great stuff from this are before. I scan my eyes along the first of four sections and put my ears on everything from the Gorrillaz to Regina Spektor. I eventually make it to the last section and did a quick double take.

Are my eyes deceiving me? It’s the Crosby Loggins slabum that I played bass on! What a nice surprise. I’ve never expected to listen to my own bass lines on these displays. They’ve always been relegated to the ‘big boys’ and major label players. It made me feel pretty good, to be honest.

I looked around. Just as I suspected, no one noticed that I was listening to myself at the listening station. Good, that would have been kind of weird.

The album sounded great through the headphones. Jesse Seibenberg and Jason Mariani really worked some magic with the sonic spectrum on this disc, real crisp highs, lots of presence, tight low ends, a real modern sounding mix.

People always ask me what that group is up to. I always just say that Croz is on an acoustic tour through next year, and then we’ll be hittin it again. I haven’t talked to him in a while, but I hear he’s kicking ass and taking names on the road opening for Joe Bonamasa.

If you get a chance, cop a listen on iTunes:

Ahhh yes, the Playbacks had a great gig Saturday night. It was our 4th gig ever and we got a great response.

The Frog and Peach is a great place to play live, but the management there is a little on the drunky side? They tried to pay us $150! The least I’ve ever made there was $250, and I’ve been playing there off and on for ten years now. So we’re trying to milk more dough out of them, we’ll see how that goes.

Kevin Nash played great that night. He’s the 17 year old guitar player who has a great ear and tasty phrasing. His parents came and watched the show. It was funny to check out his mom’s reaction to people dancing in the bar, and especially when everyone was singing along to the chorus of Prince’s ‘Sexy MotherF%^&ker”. Pretty classic.

Almost done with the Playbacks Demo, hoping it’ll be done in time for the old Christmas Compilation….

My phone, which contains my entire schedule/gig calendar/life, broke.

Spend all day recording tracks for the Playbacks demo. I can’t wait till these three songs are done, they’re gonna sound good.

In the studio however, I cut a huge chunk out of my primary bass finger, the same finger that was already jacked up. I’ve got horrible luck that finger right now. I wrapped it tight, it wouldn’t stop bleeding, and I was concerned for a second, but it stopped bleeding.

I then went to my jazz gig at the Inn at Morro Bay. That place is hit or miss. I’ve played to completely empty rooms there before. Fortunately it was Morro Bay’s big Christmas Boat Parade, so the place was more packed than I’ve ever seen it. The line up was Ray Chang, Mike Raynor and I. We played well and got into some good moments. It turned into a wonderful evening.

Now I’m going to try and live without a cell phone for a few days and see how bad the withdrawals are.