Flight of the Corvus

 I collect guitars. It's a well known fact. Below are two of them. 

(2002 Burns Bison & recent Squire 40th Anniversary Jazzmaster.)

I started playing as a teenager, with a borrowed Univox Hi Flyer my brother left behind. I graduated to a Gibson Les Paul JR, but needed something with a broader tonal range, so played an Ibanez Roadstar for a number of years, before graduating to the Fender Stratocaster. My love of Fenders took me to a budget 1982 Squire Telecaster, which I still own today. In the following years, I sold the Strats, and found a 1989 Gibson Flying Vee - Nothing really compares to that guitars' attitude, but I've owned a number of ones I have enjoyed playing onstage, at home or in the studio.

1980 Fender Lead 2

1980 Gibson Marauder

2002 Burns Steer & Steer Custom

2014 Epiphone Firebird LTD

2018 Fender Player Series Stratocaster (replacing the two I sold 20 years ago).

2011 Epiphone Junior (replacing the Gibson I sold in 2016).

I've sold some guitars over time, but I've bought more than I've gotten rid of, so on the same day that one sold (an electric acoustic I no longer used) something unusual and interesting arrived from Tulsa.

 another rare, oddball instrument from the 1980s

Enter The Corvus.

Introduced in 1982, and discontinued in 1983: The Gibson Corvus was supposed to resemble a bird n flight, but it looks more like a can opener, or a Pac Man. It was also supposed to be headless, to resemble a Steinberger, but that didn't happen. Was it too far ahead of its time... or a bad idea from the start? In either case, it didn't catch on with the market, and nobody thinks about them much. I find it very comfortable to play, and tote around, as the body on it is as small and light as any electric I've ever played. The pickup in it screams, and it looks like the perfect thing to break out during a show that makes people say, "What the hell is that?"

I Shall Be Released

 A new year, A new recording session!

At home recording 11 songs from my past. The most recent years have been a blur to me, but looking back into my war chest of tunes, I was able to come up with a group of songs that somehow belong together. Ranging from Anthemic Rock to Alternative Country to Blues Retro Americana and Blues. All of it uptempo and fun. I wrote way too many sad songs, which I can use for some other project down the road.

In the basement, I have a small drum kit made up of various pieces from the early '70s and late '60s. The floor tom is a vintage Rogers, the Kick is a converted Floor tom made by Gambles (early Pearl/Tama) and the snare is a wonderfully trashy miscelaneous model made in Taiwan.

I've been fascinated with the drums since is was very young.

I ended up playing all of the intruments myself, but the vocals will have assistance by a few of my good friends, as I was told long ago by my friend and former producer David Lindley that layering your own voice on harmonies doesn't sound as good as having other complimentary voices.