GtrWrks ONLINE JOURNAL

 I feel extremely fortunate to be able to work in a wide variety of musical situations – each of these disparate jobs allow me to flex very different musical muscles:

01 May – Motown Spectacular: The Coasters, The Platters & The Marvelettes – Lucky Star Casino – Show time 8pm – www.luckystarcasino.org – This date features versatile powerhouse drummer Mike McCraw: www.mikemccraw.com – tickets: www.zooamp.com

04 May – Rick Toops (soulful pop/rock) – CD Release Party – Belle Isle Brewery – 9pm – www.ricktoops.com - www.belleislerestaurant.com

07 May – Ty England (Country/Western) – TBA – www.tyengland.com

xx May – The Recliners – NOTICE – Recliners gig has been postponed/rescheduled – stay tuned.  Instead:

08 May – Terry Allen Band (Country/Western) – Southern Nights Dancehall & Saloon – Abilene, Texas – 10pm – www.terryallenband.com, www.myspace.com/terryallenband07, www.myspace.com/southernnightsdancehall

15 May – Banana Seat (Disco/R&B) – Point After Club – OKC – 9pm – www.bananaseat.com

22 May - Ty England - (Country/Western) – Aubrey, TX - TBA – www.tyengland.com

?? - DATE MOVED - TBA - Logan Walker and the Jazz Guys – Lawton, OK – 2pm (Logan is a fantastic Tenor cat – extremely rich music history, an extremely gracious cat and general beautiful person) – this is a straight ahead, Real Book quartet date – I’m very much looking forward to working with him again.

29 May – The Recliners (Rock) – Dan McGuiness Pub – Moore, OK – 9.30pm – www.reclinersband.com – www.danmcguinnesspub.com/moore

www.ricktoops.com – Rick is a very talented singer and keyboard player – his new CD 2PS is available here: http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/RickToops - great stuff all ’round.

 This past week I got the opportunity to perform a set with him – dig the bass/drums duo on the clip!

For this gig I was using my 1983 Fuji Gen Gakki ’62 RI Fender Strat > ’76 RI Dyna Comp (with various circuit modifications!) > the new GtrWrks bV Overdrive > Malekko E600B analog delay > 1966 Fender Bassman which is loaded into a custom JD Newell solid pine 2×12 combo cab (open back) loaded with Reverend All-Tones (love these speakers!). 

The Strat features a Callaham bridge w/steel block; Seymour Duncan pickups (B: Hot Rails; M: Classic Stack Plus; N: Lil 59); DiMarzio custom pots; Raw Vintage trem springs; Late ’70s vintage NOS solid/hand turned brass knobs, switch and trem arm tips from Kahler.  Of course, as you well know, there’s a significant amount of tone to be added via knob material… uh… or something like that.

This is a very short live clip of one of the tunes from Rick’s new record:

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7375208/19286955?v=7375208