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Custom built ’63 Pre with a (sweet) sweepable, low pass filter:

Two of these were built for very special customers: through one’s hands pass many cool things, through the other’s hands pass many cool notes.

The Terry Allen Band (www.myspace.com/terryallenband07) is a Country/Western act stemming from the north Texas area – they have a huge fan base and play across Texas as well as into the surrounding states – they enjoy mucho radio play and generally tear it up on stage.  This past week I worked with these cats in Abilene (www.abilenetx.com – ~150 miles west of Dallas) at Southern Nights Saloon/Dancehall – huge crowd!

Chicken Pickin’!

Last night was Rick Toops’ CD release party (www.ricktoops.com) – I was happy to be part of it – the drummer, bassist, sax man and 2nd vocalist I’d not met before (always a tricky situation on stage) – everyone was extremely cool and all were great musicians – it was very cool to meet some new cats as well as being a joy to play this set.  Rick’s new platter, 2PS, is available at CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/RickToops) – groove-based soul/pop at its finest.

 Here’s Rick laying down:

“Funny thing happened on the way to the sheet music…”

Wonder what ’Applause’ means in Italian?