Had a great show at the Crystal Ballroom with the Renegade Saints last night - definitely one of my favorite places to play. If all goes according to plan we will have finished mixing and mastering a live CD from McMenamin’s Great NW tour the Saints did a few months back. Mildly amusing anecdote: we recorded three shows thinking that we would pick the best songs from each; as it turns out we picked all the tracks from one show. It was our last last of the tour and we knew we had to make it count.

Stay tuned for more details…

Sick of my Floydian Slips posts yet? Well here’s MORE. This vid is a montage of our rehearsal just prior to our NYE performance at the Mcdonald theater. Thanks to Isorski for putting this together.

Here’s a cool review of the Floydian slips performance at the Aladdin theater two weeks ago.

http://www.glidemagazine.com/Articles/52956/The-Floydian-Slips.html

Oh so groovalicious!

The Meters :: Look-Ka Py Py —> Jungle Man (1974) - Dr. John Television Special.

Here’s a balcony shot from last weekend’s sold out Floydian Slips show at the Aladdin theater.

For the last three years CD sales have been in a sharp decline. The following is from appleinsider.com:

CD sales drop nearly 10 percent in 2007 as online sales rise

Sales of albums in the US have dropped a full 9.5 percent in the US between 2006 and 2007, according to new results from Nielsen SoundScan.

Much of this is attributable to a shift away from CDs due to both legal and pirated music downloads, though the research firm cautions that the music business would have fared worse without the help of online music stores, dropping by a steeper 15 percent.

Digital sales ultimately represented the recording industry’s shining beacon, according to the report. Sales at all online stores grew by 45 percent to roughly 844.2 million individual songs and were responsible for 10 percent of all music sold. Actual content sold climbed by about 14 percent to 1.35 billion, hinting that customers were buying more items overall but also spending an increasing amount on individual songs and music videos.

“That says consumers are embracing both the track format and the digital album format,” says Nielsen Music president Rob Sisco.

Thanks to isorski for posting this on his blog!

Here’s a pic from my show at the Mcdonald theater with the Floydian Slips (Pink Floyd tribute band) on New Year’s eve. The FS will be playing two shows at the Triple Door in Seattle this Saturday (early show 8pm / Late 11pm) followed by a performance at the Aladdin theater in Portland on Saturday Jan 12th.

Triple Door: http://www.thetripledoor.net/
Aladdin theater: http://www.aladdin-theater.com/
Floydian Slips: http://www.myspace.com/floydianslips