So my last blog title was unintentionally prescient, in that it lead to a rather large gap of content on here. It’s like I took October off. Well, that was definitely not planned. I guess I just was spending too much time living the offline life and just neglecting all my online stuff. I haven’t posted any videos of my little kid recently, either, so it’s not just ignoring this blog.

Anyway…the time since “it all went quiet” has been surprisingly eventful. Chandler and The Bings had a Private Party/wedding reception way out in Hunt, TX (past Kerrville). It was LOVELY out there – I highly recommend you check it out. It’s shockingly beautiful. But with the remoteness and the shocking beautifulness comes a major problem: Deer. Like shit tons of them. Everyfuckingwhere. So I’m white-knuckling my drive home, stopping a bunch of times to miss them walking into the street, and successful every time. Until we reach Kerrville. Which seems counter-intuitive, since they’re actually less likely to be roaming around the streets of civilization. Well, Google took us on a “shortcut” toward I-10 instead of taking us straight through town, and on this dark, two-lane shortcut, I was still driving slowly and watching for the cervine monsters when a big stupid buck with big dumb antlers ran from the darkness at what seemed to be full speed – right into the front fender of my car. Because I was traveling about 30 miles per hour at the time, he dragged his fat body along and managed to fuck up every panel of the right side of my van. He appeared to be fine and disappeared into the darkness.

Thankfully my vehicle was still mechanically sound and drivable, so we made it home from way out in Kerrville just fine, but there’s $4400+ dollars in damage. Thankfully I’ve got comprehensive insurance and it’s only $500 for me, but it’s still a major inconvenience and it’s likely the van will never quite be the same, even if they do a good job. Obviously me and my passenger were completely fine.

Let’s see – then we had a great show at Picks Bar in San Antonio, another great show at Speakeasy, and then I got to play another solo show at 360 UNO. It was a real blast. AND I found out I get to reunite with my old Capital Suspects/Audio Time Machine bandmate Paul Betts and my Yacht Z bandmate David Houston on November 27th with their band The Hellmagnets (aka The Hillnuggets, per Yacht Z parlance). I get to play some bass and sing some on some really great classic rock tunes. That’s going to be a blast.

And speaking of my past resignation Yacht Z – they found a new guitarist/vocalist and are making progress! So excited to see them succeed.

That’s about it for now. I’m going to get back in the weekly groove here soon, probably with some musings on nerdy music shit. I’m thinking of doing some features on one of the most underrated bands in rock history: Chicago (specifically the Chicago of their first six records, that is…) I might even do a rundown of each album and what you should check out. We shall see. Until then, check out this awesome Chicago video from Mr. Rick Beato:

Peace and love and good happiness stuff…
TMS