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A catalog of my Tuesday (“Museday”) posts that are about whatever’s on my mind that week.

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 68): Inspiration, Machines, Cranky Old Mofos

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 68): Inspiration, Machines, Cranky Old Mofos

My musical mission thus far in 2022 has centered on a few things: Playing good shows. Getting my gear all in proper operation. Learning how to use my new tools (patchbay, Behringer X18 mixer). Forming inspirations into ideas into actual songs.

I’ve succeeded at the good shows part – I played great in both of my Bings shows, and at times was so locked in with Jay every bit of both of our performances made the other’s even better. Excellent crowd in San Antonio, too.

My solo show was a bit hit or miss, working my way through my first on-stage slow-motion anxiety attack. I couldn’t get air, which made it extraordinarily hard to sing. Then, hilariously, I used the altered tuning feature on my Line 6 Variax to play Wonderwall with a “Capo” on the second fret, and promptly FORGOT TO CHANGE IT BACK! So the next group of songs (Drift Away, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Always Something There To Remind Me, I’m A Believer, No Such Thing, and Hey Jealousy) were all played a WHOLE STEP HIGHER than I usually play them. Which made the whole “not having any air” thing even worse. And made it so I didn’t even end up playing one of my “standards”, the Turtles underappreciated classic “Elenore”, because there was no way in HELL I’d be singing that chorus in F#. I literally just stopped the song and moved on. I felt like such an unprofessional loser, and it ruined my evening. I came home a ball of nerves, and I think mildly freaked my wife out. Being someone who’s more of a depressive than an anxious person, it always freaks me out when the stress hormones get rolling, and it’s hard to recover. I think a pharmaceutical would have been helpful (perhaps a Xanax), but I don’t have that stuff. In the end, the venue was happy, and if I’m being honest with myself, even though I was falling apart inside, I still sounded pretty dang good. Just not as good as I normally would sound. I am kind of glad I didn’t record this one, though.

Moving on to the technical stuff – using the wonderful substance Deoxit, in the past few months I’ve cleaned the pots and jacks on a bunch of my aging things and it’s brought them back to life, particularly my “first guitar” – which technically was my brother Robert’s first guitar – now all it needs is to have its nut glued in properly and it’ll be a fun little pseudo-Telecaster to bang around on. I also cleaned up the pots on my basses, bringing them back to proper function, and even rescued a presumed-dead guitar wireless by merely cleaning the output jack. All I need now are some new strings on some of these guitars and basses and we’ll be in business.

Speaking of guitars and basses, I sold one in December. A Dean ML bass (looks kind of like the guitar Dimebag Darrell from Pantera used to play). It never worked for me, and it was a four-string, so I wasn’t using it, it was basically just collecting dust, and since I only paid $49 for it on a blowout sale at Guitar Center over a decade ago, I still made money on the deal, selling it for $100. I probably could have made more off it, but I just wanted it gone and the dude seemed nice.

Last Thursday I had to head down to San Antonio for the day job and on the way home decided to pop by the Guitar Center down there, and discovered a two-pickup version of my “#1” Sterling by Music Man Ray 5 bass that I use in Chandler and The Bings. I couldn’t believe it. More than that, it was on sale for the same price as I picked the #1 up for back in 2018 (that model has since gone up in price, and this version was even more). I decided to snag it. I couldn’t help myself! Pics or it didn’t happen:

Picture of Ruby Red Burst Sterling By Music Man Ray5HH
She pretty.

It desperately needs new strings and a cleaning/set-up. But I already love it, and that’ll only make it more awesome.

Back in 2021 I got an amazing deal on a Behringer X18 mixer and am just now learning all the little things it can do. It’s going to be central to the new studio setup as I streamline and get things in order. It has amazing routing capabilities and some really cool built-in effects I can play with for doing live streams and stuff like that. This with the patchbay and my ATEM switcher will definitely enable me to do some really cool, interactive stuff from the studio in the future. I just have to get it all plugged up and learn how to make it all work together. I think my Edirol M-16DX, which has been my trusty studio sidekick for over 10 years now, will become the center of my live solo acoustic rig, making setting up and running all that much simpler, because it can live in a rack bag that I can keep set up and basically just plug my guitar and my vocal mic into it and still have effects and stuff I can use.

The last goal is inspiration – and translating that inspiration into new material. I’ve already written down multiple new ideas for songs – concepts more than phrases, really, but really good, inspiring starting points. And I’ve got a bunch more I’ve collected over the past few years that will be worked into songs. I might even use music that I liked from my old songs and replace the dodgy lyrical content with something based off these new ideas. (It won’t be the first time I’ve done that.) Time will tell for all of it.

I was listening to WTF with Marc Maron and his interview with John Mellencamp, and it was really fun listening to two cranky old motherfuckers talk about all kinds of stuff relating to John’s career, music in general, and how to exist on the planet. In fact, two of the aforementioned song ideas directly came to mind as a result of their conversation. So I’m already snagging that inspiration wherever it may show itself.

In summary, I’m excited for the new year at least as my musical experiences are panning out. I love learning new things and feeling energized when it comes to this stuff, so I’m very optimistic that if I make sure I’m investing time in this instead of sitting on my ass watching Rick Beato videos (not that those aren’t awesome), I’ll actually make some headway getting my shit together and creating things. I like the progress my friend Mandy has made with her dedication to live-streaming on Twitch, and I think maybe I’m going to try and make a Musical Schizo concert there a regular part of my week, once I decide on a day and time to do it and get more used to how all that live-streaming stuff works.

Thanks for reading, take care, be safe, and remember to love one another.

Peace be the journey!
TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 67): New Methods

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 67): New Methods

So I got me a patchbay. What’s a patchbay? Well, it’s a rackmounted (in most cases) device that allows you to have your instruments and interfaces all hooked up in a way that allows you to easily change their routing as you need. So if you have a bunch of guitar effects things, keyboards, whatever, you can have them all hooked up to the patchbay, and you can very easily plug them in to each other or into whatever inputs on your recorder, mixer, or computer interface you want to use.

So far, it’s not all the way hooked up, but I’m so stupidly excited about having everything hooked up and patchable from one place that it’s occupied a lot of my mental real estate related to music/production/etc. Thinking of the various ways I can get it hooked up, and what I’m going to patch into it, all of that…it’s so wonderful and exciting to me. And that’s very inspiring.

Finding new ways to work can be such a wonderful thing to light the fire around creating music. This new way to work really has opened me up to the possibility that I don’t have to get behind stuff and plug and unplug things to make them all available to me. I can just patch them on the front panel, or if they’re already hooked up to the specific input I need to use, just leave them there. It’s great and I really can’t wait to get it all set up and ready to go.

So find something that shakes up your workflow to get you inspired to get in there and make some music. It’s working for me. (Now if I could only do that with my songwriting…)

Thanks for reading and Peace be the journey!
TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 66): Smell that smoke? Well, I’ve been thinking…

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 66): Smell that smoke? Well, I’ve been thinking…

Yeah, don’t hurt myself, right? But seriously, though, I’ve been thinking. Thinking about the good things that have happened since the start of the pandemic two years ago. Thinking about all the music I’ve played since then. Thinking about all the music I’ve made since then (the ONE song…but it’s still something). Thinking about the fact that 2021 was the first year in a WHILE that I was super excited by a bunch of new music. And speaking of that…

I know I just talked about it a little, but I LOVE the Mammoth WVH record. That Son of an Edward really did something special. (and yes, his dad was a bitch sometimes, so I’m using that for that reason) Wolfgang Van Halen played everything on it, sang every note, wrote all the songs. I mean, it was a statement like one of his heroes’ first records (the self-titled Foo Fighters record where Dave Grohl played basically everything). And then he assembled an amazing band to play those songs live and I got to see it. More than any of that, I got to introduce it to another person who loved it even more than I did! (we went to the show together on his dime because he loved the record so much to repay me he bought my ticket).

I love sharing music with people, and love it even more when they “get it” and love it like I do (or more). It’s a way of spreading happiness that to me is so satisfying, because it not only brings joy to others, it makes me feel connected to them because of the shared interest. This friend and I have some things we just don’t connect on because we’re 11 years apart and things just hit us at different ages so there’s a lot of stuff he loves that I at best don’t get and at worst can’t really stand, and same for him with my stuff. When we do have stuff we both love, it’s really great. Nice and bonding, because we both love to have music in common with people because music means so much to both of us.

As I mentioned previously, I also really enjoyed basically everything I could find by I Don’t Know How But They Found Me (IDKHOW). They play in Austin in February and it’s likely I’ll go see them, too. 🙂 The same friend who liked the Mammoth album likes IDKHOW, too, so that’s another one we share (though he’s not the person I got that band from – that’s my buddy Dennis, as I said in the last post).

And last but most certainly not least, I LOVE “An Evening With Silk Sonic” – Anderson.Paak and Bruno Mars’ “holy shit let’s use every single 70s Soul, R&B, and Funk trope in one band that somehow still sounds modern” collaboration. My highlights from the record are “Fly As Me” (can’t get enough of this one), “Leave The Door Open”, “Skate”, and “777”. The other stuff is great, too. It’s worth a listen if you like real people playing real instruments singing real songs with a classic R&B/Soul feel. Instrumental R&B has been sort of set to the side because programming has become so ubiquitous since the late 80s. It’s all very hooky and poppy but it’s also very clear that they wanted to do something truly timeless, and they succeeded. You should check it out.

As for state of the world stuff, well, people are fucking stupid. More stupid than I ever could have imagined. Humanity is an embarrassment. All the knowledge, wealth, and skill to solve major problems, and none of the critical-thinking ability or selflessness among those with more. In fact, those with the most are the least selfless, and billions will die as a result of their desire to hoard their billions of dollars. They have the power to change it all, and, well…don’t. They just make rules so their workers can’t negotiate, so their taxes stay as low as possible, so they are not held responsible for the failures of the designs of their products and systems. Some of them have been responsible for millions of deaths because of their inability to set greed aside and show some respect for getting proper information shared, allowing the amplification of conspiracy nonsense and woo-woo anti-science garbage. They have fomented division like nothing else in human history. And profited every step of the way. Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor. Needs to be the other way around, but since the system is now designed for their protection, it’s unlikely it will ever be. And there’s not much anyone can do to change it other than not supporting people who support the rich like basically everyone in power does these days (save for a few notable rabble-rousers).

Let’s have a good 2022, and treat our fellow humans with compassion and kindness even if they’re stupid pieces of shit who are ruining it for everyone else. We’re all doing our best, even if many people’s best is simply not good enough. Make your best one based on facts, reason, empathy, and compassion, and reject the narratives spewed by corporatists, sensationalists, cultists, fascists, and propagandists. It will definitely help us focus on the real problems with the world, and perhaps make some strides to fix them.

Okay. Brain turning off. I love you all and thanks for reading this.

Peace be the journey…
TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 65): Uh, I Didn’t Mean To Go Quiet HERE…

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 65): Uh, I Didn’t Mean To Go Quiet HERE…

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

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 64): When It All Goes Quiet…

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 64): When It All Goes Quiet…

So yeah, things are super weird right now. But in a healthy, good way.

After the frenzy of working on Yacht Z stuff, keeping up with Chandler and The Bings stuff, dealing with illness, travel, work that was all of a sudden SUPER FUCKING BUSY, getting my acoustic show back together, and life in general making me feel like I had no time for anything and it was just guiding me through it, I was completely overwhelmed and drained.

But now?

It’s really quiet.

Sure, work is still absurdly busy, with many evenings extending to 7pm or later. But because of making the painful decision to let go of Yacht Z, finally having the solo show reasonably ready, and the lull in activity with Chandler and The Bings due to half of us starting a new and amazing project with their past bandmate and one of our favorite sound engineers (who also happens to be a great guitarist), it’s pretty quiet right now.

I have time for my kids.

I have time for my wife.

There is “peace in the kingdom” for once. (Well, as much peace as a kingdom with a toddler can have…)

I am super excited because 360 UNO liked me enough to invite me back for TWO shows (that I have oh-so-cleverly booked around Chandler and The Bings, so there can’t be a conflict). So be on the lookout for those show announcements, and come check me out – the weather’s going to be even nicer, so it’ll be really fun to hang out on the patio with me and heckle me or whatever.

So that’s the current state of affairs for me musically.

A while back when I was up at 2 in the morning I bought Rick Beato’s Ear Training course, and it’s pretty amazing but I haven’t really had time to dig into it. So I’m going to continue working on that every day.

I found this amazing video by one of my favorite new discoveries where he shows you a daily independence exercise for your fingers on guitar, and I plan on learning that and working on it: Tomo Fujita’s Nightly Routine

I also want to work on this Paul Davids exercise that is an absolute finger crusher. Maybe this one, too.

I’m going to do them all both on bass and guitar because I’d like to be exemplary on both. But only if I end up having time. The ear training is more important to me than anything.

ALSO – I’m going to livestream my acoustic practices, so if you keep your eye on my YouTube channel, or perhaps even my Twitch channel, not that I ever really have used that yet. But my friend Mandy Prater’s doing great over there – check out her shows sometime!

Okay, that’s the musings for this week. Be safe, stay healthy, and remember to be kind to yourself and others.

Peace be the journey!
TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 63): Life Choices and Balance

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 63): Life Choices and Balance

I mentioned a few months back how excited I was to be starting this new project called Yacht Z with my eager and wonderful friend and a real murderer’s row of talent to play the great Yacht Rock songs better than anyone out there. I worked really hard at first, making time as I could, then stuff happened during July and August that really slowed my progress, and I just never felt like I had enough time to get things together at the level that was expected. I even blogged about the lack of time. Well, it never got better, and I came to the realization that there was basically no room left in my life for me to be a properly-contributing member of the band.

It crushes me that I can’t do it, because I really love these musicians and want to play with them, but I have to respect my limited time with my family and my responsibilities. I really hope my departure doesn’t completely derail the project, because I still believe in the concept and will be their biggest fan. It just doesn’t fit with my life right now. Toddler + Day Job + Wanting A Happy Marriage are all more important. And I know I’m making the right choice. But I’m really sorry that we all devoted all that time and energy to the project and I had to bail on them. I hope it doesn’t go to waste and they find someone brilliant to replace me.

Striking a proper balance between work and family is hard for everyone. In the world we’ve entered because of the pandemic, a lot of us are working from home now, too, and man does that really blur the lines and make life all smeary. It’s too easy to start taking on work responsibilities during non-work hours. I like working from home, mostly, but I do find it really isolating and odd. I never considered myself to be particularly extroverted. I fake it well from growing up “the new kid” every two or so years from 5 to 18, and generally being a ham seeking others’ approval and trying to make them smile, but it’s very draining, actually, which definitely indicates I’m more introverted than extroverted. But I still feel like I need a little camaraderie.

Had a really fun show at Speakeasy with the Chandler and The Bings boys, and then Saturday evening, BRIAN V. RETURNED…to play to his daughter, his friend, and his other friend, and then a few people who showed up five minutes before the end of the show (so he extended it another half-hour – worth it for the amazing tips…).

It wasn’t particularly well-attended (UT football game was happening at the same time) but it was FUN and my voice held up super well. Here’s a little footage of that from my YouTube channel (GO SUBSCRIBE AND RING THAT BELL SO YOU’LL BE NOTIFIED WHEN I POST NEW VIDEOS)…

Brian V. at 360 UNO – A Couple of Songs for Erin

And speaking of the YouTubes, here are a few musical things I enjoyed this week on that wonderful platform:

Walter Ino’s YouTube Channel – based on the songs he covers on his channel, I feel like we have quite a lot in common musically. AND I didn’t even realize it until I saw a couple of familiar faces in his videos, but he’s in a band with an old internet pal of mine, August Zadra, called Waiting For Monday – they released their debut in 2019 and it’s like arena rock for a new age. If you like the Journey-Boston-Foreigner-Styx era of radio rock, you’ll almost certainly love that band.

Phil X visiting Rick Beato (with Rhett Shull hanging out as well) – just a silly but kind of informative video of Phil showing some crazy Bouzouki licks he’s adapted to guitar, and some other neat stuff. It’s fun watching Rick and Rhett react to Phil’s shredding.

METAL – speaks for itself. (HAHAHA)

Thanks for reading and take care of yourselves and the people around you. It’s been a haul and we all deserve some kindness. Sorry again to Heath, David, Chris, and Matt – I hope it works out where we get to play together at some point when I have proper time to devote to it.

Love y’all…

Peace be the journey!
TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 62): OUCH

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 62): OUCH

I’m turning 48 this Thursday.

I feel EVERY SINGLE second, minute, hour, day, month, and year of this age. Often, I actually feel older.

The majority of the reason for this is purely my fault. I don’t take care of my physical health. It’s something I’ve struggled with my entire adult life, because I really don’t get the same “kick” from exercise that most people do. It doesn’t make me happy to work hard physically – it just makes me want to lay down. Even in my most “exercisey” periods of my life (shut up – I’m going to use “exercisey” if I want to – I know it’s not really a word), I got smaller and more fit, but it never really made me feel any better than sitting on the couch (and before you suggest it, I REALLY don’t like people trying to motivate me, so having a trainer isn’t likely to help me over that hump to the “I LOVE TO EXERCISE” feeling that so many get). So I’ve just gotten fat and old. Of course, I hide it fairly well, since I’m of above-average height and my limbs are slim and athletic, but I’m a solid 65 pounds overweight based on my height. Even factoring in the fact that my family tends to run a little heavier than most people anyway (we measure a good 10-15% heavier than people who look exactly our same size – and it’s true of my dad and all my brothers, too), I’m still a solid 45-50 pounds overweight. The stress this is putting on my body is really becoming apparent. I hurt. Often…OUCH.

So that’s a long paragraph about my fatness. Why is that popping up here on this blog? Well…because I just spent the last 90 minutes singing and playing guitar standing on the comfortable carpet in my office, and my back and legs are killing me. I’m actually considering sitting down to play Saturday’s acoustic gig – which is something I just DON’T DO. And of course, I won’t sit at the show unless I must (I had an unfortunate gig back in 2015 or so that necessitated a “lean on a stool” performance because of a tweaked back, and that’s the only sit-down gig I’ve done since the “Brian V.” era started). So…OUCH.

Worse, my voice started shitting out on me about 20 songs in – you could hear it getting tired and raspy. Not good. Also…OUCH.

And I was having trouble matching pitches I played on my guitar while doing the “sing the guitar melodies you’re playing” thing I like to do to help keep my voice and hands in sync. With my voice, I was physically doing what would normally feel “right” for those notes, and I was just missing them. Sometimes a complete half-step off. It was very disconcerting. It’s been kind of an ongoing thing for me, though. So that’s more of a brain or spirit “OUCH”, but still…OUCH.

Well, I’ve got a physical on the 29th where I’ll address all this stuff with my doctor and maybe get another referral to an ENT who has specific skills related to those of us who depend on our voices for a living (my day job depends heavily on my voice being healthy, too).

Not trying to be a bummer or crap on myself or anything, just musing honestly about my health and how it relates to my music. I’m going to get better. I think. Because honestly, I don’t know how much more I can take of always being so wrecked when I play music. There will come a time when it won’t be worth it. But wouldn’t it be better to just lose some weight and give my joints a break? Then we can stop dealing with the OUCH.

Peace be the journey and take care of yourselves better than I take care of myself.

And please come hang out with me Friday the 17th with Chandler and The Bings at Speakeasy in Austin OR Saturday the 18th at 360 UNO up in Westlake for my solo gig.

TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 61): 10 Things I Didn’t Hate About 2020-2021

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 61): 10 Things I Didn’t Hate About 2020-2021

A few things that I’ve consumed “in these uncertain times” that I liked:

  1. Greg Renoff’s two biographies – “Van Halen Rising” and “Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life In Music”
  2. Toto/studio legend Steve Lukather’s autobiography – “The Gospel According To Luke”
  3. Wolfgang Van Halen’s album Mammoth WVH and…
  4. Mammoth WVH (the band)’s live show here at Emo’s in Austin last Thursday. Kid can PLAY…and he has a GREAT band. (Also weirdly met and had a nice chat with the guy from #1 on the list here (Greg Renoff) at the show. Crazy.)
  5. Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian’s autobiography – “I’m The Man”
  6. Ex-Black Crowes’ Drummer Steve Gorman’s amazing book – “Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes – A Memoir”
  7. Pink Floyd/Toy Matinee/studio bassist Guy Pratt’s autobiography “My Bass and Other Animals”
  8. Former Van Halen manager Noel Monk’s Van Halen autobiography “Runnin’ With The Devil”.
  9. Pat Benatar’s “Between a Heart and a Rock Place” autobiography.
  10. Toto’s “40 Tours Around The Sun” and “With A Little Help From My Friends” Blu-rays

I’m sure there’s more stuff I am forgetting that I’ve actually talked about on here, but these are the things I’ve read or listened to that come to mind right now as stuff that’s been enjoyable. There are TV Shows and Movies and stuff that have been pretty great, too, and I may make a list of that stuff as well (music-wise, I liked that first Billie Eilish movie and the Beastie Boys story on Apple TV+).

Anyway, take care, be safe, etc. Same old shit since March 2020. How the fuck are we now almost 18 months on and still dealing with this crap? Oh, that’s right, because America is STUPID and CHILDISH and SELFISH. And politicians care more about POWER than PEOPLE. That’s a rant for another place.

Peace be the journey…
TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 60): BRIAN V. IS BACK!

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 60): BRIAN V. IS BACK!

Yes, my solo-guitar-and-sangin’ alter-ego has a gig on the books!

I’ll be entertaining folks at 360 UNO on September 18th from 6:30-8:30pm. Playing all your classic “Brian V.” favorites.

(MEGA THANKS to my good friend and Twitch superstar Mandy Prater for the hookup…)

Hopefully my voice will be solid and the extra work will benefit my other bands as well. I’m probably going to purposefully play mini-sets of songs from each of my bands, some I don’t even sing in those bands, so it should be a fun time for all. Going to post a flyer and all the details later this evening, but I’m super excited.

My summer has sort of driven me into a place where I just don’t feel like writing much. I just don’t feel like doing much of anything. But I will get back in the groove here with some rantings and musings about things. I have a lot on my mind, and probably have some stuff you might find interesting and might want to engage with, too. Just have to get them all together. Of course, with this, Yacht Z learning, Bings gigs…I mean, when is there time? Here’s hoping I manage to squeeze it in.

Take care, get the damn shot if you haven’t, and be safe out there.

TMS

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 59): No Time

Museday Mumblings (Vol. 59): No Time

I realize it’s been over a month since the last one…probably going to be at least a few more weeks before it calms down and I can really do some good ones…I just have ZERO energy.

I’ve been through some serious shit the past month and then I was on vacation. The shit part is nothing I’d like to talk about publicly, but I will talk about vacation – I absolutely loved my week in California and I didn’t realize how much I missed it and how much it’s a part of me until I was there. I love my Aunt Eileen and got to see her, and got to spend a lot of time with my favorite ocean (even if it’s not the one of my birth). I hope I get to live there again someday, hopefully on the central coast (because LA is just TOO MUCH even though I do love it, too).

And that’s all for now.

GET YOUR GODDAMN SHOT

Love you. Mean it.

TMS