June 21, 2012
Killeen, Texas
One way or another this will be my last
post from this city and I couldn't be happier! My brother is done
for the week tomorrow and the plan is to hit the road as soon as he's
out. It should be a rather interesting site to see transporting my gear, his gear,
and himself all on my wee motorcycle but its all in the name of
adventure travel right?
On a side note I'm currently trying to
arrange a new perspective for the blog. Being a musician myself
since I was 12 but always having a tough time finding dedicated
musicians (except Michelle my beautiful and talented vocalist and
co-writer for a brief period!) I now have the curious habit of going
on to craigslist wherever I am to see whose looking for band mates.
This time I found a guy named Woodstock Jones looking for a drummer,
my preferred instrument currently. I used to do the whole singer
songwriter thing but I was always too much of a perfectionist (and I
guess not good enough to make myself happy!) to enjoy playing live
shows as great as they were. My career in that department culminated
in me recording a full length CD, playing all the instruments,
writing all the music, and mastering it myself in Brockport while I
was in college. It was an incredible experience of hundreds of hours
of work, but I felt like after I was done I had said what I needed to
say, written what I needed to write, and was happy with what I
accomplished. Now I'm perfectly content to sit in the back and
hammer on my drum set unafraid to slip up, just playing for myself
and trying to have a good time.
So where does Woodstock Jones come into
this? Well I found that he was looking for a drummer so I decided to
try and contact him to interview him when I got to Austin about his
music, and the legendary music scene that surrounds him. At this
point I'm not sure what he's going to say; he could be too busy for
me to get a chance to meet up with him, or he could be too creeped
out by the completely random message to contact him. Either way
Woodstock Jones has a great sound as is worth checking out here:
http://www.facebook.com/woodstockjonesmusic/app_2405167945.
He's got a hauntingly soulful voice, to the point cutting lyrics,
and some great acoustic guitar riffs. Hopefully next post will be
some good news about meeting up with him, and I've also managed to
contact another adventure traveler in Austin with an epic blog, but
we shall see...
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