November 4th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
An old friend saw one of these videos and actually liked what he heard enough to send me a track of stuff *he’s* been working on – “It needs a solo.”
Whoa. Uh, I’m nowhere near ready for that!
That being said, I’m now very much itching to get my four-track repaired – and to start practicing out of my arpeggio book again.
October 28th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
As I get back in the habit of playing every day, the more eager I get to start working once again on compositions – but my fingers aren’t sure enough, yet despite how quickly my version of “chops” returned.
So many things learned poorly, so many old habits back that need to be hammered away.
WORK!
October 21st, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
I already feel things loosening up. So much so that I thought I’d share this goofy little theme I stumbled across:
Yeah! Still a looooong ways to go …
October 14th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
I’ve been playing guitar with varying degrees of seriousness, now, for almost 25 years.
Knowing that, you’d think I’d be way better at it than I am but the key part of that statement, above is “varying degrees of seriousness.”
May 13th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
It’s November, 2007 and at my suggestion, my 12 year-old daughter, Mel, is busy shoving wads of toilet paper into her ear canals.
It’s her first rock concert, you see, and we’ve already walked 20+ blocks from the ferry terminal in downtown Seattle to a place called “Neumos” and here I went and forgot the earplugs.
May 9th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
I’ve really been enjoying my record collection now that I have a new turntable (a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon – incredible value for the price) and, from time to time, have encountered a few aspects of listening to rekkids that you just don’t get with any other medium – especially with the now ubiquitous digital files!
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April 22nd, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
In early spring of this year, I returned to my hometown for a short visit with family and friends. During the visit, I managed to collect two recordings of my youth, one of which is the first, full-length, pop-music album I ever purchased: Blondie’s “Parallel Lines.”
April 15th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards
In early spring of this year, I returned to my hometown for a short visit with family and friends. During the visit, I managed to collect two recordings of my youth, one of which is the album I can pinpoint as having been instrumental (*snicker*) in awakening my interest in sound.
June 30th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
The last few months have seen my return to music creation at the cost of much else in my life. I remain obsessed with regaining – and then hopefully surpassing – all past musical endeavors and, as such, have spent much time in pouring through the audio diary I’ve kept (more off than on these last five years) since 1991.
Thinking quite correctly that the better bits would be at the end rather than the beginning, I started transferring the most recent tapes to digital and sifting through the resulting tracks for nuggets with which to kick start the practice and aim of my renewed passion.
April 21st, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Back before you could steal music from the internet, you actually had to go to the effort to drive all of the way into town to shoplift it from a store. And if you were into vinyl, it was a bitch to get that shit under your shirt without anyone noticing.
Oh, record stores, how I miss your once, near ubiquity.
