Evening in July
July of 2024 has turned out to be incredibly hot in Lancaster, PA. By mid-month we experienced our third heatwave of the summer, second so far this month. Temperatures are consistently in the mid to high 90s and the humidity is stifling. It reminds me of summers I...
JL: Tape Debacle III
The final installment of my JL “tape debacle” blog post mini-series, which started in this post and continued in this post, wraps up with great news! Last week on May 11, 2020 the box arrived back from The Tape Farm with all of the original tapes intact along with a...
JL: Tape Debacle II
Visit this post to learn about the JL archive blog post series. Here’s a follow-up to the JL tape debacle that I discussed in a previous post. The nutshell was that I after a mishap with my Fostex R8 reel-to-reel tape machine, I needed to find someone to convert a...
JL: Tape Debacle
Visit this post to learn about the JL archive blog post series. The first step for me to work toward the Jesters Longevity archive and compilation record was to find as many of the masters that I could, and analyze the effort to remix that tracks we decide to...
JL: The Archive
Between 1998 to 2005, Dave Bellard and I recorded and released four albums under the name Jesters Longevity. Since we haven’t lived in the same state since college in the early 90s, the music was the result of periodic intense weekends filled with creative...
New Music for 2020
I’m three weeks into February before realizing that I haven’t been writing as much. Well, that’s because I’ve been spending a lot more time on new music, which is definitely a good thing. I’m putting together the first official Here Inside release since 2017, which is...