Remember MTV Unplugged?
Back in the early 1990s MTV Unplugged was a phenomenon. The show officially launched in the waning months of 1989, but really exploded during the following several years while I was in college at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. The concept was pretty simple. Take...
That Goal for 2025
About a year ago, in December of 2024, I knew I needed to change my approach to making music. I was longing to play with other people and get back into my local scene, so I set a (relatively) simple goal for 2025: put together a band and play a couple of gigs. To...
JASON at Zoetropolis 12.6.25
Our second JASON show went down at Zoetropolis on December 6. There was a great turnout to celebrate Sorry, the new release by Dipped. It’s an atmospheric collection of tracks inspired by 90s shoegaze and Mazzy Star acoustic dream-pop, so very much to my liking. Their...
What’s the Point?
EDIT: This post was originally published on EraseTheFilter.com on September 16, 2019. It has been updated an republished here. As I pay more attention to publishing on this website as opposed to other platforms around the interwebs, I wanted to share its purpose and...
September Cold
With the crack of a cue ballAnd Friday night footballAnd books I had to memorizeI walked around all through this townWith music in my earphonesThey said we had the time of our lives There’s a chill in the air. The evenings in Lancaster, PA are dipping into the 40s....
First JASON Show at West Art
This new band of mine has been branded as JASON. Anne, my now wife as of early October, suggested the name one evening, and after I realized she wasn’t joking, she made a valid point. Nobody can ever spell my last name anyway, and this new music should be called...