March 31, 2015

Just last week my girlfriend and I went to see him here in Seattle. He did a solo show. He’s an English guy who was in a band called Lloyd Cole and the Commotions in the ’80s and has been putting out solo records since the ’90s. He’s now is in his mid-fifties and has amassed this huge body of work.

March 4, 2015

When I put together my home studio in 1992, I had Eventides and Lexicons and more, and I never really knew what I was doing with any of them. Today …

March 4, 2015

There have been many references over the last 20 or so years to my ‘home studio’. But in fact I only ever had one 1992-1994. I paid a high price …

January 28, 2015

Rattlesnakes side 1. Upper track is 1984 1/2″ tape transferred flat to digital, lower track is 2004 “re-master”.

Stephen Irvine upon hearing the original 1/2″ mixes again (albeit digitized) – “I …

January 21, 2015

My new portable synth case, filled with modules yesterday. This isn’t a noise box exactly, but it isn’t geared to melody either. What will I do with it?

January 21, 2015

My new guitar arrived today – C-9 Mahogany (not C-10 as previously posted). It plays great and it’s off to the luthier’s to have this pickup installed so maybe I …