Every year my wife’s friends got together around Thanksgiving for a friendsgiving dinner. As the years progressed, more and more children began showing up as people had kids. During Thanksgiving 2018, I developed a migraine, and all of those infants and toddlers cut right through my skull. I asked my wife if she would be…
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You’re Going to Want to Move Faster
Last weekend I started messing around on guitar, trying to come up with something simple. And after about five minutes, I had most of the parts to this song put together. I started laying down scratch guitar parts and programmed some basic drums. After practicing the song a bit, I re-wrote the drums, added some…
Listen to Me
Shortly before Christmas 2020, I plugged my guitar into my amp and within ten minutes I’d written the majority of this song. Sometimes music is a process, where you add little bits here and there, building a song up like a house. But sometimes writing music is plugging in and letting it out–it just comes…
Return to Deerhead Trail
Around 2011 I joined an instrumental post-metal band called Deerhead up in Mankato, Minnesota. It was four guys–three guitarists and a drummer–looking for someone to handle bass duties. I stepped in, and it turned out to be my favorite band I was a part of. We had a small following in town and played some…