This is the Wall America needs. This is a 50 ft wall of nothing but Snatchee Records show posters at the Wenatchee Museum. AndyandJas Peart took a dive bar that had once been feared and written off by SOME folks in their community, and turned this carpeted 75 capacity wonder into Central Washington’s own CBGB’s. Soon legendary punk …
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I have been fighting myself not to start writing a new song everyday. A real accomplishment would be finishing a song week. But tonight I lost that War. The motto of Carpe Diem has fascinated me since I first learned the Latin phrase, which translates to “seize the day.” I just came back from a …
I pulled off losing all that weight since March. Now it’s time to get that muscle back. Hearing your song on Jamaican pop radio and shaking hands with David Rodigan at a BBC television taping has a way of making you want to come back and shock Jamaica. I haven’t even played there LIVE yet, …
Before I am 50, I want to have an orchestra perform a symphony I wrote. The melodies and themes, and chord structures will be a breeze. I can lay that out now. But to arrange the music with the brushes available to Beethoven, that’s the hard part. I am really good at the skeleton of …
LAND OF A 1000 Hooks: I am working with Adam Kutchman on a new track. It’s been an exciting challenge to connect with different producers and friends on developing singles I intend to reproduce on stage. Some of these songs…they sound like hits. I am used to playing a song for years before I even have a …
What a photo of Justin Smith and I at possibly the last Staxx Brothers show in Seattle. This was not long before I stripped down to my boxers and made deep precious love to that hammond like the sexy and consensual piece of furniture she is. Yesterday a customer came in the shop and said “wait, you’re …
I finally wrote a song about The Mongols. I was on the way to work listening to Persian history and the Mongol King Tamerlane comes up. What a name. I wrote this wondering wanting to sing about The Golden Horde of Mongols that ruled Russia up until Ivan The Terrible. Well it turns out the …
Oh this is dumb. But I want to know how dumb it is. Can you water proof regular cordless headphones? Probably not. I am betting 3 to 1 odds against me. None of the headphones for swimming are really suitable for a myriad of reasons, including the fact that bluetooth is trash when it comes …
8 years ago at The Boom Boom Room George Clinton sent down his troops in Parliament Funkadelic to sit in The Staxx Brothers after their show at Yoshis. The owner Zander Andreas who was considering managing The Staxx Brothers at the time, gave us the heads up that George had mentioned his plans, and that …
January 5th one of my dreams comes true. Eva Walker is interviewing me that evening on KEXP’s Audio Oasis. The label, which I have yet to announce and will soon, is reintroducing ‘Free Your Mind’ in digital stores in conjunction with Eva’s interview. To my knowledge, I have never been played on KEXP. Given that I released …
You are going to hear more about my label and production company Soul United. I am launching a new band called The Soul United Allstars to bring music to stage in some exciting ways at home and around the globe. I have a label that has been teaming up with other labels to get music …
Things that fascinate me #137 about this Brave New World today: What if I did pass out 5000 fliers? It used to be the normal thing. Now you trust an algorithm. And now thanks to algorithms Donald Trump is President, and America is a fascist state the world genuinely enjoys laughing at – with every …
I have ten killer recordings to put on The Staxx Brothers‘ last record. I am not sure if they will all make it. But these are outstanding songs that just took a little more time. I note where we recorded basic tracks. Most of these songs could have been on Hot Chocolate. But that album had …
I am lucky that for the last three years I have worked with Chris Mcfann & Erin Mikkelsen on an annual Staxx Brothers weekend at der Hinterhof. Leavenworth is a magical little place. We actually picked one of the slower weekends between seasons to bring more business and original live music to the community. Chris is a visionary. He and …
If You’re Gonna Ride Your Trojan Horse to the Party and Pack the Champagne, by Davin Michael Stedman
Trump did fire his attorney general Jeff Session in yet another attempt to cover up an obstruction of justice probe that is most legally viable way to hold our President accountable for Treason. It’s called a Trump-Russia probe because we witnessed a Coup and millions of calculated attacks on America and Americans using Facebook as …
Jumping rope, listening to great song after great song; thinking about these last shows, and what comes next. I’ll be in Leavenworth this weekend singing with The Staxx Brothers, celebrating. You can join me. It’s been quite a year. I was reminded that a year ago I wrote a song at a 502, covered in …
Heading to Leavenworth this weekend to close one chapter and start the next. Come see The Staxx Brothers hold court at one of our favorite venues and hangs of all time, der Hinterhof. Since Chris Mcfann and Erin Mikkelsen bought the place they put a lot of love into making the bar a home for local, regional, and even national acts. These …
The new Queen movie did a pretty darn nice job of capturing how bad ass it is to be in a Rock & Roll band in that moment when a song and a band is kicking so much f☆cking ass…and that joy is in a genuine circuit with a willing and participating audience. A living. …
This is why The SeaMonster Lounge matters. This was last call. Eric Struthers played here tonight. This is why I am proud to rep this City and why I have to travel the world to do so. I love Seattle and everything this town has given me. I want to bring more greats from around the World and I …
This video explains why an Everett musician such as Jeremy From-Steel Beans that is way more interesting and innovative, and simply better than people getting way more attention locally, don’t get that automatic cool kid hipster cred. Well they do if they can continue long enough to no longer need it. Because they eventually get the co-sign. …
Have you ever been around me when a song came to me? Do you remember which song. It usually starts weeks or months or years earlier. Someone says something and a seed is planted. For me yesterday, I remember Eric Struthers had told me about some instrumental gospel songs he recorded. I held this old giant Gretsch …
How do I write some novels, and make them truly come to life? I just take my Staxx Brothers albums, which are already sequenced cinematically, and breath life into characters in those songs. The narrative voices are already there. Every song is already a story. The videos are already my little movies – a literary …
Last night I went to see The Oracle. I took Eric Struthers to see the Troll, because since he hadn’t, he had to. I sat down with him right before this with hot coffee, and the mists of Autumn about us. He gave me sage advice and approved of one of my ideas that will change the …
You might want to come see me at The SeaMonster Lounge Saturday. It’s the end of an era. I can honestly say I tried as hard as I could and maybe harder than I should. Things are good. In some ways amazing. But it’s also time to move in a new direction. Trying to something over and …
I won’t share personal messages, but this thought I just sent to Anthony Cameron AKA Anthony Red Rose, is an exception. This was my reply tonight. I have had this song that came to me on guitar in 2009 that was this African sounding hybrid. It was like an expression of a style that did not yet exist …
So nice to spend a couple hours in the studio with Stingshark Sting. We were working on vocals for ‘Going South’, a track I brought to Hold in Fyah inspired by the fact that MAGA is a collection of fervently half witted anti-American Trash Pandas. But you can dance to it! Antony Su was on hand to document the …
What did you think was going to happen when you elected a White Supremacist president? Did you think his biggest fans weren’t going to be emboldened to shoot up synagogues, send politicians bombs, and slash throats on Portland trains. I am even more concerned how much support Trump has from law enforcement. Because White Supremacy …
It’s just one of those things. It’s a challenge to make sure people get the jist that one of the top guitar players in New Orleans is going to play with The Staxx Brothers on Nov 3rd at The SeaMonster Lounge. It’s no longer an era where you send a press release to The Seattle PI or The …
I got this video of the DJs in Tobago playing ‘Free Your Mind’ and giving me love along with Anthony Cameron, Sly Dunbar‘s, and last night’s award winning ASCAP composer Lenky Marsden, then I ran my 3rd 5k in 34:25 through Forest Park without losing too much breath. I stay ready. You know you ain’t in the White …
I got to work with Lenky Marsden on my song ‘Free Your Mind’. He won another ASCAP award. He’s already a dancehall legend for crossover success with Sean Paul. But this song with DJ Snake and Beebs was the most performed song of the year. There is a reason I call Anthony Cameron ‘Fadda’ and big up Sly Dunbar any chance …