Recent content by KenHR

Ability to stretch and manipulate tempo to impart a dynamic sense of motion in the music.

Beaked Whale is headlining a show at the Low Beat in Albany tomorrow night. Two new songs to debut.

Hey, neighbor, best of luck!

I generally find I like drummers with a fairly solid, on-the-beat kick and who hit the snare just a hair behind the beat.

I'd never trust a label called "Sumerian" that uses a picture of the very non-Sumerian Sphinx and Great Pyramid as its logo.

Great show at Saratoga Springs City Center for NYE. The sound on stage was the best ever...we even had to ask for our vox to be turned down in the monitors, it was so clear! The set was energetic, our drummer ROCKED and a couple people asked where they could get recordings of our tunes. Just...

Beaked Whale will be playing First Night in Saratoga Springs tomorrow. We're on early in the evening, but that'll be nice, I can enjoy the festivities for once! We'll have a fill-in drummer at this gig. Two rehearsals with him and it feels rock-solid; he's got great feel while still being...

Yeah, he's just a young, eager kid. Loads of potential, but it's a constant battle. I've brought up the tempo issue again and again; he records all the rehearsals and told me he hears what I'm talking about, and when he concentrates, he's good. He just forgets...a lot. It's even more marked...

Our show...not so hot. I guess the bad ones are what makes the good ones good. Our new drummer is a young kid with a lot of potential, but he gets excited sometimes and speeds up (not the organic tempo drift you always get, but just noticeably accelerating) or tries to get fancy with fills; he...

Beaked Whale will be playing Spring Street Gallery in Saratoga Springs tomorrow evening. I think we'll be debuting our projector system to add visual interest. Should be interesting; two of us are sick, haha!

Last night's show was great. We went on last so I think I tied a few too many on (I ended up staying overnight in Albany, wasn't gonna risk even the short drive home) and we were a bit sloppy, but the energy was fantastic. The college crowd that was left by the end of the night definitely dug...

Gig tomorrow at the Low Beat in Albany with Beaked Whale. This one kind of took us by surprise; it's a homeless benefit (bring a canned good!) that the club owner told us was happening February 14. He really meant November 14. All good, though, and for a good cause.

John Paul Jones

Making music with other people. There's something that happens when everyone in the band is connecting and working on the same wavelength that can't be matched by anything else. When you look up and everyone's smiling and you have a floor full of kids dancing because they feel it, too...it's...

Just got back from a Halloween gig at the Low Beat in Albany. I'm the nurse. Oh, and hi, all...been away for a little while. Much to catch up on here...