Flying High

Several very very unbelievably amazing things have happened over the past two weeks that have completely just placed me on cloud 9. Most importantly, I'm realizing that hard works truly does pay off... And when it pays, you don't even remember how hard the work actually was.

First off, I finished my ET rig.... It's never actually done, but I was finally able to fit all of my necessities on to one giant board. It's a hell of a workstation now, and it saves me some time from plugging hundreds of cables together and mix-matching gear - it all has a set place and duty now!!! It saw its Eclectic Tuba debut on March 27th, and its Opposite Box debut on April 4th (see the above photo. Shit got crazy.)

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.” 

― Terence McKenna

So, last week, I met up with Brent Rosborough from Jupiter.... The purpose of the meeting was to discuss some marketing options for the Electrobrass Conference (Electrobrass.com) --- however, when I got there, it seemed as though Brent had other things on his mind. From the get-go, we talked about Eclectic Tuba, and it felt amazing to hear some of the great things he had to say about the direction of our music. - he gave me a nice tour of KHS America where I got to see and play tons of Jupiter instruments and I got to see the Mapex "Build Your Dream" drumset assembly portion -There's some REALLY COOL STUFF COMING OUT OF THERE!!!

At the end of the tour,we found ourselves in the recital room of the building - There were several horns lined up, and Brent asked me to try them out and to give him my review... At first, I was a bit taken back by this! --- I was like, "You want MY review?!" --- but, I went with it and played on the horns... I particularly enjoyed the 584L CC tuba - so, Brent said, "Take that one home with you and do some Research and Development with us!" ---- So, I took the thing home and made a video.........................

!!!!AND THAT VIDEO HIT 64,000 VIEWS!!!!!

That literally could not have gone smoother....

.... So, after that, I went down to Chattanooga to record some acid tuba jams with Opposite Box. The new EP is sounding absolutely spectacular!!!!!! --- While we were recording, Ross Bartels from In Orbit Productions was hanging around with cameras, and he made the suggestion that we create a high quality video for all of you beautiful people!!! So, we did!!!

The new video looks GREAT!!! And you can find it on the front page of the website!!!

I finished all of this off with a huge bang in Knoxville at Presevation Pub. Where I crowdsurfed with a tuba again. Who would've ever fucking thought?! Crowdsurfing... With a fucking tuba....

I LOVE THIS LIFE!!!!'

Until next time, my beautifuls!!!

M@