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Heading out on a dual solo x-country dash with fellow traveler, Joey Molinaro from Dec 27-Jan 8. More Apathy Destruction!

I’ll be doing a Fahey/Ribot/Frith/Sonic Youth style solo guitar set on acoustic and electric guitar (with the occasional collaboration). Joey shall be performing his footstompin’ grindcore fiddle Discordance-Axis interpretations and songs.

Dec 27 Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class
Dec 28 Indianapolis, IN @ Shared Heritage/Murphy Arts
Dec 29 Nashville, TN – House Show (email for deets)
Dec 30 Memphis, TN – tba
Jan 1 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
Jan 2 Houston, TX @ Super Happy Funland
Jan 3 Austin, TX @ Trailer Space Records
Jan 4 Austin, TX -> The 1808
Jan 6 Phoenix AZ @ Trunk Space
Jan 7 San Diego, CA – The Purple House
Jan 8 Los Angeles, CA @ Alex Cline’s Open Gate Series @ Eagle Rock with Emily Hay, Amy Denio and Brad Dutz

After the tour I shall spend a few weeks in SoCal and Joshua Tree working on music and recording. Hitting the road again in mid Feb back to the east coast for some really great shows.

Happy Holidays!

Played a wonderful show at The ResBox Series, curated and hosted by Hans Fjellestad, at the classy Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood.

Andrew Pask and Jim McAuley put in a cool first set culminating in a final bit of mayhem on a seven foot long 12 string instrument played by Jim with metal batons. A screening of Nightsoil followed, then my quartet with Motoko Honda, Emily Hay and Scrote. We performed Screen, an improv score by Fred Frith which involves each player cycling through an improvised figure in two measures of 5/4 and each player taking a solo turn. We followed with a game piece I originally wrote for Split Lip called Pass the Baton, which involves each player improvising either a long, slow, wide figure or short, fast, thin figure and passing it on to another player (or players) to ‘interpret.’ A pretty scored improvisation by Scrote titled Craving Beauty followed and we closed with a chaotic free improvisation. The night was capped off by composer Bruce Friedman (from whom I purchased a very kewl book called Notations 21, a collection of modern graphic music scores) and his cast of fine LA musicians interpreting a graphic score.