Featuring the DMCA-Free Rock of KCWM & Cold the Winter
Jr. recently watched a video on Rhett Shull’s YouTube channel about one amp for everything. At the start of that video, he talks a bit about his first guitar amp and subsequent journey. Now, I’m nowhere near as interesting as a bonafide YouTuber who has chops knows their stuff. Instead, I’m just a dude who’s…
Say what you will about a Stratocaster, but one cannot deny that they come in all sorts of configurations. I had the chance to buy a twin of my first guitar. Let’s get into my thoughts about this process. My First Guitar When I talk about the journey of owning guitars, I jokingly say I’ve…
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We’re halfway through 2023 and a little over a month out from where I gave myself the possibly unrealistic goal of releasing a 14-song album alongside a re-release of the 28 original songs I’ve released between Volumes One through Three and the singles “Go On”, “It Feels Familiar”, “Fire Intro Song”, and “Crashing Through the…
It’s not much of a stretch to say that I’ve been in a music funk for the better part of a year. I’ve been experiencing some significant “imposter syndrome” when it comes to the music I write, and it’s seeped into the cracks that were already showing in my drive to get back into releasing…
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In 2021, I started writing music to use for when I streamed and figured, “Why not put this online for others to use?”. At the time, I didn’t feel like there was an easily ready source of DMCA-free rock music, so I might fill a small niche. As a streamer, I was never a formula…
With the release of Toontrack’s EZKeys 2, I am feeling reinvigorated when it comes to songwriting. I will be looking to stream the process on Twitch so that you can watch along, provided instant feedback, and see how a song grows from basic idea to fully fleshed out instrumental track. Check my social media, mostly…
A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked me to write a new theme song for his podcast, one I’d previously co-hosted and provided the original theme for. He listened to the KCWM catalog and wanted to combine “The Original” and “All the Feels”. It took me about 45 minutes to come up…
It’s been almost two months since I posted last and I’ve had some lineup changes in the guitar department. Musicians, and especially guitarists, are often victims of GAS, or Gear Acquisition Syndrome. We might be happy for a while, but eventually, for the majority of us, the beast only stays dormant for so long. Sold…
The Hondo H-737 I recently began the process of downsizing my pedal collection, as touched upon in this post. Two of the pedals that I was selling were $30-$35 mini pedals that you can snag on Amazon, a Mosky Plexi-M and a Kokko Compressor. If I’m spending $30 on a pedal, I’m pretty much writing…
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It’s been 2.5 months since I released “Go On” and “It Feels Familiar”. I’d hoped to have more music done by now, but this year hasn’t been great for me, health wise. As the title of this post indicates, I am working on two new songs for upcoming release. One of them is a rocker…
