The show at the Dog Bar (sponsored by The Noise and GimmeSound.com ) with  Thea Hopkins (and Andy Hollinger) was areal treat. I want to thank Dog Bar owner Andy Mulholland for having us. The audience was wonderful listeners. And after the show Thea talked to me about organizing a OCCUPY benefit. Great idea—you'll hear about it soon.

Then on Saturday, November 5, the Bandit Kings celebrate the release of their new CD. This is at The Rhumb Line (40 Railroad Ave.). The band has asked me to play as part of their selebration—and I'm veru excited to be a part of this celebration. This event is sponsored by GimmeSound.com and the Noise.

SHAKE—BEYOND THE STUDIO

The manufacturing of my environmental music project, SHAKE, is complete. Now I'm looking for a good place to have a release party.

NEXT UP IN THE STUDIO

The follow up project to SHAKE is already on its way. It’s called People of the Sun. Claire Paulsen is once again joining me at Project Sound with Jason Duguay at the board. She’s reading the story that goes way back into the past when the Sun was not a star, but a planet—a platinum planet, at that. What happened to the platinum planet? What happened to its inhabitants that loved to party and make a lot of money? How did the planet become a star? Well, I figured out the answers to all these question and will share them with you when the project is ready.

THE UPDATED CD—WHY WAR?

Well—I sold out of the first pressing of Why Do We Go to War and decided to edit the second pressing. So I added a couple of new tunes, change the ending, took some songs out and shortened some of the songs to make it a compact half-hour disc now titled Why War. This half–hour version is how I prefer to play the show live. So now the CD represents the live show well, but adds a lot of production. That added production is me layering more guitars, me singing all the choir parts (male and female—or should I say bass to soprano), and all fun extra stuff you can do with sound while you’re in the studio. Jason Duguay (at Project Sound) produced this CD with me and Mike Loce once again is the lone extra musician playing the jet engine electric guitar in the opening track. Although you can purchase this CD from me through email, tmax(at)thenoise-boston(dot)com, or at a live show ($10), the disc hasn’t been officially release yet. I may wait ’til October to do that.