Zapruder Point

Bury The Lead [One Mike Demo] This is a song I’ve been chipping away at for what seems like forever but is probably more like a year. I definitely pictured it as a grand recording, with an anthemic twin-guitar outro, like Thin Lizzy meets U2′s “Mothers of the Disappeared.” The shoestring-budget version of this vision [...]

EverybodyLooksLikeSomebodyElse Not a whole lot to this one, but it’s fun. You wouldn’t believe how many takes I needed to get the dumb little gentle guitar line. Lyrically, I imagine this phrase morphing in meaning from comfort to terror and back. Because it’s true, you know.

Shortly after moving to Chicago, I realized I couldn’t swing an apartment by myself, and so was looking for a roommate. Mutual friends hooked me up with Tom, future drummer for the “classic trio” version of Zapruder Point. Getting to be friends with Tom was one of the more serendipitous things to happen in my [...]

I’ve known for a few weeks — more like months, really — that there was a period of time looming where my job was going to be, for a few months or so, brain-crushingly tedious and boring. Until this recent shift in duties (and office space, and don’t get me started), I wore quite a [...]

So I went straight from that mid-October show into a two week period of intense “what-I-get-paid-to-do” type work, during which I pretty much didn’t touch the guitar at all. And now I am paying the price. In the fading of finger callouses, yes, and in a cracked “au gratin” voice. But also in the mental [...]