Day two started with a visit with audio engineer Erika Patriz Earl, who interned at Livinghead Audio when I was managing studio operations over 20 years ago. She's had a wonderful career as an audio engineer in LA.   

While I…

Wow what a day I was definitely a kid in the candle store.

  

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                                    I started just meandering through the south end of  the convention center. I had a list of companies I wanted  to check out but wasn’t quite…

Many years ago we saw some Rainsong guitars in Hawaii. We  heard that they were incredibly stable as being constructed with carbon fiber. Near the end of 2022, I watched a few Youtube videos about the Rainsong WS1000 reissue that…

We started started 2021 by checking in with our old friend Darin Mahoney who is still creating wonderful music up in Chino Valley and Prescott. 

We're wearing our Music Villa t-shirt that Paul up in Bozeman, Mt swapped with us…

Our travels in the Summer of 2021 took us to Music Villa in Bozeman, Montana, to meet the owner Paul and his crew. We ordered a couple of acoustic guitars:

1. We purchased one of these wonderful Yamaha FS800T Mahagony guitars…

Well 2021 certainly had some unexpected twists and turns.

We started the year excited about a new album on the store shelves, but at the same time a little sad realizing that we would not able to support the album…

For some of us in the Big FOR His AGE band family, it's been over 50 years since we purchased our first vinyl record. For me it was "Meet the Beatles," the single most important financial transaction of my young…

I met Django Haskins in the summer of 1999 when he was a young singer songwriter teaching at the National Guitar Workshop in New Milford Connecticut. The most, shall we say, "challenging" student at the workshop and I became friends…

Such a sad way to end 2020. We learned that our friend and fellow Big FOR His AGE family member, Ethan Newman passed away from Covid related complications this week. He was 46 years old. 

We met Ethan when he…

Big FOR His AGE Too started in the late 1990s with cousins Rex Anderson on guitars and vocals and Gregg Anderson on bass, joined by Gregg's wife, Cathey Anderson, on drums and vocals, and Rex's neighbor Gary Oreskovich, also on…

David Nichols is an independent audio engineer and producer in Phoenix, Arizona. He is currently a resident faculty member at Glendale Community Collage in the Recording Program. 

I was a student at the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in…

Mark Anderson is 99% energy; the 1% mass holds him together on stage and in the studio. His Big FOR His AGE creds go back to the first Big FOR His AGE album, playing bass on the song "Homicide" and…

How can I cherrypick a few remarkable qualities of Kerry Jackson when even a shortlist of his amazing talents hits triple figures? I have never met another musician who can pick up any instrument left within reach and not only…

I met Steve when we were students at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas. At the time he was part of a duo that performed acoustic sets at cafes and any campus get-together that needed good tunes to hold on…

I met Dan Tomlinson 20 years ago, when I worked as Director of Operations of Livinghead Audio Recording in Phoenix. Dan was one of the studio drummers for countless recording sessions when he wasn't on the road with Lyle Lovett…

We had an opportunity to play the test pressings of the new Big FOR His AGE Too album on several audio systems over the last week. We began the process with a live playback party with some of our collaborating…

We received word that our Stampers are ready! The next step is to have the test pressings created. We look forward to listening to the test pressings from Gotta Groove Records. We'll be checking in our friends at Arizona Hi…