December, 2006

- [sic] made it into John Kelman's Best of 2006 - under "New Discoveries"

- My first album "Featuring Ourselves" (originally released 1999) is finally available again as digital download. This album was out of print for many years.

  click on the thumbnail to go to the Abstract Logix download site.

- "dates" section is updated

- "Rave" magazine interview is up on the site ("press section")

- Ian Patterson recently interviewed me for www.allaboutjazz.com
  The interview should be up on their site by the end of the month.

- article about [sic] in the current issue of "Guitar One"

- a personal note: I want to warn you to do business with Mille Records in Rome, Italy. These guys got 100 copies of the BPM album but never   paid for it. I tried to get this issue solved (for a couple of years!) - but they obviously refuse to get back to me
  zero, null, nothing!!!
So much for the fun in the music business...

November, 2006

  
- I recently aquired new pick ups from Suhr Guitars (V60LPs and SSV) for my Steinberger and they sound awesome!
Highly recommended!!!  

    

- more gigs (->dates)
...with Marco Minnemann, JK Kleutgens and Antti Kotikoski @ the Baked Potato
...with Sumitra and Mario Lackner @ Alvas, San Pedro

  

OUT TRIO - Japan Tour (Jan. 2007) confirmed!!!
I haven't been to Japan yet (except for a short lay over in Tokyo) and I am pretty excited about this.
There are plans to film the shows in Tokyo for a "Live in Japan - DVD" - this time it will be filmed in HD and with 7 cameras!

  

- Since October I am teaching at the GIT, Hollywood - so far so good

- New article about [sic] in the Indian "Rave" - Magazine. As soon as I have it I'll put it on the site.

- I recently contributed an article/workshop about chord voicings for the GuitarPlayer magazine. This should be in the next issue in the
"woodshed" - department.

- Alex Machacek - interview for the Guitar Channel

- new reviews of [sic] in the press section

August, 2006

- New gigs added under "dates".

- Finally the "gallery" is updated. Once there, click "main menu -> library -> and select a folder.

- Alex Machacek interview for the Gagliarchives: Click here to listen to it.

- By Monday, August 28, 2006 [sic]     will be available for download from Abstract Logix!

- I recently held a guitar clinic at ToneZone in Cary, NC. Thanks again to Derek Butler and Tom Yoder for having me.
 Here are some pictures...


- A video clip from a performance at the Offbeat record store in Durham, NC. It is just me playing "Donna-Lee, The Easy Viennes Teenage   Version" along with a playback. Thanks to Troy for videotaping! Click here to watch it (wmv 1.8 mb)...  or as a very large quicktime file (40mb)

- Reviews of [sic] posted in the "press"-section...

 

July, 2006

First of all: my CD [sic] is finally finished! It's available @

I want to thank all the musicians who played on it, Joerg Mayr who helped me mixing, Bob Katz for doing a great job with the mastering
and of course Souvik.

In December 2005 I played at the Congo Square Jazzfestival. Sumitra and I opened up with a duo set and then I played a trio set with Jeff Sipe (drums) and Lew Hilt (bass). Jonas Hellborg couldn't make it so Lew helped us out. Thanks to everyone at Congo Square for making it happen.

In January I got an Rocktron Endorsement - I am using the Rocktron MidiMate and the Rocktron XPression.

The Out Trio performed at Sabian's 25th anniversary party at the NAMM Show 2006. Somebody posted a video-snippet on youtube.com.

At the end of January Terry, Doug and I recorded new material at Ronan Chris Murphy's Studio. I am currently editing this material for a new album and hope to be done by the end of the year.

Hugh Ferguson's new album entitled "A.D.D." is released. I played a guest solo on the track "Total Distraction".

In April I played a gig with Marco Minnemann, JK Kleutgens and Hans Zermuehlen at the Baked Potato.

upcoming:

July 7, 2006: Radio interview with Randy Allar on WCSB 89.3FM. Tune in!

July 28/29, 2006: The Out Trio @ The Baked Potato - Terry will invite some special guests (from the Zappa plays Zappa Tour)
to sit in - surprise, surprise...

August 19, 2006: Alex Machacek guitar clinic in Cary, NC for ToneZone - details: tba

That's it for now. I'll try to stick to my new years resolution and update this site as frequently as possible!!!

 

     

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