JL: Tape Debacle II

JL: Tape Debacle II

Visit this post to learn about the JL archive blog post series. Here’s a follow-up to the JL tape debacle that I discussed in a previous post. The nutshell was that I after a mishap with my Fostex R8 reel-to-reel tape machine, I needed to find someone to convert a...
Favorite Live Videos #5

Favorite Live Videos #5

On this day six years ago (May 3, 2014) I went to the Chameleon Club here in Lancaster on a tip from an old college pal to see a show he had seen the night before in Pittsburgh. The headliner was the Baltimore based indie duo, Wye Oak, and the opening act was a trio...
JL: Tape Debacle

JL: Tape Debacle

Visit this post to learn about the JL archive blog post series. The first step for me to work toward the Jesters Longevity archive and compilation record was to find as many of the masters that I could, and analyze the effort to remix that tracks we decide to...
JL: The Archive

JL: The Archive

Between 1998 to 2005, Dave Bellard and I recorded and released four albums under the name Jesters Longevity. Since we haven’t lived in the same state since college in the early 90s, the music was the result of periodic intense weekends filled with creative...
Favorite Live Videos #4

Favorite Live Videos #4

My early relationship with Peter Gabriel’s music was documented in this blog post. In that post, I describe how his 2002 album Up converted me from a very respectful fan, to a “holy shit, I need to explore this guy’s whole catalog” fan. Two...