Life has been very busy between NHB, DBT, THD and every other three letter acronym or abbreviation you can find, except STD, thank God. Here's how it shapes up.

Days Before Tomorrow news:

It looks good for me to be signed on as an official band member. We are currently writing new material as we speak, as well as tightening up a few loose ends on the pre-existing material. I have three songs still to learn, but we have shifted a bit to new material. There is hope to play a gig or two this summer before the big L.A. Awards gig, but we'll see.

THD News:

It's a mixed bag here. I have been gburning out on QueensRyche and Dream Theater, but the band seems to want to stay in that direction. So, we play Cooks on July 13 or so, but there is movement towards working on original material here, so I'll swallow the tribute stuff for now. We are throwing a Savatage song into the set for Cooks after I begged for it, so at least it won't be too monotonous.

Between two nights a week for dBT and THD having Thursdays, NHb on Mondays, I am lucky I am awake now to write this. I am hoping my body will eventually get used to the busy schedule. IN the meantime, I have pulled down any work in progress demos as they will be used in either Days Before tomorrow, THD or when I get Rich to pull his head from his ass and start working on our stuff. We are waiting for the next expansion pack from toontrack which will give us drums suited for hard rock and metal and then all should be good to go. Plus the boy needs to give me lyrics. So, the work in progress demos will be shuffled between three projects, pulled apart and reassembled and the like. Hopefully the material will all find a home somewhere. Sorry for those who wanted them, but the site is big enough without half finished stuff here.

I'll keep you posted as I can. It is getting highly busy around here, which is good.

OK, the bad news first...

The Keith Emerson gig was canceled. According to news I have heard, and confirmed by message boards on the net, Keith has issues with his hand and he had to cancel the rest of his tour. So, days Before Tomorrow will not be playing on June 7, at least not with Keith emerson.

The Good News...

I have been added to their web site as a band member. I am not a full band member yet, but I appear on the members bio page. If things keep going well enough, I will be offered full band membership. That's the latest word from Scott, the guitar player. We are playing the L.A. Music Awards in November, and more stuff is in the works.

There is no other news, really. I have been spending my days absorbing the Days Before Tomorrow CD, which is awesome and should be purchased from their web site. I can play 9 songs in some form or another off of the CD, and I have 3 more to go. We practice twice a week and it seems to be a well oiled machine that actually gets things done. Other bands could stand to learn from this one.

Well, as it stands at the moment, the audition for Days Before Tomorrow was a success. I may be wrong, but I think they liked me enough to take me into the band on a trail run and if all goes well, possibly as a permanent member. So, for the next 5 weeks or so, I will be working on learning their CD completely to take to the Starland Ballroom on June 7, opening for the Keith Emerson band, of all bands. This is exciting for me, as Keith Emerson is one of my favorite keyboard players ever, second only to Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater. I am happy that it seems to be a nice fit between the band and myself and look forward to following this adventure and see where it leads me.

Meanwhile, THD has grinded to a halt again due to scheduling issues with the band for practice. Hopefully that band will eventually get back on track again and we can work on material or do whatever it is the band is doing this week.

So, in the meantime, go to the Days Before Tomorrow web site and check them out, they rock the house and now that they have me in the band, well, maybe it will get a little bit better. Their CD is called The Sky is Falling and it is really an awesome CD and I hope I can do their keyboard parts justice. Hopefully, this band will take off, as their seems to be a nice buzz going around about them and we will tour and do all kinds of cool shi.t I wonder if there will even be groupies. Ah, hell with groupies, I need equipment endorsements. More gear, more better.