Bass Wah Pedal Extravaganza
This one is an all-bass Multitrack Videosong (a la Mystery Guitar Man or Pompaloose) that we filmed in my old apartment in Brighton. There’s a decent chance of this music becoming a more developed song with vocals later on, but we’ll see about that…
Under the Lymelight: The Realities of Chronic Lyme Disease
This is an unfortunate story of corruption, deceit and death. This is a story which needs to be exposed and I need your help in doing so. I have lost nearly everything to this disease: my apartment, my job, my friends, my money and my independence. But it’s time for the suffering of Lyme patients around the United States to end.
A First Taste of Liberia (via AU Interns)
My girlfriend Alyssa’s sister Anna just landed in Liberia last week to begin a four month hands-on experience in community development in third world countries. This is her first update and it’s a great opportunity to use the new “reblog” function on Wordpress.
Ghosts in the Machine: The five-year listening study behind the Soundblox Classic Distortion
Referred to as the “best distortion box ever” by both vintage tone champion Adrian Belew of King Crimson and neo-shredder Herman Li of DragonForce, the newly released Soundblox Classic Distortion by Source Audio is showing that analog soul can be captured on a digital chip.
Pickle the Puggle
My girlfriend and I got a puppy together and we named her Pickle and she is the COOLEST. Here are videos of her first week with us:
Playing Jaco
‘Portrait of Tracy’ is a song that I learned back in high school during my independent studies. I was very lucky to have a teacher who was willing to just shut me in a room and let me practice for half of the afternoon every day. As for the song itself, those high ringing notes, … Read more
Mailbag: Making a Living in Music
I woke up the other morning and saw that Mike Park sent me an email with a few questions about life as a musician. Mike is on the path himself and I have to say I am deeply complimented that he thought to ask me for some advice.
I’m just getting started in this life of music so I am not so sure that I can offer any groundbreaking words of wisdom here. However, I do know that there are a lot of us out there trying to figure out what to do with ourselves and it always helps to talk about it. If you want to send me an email like Mike did, my address is: willcady@gmail.com
Carl Sagan: The Pale Blue Dot
If you’ve read or seen Carl Sagans thoughts on the Pale Blue Dot already, it’s worth a revisit…this time through video.
This is the Truth.
I admire this so much as a musician and artist. He is free. His ego is entirely absent from this. Yet he pulls something off that would satisfy any ego. “Look what I started”. The dude just wants to dance…and as you can see, people will sprint to get closer to that release.
Jamming with Reeves Gabrels of David Bowie
The work side of the trip was spectacularly fun. Since we were performing as a part of the Warwick booth, I had four days to really hang out with some top-notch musicians. I had especially great hangs with Jean-Paul Bourrelly, Divinity Roxx of Beyonce’s band Suga Mama, DeWayne ‘Blackbyrd’ McKnight of P-Funk and Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne. Each and every one of them showed themselves to be kind, eloquent people with a sincere interest in thought provoking conversation.
