We spent the day driving today down to Ocala, FL. I had some fingernails trouble this week and have been experimenting with playing with shorter nails. It has it's pro's and cons. Pros are that it makes playing in the steel string a little easier and you can really dig into the strings with out fear of breakage. Cons are that it is a little harder to get tone colors on the nylon string, however it has forced me into a slightly different hand position which seems to be a little better. I'll keep experimenting...

We have had some good opening gigs recently at Rhythm and Brews in Chatanooga. We have met some cool folks there in Chattanoogie and look forward to going back in Nov. to do a full show. I've also enjoyed working with Doug the sound engineer, he has filled me in on some new approaches to our live sound, which I like. Last gig we tried running six channels to the board. (One for each cello, guitar mic, guitar line and stereo out of the looper.) This worked well, the only drawback was that one of the lines came loose from it's socket so we lost part of the cello for one track. Unfortunately that seems to be a shortcoming of that particular mixer. Once I work that out, I think this will be a good way to approach the sound in certain venues.

We recently added our version of "The Wall" (Pink Floyd) to our set. It is a work in progress and is still evolving quite a bit, but we're both having a lot of fun with it. We've been in a bit of a Pink Floyd phase recently and rented The Wall (movie) on netflix and even watched the Wizard of Oz with the Dark side of the moon.