09/20/09 Posted some new music - A New Beginning - Deluxe Edition with 5 new songs. "Good Times" "Farewell" "Unconditional" "Pull Her Close" "The Candle Song"
08/05/08 Site got a bit of a face lift. Added some new gear pics. Added Bass to gear section. Watch for new music guys - Unconditional will hit some time late this year or early next year.
08/04/08 New Song of the Minute Richie Kotzen - Doing What the Devil Says to Do. I knew Richie could play - but listen to those pipes....great words too. Also - check out the groove at the end - the drummer - crazy awesome. My theme song right now :).
07/30/08 New Song of the Minute Dave Matthews Band #41. I just love the groove and chord structure here. It's built upon the intersection between A dorian and E minor which is just a fun place to play. The lyrics are very deep too.
06/27/08 New Music - Added A New Beginning to the music section. Check it out guys
05/08/08 New Song of the MInute Colbie Caillat - Realize. I listened to all the live versions I can find and the one on Letterman sounds like the cleanest. "but I can't spell it out for you....no it's never gonna be that simple" just beautful. I would of love to had a chance to lay a nice bluesy solo down on this
03/30/08 New Song of the Minute Journey - Send Her My Love. I used the live version of March of 83 at the Budokan in Tokyo (which is a great show). Great song - Great lyrics and Neil's guitar work is just gorgous .. almost oriental or asian sounding.
02-09-08 Song of the minute is Back and to kick it off we have a brand new song of the minute. This time I used youtube video's and wherever I could I used a good live video. The new one is Van Halen's Can't stop loving you. I used the live version from their great Toronto show. I love the lyrics and Eddie's super sweet phrasing in the solo really make the song. Also Sammy is way better DLR.
02-08-08 Added some video's of me playing guitar from youtube. Check them out in the gear section.
11/30/07 Added some changes to gear section: Added the Squier strat, the new Digitech Rp250 and new pictures - used some natural lighting and it really made a difference. Somebody buy me a Les Paul!
08/06/07 Made some changes to the gear section: Added the new RP50 and updated the Washburn x25 page. The song's of the minute are gone but you can check out some video's on my myspace. It's a super hot summer guys. Peace out!!
06-26-06 On vacation for a week. Decided to update the page. What do you think about the earth tones?. Also put a direct link to My Spage page. There is a new song on there guys, It's called the candle song. To me it's kind of bluesy with a cool solo. There is a story on the my space page about it too in the blogs. Let me know if you guys like it.
06-04-06 Well I got a new Digital Camera and took some picturs to update my page. New guitars, processors, and musical instruments posted to the gear section, Check it out!! updated the Sammie page for the last time. I miss my buddy!!
11-27-05 Today is a sad day indeed. Sammie my beautiful, loving, faithful to the end, Rottwieller died. I am not sure what happened. Dogs live precarious lives and so in some way I expected it someday but it was always that someday and never, hopefully today. I remember when She first came into my life, a small 4.7 pound puppy, with a fat belly and a quick to lick tounge. I remember when my late brother billy spent the night and he fed her KFC and she loved it so much she would get a piece of finger with the chicken. I remember as how she used to wine at the foot of the bed until i would scoop her up and pull her close. She loved to sleep in the small of my back. Then she grew and grew to be a 120 pound monster. I remember how she used to climb in my bed at dads and give me a quick lick on the chin and then snuggle close and go to bed. She loved to play in the water and she loved to run the mountains. She never failed to greet me when i pulled up every sunday with dad to see her. I loved that lick to the face and the warm body snuggled close. She died in her sleep a quite death of something unseen at the ripe old dog age of 7. Well loved as one of the family and better cared for than any dog could hope. I will miss you Sammie and I will remember the friend you were to me. I hope to always remember the lessons you taught me about friendship and love. Wherever you are may their be untamed mountains to run and friends to love you as I did.
11-20-05 New Song of the Minute: My Chemical Romance - Ghost of You. Such a well performed song. He sings every word like he means it and that really counts for alot. "I never said I'd lie and wait forever..if i did we'd be together now..."
11-06-05 Hey everybody. Had a little set back with the guestbook. I went and found a nice easy to install script that's not based on a mysql database. It's called Ardguest. I've got it installed and it's posting entries and working great. I did manage to get all the old entries archived. I hate worse than anything spam entries and this script has a nice tool to keep that from happening. :)
10-28-05 New Song of the Minute Sarah Mclachlan - Do What You Have to Do I've already talked about Sarah. She is the first repeat and those that know me know this is no suprise. There is something so magical in the way she sings. No one knows loss like Sarah. Sarah is such a special artist to me. I remember when Mirrorball came out and me and my late Brother Billy went out and bought it and some Beer. This song always stuck out to me. One name comes to mind when I listen to it though and it starts with a J.....
10-18-05 New Song of the Minute Alison Krauss and Union Station Band (AKUS) - Goodbye is All We Have. I heard this song on cmt. Just the end of it, but that's all it took of Jerry Douglas' haunting melodies on the dobro and Alison's super pure voice and equaly haunting lyrics to let me know this was a great song. If the sound of those dobro solos don't break your heart you don't love music the way I do.
10-01-05 New Song of the minute Howie Day - Collide I've been after this song for months. I heard it at the depot a long time ago playing in the background and I aksed everyone everytime I heard it "who is that?" "what is that song?" Finally last night my friend Jason goes That's Howie Day man. What a voice, what a song.
09-13-05 New Song of the minute Dave Mathews Band - Superman (Where are you going) I love dave. He has such a fresh style and unique vision or maybe its the lack there of that makes him so great. I have no other answers for you :P
08-09-05 New song of the minute: Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain I love his voice and his virtuousity on the piano..and the words to this song..yeah man i feel ya
07-23-05 New Song of the minute: Bryan Adams Here I am. "it's a new world it's a new start.....I've been waiting for you...here I am.
07-21-05 New Song of the minute: Sarah Mclachlan Good enough. Sarah has been one of my favorite artists for about a decade now. I loved her when everyone else thought possession was creepy, I knew what she was talking about. This song is song is so fearless and honest. go Sarah!! Would like to find out how the little one is doing.....
07-13-05 New song of the minute: John Mayer - Neon. The way you hear him just set down and fearlessly sing this....wow.
06-22-05 New song of the minute: David Gray - As I'm Leaving. It's an acoustic ballad about what's really important and what one might have to give to keep it.
06-06-05 Ok for the $$ news. I've been promoted to "Supervisor" under something called CMS. This is a unique oportunity, one that I'm looking forward to tackeling.
05-27-05 Added a new song to "I Will not Fail You Here Tonight". It's called Unempty Arms. Has some awesome melodies guys. Check it out. More news soon. Somethings I can't say now, but this is a big one guys! $$$
05-04-05 Really..really bored so I cleaned up this updates page and got rid of some useless and outdated updates.
04-27-05 Added a couple new links to the links page
04-26-05 Baby Alert!!: Today at about 2 in the afternoon my Niece, Emrona Fields, gave birth to her second child daughter Emily Morgan. Everyone appears to be healthy. :) Pics Here
04-22-05 Brand New Music. Check out the "I Will not Fail You Here Tonight" link on the media page. Happy Birthday Julie and Elgie.
04-17-05 Page layout change and update. Added new guitar amp (Peavey BackStage) to gear section and a few new things about my gear. Let me know how you like the blue green. I'm digging it.
03-16-05 Baby Alert!!: My Cousin Jessica had her daughter today. Her name is Sydnee Jeice. Pics Here
01-15-05 Updated gear page. removed sold instruments: Blue Washburn MG40, Squire P Bass. Added Ibanez RG320 and new pictures of US Strat with new mods. Also added 12 string, and mandolin and slight new layout. Check it out.
09-25-04 Promoted to Specialist at work. *shrug*
09-04-04 I have a made a page in memory of Dallas "Little Man" Shields III. You can find it Here
09-01-04 It's been a rough couple of days. Dallas Shields III, nephew passed away from Cystic Fibrosis today. There was no end to the fight in his heart but his body just didn't have anything left. He passed away in a room full of family and friends.
08-31-04 Mom is home and for the most part, all better, there appear to be no lasting effects from the stroke.
08-29-04 Mom has suffered a small stroke, more news later.
03-06-04 Life has been crazy. Updated the Links page. Many new links added. New photo in the Julie section, new photo in the bio section.
08-25-03 Today has to be one of the worst days of my life. It starts out with a raise and ends with the death of my brother.
08-23-03 NEWS - Got promoted to lead at work last week - YAY- Changed entry page layout and graphic somewhat
08-10-03 Moved update I-Frame to the front page, got tired of tryin to work it in on the main
08-09-03 Guestbook overhaul... its "integrated" into the rest of the sites layout a little better
08-03-03 Added some links to download songs instead of stream them, should make it easier for users of Mozilla Products and other browsers based on gecko
07-24-03 Changed the text layout a little bit more. Added new music to "How We Sometimes Wish Things Were" section. Thats right new music check it out
07-23-03 Changed Page font to arial, I think it's easier to read.
07-20-03 Added browser compatability page, and navigation links
07-19-03 Added a Links Page. Tons and tons of great links. You can access it there in the new drop down navigation box
07-15-03 Added "How We Sometimes Wish Things Were" A collection of acoustic music by your truley. Thats right folks more music. Just click on media up top and "How We Sometimes Wish Things Were"
07-13-03 I did some cross browser coding today. This site is optimised for Internet Explorer 6 however I have done my best to make the site appear the same in Netscape 4.x and Netscape 6.x-7.x. You will notice some links added to A Healing Experience and Unfinished Clips and Ideas that make it possible for Netscape 6-7 users to stream the songs.
07-13-03 The site was down most of the day yesterday. The reason for this is simple. Someone with a lot of time on their hands aimed a crippeling dos against my webhost hostdime.com. Being the great host they are, they went to war and defended their hardware for most of the day. The site is up again as you can see, and hostdime has proved their metal at least to me.