Tonefactor

If you're into guitar or bass and making music, you've probably already heard of Tonefactor - purveyor of high-quality music products. If not, you owe it to yourself to take a look at their site, check out the fun crowd at their forums, and subscribe to their excellent YouTube channel.

Tonefactor carries all sorts of products geared toward guitar and bass players, but they specialize in effect pedals. They carry all names you've heard of, like Boss and Line 6, plus many you may not have, like Wounded Paw and Effectrode. They even have their own line of products sold under the Mojo Hand brand. The video below features two of my favorite pedals of theirs: the Gyro, which is a vibe pedal, and the Huckleberry v2, which is a fuzz pedal.

About the videos: When shopping and researching gear, especially online, it's very often difficult to know what you're getting and how it's going to sound. Not too long ago, the only gauge you had was text-based reviews and descriptions of tone. One man's creamy smooth overdrive might be another's ear piercing distortion. With the advent and ease of multimedia content on the internet these days, you can get a better feel for how a particular device will sound. Most demos, though, are typically of the unit itself run through several settings. While that's valuable, Tonefactor has taken the product demo to another level by producing videos like the one above that can better help you understand how a particular effect will sound in the context of a song.

I'm not one to pump a vendor or a product very often, and when I do, it's for good reason. With Tonefactor, not only are you getting the best products at great prices, you get to deal with the very best service, support, and knowledge in the industry. Brad and his crew are gigging musicians and really know what it takes to provide products and service that meet the needs of demanding and fickle musicians.

Sunday Setlist and Recap, January 25, 2009

To continue my participation in Fred McKinnon's Setlist Carnival, where you post your song service setlist for the week and link back to his site with the goal is to see what others are doing in order to help with our own planning and whatnot, here's our setlist for Christian Church of Broomfield for this past week:

10:45 (Contemporary) Service
Here I am Worship (Tim Hughes)
We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise (Kirk Dearman)
You're Worthy of My Praise (Reginald Heber, John Dykes)
Praise Adonai (Paul Baloche)
Here I am to Worship (reprise) (Tim Hughes -communion)
I Will Come and Bow Down (Martin Nystrom -invitation)
Everlasting God (Brenton Brown -closing)

We were short several band members this week, so we made some major changes to our intended set. We orginally had "Let God Arise"(Tomlin), "Father, Spirit, Jesus"(Casting Crowns), and "We Fall Down"(Tomlin) in the set. Those got axed, and "Here I am to Worship" was added. For musicians we had Jeff as leader on acoustic guitar, Robert on synth, and me on (Jeff's) acoustic bass (I wasn't on the schedule at all). Our pianist was sick and didn't show this morning. The scheduled guitar player didn't show at yesterday's rehearsal nor today's service, our normal worship leader was out of town, and there was no drummer scheduled.

The service went well, all things considered. There were a few rough patches: getting into songs was harder than normal because the 2 primary song-starters were out. There were a couple of turns missed, but we compensated well and kept a flow within songs. The starting and transitioning between songs (really the overall flow) of the song service was our biggest concern at our post-service chat.

The post-service chat went well. I led the discussion with my idea from last week, and I think that really encouraged participation. I look forward to chatting with Todd this week. I find myself brimming with hope that we've collectively come to a focal point for improvement. There are so many aspects we could address that nothing really improves. This helps us to point our energies.

Sunday Setlist and Recap, January 18, 2009

To continue my participation in Fred McKinnon's Setlist Carnival, where you post your song service setlist for the week and link back to his site with the goal is to see what others are doing in order to help with our own planning and whatnot, here's our setlist for Christian Church of Broomfield for this past week:

10:45 (Contemporary) Service
The Lord Almighty Reigns (Terry Butler)
Wholly Yours (David Crowder)
Holy, Holy, Holy (Reginald Heber, John Dykes)
You are God Alone (Billy Foote, Cindy Foote)
God of Wonders (Steve Hindalong, Marc Byrd)
Above All (Paul Baloche, Lenny LeBlanc)
I Stand in Awe (Mark Altrogge -communion)
Power of Your Love (Geoff Bullock -invitation)
Awesome God (Rich Mullins -closing)

I ran sound for our first service at 8:00, but again neglected to bring a bulletin home so I could post that setlist. Our DVD player (which we also play CDs with) made some interesting noises, so we'll be looking into that before next week. The music for first service went fine - there were no other issues with sound and the team did a fine job. The only problem I could hear, or rather couldn't, was the organ. See the organ's volume is controlled solely by the organist, it's not connected to the sound system at all - due to voiced speakers, I'm told. I try to stay away from organ discussions, it's something of a sacred cow. It gets played twice a month at hardly-audible levels and is a waste of space and resource, in my opinion.

For second service I played guitar. You'll notice the length of our set..that was a challenge. We cut down songs to make them all fit. I think we should've axed a couple songs instead, and that's something I'll bring up with our leader tomorrow. The performance aspect got off to a bad start because all the instruments and vocalists were muted in the house. The sound tech was distracted with recording, and didn't realize the problem right off. The whole first song was.. missing :) Once that was resolved, the songs went pretty well from a band standpoint.

A significant change was made at the drum set during rehearsal. Working with the drummer, we found a patch in the Roland brain that has a more defined bass and snare drum. That made a big difference in timing and tightness of the band over weeks past, and gives me some hope about our rhythm section, certainly much room for improvement there - but progress happened.

My favorite song this week was "God of Wonders" because I thought we did the best job on it overall. We hit the changes, we hit the tempo, we hit the parts, we hit the breaks. Everyone did, it was beautiful. The only real problem we had was starting "Holy, Holy, Holy". We'd worked out an arrangement during rehearsal, and decided that bass and piano were going to start the song together immediately after we finished "Wholly Yours". It didn't go well because the pianist forgot, and the bass player was waiting on eye contact with pianist to get started. Finally, the bass just started and we were able to get into the song. It tripped up our flow, but we recovered.

We tried something new this week: we held a 10 minute debrief immediately after the service. The purpose is to come up with things that we did good with, and things we can improve upon. As I listened to the discussion, I think I'd like to make sure everyone has a chance to participate, so I'd like to try a format of

- each person say one thing they thought was good about the service that someone else did
- each person say one thing about what they themselves need to improve on
- each person say one thing they think the team needs to improve on

and see how that goes next week. I'm excited about how this went this week and look forward to this being a tool for improvement.

The 2 major things that came out of this were: starting songs, and transitions between songs. Other things I thought of later were the 'too many songs' issue, and quality of sheet music/chord sheets. That issue tripped myself and the bass player up a couple of times this week.

Sunday Setlist and Recap, January 11, 2009

This post is part of Fred McKinnon's Setlist Carnival, where you post your song service setlist for the week and link back to his site with the goal is to see what others are doing in order to help with our own planning and whatnot, here's our setlists for Christian Church of Broomfield for this past week:


10:45 (Contemporary) Service
Hosanna (Baloche/Brown)
How Can I Keep From Singing (Tomlin)
Victory Chant (Fitts)
Bless the Name of Jesus (Carman)
Praise Adonai (Baloche)
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) (Tomlin -communion)
More Precious than Silver (Deshazo -invitation)
All Hail King Jesus (Moody -closing)

I didn't play this week as a long-lost guitarist decided to show up. I also forgot to bring home my bulletin, so I don't have the first service songs to list this week. If I think of it, I'll try to find one tomorrow night when I'm at the church for the Bethel class.

The band had energy that was lacking this week, due mostly to using a drummer-in-a-box, and Jeff's solid bass playing. There some mix issues, the synth was too loud on a couple of songs, the electric guitar seemed to be missing from a couple of songs, and the piano was too low on one. The bass and vocals sounded great, and Todd's guitar sounded pretty good, too. The overall mix was too quiet

'Hosanna' and 'How Can I Keep From Singing' came off good, due in large part to good drum groove. The electric guitar tone was too distorted and buzzy, and was lacking musically. 'Victory Chant' was fun, but Todd muffed the lyrics a couple of times throwing off the congregation - plus I don't think most realized it was a call-and-response tune. I think Todd was going for a male/female thing, but I don't think most others got that.

'Bless the Name of Jesus' is a great song, and we typically do it with a lack of...something... funk. Today's rendition was probably the best we've done - hope we can improve that one. Praise Adonai came off ok. This song needs some polish, but i think we're doing it pretty well so far. 'Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone),' one of my favorites, was pretty good, too. This the one where the piano was too low in the mix, and the synth was overpowering it. The singers did the vocals more traditionally, but miss some of the nuance and style that makes this song great.

All-in-all, an improvement and a good experience.

I thought a lot about the drummer versus the drum box this morning, and had a good lunch with Todd after service where we talked about options. We're considering purchasing Abelton Live and using Interactive Worship Live to help take up the load there (among other things). Pretty excited about that.

Help a friend in need

My friend Ken Verheecke is a full-time musician who travels to churches all over America playing concerts and selling his CDs. He's got a huge heart for people and is a fantastic musician.

This past weekend he was driving to a gig in Cody, WY when the engine blew on his car. He drives a Toyota Corolla, nothing fancy. The repair costs are astronomical ($8600 for a new engine from Toyota, and so far the cheapest used engine they've been able to find will run $5900).

As you can imagine, that kind of money is hard to come by, especially given the economic circumstances of our time and the high cost of fuel.

That said, I'm inviting you all to check out Ken's site at http://kvmusic.net and prayerfully consider giving to his ministry. Prayers for this situation are, of course, also needed.

BTW, he doesn't know I'm posting this around the internet. I believe in his calling and believe God will take care of this need once people are aware.

Thanks, friends.

Worship Setlist and Recap, October 19, 2008

To continue my participation in Fred McKinnon's Setlist Carnival, where you post your song service setlist for the week and link back to his site with the goal is to see what others are doing in order to help with our own planning and whatnot, here's our setlists for Christian Church of Broomfield for this past week:

8:00 (Traditional) Service
When We All Get to Heaven (Hewitt/Wells/Wilson)
Holy is the Lord (Chris Tomlin/Louie Giglio)
How Great Thou Art (Hine)
Great is the Lord (Michael W. Smith, Deborah D. Smith)
I Want to be Where You Are (Don Moen)
Jesus Paid It All (Hall/Grape -communion)
Change My Heart oh God (Eddie Espinosa -invitation)
Because He Lives (Gaithers -closing)

10:45 (Contemporary) Service
Holy is the Lord (Chris Tomlin/Louie Giglio)
Let God Arise (Chris Tomlin/Jesse Reeves/Ed Cash)
How Can I Keep From Singing (Chris Tomlin/Ed Cash/Matt Redman)
Great is the Lord (Michael W. Smith, Deborah D. Smith)
Healer (Michael Guglielmucci)
Jesus Paid It All (Hall/Grape -communion)
Change My Heart oh God (Eddie Espinosa -invitation)
I'll Fly Away (Brumley -closing)

I ran sound for first service. It was my first time in that chair in at least a year, so I was happy to have some coaching from Stephan (thanks!!). We've made many changes to our system since I last did that job, including a new Allen&Heath 32 channel console, Aviom monitoring system, and Sennheiser wireless mics for speakers. We record the message only straight to a CD. I'd like to record directly from the console via Firepod or somesuch...someday. The service went well. Mike, the leader, muffed a change in 'Holy is the Lord' but no one cared.

For second service, I played electric guitar. I brought the Les Paul today since our set was so Tomlin-heavy. The first two songs went well. I felt our timing was pretty good, the vocalists were right on, and the band was together. I was pretty happy with my guitar tones, too.

After announcements, we were to do 'How Can I Keep From Singing' - which I was supposed to start with drums and bass falling in with me. Well, the bass player is also the guy who did the announcements, so I was waiting a few seconds for him to get back and ready. Our Worship Leader apparently thought I forgot to start the song, so he went right in on acoustic guitar - which pretty much blew the intro. I picked up the electric guitar part right away, so thought we recovered from that OK, but then he started in on the vocals after only one trip through the intro's chord progression - where we normally do 2. The electric guitar part changes dramatically going from the intro in the verse, so since I was still in intro mode and Todd was already into the verse, well...it was kinda bad. We finished strong, though - the rest of the song rocked!

'Great is the Lord' went well, though I think we were a touch fast on that one. 'Healer' is one of my favorites in spite of the story behind it (or maybe because of it). Again with this song, the start was in jeopardy. We SHOULD start this song together, but I expected Todd to take off on his own so watched him close and was able to time my start perfectly with his.

We gotta work on starting songs.

Star Trek Barbershop Quartet

I found this on the GeekDad blog today:

Worship Setlist Carnival - September 7, 2008

To continue my participation in Fred McKinnon's Setlist Carnival, where you post your song service setlist for the week and link back to his site with the goal is to see what others are doing in order to help with our own planning and whatnot, here's our setlist for this past week:

Christian Church of Broomfield
8:00 (Traditional) Service
Stepping in the Light (331)
Spirit of the Living God (361)
Where the Spirit of the Lord Is (311)
Sweet, Sweet Spirit (529)
Emmanuel (Amy Grant)
Nearer, My God, to Thee (157 -communion)
I Need You (Rick Founds -invitation)
Stepping in the Light (331)

10:45 (Contemporary) Service
My Redeemer Lives (Tim Hughs)
Everlasting God (Brenton Brown)
Healer (Michael Guglielmucci)
Spirit of the Living God (Chris Falson)
Sweet, Sweet Spirit (529)
In You (Bart Millard)
Breathe (Kathryn Scott -communion)
Draw Me Close (Kelly Clarkson -invitation)
Everlasting God (reprise -closing)

Worship Setlist Carnival - August 31, 2008

I was away from church for a couple of weeks, so getting back into the swing of things.

To continue my participation in Fred McKinnon's Setlist Carnival, where you post your song service setlist for the week and link back to his site with the goal is to see what others are doing in order to help with our own planning and whatnot, here's our setlist for August 31, 2008:

Christian Church of Broomfield, Sunday August 31, 2008
8:00 (Traditional) Service
Faith is the Victory (216)
The Heavenly Vision (344)
The Light of the World is Jesus (57)
I Walk By Faith (Chris Falson)
My Wonderful Lord (60 -communion)
Oh, How He Loves You and Me (570 -invitation)
Shine, Jesus, Shine (Cliff Richard)

10:45 (Contemporary) Service
Here I am to Worship (Tim Hughs)
You Never Let Go (Matt Redman)
Glorify (Linda Barnhill)
I Walk By Faith (Chris Falson)
God of Wonders (Steve Hindalong and Marc Byrd -communion)
Today is the Day (Lincoln Brewster -invitation)
Today is the Day (reprise -closing)

You may notice from past weeks that we've pared down a little on the number of osngs for our contemporary service. That's a direct result of being part of this carnival and the feedback I've received. I've talked to our worship leader about cutting back on the number of songs we do with the idea of quality over quantity - giving us the opportunity to do a few songs well, rather than several songs mediocre.

Worship setlist, August 3, 2008

UPDATED 5-Aug-08 to add 8:00 service.

To continue my participation in Fred McKinnon's Setlist Carnival, where you post your song service setlist for the week and link back to his site with the goal is to see what others are doing in order to help with our own planning and whatnot, here's our setlist for August 3, 2008:

Christian Church of Broomfield, Sunday August 3, 2008
8:00 (Traditional) Service
Shout to the Lord (Zschech)
His Way With Thee (335)
Send the Light (229)
Give of Your Best to the Master (170)
In the Garden (241 -communion)
I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go (222 -invitation)
In the Service of the King (230 -closing)

I don't have the hymnal nearby so the number references probably mean nothing.

10:45 (Contemporary) Service
Come, Now is the Time to Worship (Brian Doerksen)
Forever (Chris Tomlin)
Let God Arise (Chris Tomlin)
In the Blink of an Eye (Mercy Me)
Nothing Without You (Bebo Norman)
We Enter In(Donny Limbert - Communion)
Draw Me Close (McClurkin - Michael W. Smith version - Invitation)
In the Service of the King (Trad Hymm - Closing)

Third Day - Revelation

The band Third Day released their latest album titled 'Revelation' last Tuesday. Being a fan, I bought a copy through iTunes as soon as I could, listened as I worked that day. I love the album. To me, it marks a return to what Third Day really are: Christ followers sharing the gift God gave them in the most honest, skillful way possible. The lyrics are touching and uplifting, the music is driving and engaging, and the production is very high quality.

As part of promoting this album, the band, its record label, and KLOVE radio sponsored two 'secret' concerts. My wife and I were fortunate enough to catch the Denver concert Friday evening at Crossroads Church Denver in Wheatridge, Colorado. It was a fairly short show, but the environment was intimate and spontaneous. The band played a couple of songs from the new album, took audience questions, interacted with the crowd, and spent a couple of hours meeting people and signing autographs after the show. It was an amazing, spirit-filled night for my wife and I.

Learning about the show is a good story in itself. I happened to notice a guy in my twitter-stream post a message to a user @marklee3d. "hmm," I say to myself, "there's a Mark Lee that plays guitar for Third Day - could he be twittering?" So, I follow him on twitter, and sure enough, it is him! He tweets about their experiences preparing for and performing at a taping of The Tonight Show, then mentions that they're heading to Phoenix for this 'secret' concert and posts a link. I check out the link and discover they're playing in Denver Friday night. "Wow," I say to myself, "an opportunity to see Third Day for free!" Well, I put it in the back of my mind as I was super busy with work and life stuff like taking the kiddo to the orthodontist, guitar lessons, to see his mom in Colorado Springs, getting my laptop fixed, preparing worship team music for rehearsal, and so forth.

Friday comes along, and I again notice Mark tweet about the show in Denver - only now the show is tonight! I fire off an email to some friends at my church, but don't get a response in time. I also IM my wife, and talk her into going. I had to do a work thing on the other side of town, so I told her I'd come to her office as soon as I was done, and we'd head down to the Crossroads Church and see what was up. As we got there, there was a line snaking around their parking lot, it looked like a zillion and a half people were there - but, there was a place to park the car on the street very near where the end of the line was, so we jumped in line and hoped for the best.

Now if you live in Denver, you know that Friday was THE hottest day of the year for the Denver area. The official high for that day was 104F - and we were all standing around on an asphalt parking lot, so I'm sure that added a few degrees. It was HOT. Since we were in a rush to get there, we didn't even think about the heat. We were both wearing, you guessed it, black. In the sun. Standing around on asphalt. On the hottest day of the year. Bleah. At least we sweat-laden fans made the news :)

My wife had just had a horrible day at work and was grumpy, she was having second thoughts about going to the show. I was getting achy, sweaty, headache-y and my own mood was heading down. About then, a guy that was helping keeping the line in order walked by, so I asked him if he thought we would be able to get in. He told us they estimated there were about 1600 people in line, and there were 2000 seats in the church, so things looked up! We were still about 1.5 hours from the start of the show at that point, so we pressed on. My wife went back to our van to put some baby powder on her skin to help keep from breaking out: she gets hives if she's in the sun too long and gets sweaty, making an already grumpy wife just plain miserable.

An hour or so later, the event staff started handing out tickets. We got ours, guaranteeing we'd get in, then shortly afterward, the line started moving quickly and we found ourselves inside looking for seats. We ended up way in the back, stage right - which ended up to be Mark Lee's side of the stage. Our moods were still iffy, the venue was hot and stuffy, and fighting crowds is WAY down on both of our lists of favorite things to do. We don't get out much :)

The show started with words from the KLOVE folks and the introduction of Lisa Williams (afternoon DJ) who would be our Emcee for the evening. She introduced a 'local' band called The Ride from Vail, Colorado, who took the stage and performed a couple of songs. They were excellent! Had a Jars of Clay vibe to them, acoustic guitars and percussion, and a great vocalist. We were glad to have gotten to hear them.

Moods improving, we began to enjoy ourselves. Third Day was announced and took the stage. The crowd went nuts. They started playing, and I leaned over to my wife and said, "Now THAT'S a band!" See, we're both involved with music ministry and are used to...uh...the quality that an all-volunteer band led by a a volunteer worship leader lends itself.

Mark posted the setlist on Third Day's blog, so I'll let you read that for the detail of what they played and what the night was about. You can also check out Third Day's video page for some video clips of the night. The best part of this show was getting to know the band a little. Hearing the stories about some of the songs was touching, especially 'Cry Out to Jesus'. Knowing that the stories in that song are personal and that the song is hard for them to play, really raised the impact of hearing it. I'm listening to it as I type, in fact. If there was a dry eye in the place after that song, I couldn't see it.

After the show, we opted to skip the autograph session. We a) didn't have anything to sign (though I'd have loved to have just gotten to shake Mark's hand and tell him thanks); b) there's that fighting crowds thing again; and c) neither of us had eaten dinner nor had anything to drink since we got there now 3 hours later. So, we went out to the van, prayed together for a minute, and went and got something to eat.

We left refreshed, hopeful, entertained, and impressed.

Oh, BTW, Mac: according to Merriam Webster, 12th is spelled 'twelfth' and pronounced with the 'f' sound. Hope to see you guys October Twelfth :)

Gear

My greatest passion in life is music. If I'm not listening to or playing music, I want to be. My instrument of choice is the guitar, though sometimes I'll play bass guitar and really enjoy that as well. As I've progressed in my learning and playing of the instrument, I've acquired tastes in tone which translates to the gear I use when playing. When it comes to finding that gear, I rely on the good folks at ToneFactor.

Tonefactor not only carries the best names in the industry for guitar and bass effects, they also have 2 in-house brands and have the best service in the industry. If you need a new dirt sound, want a better phaser, need a good delay, or want to experiment, take a look.

There's a very active community there of great folks on their own tonequest that are more than willing to share their experiences with pedals and bounce ideas of off. Also, Brad just recently added a YouTube page when he records demos of pedals - including some side-by-side comparisons. If you want to hear, say a Fulltone '70 compared to a Lovepedal 200lbs, just ask at the forums.

I know this sounds like a commercial, and in reality I suppose it is. I just love doing business with Brad and being involved in the community there, and want to spread the word to help him grow because I really believe he's the best in the business.

In future posts, I'll detail the gear I have, in the meantime, happy tone-hunt!

Doubting Thomas

There's little else that moves me like music. Once in awhile I'll connect with a song on a deeper level than just the lyric can convey. Oftentimes I listen to the music and connect with the rhythm, melody and chord structure of song and never really hear what the lyrics say. I suppose that's the musician in me - not only do I appreciate the music itself, I'm always thinking about how the song was done.

And there's some songs that one day the lyrics will jump right out and grab me, even with a song I've listened to many times before.

I've had Nickel Creek's "Why Should the Fire Die" album for a year or so, and have listened to it many times - over 50 according to the play count in iTunes. Tonight after I finished practicing music for church, I was randomly finding songs to play along with. I decided to be done, and sat my guitar down, and thought I hit 'pause' on my keyboard, but must've hit 'next' because the track "Doubting Thomas" came on. Now I've liked this song for awhile, for its music, but the tonight the lyric grabbed me.

It hits me right I live, right now.

I'd post a video, but the only one I found on YouTube had horrible sound quality, so here's the lyric.

Doubting Thomas

What will be left when I've drawn my last breath,
Besides the folks I've met and the folks who know me,
Will I discover a soul saving love,
Or just the dirt above and below me,

I'm a doubting thomas,
I took a promise,
But I do not feel safe,
Oh me of little faith,

Sometimes I pray for a slap in the face,
Then I beg to be spared 'cause I'm a coward,
If there's a master of death I'll bet he's holding his breath,
As I show the blind and tell the deaf about his power,

I'm a doubting thomas,
I can't keep my promises,
'Cause i don't know what's safe,
oh me of little faith

Can I be used to help others find truth,
When I'm scared I'll find proof that its a lie,
Can I be lead down a trail dropping bread crumbs,
That prove I'm not ready to die,

Please give me time to decipher the signs,
Please forgive me for time that I've wasted,

I'm a doubting thomas,
I'll take your promise,
Though I know nothin's safe,
Oh me of little faith

(c) 2005 Sugar Hill Records

Soul Man

I read on article on Premier Guitar about Lincoln Brewster called Soul Man. The article covers a lot of ground about Lincoln's history, the Christian music scene in general, and, of course, his gear.

I think the conclusions in the article about the state of the Christian music scene are very correct - in fact I posted some of my opinions on the subject in a response to Peter on his blog and they closely match what Lincoln had to say. Now it may be that since I share Lincoln's passion for guitar and guitar-driven songs that I identify with him like I do, but I still have to agree that most Christian music is designed to follow or mimic the mainstream. Rap starts to become popular - all of a sudden there are a bunch Christian rappers popping up.

At any rate, the article is a good read.

Let God Arise

My wife and I are both heavily involved with the music ministry at our church. I play electric guitar mostly, about once a month or so I'll play bass, and very occasionally will do acoustic. Chris Tomlin's "Let God Arise", video below, is one of my favorite songs to play on the worship team.


If you want to learn more about this song, there's a video of an interview with Chris teaching the song, and another of Daniel Carson (Chris' lead guitar player) teaching the electric parts.

I hope this is helpful! Have fun with it!

Old guys rockin'.

Toni posted this pic on his blog after seeing on the CMF posted by jakeddy. Looks like the image was originally in Reader's Digest. Check out the comments on his page - he bears an uncanny resemblence to the character on the right. Me? Well, there's no fat, bald guy rockin' with a Les Paul...but the young lady coming down the stairs reminds me of my son coming in to tell me to turn my guitar down a few days ago - guess I ain't THAT old :D