Jim Alfredson

Playing at Libby's in Jackson MI again tonight. We need some people to come out and support this club! Music starts at 8pm. Great food and drinks! C'mon down!

Playing Libby's in Jackson MI tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight I have Mr Lawrence Barris on the guitar and Scott Veenstra on drums. 8pm.

So out of curiosity, I just checked the status of stuff I've pledged to on Kickstarter. Of the 12 pledges, 6 have been delivered. Of those 6 undelivered ones, three are supposed to ship by June, so we'll see. The other 3 seem like a lost cause. So I guess that's not too bad. But it still gives crowdfunding a black eye, imo. I take pride that I deliver on my promises with the crowdfunding campaigns I've run. I'm about to begin a new one. Stay tuned.

How did I miss this?

Nooooooooooooo.

One thing I really missed when I was on the road constantly was making dinner for my girls. Tonight I made stuffed shells and they ate every last one. I love my little beauties.

The best part of waking up is Folger's in your butt. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/09/29/your-friday-dose-of-woo-coffee-doing/

All my musician friends who are praising the Thicke/Pharrell vs Gaye decision: Be careful what you wish for.

Who are these yahoos? If anyone else displayed this level of incompetence combined with conceited bravado at their job, they'd be fired in an instant. And yet these people somehow keep getting elected. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/09/the-misguided-condescending-letter-from-republican-senators-to-iran/

"It's fuckin' nonsense." Funny... I thought the same thing of his music.

Today's fun: Experiments in Leslie surround miking. First picture is one Leslie with six mics panned around the 5.1 field. Second picture shows two Leslies with three mics each, one panned front, the other panned rear. I can't decide which sounds cooler!

My review on the Ventilator II for Keyboard Magazine is now online. http://www.keyboardmag.com/effects-pedals/1214/neo-instruments-ventilator-ii-rotary-simulator-reviewed/51134

"If it's on the internet, it must be true." ~Mark Twain

There's some nice discussion about THEO over at the QuadrophonicQUAD forum. They are digging the surround mixes. http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread.php?19674-Jim-Alfredson-THEO-Pledge-music

Today's office.

Excited to be tracking at Sears Sound in NYC today. I've always wanted to record in this legendary studio.

Check out my friend Jesse Clayton's nasty solo with Fareed Haque's Mathgames. Oh, and Fareed's solo ain't so shabby either.

That may be, but at least you'll look fabulous sliding down that slope.

Woke up at 5:30am for my flight. Got out of the shower to an email that it's delayed four hours. D'oh! #firstworldproblems

Did you know? You can purchase THEO on iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-game-of-ouroboros/id955195408

Heading to NYC tomorrow for three days of tracking with BIG APPLE BLUES.

Picking my kids up from school. There is plenty of room in front of me for someone to parallel park. So far, only one person has tried and she was so insanely bad at it that somehow she wound up entirely perpendicular to my car. Needless to say, she drove off. FAIL. These parents wouldn't last two minutes in Philly, NYC, LA, or any other real city.

This is way cooler than some stupid dress.

I think I accidentally had the 'vibrato' on instead of 'chorus'. It's easy to knick that button on the SK1 unknowingly while grabbing drawbars (one of my few pet peeves with the instrument). But otherwise, this is a pretty good solo.

I will be playing the jazz at Andiamo in Bloomfield tonight. 7:30pm. A certain Lawrence J.P. Farmington Bannister Barris Esq will accompany me on the lute.