2026 RPM Challenge idea number two becomes finished song number eight. iTunes is telling me I just reached 35 minutes but I think it's rounding up. I might have enough to submit a finished RPM Challenge at this point, but I'll keep going…

2026 RPM Challenge idea number three becomes finished song number seven. Is it obvious that I started dumbing things down just so I could get the 9/8 time signature to work? I don't think I've ever written anything in 9/8 before. I mean…

2026 RPM Challenge idea number 14 becomes finished song number six. There's something about this one that I like but it's not the singing. Yikes! I did very little guitar playing after the 2025 RPM Challenge and my finger tips were in really…

2026 RPM Challenge idea number five becomes finished song number three. This one is really frustrating. I had a ton of gear problems when recording the guitars. I broke my prime RPM directive and re-recorded some of the parts a few days later…

2026 RPM Challenge idea number 12 becomes song number two. This one might be good if I wasn't such a crummy singer. All guitar parts are a Gibson Les Paul Custom into a Fender Bassbreaker 15. No pedals this year, just plugged straight in…

We never really stopped working on music together but are now thinking we maybe ought to finish stuff!

The 2026 RPM Challenge is underway at last. Idea number 11 becomes song number 1. Simple little rocker. It's not bad. My guitar playing is bad and my singing is worse and more often than not the songs are atrocious, but I'm kinda digging…

When I wrote this back in June I was really loving everything about it except for my utter shit vocal take. I thought it was the key. When I redid it this time I lowered the key a whole step and sped up the tempo for good measure. Now I can…

Long backstory: I was at a band practice and Greg the singer was telling a story about an acquaintance of his who had recently let it be known that he believed the Earth was flat. Seriously. We had a good laugh. A day or two later my wife…

When I wrote this back in June I was really loving everything about it except for my utter shit vocal take. I thought it was the key. When I redid it this time I lowered the key a whole step and sped up the tempo for good measure. Now I can…