First Show at the Stronghold

Yes!

I finally had a show in LA, man what a fun night...

Wrote a new tune just for the show called "Dog Town Gypsy Prince" and totally pulled it off. I'm surprised by this a little because I'm the kind of guy that needs to play a song about 1000 times before its ready to be performed... I was able to nail it though and felt good about the whole show.

The Stronghold is an amazing club in my hometown of Venice and I have been going there regularly to see artist and plug myself to get a set. I have seen amazing artists play there including Jackson Browne, Ben Harper, and numerous local LA bands and artists that are so talented.

My booking came very auspiciously. I woke up last Wednesday and decided to busk on Abbott Kinney Blvd. (Busking is playing music in the street, hopefully for money). As I was playing some tunes a young guy came up and said, "Do you want to play Friday at the stronghold?"

"Sure" I said...

And that was it, boom! Signed sealed delivered.

I love life and how sometimes the path of least resistance can lead one to a goal...

I played with two good buddies of mine at about 10:30pm Friday night and have to give a lot of love to Chris Rydell and Tyler Burdick who pulled off stellar performances considering they had about 24 hours to prepare. About 75 people showed up and moved and grooved. Can't wait for the next show!

Thank you to all who came out!! You inspire me to get better and better!

Hope to see you at a show soon...

Next set is April 17th at the Topanga Earthday Festival! I'm going to release my Earthday track and sell a limited run just for people at the show!! Check it out if your in the area!

Topanga Community House 1440 N. Topanga Cyn. Blvd. Topanga, CA 90290

My set is between 2 and 3:30pm ... Playing with some amazing friends and it should be a great show!! Lots of hippies, sunshine, ganja smoke, and food! (These are a few of my favorite things!)

Thanks for checking in, will write again soon!

SO MUCH LOVE!

Another Day in LA, or How I learned to Love Living in my Truck

Another Day in LA…

Or

How I learned to Love Living in my Truck

Car horns sound on crowded freeways, engine stream and street lights glow bright as each person in this city of angels reaches for something, a thing that no one can really put their finger on or articulate into words…

Los Angeles is many things to many people.

My eyes see the dirty city manifest for visionaries… If you have a vision or a dream and commit your life to that goal or idea; people, opportunities, and affirmations come along that help you reach it.

There is infinite potential in this city, and it seems everyone realizes it…

The level of professionalism is so high not only in the music scene, but in everything. People hustle and grind every day; all toting business cards eager to add theirs to my collection, which has reached well over 200…

However,

Los Angeles is a stern teacher and forces all of us wide-eye dreamers to be PRESENT and COMMITED to our call at all times, it is relentless in its discipline and if we fall off even for a brief moment, WHAM, we feel the sticky heat of our own rock bottom.

I often feel suspended by a single thread of dental floss above my own worse fears. Each day I wake up in LA, I sit with the choice to continue on faith, continue to leap for what I want, and dream, and dare to live for, or pack it all up and run.

The longer I stay here, the more it becomes abundantly clear that ACTING OUT IN FAITH IS A PRACTICE IN ITSELF and as we continue to trust intuition, divinity, our CALL, the better we get at making decisions that lead us to the highest self!!!! Lead us to bliss and adventure and fulfillment!

And when we do trust, when we take bolder and bolder steps towards our truth, life becomes this amazing thing, this amazing gift, where each day we are EMPOWERED to create and be a creator of our own story!!

Under the Hollywood sign I starting to believe its more than plastic water bottles, silver screen dreams, and five-dollar coffees out of vending machines…

It’s LA and this feeling of infinity is growing so much stronger everyday!!

I am humbled by it all and so grateful that I get to share this story with you

SO...

Tonight as I drift to sleep in the back of “Hermano” my 4-runner of the cosmos and listen to the crashing waves, I am overwhelmed with gratitude that tomorrow I will rise again with a song!

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Road to Redemption

Hello world,

At the beginning of 2010, I packed my truck with five boxes of clothes and beloved books as well as my guitar into the back of my truck to try my luck in Los Angeles.

As I traveled in India over a year ago, it became abundantly clear that my dream and passion; MY CALL was to write songs about these times we are living in and play them to anyone willing to listen.

Most of my travel blog during that journey dealt with the subject of answering our personal CALL in the world; our divine purpose for being on the planet, the idea or reason that gives us hope, our highest aspiration directly from source. As my purpose revealed itself to me on the roads of India, South East Asia and the Middle East, I was inspired to return home and have dared to begin the difficult journey to my dream.

This transformative process is extreme and continues to break me down to the core of who I am and who I want to be. And, although I am no longer in distant lands, my return to my native soil of Los Angeles has inspired some amazing experiences!!

I hope to share with you the good, bad, amazing, and brutal aspects of my journey into Los Angeles as I strive to become the highest aspiration of my being, to embody that which I believe in more than anything else. I want to make my journey an interactive and inspirational dialogue with you, as we seek to become our highest form together!

With love and gratitude I invite you to check out my website, where you will find an archive of my India journey, as well as new songs and continued thoughts along the way as I answer my personal call!!

I look forward to sharing our music and stories soon!

Much LOVE!!!