[vimeo http://vimeo.com/39589502/ w=600&h=338] In this episode Jared talks about how they came to playing Ask a song released by The Smiths as a single in 1986. In this series of So To Speak we focus on The Mattson 2, a twin brother guitar and drums jazz duo from San Diego. Like most young musicians today their interests…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/39584163/ w=600&h=338] In this series of So To Speak we focus on The Mattson 2, a twin brother guitar and drums jazz duo from San Diego. Like most young musicians today their interests span a wide spectrum. Their playing can go from traditional jazz to avant-garde serialism. Jared Mattson plays electric guitar while brother Jonathan…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/39568865/ w=600&h=338] In this series of So To Speak we focus on The Mattson 2, a twin brother guitar and drums jazz duo from San Diego. Like most young musicians today their interests span a wide spectrum. Their playing can go from traditional jazz to avant-garde serialism. Jared Mattson plays electric guitar while brother Jonathan…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/33571466 w=600&h=340] He is on a duo tour with Scott Amendola. Here is a small clip of him playing solo.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/29305003/ w=550&h=310] In this series of So To Speak we focus on the guitarists in the band Enablers (there is no “The”), Joe Goldring and Kevin Thomson Enablers are a spoken word rock band that started in San Francisco in 2002. Known for its distinctive character with prose and poetry written and performed by Pete…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/29254261/ w=550&h=310] In this series of So To Speak we focus on the guitarists in the band Enablers (there is no “The”), Joe Goldring and Kevin Thomson Enablers are a spoken word rock band that started in San Francisco in 2002. Known for its distinctive character with prose and poetry written and performed by Pete…
I’m editing episodes now. We will feature Joe Goldring(pictured) and Kevin Thomson. They play guitar for Enablers. We talked about writing under time constraints, alternative tunings, and their new drummer.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/24997130/ w=550&h=310] I asked Kevin Thomson, a guitarist in the band Enablers, to improvise a piece of music based on one of Brett Amory’s paintings. Brett Amory is a painter working out of West Oakland. After growing up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, he moved to San Francisco to study art. In 2009…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/19592830 w=550&h=310] Scott Amendola is a drummer and composer. His latest record LIFT is a trio project with Jeff Parker on guitar and John Shiflett on bass. Scott and Jeff Parker have known each other since their days at Berklee Music School. In this episode Scott talks about what its like to work with…