Happy New Year! Gears are starting to turn.
Sometimes, Music wishes to be heard so desperately, it puts these two in the same room.


"Mark Christensen's lead guitar conveys real danger." – All About Jazz
Happy New Year! Gears are starting to turn.
Sometimes, Music wishes to be heard so desperately, it puts these two in the same room.
Stone Document’s THIRD album is finally here. Another departure, adventure and rung on their evolutionary ladder. Doc and I are pretty confident you haven’t heard anything quite like this.
Pressing forward, ever onward!
Through an amazing stroke of luck and an act of kindness, I got a pass to the annual N.A.M.M.
Been a bit quiet, hasn’t it?
Tracking continues for whatever this projectile with Doc is.
With the exception of a couple days of feeble attempts at playing in the studio a few weeks ago I haven
Knocking the dust off and trying to get back to it. I know, it’s been a while.
Here we have an example of the technological excess that I rely on to make the noise I make. This is my Radio Underground/general rock pedalboard. Yes, it’s heavy and a pain to load in. Yes, it is worth it.
The signal path goes along as such:
guitar input -> Line 6 M5 with expression pedal for whammy and wah presets -> MXR Dynacomp -> Ernie Ball volume pedal – Korg Pitchblack tuner -> B.C. Rich programable swithcher (that swithches between my preamp and distortion/fuzz sounds: a DOD EQ, an early ’80s Ibanez TS9, a Sovtek Big Muff and an Electro Harmonix Tube Zipper) -> ART Tube preamp -> Electro Harmonix Freeze -> Line 6 M9 for delays/modulation/basic looping -> off to the amps!
Here‘s a tidbit from The Boston Globe that does a pretty good job describing the Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists.