Wisecracks

  • On the Radio

    (POSTPONED since first posted – see below.) I’ll be discussing my new album and playing some demos and rough mixes from the project on WXDU in Durham, NC on any given Sunday <formerly 8/17> from  6 to 7 pm. You can listen live online at WXDU.org, or if you are local, on your FM dial at…

  • Other John Davises.6: John Davis, Shrimper

    Disambiguation:  the issue haunts all John Davises, musical and otherwise. How to reach today’s web surfing music consumer when your name is ubiquitous?  In the record store era, folks had only had to know enough about the alphabet to figure out that John Davis would come shortly before John Denver in the D section.  Know enough…

  • The Core is Getting Soft.9: Ring my Bell

    For many years now, I have been using software in my meditation practice.  In Buddhist meditation, we traditionally open and close each sitting by ringing a bell three times.  One is instructed to follow the sound waves until they subside, providing a gradual transition in and out of the silent state of awareness.  In today’s…

  • The Core is Getting Soft.4: Redwirez Rulez

    It’s a tough enough job convincing folks that they shouldn’t look down on music software when it comes to stuff people use when holed up in recording studios.  But the guitar amplifier is a public affair.  Imagine a live rock band pulling out a laptop onstage instead of rolling out fearsome refrigerator size amplifiers.  …

  • Other John Davises.4: My Life as a Painter on the Plains

    It’s hard to keep track of all of your parallel lives when you have a ubiquitous name.  They criss cross the English speaking world like railroad tracks.  Fortunately, I have spies.  Agents.  Tentacles.  Informants.  Eyes and ears, everywhere. Like in thrift stores in Nebraska. Megan Siebe is one of these.  Her surveillance skills factored heavily…

  • Other John Davises.2: Practice Space Music

    In a parallel lifetime, I moonlight as the lead singer of Korn.  If you haven’t seen me recently, the ‘locks may seem like a bit of a stylistic departure from the shorter look you can see below at left: Chris from Refrigerator wrestled me to the ground until I promised to grow my hair out…

  • one small letter, one big difference

    I love the smell of geraniums in the morning… …and I love the sound of Germaniums at night!