Down on Jane -Songs, Stories, and Making Music in your 40's

The Amps Behind Me: From Solid State to Tubes to Hiwatt

Where It Started Before I ever plugged into a tube amp, there was a Fender Ultimate Chorus. It was made around 1991

I bought El Padre in 2020. A time when the world felt strange and quiet. COVID had everything shut down. Empty roads.

There’s a strange pocket of time I’ve found myself in. I’m home from Las Vegas. The noise, the lights, the reset button

Two weeks ago, I landed in Las Vegas with a laptop full of mixes I was determined to finish. Two weeks later,

It happened… The band got together.What’s the story, morning glory?It turned out to be the jam we didn’t know how much we

I’ve already told part of this story. When this Taylor first crossed my path, I wrote about the pull of Hawaiian koa,

There are some guitars you buy with your head, and some that haunt you from the moment you walk away. My Taylor

Thanksgiving week, I had hoped to include a band jam before the holiday chaos kicked in. Just a couple of hours of

Before I get into this story, I should say this: This post is a continuation of something I wrote earlier in “Strings

The Basement Band (1997-1998) Let’s get in the Way-Back Mobile and go back to maybe 1997 or ’98. I was home from