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

The Novo Serus J: The Guitar That Wouldn’t Leave My Head

The Obsession I went to N Stuff Music to drop off my Ibanez RGEW521FM (easy name to remember, huh?) for a pickup swap. The stock pickups

Published by Rob Hoffman – Down on Jane Last Saturday night I stood in Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale with Tom, Scott,

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

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

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

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

There’s this strange cycle I’ve noticed in my life as a guitarist: I seem to sell every acoustic guitar I ever buy.

Last weekend was supposed to be the one. A glorious return to the home studio, a full-on jam session where three guys

There are moments in life that carve themselves so deeply into memory they never leave. For Jeff and his at the time

The Night I First Heard Adam Evil and the Outside Royalty Some nights stick with you, etched into memory, not because of