Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist
-Born in 1977, Bridgeport, CT, 06606, USA.
-Trying to find the middle ground between the phrases “million units” and “artistic integrity”
-Has owned more digital cameras than any one man should
-Began laying out his own album covers long before recording a CD
-Font Whore
June 11, 2008
look at how good it sounds!
My friend Jeorge Tripps started a company in 1992 called Way Huge... he made some of the best guitar effects pedals ever before closing the shop down in 1999. Jeorge has since worked at Line 6 and is now designing pedals for Dunlop. He's going to revive the Way Huge line beginning with this pedal he just dropped off today called the "Pork Loin" (Ignore the name on the prototype.)
You'll be hearing it this summer when I take a solo(s).
June 11, 2008
About seven years ago I was visiting my friend Pat when I was struck by a certain t-shirt he wore. I thought there was something perfect about it and asked him where I might find one. Pat explained that in fact, most everyone he came in contact with wanted one, and that it was from a friend of his who's father was Master Chang and that it was nearly impossible to get one. Apparently Master Chang didn't realize how unintentionally awesome his shirts were and only had a few to spare.
It's been a thing of myth, the Master Chang shirt. Only now, many years after first spotting one did Pat finally get his hands on one and send it to me, as promised...
And I gotta tell you, I've received things by FedEx many times more valuable than this, yet I can't remember being more excited to pull that funny little plastic strip that never really seems to open the box as it's supposed to.
Reasons why this shirt is amazing:
1. It is not intentionally ironic; it's really meant to promote a local karate studio.
2. The juxtaposition between the intensity of the photo and the matter-a-fact-ness of the typeset.
3. It is truly new old stock, probably silkscreened 15 years ago
4. It's more limited edition than any tee shirt I've ever known
This tee is a great lesson in applied value. Intrinsically it's just a yellow shirt, but it's been given a story. And when you can connect something seemingly benign with a story, things begin to matter. The shirt doesn't even fit - it's a medium - but that's not the point. Owning it ends a long outstanding search for something, and that's what makes the waiting so much fun - it psychically charges the final moment of calling it yours.
