WorshipGuitarist

Alright, the new site is up and running. I decided to go with brokenheadstock.com.

Check it out here.

I’ve got a review of last night’s Wilco show on there, and I’ll be updating it pretty regularly with other stuff. This will probably be my last new post on the worshipguitarist blog, so please update your links.

See you there.

I’m trying to think about some good names for my new site. I want it to be short, memorable, and somewhat guitar-related. Any ideas?

I am writing this post on my new MacBook. I’ve been saving my money, and I was pretty close before Christmas. I got enough cash to push me over the top, so I visited my local Apple Store today and picked one up. I also ordered a really cool backpack from Crumpler, so I should be set by the time school starts up again. 

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it on here, but I got a Nintendo Wii last year, and it is crazy fun. Sure, it’s graphics are not on par with the Xbox 360 or PS3 - it’s not even close, really - but the gameplay is just ridiculous.

I bought Super Mario Galaxy last weekend (based on overwhelmingly glowing reviews) and I can say that the game is awesome. I’m not going to do a full-blown review, but I will tell you that it’s very similar to Mario 64. You go to different worlds and collect stars to save the princess or something. The story is pretty weak, but who cares?

There is a two-player element to the game that just might be a stroke of genius. The second player just points the Wiimote at the screen and uses it to collect “star bits.” Player 2 doesn’t have any real responsibilities, so if they fall down on the job, it doesn’t really matter. I’m talking about playing with little kids here. My 5 year old can’t quite play the game as it’s meant to be played (the weird perspectives mess with his head), but he can point that controller at the screen and collect stuff. I have to think that this was Nintendo’s goal with the two-player option - give the kids something to do while the grownups play.

So there you have it - I’m a 30-year-old boy. It could be worse - it’s not like I play World of Warcraft or have a subscription to Xbox Live. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Our long-time drummer has gone off to school, and it’s really tough without him. He was just solid. He could listen to pretty much anything and play it right away. We never really had to worry about him not being able to play something.

Our new drummer is a high school student. He’s not bad, but he’s not nearly as confident. He used to be on the drumline in the marching band, so sitting behind the set hasn’t always been his main thing. He’s getting better all the time, but he still doesn’t play aggressively enough for my taste. He’ll be graduating this year and going off to school next fall, so we already need to start thinking about his replacement.

Anyway, we had practice last night and we were drummerless. It was really tough to try to keep things together. I don’t know why we even had practice. We’re doing a lot of upbeat tunes this weekend, and it just sounded like chaos without drums. Hopefully everyone will be at soundcheck early enough to go over everything. We’ll see…

Does anyone else find it hard to listen to the music that you grew up listening to?

I’ve still got a lot of music on my iPod from high school and I usually skip those tracks when they come up on shuffle. This list includes anything from Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, and Hendrix to Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, The Black Crowes, and Soundgarden. Well, I still listen to a lot of Soundgarden, but I can pretty much always skip the other guys (unless it’s a less-heard track like “Spanish Castle Magic” on Axis: Bold as Love).

Even though all that music has left a huge impact on my playing and writing, I’m just not very interested in listening to it unless I’m in a sentimental frame of mind. Am I alone here?

I just realized that I never really finished up the whole CAGED series that I started earlier this year. I made it through all the shapes except for D. I’m planning on finishing up with D and wrap it up with a little discussion about how I use them together.

Stay tuned!

I don’t know if Song of Hope is getting some serious airplay or the search engines have found my blog, but my traffic has spiked big time today. I have gotten 221 hits as of 11:40 this morning. Check out my stats:

As you can see, my traffic has been steadily increasing over the last few days. At this rate, I’ll be over 5,000 hits sometime today. I guess I need to work on more content.

My traffic has really spiked since I posted the Song of Hope chart. As of this this time today, 20 people have clicked over based on a search using a combination of these words: Robbie Seay Band, Tabs, Chords, Lyrics, and Song of Hope. [Update: I had 140 hits yesterday, and most of them were from a search for either RSB or CAGED chords.]

If only I could harness this power and use it for my own personal gain… =)

In the last couple of months, this site has seen a lot of activity even though I haven’t really been posting anything new.

I’ll try to bump up my posting frequency a little bit. Stay tuned, and thanks for visiting.