Hi Stick friends, here is FHF #97, a few days late



Quick gig report and some details on the upcoming FHA Summer Workshop. Hope you are having a great weekend, cheers - Gene

Hey Gene! Thanks for the Update!

Thanks Scott. Not much to post this week, busy as heck with kids in summer classes.

Still need to wrap up 1st invention and do follow up with Rob [Gellner]+[Haener].

Ooh, and learn and record Suicide in painless!

Wishing there was a way I could get there for the workshop. Nice update, Gene, thanks!

I so badly want to come to LA.

It'd be interesting to see your board you discussed - not so much for "the gear" but how you were discussing your workflow and how you set up for flexibility
Paring down is a funny thing.
How we inhale, then feel so full it's almost constraining, then the exhaling.

you could probably do a whole FHF on breathing, inhale/exhale
from playing biomechanics and posture to composition (complexity, tension, etc) to gear acquisition

my burning question is what did he get rid of.

minimalism...see, I've masted "it's the noted he's not playing" by not playing

Thanks for the responses.

For what it's worth, I did manage to move to a smaller pedalboard. It has smaller pedals, so what have I given up? Big pedals. I'll put together some bits on that after Rob and I put a bow on the third K-Mix session and I post the second bit of invention 1, those will be FHF 98 and 99 although perhaps not in that order.

I am pretty certain Rob H. and Rob G. are both good to go on our K-Mix session and I am definitely good to go on Invention 1. Vic and Claire both know I have to focus on invention 8!

Breath control, posture and biomechanics are all fascinating topics. I really enjoyed this article in particular on Biomechanics for musicians. I think all of these discussions would make good group discussions if we want to lock in a date for them and do an old school 8-10 person session on the matter.

Let me know =)

miniaturization!?!

what!?!?! it's not like you're making a space probe or somethin