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Reflections on the past year.

2010 has been a crazy ride for me. I’m going to try my best to summarize it in slightly more (but hopefully not excruciatingly boring) detail in a later post, but first some bullet points of all the things that went down this year

  • Words and Music Tour
  • Dirty Gerund Valentine’s Day Massacre
  • Gonzo’s Turd Thursday Songwriter’s Challenges
  • Joey Faust Safecracker
  • MANY shout-outs in Womag, The Pulse and the T&G
  • Lots and lots of Brooklyn
  • Falling in love about 30 times
  • Played bass behind Iyeoka for anindescribablytranscendental Dirty Gerund evening
  • Performed at B.Dolan’s record release show with the What Cheer! Brigade playing the instrumental for “Border Crossing” - you can’t see me real good, because I’m beind A FUCKING MARCHING BAND - but know I’m there. ;) If you know my voice, you hear me on the backups.
  • Countless Q open mics, where I met many of the new friends I have.
  • Many, MANY hours logged with Greg McKillop, usually trying to find a place to sleep.
  • As my birthday present to myself, I posted 31 (one for each year) pieces of what I consider to be relative truths. I was clearly in a decent place when I wrote these, and people reacted well to them it seems.
  • Many friends released excellent albums, Greg McKillop, Dave Magario, Ellis Ashbrook, Cowboy, and many more…giving me excellent music to listen to on my many hours spent in vehicles.
  • The April Fool’s Tour
  • Opened up for Sage Francis and Free Moral Agents on the Li(f)e tour secret kickoff show at Jerky’s
  • The Encyclopedia Show: Providence, which could count for one of the 30 times I fell in love. Haha
  • The TickleBomb Trio gigs playing Cash, Hank Sr. and Cohen songs each Thursday night with Bob Belanger & Jeremy Carnrike sharing drumming duties and Brian Sampson on the upright bass. There are not words for how much I miss this gig. :( BUT…this list is of positives, so I’m gonna just :) because it happened.
  • Rectangle Club reuinion show at Ralph’s! This was such a great night.
  • The creation, and development of the Reverend Paul Edwards. If you know…you know…if not, I can’t explain.
  • The short-lived (because of my carpal tunnel) Songs4Dinner program
  • The Lovely Chaos tour with Sound in Stone- which is HEAVILY documented on this blog (it’s why I started the blog, really)
  • The release of “Structural Disintegration 1.0”
  • Getting to do a live record, “Shane Hall & The TickleBomb Orchestra live @ The Raven featuring John Barber” with my favourite guitarist John Barber ONLY because my 2nd favourite, who happens to be in my band, couldn’t make it. :)
  • Sage Francis was in a Public Enemy video. This is a personal victory for me because of reasons I can’t adequately explain.
  • The “It’s Not a Tour! Tour” phases 1 and 2 with Greg and Sound in Stone
  • The only un-named tour we did through all-age venues in New England that I casually dubbed the “Amber Alert Tour”. :-P

Woah. What a year.

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