Mortified Beyond Belief

Some people may be aware that a group I perform in, the Ill Itches, will be having a record release this Friday at the Marble bar here in Detroit. The band has done several interviews where the interviewer emails the band questions and we each answer them. In one such interview, all of my answers were omitted, and I heard from the other band members the music journalist got mad because I didn't take the interview seriously enough. I feel like I am in high school again. Here is a link to the interview as published: Ill Itches DeepCutz Interview. It was partly this incident with this interview that inspired me to start writing my own blog again. I really meant no ill-will with my answers to these questions. I just felt like the questions were "leading questions". You know what I'm talking about, questions where the interviewer is really looking for a specific response from the subject. I know the interviewer wanted me to get all sentimental and retrospective ab...

Hello people, This week I found out that Prince died. I was is disbelief for a while. It was a bummer. Everyone else has said something eloquent, so I don't feel the need to. Most people that know me very well know me from the past as someone who really idolized prince, especially as a child. I attempted to imitate the way he was able to go into the studio, play every instrument, and produce all of his own music. He was definitely my hero for much of my life. I also lost someone who was a really good friend a couple months ago. He was a huge fan of Prince, and had given me a ton of Princes early bootleg recordings. My friend was also a multi instrumentalist that spent hours practicing to get better and had such a high standard for quality. He wasn't merely an attention seeker. He was only 27. So although this news of Prince dying is bad, it is no where near as tragic as my friend passing away at such a young age. I feel a little better knowing that my friend is in good co...