August 31, 2009

I've been exceptionally poor at updating this Blog. Therefore, I don't expect anybody to read it. When I logged in, I noticed my last post was May, 15, 2009. The last three-and-a-half months have moved at the pace of three-and-a-half days, and I've fit three-and-a-half years worth of life into that period of time. My half year journey has arrived at a temporary intermission. I am in Denver, in a new home, establishing a new life. 67% of my time is dedicated to playing music with The Adam Stern Trio, and my new group, The Chris Webb Band. I am freelancing quite a bit and continuing to take as many hikes and find as many great new places to eat as possible.

Since May 15th, I've produced another successful Radiohead tribute show (I've just received the DVD!), opened for guitar legends Jimmy Herring and Dickie Betts, wrote lyrics for a song(!!) and played around 80 gigs with numerous bands and musicians.

I will continue my travels in October, as I'll be heading to Peru in search of ceviche, Machu Picchu, and Birdmen:



I can feel the creative juices starting to fester again and I think it's getting close to time that I endeavor on another arduous project... I just don't quite know what it is yet.

Victor has suggested that I rate liquor stores in Denver and blog about it. Might be an interesting task.

You And Who's Army?

Hard at work on putting together the Radiohead show at The Oriental Theater at the end of the month. I'm hoping to have some time to provide a glimpse of the work that I am doing. Whatever goes on inside this brain of mine that leads me to want to do things like this, I'll never quite understand. However, if I write about it, perhaps it will make more sense. Or not. Anyhoo, here's a promo video that my friend Rhett did over the weekend.

Back to a (somewhat) normal life

Top of Beaver Creek ski resort

Damn,

This blogging stuff can be a pain in the ass to keep up with but I am motivated to keep this going. Now that my travels are over (for the time being) I'm going to shift the content of the blog over to the music side of things, most likely interspersed with some beautiful nature pics of snowboarding and hiking in Colorado. After all, there's not much better than a beautiful summer day in the Colorado mountains, except perhaps a beautiful winter day!

"Asssspen: Where the beer flows like wine and the beautiful women flock instinctively like the salmon of Capistrano"

Victor and I made our way up to Beaver Creek ski resort last Monday for some awesome late season snowboarding. We were fortunate to have a "bluebird" day following a weekend of snowstorms that dumped close to 40" of snow. After a abnormally dry January, February, and early March in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, we got hammered with storm after storm in mid-to-late March, making for epic late season pow-pow, brah! Too bad the Texas gapers on spring break were crowding my corduroy and poaching my tree lines. (Tongue firmly implanted in cheek)

By the way, I have a run named after me at Beaver Creek. "Damon's Trees" are not for the faint of heart or those afraid of deep pow turns and tight tree lines. I'll provide you with a guided tour in exchange for some pulled pork and a tall P.B.R. at Moe's BBQ in Vail.

On the way back to Denver, Victor got a request from our mutual friend Tim Beichley to find a particular t-shirt. Tim, who is a Denver native but now lives in Anchorage, Alaska, had a faint memory of going to a liquor store in Beaver Creek and finding some pretty funny shirts that were cleverly named after the liquor store that contained them. "Beaverliquor" is every Texas fratboys dream t-shirt shop, combining the "coolness factor" of a t-shirt that came from a Colorado ski town and the bathroom humor that a sixth grader appreciates. Vic and I searched around Beaver Creek for the liquor store for 15 minutes or so until we called Tim to find us directions on the interweb. We found the shop, looked around for the t-shirt Tim wanted until I saw the huge sign hanging on the wall that said "find our shirts on line at www.beaverliquors.com" Sweet. Thanks, Tim.

Today, I am spending time working on the "business" end of the Radiohead tribute show that I am organizing for May 29th at The Oriental Theater. I hope to keep the blog updated to provide a glimpse as to the inner workings of putting together a show of this magnitude. I hope it will serve me well as a journal of sorts for posterity.

I'll be heading to The Fox Theater in Boulder tomorrow for a special engagement with MASTODON! They will be performing "Crack The Skye" in it's entirety. Maybe I'll try my hand at a review of the show. For those who don't know, now you do:

(Sorry about the lame intro in the beginning)