New Robbie Seay Band single – Miracle (lyric/chord chart included)
I don’t typically listen to Christian music. Rob Bell says that Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective. What does “Christian music” mean anyway? Is it enough for the songwriters to be Christ-followers? Do the songs have to be about Jesus? Anyway, it doesn’t matter. In general, I find most Christian music to be pretty annoying. It’s overly simplistic, saccharine, and it just rings false to me. In spite of my aversion to “Christian music,” I really like Robbie Seay Band. Robbie seems to be a pretty authentic songwriter and he’s not really interested in writing über-catchy praise and worship anthems. Anyway, Robbie Seay

My next wah
I think that the Voodoo Lab Wahzoo is going to be my next wah pedal. It has several effects built-in: vintage wah, auto wah, and step wah. The step wah is kinda like the ZVEX Ooh Wah, except that you can adjust the speed on the fly via the treadle or with an optional tap tempo pedal. It’s inductorless, which means that it won’t hum when placed next to a power supply. Rather than rattle off all the details, I’ll let you check out this video from ProGuitarShop.

Gig Bags vs. Cases
What do you guys use? I typically use cases, simply because I don’t have a gig bag that I trust to carry my guitars in. However, I would prefer to use a bag since you can strap it on your shoulder and still have both hands free to carry a pedalboard or whatever. I recently came across this bag, and it looks awesome. It’s the MONO M80 Dual Electric Case, and it (obviously) holds two electric guitars. It is supposed to be ext

Stuck
I’m in a rut lately. Part of the problem is that I’m not in a playing situation that really excites me. I play at church, but the music that we play is not music that I really get excited about. I don’t listen to David Crowder, Chris Tomlin, Hillsong United, Steve Fee, Charlie Hall, or whoever in my car or on the treadmill, so it’s not music that I’m really interested in playing. Leading worship is a good thing, but it’s not a very satisfying musical experience for me. This dissatisfaction led a few friends to form a band. We were all excited and practicing a lot, but then our drummer backed out on us. That kinda took the wind out of our

[sigh of relief]
I’m pleased to report that the problem with my amp seems to have been a bad power tube. I got a replacement set of Sovtek KT88s from Tubedepot.com this afternoon and replaced the old ones. I fired it up, and it sounds like it’s supposed to sound. Actually, it sounds way better than it did when I first got it. I would like to put some real playing time on this thing, but I just don’t really have the opportunity right now. Anyway, I’m glad that it was a $50 set of tubes rather than something ridiculous like a power transformer.