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New Arabic solo posted; I would enjoy an Arabic drumming duel with any parties interested in getting smoked like cheese, hee, hee! Raquy? Tobias? Carmen Guido?

I've been playing Arabic style alot lately(how else am I going to kick Souhail's butt in five or so years?), and I posted a track on my myspace of this week's escapade, as well as a solo that I did on a bucket. I like rolls, duh.

Been in the studio for the album and playing Banjo and... read more

I got a sweet new Tack head fretless banjo; perfect for hammerplucking, Minstrel-style. It's a nice instrument, and was very inexpensive. The guy who makes them lives here in Seattle.

I'm also talking to an Armenian travel agent for a theoretical trip to Armenia next year. I'd like to get a couple of Proffessional Dhols and take some instruction there. I have a number of nice connections, so the fun is starting to become a possibility.

I have eleven new students lately! Appare... read more

Well, I had a biopsy(one of too many on my life) done on some extraneous tissue, and although it is not pretty, it's not fatal. What a relief. I had non-hodgkins lymphoma and went through chemo and such, with two related heart-attacks and a number of surgeries to eliminate bad tumours, so to get this kind of good news is sweet.

I played a nice fish-skin Darbuka today; it was like heaven. I need a new drum(I always need a new drum)

I just cut the first piece for the Lao Plin ... read more