It focuses automatically, while counting down from 10, to give us this stunningly clear and beautiful portrait of a rock band who, tonight in rehearsal, put five sets of earplugs to very good use…

That’s Matt Odmark, on guitar, to the fuzzy left. To his blurry right stands Jeff Pardo, on the keyboards. We […]

So I wasn’t lying a couple days ago when I said I had some thoughts to come about the U2 church thing, I just haven’t had time to write them down. Pretty much since the moment I got home from our trip this weekend I’ve been with a baby or working on songs. […]

Cliff and Danielle had to head back to Houston this morning and the rest of the band and I had to do a few songs this morning at a conference. We did fine with songs for people to sing along with, but they wanted us to do a Caedmon’s song at the end. […]

Everybody knows I love U2. Well, apparently not as much as the folks at this church. They had a U2 Christmas Show!!.
Check out the clips, and let’s discuss this. I have a hundred thoughts and I don’t know where to begin…

I lost a best-of-3 rocks, paper, scissors contest with Cliff tonight, so in a few minutes I have to play background music while somebody prays.
I never know what to do in those moments, because, personally, I don’t like to hear music while people talk, let alone pray. I usually find it really […]

This is an aerial shot of my absolute favorite place on Earth, YoungLife’s Malibu Club. It sits on an isolated inlet a hundred miles or so North of Vancouver, B.C. Alison and I got to go there for a few weeks back in 2003, so I could lead music for summer camp.
YoungLife camps […]

I’m on a plane to Dallas, TX listening to Michael Penn’s MP4 album, my current addiction. There are some folks there who may play a part in an upcoming project for Caedmon’s, so Cliff and I are going to meet with them. I’m going to be visiting the studio where my old friend […]

My goal this year is to play at least one rock and roll solo show in Nashville every month. January is under wraps and I have two, read ‘em two, shows coming up in February. It’s going to be an all-star band: Paul Eckberg, Chris Weigel, Matt Odmark and Jeff Pardo. Seriously. […]

Well, I sure didn’t expect the feedback I got from that last post. Overwhelming!! Thanks to all of you who are taking the time to fill it out. I’m going to put up some more questions now, a little more specific to this blog, but please, if you haven’t filled out the […]

I’m realizing that the makeup of who reads this blog continually changes as it grows. That’s a good thing, because growing makes greater my ability to keep doing this for a living.
I want to take the next couple of days to try and find out a bit more about who you are, faithful readers. […]