Five weeks into summer and still sheltering in place. Over the last month or so many places started to relax restrictions, only to find that the number of COVID-19 cases started to surge. On this past Thursday, Major League Baseball started a limited season of 60 games, with no fans in attendance… and today two games have been postponed because 14 members of the Florida Marlins team and staff tested positive. I’d hoped maybe No Static would be back to playing some outdoor gigs by now, but that’s clearly not going to happen for quite some time yet.

I’ve been continuing my remote recording projects. The first of them has four songs now posted, which can be found here. We’ve got several more in the works and I’ll add them as they come to fruition.

An offshoot of that project now has two completed tunes, which can be found here. Several more are in the pipeline.

I one more unfinished recording that I started in the summer 2012 with my son David playing drums, which soon will be complete. What’s done so far you can hear here (hear hear!), and the remaining one will follow soon.

Meanwhile, in between recording and trying to learn how to become better at mixing, I’ve been juggling some music educational pursuits – taking an online ear training course from Rick Beato, a guitar class from the terrific Mark Lettieri of Snarky Puppy fame, and a series of video lessons from another great guitarist, Chuck D’Aloia. I’m also working through some books I’ve only scratched the surface of in the past, notably Mick Goodrick’s The Advancing Guitarist and Ted Greene’s Chord Chemistry.