November 11, 2016

Robert Walter

GET TO KNOW MIKE’S BAND Robert Walter (Keyboards/Organ/Synths) Favorite Tune That You’re Brushing Up On For This Tour I’ve been working a lot on Daisy Hill Grove because it has some tricky parts and goes in strange and interesting directions when…

Scott Murawski

GET TO KNOW MIKE’S BAND Scott Murawski (guitar/vox)   Favorite Tune That You’re Brushing Up On For This Tour Waking Up Dead… my favorite of the repertoire right now! It’s got everything I love in a song. Five Albums You’re…

June 24, 2015

Straight from tour to a movie theater

Weird to be in the “middle” of tour, and, well, not just home for a few days, but sitting with Tessa to watch Pixar’s new movie “Inside Out” in a minute. I know it’s going to be nothing like starting…

October 30, 2014

Do Watcha Wanna (Fall Tour Journal)

Entry #1 – October 19, 2014   Not playing out of obligation – that’s what being yourself really means… Whether it’s the obligation to play on the downbeat, syncopate less, follow a pattern. Just do and accept and you become…

August 1, 2014

Summer Tour Journal

Entry #1   I’ve had a few favs so far, but I’ve never liked a first gig as much as I did this Summer. Bass players spend their lives worrying about “punch.” The amp must have punch. And it makes…

November 2, 2012

Glossary

I know there are some words in Mike’s Corners that, let’s just say, could use some clarification. I hope this usage index will shed some light on some of my most frequently applied vocabulary.   Ritchit – I saw him…

October 28, 2012

Telephone Outgoing Message

Hello, you’ve reached – beep – Mike. If you have a touch-tone phone, press 3 now. If you have a rotary phone but not caller-id, press 4. If you have call-waiting and no-answer-redial, but not call forwarding or call-waiting-id, press…