My Band - Dull Boy jack

Back in November of 2009, my band Bull Boy Jack came up with a cool idea to help market ourselves. We set up at Quiet Life Productions in Vancouver, Washington (owned by our good friend Keith Laurent) and filmed a live rehearsal. Of course we gussied up the studio a bit and vibed it out but the end results are starting to come together.

I’m pleased to share our first video from this session for “My Dog Spike” from our first record “Buttered on the Right Side”.

This video can also be seen on our Reverb Nation page. Credit is also due to JT for putting this clip together with the footage from the shoot, and also to our 4th member Dave Boyle from Studio 212 here in Portland for the live sound and mixing.

A week or two ago, I posted about some recent musical activity with Dull Boy Jack, my Portland based blues/funk/twang trio.

We filmed about 6-7 hours of live footage and recorded as well at Quiet Life Productions sound stage in Vancouver, Washington. We’re going to be assembling the footage into a series of promo clips and a DVD.

This is a clip captured from the “drum cam” of us playing “Dimples” by John Lee Hooker.

It’s fun and gives a sample of what it looks like hanging back with the drummer.
There will be more to come for sure.

I’ve been giving a great deal of thought lately to what I am doing these days musically.

My past is filled with incredible memories, records, sessions, videos, pictures and other assorted memorabilia. I’ve definitely accomplished a lot musically in my past. But today, with the projects I am involved in, I feel a sense of greater accomplishment and pride. I think this stems primarily from the fact that every project I am a part of has balance and equity in how they operate.

None of my current projects are dictated by record companies, the desire to be a part of a record company, or fulfilling someone’s expectations of what we are doing. We do what we do, when we want to do it, and how we want to do it. This past weekend, Dull Boy Jack, my funk/blues/country-fried trio set up at our buddy Keith’s Quiet Life Productions facility with the intent to record ourselves in live performance, and, film it as well.

There was minimal concept other than this and the end result was incredibly satisfying. We had played the previous evening up on Mt Hood with our classic rock cover band and had rolled in sometime around 3 AM. We were all tired but really enthused to play our music and see what we could do. We ended the day after 6 hours of playing and filming with a shit ton of great HD video, lots of cool pictures (thanks again Paul Matera) and good energy towards putting this all together. Our good friend Dave Boyle came with his rig and recorded us and gave up his day for our project.

In the end, this was one of the most satisfying projects I have ever been a part of.

I think the look on my face says it all.
Anyway, thanks to my boys Rich and JT.
We’re enjoying ourselves that much is true.

Hey everyone.

If you didn’t make it, here’s a sample of what you missed at our CD release party at the Twilight Cafe March 26th.

We had a blast and I think this video proves it.

Here’s “Love Rocket” with a rather, ahem, improvised and extended intro by JT a.k.a Cool Mo JT.

P.S. – Trip out on Rich’s t-shirt:

Thanks to everyone that came out to the Twilight Cafe to celebrate the release of “Sweet Sassy” last night.

We had a good time and enjoyed hanging after the show with everyone.

We’ll be posting new show information soon and remind you to keep your eyes on our home at Reverb Nation: www.reverbnation.com/dullboyjack.

For all my Portland friends:

My trio, Dull Boy Jack will have our CD release party for “Sweet Sassy” at the Twilight Cafe tonight in Portland, March 26th (Thursday).

More information can be found at our home on Reverb Nation: www.reverbnation.com/dullboyjack.

Hope to see you there!

I’m thoroughly pleased to announce that my band based in Portland, Dull Boy Jack, has just released our second record entitled “Sweet Sassy”.

It’s available now through CD Baby and through iTunes.

Link for CD Baby.
Link for iTunes.

Note: Clicking on the iTunes link will open your local version of iTunes and take you away from your browser.

I’ll be posting more information about this and more Dull Boy Jack news in the next few days.