To whom it may concern (my sister) I've been a busy guy since my last blog post. I know there's a responsibility to post regularly when one has a blog, and i admit, i have been a bit lax. So in response to my whereabouts, here's an update and general post. What have i been up to that's so time consuming you may ask. I GOT ALL MARRIED. My beautiful wife is amazing!!! And married life is a blessing. we are blessed to have a beautiful home, cars to drive, a white picket.....line in front of our house, protesting the time inbetween my blogs. please laugh at my jokes. We have an awesome giant dog called marley. he's a Newfoundland. but seriously, the wedding was beautiful. People always say, make sure to make every moment of the day count because you'll blink and it'll be over. In all honesty, my wedding day was the perfect length. i was plenty exhausted by the end of it, but what a party it was. i had family and friends come in from atlanta, canada, missouri, texas, california, alabama, on and on and on. Audrey, Matt and my brother Ike collaborated to make the music perfect, backed by a sting quartet. My dad wore a wood grain red, pimp suit, don't ask why. and yes it had an accompanying hat with feather. We rode off in a horse and carriage. the weather was perfect. My wife is predominately polish and i'm very nigerian, so the whole celebration was a marriage between the two cultures. Thank you Lord for a perfect wedding. So life on the road was happening while i took the month off for the wedding and honeymoon. some of you may have seen a larger, whiter, blonder, more aussie version of me supporting matt on bass guitar. That's a great friend of the band, matt smallbone. He's prettier than i am which is why matt used him. For you musicians reading this blog, i'm in the market for a new bass, and i'm thinking either pimp my fender jazz bass out, or get a fender P or a Lakalnd P bass. Any thoughts.
SOme other schtuff.
i'm currently listening to "Need to Breath" "30 seconds to Mars" "Marching Band" and anything with a funk groove to it. Funk is my new endeavor. I'm not sure what else i could share that you'd actually want to read, so i think i'm at a stopping point for now. i hope this suffices for my comeback blog
peace
kemi
ps, i don't proof read, so if you find miss steaks, i'm sorry.
Happy new year world, or the 3 folks who will read this!! 2009 rounded out quite nicely. The smitty tour was amazing. Great experience for the band and really a life changing run. The crew, bands, managers and attendees were all amazing. Looking forward to this new year, new decade, 2010. I'm getting married, I plan on buying new gear, so i'll keep you posted on that. new gear, new travel locations, and new resolutions
So over the past four years i've struggled with the inner desire to be an electric guitarist, tap dancing on and between effect pedals. At one point, my board was bigger and more convoluted than kenny's, the difference being necessity. I had no idea what i was doing, i just wanted to look cool. I think my first board had more pedals than kenny had on his board, somewhere in the 8-12 range. I ditched that board after having a conversation with another bass player about the pure tone of a good bass being all the sound you need. Six months later i put another board together. That board was mellow compared to it's predecessor, but still over the top unnecessary. So that board lasted all of one month, and i went back to bass tone. six months later, ground hog day. So here i am fours years, six boards and 12 bass guitars later, and i think i've found it. I'm sure i'll be blogging again in six months time about the beauty of the perfect bass and it's tone. Even now, i'm playing a 1976 Fender p-bass and a lakland decade bass as my primaries, i am back to the board. In all honesty, this board might be the winning ticket. Here it is in all its tap dancing wonder.
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