Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch takes up his cross and leaves the band. Cool.

As things mysteriously bubble and percolate unseen behind the scenes… I finished off the sample map for the new “Icarus” tune. What a pain. Four octaves worth, in fact. Click on the thumbnail for a screencap of what the keymap layout from Reason looks like for this song. Good thing the new version of Reason will support remote patch changing — this one would probably eat up the entire memory of my hardware samplers.

The new Forum is now live. The Forum of Indifference. I designed (or adapted, more specifically) a new style for phpbb, an now that my head is mostly clear of templates and tweaking and such I can get on to other things. Like counting down the days until March 10th when Reason 3.0 ships. You know when you've been working on your forum a bit too much when you miss your alarm clock and oversleep – and immediately think its because you didn't set alarm_clock.tpl just right. Meanwhile, lots of stuff is quietly happening behind the scenes… announcement is forthcoming.

Back in the studio now working on yet more new material... fun stuff. Only now I've got tons more samples to cook up. Maybe I'll make Mark trigger them all for this song.

The new web site was quietly pushed live today... take a look around. Careful of any sharp edges - we're still sanding. contact us if you find something amiss...

We camped out at Harry's Hofbrau for a little dinner/band meeting last night. Turned into more of a scheduling meeting - with all the work that still needs to be done on the new material and with a certain as yet unannounced other major project in the works. Throw in a couple big gigs a little ways down the road and we've got ourselves a pretty hectic winter. In other matters, I have 4 DV tapes from last week's show at the Gaslighter - so when I get a spare moment I'll have to throw a quick edit together or something. And now back to that roast beef sandwich...

Friday morning was an early start after Thursday night’s gig. We were on the road to the airport around 7am to make our 9 o’clock flight to LA to meet up with Lawyer Lee. Rich met Lee through the Renegades, and we became clients of Broken Ocean a little over a year ago when Lee put together a very snappy business and marketing plan for Maximum Indifference. A couple weeks back Lee came to us with an opportunity to do a soundtrack for an independent film project he was involved in with some filmmakers from Japan.

It was great to have a gig so close to home for once. This was our first gig at the Gaslighter Theater in downtown Campbell, appearing again with our shredding friends The Children of Umlaut (and a couple other bands thrown in there as well). The Gaslighter is a very cool western/vaudville style theater (home also to weekly melodrama shows) with a nice, spacious stage and convenient load-in area. We were up first, but we still had to set up like mad (in fact, I had to put together my pedal board and as much of my rack as I could outside in the alley before they opened the loading doors for us). Set up was going quite smoothly until we tried to lift Mark’s guitar rack up onto the stage… and proceeded to dump it on the stairs. No harm though – despite Mark’s worst fears. After coming to an understanding the with house sound tech (they always seem to freak out when we tell them what we’re running and what we need to hook up) we got our sound check… the advantage to playing first. The somewhat light attendance at last week’s show at the Time out was offset by the big show of support we got at the Gaslighter. It was great to see lots of folks from WestGate as well as Design Reactor – the latter being literally 20 feet away from the back door! The set went off swimmingly – no major mishaps… just a few missteps and miscues here and there. The response was great and we moved quite a bit a merchandise, so it was thumbs up all around. We had several folks on hand with camcorders in-hand, so as soon as I can sort through all that video, I’ll post some highlights. Stay tuned.

Update: Check out the spiffy multi-angle cip of Giedi Prime! Special thanks to Nathan Weins, Christopher Martin, Jason Beckwith, Steve Hill, and David Skuratowicz for the camera work.

Set List:
Intercepted Entropy
Jack Palance the Ninja
Ghost Curve
Kuang Grade Mark Eleven Penetration Program
Beware the Glabyglop
Giedi Prime
Severe Annoyance
Accidental LoFi