Just finished mixes for MPTU CD, sounds really good but will be even better after it mastered and shrink wraped for christmas.

Heading of to meet Markus in Estonia to do our first Tuner shows in over a year. We will open for new Toyah Wilcox and Bill Reflin project called 'the Humans".

heee haw- i got a feature here (something i did wirth my good pal Marco during summer NAMM) over at Vic's site.

www.vicfirth.com/artists/mastelotto.html

We just did more KTU tracking last week and i have posted a few videos of the sessions over at my Myspace. I plan to be posting more videos over at Myspace, so please leave me a comment if and what you might like to see.

T Lev sent over a copy of his new Stick Man cd and that sucker rocks! Looks like we will be doing a part two early next year.



Virgo's delight.

A spring date has been set for the King to gently rev up.

Preparing some interesting patches for upcoming TU gigs (Seattle next week and Poland the first week of October). Trey and I will use these Tu rehearsals and shows to test some new ideas for KTU. KTU will be recording again second week of October when Kimmo comes to America.

Tuner will have its first live shows in over a year this October in Estonia, we will open for a Toyah Wilcox and Bill Rieflin project and have been asked to prepare something we can all play together. Oh Boy!

Then I jump over to Sweden to guest on a November Euro tour with the Flower Kings (man-o-man they have some long songs! up early and working on them now).

New release from Tony Levin, called 'Stickman', is just coming out to a warm reception, so warm that plans have started for a sequel . . 'Stickmen' . . this should come together early next year.

I have been busy with a new little project I've had in the works for the past few months, that you can taste here:

www.myspace.com/mptumusic

Modern Drummer magazine's new issue on 'Prog' has a blurp about my woodshed/workshop and has additional studio story here :

www.moderndrummer.com/updatefull/200001609

In this issue they also list their Top 50 all time prog recordings. . .and i was stunned to see they have the new Tuner CD 'Pole' on the list- fuck me! right up there with the real classics. High Five's to Markus and Fabio, and all our talented guest stars.



Literally too busy to keep up, and in many ways myspace has taken the lead as the web site news location, . . But last week we had a scare when the host of this site was hacked and we lost all data, that was a wake up call to remnind me how much information is here - guest book Q+A, all those tour fotos, the musical downloads, text, etc - Luckily a backup was found and this site is back (duh, obviously since your reading this here).

So what's new:

KTU gigs in Spain and Slovakia went great and you can read about it over at Trey's site. I came back and went right to Oklahoma for gigs with a newer project MPTU , then work on eSession recordings , and another Simone song with Markus (This one is a cover of classic and we first cut in June at around 125bpm, the new recut was started at 86bpm so it a real make over . . however along the way Markus discovered a relative tempo of 96.75 if put in 9/8. Wow pretty wild results and i look forward to hearing how its finaly mixed (BTW David Botrill will be handling the mix for Simone's record!) , and started MPTU recording (you can follow our work in progress over at the link). Had a good time at NAMM and got to hang with my pals from Vic Firth and Paiste and players like Bozzio ans Scot from RHH. Next month Trey and I will gig in Seattle along with Adrian Belew so that should be fun, also in Sept new Tony Levin CD Stick Man comes out, I did a lot of drumming for this during the last Christmas hollidays and think Tony is very happy with the results, and I love what I've seen of the artwork.

A found farewell to Tony Wilson. Just a few weeks ago, while traveling up the Andalusia mountains with KTU, i watched 24 hr Party People and was enjoying Tony's work.

Aug 10th

CGT is in town and should be out to my place to record a bit next week.

Big news is . . .Crim's Road Dog, Enginer , Bill Munyon "s getting married! We will be having the wedding here at my home next weekend.

So today besides house work and yard work i have to get fotos to renew my passport (looks like Poland in early October, then back to record KTU, then Estonia with Tuner, then back home for a few days before Italy in early November with MFB (another new project with Phil Brown and Lorenzo Feliciati).



New Tuner CD "POLE" is out ... and it is very good!

Also on new releases by Abra Moore's "On the way" and David Grissom's "Loud Music", both a little different for me. . 'brush work and Americana'.

Preparing for KTU gigs in Europe next week, KTU will continue to break in new material in preparation for recording this fall.

Last weekend I did a show with the CGT at the Quebec Summer Fest and that was a lot of fun. a few pictures here:

picasaweb.google.ca/pichugues/CGTQUEBEC070807



New TUNER CD 'POLE' coming June 4th.

In the meantime the third week of '11-11', with drums added by Ingo Vogelmann is now available at the 'Eleven Versions of 11-11' page at Krimson News!

TUNER will be playing live in Portugal at the Gouveia Art Rock festival, besides some duo tunes Tuner will appear with the California Guitar Trio, Metamorfosi Duo and Isildurs Bane.

www.gaudela.net/gar/schedule.html

A few nights ago I helped celebrate Malford Milligan's birthday party at the Saxon Pub by backing up Malford with Eric Johnson, David Grissom, Phil Brown, Tommy Shannon and many more.

KTU gigs in North America went well and we have been invited back (in 2008). Recording new KTU tracks has begun.