Oct 26 2007 8:00P

Jaani Church Tartu, Estonia

Oct 27 2007 8:00P

Culture Center Viljandi, Estonia

Oct 28 2007 12:00P

Viljandi Kultuuriakadeemia Viljandi, Estonia

Nov 6 2007 8:00P

Rockerfeller w/Flower Kings (Bus Hits Fucking Big Moose) Oslo, Norway

Nov 7 2007 8:00P

Katalin w/Flower Kings Uppsala, Sweden

Nov 8 2007 9:00P

Sticky Fingers w/Flower Kings Gothenburg, Sweden

Nov 11 2007 8:00P

Carling Academ London, w/Flower Kings

Nov 13 2007 8:00P

Spirit 66 w/Flower Kings/TUNER OPENS Verviers, Belgium

Nov 14 2007 8:00P

Zentrum-Altenberg w/Flower Kings/TUNER OPENS Oberhausen

Nov 15 2007 9:00P

Zoetermeer w/Flower Kings De Boerderij, Germany

Nov 16 2007 8:00P

RindProg Fest w/Flower Kings Russelsheim, DE

Nov 17 2007 8:00P

Movie Bielefeld, W/FlowerKings, TUNER Opens

Nov 18 2007 8:00P

De Lantaarn w/Flower Kings Hellendoorn, NL

Nov 20 2007 8:30P

Sonny Boy Treviso, Italy w/Flower Kings

Nov 21 2007 8:00P

Statione Birra w/Flower Kings Rome

Nov 22 2007 8:00P

ThunderRoad w/Flower Kings Codevilla - Pavia, Italy

Nov 23 2007 8:00P

Z7 Pratteln

Nov 25 2007 8:00P

Locomotive Paris, France

Nov 27 2007 8:00P

Mejeriet Lund, Skåne län, Sweden w/Flower Kings



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).



Last minute gig with John Pointer tonight at Cedar Street in Austin, two drummers so this should be a lot of fun.

Start work on a track for CGT tomorrow.

Markus will be coming over next week with Simone. We will spend a week or two building tracks for her record that Markus is producing. He also gave me news on the delay in our Tuner release (our spiffy art work has caused a few malfunctions at the pressing plant. . .but maybe it was fate. . 11 11. . .11 11. . . 11 11. . .

<<Just got a notice that copies will ship to the distributor next Monday, 11th

of June.>>



Spent the last week recording another record for the Swiss legend Toni Vescoli. Tracking with David Grissom, Roscoe Beck, Mitch Watkins, eginered by Jim Vollentine.

Today i'm finishing up a track in my home studio for Tom Griesgraber with Bert Lams.

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Next up:

May, 12 and 13, 2007 at Modified Arts

E. Roosevelt St. Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona 85004

33 1/3 PHX: An event designed to promote live improvised music in a world becoming blander from homogenized and canned music. This is magic that can only happen when musicians are in the same room together jamming. The energy created from improvisational music compirises some of the best live recordings of all time, and this event promises to be one of the best Phoenix has ever known. For 33 hours and 20 minutes, a rotating plethora of musicians will perform non-stop improvised music in the heart of the Phoenix arts district. Modified Arts 407 E. Roosevelt St. Phoenix, AZ 85004 602-462-5516

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New Tuner CD 'Pole" is at the pressing plant and awaits the shrink wrap finale.