Great Unknown Photo-Blog Part 4

Great Unknown - Release Show - December 5th, 2009 @ The 8x10 - Baltimore, MD


Funky riffs and faces

K and B fueling the party

Ry gets his rim-shots workout

Some of the lovely folks in attendance - braved the first snow of the winter to be there!

Thank you for the support

Great Unknown Photo-Blog Part 3

Great Unknown - Release Show - Decemeber 5th, 2009 @ The 8x10 - Baltimore, MD


From the side of the stage

Bargain Jargons getting in touch with their inner penguin and tea-kettle for "Before Now"

"Well I did not know you was you..."

"But I was looking anywho..."

This photo reminds me of confetti-cake

Great Unknown Photo Blog Part 2

Part 2 -


Kenton bringing his game (I would say A-game, but thats the only kind he has)

Ryan drummed so fast on "New Umbrella" that he was blurry - Note to indie musicians -Make sure the metronome click-track in the headphones isn't so loud that it gets picked up on the recordings of the drum tracks - one of the many things I've learned the hard way.

Judging by the capo position, I think I was working on "Mindy" here - I'm playing my bread-and-butter at-home first-ever acoustic guitar that my parents got me for my birthday in 1998.

Kenton recorded directly into the computer (not into a microphone which would pick up any noise), so he could jam along with the play-back of the other tracks. I would listen from my kitchen or family room and run downstairs when I heard an idea I wanted to keep or explore. As he ripped his piano solo at the end of "Drop These Blues", I knew what I was hearing performed live would be on the record.

Great Unknown Photo-Blog Part 1

Here's Part 1 of a Photo-Blog of the Great Unknown experience - To start, some studio shots. As you can see it was a very modest basement home-studio. It just goes to show - we willed a way (and couldn't have done it without some very generous friends).

The Battle Station - My ol' chunky PC from college with an outdated music software program, A 12-Channel Mixer, some microphones, and a few trusty instruments. Nothing like trying to be artist, engineer, and producer all at once.

A glimpse of the drums and my pedal board (Did you know? Only 2 songs on GU have electric guitar tracks, "Bohemian" and "Great Unknown")

Ryan's view from his throne - even sneaking the cable up through his drums (and t-shirt), the headphones barely reached

Max and momma would visit for dinner and a nap while his pops laid tracks

Writing / Rehearsing a part with Keys and all-around music extraordinaire Kenton Dunson - We'd brainstorm an idea, hit record, and let it happen

HHHH Benefit Show 2/20/10

Last night, Baltimore's own infamous musical comedy troupe Young English / Irish Toothache hosted a benefit show billed as "Hampden Helps Haiti Hugely" at their "mansion", a converted warehouse turned home and venue. Proceeds went to Doctors without Borders. I was honored to lend a performance to the cause.

If memory serves, here's the tunes I played (although the order may be a little off)

Get You (extended bridge jam)
Mountain Trail
One day (Matisyahu)
Grandpas' Song (for "All Grandfathers - past, present, and future")
Before Now (For Emma)
The Good Life (Weezer)
Mindy
Bargain Jargon Anthem
Greener (for Marc)
New Umbrella
My Girl (Temptations) ->
Can't Always Get (Stones - w/ crowd sing-along) ->
My Girl
Granny (Dave Matthews Band - First time played)
Drop these Blues
Sunny A.M. (1st time played)

It was a pleasure to meet Pete Muth's Dad and Grandma, Single's folks, and A. Winter Schultz's cousin - Thanks to Tup and Don Kim for running the sound and to all the volunteers and performers for hosting a great event.

I hope to rock the Mansion again soon.

Check out IrishToothache at http://www.irishtoothache.com/

Peace,

gwa

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Emma Noelle

Welcome to the party!

Emma Noelle Anderson - 7 lbs 14 oz - 20.5 inches - December 24th, 2009, 11:43 pm.

I'm one lucky happy family man.

January Music Feature at Connotation Press

Connotation Press, a web-hub devoted to sharing the arts and artists, teamed up with me to get some exclusive web-content to help promote the recent release of my new CD, Great Unknown. I'm honored and grateful to be their January Music Feature.

Visit the link below to see my interview with Connotation Press' Editor-in-Chief Ken Robidoux, raw video of the Great Unknown release show, and some intimate solo footage from back on September 25th, 2009, shot on a brisk windy night in Fell's Point after my happy hour gig at Cat's Eye Pub.

http://connotationpress.com/index.php/music/273-garrett-anderson

I implore you to poke around at www.connotationpress.com to check out all the other featured work.

Many thanks go out to Ken for believing in my music, making the time, and covering the distance (in the snow!) to make this happen.