Recorded two songs while out in New Mexico Late June, "Cerro Grande" and "Tornado" are in the mixing stages, 3 more songs are scheduled to be recorded in early July......since I'm homeless at the moment it's a place to stay and record music with long time friend/bandmate Steve Hudgins. Two shows this month with Thunder Road "A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen" (you can find us on You Tube) , 4th of July "Rock if Ages" concert in Longview Texas with Back in Black(AC/DC) and Trio Grande(ZZ Top).... Also on Sat October 19th 2013 30+ musicians are getting together to play a 4 hour concert we are calling "Concert For Paul", Paul Caceres was a long time friend since I was 15, our first bands we played in together.....he was the guy I turned to to run the stage for the Newman Smith Reunion Gig in 2010, he passed away a month ago and we are getting as many musicians he played with to have one last jam for him....... Still trying to move forward from my Mothers death in Feb and Paul's in May, picked up some part time work plus the band money, I'll get by.......Music is getting me by

In late 2010 I agreed to join a band that was forming in Carrollton Texas a(near Dallas)bout a 2 hour drive from where I live in Tyler, it's a Tribute band which seems to be a big deal in the Dallas area, the Tribute in this band is the music of Bruce Springsteen..... Now I'm not a fan of Bruce, didn't hate him just wasn't my cup of tea, but after learning the songs as I'm playing the part of Bassist "Gary Tallent" I came to enjoy playing most of them and have enjoyed playing with some friends from High School. Has our first "Practice Gig" Sat Feb 26 in front of friends and it all seems to have gone well, so we'll be playing out and around the Dallas area starting Sat April 30 @Tolbert's in Grapevine,Tx and the following weekend Sat May 7 @Lakewood Bar&Grill.

After staying away from the OMD world and music all together I had looked around the net and found out the only person I actually met off line Les Lewelyn aka Manic D had passed away, he was a great guy, great musician and a supporter of Indie Music, when others were saying they were he was actually doing it with his radio show. I was with my girlfriend last year in of all places a Indian Trading Company in Amarillo Texas and saw they were selling one of his cassettes, the guy got his music out all over the place and played all kinds of different stuff, from his Manic D to Buttermilk Platform.......RIP Les