Romey’s Ramblings

In my previous post I alluded to Greenfoot’s show at Herman’s Hideaway on Wednesday.  For those who don’t live in Denver (or simply may not know) Herman’s has the reputation for being one of the area’s premier venues for live, local music in the state.  We were definitely excited about playing there, even if it [...]

Last night Greenfoot played a show over at Herman’s Hideaway (for which I’ll offer some additional thoughts in a later post).  As part of the “New Talent Showcase”, one of the important stipulations were the two dreaded words drummers hate to hear “House Drumset”.

I cringed when I heard the news, and after playing the [...]

I’ve been a bit scarce this week because I’ve been drumming pretty much every night.  On Monday night I had rehearsal for an one-time “Barnyard Band”, where we’re doing old-school country songs.  On Tuesday I had Greenfoot practice, as we have our “we’re back” show on Thursday and ended up drumming for almost 4 hours [...]

It’s definitely been a long, but productive summer for my band, Greenfoot.  Since the beginning of June we have played 10 shows throughout Denver and the Front Range.  We seemed to be playing 1 show at least every 10 days, with a few shows being only 2 days apart from each other.  This tends to ware [...]

Check out this story in the Florida Today
I came across this story and it just reminds me how infuriating this royalties issue is to me.  It’s great to see that an organization set up to protect the songwriters is really screwing up other song-writers and artists.  This goes back to what I blogged about last [...]