This page created on 9/6/01
Blurring The Edges This is the first moment of life for The Sky. It's a place for me to share some random thoughts and images that cross my path. In my day to day flow, I'm lucky to meet and work with some creative minds. This, coupled with the fact that life is so weird anyway, pretty much guarantees an endless supply of stories to make their way to The Sky.

The photo above is from an outdoor summer rehearsal at the tail end of July this year. Fred Benedetti, my brother Tripp, our father Hall, and I had been working on the new Blurring the Edges recording. Three and a half weeks of solid arranging, rehearsing, chart writing, and basic tracking at SpragueLand. At this particular moment we felt impelled to move the art to the great outdoors. What a magical month it was! Creating, hanging, playing, surfing, eating, joking, discussing music gear and computers, and having lunches on the new picnic table. We thought in this amount of time we would be able to complete the project but as usual, it took twice the time, twice the cost, details become enormous, and the prevailing mantra became clear, "it's about the beauty of the ride".

Sprague and Benedetti's This second photo is from a celebration dinner we had later that day. At the end of this first chapter of the Blur recording we gathered our families and headed for the Pacific. Two hours of seventy degree saltwater blended into a wonderful meal at Encinitas' Ogata Restaurant. The photo catches us as we're waiting to be seated. A gang of wonderful humans. Wives who pretty much understand and tolerate their possessed husbands, kid's who think that all dads have a zillion musical instruments, and three dad's feeling blessed for this most enchanted ride.

(The second Blur installment begins in December and we're pretty sure we've allotted enough time to finish it by mid-January. Stay posted.)

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