Heading from south pass to Venice, 30 miles with lifelong friend and musical buddy. Quality life category. Single gear road bikes. Woot!

Driving south from Monterey back home to LA, right before heading up into the grapevine, Cowschwitz. The stench is ungodly. The pens seem to stretch for miles. the waste from these animals pollutes the air, the water supply, ecoli gets into the food chain, vegetable and animal. the cows are packed in, fed an unnatural diet for their species, a strange mixture of corn, hormones chemical additives and meat from the fallen and sickly of their own kind. They are destined to die a cruel death after a cruel life, and why? To feed fat American’s insatiable desire for crap food, to dull their minds, make them more sullen and aggressive and yet more compliant to a manipulative corporatocracy, and shorten their own lives. Consider resolving to eat a little less meat today, your system will thank you, and you will be contributing a little less to THE ABOVE.

By April/May I will be out of my cozy little slum in noho and on to new digs.

Also, this blog will be continuing, but will be hosted out of my new website; http://www.chuckleebramlet.com. If you go there now it is a quaint little museum of outdated crap.

the newly designed website will be ready along with the new album release, around February 2010.

If you are following now, I hope you will make the move with me.

The new “Confessions” will have more sound features, plus video, store, and links to a You Tube channel, and will be easier to join, participate, etc.

I will give lots of notice as the move date approaches. Your suggestions are welcome, of course.

So, Cybermove: February.

Realworld move: April/May.

There, I said it. Now I just have to do it.

Happy family in my crapola apt.

Nothing collectible, but they are all my babies. Here’s the inventory:

1. Ampeg B100 bass amp, bought 1995. I bought this because my SVT scared club owners. I love it with a white hot passion.
2. Vox Pathfinder 10″. They stopped making them. Of course they did, because they were awesome. $75 out the door at Guitar center, but with the right mike and pre-amp, they sound Beatle-y, IMHO.
3. 1967 Stella, bought for $100. Wont tune for shit, but sounds like God.
4. Year-old Mexi-tele, with a straight neck. I converted it to Esquire (one pickup). Lovelovelove.
5. Crap banjo from Korea. Only stays in tune in a 3 fret radius, but I recorded “Murder of Crows” with it. Must get a real banjo one day…
6. Les Paul Jr. reissue, 2002. Love that single P90. Wont stay in tune because I beat it unmercifully, but I played it on all 3 albums.
7. Magnatone or Leilani Hawaiian lap steel. Someone mongreled it out with Schaller tuners and mismatched knobs and bad touch-up paint, but I love it so, and it loves me back.

I love single pickup electrics, I don’t know why, but they sound more muscular to me.

The GAD is mahogany, but sounds bright. I use it for alt-tunings, mainly CGCFCE, and CGDGCD.

The D-4 I use for standard tuning, bought in 95 and every year it gets better. Andy Brauer saved it from certain death. Even though I love my guitars, I beat them like rented mules.

My 90 Pbass. Outlasted all marriages and girlfriends.

Next: Back to album. Honest.