Last night I was feeling a bit crafty so I decided to do a bit of work on the old PILOTS myspace page (who uses myspace anymore anyway?) The page had been lacking a nice header image of us for quite a while (years maybe?) So I took one my favorite photos of us from [...]

After graduating from Greenville in 2006, my band (which was then referred to) When Sorrow Fails when on tour. After tour we buckled down, wrote some songs we were proud of and recorded with me using Greenville’s studios (thanks to my favorite prof., Mike Johnson!) Before we took the weekend to track the songs, I [...]

There’s a pretty good blog on music and culture I’ve been reading lately that posted some interesting thoughts on Straight Edge called Late Night Wallflower. In 1998 the straight edge lifestyle was about 15 years old, and it was no longer what it originally was no matter who you are, or what you were doing [...]

I’m in jonesin’ for two pedals right now. Since I have an Ampeg V-4 which has two inputs, each with their own gain controls, I have the ability to do some cool dynamic things. Turn one input down for a “cleaner” sound, and the other up for the “dirty” sound. All I need is a [...]

two words: Matt Goldman

finished tracking the ep in greenville.  it sounds good. matt goldman’s mixing it starting (maybe) this week.  it’ll be mixed by second week of october. hopefully alan douches (west west side music) is mastering it.  hopefully. me, rob and matt and wholly committed.  seemingly the only ones my new job is kinda boring, but i [...]

Okay, okay. Brandon Ross is apparently the only person who wants to know, but he’s enough… We’re gonna go back to Greenville in two weeks and records 4 new songs, and do some more overdubs on Terror, and send them to be mixed by Atlanta’s Matt Goldman.  Matt produced such great sounding records including Copeland’s [...]

I’m sitting at the front door of inevitability I feel like each move to the left or the right has been predetermined, or at least my attempting surging is of none effect I cannot move; I am entirely dependent “See” she says but I cannot “Be content or at least not so down & out” [...]

Well, we got back to St. Louis last night from our two week tour. It went okay.  A bunch of dates were cancelled and we spent, what seemed like a “vacation” of sorts, at least 5 days hanging out in Atlanta both on the way down and back from Florida (where we played one show [...]