gonzeaux

I spent today taking down the studio in boulder, listening to tom waits orphans (brilliant by the way) really loud. I dont think anyone was in the building anyways.

So I am packing up the show in colorado finally and hitting the road at the end of november. I have looked at opportunities in NY, Washington, Texas, Oregon, Ft Collins, and have decided on Washington. I looked at tax incentives for new businesses and saturation of market share for mastering studios and services provided, Proximity to major markets, etc.

I thought Boulder/Denver would be good when I moved here 6 years ago. It has been I can say. To a point. The rockabilly alt country scene had been thriving and now it has pretty much lost out to jambands and jambands. I know it is out there but has a nicer root in Seattle.

I look to there as my 2nd home and travel there alot. I found a mastering studio for sale and a market niche that is not represented. I have some good folks up there.

Boulder was a mistake, I moved here on a whim. and it is time to go someplace else. It is nice and funky and the pot is killer but that is about it. Not too many old punks here, and driving around this place is getting worse by the day. I seem to get the feeling I stick out like a sore thumb, I get the feeling of being really too old and has beenish. Time to grow up and move on.

I saw the high water mark some time ago, got restless and decided to do some travelling to see what is out there. Ole Seasshole won out. I will still have mountains and places to fish and get out in the boonies. I have owned a house in the mountains and had some great times there but I saw my neighborhood of remote eccentric individualists get mired over by nanny laws and idiots in Land Rovers looking for some place in the woods.

I have climbed a bunch of teeners, fished the good streams, made some good loud music here......I wont forget it. Did all the things that made it fun.

So for the next month there will be many trips up and back........

It feels very liberating to get out, knowing that there are other places on the map besides the Boulder bubble, I am not some funky granola wookie. Just a simple guy who likes his pabst cold and his rockabilly loud. I hate soundtribe, phish, panic, the dead and all the false two inch scenes that follow them. I dont really have an ideal to chase, some status to uphold, the divine need to wear prana and montbello every day on the way to whole foods in my bio diesel mercedes from 1982 that I paid way too much money for. I have old vans and a cbgb jacket. I have tattoos and my ears ring alot.

Denver you have been good to me, broken the heart a few times, but it is time to move on. I have made great friends here and luckily they are talented enough to travel and have a second home in Seattle.

Ok Kids, good luck and Rock ON!