Doubt Brings Hope

Sunday night, I had the amazing opportunity to open for the uber-talented Priscilla Ahn at The Old Rock House in St. Louis. Here's a video of my tune, 'DOUBT BRINGS HOPE.' It's the first time I've played with it as a loop, and I think it turned out well! Enjoy...

Peace,
Ross

The Old Rock House

Last night I had the awesome opportunity to open for Priscilla Ahn at The Old Rock House in St. Louis. It was a great venue with a great staff and sound! Thanks SO VERY MUCH to everyone that came out and supported! If you missed it, here's some pics from the show...







Peace,
Ross

The F Word.

This is brilliant!



Peace,
Ross

RE:Post (Bye Bye Jobs)

I'm saddened and thankful for the life and creativity of Mr. Jobs. I thought it would be appropriate to re:post an entry from a couple months back...

Steve Jobs stepped down yesterday as CEO of Apple. So I thought it only appropriate to thank him for his enormous contribution to the music industry and overall artistry.

That's right, the music industry.

iTunes changed EVERYTHING!
The labels didn't (and still don't) know how to work like they did before the days of iTunes.

But what I want to focus on is how iTunes made us better song writers and producers.
Or it at least forced our hands...

Before iTunes, in the day and age when we went to the record store to buy a physical CD, (most albums) would have 2-3 top notch songs and the rest was mediocre and/or filler tunes.
*[there are VERY FEW albums that I listen to straight through without skipping a track or two]

iTunes essentially made every song a single. That's how we purchase them now. Filler tunes now will be unheard songs, and potentially millions of 99 cent downloads lost. And since consumer is still king (even Jobs can't change that), our song writing has been forced to put out an album of potential singles.

Jobs forced the hands of the artists to forget about the track 4 and 5, 11 and 12 that served to fill time and space (a lot of the time).

So Mr. Jobs, thanks for your contribution to the music industry, to artists, and to me personally.

Peace,
Ross

2 words.

In crazy political times of 24 hour news cycles, it makes you say...

Peace,
Ross

fences.

Yesterday I was sitting in the backyard with the girls and decided I wanted to write a fictional song from the perspective of an inanimate object; in this case, a fence. So here's what I came up with...

Fences
(c) 2011 Ross Christopher

You've built me for isolation,
Insulation, desolation, and instigation

We've held in our secret nights
And out our eventual fights

From me, you're half-spoken,
Never listened,
Judged in whispers,
And gotten bitter

You call me fences
You call me six-foot privacy
But I am speechless
And all I do is see

Peace,
Ross

Rabbits

Do you think there are rabbits in the jungle?

Peace,
Ross