I would love to see you and your friends there rocking out with us, it’s gonna be good times. If you like dancing, and bopping your head along to good tunes, you’re not gonna want to miss it.

Come out this Saturday, July 24th. The doors open at 9:00 pm so come check out the awesome supporting act and we’ll be up shortly thereafter. Can’t wait to see you there. (RSVP on Facebook!)

The Engine Room can be found near Railroad Square off of Gaines Street in Tallahassee, Fl.
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MUTEMATH is definitely a live band. Their albums are great and I have loved them all, but if you haven’t seen them perform live, you’re really missing out on a great show, teamwork and musicianship.

Check out the video below of Armistice from their Japan tour.

For those interested, I recorded the song entirely in Logic Express using my laptop. I used my lovely guitar Betsy (who turned 11 years old this month) for all the electric guitar parts, through a small Epiphone Valve Jr. amp; Stella, my acoustic guitar joined the fun on the chorus parts of the song.

I would like to than Ryan Flemming, who helped me with the bass guitar. He adds so much awesomeness to this song with his funky fresh groove. Thanks Ryan!

Hope you like it. I’ve embedded two version of the song below because I can.

Enjoy.

Humbly I’ll Fall  by  Samuel Febres

If you don’t know anything about Five Iron Frenzy, please educate yourself here and here… or below.

Baby It’s Cold Outside – Selma Blair & Rainn Wilson

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2 More free ones…

Winter Wonderland – Jon Heder & Janelle Monae

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and…

Jingle Bells – Featuring: Trey Songz & Flo Rida

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Melding Riffs Idea by Samuel Febres

If you haven’t picked up MUTEMATH’s Armistice album, pick it up now on itunes or amazon.com.

Check out:
Their website
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Because we got our tickets a few months back as part of an album pre-order/VIP promotion, we received a ‘First in Line’ pass which allowed us to get in a little early to the show before other folks and have some pizza and drinks, and buy stuff without the crowds if we wanted to.

This worked out great because Nat and I were able to get a great spot near the front of the stage. You couldn’t ask for a better spot to enjoy the show.

I didn’t bring my camera like I usually do, and only took a few photos with the cell phone, so I don’t really have anything to share, but I couldn’t resist filming something, so near the end of the show, I pulled out a little portable camera that my dad let me borrow and filmed a song called Reset and another part of the show where Darren King (the drummer) stands on top of a floor tom that is being held up by the crowd, and then jumps back into the crowd and crowd surfs. All that happened within 3 feet of me. Pretty cool.

Check out the videos below and let me know what you think. If you haven’t heard of MUTEMATH, check out their new album, Armistice on itunes or Amazon.com. It’s a great album, and definitely, if they’re coming anywhere near you, make sure you get tickets to enjoy the show… or do like me, and drive 5 hours to another city to do so.

Oh, also, we found out that they were filming the show for a DVD, if it all works out. I was in front of the camera man quite a few times, as was my better half, so there’s quite the possibility that we might make it on the DVD. Very cool stuff.

Darren King jumps into the crowd video…

“Oh my god! I’m never gonna wash these hands again! I’m never gonna wash these hands again.”

Reset by MUTEMATH performed live at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia on November 6th, 2009

I find Jay Z to feel/look a little awkward, but it’s an interesting collaboration, and an interesting song to do it on. Thoughts?

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

From the creator:

“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.”

I was able to participate in two ways.

The first way was as a trio with a couple of friends. We did 4 songs that I wrote and a good time was had by all. I was very pleased with how things turned out with just one rehearsal. I’m looking forward to performing more with these guys as opportunities arise.

Unfortunately, I’ve only got a 30 second clip of a song we performed because the memory card ran out of memory, but it gives you a good idea of how we looked and sounded. Check it out below.

The 2nd way I was able to participate was through the Late Night Cafe which was part of a songwriting competition. To enter to competition, I had to submit an mp3 my song and my song was judged based on the mp3.

What was great about the competition this year was that we received the judging score cards to see how we were judged and it included comments from the judges. I didn’t win the competition, and the scoring wasn’t so great, but I am quite ok with that. My purpose for entering is more to get comfortable singing my songs out in public and to get a feel for how people like the songs.

Based on that, my songs are doing really good. When the band finished playing the set, I got quite a few compliments on a great set from folks, many whom I didn’t know (maybe they were just trying to be nice). In addition to that, once I finished performing at the Late Night Cafe, I got quite a few compliments as well from folks I didn’t know, in addition to a “you should have won”, and a request for a website or place to get a CD. I was very encouraged to hear that.

I would actually like to share the judge’s comments later, because I found a couple of them to be quite interesting. I’d like to get your opinion, dear reader, and thoughts the decisions the judges made, as well as your thoughts based on hearing the song.

Here’s the video of the song I entered for the Late Night Cafe. It’s called Humbly, I’ll Fall.

Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments.
(Also, this wasn’t the most ‘respectful’ crowd with regards to performers and you can hear quite a bit of talking all throughout the songs. Sorry about that.)

Ok, I didn't design this flyer so no threats on the design, but I did take that photo of myself. They found it on the internet. True story.

This is probably not the place for this, but let me vent a little. Folks like to complain about ‘how there is nothing to do’ in Tallahassee and how it’s ‘boring.’ Well folks, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is. Here is an event that is not cost prohibitive ($5!), will allow you to check out and discover local talent you might not even be familiar with, and get out and have a good time and shared experience with some friends. In other words, something to do. And, if you’re reading this, you probably know me and we’re what you might consider FRIENDS, the least you could do would be to show up to support me and the music I’ve been writing and working on.

Tallahassee is a gold mine of creativity and artistry. Stop looking else-where for it and to be entertained. You have no right to complain about there being ‘nothing to do’ or that you’re ‘bored’ when local events like these are put on and NEVER CHOOSE TO GO. Turn off the tv and be a part of the local community that you live in. It doesn’t matter where you’re from. You’re HERE now. Get involved. If you don’t support it, whatever grows out of it, if it doesn’t die, will move on and go elsewhere where it can and will be supported and grow.

Look where you’re lying and get involved. Ok, rant over.

That out of the way, I would love to see you guys come out on Saturday night. I know it’s short notice, but I know the majority of you usually have no plans and Florida State isn’t playing (as far as I’m aware). Those of you who come out, we’re gonna have a good time.

Make it Facebook official that you’re coming.

It was an awesome experience. The sound was awesome, the show and stage was great. I’ve got a few other photos and audio clips that I would like to share, but before I post those online, I would like to share something a little ‘special.’

You know it’s bound to happen that if you put over 70,000 people into a giant stadium (a new record for Raymond James apparently), serve them beer and play some loud rock and roll, there are bound to be a few ‘special folks’ that make an appearance.

I had the pleasure of having one sitting a few rows down from me. Check out these dance moves.

You’re welcome.

Below is a video of my performance.

There’s definitely room for improvement but overall, I felt like I did alright.

Anyway, I would appreciate if you could head on over to http://ccbstars.com/, register to vote and then head on over to http://tallahassee.com/ccbstars and vote me!

Voting ends this Thursday night (October 1st) at midnight, Eastern time.

Thanks!

PS: A friend had the I Am T Pain app on his iphone and I sang a bit of this song into it. Check it out. Pretty funny.

Stop Pretending-T-Pained by Samuel Febres

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Who’s listened already? What do you think?

I’ve been listening to a 3 track sample I got for pre-ordering tickets to their show. Enjoyed every minute of it and I’m looking forward to enjoying Armistice.

Go get it. Now. Ok, good.

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If you haven’t checked out Mute Math before, or didn’t know there was a new album coming out, you should definitely head on over to itunes to pre-order Armistice today. (or Amazon.com if you roll that way
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Here’s a video Mute Math recently put up performing The Nerve in Japan. Hope you enjoy.

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This is one of my favorite songs off the new album, if not my favorite (ask my wife, she’s heard me play it over, and over, and over).

HT to The Worship Guitarist

Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of playing favorite instruments, guitars both found and invented. Concentrating on the artist’s musical rebellion, traveling with him to influential locations, provoking rare discussion as to how and why he writes and plays, this film lets you witness intimate moments and hear new music from each artist. The movie revolves around a day when Jimmy Page, Jack White, and The Edge first met and sat down together to share their stories, teach and play.

I can’t wait to see it.