Monday, April 16, 2012 at 12:08PM Here's the first video from a "Leonard" song! If you like it, please help spread the word! MP3s for kickstarters and preorders will be finding you tomorrow!
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 11:59AM The other new overdrive pedal going on my live board is the "BAT" pedal, by BomesElectric, a killer and extremely versatile little box. Pick one up today and tell him I sent you!!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 09:34PM Yesterday I picked up the first 10 Leonard Overdrive pedals. Today I plugged it up, gasped, played for a couple of hours and then filmed a bit of it to show you. It's probably a little too much jamming around, but you'll hear the pedal, a few different settings and with a Les Paul and a Strat. Only 20 of these will ever be sold, and the first 10 have already gone. If you want one, email me and let me know. $200 including shipping. Just click the little envelope icon on the top right of my website and I'll get your pedal on the way to you!!
(Sales of these are helping me finish up the costs for printing the record, so thank you!!)
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 02:09AM This is a live version of one of the songs off Jon Troast's next EP, "C", in the series of four that I got to produce for him. Jon is one of my favorite songwriters and this is one of my favorite songs of his. Stacy Lantz adds her stunning voice with us here in the video and on the record. Can't wait for you to get it. Release date is May 1.
Monday, April 9, 2012 at 02:02PM 
Years ago making a record and actually getting people to hear about it took one thing: a record label. These days, the labels are mostly gone, and in many ways they're not missed.
However, when you make a record you feel has a ton of potential beyond your group of supporters, well, that's when it gets tricky.
Artists in my orbit, making a living but not selling out huge tours or getting on the radio, have a hard time getting anything heard outside of their normal sphere.
You see, what record labels did wrong (took more than their fair share, tried to water down great artists, held records under lock and key) were the unfortunate side effects of the good that they did, mainly fronting the money for the records to be made and then doing the work of getting the music out there.
Well, I believe in this record. More than anything I've ever done before. And I want people to hear it, and I want to be able to get enough people to shows to do some really fun stuff with production and band. So I'm trying to figure out ways to get there.
And I've realized something. You guys funded this record and so many of you are linking, retweeting, blogging on my behalf...
YOU ARE MY RECORD LABEL!!
You are doing what they used to take a chestful of money to do. And arguably doing a better job!!
All this to say, because I care about this record and want it to do well, I'm not going to release it yet.
Not completely.
Those of you who have kickstarted it will get mp3s in the next week or so, Rabbit Room preorders shortly thereafter, and then it'll go dark. Like the label people all had copies of our records months in advance, you guys will have it, can listen and get to know it, and then if you like it and want to support it further you can help out.
Doing a full release (indie record stores, iTunes) in September gives us a few months to get reviews in magazines and on websites, gives us time to have stories about the building and the concept told in newspapers and local publications, gives us time to build some excitement for the project.
So thank you for your patience and support (some of you paid for this record A YEAR AGO!!), I hope you just love it. I do. I've never been more excited about a project. I can't wait for you guys to hear it in the weeks ahead.
If you haven't preordered yet, you have about a week and a half left! CLICK HERE!!
