Midpoint Saturday Morning

Good morning. 10am. I never sleep well in hotel rooms, even nice ones. Might as well wake up and be productive. Last night rocked. Tons of great music all over the place. My favorite was Cari Clara, those guys rock.

Mentoring and 2 panels today. Should be a very fun day. Lots of great bands playing tonight. tomorrow i fly back home and get back to real work. Cincinnati is my home town, its always good to be here. I saw an old friend from high school last night who's now a music professor at University of Cincinnati. He wasnt even a musician in high school. Quite the accomplishment to become a professor, his band High Water Trio was really cool too. check them out.

So, i feel like i should talking more about mixing or engineering or something relating to how i earn a living. I guess i'll get back to those subjects soon enough. I've got alot of mixes waiting for me when i get back. Alot of production and songwriting work as well. I think i've hit a real creative mode lately where i actually think my songwriting is very good. not usually the case. I'm typically much better at molding other peoples songs into something much better (thats called production, mixing can certainly help that too). Who knows, I'm runnin with it. I've never shy'd away from a good challenge and one of the things i challenged myself to do at the beginning of this year was alot more songwriting. So far so good. I like setting goals, often outrageously ambitious goals. I rarely fail, its not in my blood. By the way, the Cuban Link album that i produced, played multiple instruments on, and mixed, hit the Billboard Top 200 Charts this past week. Congrats Cuban Link. Rumor has it that G Unit has been talking to him about possibly joining the click. That would be cool.
-Ken