After a hard day of teaching guitar lessons with workshoplive.com, barry and I decided we needed to celebrate with a few donuts….yes this was after eating a 14oz. Steak……mmmmm…..”Time to eat
the donuts.” pun intended.

-mike

This week Barry and I aee in Pittsfield, Ma. working with our friends at workshoplive.com. What workshoplive does is teach music lessons online. We’ve started the MercyMe workshop so you can all
have your own private guitar lessons with Barry and me!!!

-mike

Sam officially thinks he is a superstar because his mug is on a magazine.

He keeps asking me if he can take it to school and show all of his friends. I have always been an advocate of the child star really. Mainly because most former child stars have gone on to live very balanced and normal lives. Besides most of them serving a bit of jail time, it’s gone quite well I think.

All kidding aside, the article was a lot of fun. Due to the fact I got to talk about Sam and not how I wrote “Imagine.”

-bart

Well, if there were two things in my life that I really wanted when I grew up, got married and owned my first house, it was a nice new Grill and a new Riding Lawn Mower.  Well, when I did get my first house, the yard was so small I wouldn’t have been able to even turn a riding lawn mower around in it.  But I did go by my first big gas grill.  $119 at HOME DEPOT.  It wasn’t extravagant, but it was gas or charcoal.  Well now after 5 years, I have a new house with a bigger yard and riding lawn mower, but my grill has pooped out. 

My question to all of you is…. Do I scrap the grill and all the memories attached to it or do I try and fix it?  I think I can buy a replacement burner for like $15, but then it might not fit and I might not be smart enough to figure out how to do it.  If I decide to buy a new one I know what I want.  Its the new Char-Broil Red.  Wow, its like the corvette of Grills.  It can use propane or convert to natural gas.  And to top it all off its Red.  Would match the way my wife decorates nicely. 

So please weigh in with your thoughts, comments, ideas or otherwise snide remarks and let me know what your thinking.  Thanks… and have nice Spring day.

Robby

This morning I was getting dressed and just randomly grabbed a t-shirt out of my closet to put on.  It is an Old Navy tee that says “Cinco de Mayo” on it. Get it? Today is May 5th…cinco de mayo! Can you believe that? I can’t. I really can’t. I wonder if I can get my “Tuesday May 6th” shirt back from the dry- cleaners by tomorrow? That would be insane. Oh well…happy cinco de mayo.

-bart

Hey everybody…So I know Jim has let the cat out of the bag that he’s going to be Mr. Photographer guy in his spare time, and Robby’s joining the business side of the music industry by managing Addison Road, and of course there’s Bart and his love for the good ol’ southern baptist hymnal.

Well for me, I’ve started trying to help out some newer indie bands. When we got started 14 years ago, we were lucky enough to have Jim in the band. For those of you who don’t know, Jim had a recording background when we started MM, so we got free studio time…if you can call daycare centers and abandoned houses studios, (yes our 1st few records were on a VERY tight budget.) Well not every band gets to start out with a Jim in their corner, so I’ve started trying to help other bands who are where we were in the beginning. Helping them record their songs so hopefully they can make the whole world sing. That being said, here’s a band I recently produced a few songs for. They’re from our own Greenville, TX. and they’re called The Cost.

www.myspace.com/thecostmusic (remember to be careful on myspace…there are some weirdos out there.)

mike

Sorry the film quality is bad, but this is a security guard at one of our shows who came into our dressing room and started singing for us. No warning, just started singing. Awesome…simply awesome.

-bart

Golf…what a relaxing way to spend the day. Ben came with me to be my caddy….or was he there to make sand angels in the sandtraps…can’t remember…

-mike