I’ve recently joined the board of an incredibly cool company called Topspin Media, via Foundry Group’s Series B investment in the company. This is an investment literally a decade in the making. I met Topspin’s co-founder, seed investor and Chairman Peter Gotcher about ten years ago while he was a venture partner at Redpoint, via…
I’ve played guitar for about 25 years now, and have been relatively restrained about adding new axes to my arsenal, until the last year or so, when three great new guitars found their way into my collection. Last year after we finished fund-raising, my partners gave me a Fender VG Stratocaster. And after NAMM this…
It has been a couple years since my band Soul Patch last played live, and we’ve been itching to play ever since. But having children, starting a new venture fund and moving to Boulder, CO mean that the band is now spread among Boulder, LA and San Francisco. Well, we’re all coming together to play…
My old friend Tom Lewis, who I knew back in the day when we were both denizens of the Valley during the bubble years, just posted a nice review of Sooner or Later on the LAist. My favorite line in the review: There is a jam band element to Soul Patch, with the expected chord…
My friend Jeremy Toeman turned me on to a site called Cuturegraph a few weeks ago, and I’ve been laughing on a regular basis ever since. Basically, they publish charts and graphs that make amusing pop-culture references. And they crowd-source their content. I was inspired and submitted one of my own, shown above. You’ve got…
Every January, my friends Jason and Carl and I go to the NAMM Conference in Anaheim, which is, more or less, the CES for music gear. While I’ve been tempted by cool gadgets and incredible guitars every year, this is the first year I actually bought something I saw at NAMM — a walnut solid…
And, better late(r) than never. Between our compulsion to relentlessly polish the songs and tweak the mix, our day jobs, getting married and having children, half the band moving to Colorado and starting up a new venture fund, sometimes I feared we’d never get the thing done. But we did. I’m excited to announce that…
My colleague Jason Mendelson and I recently did an angel investment in a startup record label. Jason & I play in two bands together (Soul Patch is the one with an album out and second one in the works due in mid 2006) and work together at Mobius. We recently had the good fortune to…
Last weekend, Rex and Jason and I went down to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Rex was the instigator of the trip and wanted to have a “boy’s weekend” to blow off some steam. The three of us play in a cover band together called Full Ratchet (bad VC humor, if you get the joke). Unbeknownst…
In my previous post I mentioned that I recorded a song that is now the ringtone on my snazzy new phone, so I thought I’d let anyone interested hear the tune and provide a lite “Behind the Music” backgrounder… The name of the song is “Hell Sink Ye” and you can download the short ringtone…