Gig Emails From the Past

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Pretty much every week I send out a gig email letting folks on my email list know where I’m playing and what I’ve been up to. I’ve been doing this for years and having a ton of fun with it. I like exploring the inner mechanics of the English language with special emphasis on the slang factor. It’s jazz but riffin’ on a slightly different medium.

If so inclined, venture further back in time to the read what’s been going on.

If you are not receiving my weekly update and you want to, take a trip to The Loop, fill in your vitals, and magically I’ll add you to the revolution. Yours will be a charmed, entertained, and informed life.

 

Negative Ions Evaporating! September 26, 2012
The Sauna Effect in 3D! September 20, 2012
John Coltrane Living in the City! September 12, 2012
Standby Is a Sad Place to Live! September 5, 2012
It’s Always There, Just Ask John Cage! August 28, 2012
Grid Iron Beef Jerky and the Vegan Crusaders! August 21, 2012
Modified Chapter 11! August 13, 2012
A Full On Shoe-In! July 31, 2012
New World Sonic Avatar! July 25, 2012
The Big White Gas Gulping Car! July 18, 2012
4 am Climbing Through the Bathroom Window! July 11, 2012
Barking Out the Deets! July 4, 2012
The Hazards of Holding a Guitar in Your Hands June 27, 2012
Under the Radar Gorrilla Hits! June 23, 2012
The Sonic Wizards Return! June 5, 2012
3/4 of a Fortune! May 30, 2012
The Omnipresent Beauty of the Bossa Nova! May 23, 2012
Leave Catching Up on Sleep For When You’re Older! May 16, 2012
Heading in the Right Direction! May 7, 2012
Professional Slo-Mo Living May 1, 2012
Dangerous Surroundings and Dangerous Music! April 16, 2012
Working on the Road Work Ahead! April 9, 2012
Stay Submerged! April 3, 2012
Rethinking Space Parameters March 26, 2012
Hello Reichenberg! March 12, 2012
Happy Hands are Warm Hands! March 7, 2012
The Magnetic East West Continuum! February 27, 2012
Classic Americana Themes With the Highest Rhyme Level Payoffs! February 21, 2012
The Forgotten Mind of Santosha! February 13, 2012
The Way ART is Supposed To Work! February 7, 2012
Occupy Mira Costa! January 31, 2012
Chaos Organized with Street Logic January 29, 2012
First Rate Winter Moment January 19, 2012
Strings Lassoing Vocals January 12, 2012
Having An Interest in Clanking Glasses. January 1, 2012
A Zillion Orange Juice Smoothies! December 28, 2011
Bass On Fire! December 19, 2011
Summer Is On It’s Way! December 14, 2011
I Almost Proposed to the Woman Next To Me! December 5, 2011
QWERTY Rules! November 30, 2011
Bliss Frozen in Purple! November 20, 2011
The Hunchback of Chapman! November 9, 2011
Front of House Apocalypse! November 2, 2011
Following Our Educated Nonsense Perfectly! October 25, 2011
Plugged In and Going Fractal! October 20, 2011
The Magic of October! October 12, 2011
Sharing the Airspace With 500 Horsepower of Classic American Machinery! October 5, 2011
Spirited Worker Bee Plowing the Fields! September 28, 2011
Turn It Up! September 21, 2011
Throwing in a Catastrophe For Good Measure! September 14, 2011
Wave On Wave of Life September 7, 2011
Winding Two Lanes Into Aloo Gobi! August 31, 2011
Walla Walla! August 25, 2011
Trance Factor Brewing! August 17, 2011
It Just Plays Itself! August 10, 2011
Deconstructing in Realtime! August 1, 2011
Leonardismo! July 28, 2011
The Rock Dance July 20, 2011
The Vibrant Slo-Mo July 3, 2011
Off the Grid June 24, 2011
Pin Drop Quiet – As If! June 15, 2011
Putting the Spin on my Hands June 9, 2011
Power Wash Away the Whitenoise Buildup! June 1, 2011
Astral Traveling a la Pharoah Sanders! May 25, 2011
Ozark! May 18, 2011
A Ride to the Unknow with a Posse of Jazz Outlaws! May 10, 2011
Folk Dancing Edelweiss with James Hubbell May 3, 2011
Kernel Note Friends April 28, 2011
Resetting The Inner RAM! April 21, 2011
Waiting for the Tornado Skies to Pass By! April 13, 2011
The Ride on the Guitar Seat! April 7, 2011
Within You, Without You! March 28, 2011
The Hail-Strewn Confines of SpragueLand! March 21, 2011
Jetlagged Transcendence! March 16, 2011
Who Stole the Tarts, was it the Queen of Hearts? March 2, 2011
The Cryptic Speadsheet February 23, 2011
Ella is Accentuating the Positive! February 17, 2011
Record Producing with the Almighty Buck Leading the Way February 10, 2011
“Mill Creek Road” Floats into the Real World February 1, 2011
20 Minutes of a 3 Dimensional Helicopter Ride January 25, 2011
The Attempt at an Elegant Look January 18, 2011
Is There a Doctor in the House? January 12, 2011
Streamlining! January 6, 2011
Bringing it to the Streets of Babylon! December 28, 2010
Last Minute Voltage! December 21, 2010
The Mysto Cheese Dip Edition December 18, 2010
Notes ‘R Us December 9, 2010
Slurpee Headache November 30, 2010
The Earth Was Digging the Moisture November 23, 2010
Life, Riding Smooth on the Suspension of Affluence November 17, 2010
The Day and Age of Lugging the Gear to a String of One Offs! November 9, 2010
Abbreviation Shake Down! November 2, 2010
Further Gravity to Lure You In! October 27, 2010
The Joy of Hydroplaning! October 19, 2010
The Train’s Mournful Cry October 13, 2010
Low Sleep Factor Episode! October 4, 2010
Cobweb Clearage Mixed With Some Fine Aqua Barrels! September 27, 2010
I Can Hear the Freeway! September 23, 2010
Who Wrote This Tune and Why? September 13, 2010
The Bandwidth Storage Banks of Peter’s Brain September 8, 2010
Bravissimo! August 31, 2010
Detail Alignment Moment August 26, 2010
Altered Dominants and Polyrhythmic Mayhem! August 17, 2010
An Aircraft Carrier at 8700 Feet! August 11, 2010
From the Thawing Hands of Surfer Pete! August 2, 2010
Summertime in SoCal Via a Slight Detour to Warsaw! July 28, 2010
The Emergence of “Calling Me Home” July 21, 2010
An Accelerando From Hell! July 15, 2010
An Absolute Page Turner! July 6, 2010
The California Over Achievers 101! June 30, 2010
The Pre-iPad Tripp Situation June 15, 2010
California Operating at It’s Best June 7, 2010
The Jazz Police — At Your Beckon Call! June 1, 2010
Combustible Partido Alto May 25, 2010
Digging Into the Deets May 20, 2010
Juggling Chord Changes and Juggling the Next Generation of Sonic Jugglers May 12, 2010
Diggin’ On James Brown! May 3, 2010
A Week With Air Built Into It April 29, 2010
The Springtime Rainbow Movie April 21, 2010
Good Day Sunshine! April 14, 2010
Props to the De-icing Men and Women of the World April 7, 2010
Flying Along on a D Phrygian Morning Raga March 31, 2010
Wherever You Go, There You Are March 24, 2010
A Nice Way to Get Back to Even March 9, 2010
Sand In My Hair February 25, 2010
Oh Susanna! February 16, 2010
Dark Sky Filled with a Zillion Stars February 11, 2010
Anything Goes! February 2, 2010
Fructose Plastic Ono Orchestra January 25, 2010
Liquid Chaos! January 19, 2010
Moon Germs January 12, 2010
An Eye on the Sunrise Smoothie January 5, 2010
Eatin’ Cayenne December 30, 2009
Can You Squeak Away? December 23, 2009
Volcano For Hire December 8, 2009
The Quirk Factor November 30, 2009
In Search of the State of FLOW November 17, 2009
A Rough Ride to New York November 3, 2009
Anyone Up For Mamoun’s Falafel? October 21, 2009
Flying In the Metheny Zone October 15, 2009
Wild Long Haired Delivery October 7, 2009
Gods of the Digital Cree September 30, 2009
Lassoing Creative Thoughts September 23, 2009
Do You Know Something I Don’t? September 17, 2009
Let’s See, The Wild Blue or Cosmo and Bon Bons? September 9, 2009
Even When I’m Surfing I’m Playing the Guitar September 2, 2009
Share in the Stevie-ness! August 24, 2009
Possibly the Right Place at the Right Time August 19, 2009
Mister Murphy’s Law August 10, 2009
The Saltwater Sting August 5, 2009
Sonic Botanical Wonders July 30, 2009
A Small Kid and a Country and Western Classic July 21, 2009
Three Quarters of the Way Out of Control July 15, 2009
Hello General Sherman! July 8, 2009
Wind Tunnel Strings June 23, 2009
Let a Little Samadhi Creep Into the Hurricane June 17, 2009
You’re Either On the Bus or Off the Bus! June 10, 2009
The Green World of Idyllwild May 26, 2009
Listening to the Beatles! May 20, 2009
The Patron Saint of Strings! April 29, 2009
The Legend Model Z April 21, 2009
Making a Living as a Muso in a Collapsing Economy April 15, 2009
The Guru of Proficiency April 7, 2009
Superpsychedelicized With Legal Harmonies March 31, 2009
The Terrain of Planet Improv March 24, 2009
The Sin of Flamenco March 19, 2009
Good Vibes Mixed with Tons of Notes March 10, 2009
Bachsters and Bopsters March 4, 2009
The Roxy Flow February 26, 2009
If It’s Magic! February 19, 2009
Hot Cross Buns Personified February 7, 2009
Marathon Coltrane! January 28, 2009
Voluntary Cumulative Head Trauma January 16, 2009
Roxy Bohemia January 8, 2009
The Party Continues! January 2, 2009
The Concert is Moving! December 23, 2008
An Enlightened Plan B? December 22, 2008
The Mini Twin December 10, 2008
The Endless Circular Cycle December 2, 2008
Thessaloniki November 3, 2008
What Is Enough? October 21, 2008
Scientist of Rock October 15, 2008
Zen and Life Juggling October 6, 2008
Be Cool October 1, 2008
How Segovia Met Hendrix September 22, 2008
Sans Nuts and Bolts September 16, 2008
Husband and Wife Theory September 8, 2008
The History of Ice Cream and Encinitas September 3, 2008
Teenage Terrorism — 101 August 26, 2008
The Grace of Music is the Word of the Day August 20, 2008
Zen Paperback August 12, 2008
For The Glory of the One Tenth! August 5, 2008
The Duke June 24, 2008
Ravi Rips! June 18, 2008
Leonard’s Singing Muted Trumpet June 11, 2008
Slipping Through The Freeway Barricades June 3, 2008
Foreign Tongue May 28, 2008
Wild Sonic Spin Into a New Dimension! May 21, 2008
Hippie Heaven Leucadia! May 14, 2008
Mexican Aqua Trancing May 8, 2008
No Machinery In the Loop April 22, 2008
Sonic Mecca Rising! April 17, 2008
Returning To Earth For The Big Tax Day April 7, 2008
Miss Carter’s Magic On Mudra March 31, 2008
It’s Supposed To Be Fun, Right? March 24, 2008
Fred’s Phrygian Fusion Dance March 18, 2008
6 Stringed Comrades March 3, 2008
Peter Sprague Plays Solo Tonight! March 6, 2008
I’m In, I’m There! February 27, 2008
Swim Trunks, 73 Degrees Water and a Sky Full of Sun! February 15, 2008
Ultima Mix! February 6, 2008
Making Sense of the Layers of Scribble January 30, 2008
Do We Really Need to Play the Coda? January 23, 2008
Recycling The Wonderful Vibe January 14, 2008
Pop Groove Nation Mixed With Jazz Chords January 9, 2008
Still Into It December 28, 2007
And To All A Good Night December 17, 2007
Adding To The Whitenoise December 11, 2007
It’s Working! December 3, 2007
A Hotel Gig with a Broken Elevator November 27, 2007
Roxy Solo November 14, 2007
Pushin’ The Faders November 8, 2007
Halloween Hit October 30, 2007
All Glass Apple October 15, 2007
The View From The Bus October 10, 2007
Ocean Tornado! October 1, 2007
Look To This Day! September 24, 2007
The Bomb Scare Blues September 18, 2007
26 Strings Strong! September 11, 2007
Juggle Mode — ON September 4, 2007
Parioli’s Patio August 27, 2007
Suspect Details Slipping By The Doorman August 22, 2007
Quick Words August 13, 2007
Get Shorty August 1, 2007
When, Where, and What Notes? July 24, 2007
Freedom Music July 10, 2007
North County Transcendental Factory July 2, 2007
Back Home From Kauai June 26, 2007
The Full Exploration of the Slow Down Factor June 8, 2007
Dancing on the Edge of Normal May 21, 2007
Launching Metheny Music! May 14, 2007
Blendo May 10, 2007
Working on the Railroad May 2, 2007
A Nose Full of Saltwater April 25, 2007
A Hurling Circuit Board April 17, 2007
Hurricane Factor Running Into Overtime April 12, 2007
77 Year-Old Planks ‘O Pine April 4, 2007
As Long As You Can Outrun The Bank March 28, 2007
Full On Trend Bucking March 20, 2007
Politics of the Disguised Beat March 14, 2007
Walking on a BIG Guitar March 8, 2007
A New Set of Rules February 28, 2007
Riveted February 21, 2007
Until Their Cycle Gets Completed February 15, 2007
Pulling The Magic Into the Digital Realm February 5, 2007
Crooning The Yellow Pages January 29, 2007
Looking For Sonic Daylight January 22, 2007
Shiverin’ January 15, 2007
A Funky House in Louisiana January 9, 2007
The Brave New Digital Etiquette January 5, 2007
How Californians Take On the Big Day December 18, 2006
You Can’t Really Plan Funny December 12, 2006
Ice Capades In Search of a New Pair of Skates December 4, 2006
Tripp Is The Walrus November 27, 2006
In Front of the Dartboard November 15, 2006
The Flute Paparazzi’s Flow Chart November 8, 2006
The Roswell Ramifications October 31, 2006
Two Devoted Guitarananda’s October 24, 2006
Add Some Bongo Chill to the Brazilian Mix October 17, 2006
The Circle Game October 9, 2006
Join The Circus From The Top Floor October 3, 2006
New Breed On The Horizon September 26, 2006
Filling Up The Empty Measures September 21, 2006
Semi-Educated Noise September 15, 2006
The Week of the Twang September 7, 2006
The Bohemian Magic of it All August 30, 2006
Spinning Inside August 24, 2006
The Wheels of Shed August 17, 2006
Master Upside Down Artist August 2, 2006
Confuse The Air Conditioners July 26, 2006
When Jack Daniels is Your Pilot July 17, 2006
Daydreaming Encouraged! July 12, 2006
The Tokeli Revolution July 3, 2006
The Big Deal June 28, 2006
Courting Chaos in Carlsbad June 21, 2006
Robbing Banks Under the Canopy of a Midwestern Rainstorm June 15, 2006
Stoked To Be Honored June 5, 2006
Connections May 31, 2006
Peter Sprague Plays Spazio May 31, 2006
101 Things You Can Do On A Layover May 25, 2006
A Proper Escape Hatch May 18, 2006
Attention To Detail May 10, 2006
Key Largo Anyone? April 29, 2006
Love For Sale April 19, 2006
Christmas in Springtime? April 12, 2006
Audio Spin It! March 27, 2006
In One Ear, Out The Fingers March 21, 2006
Jazz In Del Mar March 13, 2006
Peter Sprague’s Major Website Overhaul March 8, 2006
Total Brain Freeze March 6, 2006
Passing The Drum Off To Mundell February 22, 2006
Downwind February 13, 2006
Guitar In Hand February 8, 2006
Marley’s On The Box February 6, 2006
Plastic Spaghetti February 1, 2006
The Intricacies of the Electronic Tuner January 26, 2006
Solo Style January 9, 2006
Gig Chronicles Volume Two 2003
Gig Chronicles Volume One 2001
Gig Descriptions 2001 through 2005