7th Annual Local 6 Picnic Monday, September 5 (Labor Day) 2pm – 6pm New Location!!! McNears Beach, Area 8 201 Cantera Way, San Rafael, CA 94901 Marin County Parks Website $10 parking fee NO DOGS ALLOWED Bring your family and enjoy delicious barbecue (with veggie options), grilled by our bass player grillers Bill Everett, David Schoenbrun, […]
How To Be A Happy Musician
Categories Career AdvicePosted onThis is a HAAAARRRRDDDDD topic! It sounds so simple, but it is deep and profound. A Happy Musician Thinks About Money, But Knows It’s Not The Most Important Thing— The Dalai Lama says, “It is better to want what you have than to have what you want.” Okay, stop. I need to unravel my pretzeled-out […]
Why Do Labor Leaders Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Categories BlogPosted onBecause…you get a three day weekend! Wait, don’t shoot—uh, I mean, pass the freedom fries. Can the world tolerate my bad jokes? Can I? *** Ronald Reagan signed the MLK holiday into law in 1983, and it came into effect in 1986. That always seemed strange to me, that Ronald Reagan would do that. Because […]
How To Take A Guitar Onto An Airplane Without Losing Your Mind
Categories BlogPosted onDo You Have A Fixed Mindset Or A Growth Mindset? by Alex Walsh
Categories BlogPosted onA few months ago I discovered this book “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, by Dr. Carol S. Dweck. I’m pretty sure I heard about it from Derek Sivers blog post “Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset”. Here’s a basic summary from Derek’s post: It’s a little bit like “nature vs nurture”: People in a fixed mindset believe […]
Black Thursday? by Alex Walsh
Categories BlogPosted onI love office supply stores. They give me that ‘I can do anything!’ feeling. I usually just walk out with a tiny pocket sized notebook to jot down ideas, but that’s okay. Music stores on the other hand, they make me nervous. Excited but nervous. Music stores are full of big decisions. Even the cheapest […]
Taylor Swift, Spotify, and Me by Alex Walsh
Categories BlogPosted onTo The Internets! by Alex Walsh
Categories BlogPosted onAs I was walking to work one beautiful San Francisco Monday morning, I tuned in to KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny. The topic was the issue of restaurants in the Bay Area wanting to do away with the tip-based system and going with a 20% gratuity fee. The conversation got into all kinds of complicated areas […]
Don’t Let The Healthcare Zombies Eat You Alive – Vote Yes on Prop. 45! by Alex Walsh
Categories BlogPosted onCorporations are alive and you are their meal ticket. You think you are safe but you’re not really. Not in this new world. How much is a pound of flesh worth? Your flesh. Because that’s what we’re talking about. Money and human flesh. Body parts: severed arms, crushed legs, mangled hands, droopy skin, […]
Movie Production Companies Take Government Tax Breaks And Send Musician Jobs Overseas by Alex Walsh
Categories BlogPosted onWhat?! I learned about this when I got to work on Monday. My first thought was: ”Does Denzel know?” +++++++++++++++++++++ I went to the movies last weekend with my wife. “Two for Denzel,” I said when we got to the counter. “Oh, you mean the Equalizer,” said the college-age cashier. “Yes,” I said. Tickets were […]