Jason Lindsay

It’s time for my semi-regular update…
I’ve been writing different kinds of songs (other than hair-pulling metal), and it’s turned out to be much harder than I imagined.  I mean, it’s easy to spew hatred and anger onto the page (for me anyway), but to actually put some thought and emotion into a song that has [...]

As the title implies, I have been writing some songs lately, and I’m trying to stretch my songwriting capabilities into new territory.
In the past, my song-writing talents have been limited strictly to metal songs.  And they are not very hard to write.  You shape a power chord, slide it up and down a few frets, [...]

I’ve been trying to learn a lot of stuff on the electric guitar lately – mainly solos and leads.  I’ve come pretty far in knowing what chords go where, and the different chord progressions, but now I’m trying to take the next step forward.
Once I got my awesome guitar amp, it opened up a whole [...]

So… I had this gear in my garage.
From my old metal band days, I had a bass practice amp, a bass guitar, and an old Sunn amplifier; stuff I had been carting around for several years (since the late 90’s).  I always told myself that I would use those things again, although everything else told [...]

About one week ago, my brother-in-law Mark and I entered into a bet:  he would quit Diet Coke (and other soda containing caffeine) and I would quit drinking coffee.  Let’s back up a bit…
I have been a self-avowed coffee lover for many, many, years… going all the way back to when I started in the [...]