Los Angeles, California

Throughout my childhood, and more specifically during my times as an avid metal fan, the town of Los Angeles was part of that culture. Every magazine I picked up, a lot of videos, behind the scenes footage, etc of bands such as Guns & Roses, Extreme, Poison, etc all had pictures of or reference too world famous clubs like The Rainbow, The Roxy,the Whisky A Go Go, etc too many to name.

Fast forward years later to when I started music school and my dreams of someday moving to LA where possible yet even at that time when I was aware of how possible it would be, i guess I never thought I would actually be in the same street as the people I followed for so long.

Fast forward even more and here I am. In Los Angeles, California. Last night I played my very first LA show at another famous venue: The Key Club. I played drums for my good friends from the band Cavesluts (great band name, great music and even cooler people!) and the show was great! If all the LA shows are going to be like this then I will be one happy chap, savvy?

As I left the venue to put my gear in my car and feed the parking meter I walked back and as I took those steps, the reality of being in this city finally hit me. I saw the Rainbow Room lights, in real life and I said to myself: "Wow, this is it... you are walking on the Sunset Strip, the same thing all the greatests have done!" Now, i'm not pretentious enough to think I will be them anytime soon, but walking the same street HAS to be a start!! jeje.

This is LITERALLY following the footsteps of some of my idols.

I had been here for a bit over a month and as much as I felt like I was in LA, i guess it hadn't really really internalized or my mind and heart assimilated the whole thing.

As far as my musical works up to date in this town, aside from the guys I mentioned above I had been reheasing with a great band called Devas and hopefully some shows will materialize in the near future. Also West 8 Five will start rehearsing again and writting new material along with playing as many shows as humanly possible.

Last week I also had the true joy and treat to sit in with The Left Coast Orchestra (www.myspace.com/leftcoastfunkorchestra). They are incredible players... the lot of them. Also i would like to work with singer/songwriter at acoustic shows and play some percussion with them and so on, work as much as I can.

To finish I can say that I finally have put my mini home-studio together and I have been spending a lot of time writing my music and lyrics and laying them down, slowly but surely... some songs are similar to chroma key, some to ours, others to absolute crap, jajaja.

Don't hold your breath waiting for my songs to be uploaded, but hopefully sometime soon! Not sure you want to hear me singin!!!

peace