It Really Is, In His Music

Yes the Lord really is good, all the time. Listen to the melody ............... it's a sweet tune. Just got home from a 7 pm recording session. The old Outta LoDebar band, now Devinne Deliverance, has a new guitarist, Paul Anderson an old friend of ours and Tim Horiuchi on drums. Tim has a recording studio in a rehearsal building where he leases space. What a set-up! All the gear, equipment, of a big professional studio with a great live room. So we can record live all instruments and lead vocals at the same time. That way you get a real feel that you might not get doing tracks one or two at a time. If the band tracks are tight you can come back in and record as many tracks as you need for the lead vocals, and then dub, record, the background vocals. Then if you haven't recorded with effects, you can put them on the tracks during the mix down.

This session made me feel like coming home and getting into my own little but just as powerful studio. Tim and I just so happen to use the same software. He was ready to send me home with one of his favorite microphones to try out on my own rig. I was shocked at his generosity so I said I'd use it at another time when I had a vocal session set-up. What a graceful brother. Getting back with the band is just what I need to supplement my therapy. Paul and Tim are just the brothers the band needed to push us to the next level. I'm excited to see how God is going to use us for His glory. The ministry we've got ahead of us........ I'm ready, use me Lord.

Gotta go play a little before I go to sleep.

God bless. Drop a brother a line .......... be an encourager,

Freddy

Music Haven

Accept for church, I've been my in studio all weekend and Monday to. I'm worn out. Besides making killer beats, I moved and rearranged a lot of gear all over my little space. If I turn around once I've covered the whole room. It's so small I keep bumpin' into myself. My partner in crime, Ced, came by and helped me out showing me how to use the music software he uses exclusively. He also helped me open up some avenues in my usual choice of software I had forgotten about over the years. It was all good until I tried to put this newer piece of gear in the loop. It's supposed to make using multiple devices mix better. But it just made things worse. So I undid it until I can figure out what I'm doing. Of course trying to go back to the simple old school way had it's problems too. I was really tired by then and only got it part of the way back together. Praise the Lord if He blesses me with tomorrow, I'll be at it again. Because of the software Ced put on my system a couple of months ago, when I opened them up today I found hundreds of plug-ins. Oh yea, I was so blessed today that I forgot my main music computer went down Saturday. The other blessing is that Ced took it with him offering to get it fixed. God is so good, yes, all the time.

I've another wind now. Think it's time to work on my message for Saturday's prayer breakfast at UGM.

Have a blessed week. Let God, the Holy Spirit, drive the car. Amen? Amen.

Freddy

So It's Summer ?

Really? My baby girl just walked in from finishing her first year of high school. She did so good, her mom and I are very proud of her. Now she embarks on a summer of basketball and fun. Hopefully she can spend some valuable time with Daddy-O :]).

I'm feeling better after a scare this past weekend from a new medication. By Sunday afternoon I was feeling much better and since then my body is kind of wavering up and down. Sometimes I feel pretty good and other times I get sluggish and feel like I'm crashing and need to lay down. I try eating little portions of food throughout the day to keep my blood sugar steady. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Visited my Oncologist yesterday and said I looked the best I have since my cancer diagnosis. That was encouraging, though my wife and I wonder why I really need to see him four or five times a week. He's nice and caring but really doesn't do much. I guess it's a safe guard of sorts. It is a blessing though that my condition is stable.

I'm looking forward to bring the message at a prayer breakfast held at UGM's New Vision program this Saturday morning. NV is the recovery program I directed for about seven yrs before I came to direct at Eastside Academy in 2004. That should be uplifting to share the word with men that are trying to change their lives. Right now I plan to speak on waiting on the Lord, Ps 27:14, also looking at how to wait. When you're in a program it's hard to wait and work on changing a lifestyle that sometimes takes a longtime to develop. Hopefully I'll be able to share something from God's word and my experiences that will help them get a foot hold in a new life.

Amen?

Rev Freddy

What's in a Groove?

........ and another thang

The Groove Continues

Oh yea, the beat goes on! In the studio this week making new music. Praise Him, praise Him, praise Him.! It seems like for ever since I cut a tune, but once I get going it's hard to stop. I've got to get some melodies worked out now. I know Diana and Ericka are ready to do some vocals. I've got to get back in sink, and get it swinging again.

I've been struggling a little with a little depression. Not real bad, but enough to impead my moving forward sometimes with projects and such. I talked a little bit about it at my cancer group. Which was helpful to me. I'm not as down as I could be, just tired of cancer at this point. Ya know? But no doctors have told me I only have so long to live, just to live life at the fullest. So I need to get a grip! Sometimes you have to pull yourself up. Now I should be able to get on wit it!

I have so much to do and so little time. Just kidding, I just need to learn how to better use my time. Maybe I should plan every Sunday how I could spread out my projects throughout the week. Sounds good, but will I do it? One day at a time, moment by moment. Teach me Lord how to be a better listener of your word, I know there, is Your instruction for my daily walk. That and more time spent in prayer. I feel like now is a great time to start studying my devotion verses and composing sermons to be more prepared for future talks and the like. Even that process would bless my spirit and my life in general. Well, pray for me, and I'll pray for ya'll. Cover my support Lord.

Amen,

Freddy

Living is Music, Music is living

Yes.................. a day full of music. Friend of mine, Bleu, came over to work on his tracks. Great musician, he can play many styles. His tunes are kind of folk like. So we added two guitar tracks and a bass track to a drum track he picked out last week. It sounds pretty good for scratch tracks. And then later we will record vocal tracks. Even after all these years it's still a learning experiance for me. Now to get to my own music! Diana and Ericka have been waiting patiently for a longtime now. Bring it to me Lord! I'm willing and ready to jam.

I had a spooky D/A group yesterday. Staying clean and sober is a full time job. I've made that group my home group, make that group at least once a week. It's down in Bell Town in Seattle. A tough part of town to stay clean and sober. A lot of riff raff down there. But praise God I've got a lot of solid support, most of it in the ministry. So there's a lot of deep topics that come up around the room. Addiction is really tricky. If you're not careful you can talk yourself into a mess. So it's important to see yourself through the eyes of others sometimes. Of course if thier loaded there's no telling what they really see. Ya know? So I try to listen to most everything and weed out what I can't use. But you have to be honest with yourself, 'cause some stuff is hard to hear. It hits close to home. But the real is the real.

Checkout other blog enteries and drop me a line sometime. Thanks for your prayers,

Freddy