Happy New Year! Gear Report...

Happy New Year to Everyone! Hope the holidays were good to you and yours.

I've been playing my brand new Taylor guitar (http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/model.aspx?model=814-CE-L10). It was a Christmas present from Maureen, my extremely indulgent wife. If music is an addiction, she is my main enabler! The band is working out new material for a new CD to be recorded later this year, as well as seeking out new dates to play live. The newer material is more complex and more modern sounding than on our current CD. Looking forward to getting it into the studio.

To all of the iPod thrillseekers out there: Got this Belkin TuneStage gizmo over the holidays. This is a Bluetooth receiver that plugs into the RCA jacks of any open device slot on your home stereo.

You then plug a small Bluetooth transmitter into the headphones-out jack on your iPod. The result is a pure clean, streaming sound delivered to the home stereo from your iPod through the Bluetooth connection. Your iPod is the ultimate remote control for your music. The specs say the transmission range is 33ft, but I've pushed it to more than double that and even through walls and floors. This is kind of like a pristine, digital iTrip for the home. http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_ID=202395

'Til next time...