The last 'Gear' entry on this blog was back in April, when i posted my Gibson Les Paul Special. Since then, I've gotten more stuff, and I modded one of my old guitars.

This used to be a black and white Squier Strat, which I bought new in 1995. I decided to mod the guitar after (briefly) considering buying a Les Paul body and putting together my own LP replica, but then finding out that there were QC problems with the kit I was going to buy. Instead, I ended up refinishing the Strat in a retro color and setting it up with a pair of P-90 pickups.





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During the summer, I started gigging with a Clapton tribute band, and my old Ibanez Artist is the #1 for that gig. I was looking at Craig's one day and saw an ad for another '80 Artist, and I bought it to be the Clapton backup guitar. It needed a little TLC, but it's a rock-solid guitar. Ibanez sure knew how to build them in the day.




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More to come.

since we last updated, we've put together a few videos from our shows at O'Reilly's, and posted them to YouTube. In order to show them all, we've added a Video page.

Just click the 'Video' link at the top of the page. It used to just bring up the 'Blue Sky Blue' video, but now it'll bring up all of our YouTube vids. Enjoy...

Back in August (in the post below this one), I mentioned that the server our site was on was a massive pain in the ass, and that we'd be moving the site soon.

Well, soon is now. We moved to a spiffy new server today, and this one should work a whole lot better than the old one. Hell, even this blog is on the same server as the rest of the site, because things just work better with this hosting company.

So... we have some catching up to do. Lots of new gear, gigs in the works, the whole bit. Check back, because now that the site is working right, I no longer have a sense of dread about posting here.

I've been toying with the idea of moving the diesel site off of its current server and to a different hosting company.

I know that some of you find the site to be very slow, and I've got issues with the communications tools that the current host offers - for instance, it takes me 3 hours to send out our mailing list because I have to break it into thirds so I don't violate the hosting company's spam policies.

So... it won't happen today and definitely not tomorrow, but we will be moving to a newer, faster, more spacious home that will let us set up software that will contact everyone at once but won't get us accused of being spammers.

Stay tuned.

Yeah, it's been a while. We've been maintaining radio silence over the summer, but now we're getting ready to go for the Fall. Here's what's up...

This Saturday, we're celebrating the birthdays of TD's wife Colleen and Donny at O'Reilly's. We're going to have food, birthday cake, and lots of new tunes.

Showtime is early this time - 9:00. Come by early, have some food and catch the band at a special early start time.

And this on'es just the beginning. We've got a month of shows coming up. I'll fill you in tomorrow...

Our first time in at Brock's Bar & Grill was a smashing good time - although we veered off-script and winged it all night.

We put together set lists pretty heavy on the newer material, and about halfway through the first set we noticed it wasn't really working - so we started asking for requests. We played a lot more Classic Rock - SRV, Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, like that. We even got talked into playing one of our favorite songs that we don't do - 'A Girl Like you' by Smithereens. I totally cocked up the lyrics, but the music actually sounded pretty good. We might end up adding that one to the list after all.

The second set was more requests and Classic stuff, then we veered back into the newer stuff for the last set and a half. The third set was off the scale - STP, Nirvana, Motorhead, RATM, Chili Peppers and more. By the time we got done I felt like I got physically beaten, but that's a sign that we were rocking hard enough.

We will be back to Brock's. That club was just too much fun. Thanks to Randy, Kristen and Phil for making us feel so welcome.

We worked on two new songs last night - 'Know Your enemy' by green Day and 'Only Happy when It Rains' by Garbage. Both sound pretty good, although we rocked up the Garbage one pretty good.

After rehearsal, TD and I stopped in at Brock's, where we'll be appearing on Saturday, June 13. Met Kristin the bartender, had a couple of pints, put up signs. The club is a little small, but we shouldn't have a problem fitting in there.

We took last week off, what with it being a holiday week and all.

We got a call from our old friend Randy from the Double R Bar. Randy also owns a bar in West Sayville called Brock's Bar And Grille, and he contacted us because he needed a band to play the club's fifth anniversary party.

Naturally, we said yes.

The show will take place on Saturday, June 13, with a 10:00 showtime. I'm told the place is a little on the small side, so there's a real good chance we're gonna pack it out.

Hopefully, a lot of you guys will turn out to support us in a new club. You know we're gonna rock it.

So, we fell a little bit short on how many new tunes we'll be playing on Saturday - instead of 12 new tunes, we've only got 10. But...

We're going to try a couple that we put together earlier this year and for some reason never got around to doing, which brings us back to an even dozen - and if you missed us at O'R's last month, you'll be getting somewhere around 20 new songs if you come out this Saturday.

It'll be like seeing a whole new band, except for the same three guys playing thing...

See y'all on Saturday.

Attention, Facebook members!

We went and set up a group on Facebook to better keep the FB world informed about our carryings-on.

If you're a FB member, visit that page or do a search for us, and join the group. Thx.