Tom Pfaeffle, Local Sound Engineer From Black Diamond Killed

It is being reported that in a tragic and unfortunate incident, a local and reputed sound engineer from Black Diamond, had been killed. The unfortunate event occurred on Friday. According to reports, Tom Pfaeffle has died of gunshot wounds received in an encounter at a motel in the Twisp area.

The Methow Valley News reported that a 49 year old man was shot on the night of July 17, at about 10:42 p.m. The fatal shot seems to have been fired by a 57 year old man from Seattle area, who had been held back in the county jail. The alleged suspect has been charged with Murder in the Second Degree and Reckless Endangerment. Methow Valley News also reports that the victim had been taken to the Mid Valley Hospital in Omak, where he had died two hours later from the fatal wounds, as has been stated in an early morning report from a police officer from Twisp, Ty Sheehan. The police are still investigating the matter. The police did not release the names of the victim, the suspect or the motel at which the incident had taken place. However, on Saturday, The Seattle Times came out with the reports that the victim had been Tom Pfaeffle.

Pfaeffle is a well known name in the local music scenario and is known to have worked with such names as Nirvana, Heart and The Black Crowes. He was also reported to have been an instructor at the Art Institute in Seattle. He owned and operated the a recording studio by the name The Tank, which is located in the woods of Black Diamond.

Free Concerts at Guitar Center

This is a special thanks to all of the guys that put on a free concert at guitar center everyday. We appreciate everything you do for our community and our ears. Especially when I go in to actually purchase something, you come sit right next to me and play your "top shelf" Ibanez through any solid state monster in the store, and show me how fast you can tap. Or when I'm asking someone a question or having a conversation with an employee, and you step right up to the metaphorical plate and but in and tell us all how incredible your band is. Another reason that I am so impressed by you guys, is how you manage to find time to come to guitar center every day when you're always "out on the road" touring. It's already pretty hard to sift through the wealth of knowledge available behind the counter, but when you add your countless and invaluable years of experience into the equation, there is no end to the amount of learning that takes place.

I believe that my life has been changed through my use of equipment. Whether I'm trying out some guitars in store or checking out the vintage bass rigs, or looking at mic's and pre's from the pro audio section, I'm always reminded just from watching you play the two measures you know from Free Bird, what great equipment is, and how it can be used to its full potential. Just hearing you guys shred your speed metal makes me wonder why people still listen to bands like The Beatles, or U2.

Thanks again for all you've done for me personally as well. You've really taught me that everything I thought I knew must be wrong about music. I am forever in your debt. Because of this, I am now looking for a new drummer. Currently my drummer plays perfectly with a click track and plays way too solid and tasteful. Consider him gone! If you are one of those guys in the drum department that knows that fast double bass is so much more important than keeping time, you're the one for me. So what if you don't own a drum set and therefore never practice? Who needs practice when you're a prodigy? Who care's if you came in 7th place at last years drum off? Those things are always biased anyway.

Last but not least, I am also holding auditions for a new bass player. I don't think that I'll be able to cut it anymore. Currently I play through some gear by some stupid company called Ampeg, and all I know how to do is stay with the kick drum. What matters is that I can't slap. If there's one thing that can make any passionately slow song sound even better, it would be slap. So what if bass players like Adam Clayton, Geddy Lee, and John Entwistle are legends and have lucritive careers (and not to mention huge mansions) and you're working at the mall? You know that slap bass is what's gonna bring in the big bucks. But don't worry, you'll get your chance.

Keep Rockin'!

Hacked!

So a couple of days ago, someone hacked into my hotmail account and my myspace. I know, I know. Doesn't sound like a huge deal, but when you've had the same e-mail address for over 10 years and you use it for almost all of your lame social networking sites, then it becomes a big deal. So for some reason this person changed my password (to fuckyou666) and my secret question so that I couldn't retrieve my password. Then they proceeded to change the password to my myspace (which I'm assuming they requested to see the password by pressing the "forgot password" button and sent it to the newly hacked into e-mail).

Now, I'm not sure if they sent any messages or did anything out of the ordinary while having control of my myspace and e-mail, other than I know they added a few friends to my myspace - which is a little weird. So my thoughts are, that this person either wanted to just fuck with me and "do it to do it" and tell me about it, or I got my info back before they did what they were going to do - whatever that was going to be.

So, rather then tell you guys how I freaked out and got really mad and stormed around the house all afternoon trying to figure out what I was going to do, lets just say that the situation is handled and I have everything back. But I was mad, and still slightly am - both at the person and at myself for not making a strong enough password and for having an easy to figure out secret question.

So to whomever did it: Fuck you.

Love,
Bryce

The First Post

Well, I really tried to come up with something clever, for my first foray into the blogging world, but I'm just not a clever guy. So let me just say that I'm going to do my best not to ramble if possible, and I'll also try to write about things that matter (to me). I'm not promising anything to anyone, but I'll try. My buddy Ben had the wonderful idea to create a blog so that a couple of friends could keep in touch a little easier - especially with all the crap social sites out there. So don't blame me if I'm boring. Blame Ben. The link to his blog is just to your right and you can let him know about it.