Category: Dumaguete City

Frying Nemo in the Studio: Recording the Dumaguete Demo

Jan 7, 2006

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Tommy

in Dumaguete City, Oriental Negros, Peace Corps Philippines, Philippines, Visayas

After we had played at Hayahay on Wednesday nights for about a month and written about five original songs we decided to record several of them for a demo cd. Nowell is friends with Bryan Arzaga who has a small recording studio in his basement, so early one morning we all went north to San…
Downloading Dave Matthews’ 12 String Guitar from the Internet

Nov 26, 2005

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by

Tommy

in Dumaguete City, Music Photography, Oriental Negros, Peace Corps Philippines, Philippines, Travel, Visayas

Dave Matthews needs a guitar well beyond the average because it is his tool for making a living, and not a bad one at that. I too dreamed of owning a guitar that would knock a few ceiling tiles from Carnegie Hall with it’s room-filling sound, but now that I am a Peace Corps volunteer…