welcome to my blog

my name is "jeff." i play the trombone. i'm interested in playing a whole bunch of different kinds of music (which i won't bore you with a list of), but i've spent a fair amount of time over the last 10 years or so finding interesting ways to use electronics with the trombone. when i was younger, i wanted to play trombone like a jazz-rock fusion guitarist, so i used distortion, auto-wah, chorus, etc., but that got old and lame after a while, so i eventually got into using pitch shifters, long reverbs and delays (preferably with freezable buffers), loopers, fft effects, fsu plugins, etc., all in vst plugin forum. the music i make with these effects is sometimes ambient, sometimes dubby, sometimes fourth-worldish, usually slow, usually improvised, and probably boring to most people (especially other trombone players) because it puts them to sleep. but little do those dumbasses know that that's my goal. idiots.

when i first started thinking about using electronics with trombone a long time ago, the internet wasn't what it is now, so i couldn't find other people doing what i wanted to do. even today, there really isn't much information online about trombonists using electronics other than robin eubanks using an auto-wah and delays to make his trombone more "funky" or people here and there using distortion to make wanna-be heavy metal or something. well... if that's what they wanna do, then more power to them, but i'd rather try to make new kinds of music with electric trombone than just try to copy what guitarists have been doing for the last 40 years by slapping on some chorus and distortion and wah and jerking off all over myself. plus, listening to how cuong vu and jon hassell use electronics with trumpet has really opened up some ideas.

anyway, this blog will be mostly about the music i make with trombone, what plugins and effects i use for electric trombone, thoughts about my approach to trombone playing and music, etc., and sometimes about completely non-trombone things (i'll try to keep those from turning into rambling rants about stupid shit no one cares about). and also, i use bad words sometimes, some you've been warned, assface.