This is a little spot for Ezra to share some goodness from his head with you, if you are so inclined to be receptive to that goodness. I intend it to use it for late night rants, built up philosophical suites, present day memoirs from the depths of the heart, etc. More goodness to come, Oh yes, more goodness to come.
Coming soon to a space time continuum near you…
I’ll cut to the chase. I haven’t been much for blogging these days but a lot has been happening musically and creatively and maybe at some point I’ll get to catch you all up on some recent projects I’ve been involved in as they take more shape. It’s been a fun, fruitful time but for now I’m gonna start where we are.
This week I couldn’t be more thrilled to be playing a handful of shows in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Chico with Sean Hayes, and sharing the bill is none other than the amazing Barr Brothers from Montreal, Quebec! This is very exciting for me as Andrew and Brad Barr of the Barr Brothers are some of my favorite musicians in the world and were undeniably some of the biggest musical influences of my adolescense (then seen in their now sporadically performing avant-rock trio “The Slip”).
As far as Sean Hayes, we had a great tour this September on the East and West Coasts and are all warmed up from recently spending a week tracking Sean’s forthcoming record. We will be playing newer and older songs alike in an energized trio performance with Sean, myself, and maestro Eric Kuhn (Silian Rail).
Sean Hayes with The Barr Brothers
Thursday November 3rd at the Independent in San Francisco, CA
Friday November 4th at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz, CA
Saturday November 5th at the Origami Lounge in Chico, CALooking ahead, I am also excited to be playing with Kacey Johansing and her great band at the New Parish in Oakland on November 20th, opening for Mirah!
As well as a special Ponie’s show, a new band which is the brainchild of wonderful songwriters Heather Combs and Elliot Randall at the Hotel Utah in San Francisco on December 1st.Hopefully sometime soon I can fill you in on more details about fun things that have happened, recording projects, great shows I may not have told you about etc. But for now there is so much information going around, sometimes I just need to let things happen and not worry about recording or promoting every moment for better or worse. Thanks for your continued support!
Love,
EzraGear Up
Just under ten years ago on a crisp fall day amongst the chilly winds of Vermont I took a trip to the local music store in Burlington in search of a new drum set for the start of my college career. Wide eyed and extremely optimistic, the fall air coming off the lake that day tasted like expansive possibilities steadily unthawing before me. Accompanied for support and roadie capabilities by my good friend to this day, Andrew John Hathaway and encouraged by then sales person, now talented drummer and sound engineer Rachel Bischoff, I left the store packing up a borrowed car with my very own new, used, blue Pearl export series 6 piece drum kit including a piccolo snare with all the hardware and a new crash cymbal taboot. (Side note; I really like using this word taboot but I’m not even sure it’s a real word and it never passes the spellcheck).
This 6 piece Pearl drum kit (which I would eventually strip down to a 4 piece) not only got me through college and all the music I made in that time but I pretty much learned to play the drums well on this kit. As my only drum kit until presently it has been an essential part of all the music I have made in the last ten years including the last 5 years I’ve spent playing professionally in California. I have much gratitude for these road warrior drums and it has been an absolute pleasure to have had them by my side for so long.
However, sometimes change can be a good thing and it is with this in mind that I would like to introduce a new cast of wooden characters that will soon become a central part of my music making present and future.
My very own new (old) drum set.Aren’t they beautiful?
I recently bought this 3 piece early 70′s vintage Rogers kit from a Pastor/drum collector out of Jackson, California. All maple shells with original late 60′s Rogers hardware. Along with it a 60 year old Gretsch marching snare that is 10″ deep! To put it in perspective for the non drum nerds that’s exactly double the depth of my main snare I’ve been using up until now (which is about average size) so it sounds very rich and full. Yum!!
These drums look, feel and sound wonderful and I am super excited about getting to know them and exploring this new sonic play station literally at my hands and feet.
Coming soon to a venue near you! Thanks for reading.
Creating This Website
At this present juncture EzraLipp.com is now I’d say, 88% percent near its initial completion goals. I still have some t’s to cross and lowercase j’s to dot which hopefully will be sorted by the time you are reading these words, but mostly it is where I want it to be so I think a “blog”, or writing/rambling is in order.
First a few quick thanks to those whom this website could not have been possible. Simon Abramson and Ashley Beach for lending their web guru wisdom, often in “website emergency” situations. Meghan Dorian for helping me design the banner, as well as photographers Brittany Cole Bush, Andrea Alseri, and John Chapman for providing some of the key photos that make up the content of this site.
But largely the site you’re looking at was created by yours truly, Ezra Lipp. I didn’t know anything about web design when I started, and I’d say I know about 6% more now, but with the help of concepts previously un-understood by me like “wordpress themes”, “plugins”, “html”, and “The Internet”, I now have my very own beautiful and functional place on the world wide web to call home and I’m excited to share it with you anytime!
There will be much to come and ezralipp.com will indeed only get better and richer as I have full control of my site and the content that is put up. In the meantime sit back, relax, listen to some tunes on the music player, browse my upcoming shows, bio, pics, videos, etc. Sign up for my mailing list if you wish to get periodic info on happenings (*even if you already receive emails from me it would be helpful to sign up through the website*) and feel free to drop me a line at ezralipp@gmail.com and let me know what you think. Until next time….Ezra Zachary Lipp
