I wanted to thank Producer Brandon Don Heath, assistant art director Jerid Bartow, Art and Visual Director Ryan Patterson and Director of Photography Jordan Snider from Red Cloud Studios and their art and video crew for their unbelievable professionalism, hard work, and friendship. These guys are THE TOP… AND I LOVE THEM!!!
Marilyn Manson is just one of the artists who hired these dudes to design and shoot his music videos. We feel so honored these great folks did our Citadel video.
Check out Red Cloud Studios here
Words simply cannot express our love and gratitude for this video and art team who brought our song “Citadel” into living breathing action at the Brewery this weekend.

Thanks also do DeAnn Dallas and Robyn Newmark of Newmark Beauty who did a masterful job making us look good and who worked their butts off.

Last but not least, our super talented director and close friend Chris Lyman, who put it all in motion and made it all happen or us. This would never have happened without Chris.

THANK YOU!!! You all took us on a ride we will never forget! I love you all tremendously.

I am also the guitarist now in the band Grace Gravity with my friend Teri Hitt on vocals, Brian Hardin on drums, and Dave and Cela doing bass, extra vox, wurlitzer and a multitude of other instruments. Check out Teri’s site here: Teri Hitt

Grace Gravity LIVE Show at the LA Roller Derby

If you want to see more photos of one of our performances, check here:

Grace Gravity photos

That’s it for now. More news coming up soon.

I am finally up and running again with the technology part of my life.

2 weeks ago I had this little computer issue, which led me to reinstall everything. You never know how much crap you have on your computer… till you have to reinstall it all again haha.

But everything is going smoothly again.

Have not been sitting still. Besides the time-consuming computer reinstall and upgrading, I’ve been taking quantum leaps forward on my book. I figured out last week that I can turn EVERYTHING I have into pdf files. I could kick myself for not having known about this sooner already (after working with macs for 10 years now on a daily basis). But oh well: know I know I can do this haha.

So that is exactly what I started doing: turning my guitar teaching materials into pdf files, and suddenly, my book started taking shape. I bought this cheap software that allows me to create a table of contents, which helped me better organize the book materials, and things were rolling. I have written about 100 pages by now. I am extremely excited about this: it appears I will be finishing up writing in about 3 months at the rate things are going now. That does not mean the book will be done then. There will still be months of proof reading, graphics creation and so on. But at least I will be done with the hardest part when all the content is written and organized.

I spent all day in the studio past Friday producing and recording drum parts to 4 songs I am producing for my band project “The Scribe” with Cliff Tang. My friend Kal did some out-of-world drumming. I am right in the middle of editing and then mixing all the drum tracks.

Seems like this whole production will be finalized in about a month from now. Super excited about this music. Cliff wrote some damn good music… and the world needs to hear what we’ve been working on for almost a year now. Almost done.

Hell yeah… life is grand. This is a crazy awesome year.

I wish you a fantastic 2009!!!

This is going to be an amazing year.

A lot has happened since my last update here. My recording studio is up and running. I spent past months reading thousands of pages in manuals of all the equipment and software I acquired. I don’t think I ever learned more in any given period of time, than I did in past couple of months.

Only 5 weeks into 2009, and I already read 27 books. This is a very interesting year. I spend the first day of the year reading Focal Point (Brian Tracy) again, and used the things I learned from the book, to map out my 2009.

One of the very exciting plans for 2009 is my work with Cliff Tang. We formed a band together: The Scribe. I produced 4 songs Cliff brought in. The songs have come a long way. We are going in the studio next week to lay down the drum and bass tracks I sequenced and programmed: this time with a real drummer and bass player. This is going to sound FAN-TAS-TIC. Brian Hardin will be mixing the songs. They guy is a magician.

I had the pleasure of sitting in last Friday night in a mix session with Brian. He mixed a song I had produced and recorded in my studio for my friends David Park and Marie DeLorenzo. David and Marie write Christian Rock. Great song writing. You can check their music I recorded here: www.myspace.com/steadfastp57

I referred them to Brian Hardin for mixing. Brian REALLY made it sound like a record. David and Marie were superhappy. I had the time of my life sitting in Brian’s studio and just listening to what he was doing haha. Too much fun.

I am watching quite a lot of movies also lately. I think I have a new movie added to my list of favorite movies: “Das Boot”. Had never seen it before. Darn that movie is unbelievable. I went to see “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with my friend Eleonore (who is born and raised in my home town but lives here in LA as well). Since we went to a very late night show of the movie, the theater was almost empty. So it really had us cracking up when 2 people came sitting next to us who turned out to be from… HOLLAND.

This coming Friday, we will be recording drums to the 4 songs I produced for Cliff. The drummer is amazing, a very good friend: Kalistratos Drakopoulos. We all say Kal. Check out Kal here: http://www.myspace.com/kal

We will be recording the drums with Brian Hardin.http://www.briandhardin.comI am incredibly excited about all of this.

More updates to vreny.com will be added soon. I just sent a long list of stuff to Lila to implement on my site. The biggest changes will be on the lessons page, where I am planning on having drills and practice tools available soon for guitar students.

This year I really also want to release a live album from the Jimi Hendrix shows I played a year ago.

I am planning on playing a couple of Hendrix Tribute shows here in Hollywood with my friends David Crocco and Cela Scott. Dave is an amazing drummer and Cela is a fantastic vocalist. It is gonna be awesome to bring Hendrix with a female vocalist who rocks.

Lots of work ahead. Will keep you updated as time progresses.

Cheers,
Vreny