BB Tour Schedule: The Aristocrats’ DUCK World Tour continues in Australia and Japan in early 2025! For the rest of 2024, he’s home working on remote sessions, as well as resting from 9 months on the road. For remote recording sessions, you can reach Bryan using the CONTACT page.
BB’s double progressive concept album “Scenes From The Flood” featuring Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Guthrie Govan. Mike Keneally, Ray Hearne (Haken), Gene Hoglan (Dethklok) and more – available in the Shop!
PASSAGE TO INDIA: I can't wait to play for our friends in India with The Aristocrats once again. Coming in March 2025! For all info: SkillBox - more details coming soon!
Don’t forget to get outside this week.Also big announcement **cough SFTF Blue Vinyl** coming soon!
G3 LIVE ALBUM: These are screengrabs from the new live song video for "Crossroads" featuring Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson memorializing the historic reunion tour from early 2024. Check it here: g3reunionlive.lnk.to/Crossroads - tons of stuff dropping on this right now! Still blown away that I got to be a part of this!HYPE TEXT~~~~~The G3 lightning already strikes today, as "Crossroads" is now available as a single and brand-new video: g3reunionlive.lnk.to/CrossroadsPre-order the new album here: g3reunionlive.lnk.to/Album 🤘Read more at g3tour.com~~~~~Now captured…on their first live album in over 25 years: in 2024, G3 the original lineup reunited for a sold-out run of US shows. "Reunion Live" is not your average live album, it features a full album-length set from each of Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson, plus additional jam material of the mighty guitar trinity. 🎸🎸🎸"Reunion Live" will be available on January 31st as a 2CD set (+ photo booklet), a 4LP Gatefold in black and a deluxe edition, that includes the 2CD, three colored artist vinyls, one further splattered jam vinyl and a 64-page photo book. 📚
NEEDS A HAPPY HOME: This may sound hard to believe but I am selling my 1990 Pre-Gibson Tobias Lacewood Basic #1402. This is the bass I played with Z (Dweezil/Ahmet Zappa) in the early 90s, and that I used on Mike Keneally’s classic album “Boil That Dust Speck”. It was stolen on 12/31/1994, and I bought it back when it resurfaced in late 2020. I love it, it’s a gorgeous instrument that plays like a dream and works perfectly, with 100% original materials. I brought it on the road with The Aristocrats in 2022 to play “Last Orders” because of the friendly neck, but touring with it just feels wrong - I was worried about its security a lot and I wouldn’t bring it out again. Meanwhile I use other instruments for recording. Having it sit here at home as a museum piece just isn’t right. Something this beautiful really deserves to be played and appreciated. And I don’t keep instruments that I don’t play regularly. The setup is perfect. The neck and spacing are fairly small, great for getting around quickly. It's got a really sweet and transparent sound thanks to the original Bartolini Vintage TCT three band preamp and also the Bart pickups. For a 30+ year old instrument, the body is nearly perfect. And the gloss finish over the Lacewood top is divine.The original owner was Paul Slagle (RIP), who worked in Michael Tobias' shop in Studio City back in the late 80s. I bought it from him on May 13, 1992. When it was stolen in late 1994 it must have landed in a closet somewhere, because when I got it back in 2020 it looked and played exactly the same. It was eerie.I thought about this a lot over the last two years. I really feel like this is the right thing spiritually. It’s time to let this bass go so it can start a new life with someone else who will give it the attention it deserves. The Reverb listing is in the first comment below. I hope it finds a happy new home. 🙂