Mitch Budd's News

I'm Back!

Mitch Budd — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:43:40 GMT

So, I guess I should try not to blog after having a few drinks;) At least proof read the blog!!! Anyway, thank all of you who have inquired about my Father and shared your sympathy. I'm cool with my Dad's descision to stay medicated and spend the remaining days with family & friends rather than suffer in a hospital. I'm pretty sure if it were me, I'd fight a lot harder. I guess that's why he's Sr. & I'm Jr.

As far as music goes, I've resumed my gigging schedule which averages about 4 a week. If you're curious, check http://www.myspace.com/mitchbudd for upcoming shows near you. I've stared recording my originals again. This time, it's gonna have a more organic acoustic sound witha alot of percussion and other colorful instruments. It's a process and I happen to be a perfectionist;) Otherwords, thanks for being so patient!!!

In love, let's just say I'm feeling hopeless as ever and happy to be able to share it with someone who understands me or at least doen't mind my romanticism. No names yet. But she's usually at my Monday show and likes to come up and sing later in the evening. Lucky for me, she has a beautiful voice and soul.

Thanks again for everything. Life is truley a beautiful experience that keeps getting better. Be good!!!
Much Love,
~M

Hard Blogging

Mitch Budd — Sun, 27 May 2007 06:32:36 GMT

Sometimes it's hard to blog. There's so much stuff going on, It's hard to cypher what is appropriate and what's not.....and what you really want to share.
I'm going home tomorrow to say what I'm being told is my final farewell to my Dad. It's all of the sudden. I'm naturally bright with hope and optimism and so is my Dad. Yet there is energy around him that lacks what makes Sr. me. I am my fathers child and even though we havev't lived together since my parents divorced when I was three, it has never been more apparent, never more real, or simply realized how much I have in common with him or how much I love him.

This is my out. I will report throughout this week. I can't really get into it right now. My friends or over and at times like these, theay are more important to me than family could ever be. Thanks, Love you,
~M

Computer World

Mitch Budd — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:38:57 GMT

So my laptop crashed earlier this week. I tried everything but the only solution was to rebot the hard drive and wipe it clean!!! I lost some pics, "The Secret", and a bunch of music and live recordings:( Live and learn. I need to back all my stuff up on an external hard drive. You should too:)

This week in music is proving to be quite demanding. Between recording and six shows, my head is spinning!!! My friend Allegra is coming over on Saturday to lay down female vocal tracks for the LA project. She plays after me at 10 every Monday night at the 710 Beach Club. I think she has the best voice in SD!!!! Check her out sometime.

Looks like I might put a full time band together. I'm auditioning a really cool drummer tonight. He talks a mean game and is a really nice guy. It's all about vibe and chops (talent). And it all starts with the back beat aka drummer. But I've never heard him play ;-p I'll let you know how it goes next week. Gotta go! Have a safe weekend and Happy Cinco De Mayo!!!
Much Love,
~M

Almost a year later;)

Mitch Budd — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:00:42 GMT

Hey there,
So, it's been almost a year since my last blog;-) It doesn't seem that long. Time flies when you're having fun I guess!!! I've decided to commit to weekly blogs. So check back once a week for updates on my music (my life)!!!

Let me bring you up to speed:
I moved back to SD to play music full time. The point of moving to LA was to get some bigger projects started around my music. The mission was accomplished:) (I'll explain in a second). The only problem I faced in LA was work. The 1st year in LA, I spent most of my time playing in SD to pay the bills. I decided to stop gigging in SD to get the full LA experience and grow some roots here (I'm at Buzz Cafe right now). Anyway, another year passed and four random jobs later I realized that I'm happiest when I'm playing music full time. So, the power of intention helped me re-establish my gigging cuircit in SD. After 4 months of commuting between SD & LA, I realized once again, the majority of my time was spent in SD.
So the logical thing for me to do was move back to SD.

Currently, I'm playing 3 weekly shows in SD and 1 in LA (check my www.myspace.com/mitchbudd page). You can usually catch me in LA on Wednesday & Thursday. I have a gig every Wednesday night and record every Thursday. I'm currently recording and writting songs for up and comming major artist in LA. Tonight, we're gonna finish a song for an all girl band call Clique. They're 12yrs old! I re-wrote "Pinky Swear" for them:-D Can you see it? Well, I'll let you know how it goes next week.

I'm planning on revamping my myspace page with new pics and songs. Check it out in the next week or two. That's it for now. Thanks for reading me and staying in touch.
Much Love,
~M

Summers Here!!!

Mitch Budd — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:01:03 GMT

Ok, no excuses for not blogging sooner. I'm a busy guy. You'll be happy to know that I've been busy recording and performing music.
I hooked up with an bad ass LA cat named Lani Akea. He plays percussion and is also a sound engineer instructor at one of the top recording schools in LA. We've been busy recording and having "too much fun" on our weekend shows!

Joining us this weekend is one of my oldest and best friends in the world, Henry Fields. Henry actually put the guitar in my hands for the first time 16 years ago! It's a special thing when you do what you love with people you love who love to do what you love to do:)
That's a tongue twister for you. Of course I'm talking about music, not sex;) Although our jams have been quite endorphic. Anyway, I highly recommend you come check it out before we go to Hawaii. What, You say? Hawaii? Lani has a spot and the whether is hot in the winter time! Full studio and tropical whether is the forcast this October. We're shooting for serious representation by September and then record like crazy for six months in paradise! I'll keep you posted:)

I've been writting a lot lately. I fell into a writers block when I got to LA. Let me clarify. I havn't been writting full songs (music & lyrics) but the poetry is always flowing. Anyway, I recently wrote
a song about my best friend Stephanie. I came up with a groove that had love song written all over it. But it's hard to write a love song if you're not really in love. So I decided to conjure some love for my girl Steph. The song talks about not screwing up a great friendship and lop sided love, bad timing or what ever you want to call it. We're gonna record it for the next CD. It's a beautiful song.

Hopefully I'll see you around at one of my shows and I'll try to stay up on these blogs better:) Please correspond if you like or don't like:/
LY,
Mitch

Production & Inspiration

Mitch Budd — Mon, 01 May 2006 19:11:28 GMT

So I managed to finish the core of "Turn You Out"!!! Check it out on my myspace page! I'm sure I'm gonna add more tracks (Drums, Bass, Keys, etc), but this acoustic version will do for now:)

I started recording a new song this past weekend called "Love Maurader". It's about putting all your inhibitions away and going for your love/lust interest. It was inspired by a summer of debachery with my recently reaquaited good friend Cat. It's funny how much one changes over the course of a couple years. Once a love drivin hopeless romantic infatuated with true love and love at first site to the point where it was a little frightening;) now slightly guarded and open to quenching the lust burning inside me with no expectations besides mutual satisfaction and respect. Of course I'm still Hopeless Romeo deep down inside and will always wonder if the lips I'm kissing tell me a thousand words that all mean true love as I see our lives together go by in a flash. It happens, right?
Sure it does!!! It's just a matter of it happening at the same time. Until then, enjoy the ride:)

I'm starting to book shows for this summer. Check out my myspace page for dates in your area. In the meantime, I'm gonna continue to record and write my music inspired by those lips that tell a thousand words.

Love ya,
Mitch

"We Do What We Can"

Mitch Budd — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:35:28 GMT

So much for once a week entry's ;) What can I say, I'm a busy guy!!! Anyway, the the title quote for this blog is one of my favorite songs; it's a Cheryl Crow tune off her debut album. Ask me to play it for you some time:)

So, I've been hard at work recording new tracks. "Turn You Out" written by yours truely and Kevin Freeby (Mitch Budd Band bass player and GREAT FRIEND) is just about finished. I'm extremely happy with how it's turning out. I should have it up on myspace by the end of the month. I'm starting in on a song called "Breathe" this weekend. It's a love song of great magnitude. My best friend Stephanie insists that I record it next. I think it's just gonna be guitar and vocals. Keep it simple ya know?

I'm not planning on gigging for the next month or so. In fact, I don't think I have anything booked till MAY 12th in Simi Valley. Of course you never know, last minute shows pop up all the time. But I want to concentrate on recording and I'm also working on getting my music on the air. Whether it's radio, TV, podcast, sound track whatever!!! Let me know if you have any connects:)

Well that's it for now. Hopefully I'll get better at this blogging thing:) At least better than once a month!!!
lol,
Mitch

Blogging

Mitch Budd — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:24:39 GMT

So, if you couldn't tell,this hole bogging thing is pretty new to me;)
I guess the object is to blog every day, well that's not gonna happene anytime soon. I'm gonna shoot for once a week:) Does that work?

Where am I right now? Well, my mind is focused on recording. I feel like I have to start over again. Why? I've become a better engineer:) I know I can extract the tone and vibe I want (only because I've recently done it for others). I understand there are alot of you who just want to hear somthing and I promise you in the next two months you will begin to see the big picture!!! Hang on, it will be very worth it:)

In the mean time, thank you all for the continued support and coming out to the shows!!! Your comments mean more than I could ever explain:) Check out the next show at the Mint on ST. Patrick's Day (3/17) with Damon Vonn on percussions and Josh Carrol on guitar. It will be a lesson in "feel good music." Next time I'll give you some history:)

<3
M

Putting it together

Mitch Budd — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 04:10:02 GMT

When I moved to LA, I had a vision of putting together a really organic acoustic group. It's been hard to do anything up here since the majority of my first year and a half has been spent outside of LA.
Well all that's changing, I'm here to stay LA!!! Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll be in SD one weekend out of the month:)

I'm getting ready to practice with Josh Carrol right now. For those of you who don't know Josh, he's an old SD friend who moved back to Boston about 4 years ago and much to my delite, move to Venice a couple months ago. He plays guitar (big Floyd, Dead fan). I don't think there's anything better than have a great friend on stage with you:) I always wanted the "Band" of brothers feeling with MBB but it never quite happened (but that's another story).

We're working on songs for The Monsoon Cafe show on Thursday 2/16 at 7:45p. I found an amazing percussionist named Johnny who will join us as well. Johnny can play any kind of music. He's one of those LA session cat's:) There may be a guest percussionist too which will make it that much more funky!!!

The CD's coming along fine. I co-wrote a song in January with my good friend Alyssa Jacey (.com). We recorded it last wednesday and it came out great!! It's a duet:x I think she has the rough copy on her myspace page. It's definatley going on the CD, I just need to tweek the recording a little bit.

Look for me on TV next month. I'm working out the specifics but it's a cable show call "Go Hard Or Go Home". They primarily have R&B and Hip Hop Artist's, but they really like State Of Mind so they invited me on the show!

Well that's it for now. Feel free to ask me anything in the comments:)
Peace,
MB
PS- Thanks Jared!! I totally remember you:) Last time I saw you, you were missing a peace of your grill!!

Test blog

Mitch Budd — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:28:30 GMT

Hi this is Mitch Budd.