Entries by AlanPaul

Japan and gigs….

So we’re off to Kyoto in the morning. Time to see what Japan is like. It will be a quick and dirty rip but hopefully a nice one. wW will only be in Osaka and Kyoto. Will have to return for Tokyo. In Osaka, we will hook up with childhood friend Douglas Schafer, who lives […]

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Ah, the joy of Chinese market shopping

I was over at the nearby local market the other day buying fruit and veggies and some hardware.. wire cutters for changing guitar strings, clippers for trimming plants, etc.. and I saw this lady selling sports stuff.. and we needed a new soccer ball so I went over.. did some good bargaining and got a […]

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Press for Woodie Alan

We got some nice press on on of China’s biggest rock websites. Woodie tells me it’s a nice article, though not too exciting. It was my first interview as a musician on the other side of the microphone.

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Maple Mountian morels

Modern everyday technology is pretty amazing. It’s easy to lose sight of that, but here we have lifelong family friend David Kann spending the weekend in the hills of Western PA with my dad hunting for morel mushrooms and snapping photos on his Iphone, which he promptly sends to me in China and I throw […]

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Ch-ch-changes

A few months ago in my column about the fast pace of change here, I wrote this: The improvements likely also have something to do with the new China International Exhibition Center being built up the road. The absolutely massive 660,000 square meter facility is rising out of a formerly empty lot and preparing to […]

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