Thanks

The subject says it all. To Paradigm fans everywhere: thank you. We'll miss you.

Call me lame, but the vocal harmonies on that song are sublime.

This blog will continue to stay active, although it will sort of convert into more of a personal blog.

Live Radio Broadcast

Paradigm and The Pass will be performing on 91.9 WFPK's Live Lunch program tomorrow (Friday) at noon, as part of the Peak Summit showcase. The Pass features a couple familiar Paradigm faces, such as Brian Healey on keys, and former Paradigm bassist Will Roberts. Louisville area listeners can tune in to 91.9 FM at noon tomorrow, or simply go to WFPK.org to stream it live online from anywhere in the world! Just remember, that's noon Eastern Standard Time. For you fans from around the country who won't be able to attend the Peak Summit festival, this may just be your last chance to hear Paradigm live.

The Peak Summit and Maybe the End of an Era

Busy, busy, busy...Things are happening, but not so much for Paradigm. Brian has just completed an EP of electro post-jazz what-have-you that will be released in the upcoming months, Dave is down in Key West playing some country, Myron is hard at work putting together the next Peak Summit festival (see below), and sadly, our dear Evan is moving to Los Angeles at the end of this month. So, while much is happening in our separate worlds, the fate of Paradigm is looking rather grim. And...our website got hacked, meaning there won't be any updates there until that gets sorted out. Feel free to visit the site and enjoy the content. You won't get a virus or any other nasty stuff. We just can't access the "back end" (that's what she said) at the moment in order to update it. But anyway...

One never knows what the future holds, so perhaps this is just a temporary goodbye. Paradigm may resurface in a different form and continue to rock your face. In the meantime, we encourage all our fans to come out to our performance at the Peak Summit Festival on June 20th (exact location and set time to be announced), as it will likely be your last chance to see Paradigm as you know it. The whole gang will be there, and that includes Jonathan Epley on guitar. Our good friend and ex-bassist Will Roberts will also be making an appearance. It'll be a rager, and there's a good chance it'll be our last show, so be there!

Happy Mother's Day

Mr T. pities the poor fool who doesn't treat his mother right:

Give the Drummer...um...a Lot.

Check out Troy Yocum, a Louisville drummer, as he attempts to set a new Guinness world record for the longest period of non-stop drumming. Troy, who is currently stationed with the Army over in Iraq, will be starting this insane drumming marathon today, April 28th, and is shooting for a goal of 125 straight hours, which will have him playing until May 3rd if he's successful. Troy's world record attempt will be streamed live from Kuwait. For more info on the attempt, and to check out the video stream, go to his website drummarathon.com.

Good luck Troy! Louisville's pulling for you!

Follow Me Around

Stalk Paradigm on Twitter. It's pretty much like Facebook status updates, but cooler.

David Ernspiker 1970 - 2009

Louisville lost a musical icon a couple days ago. Guitarist Dave Ernspiker passed away due to a heart attack at his home this past Thursday. He spent a long time touring with well-known area bands, but he may be best-known for the Big Rock Show, a band he founded and performed with on an almost nightly basis.

I just don't know what to say about Dave... I'll start with the fact that he was one of the nicest guys I knew. That phrase gets thrown around frequently, especially when someone has died, but I honestly mean it. Dave was an absolute joy to play with because he really felt the music deep in his soul. That's the kind of vibe that rubs off on you as a musician. I don't know that a lot of people realized how incredibly versatile his playing was, either. Sure, the Big Rock Show is a full on, blow-your-doors-off rock extravaganza, but Dave was equally as comfortable in just about any other style, and his playing had nuance, which, understandably, isn't readily apparent in a hard rock setting.

My favorite memory is still the first time I jammed with Dave. It was just the two of us, with me playing an old Kimball organ, and we played a simmering, jazzy slow blues. It was the kind of unplanned thing where we had just met, and were kind of noodling around, tuning and whatnot, and we just sort of fell into it. It was so beautiful. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to play with Dave on a regular basis.

See you in another life, brother.

The funeral will be held at 2pm on Tuesday, April 14 at Hopewell Baptist Church (4305 Hopewell Road) in J-Town.

Dark Side of the Chucks

When Paradigm did the Pink Floyd tribute this past Halloween, it's a shame we didn't have the shoes to go with it. Everyone knows Chuck Taylor All-Star sneakers, right? When I was a kid, they were the hip to shoes to have. Even though they're not fad-ulous anymore, Chucks are still on the scene. Not only that, it was announced that a new series of Pink Floyd-themed Chucks will be hitting the streets.

By the way, it's April Fools Day. I'm not usually one for the pranks, but a couple years ago on April 1st I called my brother and convinced him that I had a one-night stand with some girl and got her pregnant. It was good for a laugh. I thought it was funny anyway. Some other, grander-scale classics are: Burger King's "left-handed" Whopper, the Spaghetti Harvest, the Taco Liberty Bell, Smell-O-Vision, and the upcoming baseball star Sidd Finch. Google also notoriously participates in the April Fools fun. My favorite is Google Toilet from a couple years back.

March Recap

Paradigm had a fun group of shows these past couple weeks, performing in Cincinnati, Asheville and Chapel Hill, NC, and Greenville, SC. We had the pleasure of sharing the stage with some highly talented bands as well: East Coast Dirt, The Dig, Iolite, and IsWhat.

Cool venues as well. Reverb in Greenville is an interesting spot. It's a sort of multi-functional space; part music venue, part recording studio, part art gallery, part music store, and part electronics repair shop. Multitasking "venues" such as this seem to popping up more frequently these days, and it makes sense. In this independent day and age, where bands are now wearing the many hats that used to be reserved for the suits: booker, producer, manager, promoter, publicist, etc., it makes sense for a music venue to be more than just "one thing" as well.

Mansion 462 in Chapel Hill looks, more or less, like a "normal" building from the outside. No different than any of the other store fronts along the main drag, really. Inside, though, it opens up into this very decorative, Victorian-type, well...mansion. It had a real comfortable vibe, and the sound was stellar as well. Along the same lines, the historic Southgate House in Cincinnati (well, technically in Newport, KY) was built way back in the early 1800s, and is best known for its mobster ties. Apparently the Tommy gun (you know, the type of gun you see in pretty much every gangster movie ever made) was invented there.

I snapped off a few random pics along the way. Click here for pics from the Carolinas trip, and here for Cincinnati. Want to know what it's like to go on the road with Paradigm? It's a non-stop rollercoaster ride that fully embodies the celebrity lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Here's a little sample of us maxin' in the hotel in Greenville, SC:

We trashed that room 5 seconds after the video was shot, I swear.

Sweet Home Carolina

The Carolinas will have three chances to catch Paradigm this weekend:

Thursday, March 12

The Emerald Lounge (with East Coast Dirt)
112 N. Lexington Ave.
Asheville, NC
8pm

Friday, March 13

Friday the 13th Pajama Party Extravaganza 9,000
@ Reverb (with the Fuzz Cremes)
11 College St.
Greenville, SC
9pm - All Ages


Saturday, March 14

Mansion 462 (with the Dig)
462 W. Franklin St.
Chapel Hill, NC
8pm - 18+