Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

I’m not sure really what that means, but I know that today while I am home with the boys I will make sure to wear something green or pinch them if they aren’t wearing something green.

I didn’t post anything yesterday because I was running around like crazy from about six in the morning until midnight. Starting with playing guitar at church for two services and then meeting up with MercyMe and others at Winter Jam.

For those of you that missed it, Blue and I went up to the arena early and set up a way for MercyMe’s set to be streaming live on their blog. We started setting it up one way and them MercyMe’s amazing crew helped me figure out a way better way to do it. In the end we had streaming video from a professional camera and the audio going into it was directly from the sound board. Not bad for not even knowing if the place had internet earlier in the day. For those of you that watched it, I hope you liked it. Hopefully we can do that more in the future.

Nashville shows are fun if you aren’t working because everyone that’s in town comes out and it’s a big get-together. And even though I was “working” I was able to spend time with a bunch of my friends. I was able to hang out with this guy for a while after the show. Very cool guy and amazing photographer. He was there to take pictures at the show, so it will be cool to see those. I was also able to catch up with this guy and talk about how we never hang out. This guy was there hanging out, and so was this guy. Like I said… a big get-together.

Anyway… it was a late night and the boys are waking up. Enjoy St. Patrick’s Day.

Winter Jam Tour Photo (It’s dark, I know)

Blue Playing Guitar Hero with Mike.

I’m not sure if any of you have heard, but Third Day as a band and their guitarist Brad Avery have decided to part ways.

Third Days site reads:

Third Day and Brad Avery have made the very difficult decision to part ways.

We appreciate Brad’s many contributions to the band’s career to date, including his work on our forthcoming album, but the time has come for us to follow our separate paths.

He has been an important part of Third Day for the last 13 years as we’ve traveled the world together and performed over 1,000 concerts. We will miss him as a band member but he will always remain our brother and our friend. Brad is a wonderful person, gifted songwriter and talented musician. We trust that God has amazing plans for his future.

Brad is a great guy and an amazing guitar player. We we able to hang out quite a bit a few years ago when I was out with them. Hopefully this means that he will be doing some solo stuff in the future. Best of luck to both him and the band as they are going through this change.

It’s been pretty fun building blogs for these different artists. It’s been fun to open their eyes to a new way to connect with the people that want to know them better, and get their music even further out there, but I’m really excited about this next one. Phil and I have become good friends over the years and it’s awesome to work with someone so talented and genuine.

A few weeks ago I was able to sit down with Phil and talk through an entire new website idea where everything was pretty accessible and easily updated. We also talked about a brand new blog connected to his site that sort of became the site rather than keeping it looking like something you have already seen a million times. Phil was open to the idea, we talked about look and feel, and came up with this.

So here it is. Randy has worked crazy hard on getting this thing to look and act the way we want it to, and we are really excited about seeing what happens with it.So head over to Phil’s new site, say hello, then spread this thing like crazy.