iTotally Surreal
If you are gonna take some time off from touring, it's nice to have a
good reason. So I'm happy to say that my November and December were
well spent, even if I wasn't playing shows. I got a chance to do a
really cool project for Apple. We filmed a bunch of beginner lessons
for learning guitar and piano that will come with each Apple computer
sold, as part of their recording software, Garageband.

The big unveiling was at the MacWorld Expo in San Fran, and I was
lucky enough to spend a couple days there soaking in all of the Mac
related fervor.


I got a shout out in the Keynote speech from Apple Sr. VP Phil
Schiller- here he is talking about our "Learn to Play" software.


Then we had a surprise performance by Tony Bennett, which was really
great- not surprisingly he sang, "I left my heart in San Fransisco"


I did a huge double take as I then walked over to the main convention
area, as I saw this giant poster of me (playing an E7 chord) that hung
above the entrance.



Inside was pretty wild. Apple had a giant presentation that included
rows of computers for people to test out their new software.


And 100's of other companies showed off their latest and greatest
goods. There were tons of iPhone cases, data recovery services, new
games, etc.
Even Berklee had a booth, where I got to reminisce with John and
Mike…I was an intern in their Berklee office for a while. They
admitted to being the only people laughing out loud during the Keynote
speech: "Didn't that Garageband guy used to make copies for us?"



There were some good ideas… who wouldn't want a SEXY laptop bag?!


Some bad ideas




And some that were seemingly at the wrong event, like this Delorean
pimped out to look like Doc Brown's time machine.


Oh, and Sinbad was there. Naturally.