Rubber Band Summer Kickoff

The Rubber Band shook the dust off of our guitars, drums, and mics to perform at the Westwood Club on June 12th. We played for a couple of hours to a crowd made up of our neighbors, friends, and families in a pergola overlooking a shaded grassy field. It was the perfect summer kickoff.

Here are some pictures from the event.

And here are some video clips for the newer songs in our lineup.

Schools Out
Here Comes Your Man
The Man Who Sold the World
Corduroy
I Got Mine
Just What I Needed
Creep
Self Esteem

More videos are available on YouTube if you’re interested.

Thank you to Nora and Steve for allowing us to play. I hope you’ll invite us back, because we’d love to play for you again soon.

Please follow The Rubber Band on Instagram or Facebook.

Take care. Live life. Make some music.

-Scott

#livemusic #westwoodclub #ranchobernardo #coverband #dadband #therubbetband

This song is called, “Super”

This song is called, “Super”.

Songs are getting a little easier to write at this point. I credit my friends and family ( you know who you are ) for giving me the confidence to put this stuff up here. It’s not easy – and I don’t just mean the strumming and singing ( although that ain’t easy, either ).

It was inspired by a friend of mine that takes a little too much on. I don’t think she’d have it any other way, though. Per the last line in the song : Even heroes need heroes sometimes.

I’m trying to get the courage to start going to open mics. I’ve been playing at a few parks and the food courts at a couple of campuses where I work, but there is something terrifying about having all eyes on me. When playing with the Rubber Band the attention is shared between the six of us. And, when I play at parks and stuff, people rarely stop and listen – it’s casual. At open mics it’s just me. And that’s scary.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the song. I have more I’m working on and I’m trying to get some collaborators, too.

Till next time!

Live life. Stay healthy. Create something!

-Scott

#singersongwriter #drawnandcoded #thewestwoodrubberband 

I make her nervous…

There’s something about having a new driver in the house that …. well, it inspires me to embarrass her, I guess. Truth be told, Ashley’s become a very good driver. She started her first job this week ( summer jobs, remember those? ) and we’ve been carpooling with her behind the wheel. Everything was going great until I took her car out ( we’ve started calling her “Turbo Smurf” ) for lunch and triggered the dash to light up like a Christmas Tree. Technically, I “broke” her car and have been getting just the tiniest of stink eyes ever sense. 

Live live. Stay healthy. Don’t drive your daughters’ car

-Scott

#mini #studentdriver #summerjob #familycomic #drawnandcoded

Triggered

Yes…..I did stand in the Costco vitamin aisle for longer than I’d like to admit scratching my head and pondering this particular dilemma. It shook me more than I thought it would. Fortunately, I’m just 50, not “plus” yet….

Live life. Stay Healthy. Take your vitamins.

-Scott

#vitamins #costco #centrumvitamins #overthehill

With or Without Me

I took a hiatus on drawing and started writing some original music, and then something unexpected happened – I wanted to start drawing again. Fortunately, my family has been on a roll as far as providing me with material.

As far as music this song is called, “With or Without Me.”

It’s about being a Dad ( or Mom ) with kids that are growing up just a little too fast. Yes, it still needs some polish ( starting with a nice kick drum ), but I’m trying.

Live life. Stay Healthy. Go make something.

-Scott

#comic #singersongwriter #illustrator #raisingdaughters #ranchbernardo

Mario Kart

We added a Mini Cooper to our stable for our newest driver.

Thing is? Now I want one, too!

They’re like little Go-Karts. Coming from a Honda Pilot ( and before that, a minivan ), I forgot how much fun smaller cars are. For starters? You can park em’ anywhere. But, I also like the smaller confines of the interior, too. I swear I can hear my own echo in mine, sometimes, when I am driving alone.

Still Undetectable

In other news – if there is any cancer in my body, it’s behaving. I have been in remission for just over four years now. My anxiety still goes through the roof every single time I get blood work done, though, You would think I’d be more relaxed the further out I am from treatment, but no. It’s taken four years to get back to living and every time I get tested I feel like everything could just fall apart again. I hear the 5-year and 10-year marks are monumental, but I still find myself celebrating ( just a little ) every day.

Live life. Stay healthy. Create something!

-Scott

#minicooper #newdriver #ranchobernardo #comic #drawnandcoded

Another Night

This song is called “Another Night”. It’s about loss – and a little defiance, too. I wrote the lyrics for it a few years ago after my Dad passed away. No one can tell you it’ll be okay when something like that happens. No one. It just takes time. I didn’t play much when he was alive. I hope, somewhere, he is listening now.

Live live. Hug a loved one.

-Scott

It’s not what it looks like…

I take care of all the house plants in my house, so yeah, I feel a little guilty being a vegan when eating in front of them.

I’ve been a vegan for a few years now – since being diagnosed with prostate cancer. I can’t prove that it’s helped keep the disease at bay, but it has helped my well-being tremendously. It took a while to “find my stride” – find adequate recipes and all, but I’ve gotten to the point that I don’t miss the foods I left behind anymore. I just wish my house plants would stop giving me the stink eye..,

Live life. Stay healthy.

-Scott

#vegan #houseplants #illustration #greenthumb #ranchobernardo #sandiego #drawnandcoded

Blacks

This is a song I’ve been working on. I call it, “Blacks”. If you’re from San Diego you might recognize some of it.

I’ve been writing and playing a lot over the last year. It started with Survive, a song I wrote the lyrics for – but leaned heavily on Suno, an AI service, for the melody. This one is much more organic.

I hope you enjoy it.

Live life. Stay Healthy. Create something.

-Scott

#singersongwriter #originalsongs #blacksbeach #blacksbeachsandiego #blacksbeachsong #torreypinessong #ucsd

She likes driving…

Yup. Ashley is driving. She loves it, too. Last night she even drove us on the highway so we could go shopping at Costco.

The benefits are two-fold.

First, it’ll take some of the responsibility off of Mom and Dad during next school year as she’ll be able to drive her sister and herself to school. Second, I have a whole new muse for comics!

I do worry, though. There’s more distractions and traffic than when I was her age. I guess part of her growing up though is trusting her not be that person playing Wordle on their mobile phone while weaving through traffic.

Oh, wait. Thats me…

Stay healthy. Live life. Put the mobile phone down.

-Scott

#NewDriver #Sixteen #DistractedDriver #WorriedParent