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
Well, the good news is that my daughter, Ashley, got Rancho Bernardo High School to invite The Rubber Band back to play for a Basketball Fanfest. The bad news is that ticket sales weren’t enough to justify the cost of having us play.
… and we’re free, so, yeah – that was a gut punch.
But, I get it.
No hard feelings.
It takes a lot of coordination and sweat to get everything set up. Heck, I was amazed when the band were all able to commit.
So, it was the gig that never happened and all I have to show for it is a cool flyer that made.
Live life and stay healthy
-Scott
#dadband #ranchobernardohighschool #rbhs #therubberband #illustration
Good-bye, 2025, you were a good year. I guess I am in the minority as 25′ seemed to have a bad rapport amongst a lot of my friends and family, but for me it was good.
I’ve seen my girls grow up a little more and become their own not-so-little people.
I saw my wife’s business, Vandervort Realty, grow and expand.
My band, The Rubber Band, has been playing more ( and bigger ) gigs, and I’ve taken on more vocals and acoustic guitar to fit in a little better.
I’ve been drawing a lot more. Although a lot of it is hidden away in a sketchbook, here’s a couple fresh of the press!
I’ve been composing my own music and accompanying myself.
I’ve started playing music with a new, smaller, group of people with the hopes of doing some open mics next year.
I’ve been happily employed at Poway Unified for the better part of a year now. It was a nice change of pace compared to the last couple of employers I had. The people are great, the workload is manageable, and for the first time in a long time, I believe in the product ( education ).
Lastly, I, along with my friends and family, walked in my fifth Prostate Cancer Walk.
So 2025 set the stage for 2026, which I have big plans for. Hope to see ya’ all around next year.
Take care of yourselves. Live life. Stay healthy.
-Scott
#newyears #goodbye2025 #illustration #costco #costcofreebies #costcosamples #therubberband #singersongwriter #vandervortrealty
Happy Halloween!
Alacran Court invited “The Rubber Band” back to play for their annual Halloween block party. This year we had a band of middle-schoolers, called “Dencity”, open for us. Dencity played through a set of five songs – including a couple of originals – before we took the stage. I wish I had their guts back when I was their age. It took me another 30+ years to gain the courage, I guess. Better late than never. We played for an hour before retreating to our respective halloween festivities.
You can follow The Rubber Band on Instagram ( the.westwood.rubber.band ), or through on YouTube ( @WestwoodRubberBand ).
… and as always, live life and stay healthy!
-Scott
#TheRubberBand #WestwoodRubberBand #DadBand #GarageBand #Music #RockBand #Halloween #WerewolvesInLondon #RanchoBernardo #SanDiegoMusic #PowayUnifiedSchoolDistrict #PUSD #Westwood #SupportLiveMusic
The Rubber Band was invited to play at Rancho Bernardo’s annual Oktoberfest festival at Webb Park on October 11th. We opened for Par Avion, an instrumental surf music-inspired band from Santa Monica, to a crowd of 900 beer aficionados.
The local paper and ( no joke ) Union Tribune picked up on the event, and ran articles in which we were published. As our lead vocalist announced to the crowd ( jokingly ), “Yeah, we’re kind of a big thing.” We almost laughed him off the stage.
Would we do it again? Absolutely. However, we couldn’t have done it without the help of a lot of people…
Thank you Eric and John from San Diego Event Pros for making us sound so good. You guys are awesome!
Thank you Rancho Bernardo Sunrise Rotary Club for inviting us to play for the festival
And, as always, a huge thanks to our wives and families for letting us chase our middle-aged rock star dreams.
You can follow The Rubber Band on Instagram at the.westwood.rubber.band
Thank you for your support!
-Scott
#RanchoBeernardo #RanchoBernardo #WestwoodRubberBand #DadBand #92127 #RotaryClub #RanchoBernardoSunriseRotaryClub #SanDiegoEventPros #ParAvoion #GarageBand
I went to my first homecoming in 31 years last night – sort of. My daughter, Ashley, is in ASB at Rancho Bernardo High School. About two weeks ago she and her friend, Lizzie were brainstorming a tailgate party for the upcoming homecoming game. When asked about a live band, Lizzie suggested – The Rubber Band.
We played for about an hour over two sets. We even got the principal of RBHS to join us for a cover of “I Wanna Be Sedated”, by the Ramones.
And the Broncos? They won.
If you want to follow the band please join our Instagram page at The.Westwood.Rubber.Band
Live life. Stay Healthy.
-Scott
#RanchoBernardoHighSchool #RBHS #Homecoming #DadBand #GarageBand #RubberBand
The Rubber Band played for the neighbors’ of Chieftain Court at their Labor Day block party this weekend. We kicked it off with a set of songs from 60’s through early 2000’s. In a little over a month ( October 11th ) we’ll be playing at Rancho Beer-nardo for Oktoberfest, so it was good to get in some stage time.
John Hatcher, our bassist, mastered the audio, combined it with with video we captured using a GoPro, and posted it on our new Rubber Band YouTube Channel. Here is just a few of the videos….
And that’s all, folks! Thank you, as always, for your continued support. And….if you could subscribe to our YouTube channel, that’d be great …..m’kay.
Take care.
Stay healthy.
Live life.
– Scott
#therubberband #westwoodrubberband #dadband #labordayblockparty #coverband #90s #90sCoverBand
The Rubber Band played at yet another block party on June 13th to celebrate the end of school and the start of summer break. We played for about an hour-and-a-half, running through about twenty songs.
I think everyone had a good time. The only complaint was a lack of water bottles – but that’s what happens when six guys plan a party. Beer? Plenty. Water bottles? None.
The band is going to take a much needed break for the next two weeks before hitting it hard for our upcoming gig at Rancho Bernardo’s upcoming Oktoberfest celebration, “Rancho Beer-nardo”.
Keep livin’ life,
-Scott
#therubberband #garageband #illustration #dadband #ranchobeernardo #ranchobernardo #westwood #drawnandcoded
My friend, John, reached out to me and asked if I’d be interested in drawing him a logo for his band, J.T.P. As luck would have it they were all in town and planned on having a series of rehersals in John’s living room.
“Mind if I stop by to listen and get some ideas?”, I asked him.
He agreed.
John had been sending me J.T.P.’s recordings for a while and I liked their covers. He told me that they have been playing together since attending college at The University of Georgia in the 90’s.
Now spread out across the United States, they rely heavly on Apple’s GarageBand, a music editing application, to “knit” together their various tracks ( guitar, bass, vocals, etc… )
At their rehearsal I listened, sketched, and took some pictures.
If you’d like to listen to some of the J.T.P.’s music, you can find it on YouTube at @JohnnyHitsTheGroove.
Lastly, here are some of my quick sketches. All hand drawn on a 5×7 notepad with a mechanical pencil.
For the end product I went with vector graphics using Inkscape, prefering a format would be sharp, crisp, and could be easily resized. Vector graphics take me longer to produce, but they have a certain durability and reusability that I prefer over hand drawn stuff.
Take care.
Stay healthy.
Live life.
– Scott
#bandlogo #jtp #garageband #dadband #universityofgeorgia #inkscape #ranchobernardo #makingmusic
Back to the Sac’ …. well, that’s what I wanted to call The Rubber Band’s return to Alacran Court.
It’s a cul-de-sac. We’re returning. Can I be any more clear?
The guys, however, thought that there were some childish innuendos in the name. Needless to say I got vetoed and we decided to go with the more mundane “Block Party”, instead. March 30th will always be remembered as the “Back to the Sac’” show to me, though.
Here is the highlight reel.
Were we perfect? Far from it.
Did we have fun? Oh, yes.
Did the crowd have fun? Yes, all three of them did.
I’m just kidding.
There were at least four people listening.
Please follow us on Instagram at @the.westwood.rubber.band ( we need all the help we can get )
Take care.
Stay healthy.
Live life.
– Scott
#therubberband #dadband #blockparty #ninetiesrock
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