Operation Aloha (by nylonmagazine) Once upon a time - about 4 years ago.  I moved to Los Angeles from New York.  Enough with the noise and the yelling and the sarcasm (actually, with the sarcasm: never enough) - i needed a big fat change after years of struggling to live on music in the big city. I landed on my friend’s couch - one Christopher Wray-Mccann - in Hollywood, who was already deep in the planning stages for what would become Operation Aloha.  He enlisted his closest musician friends - made after years of shooting live music with a camera and military precision - to drop their lives and their cell phones and hole up in tree houses in a quiet corner of paradise.  “We’ll bring instruments, microphones, just what we can carry - and see what happens.  Wanna come too?” I said yes. Duh. We came home with 17 songs.  The makings of a great record.  But the project stalled when we all returned to our frenetic lives and tour schedules - and babies. [Let’s not forget the babies.  They’re probably pretty internet savvy by now.]  However, now the record will have its day.  It’s being released next month - May 12 - and to celebrate its release, we’re playing what will likely be a one time only show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.  The project involves members of Maroon 5, the now retired Phantom Planet, as well as myself and a few others.  And all spots to black and my dear friends The Parson Redheads will also be part of the show.  Please come and help celebrate a really great project and, (if i might) a very cool record. TICKETS ON SALE NOW For more details and to purchase tickets please visit www.troubadour.com.

Operation Aloha (by nylonmagazine)

Once upon a time - about 4 years ago.  I moved to Los Angeles from New York.  Enough with the noise and the yelling and the sarcasm (actually, with the sarcasm: never enough) - i needed a big fat change after years of struggling to live on music in the big city.

I landed on my friend’s couch - one Christopher Wray-Mccann - in Hollywood, who was already deep in the planning stages for what would become Operation Aloha.  He enlisted his closest musician friends - made after years of shooting live music with a camera and military precision - to drop their lives and their cell phones and hole up in tree houses in a quiet corner of paradise.  “We’ll bring instruments, microphones, just what we can carry - and see what happens.  Wanna come too?”

I said yes.

Duh.

We came home with 17 songs.  The makings of a great record.  But the project stalled when we all returned to our frenetic lives and tour schedules - and babies. [Let’s not forget the babies.  They’re probably pretty internet savvy by now.]  However, now the record will have its day.  It’s being released next month - May 12 - and to celebrate its release, we’re playing what will likely be a one time only show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.  The project involves members of Maroon 5, the now retired Phantom Planet, as well as myself and a few others.  And all spots to black and my dear friends The Parson Redheads will also be part of the show.  Please come and help celebrate a really great project and, (if i might) a very cool record.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

For more details and to purchase tickets please visit www.troubadour.com.