“Half of the Bay Area music scene has played in Half Stack at one point or another,” Kegler explains.
Kegler works as a scientist during the day, doing biology research. Making music as a full-time job is “a difficult thing to pull off in the Bay Area,” he says. “Music is not how I make my living but it’s my life.”
“Diamond Dancer,” one of the tracks off of the band’s new LP titled Sitting Pretty, was written during the COVID-19 pandemic while Kegler and his wife were driving around the Northern California coast. “It’s about hitting the road to figure out some stuff during a time of uncertainty,” he notes.
It’s one of the band’s more upbeat songs, with an instrumental outro. “It’s a lot of fun every time we play it, because the band can really open up and get into jamming and rocking,” Kegler says.
Half Stack will perform live at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, opening for East Coast country band Florry. For details and tickets, click here.
