The Playbacks were ridiculous last night. Who'd have thought that A Tuesday night would go off. There's a new sound system at Downtown Brew, and it sounded phenomenal. Sam sang his neck off, he hit all the high notes in our notorious cover of 'Sir Duke'! (He sometimes can't hit em...) We played two freakin encores! On a Tuesday Night!
Ahhh yes, the Playbacks had a great gig Saturday night. It was our 4th gig ever and we got a great response.
The Frog and Peach is a great place to play live, but the management there is a little on the drunky side? They tried to pay us $150! The least I've ever made there was $250, and I've been playing there off and on for ten years now. So we're trying to milk more dough out of them, we'll see how that goes.
Kevin Nash played great that night. He's the 17 year old guitar player who has a great ear and tasty phrasing. His parents came and watched the show. It was funny to check out his mom's reaction to people dancing in the bar, and especially when everyone was singing along to the chorus of Prince's 'Sexy MotherF%^&ker". Pretty classic.
Almost done with the Playbacks Demo, hoping it'll be done in time for the old Christmas Compilation....
I don't know, but I know three things:
She's in Brazil,
She rocks the upright bass with a german grip arco style,
and she's gorgeous.
My phone, which contains my entire schedule/gig calendar/life, broke.
Spend all day recording tracks for the Playbacks demo. I can't wait till these three songs are done, they're gonna sound good.
In the studio however, I cut a huge chunk out of my primary bass finger, the same finger that was already jacked up. I've got horrible luck that finger right now. I wrapped it tight, it wouldn't stop bleeding, and I was concerned for a second, but it stopped bleeding.
I then went to my jazz gig at the Inn at Morro Bay. That place is hit or miss. I've played to completely empty rooms there before. Fortunately it was Morro Bay's big Christmas Boat Parade, so the place was more packed than I've ever seen it. The line up was Ray Chang, Mike Raynor and I. We played well and got into some good moments. It turned into a wonderful evening.
Now I'm going to try and live without a cell phone for a few days and see how bad the withdrawals are.
The Playbacks, my thrown together project for funk, played at a private party at the 'Salon SOHO' in downtown SLO.
At first we all thought it would suck, cause they kept telling us to turn it down. It was a pretty live room. No one was even looking at us at first. But as with all events like this, once the alcohol starts flowing the people got loose. By the end of the night we had the dance floor bumpin and they were begging for more.
Jon Anderson, from the band Yes, was in the house. He was dancing and enjoying himself. At the end of the night he came up to us and expressed his interest in the group, he said I was 'a good player, real funky'! I gave him my card and he said he was interested in doing something with us when we finish our demo, which we will be recording next week.
The band played good, best we ever have, and everyone had a good time. I love it when a plan comes together....
