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<h2>I guess you could say I <span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">invented</span> the blog. . .<font
color="#ff8d63">upside
down -</font> in '98....</h2>
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<center><b><font size="+2"><font style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"
color="#ff1135">Well, <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">maybe</span>
it's
not <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">really</span>
a blog, cuz the visitors can't <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">chime
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<h2><font color="#fffd85"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">But</span>
I </font><font color="#87d3ff">do</font><font color="#fffd85">
keep it up to date; Click <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">^ <span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">above</span></span>
to see the newer stuff.
Thanks!
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#f8f81d"><font size="+1">SINCE
YOU'VE
BEEN ASKING, THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING LATELY:</font></font>
<hr width="100%"><font style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"
color="#ffffff"><a href="#newest">The Newer Stuff
is on the Bottom.<font size="+0">(click to go there now)</font></a></font>
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<b><font size="+2"><font color="#dc6232">1998</font><font
color="#44dccc">(approx)</font></font></b><font size="+1"><font
color="#44dccc">I go to my </font><b><font color="#81a4dc">studio in
nyc</font></b><font color="#44dccc">
and hire it (and me) out to people who want to make CD's or demo
recordings. It's </font><font color="#d92cdc">fantasy </font><font
color="#44dccc">time
for them. . . if they can dream it, they can be it! I do entire </font><font
color="#b46bdc">synth-orchestrated
backing tracks</font><font color="#44dccc"> for them, and they can add
vocals and eventually burn it onto a CD, their own CD, at
my place. (one at a time however.) With computers, </font></font><b><font
color="#99debf">We
make their </font><font color="#fdea3c">dreams</font><font
color="#99debf">
come true</font></b><font color="#99debf">.</font>..<b><font
color="#ffa217"><font size="+1">But
it can be boring (for me.)</font></font></b> <b><font
color="#43e087">Back
in The Day, I worked on alot of "Jingles" (music for a
commercial)
- Recently, I've done one for a new Mattel toy this year - it's for a
"Woody"
doll (no, not THAT kinda woody....the one from Toy Story Two!) and it
sings
- another for some kind of Barbie. (not Klaus, thank you.)</font></b> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc"> </font><font
color="#4efdeb">
Also <b>alot</b> of music for TV we do, me and a partner from nearby.
Also
every Friday night I play rock-tail piano at the <b>Empire Diner</b>,
on
10th Avenue and W.22nd Street, in NYC, a restaurant/bar <br>
</font></font>
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<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"><blink>
FLASH! - New
Piano Gigs Venue -
BLACK PEARL RESTAURANT 37 W 26 8-12 Friday Nights</blink></span>
<ul>
<ul>
<font size="+1"><font color="#4efdeb"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"></span>That one is
mostly
just for </font><b><blink><font color="#fd1b3d">fun</font></blink></b><font
color="#4efdeb">
and practice. Bluesman Jon Paris and my friend Rafael from Caicos
Islands,
Grand Turk, have been sitting in. An occasional piano gig (with
Sinatra-type
singers) at Maxim's (swanky vibe, tuxes please...) or a Cabaret
gig
with a band doing 1940's love songs with a bassist from Julliard, via
New
Zealand. Another guy, Bruce Carroll, who is as good as Jackson Browne,
but not as pretty, I'm producing his masterpiece <i>du jour, <b>and
we
do occasional gigs, usually at The Lounge, on W. 72 St. in NYC</b></i>.
<b>Jimmy
Rip</b>, from Mick Jagger's solo band </font></font><b><font
color="#fd0f3e">(now
he's producin Jerry Lee Lewis!!!!)</font></b><font size="+1"><font
color="#4efdeb">
plays some great guitar for Bruce. Etc, etc. Oh yeah. also <b>Lydia
Canaan,</b>
the Lebanese Song Goddess, has been recording at my place, and we're
doing
fab complete Sade-meets-Madonna-meets-Annie Lenox-type tracks for her .
. . There's the occasional rap session with my pal Kirk Yano; actually
we just ProTools'd an Irving Berlin tribute record featuring Dick
Hyman,
Robert White and Marilyn Horn... and of course, I'm playing in the
orchestra
of my younger daughter's school production of Rogers and Hammerstein's
"Cinderella."(That was last year...this year, we just finished "Annie"
and my kid was</font><b><font color="#54dc1e">GREAT</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">
in it. Etc.PLUS I'm always home for dinner Mondays &
Wednesdays. </font><b><font color="#d5dc1c">(Those
kids grow up so quickly...) </font></b><font color="#44dccc">Oh yeah,
also
an independent CD called "<b><i><u>Sheniqua's Having a Baby</u></i></b>",
about a 14 year old black girl giving birth in a crack house; that one
is by a NYC school teacher, </font><b><font color="#4fffee">David Roter<img
src="rip.jpg" border="0" height="18" width="36"></font></b><font
color="#44dccc">,
he's a tough guy-intellectual, and</font><font color="#dc9811"> the </font><font
color="#44dccc">Albert
Bouchard, the drummer from Blue Oyster Cult (and the <a
href="http://www.cellsum.com">Brain
Surgeons</a>) is coproducing. Just gigged with Roter at <b>Arlene's
Grocery</b>,
down on theLower East Side of nyc. He's </font><b><font color="#3fccbd">O</font><font
color="#dc2018">u</font><font color="#cde8ed">t</font><font
color="#ecc721">R</font><font color="#44dccc">a</font><font
color="#3cdca6">g</font><font color="#44dccc">e</font><font
color="#6d48dc">o</font><font color="#0fdc52">u</font><font
color="#dc7f5b">s </font></b><font color="#accadc">live</font><font
color="#44dccc">! </font><b><font color="#e6fc33">I
also played at the High School Graduation yesterday for David's kids:
it
was at St. Peter's Church, in the basement of the posh mall-like
Citicorp
center, on Lexinton Ave. at 54th St. (NYC, natch...) They had a brand
new
pipe organ, a harpsichord, and this groovy Baldwin grand piano. I had
to
start off with "Pomp And Circumstance" (kinda like 'here comes the
Queen'-
remember "Queen for a Day', the TV show?....NO! not the autobiography
of
David Bowie!) The idea was to turn "Queen for a Day" into "La Vida
Loca",
((well, the similarities between Ricky Martin and David Bowie will
remain
unexplored here, except for the mental association I just fell into!))
The kids were so SO cool, and proud to be makin it thru high school, in
this tough city, most of them coming to the midtown school (Landmark)
by
buses from parts of the cruel inner city where having a baby at 16 is
more
normal than finishing 10th grade. I cried. This one guy, </font><font
color="#84e1fc">David
Rodriguez</font><font color="#e6fc33">, won awards for being the best
at
athletics AND the best grades, and EXTRA studies on top of it! Also
this
guy named </font><font color="#56c0fc">Diaz</font><font color="#e6fc33">,
said, (and I quote,) "Remember this, brothers and sisters: 10% of life
is what happens to you, and 90% of life is HOW YOU REACT. No really!
Check
it out!" That made my month. And Diaz isn't even goin to go
to college for now (he's workin a job already!) </font><font
color="#cb52fa">Sad
note: David Roter, the teacher and rocker, just passed away.....</font></b></font>
<br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc"> Recently
created
some music for a <a href="http://www.hypbody.com/">hypnotherapist</a>
who
makes tapes that can enlarge desirable male and female body parts. I
felt
like a puppet, and the music came out "New Age"....but hey, I wasn't
really
THERE,was I?... Believe it or not, she was on Howard Stern
recently....and
Then there's Rick's Project, he sings great, and it's all so. . . </font><b><font
color="#69dc60">Bossa
Nova</font></b><font color="#44dccc">! Also <b>Biand Fury'</b>s
psychedelic
thrash sessions at Unique Recording, produced by Alfredo Scotti. And a
bunch of other stuff for Alfredo (he's SO musical...) like a
co-orchestrating
an autistic Hawaiian kid's piano piece as Baroque...And </font><font
color="#ffbc02">Greg
Alexander (from the New Radicals) and Natalie Imbruglia's new song-stab</font><font
color="#44dccc">....And
a benefit fighting Cancer, which involved swimming across Long Island
Sound
(4 or 5 miles...i ain't doin the swimmin, just the playin...) It goes
on
and on. And it better! Fun with Music and Money! wooo! One
of the most <b>fun things</b> will be the annual concert in the Spring
at my kids' school, where we teach the kids some music, and they teach
us what is cool. There's an </font><b><font color="#2ab1dc">amazing</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">
gospel choir, from the Baptist <b>Strait Gate Church</b> of
Mamaroneck,
led by <b>the Reverend Dana Powell</b>, that sings with us and teaches
us. Oh btw, I just finished the organ and synth tracks on 8 of <a
href="http://www.kpdevlin.com"><b>KP
Devlin</b>'</a>s tunes. Kenny Aaronson is producing this really young
funny
smart singer songwriter, who reminds me of Dylan, with a cool but
more 'modern' voice. AND, of course, my opus,</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#dc91c3">SEA of SIMILE</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">,
the rock opera-cartoon is <b>completely animated through Act 2 !</b>
*MTV* - </font><b><i><font color="#5393dc">Where R U ?</font></i></b></font>
<br>
<b><blink><font color="#dccc31"><font size="+1">NEWER NEWS: </font></font><font
size="+2"><font color="#c7f5ff">1999</font></font></blink><font
color="#44dccc"><font size="+2">(approx)</font></font></b> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#fce64d">M</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">ore
recording with Freddi Scotti and BIOND FURY- it's the Beatles,
Soundgarden
and Pink Floyd all rolled into one, and if it ever gets released,
LOOKOUT
! We're recording real pianos and organs now, still at Unique
Recorders,
NYC.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#d7dc0e">S</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">essions
at Planet Sound, 251W.30St., with Kirk Yano, and Juju from the Beatnutz
and Delmar Brown, from Mars, and Kirk on wah-wah, me on Rhodes and Bass
synths....it's lounge jazz, it's strange, it's There's a Riot Goin On
(Sly)....it's
goooooood. I think it's for some Japanese Company.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#dcda0a">I </font></b><font
color="#44dccc">bailed
on Mila Drumkey's new album, sorry Mila.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#dccf00">B</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">ig
Party at Le Ciel Rouge, Chelsea, NYC, Sat. night...it seems 2 classic
nyc
babes are turning 30 and want the whole world to know it. Some weird
piano
player they found at the Empire Diner is playing Take Me Out to the
Ballgame,
for an asian lad¥ who sings at the ballpark, and the Carpenters and
Green Day's greatestits too. Oh yeah, and there's gonna be a clown.</font></font>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#d7dc1b">W</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">e're
trying to create music for a website for this German-Brazilian
Aromatherapie
Conglomerate masquerading as an Extreme Sports Workout. TechnoTommy? I
dunno...</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#dccd11">P</font></b><font
color="#74d9dc">ut
B-3 organ and clavinet on David McGrath's new CD at Fearless Music,
Film
Center, NYC. He's a fine singer, and his bro, Tom, has a new CD out
too,
"<a href="http://www.TomMcGrath.com">Pictures At the Family House</a>".
It's full of wild beats (Tom's a drummer,) world instruments, and Mark
Egan's bass.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#dccd11">N</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">o,
I don't often hear from Bryan Adams, but I know he's tearin up the
continent
and GB as a trio, with Mickey on drums and Keith on guitar, and
Jody-Got-Married
on everything else.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#cddc0c">W</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">riting
a book of Song Charts (on music paper) for <a
href="http://www.meatloaf-oifc.com/">Meatloaf'</a>s
upcoming Storyteller's Tour, thanks to my pal </font><font
color="#d2dc64"><a href="http://www.kasimsulton.com">Kasim
Sulton</a>.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#cddc0c">B</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">e
sure to check out <a href="http://www.tangible-technology.com/">Eddie
Ciletti'</a>s
site. He's moved to Minnesota, but he's still the best fixer
(electronic
equipment) in the biz, and he does it by mail-ordure.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#cddc0c">P</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">layed
some Wurlitzer EP and Hammond B3 at my place on Alfredo Scotti's
production
of this new kid, </font><b><font color="#6a6ddc">Dave Phillips</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">.
He's pretty good,and <b>way tall</b>! Live gigs on the way, we'll post
em here. Kind of like Van Morrison kickin Hootie's butt.</font></font> <br>
<b><font color="#cddc0c"><font size="+1">B</font></font></b><font
color="#44dccc">e</font><font color="#7bdc5a">en
doing some counselling for a Broken Heart Waitin to Happen. She's got
it
bad for this guy,and she made one wrong move (or was it just fate?) Now
she's tryin to find her way back into his heart; and the road is
twisted
and fraught with wrong turns and temptation. Good luck,little girl,
we're
all hopin you'll win this time around...</font> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#cddc0c">A</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">nd
Last But Not Least, I entered a TimeWarp....travelled by Ferry Boat to
Staten Island, home (and grave) of some of the hardest rockers ever to
rock hard....and hooked up with </font><font color="#ace235">Hilly
Michaels</font><font color="#44dccc">, </font><font color="#ff7a70">Phil
Grande</font><font color="#44dccc">, </font><font color="#c0a6fc">Kenny
Aaronson</font><font color="#44dccc">, </font><font color="#71dc35">John
Mombach</font><font color="#44dccc">, </font><font color="#dcba73">Dr.
Dave Leonard</font><font color="#44dccc">, </font><font color="#dc0f1d">John
Jarrett</font><font color="#44dccc"> , and the amazing </font><font
color="#2cfd71">Vinny</font><font color="#44dccc">,
all of us legends of the 80's who surprisingly made it into the 90's,
but
aren't too sure about why! Phil's played with Joe Cocker and Blue
Oyster
Cult, Kenny with Bob Dylan and Billy Idol, Hilly with Ian Hunter and
Mick
Ronson, Marianne Faithful and Sparks, he's a 'featured artist' in my <a
href="http://www.tommymandel.com/famous.html/table.html">book</a>
too, Jarrett has his own record out on Atlantic Rex, and Mombach knows
all but tells no tales. THE REASON for our SAD but POTENT
reunion?
-> <a href="http://www.lifedotcom.com">Lifedotcom.com</a>
<- David
LifedotCom is makin a CD. Check out his (outta)site site; it's up now.</font></font>
<br>
<hr width="100%"><font size="+1"><b><font color="#f8d618">E</font><font
color="#44dccc">V</font><font color="#fac925">E</font><font
color="#44dccc">N </font><font color="#f3cb18">N</font><font
color="#44dccc">E</font><font color="#fabe07">W</font><font
color="#44dccc">E</font><font color="#ffb617">R</font><font
color="#44dccc">: </font></b><font
color="#44dccc">
Recorded with Kasim and </font><font color="#fad739">PATTI RUSSO</font><font
color="#44dccc">
(Meatloaf's girl singer.) She's hot and you'll be hearing from her real
soon, I'm sure of that.</font></font> <br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#23dc5a">2000 </font><font
color="#44dccc">(approx)</font></font></b><font color="#44dccc"><font
size="+1">
Did two or three Tommy Williams sessions at Pie Studios in GlenCove,
NY,
( a beautiful studio). This is a workin musician, who, if you close yer
eyes and listen, could be Bryan Adams with raunchier guitars and a
little
less innocence. . .</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc">
I've started </font><font color="#ffc2cf">scoring films</font><font
color="#44dccc">
again, thanks to my old pal, Freddie Galfas. I know him from when he
was
John Waite's and then Meatloaf's Tour Manager....He's now teaching film
at Hofstra University, and he's started sending me his students who
need
music for their flix. There are two I'm doin so far: <b>O</b>ne is
about
a spirit, giving up the ghost, so that the living can move on with
their
lives. It's pretty moving, by Joe Sguera. <b>T</b>he other one, by
Mike
Sita and Brian DiLeo, has Einstein, Plato, Hitler, Da Vinci, and Jesus
sitting around a smokey card table playin poker while the world goes up
in flames. It's a bit more cerebral than Joe's, but I'm still wrackin
my
brains to come up with (5) musical themes for it. . .</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#ffb914">We did the Strait Gate Lions
of
Judah Chorale comes to the Mamaroneck Avenue Elementary School and
brings
the house down with the kids singing and dancing too Concert again, on
May 19.</font><b><blink><font color="#fdf916">IT WENT GREAT !</font></blink></b><font
color="#44dccc">
(I say this 2 days after the show...my </font><font color="#1adc0f">younger
daughter</font><font color="#44dccc"> did a great job herself in
it...am
I partial, being her Dad? no way!) And I did another session, for Mike
Nappi, he's good too, kinda subversive. His girlfriend is the AWESOME <blink>Camilla</blink>,
came here from Sweden, and never went back! She's Jack's Nanny. And you
D</font><font color="#70dc63">O</font><font color="#44dccc">N'T know
Jack!
Some MIDI work for Net4Music producer, Stephen Flinn. AND an </font><font
color="#dcd80d">IAN
HUNTER</font><font color="#44dccc"> gig June 2 at the Bowery Ballroom.
Steve Holley on drums, Andy York from Mellen'sCamp on guitar, John
Conte,
from The Crown Jewels and Company of Wolves, on bass,and me on keys, I
guess. IAN again. Wow. I saw his son, <b>Jesse</b>'s band American
Degenerate,
play at CBGB's not too long ago. I guess it's time for IAN to show </font><font
color="#27dcaf">him</font><font color="#44dccc">
how it's done. (Jesse was great, incidentally.) PS> OUR GIG WENT
WELL ('cept
I lost my 'cell), and it looks like we're gonna play some </font><b><font
color="#ad0ecc">House
of Blues gigs in October</font><font color="#1c04cc">. (never
happened...)</font></b></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc">
More work with Kirk.....his Japanese Girl remix, pretty much just me
and
him is released and BIG. It's called </font><b><u><font color="#dbdc10"><a
href="http://columbia.jp/%7Ezooco/disco.html">Zooco.</a></font></u></b><font
color="#44dccc">,
she was the lead singer in </font><b><font color="#d0fc11">The
Escalators</font></b><font color="#44dccc">...
And now he's moving into .....the Jingle Jungle.....look out
Advertizing
World. You've met your match.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc"> I'd been
filling
in for the supertalented <a href="http://www.bobmayo.net">Bobby
Mayo </a><a href="http://www.bobmayo.net"><img src="rip.jpg"
border="0" height="18" width="36"></a>,
with </font><b><blink><font color="#56dc37">BILLY REED</font></blink></b><font
color="#44dccc">,
a blue eyed soul singing Grandpa, who plays drums like they WISH they
could
in New Orleans. </font><b><font color="#dcb15a">Tommy Cosgrove</font></b><font
color="#44dccc">
is singing his tunes and playing gtar too, and Lincoln Schleiffer and
George
Lore are sharin the Bass Bin. Billy's got this Hammond M-3 organ that
he
brings to the gigs and pumps through a Leslie, and when we arrive in
his <b>1970
Convertible Cadillac</b> (</font><font color="#dc1203">RED</font><font
color="#44dccc">
of course,) he can set that thing up one-handed! (But Steve Siciliano
would
break his knees if he did, Steve's our over-protective Roadie.)</font></font>
<br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc">
More Alfredo Scotti sessions too. Baroque arrangements of challenged
childrens'
piano compositions. Also Greg Naughton sessions (his dad's famous,) and
</font><font color="#dcd900"><b>Sam
Teller</b>, who is like Chrissie Hynde meets Joan Jett, meets Madame
Curie,
meets Spider Woman</font><font color="#44dccc">. (Those were Kirk
Yano-produced.)</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc">
The ever busy Alfredo Scotti put me with </font><b><font
color="#83ff7d"><a href="http://www.mindyjostyn.com/">MINDY
JOSTYN</a></font></b><font color="#44dccc">. She plays fiddle, guitar,
and sings her sweet heart out. She graced Billy Joel's band for a year
or two. This new CD of hers should be out by now.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc"> Just got
back
from LA, where me 'n' the sultry songster, </font><b><font
color="#dca56b">Rick
Miramontez</font></b><font color="#44dccc"> mesmerized a Dizny party of
friends and rel's with Tango tunes, sung in Rick's silky tenor, in
their
original Spanish tongue. Long way to travel for a party, but it was
well
worth it, even with the 2 hour delay on the runway in Chicago coming
back
(with my <b>kids</b>!) Rick's voice is sensuous, but he can shake the
walls
with it too. Just ask his legions of <b>fans</b>, especially the Ohio
ones!</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc"> </font><b><font
color="#9adcd6">A</font></b><font color="#a9dcba">n</font><font
color="#b0b8dc">d</font><font color="#44dccc">
now, (finally) there's a completed </font><b><font color="#ffe42e">TM</font></b><font
color="#dc8484">CD</font><font color="#44dccc">
with the </font><b><font color="#60dcbb"><a href="gallery.html">Sea of
Simile</a></font></b><font color="#44dccc"> soundtrack pressed on it.
It's
floating around some angels, along with a </font><font color="#dc797c">CD</font><font
color="#44dccc">
of </font><b><font color="#55dcaf">Joe's Opera </font></b><font
color="#44dccc">highligts.
. . (<a href="../../painfulpage.html">Joe's Opera</a> was the first
popOpera
I wrote - it's young & wild.)</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#44dccc"> "</font><b><font
color="#dca2da">Tearful
but Cheerful</font></b><font color="#44dccc">" my latest </font><font
color="#dca79e">CD</font><font color="#44dccc">
of synth-instrumentals, is finished as well.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#dc9cc3">What's diff about </font><b><font
color="#dca2da">T.but
C.</font></b><font color="#dc9cc3"> is that there's real live
playing
(me). Each track is a piece I composed on <a name="back2new"></a></font><font
color="#dc9ed7"><a href="../../Sequencer.html">Sequencer</a></font><font
color="#dc9cc3">,
and then as it was being recorded, I'd jump around my studio from one
synth
to another, to the Wurlitzer Electric Piano, to the Hammond B-3 organ,
playing along with it, whatever came into my soul at the time. The
jamming-on-top
idea is what makes it less like musak and more like music, and I hope
it
invites repeated listening, cuz it's less predictable. (A few of the 18
pieces are JUST me playing live, solonely to the moooooon.)</font></font>
<br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#ffc194"> I recently re-mastered
some
old recordings, live and studio, by my band, Fluid, you know, from the
60's, and we're tryin to find the guitarist to see if he'd mind putting
it out there, on</font><font color="#dc9cc3"> </font></font> <a
href="http://www.techwebsound.com/"><b><font color="#ebc52c">the
Psychedelic Web</font></b> </a>. <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#dc9cc3"> </font><font
color="#8cdcd9">It
looks like I'll be recording a new CD with <b><a
href="http://www.ianhunter.com">Ian
Hunter </a></b>in NYC. </font></font><font color="#0bdc46"><font
size="-1">(done,
see below)</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#8cdcd9"> </font><font
color="#a5dcb2">I'm
working at</font><font color="#8cdcd9"> <b><a
href="http://www.sarahlawrence.edu">Sarah
Lawrence College</a></b>,</font><font color="#97dcad"> outsida NYC,
with
the foxy theater students there, accompanying, coaching, maybe
composing
a bit....they're young, they're beautiful, they're talented, sorta like
a combination of</font><font color="#8cdcd9"> </font><font
color="#f59f36">"Fame"</font><font color="#8cdcd9">
and </font><font color="#f8f01b">"Bev Hills 90120"</font><font
color="#8cdcd9">.</font><font color="#ff0000">Y</font><font
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color="#8e00ff">h</font><font color="#9600ff">e</font><font
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color="#8eff00">a</font><font color="#87ff00">m</font><font
color="#7fff00">e </font><font color="#70ff00">(</font><font
color="#68ff00">w</font><font color="#60ff00">h</font><font
color="#59ff00">i</font><font color="#51ff00">c</font><font
color="#49ff00">h </font><font color="#3aff00">m</font><font
color="#33ff00">e</font><font color="#2bff00">a</font><font
color="#23ff00">n</font><font color="#1cff00">s </font><font
color="#0cff00">'</font><font color="#05ff00">b</font><font
color="#00ff02">u</font><font color="#00ff0a">i</font><font
color="#00ff11">l</font><font color="#00ff19">d</font><font
color="#00ff21">e</font><font color="#00ff28">r</font><font
color="#00ff30">.</font><font color="#00ff38">'</font><font
color="#00ff3f">) </font><font color="#ebff0f">Or </font><font
color="#ffab4a">Katie</font><font color="#ebff0f">, </font><font
color="#73ffdf">the</font><font color="#ebff0f">
vulnerable, </font><font color="#e83aff">or </font><font
color="#82cfff">Matthew</font><font color="#00ff3f">, </font><font
color="#6392ff">the</font><font color="#7017ff">Belting</font><font
color="#232eff">Playwright</font><font color="#00ff3f">...</font><font
color="#93dc97">The
legendary </font><b><font color="#ff111d">Shirley Kaplan</font></b><font
color="#93dc97">
is my collaborator/gentle-boss.</font></font> <br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#dc2713">2001 </font><font
color="#44dccc">(approx)</font></font></b><font size="+1"><font
color="#45dccf">THE
LATEST:</font><b><font color="#eefebc"><a
href="http://www.joeblaney.com/">Joe
Blaney</a></font></b><font color="#45dccf">, who's engineered for
Prince,
Keith Richard, The Clash, Charly Garcia, and Shawn Colvin, just
produced </font><b><font color="#faf896">Pamela
Rodriguez</font></b><font color="#45dccf">, who's gonna be the next
Enrique
Inglesias, from Argentina. She's actually more like a female Rolling
Stone-Small
Face-Rockin Goddess, and guys from Keith R's band (Charlie
Drayton-drums,
guitar,) and Lenny Kravitz' band (Jack Daley-bass) are playin on it
too.
And Marc Ribot...And Hugh McCracken. And Eddie Martinez. I even got to
do some accordion last night! First time since <b>BA Unplugged</b>,
maybe.
We used Wurlitzer electronic piano alot too, a 60's-70's instrument
that
Joe B. gets a great sound on. It's easy to play too, - like runnin yer
fingers through melted chocolate. So keep an eye out for Pamela. She's
an eyeful. (Met her mom too!)</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#f52307">*</font><font color="#f5d016">
I'm writing and recording a bunch of Techno-Type tunes these days,
thanks
to <b><a href="http://www.steinbergusa.com">Rebirth™</a></b> and <b><a
href="http://www.groovemakerusa.com">Groovemaker™</a></b>,
a virtual drum machine menage á quatre, and a virtual DJ studio,
2 programs for my Macs. (I now use a Powerbook 2000 (the one engineered
just BEFORE the new Titanium one,) and a Graphite PowerMac G4/450,
(Mac)
running <a href="http://www.motu.com"><b>Digital Performer</b> </a></font><font
color="#7fe8f5"><a href="http://www.motu.com">software</a></font><font
color="#f5d016">.)
but </font><font color="#f5ed04">how'r'you gonna hear the music</font><font
color="#f51621">?</font><font color="#f50c6d">?</font><font
color="#f50cf5">?</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#dc5427">+++2 Purim gigs </font><font
color="#d8dc0d">&
a picnicgig</font><font color="#dc5427"> with <a
href="http://www.klezska.com">Glenn's</a>
Klezmer-Ska band coming up in March...and June '01...</font><font
color="#88dc9e">vocals
by<b> </b></font><b><font color="#67dca5">Greg Shafritz</font><font
color="#88dc9e">,
the male model </font></b><font color="#88dc9e">with the yarmulke on,
and
the <b>Hi-IQ</b>.</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#5cfaf0">We're also recording Meghan
Lynch,
who could be the next Brittney Spears, if she'd only let cynical hacks
write her tunes, in the cliche'd Cm-G7 genre that I've been sick of
since
it first came out...As is, she's 15 and she's got pipes! (and a <a
href="mailto:[email protected]">Cool
Dad</a>.) </font><font color="#fa2863">Hey! she just got into college,
and you should see her NOW!</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#dcd034">I played on Phoebe Snow's new
CD
last week, Kirk Yano producing. She's still singing great-this one
sounds
like a classic to me. . .</font><font color="#ca973e">@planet2planetsound
(.com).</font></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#8ab6dc">And in case you're wondering,
I've
heard from Bryan and Keith by e-mail, and spoken to Dave and Mickey on
the phone. </font><font color="#26b534">I have<b> occasional dreams </b>of<b>
Bryan A</b>. too, but as you can see, we're both pretty busy guys. So
if
you see him, Tell him '</font><font color="#f3e930">hi</font><font
color="#26b534">'
cuz, like </font><b><font color="#2fe341">Rock'n'Roll</font></b><font
color="#26b534">,
he's been </font><font color="#ee7d36">berry berry</font><font
color="#26b534">
good to me!. . . . . . . .</font><font color="#44dccc">Tommy
<hr width="100%">Well, now it's 2001, June. . . things keep rollin
on.
What's nu?</font></font> <br>
<font color="#7affa5">another KP Devlin CD, he sent me the ProTools
file, and I put bagpipes and organ on it and sent it right back to
him....</font> <br>
<font color="#cfcfff"><a href="http://www.ianhunter.com">Ian Hunter</a>'s
CD is released, I'm in there, playing organ and loops. I think he's
touring
with Ringo's Travelling Show this summer.</font> <br>
<font color="#e87b8d">There's another David Roter graduation -
Landmark
School, once again, robbin the inner city of potential criminals,
turnin
'em into inspirations. (well that's next week, I'll letcha know if
they're
still behavin themselves....)</font> <br>
<font color="#e8d60b">more Kirk Yano ProTools work, </font><font
color="#e89b0b">more
Empire Diner,</font><font color="#e8d60b"> more Sports Muzik, </font><font
color="#e8c572">more </font><font color="#e8de20">T</font><font
color="#92e8e0">e</font><font color="#e88b8b">c</font><font
color="#24e812">h</font><font color="#e8c572">n</font><font
color="#f5ebff">o</font><font color="#e8c572">Tunes
coming out of my brain, fingers and Macintoshes...</font> <br>
<font color="#19e8c6">My girls are growing up. Doin great, thank
Goodness.
good grades, lotsa sports, etc.</font> <br>
<font color="#10e84a">I had a shoulder op, now I'm in physical
therapy,
at Mt. Sinai Sports Medicine Clinic in NYC. It's really helped. </font><font
color="#82e885">I
can almost scratch my back again!</font> <br>
<font color="#ff80a2">Me and this Sarah Lawrence singer, Lydia,
recorded
a great techno-dance tune, with the theme of 'Lolita Matriculates', but
I'm not sure </font><font color="#fff01e">how to market it</font><font
color="#ff80a2">.
Maybe I gotta stay up late, and go visit </font><blink><font
color="#19ff8c">DJ's
@2AM in Manhattan's dance clubs</font></blink><font color="#ff80a2">.
At
least I won't get proofed!</font> <br>
<font color="#fff82e">I went to the <a
href="http://www.bryanadams.com">Bryan
Adams</a> show April 27 in New Jersey, and my former bandmates </font><font
color="#6fe8cc"><b>ROCKED</b>
! ! ! It was great to see </font><font color="#7baee8">Bryan</font><font
color="#6fe8cc">, </font><font color="#6fe88e">Mickey</font><font
color="#6fe8cc">,
and </font><font color="#bea7e8">Keith</font><font color="#6fe8cc">,
and
thanks for the </font><font color="#e82247">roses</font><font
color="#6fe8cc">!</font>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<font color="#e820c7"><b>Having lotsa fun with Photoshop v.7</b>.</font><font
color="#6fe8cc">
Also wrote-sang-recorded a few more tunes....I'm now most-way to
another
CD-full of <b>T</b></font><font color="#2ee847">ommy</font><font
color="#e89e35">S</font><font color="#2ee847">ungSong</font><font
color="#6fe8cc">s.....less
synths, more natural. Titles like "</font><font color="#d7e819">the
first
time I quit smoking</font><font color="#6fe8cc">" (no I don't, never
did),
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<b><font size="+2"><font color="#67dcd6">2002 </font><font
color="#44dccc">(approx)</font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<font color="#ffb92b">I'm on the new <a
href="http://www.joeyramone.com">Joey
Ramone</a> record, thanks to my friend<a href="http://www.joeblaney.com">
Joe Blaney</a>. It's a Christmas tune that Joey and his brother demo'd
years and years ago. Sort of like "Free As A Bird", it was finished
after
he passed away, by adding me and some friends to the original 4-track
demo...
We used to play with the Ramones @ CBGB's when I was in the Miamis, so
I guess it's a fit.</font> <br>
<hr width="100%"><font color="#fcff2e">I'm composing music (some of
it
classical string ensemble) for Margot Roth's art-flick, THE FIFTY NUDE
WOMEN PROJECT. It's going quite well, but since the film will be edited
to the music, I'm not allowed to see the actual footage.
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#ff1ec3">Played at <a
href="http://bbkingblues.com/">B.B.King's</a>
great club on 42 St, Times Square, NYC, where they really know how to
treat
musicians, with Jon Paris' band, backing up </font><font
color="#fff261"><a
href="http://www.scamcity2000.com/index.php?story_id=91">Rudy
Rae Moore</a></font><font color="#ff1ec3">, the legendary
bluesman/comedian/moviestar.
He's a mojo man, and he's got a great voice, and a lot of really really
really dirty jokes! Some good blues, and old New Orleans Frog Man Henry
style Rock and Roll.
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#57deff">Just heard from </font><font
color="#b3a3ff">Stephen
Paley</font><font color="#57deff">, famous A&R guru, best man at
Sly
Stone's wedding, Laura Nyro and Bob Dylan Album Cover Photographer, and
Movie Guy. Now he's producing a weekly Radio Show, and</font><font
color="#ff6a19">
at is coming back to NYC!</font><font color="#57deff"> Hey Stephen,
let's
have lunch.
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#66ffcc">My work @ <a
href="http://www.slc.edu">Sarah
Lawrence College</a> is winding down for the year, after 3 </font><b><font
color="#30fff2">Song
Nights</font></b><font color="#66ffcc">, featuring College Kids singing
songs by</font><font color="#ffb0f1"> Laura Nyro</font><font
color="#66ffcc">
and The Velvet Underground, The Stones, Esthrow, Harold Arlen, The
Crystals,
and Desir'ee. Just TRY to imagine!</font> <br>
<font color="#f4f0ff">What's next?</font><font color="#66ffcc"> <b><i>The
FACULTY SHOW</i></b> - I guess I'm supposed to play piano behind </font><font
color="#3d43ff">drunken
Professors making funny fools of themselves</font><font color="#66ffcc">.
Watch here for updates! </font><blink><font color="#f2ff63">UP</font><font
color="#66ffcc">DATE</font></blink><font color="#66ffcc">:</font><font
color="#fff16b">They
were and they did.
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#ffb668">Gigging tonight at
The Cutting
Room, 19 W. 24 Street, NY, NY with</font><b><font color="#aeafff"> Greg
Shafritz Band</font></b><font color="#ffb668">.</font> <br>
<font color="#ff3539">Hilly Michaels</font><font color="#ffb668">
is
playing the drums, and he's in top form (Just ask him!) We're
cutting
new tracks at Chris Anderson's <a
href="http://www.nevessa.com/title.html">Nevessa
Studios</a> in Woodstock too.
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#e7ff47">As you probably
noticed,
I've finally figured out how to sell my CD's. These wonderful guys in
Oregon
take some of the bizness off of my hands, so that they (</font><font
color="#b1ff7d">my
hands</font><font color="#e7ff47">) can get back to the keyboards. </font><font
color="#ffd959">Please
take a minute to visit</font><font color="#ffb668"><a
href="http://www.cdbaby.com/tommy">CDBaby.com.</a></font><font
color="#e7ff47">Currently,
there are 4 </font><font color="#ff6638">CD's</font><font
color="#e7ff47">
of <b>songs </b>posted, (</font><font color="#33ffda">"..id...",
Watusi,
Every Dog, and The Enlightenment of Age,</font><font color="#e7ff47">)
and 6 <b>instrumental</b> </font><font color="#ff6a59">CD's</font><font
color="#e7ff47">,
some of which are </font><font color="#e57aff">synthesizer</font><font
color="#e7ff47">,
& some</font><font color="#aefffd"> piano music</font><font
color="#e7ff47">. </font><font color="#b5ff3d">There
are more on the way, both from my</font>
<center><font color="#ff6e30">wonderful years of youthful <blink>passion</blink>
and certainty</font> <br>
<font color="#b5ff3d">and also from my</font> <br>
<font color="#cf1033">mellow middle age of parenthood, angst,
acceptance,
and</font><font color="#ff8d35"> <b><a href="../../parable.html">wisdom</a></b>.
<hr width="100%"></font><b><font size="+2"><font color="#dc1c2f">2003</font><font
color="#44dccc">
(approx)</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffc533">Boy, it's been a while!</font></b> <br>
<font color="#ff8d35">I played Jimi Hendrix' 60th
would-be-birthday,
with <b><a href="http://www.jonparis.com/">JON PARIS</a></b> at B.B.
King's
club, NYC.</font> <br>
<font color="#ff8d35">Hiram Bullock came and sat in awesomely. They
have a great keyboard setup there-fun for me....</font> <br>
<font color="#ff8d35">and I brought along my trusty little Yamaha
CS-2x
to do "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp" w/JP...</font> <br>
<font color="#d9ff97">We're doing a new <b>Dana Powell-Gospel Choir</b>
concert with children, on 3/14/03..</font><font color="#ff28bf">.</font><b><font
color="#ff4f63">AND
a CD of it</font></b><font color="#ff28bf">.</font> <br>
<b><font color="#ff38e5">R</font></b><font color="#ff28bf">ecorded
on a<a href="http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AMCT-10017">
new Japanese Album</a> for Sushi Kosugi from Beat on Beat Productions
with
a cool band:</font> <br>
<font color="#029aff">T-Bone Wolk on bass (Hall & Oates, etc,)
Anton Fig on drums (Late Night w/Letterman band)</font> <br>
<font color="#029aff">Jon Herrington on guitar, Roy Hendrickson
from
the old Power Station, mixing...Akira Sudoh producing.</font> <br>
<font color="#ac80ff">We recorded at Tony Bennett's kid's studio in
NJ. . . the place used to be a train station-</font> <br>
<font color="#ac80ff"><a href="http://www.bennettstudios.com/">Check
it out</a> : the tracks go right by the windo</font><font
color="#fc47ff">w</font><font color="#ac80ff">.</font> <br>
<font color="#8cd9ff">Played with <b>Benny Landa</b> and Steve
Holley
at The C-Note, east Village. Lotsa fun</font><font color="#ac80ff">.</font>
<br>
<b><font color="#ff667d">Still recording TV music tracks; Still
workin
at Sarah Lawrence College....</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff667d">Still playin piano at the Empire Diner,
w.22
st @10th ave, most Friday nights...</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#524fff">Did I put on a bit of weight..?..Gail is
rubbin
my stomach like a Buddha.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#524fff">Diet-</font><font color="#8547ff">I oughta
try It</font><font color="#524fff">...</font><font color="#638dff">actually
I am now</font><font color="#524fff"> </font><font color="#26fffc">officially
on a Diet</font><font color="#524fff">.</font></b> <br>
<p><b><font color="#45ff89">My daughters are so strong! One's
16,
and awesome. The other's 12 and a-mazing.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#8587ff">I just wish we all could make this world a
better place for them. . . They'll survive.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff2e3c"><font size="+1"><a
href="http://www.buzzflash.com">JOHN
KERRY COULD have HELPed.</a></font></font></b> <br>
</p>
<p> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">quick insert:</span><br>
</p>
<p>GEEZ, 4 years later, and Now It's</p>
<p>O B A M A <br>
</p>
<p>Things look good 19 days before the election.<br>
I'm prayin hard for this one.<br>
</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">back to 2004....</span><br>
</p>
<p><font color="#ffe640">I mini-chat with Bryan Adams from time to
time....</font> <br>
<font color="#57fff4">I picked up a couple of newish synthesizers
(Roland
XV-88 and Yamaha Motif) and an old Pump Organ.</font> <br>
<font color="#21a6ff">But I'm still using MacOS 9.2....</font> <br>
<font color="#21a6ff">WELL ACTUALLY 10.2.8 on this iMac
Flat-Screen,
I picked up for nexta nothin at The Wiz...</font> <br>
<font size="+2"><font color="#21a6ff">JUST BOUGHT a </font><font
color="#30ffcc">Roland
V-SYNTH</font><font color="#21a6ff">. IT is </font><font
color="#ffff1e">S</font><font color="#21a6ff">O</font><font
color="#ff0f07">O</font><font color="#21a6ff">
C</font><b><font color="#7dffc5">OO</font></b><font color="#21a6ff">L</font></font><font
color="#21a6ff">>
(I had to sell my Juno 60 to pay fer it...)</font> <br>
<font color="#ffd61e">New Sessions</font><font color="#21a6ff">:</font>
<br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#26dfff">Hiromi Go</font><font
color="#7023ff">,
the Legend - and a Gentleman. Thanks for the Saki, Hiromi-san! It was
D-licious!</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#c445ff"><font size="+1">Janie Coulter Ross -
songstress,
dog-mistress, and compassionate soul...Nancy Bender on Vocals.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#ff9523"><font size="+1">Those Rude Boys @ Kirk's
Planet
- Hey Jonny Boy - where ya sleepin tonight?!!</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#de1c4a"><font size="+1">And how bout Joe D's
singer
with Sarah Vaughn's pianist, putting Mariah C. to shame? Hope you
liked my synth track...</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#de1c4a"><font size="+1">AND the jazz-hop track we
did
at my place last week too !</font></font></b> <br>
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color="#ff1e00">t</font><font color="#ff2600">e</font><font
color="#ff2d00">n</font><font color="#ff3500">
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color="#68ff00">i</font><font color="#60ff00">c</font><font
color="#51ff00">B</font><font color="#49ff00">o</font><font
color="#42ff00">y</font><font color="#3aff00">d
& </font><font color="#28ffe6">me</font><font color="#3aff00"> </font><font
color="#33ff00">@</font><font color="#2bff00">D</font><font
color="#23ff00">u</font><font color="#1cff00">m</font><font
color="#14ff00">b</font><font color="#0cff00">o</font><font
color="#00ff02">S</font><font color="#00ff0a">t</font><font
color="#00ff11">u</font><font color="#00ff19">d</font><font
color="#00ff21">i</font><font color="#00ff28">o</font><font
color="#00ff30">s</font><font color="#00ff3f">(</font><font
color="#00ff47">!</font><font color="#00ff4f">)</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#2344ff">In The Pit of </font><font
color="#ff383f">:</font><font color="#00ff4f">Peter
Pan </font><font color="#f9ff42">(the show) </font><font
color="#949fff">at
Mamaroneck </font><font color="#ff5723">Ave</font><font color="#949fff">.
</font><font color="#cb21ff">School</font><font color="#949fff">
- Nov 21-22 !</font></font></b> </p>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#dcc13b">2004</font><font
color="#44dccc">(approx)</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#e62e1d"><font size="+1">I just did an <a
href="http://www34.brinkster.com/thebadwebsite/frames/tommymandel.html">interview</a>
with a Bryan Adams fans site - it might answer some of yer questions. .
.</font></font></b> <br>
<font color="#e62e1d">I "Spoke" with Bryan just the other day. He's
snappin' an' happenin'.</font> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#17ff32"><a
href="http://www.rymersongs.com/">Brady
Rymer</a></font><font color="#17e6c7"> is this cool guy; a rocker, with
a bit of a country influence, who got off the road to have kids </font><font
color="#e61dcf">(kinda
like me, but different time-line)</font><font color="#17e6c7"> and all
of a sudden, his new tunes, were. . . KIDS' TOONS. . . So he makes
childrens'
CD's now; I was lucky enuff (thanks to Dan Meyers at Dumbo Studios,
nyc)
to play on his latest batch last week, and we're both still Hi from the
experience. Check out his site! </font></font><font color="#e6a80b">gigs
comin up.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffd70f"><font size="+1">On March 19, </font></font><font
color="#ffef0a"><font size="+2"><a
href="http://www.straightgate.net/books_tapes_cds/cd_expectations.html">Dana
Powell</a></font><font size="+1"> </font></font><font size="+1"><font
color="#ffd70f">&
her </font><font color="#ffb914">Circle of Life Choir</font><font
color="#ffd70f">,
plus a </font><font color="#dca5ce">k</font><font color="#dc1825">i</font><font
color="#dca5ce">c</font><font color="#dc372c">k</font><font
color="#dca5ce">i</font><font color="#dc0b15">n</font><font
color="#ffd70f">
band, </font><font color="#91fff8">featuring </font><font
color="#ff173a"><a href="http://www.gospelflava.com/reviews/uvip.html">Derek
Talton</a></font><font color="#91fff8"> (</font></font></b><font
color="#91fff8">and </font><font color="#61bdff">me</font><font
color="#91fff8">!<b><font size="+1">)
on keyboards, </font></b></font><b><font size="+1"><font
color="#ff28aa">Matthew's
brother</font><font color="#ff19fc">George</font><font color="#91fff8">
on Drums and MPC, </font><font color="#36ff1c">Curtis Savage</font><font
color="#91fff8">
on guitar, </font><font color="#2837ff">George Lohre</font><font
color="#91fff8">
and </font><font color="#1c8aff">Tommy Dreds</font><font
color="#91fff8">
on bass, </font><font color="#ff781e">Steph Chinn</font><font
color="#91fff8">
on trumpet, and </font><font color="#cb21ff">Frank Valdez</font><font
color="#91fff8">
on percussion</font><font color="#ffd70f">, and the Perfoming Artist
students
from Mamaroneck Avenue Elementary School, will be rocking the house at
Hommocks Middle School Auditorium, Boston Post Road (US1) and Weaver
Street
(NY125), in Larchmont, NY. If you can get there, you will thank me, I
guarantee.
I'll be there too, to say "told ya so".</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffd70f"><font size="+1">Some of our tunes are "You
Can
Lean On Me" by Kirk Franklin, "Step By Step" by Whitney, "Gotta Use My
Imagination" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, "Colors of the Wind" from
Pocahantas, </font>(by
Steven Schwartz and Alan Menken)<font size="+1">, and "Random Act of
Love"
by Al Jareau, </font>written by Siddah Garrett, and 2 original tunes
by
the amazing </font><font color="#fff530"><font size="+1">Milton Vann</font></font><font
color="#ffd70f">,
formerly of The Boys' Choir of Harlem.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff0c10"><font size="+1"><blink>THE SHOW WENT
GREAT,
btw</blink>.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#14ff28">Tommy Williams, that
tireless
Rocker is at it again, and. the loon, he's draggin me along with him to
make that B-3 blend with his Hamer Guitar, tickling eardrums and
memories
on </font><font color="#264eff">The Island</font><font color="#14ff28">.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#ff8c80">It looks like I'm gonna be
playin
with Louie Flek at BB King's on Times Square, NYC, as part of a tribute
to Robert Moog, with </font><font color="#f9ff30">Rick Wakeman</font><font
color="#ff8c80">
and </font><font color="#35ffe1">Keith Emerson, </font><font
color="#e6102c">Deodato</font><font color="#ff8c80">, </font><font
color="#d92b9c">Jason
Miles</font><font color="#ff8c80">, </font><font color="#3bb5c5">Jordan
Rudess</font><font color="#ff8c80">, a </font></font><font
color="#ff8c80">keyboardguyfest<font size="+1">. </font></font><font
size="+1"><i><font color="#ff0f53">Bob
Moog</font></i><font color="#ff8c80"> himself was there too, and very
accessible. </font></font></b><font size="+1"><font color="#de8ec4">Also
Ernie Rideout, the editor of <a
href="http://archive.keyboardonline.com/index_old.htm">Keyboard
Magazine</a> - quite the California Dude, tho he lives here with me in
the Big Apple now... </font><b><font color="#ff8c80">May 18, 2004.
Bring
yer Reggae. </font></b></font><b><font color="#3dff6a">Oh THAT was FUN
!</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#b8ffc3"><font size="+1">Daughter Jade's Bat
Mitzvah
- One Week from Today ! ! !</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#b8ffc3">She's amazin us all. </font><font
color="#1736ff">She
ROCKED. So did Dylan's Candy Bar for the Party. </font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"><font size="+1"><font color="#1736ff">well,
now it's August . . . another Japanese record with Sushi - </font><b><font
color="#ff0241">ARASHI </font><font color="#2b36ff">-big
in Nippon.</font></b></font> <br>
<font size="+1"><font color="#c31cff">working with Tony T and
Victor,
up and comers, also the Elegante </font><font color="#1ca8ff">Gloria
Chiesi</font><font color="#c31cff">,</font></font><b><font
color="#1736ff">Still
doin the Diner, last night was a Par-Tay, if I do say. Donavon, you're </font><font
color="#4cff91">gorgeous</font><font color="#1736ff">.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#4073ff">I've been playin on the new <a
href="http://www.tuffjeffsalen.com/">Jeff
Salen</a> (from the Tuff Darts) CD; so is Tommy Ramone, Jon Paris, Big
Ed Sullivan, and Howie Finkel...The music is raucus and real. The
studio, <a href="http://www.laughingbuddhamusic.com/studio.htm">Laughing
Buddha</a>, is in this cool building down the street from Studio 54,
it's
crawlin with music.</font></b>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font color="#ff233d">Just </font><font color="#ff5e4c">yesterday</font><font
color="#ff233d">,
I met the guys from <a href="http://www.sedband.com">SED</a> They were
</font></b><font color="#ff233d">recording<b>
at </b></font><b><font color="#381eff">my friend</font><font
color="#ff233d">,
Kirk's studio, </font><font color="#ab1829">Planet2Planet</font><font
color="#ff233d">, </font></b><font color="#ff233d">down
on W.30 St.<b> </b></font><b><font color="#ffd754">After</font><font
color="#ff233d">
they let me </font></b><font color="#80bbff">play</font><b><font
color="#ff233d">
on a coupla </font><font color="#faff51">excellent</font><font
color="#17e880">tunes</font><font color="#ff233d">,
it sounded like a </font></b><font color="#787320">Nirvana-DeepPurple
luvfest</font><b><font color="#ff233d">. </font></b><font
color="#ff1ec0">thanks,</font><b><font color="#1c3eff">guyz</font><font
color="#ff233d">,
and the </font><u><font color="#801eff">lovely</font></u><i><font
color="#de23de">Anita</font></i><font color="#ff233d">
too. </font></b><font color="#ba001c">I'm designing their logo.</font><font
color="#ffb828">jk
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color="#ff00bf">o</font><font color="#ff00b7">o</font><font
color="#ff00af">n</font><font color="#ff00a8">.</font><font
color="#ff00a0">.</font><font color="#ff0099">.</font> <br>
It was <blink>So</blink> fun. They rocked. I got to <font
color="#ca0a4d">hug</font>
Adams, meet <font color="#ff9d3a">Gary</font>, the new keyboard
player,
ate some of <font color="#23f1ff">Manu</font>'s cooking. . .
<hr width="100%"><font color="#2339ff">I be jammin 8/6 with the </font><b><font
color="#7c0aff">John
Jared</font></b><font color="#2339ff"> band, with </font><font
color="#289bff">Tony
Beard</font><font color="#2339ff"> on drums (Hall n Oates), </font><font
color="#4cacff">Ray
Gomez</font><font color="#2339ff"> on guitar (Stanley Clarke) and </font><font
color="#3d98ff">John
Mombach</font><font color="#2339ff"> on bass (yo mama.) at the SandBar
in J-city. Jared had a few </font><font color="#9e17ff">CD's</font><font
color="#2339ff">
out, and he's just returned from an extended stay in </font><b><font
color="#8280ff">Jamaica</font></b><font color="#2339ff">.
The </font><font color="#fff063">I</font><font color="#eeff33">s</font><font
color="#00a326">la</font><font color="#ff1414">nd</font><font
color="#2339ff">,
mon, not </font><font color="#8a7974"><font size="-1">Queens</font></font><font
color="#2339ff">.</font> <br>
<font color="#2339ff">Then I gotta <b><i>hustle</i></b> to make it
to the Empire Diner for the usual Friday night </font><font
color="#a826ff">piano
t</font><font color="#ff3381">hang</font><font color="#2339ff">.
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#ff029e"><font size="+2">T</font>oday,
I attended WEDDSTOCK, 3 hours of Peace Love and Music in Great Neck,
actually
the wedding party of </font><nobr><font color="#0cffff">Tommy Williams
and Holly Ann LaRocka.</font></nobr> <br>
<font color="#ff029e">I had the time o my life. playin </font><font
color="#45ff17">B-3 </font><font color="#ff029e">and
diggin everyone's </font><font color="#28ff7e">t</font><font
color="#ff1119">r</font><font color="#fcff1c">i</font><font
color="#4a50ff">p</font><font color="#ff029e">!!!
Soon, you kin go to</font><font color="#2339ff"> <a
href="http://www.tommywilliams.net">tommy's
website</a> for the </font><font color="#ffdd2e">FULL story</font><font
color="#2339ff">.
See ya later.!.</font>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<font color="#2339ff">Hello again- it's getting chilly here in
November
in NYC.</font> <br>
<font color="#2339ff">The </font><font color="#ff1c2b">election</font><font
color="#2339ff">
really threw us for a loop. How could it have happened?</font> <br>
<b><font color="#2339ff">Gotta keep <a
href="http://www.greenpeace.org">working</a>
for </font><font color="#23fff8"><a href="http://www.ucsusa.org">sanity</a></font><font
color="#2339ff">
and </font><font color="#2e85ff"><a
href="http://www.afsc.org/default2.htm">peace</a></font><font
color="#2339ff">. </font><font color="#5183ff">That's
what I think. But it's amazing how far we have to go. . .</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffd79e">Oh well, lotsa gigs to keep my mind off
the
divided and misled state of our country:</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffd79e"><a href="http://www.kirstenthien.com/">Kirsten
Thien</a> - more sessions - this time at my place - putting down some
real
Hammond B3 organ tracks through my old Leslie speaker...And that old
beige
Wurlitzer electronic piano from yesteryear decided to tone down it's
buzzzzzzz
to a minimum, so we could put it too, on Kirsten's chic yet heartfelt
and
rockin toons as well.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#70ffb5"><a href="http://www.zackresnicoff.com/">Zack
Resnicoff</a>, the cutting edge filmmaker has been over here doing
tracks
for all sorts of productions.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff459c">Scott Morehouse, who knows more Asian
Dancers
than Gammy Lahn, just left. I played synth bass on his new toons. He
played
synth-colors. He's quite a drummer too - we work at Sarah Lawrence
together
when they decide to do a show...</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff459c"><a href="http://www.mamkschools.org">Mamaroneck
Avenue School</a> is doin </font><font color="#ffa845">Cinderella</font><font
color="#ff459c">
again, and me and my <a href="http://www.motifator.com">Yamaha Motif
synth</a>
are 1/5 of </font><font color="#2e31ff">The Pit</font><font
color="#ff459c">.
Luckily I kind of know the songs from the last time we did this Rogers
and Hammerstein Show there. . . </font><font color="#d9b3ff">Steph
Chinn</font><font color="#ff459c">
is the maestro, and Maria McDaniel, <a href="http://www.julliard.edu">Julliard</a>
graduate and grandmother, is the hot pianist. Her son, <a
href="http://www.ninemensmorris.net">Bruce</a>
is slummin on bass.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#fff640">Looks like I'll be doin doo-wop
adaptations
of some speeches from The Taming of the Shrew, for Dee O'Brien,
Mamaroneck's
most beloved Director, and my kid's English teacher. I'm gonna call it </font><font
color="#ff1c2f"><font size="+1">Shrew-wop</font></font><font
color="#fff640">!
Gotta get to it.</font></b>
<p><b><font color="#aed1ff">Well, I'm off to brunch with mom, see
ya later!</font></b> <br>
Now it's later. Just jammed with Jon Paris at BB King's Christmas Eve
(after the Empire Diner.) I'm told it was good... <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#261eff">Wrote a new song or two.
Will
post the mp3 here soon</font><font color="#1effa9">?</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#ff0000">S</font><font
color="#ff0700">a</font><font color="#ff0f00">w</font><font
color="#ff1e00">I</font><font color="#ff2600">a</font><font
color="#ff2d00">n</font><font color="#ff3d00">H</font><font
color="#ff4400">u</font><font color="#ff4c00">n</font><font
color="#ff5400">t</font><font color="#ff5b00">e</font><font
color="#ff6300">r</font><font color="#ff7200">a</font><font
color="#ff7a00">t</font><font color="#ff8900">B</font><font
color="#ff9100">B</font><font color="#ffa000">K</font><font
color="#ffa800">i</font><font color="#ffaf00">n</font><font
color="#ffb700">g</font><font color="#ffbf00">'</font><font
color="#ffc600">s</font><font color="#ffd600">-</font><font
color="#ffe500">g</font><font color="#ffed00">r</font><font
color="#fff400">e</font><font color="#fffc00">a</font><font
color="#f9ff00">t</font><font color="#eaff00">h</font><font
color="#e2ff00">u</font><font color="#dbff00">g</font><font
color="#d3ff00">s</font><font color="#ccff00">,</font><font
color="#bcff00">a</font><font color="#b5ff00">n</font><font
color="#adff00">d</font><font color="#9eff00">r</font><font
color="#96ff00">o</font><font color="#8eff00">c</font><font
color="#87ff00">k</font><font color="#7fff00">i</font><font
color="#77ff00">n</font><font color="#68ff00">b</font><font
color="#60ff00">a</font><font color="#59ff00">n</font><font
color="#51ff00">d</font><font color="#49ff00">.</font><font
color="#3aff00">G</font><font color="#33ff00">o</font><font
color="#2bff00">o</font><font color="#23ff00">d</font><font
color="#14ff00">m</font><font color="#0cff00">e</font><font
color="#05ff00">m</font><font color="#00ff02">o</font><font
color="#00ff0a">r</font><font color="#00ff11">i</font><font
color="#00ff19">e</font><font color="#00ff21">s</font><font
color="#00ff28">.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#ff66b8">NEW YEAR'S EVE GIG -</font><font
color="#ff5323">
(after the Diner)</font><font color="#ff66b8"> - </font><font
color="#73f6ff">(also
with Jon Paris)</font><font color="#ff66b8"> at The Cutting Room, </font><font
color="#ffdf0f">19
W. 24 St, NYC</font><font color="#ff66b8"> -</font><font color="#23ffff">
212-691-1900</font><font color="#ff66b8">.</font></font></b> <br>
</p>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#dc3f1c">2005 </font><font
color="#0ddcbd">??????!!!!!!</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#0ddcbd"><font size="+2">Well here we are: February
Already!@!</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#dc1aa8"><font size="+2"><a
href="http://www.kirstenthien.com">Kirsten
Thien</a> keeps writing these great tunes, and my organ aches to play
on
them.</font></font></b><font color="#b023dc"><font size="+1"> </font><font
size="+2">(actually,
the last 2 sessions we did for her, the organ broke both times!!!!-
well,
the Leslie Speaker the first time. all fixed now!) </font></font><b><font
size="+2"><font color="#dc1aa8">She
came over today with ANOTHER one!</font><font color="#74b2dc">(tune,
not
organ).</font><font color="#dc1aa8"> </font><font color="#b01820">And
her
BassMan, Eric</font><font color="#dc1aa8">. . . it's gonna be SOME
album: </font><font color="#dc0b31">&</font><font color="#fff97d">now</font><font
color="#91ffc3">IT's</font><font color="#ff7f54">DONE!</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#0ddcbd"><font size="+2">Ryo Hayashi, the
moviemaker
associate of Zack Resnicoff has made his own short:</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#0ddcbd">It's very cool, a bit
X-rated,
and it's called </font><font color="#1edc80">The Workout</font><font
color="#0ddcbd">.
We're doing some soundtrack work at my studio, featuring Jon Paris on
guitar
me on B-3.</font><font color="#09a68e"> (and <a
href="http://www.motu.com">MOTU's</a>
Digital Performer v.4.5.2 sequencing (D.A.W.) program.)</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#dc5f3f"><font size="+2">Gonna be playing on Greg
Pickard's
new album. He was in The Revelons, a CBGB's band, and a neighbor of
Jimmy
from the Miamis, also a CB's band. Greg's a visual artist, and a dad
too. </font></font><font color="#7085dc"><font size="+1">thanks
for the tasty soup, Mindy.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#a163dc">Speaking of Greggs,
there's
a Gregg Shafritz Band gig at Cutting Room, NYC, on March 10. (same
night
that my old bud and boss, <a href="http://www.johnwaite.com">John Waite</a>
is playing at <a href="http://www.bbkingblues.com">BBKing's</a> Blues
Club
on Times Square....</font><font color="#cf294a">drat!</font><font
color="#a163dc">)
The last gig I did with Mr. Shafritz, <a
href="http://www.greenwichlibrary.org/cindyb.htm">Cindy
Blackman</a> from </font><font color="#8ae0ff">Lenny Kravitz</font><font
color="#a163dc">
was the drummer. This time it's gonna be <a
href="http://www.kevcomusicgroup.com">Kevin
Hupp.</a> whooo! I played with Kevin, once with Boppin the Blues
and </font><font color="#dc0813">Jim Gregory, R.I.P.</font><font
color="#a163dc">
the bass player with The Smile. Miss you, Jim. Kevin's got a studio
upstate
a bit, where you send him your ProTools session, and he plays and
records
drums on it, and sends it back. And he only does <a
href="../../completetakes.html">COMPLETE
TAKES</a>! </font><i><font color="#5cdcd1">the flow rules</font></i><font
color="#a163dc">.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#2d02dc"><font size="+2">Jim Keller, from Tommy
Tutone
(637-5809-i-i-ine) and me reconnected after many years. There's a jam
session
he's been running at <a href="http://www.crownjewelsnyc.com/">The
Conte
Brothers</a>' space. He's written some James-Tayloresque songs
that
I really like too.</font></font></b> <br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#dcaf0f">I </font><font
color="#f5c929">wrote
this cool new song, starting with a U2 like groove on the Yamaha Motif
sequencer, then added vocals reaching out to all my </font><font
color="#cef51f">brothers
and sisters</font><font color="#f5c929"> everywhere, lettin them know
that
secrets are cool, but it's also cool to let it out and tell it like it
is, and then put the V-Synth, the Hammond B-3, a heavily chorused
Roland
D-550 module, and a vintage Prophet T-8 on it. Called "</font><font
color="#f5111c">Keep
It In Yer Pocket</font><font color="#f5c929">" or as my lady likes to
call
it, "</font><font color="#f50909">Secret in yer Pocket</font><font
color="#f5c929">."....I'm
in luv with it, but I'm not sure how to post it here for you to hear.
So
that makes </font><font color="#47aff5">7</font><font color="#f5c929">
new ones since the <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/tommymandel11">cdBaby</a>
and </font><font color="#98a9f5">iTunes Store</font><font
color="#f5c929">
release of "</font><font color="#18f541">The Enlightenment of Age</font><font
color="#f5c929">",
my last vocals CD, including </font><font color="#f5140c">NFD</font><font
color="#f5c929">
(</font><font color="#f56a29">not funny, dad</font><font color="#f5c929">)
- a rap I did for my daughter, "</font><font color="#f5131b">Your
Love Is Like a Stone</font><font color="#f5c929">", this melange of
Paul
Carrack, Country & Western music, Spike Jones, and the Monkees,
inspired
by my indescribable feelings for the infinitely charming </font><font
color="#3ad9f5">G</font><font color="#f5c929">a</font><font
color="#f58751">i</font><font color="#27f580">l</font><font
color="#f5c929">,
"</font><font color="#f51d21">Money</font><font color="#f5c929">", an
instrumental
designed to attract just that, but hopelessly naive in that conceit, "</font><font
color="#f51713">Get
Rid of Bushman</font><font color="#f5c929">", a remake of my 70's
smash,
"Mother Me, Baby", with obvious lyric intent, and the a capella
masterpiss
in the Leon Russell/Willis Alan Ramsey mold, </font><font
color="#f57c44">"</font><font color="#f50f07">It
Might As Well Be Christmas</font><font color="#f57f4c">" . </font><font
color="#f5c929">. </font><font color="#f5070b">.</font><font
color="#f5c929">
Oh, and </font><font color="#f51d2b">XmasLonely</font><font
color="#f5c929">
too, a sweet li'l 1 minute ins-true-mental So that's my
songwriting
status at present...
<hr width="100%"></font><font color="#7df9ff">Just
did a session with <blink>Bandcamp</blink> - <a
href="http://www.bandcampmusic.com/">here's
their site.</a>They're a really cool self-contained 4-piece band with 2
guitars, and one of the guitarists and the drummer are brothers. They
write
some really powerful and heart twingin songs. And cute ?!?!?!?! </font><font
color="#ff2519">ubet.</font><font color="#7df9ff">
Anyway, check em out. They wanted an Alien Touch on the new CD (I think
it's on Atlantic or an Indy distributed by Atlantic....) So their
producer, <a href="http://recording.org/forum-userprofile-1283.html">Dave
McNair</a>, (he's produced Good Charlotte and John Mayall) called me up
to play a bit of piano. Never had so much fun </font><font
color="#bf6e48">(or
such good coffee,</font><font color="#7df9ff"> as the day before
yesterday, </font><font color="#bf6e48">thank
you, Andrew....)</font><font color="#7df9ff"> at <a
href="http://www.brooklynrecording.com/">Brooklyn
Recording studio. </a>You gotta see this place! ! ! ! ! ! I don't know
which is more mind-staggering: owner Andy Taub's </font></b><font
color="#fcff26">vintage
keyboard collection</font><b><i><font color="#ffb01c">(Ace Tone organ,
2 kinds of vintage Wurlitzer electronic pianos, B-3 (of course), pump
organ,
Octagons, 2 farfisas, red sparkle top (custom) Rhodes Suitcase, eminee
organs (i could pass on those...)</font></i><font color="#7df9ff"> or
the
sheer size and opulence of his multi-loft building in Brooklyn (check
out
the site, I guess, and decide for yerself.) Seems I'll be goin back
there
next week - one more song needs that </font><font color="#370aff">Octogenarian
Tommy-Touch</font><font color="#7df9ff">. can't wait.</font></b></font>
<br>
<b><font color="#ca2e6f"><font size="+1">Turns out I played on a
few
other tunes, including a combo organ track that kept me dancin below
the
waist.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#c09fee">And </font><font
color="#34eaee">thanks</font><font color="#c09fee"> </font><font
color="#e7ee6b">Gerard</font><font color="#c09fee">,
for your </font><font color="#26ee3a">generosity</font><font
color="#c09fee">,
in
the face of </font><font color="#e32245">Atlantic</font><font
color="#c09fee">'s
bogus jive walkin. </font><font color="#36eeee">Matty! Sean! SEE YA
SOON?!!!</font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font color="#2383ff">Now it's almost 2006, and I'm back playing
</font><font color="#ffca38">GOSPEL
MUSIC with DANA POWELL </font><font color="#2383ff">and the kids at
Mamaroneck
Avenue School again.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#2383ff">"Performing Artists" we call em, and the
show
is in April. </font><font color="#8aecff">Milton Vann</font><font
color="#e223ff">, </font><font color="#ff815e">Kathy
Savage</font><font color="#e223ff">, Joan Chess & </font><font
color="#858fff">George's
Band</font><font color="#2383ff"> also star.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#c1ff23">Just finished doing The Wizard of Oz at
the
same venue. I used my Yamaha Motif. Bob Leinback's daughter played
violin.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff801e"><a href="http://www.bradyrymer.com">Brady
Rymer</a>'s new CD, EVERY DAY IS A BIRTHDAY is coming out REAL soon.
Will
Lee told me he digs it.</font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff0a1a">Ricky Shutter</font><font color="#1c23ff">
(the original Godspell drummer) and </font><font color="#ffe30f">Boppin
Becky Beaudin</font><font color="#1c23ff"> </font><font color="#11ff98">and
Bro</font><font color="#1c23ff"> and </font><font color="#21d3ff">I</font><font
color="#1c23ff">
are rockin</font></b> <br>
<b><blink><font color="#bd165f">THE HARVARD CLUB, NYC</font></blink><font
color="#1c23ff">
on New Year's Eve, or so it seems.....</font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#19b3ff">Did I tell ya I played B3
for </font><font color="#7afbff">Sushi's</font><font color="#19b3ff"><a
href="http://www.rawstory.com">BEAT
on BEAT Productions</a> at </font><font color="#bd1aaa">AVATAR Studios</font><font
color="#19b3ff">,
which was the studio we recorded a lot of Bryan Adams' Albums at when
it
was called </font><font color="#ff4060">POWER STATION</font><font
color="#19b3ff">
back In the Day?</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#19b3ff">The CD was for </font><font
color="#bd760d">Satori
Shiraishi</font><font color="#19b3ff">, from <a
href="http://www.orangerange.com/home.html">Orange
Range</a>.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#9411ff"><font size="+1">And of course, Sarah
Lawrence's
college students are singing up a storm in Dave McRee's class.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#9411ff">You gotta hear </font><font
color="#ff3363">E</font><font color="#9411ff">rica, </font><font
color="#ff0526">E</font><font color="#9411ff">mily, </font><font
color="#0fbd4c">H</font><font color="#9411ff">unter, </font><font
color="#ff1131">D</font><font color="#9411ff">anielle, </font><font
color="#ff0a16">S</font><font color="#9411ff">arah, </font><font
color="#ff2e54">A</font><font color="#9411ff">manda,
and the rest of em. </font><font color="#ff0000">W</font><font
color="#ff0700">i</font><font color="#ff0f00">s</font><font
color="#ff1600">h </font><font color="#ff2600">I</font><font
color="#ff3500">c</font><font color="#ff3d00">o</font><font
color="#ff4400">u</font><font color="#ff4c00">l</font><font
color="#ff5400">d </font><font color="#ff6300">s</font><font
color="#ff6b00">i</font><font color="#ff7200">n</font><font
color="#ff7a00">g</font><font color="#ff8900">l</font><font
color="#ff9100">i</font><font color="#ff9900">k</font><font
color="#ffa000">e</font><font color="#ffaf00">t</font><font
color="#ffb700">h</font><font color="#ffbf00">a</font><font
color="#ffc600">t</font><font color="#ffce00">!</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">O I wrote a <a
href="lovedone.mp3">coupla</a><a href="backinthegame.mp3">new
songs</a>, since <a href="pocketclip.mov">Keep it In Yer Pocket</a>.
And an instrumental is in the works too.</font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">Alexy Kogan is rockin
Soho's
most beautiful ProTools room, VodaMuzik, courtesy ofme and my friend,
Alfredo
Scotti.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">His music sounds like a
cross
between Aerosmith and Shostakovitch.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">Speaking of old Dmitiri,
Iwas
just reading this "fictional" book about him at <a
href="http://www.borders.com">Borders</a>...</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">Called....er....I'll have
to
get back to you with the Title. Sorry. Alzheimers.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1"><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670033928/104-5609403-3157529?v=glancen=283155">EUROPE
CENTRAL</a>, by William Vollmann That's It!</font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">Next on th List, BRADY
RYMER
- check out his <a href="http://www.bradyrymer.com">website</a>.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">I think I've played on his
last
3 CD's, and now some gigs are coming up.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">He writes really rockin
KIDS'
SONGS!</font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#7dc9ff">I played with </font><font
color="#ff1115">The
Drifters</font><font color="#7dc9ff"> over the weekend.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#7dc9ff"><font size="+1">The current ones are 4
great
black singers, and they can dance too...</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#7dc9ff">We did </font><font
color="#ffee7d">Up
on the Roof, On Broadway, There Goes My Baby</font><font color="#7dc9ff">,
and other hits of theirs.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#7dc9ff"><font size="+1">Funny 'bout the Drifters -
they
had many big hits in the 50's and early 60's,</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#7dc9ff"><font size="+1">But their lead singers
kept
getting 'solo deals' : goin off on their own and making hits.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#ff3de6">Ben E. King; Clyde
McPhatter,
TommyMandel</font><font color="#7dc9ff">, all started out as lead
singer
for the Drifters.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#7dc9ff"><font size="+1">Just kinda drifted off on
their
own I guess.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#7dc9ff"><font size="+1">Oh wait- Tommy Mandel
never
was a Drifter</font></font><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+2"><a
href="drifter.html">*</a><a name="Drifter"></a></font></font><font
color="#7dc9ff"><font size="+1">But
he did PLAY with em Saturday Night...</font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<font size="+1"><b><font color="#f5c929"><a name="newest"></a></font></b></font><b><font
color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">My Latest CD of songs,
called</font></font></b> <br>
<b><u><font color="#26ffb0"><font size="+2">Curio-City</font></font></u></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#ff19ec"><font size="+1">~or~</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff1c1c"><font size="+2">How I Got Myself Killed</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">Is now available at <a
href="http://cdbaby.com/cd/tommymandel13">cdbaby</a>
(hard copy) and the <a
href="https://music.apple.com/us/artist/tommy-mandel/6402270">iTunes
Store</a> (Digital Download)</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#ffce00">Pick one up. It's got some
</font><i><font color="#30fff9">cool</font></i><font color="#ffce00">
stuff on it. Lotsa </font><font color="#c233ff">politix</font><font
color="#ffce00">
too, I'm sorree 2 say...</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1">Matter of Fact, my whole
'catalog'
or most of it, is also for sale <a href="https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/TommyMandel">there</a>.!.</font></font></b>
<br>
<b><font color="#ffce00"><font size="+1"><a
href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=6402270">See</a>
all my CD's at the <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Apple iTunes
Store online</span>, or u kin search for "Tommy Mandel" there...</font></font></b>
<br>
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<center>
<h1><b><font color="#ff8e0c"><font size="+1">LATER</font></font></b>
<hr width="100%"></h1>
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<center>
<h1><font size="+1">Had some (more) fun at <font color="#20b539">Fred
Smith</font>'s
playing surreal keyboards for <font color="#5638ff">Greg Pickard </font><font
color="#74a7ae">of</font></font></h1>
</center>
<center>
<h1><font size="+1"><a href="http://www.revelons.com">The
Revelons</a>. The <font color="#1c23ff">G</font><font color="#ff0a22">i</font>a<font
color="#0f17ff">n</font><font color="#ff0217">t</font>s
won <font color="#1d19ff">t</font>o<font color="#ff0217">o</font>! <font
color="#b53156">Mark
Suall</font>, who played exemplary guitar, was the<font color="#9effbd">rr</font>e
too. . .it struck me as a <i><font color="#b0b0b0">Production Troika</font></i>
vibe.</font></h1>
</center>
<center><font size="+1">CD coming out soon<br>
</font>
<p><b><font color="#ff8ca3"><font size="+2"><a href="#Hilly_Krystal">U</a>
REST IN PEACE H<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">I<span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">L</span>L</span>Y. . . Thanks for all
the Support you gave us</font></font></b> </p>
<hr width="100%"><br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#ff0fb7">Wow- I just got out of
Planet2Planet,
playing for</font><font color="#ffabe6"> </font><font color="#ff051e">DJ
Logic</font><font color="#ffabe6">...</font><font color="#d90086">his
new</font><font color="#ff1741"> </font><font color="#d90086">one</font><font
color="#ffabe6">...</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#ffb151">It was this </font><font
color="#7a0611">Billie
Holiday</font><font color="#ffabe6"> </font><font color="#93ff82">song,
but the music was</font><font color="#ffabe6"> </font><font
color="#ffd333">ALL </font><font color="#26a1ff">different,
and...um....</font><font color="#ff0213">Logical.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#ff0213"><font size="+1">Sweet.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+1"><font color="#2155ff">Then I tumbled up to BB
King's
Blues Club in Times Square and <a href="http://www.jonparis.com">Jon
Paris</a>
was kind enuff to invite me to play the 2nd set with him. Jimmy Kunes
(from
the new </font><font color="#51ffc0">Cactus</font><font color="#2155ff">)
was singing like Paul Rogers, Amy Madden on Bass, Andy Bigan on drums,
and Jon was, as always, being. . . Jon. </font><font color="#ffa754">Fun</font><font
color="#2155ff">.</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font size="+2"><font color="#1415d1">Next@</font><font
color="#15a321">Mamaroneck</font><font color="#1415d1"> </font><font
color="#d1c006">Avenue</font><font color="#444345"> <span
style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">School</span></font><font
color="#1415d1">?
~ </font><font style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" color="#ffe3f1">S</font><font
color="#ff0a16">e</font><font style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);"
color="#ffe3f1">u</font><font color="#ff141c">s</font><font
color="#ffe3f1">s</font><font color="#ff0a16">i</font><font
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);" color="#ffe3f1">c</font><font
color="#ff0a22">a</font><font color="#ffe3f1">l</font><font
color="#2155ff">
~ </font><i><font color="#1ca1ff">Bruce McDaniel </font><font
color="#2819ff">~</font></i><font color="#0f2bde">MD-</font></font><font
color="#0f2bde"><font size="+1">from </font></font><font
color="#2155ff"><font size="+2"><a href="http://www.ninemensmorris.net">NineMensMorris</a>
Band!</font></font></b> <br>
<b><font color="#6a00ff">Laurie Gage and Steph Chinn, Greg
Antonelli
and 2 other Local Heroes Fill the Bill</font></b>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="font-family: Times-Roman;"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;">Is it
really </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: red;">2007?!?!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: lime;">anyway...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial-BoldMT; color: rgb(255, 100, 12);"><b>i</b></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;"> did</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);">
<a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"
href="ba11107.html">sit
in</a></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;"> with my
old band, </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(51, 255, 36);">Bryan
Adams</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;">,
including Bryan, </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(37, 255, 72);">Mickey
Curry</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;"> (drums), </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(41, 255, 187);">Keith
Scott</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;"> (lead
guitar) and the
'new' members - <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;">Gary Breit
and Norm Fisher, when they played @
The Beacon Theater in NYC this past January. It was </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: red;"><a
href="ba11107.html"><span style="color: red;">fun</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;"> and</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; color: rgb(255, 154, 206);"><i>
</i></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; color: rgb(255, 152, 208);"><i>surreal.</i></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: aqua;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;">What
else?<span style=""> </span>Nine Men's Morris hosted a show
featuring </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 128, 0);">Vanese
Thomas</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;"> and I
got to play
with both acts. Vanese is an</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: blue;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;">incredible</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;">
singer, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;">her
father is </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: red;">Rufus Thomas</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;"> (of <span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Walkin the Dog</span>
fame) and her sister, </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: red;">Carla</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;">, sang </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: lime;">Gee Whiz</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;">, one
of my favoritely wistful sexy ballads of all time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: fuchsia;"><a
href="http://www.bradyrymer.com/"><span
style="font-family: Times-Bold; color: rgb(92, 255, 111);"><b>Brady
Rymer</b></span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;"> has a
new CD that's
in the final stages, with Dan Myers once again co-producing, </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 200, 28);">t</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;">his time
in this </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(170, 101, 255);">hidden</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;">
high-tech studio in
the basement of building in </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(103, 195, 255);">Hell's
Kitchen</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;">, where
you open the door and expect to see
the Janitor's broom closet, and instead see vintage <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Studer Analog</span> 24 track tape
machines,
Trident consoles, ProTools, real pianos - it's called </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 75, 7);">Threshhold</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;">, but we
thought </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 86, 19);">TimeWarp</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;"> might
be a good
moniker. This time, I was adding organ tracks to his live keyboardist,
Seth's
excellent already-recorded tracks, and it was the usual fun<span
style="font-style: italic;">-</span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial-ItalicMT; color: rgb(121, 255, 168);"><i>love
fest</i></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;">.<span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(88, 207, 255);">Brady
also takes me along occasionally to
play live, like in</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(69, 153, 255);">
December in Montauk</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(88, 207, 255);">
for the <span style="font-style: italic;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Elvis Presley of Socialism</span>,</span>
Vic's
90th birthday party. This guy has started unions, taught in the NYC
school
system, and I hear he does a mean cha-cha. </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">Some</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(46, 255, 7);">
great </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(20, 255, 193);">acts</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">
I've been</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(116, 102, 255);">
lucky</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">
enough to see/hear lately: </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><a
href="http://foleyzine.tripod.com/"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">Ellen
Foley</span></a></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);"><span
style=""> </span>@ </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(218, 69, 255);">The
Lakeside</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">,
in Alphabet City, in fact here's </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);"><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdeDjd88TqI"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);">a
video we did in the early days of rock
videos, in some loft</span></a></span><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 171, 43);">Bob
Duncan and Scott E. Moore</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">
double bill @ </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(215, 63, 255);">The
Sidewalk Cafe</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">,
also in the East
Village. </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 171, 43);">Mikey
Ice</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">'s
<span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">International Rap Fest</span>
in Tribeca, The </span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(159, 255, 249);">Apple
Developer's Conference</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">,
midtown...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 57, 140);">Played
<span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">live</span> with Kirsten
Thien, and her <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">boss</span>
rhythm
section of Johnny Pisano (bass) and Dylan Wissing (drums) at Penang, <span
style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Benny Landa</span>
recording awesome Beck-like guitar tracks (Jeff, that is!) and musing
on the
strangeness of our world in general - girls and music business in
particular...</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(87, 125, 255);">A
touch of
programming for Patti Smith's Tony Shannahan before their Bowery
Ballroom New
Years gigs...</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);">A
bunch of keyboards, including my Hammond B-3, at my place, for <br>
<a href="http://www.davidabb.com/"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; color: rgb(230, 255, 41);">David
Abbinanti</span></a></span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(229, 255, 21);"><span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);">-
a talented singer/songwriter from</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 30, 60);">
the Island</span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);">.
Should be out
soon. . .<br>
</span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">This Thursday, I'm goin into the <span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Juvie</span> in
Brooklyn to teach the young <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">inmates</span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">Midi Programming and Digital
Audio Recording trix</span>. . . We can't make CD's, because they
haven't been sentenced yet, and if they get off, there has to
(legallly) be<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> no record of them</span>
ever having been incarcerated. <span
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Strange</span>, but
I'm hoping to learn as much as I teach.</span> <span
style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">(if I get out alive!)<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">OOOOWWWW</span>! - <span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">that was just amazing</span> - <span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">sad and deep.</span><br>
The young inmates walked around like they were whipped puppies<br>
Well, not all of them: out of 10, there were maybe 3 or 4 <span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">PROUD</span> ones.<br>
But all of them were very curious to reach out and be reached out to by
someone from the Outside.<br>
This place was in a <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">not so great</span>
but <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">not so horrible</span>
section of Brooklyn, behind barbed wire.<br>
Old brick building. Inside, (after the metal detectors and double
locking bulletproof glass doors)<br>
it was kind of like a 50 year old elementary school or a hospital in
decor.<br>
These 10 teenagers were brought in to the small classroom where I had
set up my rig for the day<br>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">(Apple PowerBookG4
Ti/667DVI with Digital Performer, </span><br
style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">Ensoniq ASR-x sampling drum
machine, </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">Shure SM57 microphone,</span><br
style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">Yamaha Motif 6 synth
workstation,</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);">Roland MA80 (i think)
Powered Speakers.)<br>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">The social worker-inventor
of this program, Alex Rivers, a cool young guy, talked for a while,</span><br
style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">I showed some old records
that I had played on (Alex said that would give me street cred)</span><br
style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Then I tried to show em
how sequencing worked and explain the difference between MIDI and
Digital Audio recording,</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">And gradually they started
drifting - you know, losing interest a bit....</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">So Alex goes - HEY LET'S
MAKE A BEAT!<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">So this really tall Asian
kid with glasses makes a beat with his mouth, and I don't sample it,
but I transcribe his 'notes' into a 2 bar MIDI sequence - playing a Hip
Hop kit on the Motif.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">Then then start to come
alive! (They can relate to this. . . )</span><br>
(the startling part's coming up)<br>
A few minutes later, one of the other guys has come up saying "It needs
a snare"<br>
(it already had a snare!) <br>
But I show him the drum pads on the ASR-x and say 'You put one in.'<br>
We can't find the sound he's looking for, and it turns out he means "a
hi-hat cymbal".<br>
So he records one, and it's cool, but i wanna jazz it up, <br>
so we record its Audio into Digital Performer, and I <span
style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">REVERSE</span> it (in DP - a plug-in.)<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">So now we've got the
'mouth beat' and this kid's reverse hi-hat track, kind of Beatle-y,<br>
And - that seems to be enuff in the Music Dept. <br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">NOW IT NEEDS A VOCAL.</span><br>
no one will get up, <span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">so me</span>,
I do the dumbest rap that comes into my mind/mouth for 4 bars.<br>
Once they see how lame THAT is, then they ALL wanna do one themselves!<br>
So first one kid gets up, I give him the mike and he does 16 bars IN
SPANISH!<br>
And like, it's totally crafted - all worked out - like he's spent his
miserable days inventing this crystalized perfect embodiment and
expression of his pain and 'understanding' of the world and the way it
works. <br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">ONE TAKE. </span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">it's done. </span><br>
Then this other guy gets up, and I give him the next 16 bars, and <br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">HE DOES HIS THING.</span> <br>
Same deal- completely rehearsed, in perfect rhythm and rhyme, tuff
funny and very sad.<br>
Angry of course. <br>
But nothing like the 3rd and Last Guy,<br>
The Big Asian.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">"I'm a Gangster"</span> he
goes. <br>
And then 32 bars of the meanest most misguided but well thought out
rhyme and rhythm rapping.<br>
I put different electronic effects on each of their parts.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">And it's mixed and done. </span><br>
Alex Rivers says - you know these guys are Juveniles, and legally,
there can be no public record that they have ever been incarcerated
until they are of age.<br>
So no recording of this can leave this facility. <br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Time to leave. </span><br>
"Come back," one of them tells me.<br>
But by the time I do, it will be a new crew-<br>
those young men were only in there awaiting sentencing. <br>
That period is usually about 2 weeks.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">The one other thing I will
say, is that the few staff members that I met in the place, were all,
in my 1st impression, very very good people. I'll leave it at that.</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">end of story.</span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">
</span></span></span></span></span></span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><img
alt="latest picture from my nokia" src="bedface.jpg"
style="width: 320px; height: 240px;"><br>
</span> <a href="DutchInterview.html">Here's</a> an interview I
did with Bryan Adams' Dutch fan club. There's a link to their site at
the end.<br>
</span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">Current Giglets</span>: <span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">James McGovern</span> <span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">@</span> the Slipper Room, <span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 0);">Michelle Myers Benefit</span> @ <span
style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The Hudson Theater</span>, <br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">James Tommy (TuTone) Keller</span>
@ Brooklyn Shiatsu Center, and <span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">the
Diner</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">as Usual.<br>
<br>
'M BACK AGAIN - <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Almost
October (2007)</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">some <a
href="http://www.bradyrymer.com">Brady Rymer</a> Gigs<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">!! </span>VOTE for BRADY for a
GRAMMY </span></span></span></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">!!</span></span></span></span></span><br>
<span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">best kids' record of
the year</span><br>
</span></span>2 new Piano Songs (since I gave up my addiction to
Day Trading stox)<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">And another one, called
"You Smiled" but I'm not sure how it goes from there!<br>
<br>
oh yeah:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">You
SMIIIIIIIILED at me and really blew my mind:</span><br
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">What
was I to do?</span><br
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">Such a
SMIIIIIIIIILLE</span><br
style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">
<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">mmm-mm-mmm-mm-mmm-mm<br>
<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(yeah, need more
lyrix, i guess <br>
But the music is sweet : )</span><br>
<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">stopped </span>Making
up RingTones<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">more fun grabbin em off my
record collection</span><br>
</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">New Song recording
session(s) with
Hilly Michaels - <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">AMAZING </span>power
pop ballad</span><br>
<a style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"
href="http://www.bandcampmusic.com">Bandcamp</a> demos for their new
CD - did I already mention that?<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"><a
href="http://www.indrositar.com/">Indro</a> gig in the Village - CD
release party - pretty interesting</span><br>
Recording my Pump organ for Sesame Street or some such show<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Beatle<a
href="http://www.beatlestock.com">Stock</a> fill-in - Tommy as Billy
Preston (I wish!)</span><br>
13 new awesome singer-actor students at Sarah Lawrence <br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Didn't play there, but
witnessed <a href="http://www.everettbradley.com/">Evertt Bradley</a>
and <a href="http://www.Alex-Alexander.com">Alex Alexander</a>'s wild
jam in that park in the East Village..</span><br>
But i *did* play a bit - sitting in with an excellent band, at my HS
Reunion. Thanks to Joe Rinaldi, <br>
he was the other hot organist in my class at Mamaroneck HS back in the
day.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">My kid's playing BASS now! and
I'm a proud poppy over THAT one!</span><br>
Been to Colorado, Michigan and Massachusetts and back.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I been working with a fine
singer and human, Mr. William David McCree.</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br>
</span> </span></span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big>Well here it is, Passover,
2008, and it's time to tell you the new stuff:<br>
Empire Diner cheaped out - no more piano players, but luckily my pal
Dave Leonard hired me to play Fridays at his cool seafood restaurant
nearby,<br>
<a href="http://www.blackpearlonline.com">BLACK PEARL</a><br>
It's in the Flatiron district, not far from the Empire D, but the vibe
is richer younger and hipper. And the food is mmmmmSoYummy.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Well, <span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">THAT</span> gig ended after the
summer - they up and SOLD the place!<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Here's my new location:<br>
</span></span></big></span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><br>
<font size="+1"><big><big><em style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">TOMMY
MANDEL - SOLO PIANO</em></big></big><br>
DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON<br>
at<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br>
INDIAN ROAD <a href="http://www.indianroadcafe.com/">CAFE & MARKET</a></span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);"></span><br>
<br>
It's UPTOWN, and it's COOL.<br>
Manhattan, NYC, NY, USA, NA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe
#93,000,623, G-d's Mind<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">Real good Food, <span
style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Great Bartender</span> <span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">hip staff</span>, Nice Piano, <span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">friendly eaters and <span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">drinkers, er,</span> patrons</span>.</span><br>
<br clear="all">
</font></span></span></big></span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"></span></span></big></span>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big> <span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">Just finished playing in<span
style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"> </span><a
style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);" href="http://www.ninemensmorris.net">Bruce
McDaniel</a>/<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">Steph Chinn</span>'s
pit-band for Sound of Music.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">Rogers and Hammerstein really
knew how to write tunes, I'll say.</span><br
style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" clear="all">
</span></big></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"> <span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);">I been Playing B-3 on
sessions for <a
href="http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/artist_profile/euphoria_profile.html">Euphoria</a>
at Acme Recording Studios. <br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">That is one class act,
Euphoria. And Acme has an amazing and aesthetic
set-up for recording Hammond Organ.</span><br>
Peter Dennenberg, the co-owner/engineer, did Spin Doctors and Mick
Ronson's last mixes.</span></span></big></span><br clear="all">
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"> <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Bryan Adams has a photography
exhibit in NYC, as well as an acoustic gig here both in <a
href="http://www.bryanadams.com">May</a>.</span></span></span></big></span><br
clear="all">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">I'm going to Sweden
to play with <a
href="http://www.zanerecords.com/artists/ellis/biography.html">Ellis
Hooks</a>. Tommy Williams is the band-leader on that one.<br>
And I think the bass player is Muzz Skillings from <span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);">L<span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">i<span
style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">v<span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">i<span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">n<span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">g C</span>o</span>l</span>o</span>u</span>r</span>.
<br>
And an <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">AMAZING AMAZON</span>
young girl-drummer from Roy Ayers.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">But before that, it's time
for the Traditional Gender Bending of another <br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Sarah Lawrence College <span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">Song Night - May 1,2,3 !</span></span></span></span></span></big></span><br
clear="all">
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Speaking</span> of </span></span></span></span></span></big></span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Sarah Lawrence</span></span></span></span></big></span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">, The <span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Music Dept</span>. has been <span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">kind</span> (and smart lol) enuff to
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">hire me to work with</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Thomas Young</span>,
the vocalist and professor. Words can not describe this guy. <br>
I'd suggest going to his <a
href="http://www.thomasyoungtenor.com/biography.html">website</a>, and
checking him out.<br>
When I get the strength, I'll try to put a page up about him. <br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">He's hip, smart, and has
an infinite amount of experience and wisdom to impart to his lucky
students.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></big></span><br
clear="all">
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><a
href="http://www.myspace.com/nickbarnes2007">Nick Barnes</a>' new CD <span
style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);">is coming out soon. </span><br>
He's a street-smart Brit with a heart the size of Kansas. I help him
out with keyboards, <br>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);">(he sends me his songs as
mp3, and I add my music to them, mix it up, and send them back to him.)</span><br>
we may have met once (he insists we have, but my memory ain't that
good!) back in my Dire Straits days...<br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);">But since that was 25 years
ago, I guess you could forgive me for forgetting : )</span><br>
It's different, working on music with someone without even being on the
same continent as them <br>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);">(does that mean we're
incontinent? hope not...)</span><br>
But it seems to work. Nick has also been cool enuff to plug a few of my
tunes on his radio programs.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);">(Oh did I tell you - he's
become a dj too - in Canada, England and Holland.)</span><br
style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);">
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></big></span><span
style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"> <br>
</span></span></span></span></span></big></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">over and out</span></span></span><br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">Wow, the <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Revelons</span>' CD just came out and
it's <big><big><a href="http://www.revelons.com/about.html">awesome</a></big></big>!
(to use an overused and possibly, by now, anachronistic, epithet)<br>
<br>
<a name="Hilly_Krystal"></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Hilly
Krystal, the mellow biker, founder of CBGB's passed away, as you
probably know by now. </span><br style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">He was always open to new
and off the beaten path ideas, like<span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><a
href="http://www.cbgb.com/store/xmas/mc/live.html"><big
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The
Miamis</span></big></a>, for example. </span><br
style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Bye Hilly. Looking</span> <span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Up</span> <span
style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">to You.</span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"></span><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: ArialMT; color: rgb(255, 172, 26);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"></span>I been playin with this great
bass player, Lincoln Schleifer, (thanks to another one, Zev Katz!)<br>
Saw Steely Dan last night at The Beacon Theater-<br>
but the biggest thrill was watchin <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">my
girlfriend</span> dance to <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">(i'm
never goin back to)</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">My
Old School</span> - their Finale.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">(Actually her HS reunion
was 2 weeks ago, and we DID go!</span><br
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Met Adam Nagourney of NY
Times there.</span><br style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Made him smile. Well, he
was smiling already. </span><br style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">
<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">I guess I broadened the
smile a bit.)</span><br clear="all">
</span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><big
style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);">I've been fortunate enough to be
working (again) with <big><big><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">matthew
bair</span></big></big>, the lead singer/guitarist from <span
style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Bandcamp</span>.<br>
I played on their CD's (augmenting <span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Sean Gould</span>, an interesting
musician on many levels!)<br>
Well Bandcamp is now <span style="font-style: italic;">defunk</span>t,
but <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Matt</span> is doing all
sorts of amazing things. <br>
He's in <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">EVE6 </span>now !
Going to Japan like, yesterday.. .. ..<br>
He's also gonna be on <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The
Real World</span> next Wednesday (June 25 -same day I go to <span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Sw<span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">ed</span>en</span> - DRAT! I'll miss
it.)<br>
Anyway I'm helpin out on his solo project, it's called <span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">SEQUEL</span>.<br>
More soon on that, like, links, etc.</big><br>
</span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">More recent gigs and giglets
included <br>
<big><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Hot S**T All-Stars-</span><br>
Deep Purple Tribute at BB. Kings<br>
<small style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Jimmy Kunes (Cactus)
vocals, Greg Smith (Nuggent & Movin Out) bass & vocals,<br>
Angus Clark (TransSiberian Orchestra) extreme Guitar, and Young Charlie
Z drums.</small><br>
</big> <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">(love how they
feed the
musicians at BB's -</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">He must have promised
himself at one tuff gig on the Chitlin Circuit (or 1000) that when he
struck it rich and had his own club,</span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">no musician would ever go
hungry there. It's heartwarming how well everyone there treats the
bands. Like a family.<br>
<br>
*<br>
Julian Civange French GlamourGuy from La Place - <br>
Our last CD's tracks are on a Space Probe that just passed Saturn, or
will soon<br>
More recording at Tommy's Place, NYC - <br>
into Logic<br>
And Beyond!<br>
<br>
*<br>
<br>
James McGoven and Kirsten Thien gigs around and about town.<br>
<br>
*<br>
<br>
Mini-Tour of Sweden with US Blues-Rock Street Hero Legend<br>
Ellis Hooks<br>
with Bass Player from Living Colour and Camille Gainer on Drums and of
course Tommy Williams MD/Guitar<br>
<br>
*<br>
<br>
Sarah Lawrence has started up again, some <span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">great
kid-singers this year,</span><br>
For me to accompany, coach, turn on to the great music of yesteryear
(they're open to it too!)<br>
And for<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> me</span> to get
turned on to some more recent goodstuff:<br>
sample:<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Conor Oberst, lotsa Gwen
St., John Legend, Alicia Keyes (well, I'll hafta get backatcha on that
one...)<br>
Vintage Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Aretha singing Sam Cooke, Bowie of
course (they all like him)<br>
One kid writes her own stuff on ukelele, and she's a real rocker, I
worry for her.<br>
Then there's this divine born again who sings like the 2nd coming, and<br>
a blonde from SoCal with a voice and the gift of drama, <br>
and a guy who could be the X-Man that sings,<br>
and another hard rockin guy and<br>
a repeat offender who sings<br>
The Pretender<br>
all genders<br>
tender<br>
is th<br>
ni<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">*</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"></span> <br>
<big><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Miamis Greatest Hits
CD</span></big> <br>
soon to be released<br>
(We played at CBGB's and Broadway Charlie's in the days of Blondie,
Takling Heads, Richard Hell, post-NY Dolls)<br>
(and David Johansen used to come in and sing Sinatra's THAT'S LIFE w/us)<br>
<br>
*<br>
<big style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">LOVE AS LAUGHTER - <a
href="http://www.lala.com/#album/504684633539795969">HOLY</a> -
Recorded at Joe Blaney's Studio - Me on Joe's Old Piano, and Hammond
B-3.</big><br>
<br>
*<br>
<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><br>
<font size="+1"><big style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"><big><em>Pretentious?
Moi? ME: - SOLO PIANO</em></big></big><br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
(I'm hoping for THURSDAYS) </span><br>
at<br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">INDIAN ROAD CAFE <a
href="http://www.indianroadcafe.com/">&</a> MARKET - in the Inwood
neighborhood, Manhattan<br>
<br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Try It - You Gonna
Like it!</span><br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"></span>Manhattan, NYC, NY,
USA, NA, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, Universe
#93,000,623, G-d's Mind<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);">Real good Food, <span
style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);">Great Bartender</span> <span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">hip staff</span>, Nice Piano, <span
style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">mello <span
style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">eaters and drinkers, er,</span> patrons</span>.</span></font></span></span></big></span><br
clear="all">
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><big><a
href="http://www.myspace.com/gigifouquetmusic">Gigi Fouquet</a></big> <span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">is <span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">rockin her early-twenties<span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> lifestyle, eighties-lovin<span
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"> sweet-singin good-loookin<span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"> ♫ <span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">chick-a-rina</span> world -</span></span></span></span></span><br
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">aaaand she's lucky,<span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"> smart and tasty enuff,<span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">♫</span></span></span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">to
have ME <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">in her band! (along with<span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"> Alex A. Keith G. and Kareem Devlin, <span
style="font-style: italic;">q.v..</span>.</span></span></span></span></span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Check us out at her next gig</span> -
she sings like</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span><span
style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">love</span>
</span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">♫</span></span></span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><span
style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">child</span> <span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">of</span> </span>Counting Crows'
singer (Adam) and Janis Joplin.</span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">But
with better rhythm </span>(she velly fun-kee) and much</span> better
pitch. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">♫</span></span></span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Great</span>
songs too, </span><br>
My favorite one is<br>
<big style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big><span
style="font-style: italic;">Surrender...<br>
<br clear="all">
</span></big></big></big><><><><><br>
<br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;">CD
sessions:</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">♫</span></span></span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Alan Wauters Project</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">♫</span></span></span></span></span><br
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">♫</span></span></span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Danielia Cotton</span><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span
style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">♫</span></span></span></span></span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255); font-weight: bold;">Live:</span><br
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">@</span></span><span
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"></span> B.B. Kings</span><br
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">Tommy Williams/Kenny
Forgione Present</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">Bangladesh - The 3rd Year<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">@</span>all over town:<br>
Big Beat featuring vocalist extraordinaire, Peter Brown<br>
</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><span
style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><font
size="+1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"> <br>
</span></font></span></span></big></span>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">IT's BEEN <big
style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><big><big><big><big><big>WAY</big></big></big></big></big></big>
too long. . . <br>
Tomorrow, 2010 occurs<br>
<br>
But the end of 2009 brought some really gratifying work my way. <br>
Specifically 3 gigs:<br>
<br>
Holidelic - <br>
<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 255);">Everett Bradley</span>'s
tribute to Christmas and Funk, can best be described by <a
href="http://www.myspace.com/holidelic">his site</a>, so I will say no
more. Go. Now : )<br>
PS. the gigs were fantastic - GREAT band <br>
<br>
Alex Alexander - drums<br>
Keith Golden - bass<br>
Vini Miranda - guitar<br>
Me - keys<br>
Conrad Korsch - upright bass, bg's<br>
Nicki Richards - bg's and occasional lead vocals<br>
Celia Chavez - bg's and creative organization<br>
Amanda Homi - vocals and exotic percussion<br>
Daniel Mintseris - keyboardist emeritus<br>
<br>
guests:<br>
Lucy Woodward - Mother Mary and Sheila the Schwinger<br>
Jonathan Arons - Trombone and Dance<br>
Elaine Caswell and Shawn Pelton - vocals and SpaceDrum Grooves<br>
William Galison - Chromatic Harmonica<br>
Kiku Collins and her Amazon Horn Section<br>
<br>
<br style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">
<span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><><><><><><><><br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Kidd">Chipp Kidd</a> and
Mars Trillion's <a href="http://www.myspace.com/artbreakwonderground">Artb
reak</a> may be an acquired taste,<br>
but like good scotch, I acquired it, and will be coming back for more.<br>
We played <a href="http://www.dixonplace.org">Dixon Place</a> last
night, with a great rhythm section, whom I know<br>
mostly from <a href="http://www.kirstenthien.com">Kirsten Thien</a>'s
band:<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dylan Wissing - drums</span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Johnny Pisano - bass</span><br
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Paul Shellack - guitar<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Chipp is another unique
and tough-to-describe artiste.</span><br
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Kind of like Tom Jones and
Truman Capote all rolled into one.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I was assigned to trigger
Mars' beautifully nightmarish samples, <br>
but I did get to rock and funk out too.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);">Plus Marco's and Paul's
kids were there!<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></span></span></span></span><span
style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"><><><><><><><><br>
<br>
<br>
&<br>
Finally, <br>
Fabulous Freddie Khaw <br>
put together another steady but wild bunch<br>
of responsible crazies that used to be musicians but are now family men,<br
style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span>to back<br>
up 3 fine chinese<br>
recording stars in Atlantic City<br>
and I was one of these crazies. I say crazy,<br>
because it's a full 20 hours between pickup and dropoff,<br>
and if you get 2 hours sleep you are extremely extremely luck, cuz<br>
it's all<br>
driving, linecheck,<br>
eating, rehearsing, rehearsing more<br>
(with the artists, some of whom have just gotten off<br>
of the plane!) then eating more, changing into gig clothing in room,<br>
and finally, PLAYIN YER *SS OFF! - hitting the stage at 1:15 AM ! ! ! !
! <br>
(but)<br>
with the fabulous<br>
"STAGE CREW" dancers<br>
from Queens, no one was falling asleep, believe me!<br>
<a href="http://www.native-languages.org/iaq9.htm">dig<br>
the<br>
xms<br>
tree<br>
vibe?</a><br>
<br>
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style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><font
size="+1"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"></span> </font></span></span></big></span><br>
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