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I guess you could say I invented the blog. . .<font color="#FF8D63">upside
down -</font> in '98....</h2></center>
<center><b><font size=+2><font color="#FF1135">Well, maybe it's not really
a blog, cuz the visitors can't chime in </font><font color="#303EFF">(yet.!.)</font></font></b></center>
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<font color="#FFFD85">But I </font><font color="#87D3FF">do</font><font color="#FFFD85">
keep it up to date; Click the green link 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 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 demo recordings or
CD's. 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, or even a finished
sounding recording, 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. 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>
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</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/~zooco/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 href="http://www.bobmayo.net"><img SRC="rip.jpg" BORDER=0 height=18 width=36></a></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">
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</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
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<br><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><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><b><font size=+2><a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kirstenthien"><font color="#FF0000">K</font><font color="#FF0700">i</font><font color="#FF0F00">r</font><font color="#FF1600">s</font><font color="#FF1E00">t</font><font color="#FF2600">e</font><font color="#FF2D00">n</font><font color="#FF3500">
T</font><font color="#FF4400">hie</font><font color="#FF5B00">n</font></a><font color="#FF6300">-her
too </font><font color="#FF6B00">n</font><font color="#FF7200">e</font><font color="#FF7A00">w</font><font color="#FF8900">C</font><font color="#FF9100">D</font><font color="#FF9900">;</font><font color="#FFA800">B</font><font color="#FFAF00">e</font><font color="#FFB700">n</font><font color="#FFBF00">n</font><font color="#FFC600">y</font><font color="#FFD600">L</font><font color="#FFDD00">a</font><font color="#FFE500">n</font><font color="#FFED00">d</font><font color="#FFF400">a</font><font color="#FFFC00">,</font><font color="#F2FF00">S</font><font color="#EAFF00">t</font><font color="#E2FF00">e</font><font color="#DBFF00">v</font><font color="#D3FF00">e</font><font color="#CCFF00">H</font><font color="#C4FF00">o</font><font color="#BCFF00">l</font><font color="#B5FF00">l</font><font color="#ADFF00">e</font><font color="#A5FF00">y,</font><font color="#77FF00">E</font><font color="#70FF00">r</font><font 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>
<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.
<hr WIDTH="100%"></font></font></b><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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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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%"><a NAME="newest"></a></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>
<p>
<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,
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