Ric Gould just sent me the Sunday jazz show schedule. Please tune in. He's gonna play Phil Wigfall's solo CD title cut "Cosmic Soul," Santa Fe's "Munequita," and a track from Dave and Lenny's awesome Christmas CD. Dave Siefkes has the entire jazz show set list for us here.SUNDAY FUN
So, it's about 11:20 a.m., I got 97.1 FM streaming live on Ric Gould's excellent jazz show, and I'm playin' with this new Finale PrintMusic charting app I just bought yesterday at The Guitar Center on Trop. Life is good...
See you all tomorrow night at The Palms. Yeah!UPDATE: the MySpace thing
Some of the guys in the band now have MySpace pages, and I put one up too recently, basically as another venue through which to tout the band. Click here to see it. My "Friends" links section is growing. Gabe, Jamie, Nathan, and Phil are among them, along with our friends like Mosaic, Joe Bergeron, Bobby Black, Blaise, Robert Conti, Ronnie Foster, etc.The other day I was surfing MySpace and ran across an old bud from Tennessee, Gary Loyd. I'd lost track of this cat, and have always wondered how he has fared. Fine, as it turns out.
Back around 1982, Gary came over to the house in South Knoxville and threw down the lead vocal on one of my original song demos, a tune entitled "Without Loving You" (click here, mp3, that's Mark Douthit on alto, he was about 18 at the time. Cat is another Bad Boy). Gary was highly regarded in the area as this sort of hybrid Cristopher Cross / Al Jarreau-ish dude with great chops and feel. Everyone dug and respected him.Gary migrated to Nashville, where he now writes for Clint Black's publishing house. Cat went all Rascal Flatts on me. Click his name, listen to his tune "Not Yet," it's very, very cool. Gary, I wish you massive success.
One thing that strikes me as I crash around MySpace is the incredible sheer volume of musical talent out there. Very cool. But, no wonder no one can hardly make a living at it; it seems like there's gotta be ten credible artists for every discretionary entertainment dollar people have to spend.
It's why I retain my Golden Handcuffs day gig.
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Thanks for the kind words, Cholly. Some of my old tunes are here: http://www.bgladd.com/tunes
I've started writing again. Santa Fe has inspired me immensely.
I don't know who the woman is in the pic with Gary Loyd, assume his wife. ???
Thank you, Cholly. I don't think it's overstating it to say that Santa Fe has saved my life (extended it at least). I've been struggling the past few years with some chronic health issues, and struggling with recurrent episodic depression over my daughter's death 8 years ago. I was looking to maybe start playing again, and Paul Purtle hipped me to Santa Fe. I was floored. Total ego wipeout from the first tune. A life-changing encounter.
Now, were these cats just killer players but full of attitude, I'd have just moved on, but they are -- to a man -- truly the nicest people I've met in music or anywhere. Jerry Lopez has totally inspired me; we talk personal life/music perspective stuff all the time. He's an ace human being. He turned me on to the book "The War of Art" (I posted about that book earlier in the blog) which has changed my entire outlook on creativity and effort. You simply MUST buy it and study it. You simply MUST write. Each of us has something unique to contribute, something to help heal humanity and ourselves at the same time). Go for it.
That's so cool about Gary's wife. LOL!!! Gary -- that cat can really sing! And his lyrics are fine, fine, fine.
Have a great Christmas and New Year.Thanks for posting your thoughts.
Bobby
LOL! Yeah, "Eleanor Rigby" that as fun. That was a lttle 5 pc band, no keyboard, just guitar, bass, drums, tenor sax, and trombone. We were aggressive.
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