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Last night or was
that two nights ago? Vinyl was at 19 Broadway, no pics, no video, no
sounds. I didn't capture a thing but memories. What a great band and
perhaps the quintessential Marin band. Last night I had the words
for it but tonight I try to remember.
A beautiful music pump... hmmm that doesn't sound as poetic as
I thought It did last night. They gave me some good dancing.
Brilliant JazzFunk Rock all instrumental hat's off to the Mardi Gras
Weekend and the people of New Orleans and if they could have heard
the version of
'When the Saints Come Marching In' that we heard they, they might
just have said 'Hallelujah thank you my Brothers in Marin that was
medicine for our Souls'. Ryan Scott, trumpet, from the
Monophonics was on stage with the band bringing his fresh fire as
well as the unheralded and marvelous Peter ____ (still slightly
unheralded) on Sax joining Danny Cao (Trumpet) and Doug Thomas (Sax)
and the rest of these pros, and it was a high time.
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My Pulitzer nominee so far of this years
photography.
Thank you Chang W Lee of the New York Times great work!
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Tonight now its 3AM and I could be asleep but you know Spark
and Cinder was down at Peri's and next week is there 30th anniversary
show
in Chico with as many former members all showing up to Rock out and
tonight well it was a great show for the first set but Jimmy on
drums was having some trouble with the volume and being the singer
as well as the drummer its tough to make it work if you can't hear
yourself. I decided to not even think about the between set
interviews (thanks to some well
thought out advice) (you don't even want to talk to bands between
sets she said I'm not sure I agree with that but sometimes
discretion does indeed beat valor ...) so I walked on down to 19
Broadway for a break and the Banyan band with Steven Perkins on
drums and Willie Waldman on trumpet were full of fire as well as the
marvelous Bass and the fine fine Guitar. Plus they maybe the only
band with an artist who gets up on stage with them and paints as
they play. Not just any artist its Norman Wisdom and the dude is
beyond brilliant. Almost distracting from the music though I
personally am all in favor of great visual accompaniment as long as
it blends with the music... and this does.. anyways it's late I got
sidetracked down at 19 Broadway the rest of the night it was a fine
sidetrack had a great time. Shot some video. Yup. Sidetrack or the
Mainline..
Mainlining Music does you know harm... course you still need
to take care of yourself. Music is healing baby I believe. I
believe! Holy cow yes!
Just watch out for that other stuff yknow take it easy please...
because you don't know how healthy you really are until you're dead.
Something like that.
Shut it down Guy..
Goodnight.
PS Thanks to Lil
Denny for crashing at my Pad for the last 3 nights twas a pleasure
and though as Mike said 'we don't look like it as if you are leaving
our town, it just means we all have a place to crash when we visit
Tahoe...'
Besides how long can the guy who wrote the
Fairfax Boogie stay away. (this is a work in progress so give it
some time, this version, just a couple of minute sample, recorded
last night in my living room) More to come.
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