Good morning! It's 10:15 on this soon-to-be-sweltering Friday. I have two errands today, which I may just try to get in before noon. The fit will hit the shan after that. Plenty of fluids here in the house for me and Cindy. Cindy is my cat- or quadraped as my brother would put it- and has been with me since 2009. Still going strong..
News musicale. Three jobs coming up this Summer, and all of them downtown. 7/31 with John Crisp and Ada Lou at the Old Capitol; 8/31 solo guitar on the south side of the Square; and something at the Alamo on either 7/12 or 6/16.
What I really want to do, as long as I'm out here dog-dancing around, is my own gigs. Robbie's would be my first choice, but they show no signs of re-opening in the foreseeable future. This means I'm going to have to book something myself, something I hate doing but have to go through if I want to work under my own name.
I don't want to be a sideman anymore. I'm still glad to help out here and there as a sub, but otherwise I'm old and persnickety and have my own ideas about how things should be done. Miles Davis talked about this in his Autobiography, how most of his sidemen went on to form their own bands. The way of Nature....
So this is stuff I'm looking at as I get back into the world. Life always has its challenges.
In the immediate future, I just might see what kind of trouble I can get into on the other side of the room here- my Music Lab, as it were, with its makeshift recording studio and assorted electronics. My newest efforts there can be found on the Music page of my website.
Okay, we've reached that point once again, where I've long since run out of stuff to say. Thanks as ever for stopping in and reading. I do appreciate it. Happy Friday to you! If you've worked all week, happy POETS Club. Piss on everything, tomorrow's Saturday. A co-worker with the State used to crack that old joke every Friday. It actually helped.
Anyway! I'm outa here. More later. PS Today's pic was taken in Japan(as you might have figured from the banner!) Dave Burdick, Frank Trompeter, Tim Harte, Brian Pryor, me. November of 1995. Today's tune is a new one. Hope you like it. 