Good morning! It's 9:24 on this beautiful Thursday. Wait, let me get out of these rose-colored glasses. Okay, it's now 9:25 on this bleak and dismal Thursday. Come to think of it, I like the view from the rose-colored glasses a lot better. Delusional perhaps, but still better. It's now 9:28, a beautiful day ahead.
Music news. I mentioned the quartet recording in here yesterday. It ships out tomorrow.. Kevin, the bass player on this record is online a lot- with his own band Dreaming in Colours as well as following the political craziness, and has seen my posts about this. We haven't spoken in awhile but are still in touch.
The other two band members I hadn't communicated with in a long time, and I gave them both a call. So it's been a bit of a reunion. Don, the drummer, has been in this group almost as long as I have. GG, the saxophonist, has shared the stage with me on many occasions. We've probably got more trouble to get into together as far as that goes. But we're all getting older. Don is 84, I'll be 67 in August, and GG will be 70 in September. Kevin is the spring chicken of the bunch, turning 62 this May.
As far as what I'm turning out these days, I'm concentrating more on the group stuff. There's another thing I put together back in 2007 but never went digital with. It's three different kinds of trio: gtr, bass & drums; gtr gtr and bass; and gtr, keyboard and drums. A compilation from a few gigs and studio sessions. Somehow I never got off my butt to pay for the five cover tunes, so it's just been sitting there. It's called A Walk on the Mild Side, and will also release very soon.
One thing about the trio I had with Don Cochran and Bill Schlipf was that there was a 9-year age difference between us. Bill was 9 years my senior and Don was 9 years his senior. On a few occasions we had Michael Stryker on piano, who is 9 years my junior(and born on August 10 just like me!). So if we added on, they would have to have been born in either 1963 or 1927.
There is a nerd side to me that likes these number patterns, finds them interesting.. Back in my working days, in 2010, we had a person born in 1964 turning 46 and a person born in 1946 turning 64. I thought it was pretty cool anyway...
Well this is probably enough outa me for now. Thanks as ever for stopping in and reading. Happy Thursday to you! For now, I'm outa here. More later.
PS Today's tune is called Pauline's Basement. It was written for the memory of Pauline Cormier, who was active many years as a guitar teacher. She was a generous soul who not only educated more than a few local guitarists, but provided a few of them with temporary lodging. She and I played together in the Betts Pree Band, and I gave her a few lessons. Nice person, as was her husband Ed, whom I used to enjoy visiting with when I was at their house.