Peter Shapiro, Phish, Camden, Merriweather, Schooner Woodwind II, Rams/Ravens, Curve Ball, Watkins Glen, Seneca Lake, Beeraucracy, Two Goats Brewing Company, Lucky Hair Brewing Company, Lockn Festival, Blue Ridge Highway, Crabtree Falls, Dead & Co (with Branford Marsalis)
My plans for summer vacation were upon me even though those plans had started and had been altered since June. What I mean is that I was throwing all of my eggs so to speak, vacay wise, into the last couple weeks in August.
Initially, I was doing Dick's (Phish in Denver) to be able to see friends however, after seeing the Dead & Co. in early June this year, I altered my plans. I gave up my Dick's tix a few weeks ago, and decided to do the Lockn Festival. The headliner at this year's Lockn' festival were the Dead & Co. and not only that, they were also doing the second show and final night playing with Branford Marsalis.
Considering one of the best shows of all time in the Grateful Dead world was when Branford came out to play with them at Nassau back in 1990, I thought it was one of the best pairings of musicians bookings wise ever.
I must presume it came via that guy Peter Shapiro whom has to be one of the top promoters ever, let alone in these modern years. The thing is with me and whomever Peter Shapiro is in real life, I think there are two of them. Someone told me there was this one and then some archivist and honestly, I cannot for the life of me figure out whom I met and talked to for hours versus who did the Golden Years Boxed set that I had to set up, clear and account for while I was at WMG (Warner Music group) like 15 or 20 years ago compared to the Pete Shapiro's out there now.
But way back in the late 80's or early 90's, I found myself in a conversation with a Pete Shapiro or so I thought that was his name, at The Wetlands in New York City. It was after hours and we went off talking about the world of the Grateful Dead and being a part of the Dead scene touring as much as possible. We hit it off quite frankly. He seemed to know his shit is how I gauged it back then. There was another part owner of that venue that may have introduced us. Chris Zhan and he managed someone that I think ended up doing well. I also think he or they managed or at least handled some affairs for that band called The Slip. I could be wrong about that one. I cannot remember the bands they were wanting me to turn over to my bosses back then (I was scouting music and was the only person at any label turning over what had become jam bands) or that they were managing. I think I first saw the Slip in 97 in the parking lot at the Phish show in Nassau Coliseum. That came way later so I seem to be forgetting what bands they backed then. I do remember him telling me he did that Tie Died movie which I saw one time, but i thought it was weird. They or he did not get some major approval and so something major could not be shown or heard in that film. I forget the deal and so now that I think of it, that Peter Shapiro was indeed the one that booked GD 50 and all of these shows. I have seen those credits in some articles maybe. I am just figuring this out but now evidently there is another Peter or Shapiro that maybe does archive work with Phish.
That is why I have been always confused and hesitant about speaking about the Pete Shapiro's of the world.
Regardless, that show back in 1990 with the GD and Branford was magical for everyone, including them. And, that Peter Shapiro dude is very talented in that Bill Graham sorta way. He seems to actually love music or at least the music he books and these pairings with these bookings are brilliant (like this Branford and Dead & Co. set at Lockn' is just brilliant to come up with vision wise).
By the way, that ENTIRE particular Nassau run where the band played with Branford on that second night was sick.
Every day the shows got better. The first night they broke out Revolution again and they played Hey Pocky Way into Drums the first night.
Then, the Branford night came with him coming out during Birdsong, you could tell a tiny bit how it started to work between them even though it took a few minutes to get acclimated but at the set break, that was when they asked him to join them during that second set. Including the opening of it with that incredible 'Eyes of the World' (remember too folks that the band was never opening up sets with 'Eyes' anytime recently or maybe even ever before then as far as I can remember off the top of my head. I know they were never doing it while I was on tour which was for over 9 years by 90).
The story goes that somehow Phil (Lesh) and Branford met or ran into each other and Phil invited him to the show. Evidently that afternoon, Branford bought every album in the Grateful dead repertoire to date, and that he listened to them before he headed over to Nassau on Long Island (from NYC). Then like I was trying to articulate, Branford trickled his way through 'Birdsong' and then after they went off on that 'Eyes of the World', the show became improvisational music history.
I thought by Phish adding Curveball, I could blow off going to Dick's while having the best of every world at the end of the summer. Even though I would then have to slog through the week stopping at home for a couple days, and then driving down to Lockn' after what would have been a long weekend at Curveball.
It was great in theory doing hometown shows to start my summer tour (oh and I forgot that I gave up going to the Bill Graham Civic way early in the summer) not until mid August which is the latest and the most interval of time that I would have not seen shows from New Years until whenever the first ones started every given year. I usually start up seeing shows every summer by June or by July at the very latest.
The first show was so anticipated by me and it was so disappointing for me. First, I was in the pitt. Second, the people in the pitt are idiots. Third, I am always the one that looks like an ass when pleading with whomever to stop nailing me or to stop stepping on my feet.
It is an uncanny phenomenon and it happened two times at Phish and one time at Lockn'.
The problem now is that that I can make mince out of literally anyone at Phish, let alone at the Dead & Co. If they know how to fight professionally than yes, it would be a great fight and I would feasibly get knocked on my ass. I never hit first and I mean never and let's just say that when whomever cold cocks me because again, those are the only times that I have ever gotten hit in my face, once that is over, it is fair game. I can kick an apple of your head and so you can go from there.
My point is that I can't fight anyone at Phish or at these shows and so I just have to take being called an asshole like I was at Merriweather (I responded by saying 'tell me something that I don't know but can you still get off my left foot?'). Then they stare at me because it is not like any of them want to really be at the show in the first place. That is why they have to barge in at any given time and again, it happened with this old man that I am sure is 5 years younger than me when I was at Lockn'. He would not move. He would back up with his arms folded or with him standing there still with his arms on his hips which then my head would hit his elbow. Many times mind you as he kept stepping backwards. I finally said something to him and he replied of course saying the age old excuse that 'he did know know.' Which I know he does not know but I told him to know and to be more self aware to pay attention to his surroundings. Maybe I should have overstated the obvious by saying that when he backs me up, I back up into others and its bad trickle out and domino effect. I just did not think I needed to say that to adults with brains.
That brings me to today's Dead Heads.
They are just there on some weird vacation and they just sway back and forth as if the Grateful Dead are caricatures of themselves (aka Las vegas lounge act) which with John Mayer in the band playing lead guitar, they are not that way anymore.
He plays a sick lead that I think gives them a huge rejuvenation to this aftermath of the Grateful Dead incarcerations that were all just boring as hell.
And, those boring shows set things up for today.
When Trey played with the rest of the band, they knew that needed youth and with John Mayer coming out of nowhere and I am still trying to figure out why and how and whatever was happening in his life to get him to this point in time. Regardless, it was by far the best thing for this band and especially when you consider when we did that American Unstaged Simulcast of them two years ago in October compared to how they play today, it is night and day. John Mayer is an amazing guitarist. This band is very lucky today.
I know that he and Katie Perry and maybe Andy Cohen were all at every one of the GD 50 shows. That surprised me quite frankly (did I ever tell you all about my Katie Perry dream? I was showing her around a concert venue for some odd reason, and for some other odd reason in that dream, there was this all white room that we entered during the tour of the venue. There was a bed with just a white sheet on it and she lied down patting the bed saying talk to me over here. Then of course I woke up.).
Anyway, my only knowledge of John Mayer before our American Express Unstaged simulcast two years ago in October outside of what TMZ and the tabloids would report, was when he was on the Dave Chapelle show:
But then in Camden last year, setting aside 'The Wheel' with word jazz, I was very impressed with the incarnation and with the band. I went this year and I was in the pitt for it. I had a blast and not only that, the show was also rained (lightning) out mid way through the third song in the second set.
I still thought they were on fire.
I thought by beginning the summer with the Dead & Co. in Camden and ending the summer with the Dead & Co with Branford Marsalis would be perfect.
Especially with a bunch of Phish shows and CurveBall in between along with the many other acts I saw this summer.
The second Phish show at Camden I thought was great.
I gave up my pitt ticket for a row B in section 103. That seat was perfect for me. I was right in front of Paige which is where I go anyway. I had no one around me except people that I wanted around me and it's because the people I know in these scenes, all know how to dance around around doing cart wheels without hitting or bothering other people.
The first show had little continuity and the second show did from beginning to the end. Listen to the Mike's Song from Day One in Camden or the beginning of it I should say. I know it was done purposely but shit man was that stopping and starting annoying as ballz.
I feel the same way about Merriweather.
The first night had its moments but the second night really flowed for me.
While in Maryland, I rented space on the Schooner Woodwind II Boat which made for a great afternoon.
The Schooner was the one used in the movie Wedding Crashers with Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams and of course the chick I love, Isla Fisher. The filming took place in Oxford, Cambridge, St. Michaels and on the Choptank and Miles Rivers and not here in Annapolis on the Bay. The name of the boat was kept the same for the movie. It was in the movie for about two minutes. I was out on it all afternoon. It was the first time i was in the sun all year.
Actually, the headline I first saw said something along the lines of because of health issues, the Curveball was cancelled. I thought someone in the band was sick or worse but then I realized it was because of our health issues.
Funny enough is that while we were at the Rooster Fish eating lunch, I had asked for an iced tea that I guess has ice cubes in it generally and at that time, the woman said that she could NOT serve me ice. It would have to be room temperature. Now mind you that they served us ice prior because I had water with ice cubes that not only I downed the minute it was set on the table, I thanked the waitress because I was so thirsty and my lips were so dry.
I also agree with what the band said about building up show after show on their summer tour because the final whatever shows to me, were the best of summer tour. Atlanta especially was they really turned it on from beginning to end and then I mentioned the two shows that I saw in Camden and at Merriweather. Raleigh was great too but I only saw that on the simulcast. I thought the show was good though.
But yeah, the Curveball festival scheduled in Watkins Glen, N.Y., was canceled because of severe flooding in the Schuyler County area, and potentially contaminated water in the Village of Watkins Glen and the festival site.
Many people had already already on site are welcome to stay overnight, according to band statement, but the campgrounds will close at noon Friday as the water is “unfit for human consumption.”
I was not staying on the grounds. I had a house up in Dundee right on the late and when I say on the late, I mean the balcony was over the water.
"This week's severe storm created untenable conditions, including the inability to deliver clean drinking water to patrons and vendors as confirmed by test results delivered today," the New York State Department of Health said in a statement. "Working collaboratively with Watkins Glen International and Phish, the county and state explored all options to allow the event to continue as scheduled."
I then went over to another place called the Wild Wolf Brewing Company.
Initially, I was doing Dick's (Phish in Denver) to be able to see friends however, after seeing the Dead & Co. in early June this year, I altered my plans. I gave up my Dick's tix a few weeks ago, and decided to do the Lockn Festival. The headliner at this year's Lockn' festival were the Dead & Co. and not only that, they were also doing the second show and final night playing with Branford Marsalis.
Considering one of the best shows of all time in the Grateful Dead world was when Branford came out to play with them at Nassau back in 1990, I thought it was one of the best pairings of musicians bookings wise ever.
I must presume it came via that guy Peter Shapiro whom has to be one of the top promoters ever, let alone in these modern years. The thing is with me and whomever Peter Shapiro is in real life, I think there are two of them. Someone told me there was this one and then some archivist and honestly, I cannot for the life of me figure out whom I met and talked to for hours versus who did the Golden Years Boxed set that I had to set up, clear and account for while I was at WMG (Warner Music group) like 15 or 20 years ago compared to the Pete Shapiro's out there now.
But way back in the late 80's or early 90's, I found myself in a conversation with a Pete Shapiro or so I thought that was his name, at The Wetlands in New York City. It was after hours and we went off talking about the world of the Grateful Dead and being a part of the Dead scene touring as much as possible. We hit it off quite frankly. He seemed to know his shit is how I gauged it back then. There was another part owner of that venue that may have introduced us. Chris Zhan and he managed someone that I think ended up doing well. I also think he or they managed or at least handled some affairs for that band called The Slip. I could be wrong about that one. I cannot remember the bands they were wanting me to turn over to my bosses back then (I was scouting music and was the only person at any label turning over what had become jam bands) or that they were managing. I think I first saw the Slip in 97 in the parking lot at the Phish show in Nassau Coliseum. That came way later so I seem to be forgetting what bands they backed then. I do remember him telling me he did that Tie Died movie which I saw one time, but i thought it was weird. They or he did not get some major approval and so something major could not be shown or heard in that film. I forget the deal and so now that I think of it, that Peter Shapiro was indeed the one that booked GD 50 and all of these shows. I have seen those credits in some articles maybe. I am just figuring this out but now evidently there is another Peter or Shapiro that maybe does archive work with Phish.
That is why I have been always confused and hesitant about speaking about the Pete Shapiro's of the world.
Regardless, that show back in 1990 with the GD and Branford was magical for everyone, including them. And, that Peter Shapiro dude is very talented in that Bill Graham sorta way. He seems to actually love music or at least the music he books and these pairings with these bookings are brilliant (like this Branford and Dead & Co. set at Lockn' is just brilliant to come up with vision wise).
By the way, that ENTIRE particular Nassau run where the band played with Branford on that second night was sick.
Every day the shows got better. The first night they broke out Revolution again and they played Hey Pocky Way into Drums the first night.
Then, the Branford night came with him coming out during Birdsong, you could tell a tiny bit how it started to work between them even though it took a few minutes to get acclimated but at the set break, that was when they asked him to join them during that second set. Including the opening of it with that incredible 'Eyes of the World' (remember too folks that the band was never opening up sets with 'Eyes' anytime recently or maybe even ever before then as far as I can remember off the top of my head. I know they were never doing it while I was on tour which was for over 9 years by 90).
The story goes that somehow Phil (Lesh) and Branford met or ran into each other and Phil invited him to the show. Evidently that afternoon, Branford bought every album in the Grateful dead repertoire to date, and that he listened to them before he headed over to Nassau on Long Island (from NYC). Then like I was trying to articulate, Branford trickled his way through 'Birdsong' and then after they went off on that 'Eyes of the World', the show became improvisational music history.
I thought by Phish adding Curveball, I could blow off going to Dick's while having the best of every world at the end of the summer. Even though I would then have to slog through the week stopping at home for a couple days, and then driving down to Lockn' after what would have been a long weekend at Curveball.
It was great in theory doing hometown shows to start my summer tour (oh and I forgot that I gave up going to the Bill Graham Civic way early in the summer) not until mid August which is the latest and the most interval of time that I would have not seen shows from New Years until whenever the first ones started every given year. I usually start up seeing shows every summer by June or by July at the very latest.
The first show was so anticipated by me and it was so disappointing for me. First, I was in the pitt. Second, the people in the pitt are idiots. Third, I am always the one that looks like an ass when pleading with whomever to stop nailing me or to stop stepping on my feet.
It is an uncanny phenomenon and it happened two times at Phish and one time at Lockn'.
The problem now is that that I can make mince out of literally anyone at Phish, let alone at the Dead & Co. If they know how to fight professionally than yes, it would be a great fight and I would feasibly get knocked on my ass. I never hit first and I mean never and let's just say that when whomever cold cocks me because again, those are the only times that I have ever gotten hit in my face, once that is over, it is fair game. I can kick an apple of your head and so you can go from there.
My point is that I can't fight anyone at Phish or at these shows and so I just have to take being called an asshole like I was at Merriweather (I responded by saying 'tell me something that I don't know but can you still get off my left foot?'). Then they stare at me because it is not like any of them want to really be at the show in the first place. That is why they have to barge in at any given time and again, it happened with this old man that I am sure is 5 years younger than me when I was at Lockn'. He would not move. He would back up with his arms folded or with him standing there still with his arms on his hips which then my head would hit his elbow. Many times mind you as he kept stepping backwards. I finally said something to him and he replied of course saying the age old excuse that 'he did know know.' Which I know he does not know but I told him to know and to be more self aware to pay attention to his surroundings. Maybe I should have overstated the obvious by saying that when he backs me up, I back up into others and its bad trickle out and domino effect. I just did not think I needed to say that to adults with brains.
That brings me to today's Dead Heads.
They are just there on some weird vacation and they just sway back and forth as if the Grateful Dead are caricatures of themselves (aka Las vegas lounge act) which with John Mayer in the band playing lead guitar, they are not that way anymore.
He plays a sick lead that I think gives them a huge rejuvenation to this aftermath of the Grateful Dead incarcerations that were all just boring as hell.
And, those boring shows set things up for today.
When Trey played with the rest of the band, they knew that needed youth and with John Mayer coming out of nowhere and I am still trying to figure out why and how and whatever was happening in his life to get him to this point in time. Regardless, it was by far the best thing for this band and especially when you consider when we did that American Unstaged Simulcast of them two years ago in October compared to how they play today, it is night and day. John Mayer is an amazing guitarist. This band is very lucky today.
I know that he and Katie Perry and maybe Andy Cohen were all at every one of the GD 50 shows. That surprised me quite frankly (did I ever tell you all about my Katie Perry dream? I was showing her around a concert venue for some odd reason, and for some other odd reason in that dream, there was this all white room that we entered during the tour of the venue. There was a bed with just a white sheet on it and she lied down patting the bed saying talk to me over here. Then of course I woke up.).
Anyway, my only knowledge of John Mayer before our American Express Unstaged simulcast two years ago in October outside of what TMZ and the tabloids would report, was when he was on the Dave Chapelle show:
I still thought they were on fire.
I thought by beginning the summer with the Dead & Co. in Camden and ending the summer with the Dead & Co with Branford Marsalis would be perfect.
Especially with a bunch of Phish shows and CurveBall in between along with the many other acts I saw this summer.
The second Phish show at Camden I thought was great.
I gave up my pitt ticket for a row B in section 103. That seat was perfect for me. I was right in front of Paige which is where I go anyway. I had no one around me except people that I wanted around me and it's because the people I know in these scenes, all know how to dance around around doing cart wheels without hitting or bothering other people.
The first show had little continuity and the second show did from beginning to the end. Listen to the Mike's Song from Day One in Camden or the beginning of it I should say. I know it was done purposely but shit man was that stopping and starting annoying as ballz.
I feel the same way about Merriweather.
The first night had its moments but the second night really flowed for me.
While in Maryland, I rented space on the Schooner Woodwind II Boat which made for a great afternoon.
The Schooner was the one used in the movie Wedding Crashers with Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams and of course the chick I love, Isla Fisher. The filming took place in Oxford, Cambridge, St. Michaels and on the Choptank and Miles Rivers and not here in Annapolis on the Bay. The name of the boat was kept the same for the movie. It was in the movie for about two minutes. I was out on it all afternoon. It was the first time i was in the sun all year.
I did that on the off day after I went to the Rams and Baltimore Ravens game at their Stadium. The team (Rams) did not even play any starters or if they did, they play one set of downs. I thought the starters would play a quarter but I guess those days are gone. They don't play anyone now until the last game or maybe third preseason game. But I love seeing the Rams in person so it was worth it.
I also checked out the brand new Guinness Brewing Company in Maryland. That was great too. They are finally getting into making varietals which they had on tap.
Then there was the CurveBall Festival up at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
That Tuesday there had been a state of an emergency up in that region. The weather though was supposed to be rainy at some points on Thursday and Friday, however the forecast was supposed to be clear for the better party of the weekend.
That Tuesday there had been a state of an emergency up in that region. The weather though was supposed to be rainy at some points on Thursday and Friday, however the forecast was supposed to be clear for the better party of the weekend.
I picked up some friends at the Elmira airport. We did a few wineries before stopping at some brewery called Beeraucracy. That was where we got the news which ironically at this place called Beeraucracy, there were signs in three places that we saw that said that there was a $10 fine if anyone uses a cell phone. More ironically is that dude working behind the bar was using his cell as we walked in, but anyway, I get this odd email from a friend saying that he is sorry about the festival being cancelled. I did not even think twice because I could have sworn he was messing with me. Maybe even throwing me a Curveball. I did a search to find that the Star Gazette had a post about the cancellation. I have no clue what the Star Gazette is but then the link showed up to the Phish.com site, with the headline saying that it was cancelled.
I said to my friend at the pub to look at my phone but he was in a conversation with the bartender. He did not want to rudely break away which I get but I assumed that he would take the phone and read it after he was done speaking. He refused. He literally shunned me aside not one time but an unprecedented three times before I said that you must read this release. He asked the bartender if he could read it to which I said that we have no choice to read the following:
I said to my friend at the pub to look at my phone but he was in a conversation with the bartender. He did not want to rudely break away which I get but I assumed that he would take the phone and read it after he was done speaking. He refused. He literally shunned me aside not one time but an unprecedented three times before I said that you must read this release. He asked the bartender if he could read it to which I said that we have no choice to read the following:
Due to the severe flooding that occurred in Schuyler County over the past week, the local water treatment plant that services water to the Village of Watkins Glen, including the Curveball site has been contaminated and the water supply is not safe for human consumption. The New York State Department of Health has issued a statement here.
Sadly, Curveball has been cancelled.
Fans currently onsite are welcome to stay overnight; campgrounds will close at noon tomorrow.
Information on refunds will be forthcoming, and additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
A STATEMENT FROM PHISH
Dear friends, our Phish family..
The four of us are writing this from directly behind the stage at Watkins Glen. We were about to walk onstage only moments ago for our traditional soundcheck jam for Curveball when we were told the heartbreaking news that due to the unsafe water conditions in the Village of Watkins Glen, our beloved festival is being canceled.
We are still in shock. The entire site is already set up and ready to go after literally months of work by our beloved hardworking crew, many of whom have been here for weeks. Our families are here, our gear is set, our tents are up. We keep waiting for someone to come over and tell us that there is a solution, and that the festival can go on. Unfortunately, it is not possible.
We are so terribly sorry for the inconvenience that this is causing so many of you. We hope from the bottoms of our hearts that at the very least this news will reach you before too much disruption takes place in your personal lives. We know that people traveled far, at great expense. We understand that people are missing work, and changing their schedules around.. we wish so much that there was some way that this wasn’t happening.
This summer has been absolutely joyous, with each gig building on the previous one, and we were all buzzing with excitement about Curveball. Please accept our deepest apologies for the disruption that this has caused all of you.. We wish there was something else we could say.
Thank you all from the depths of our souls for the joy that you continue to share with us every night. This has been the greatest summer we can remember.
Travel safe and know that we are as heartbroken as all of you. We are standing back here behind the stage, at our party that we’ve been planning for over a year, and we have been told that it won’t happen. There’s just nothing we can do.
Thank you all for your understanding.
With Love,
Phish
Funny enough is that while we were at the Rooster Fish eating lunch, I had asked for an iced tea that I guess has ice cubes in it generally and at that time, the woman said that she could NOT serve me ice. It would have to be room temperature. Now mind you that they served us ice prior because I had water with ice cubes that not only I downed the minute it was set on the table, I thanked the waitress because I was so thirsty and my lips were so dry.
I also agree with what the band said about building up show after show on their summer tour because the final whatever shows to me, were the best of summer tour. Atlanta especially was they really turned it on from beginning to end and then I mentioned the two shows that I saw in Camden and at Merriweather. Raleigh was great too but I only saw that on the simulcast. I thought the show was good though.
But yeah, the Curveball festival scheduled in Watkins Glen, N.Y., was canceled because of severe flooding in the Schuyler County area, and potentially contaminated water in the Village of Watkins Glen and the festival site.
Many people had already already on site are welcome to stay overnight, according to band statement, but the campgrounds will close at noon Friday as the water is “unfit for human consumption.”
I was not staying on the grounds. I had a house up in Dundee right on the late and when I say on the late, I mean the balcony was over the water.
I will try to piece together the wineries I went to and aside from Beeraucracy, we checked out the Two Goats Brewing Company and the Lucky Hair Brewing Company.
It was amazing getting over to the East side of Seneca Lake. Those wineries and beer places were way cooler than what is on the other side of the Lake (which is where my house is). They were all down home and literally in a sense because I felt like I were in these beer and wine makers homes. It was great. It was a great couple days of doing wineries, breweries and most of all making the best of a shit situation.
The wineries we went to that i can remember or that I bought from were Castel Grisch Winery, Lakewood Vineyards, Barnstormer Winery, Pompous Ass Wine, Magnus Ridge Winery, Penguin Bay Winery, Rock Stream Vineyards and then we walked to from both Lucky hair and Two Goats to two wineries that I cannot remember the names but I liked them I bought from one. This one place Magnus Ridge had some good beer along with a few good reds. They also had a cucumber infused beer for that matter. It was tasty. Their tastings are cool in the sense that they pair every sip of wine up with a perfectly tiny sized piece of cheese..
The schooner in this area that goes out on Seneca Lake is named "True Love" and it first played a role in the movie "Philadelphia Story" in 1940 with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. True Love's next movie debut was when she was featured in the 1956 movie "High Society", which was a remake of the Philadelphia Story. It was also in High Society that starred Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra & Louis Armstrong.
On Sunday, we hit the park (Watkins Glen State Park) and that was amazing (especially since the water was ridiculously high creating waterfall after waterfall).
We met someone that was doing the inside or field lighting at the CurveBall Festival. He not only gave us the scoop on the breaking down of everything, he also told us about the goings on all weekend over the past few days. It turns out he knows the people that were staying in the next house me on the Lake and that I had met Friday evening. We decided to all meet at the Village Marina for dinner that evening.
To be honest, I was a bit anxious to get home to see Ocelot.
He just got out of the hospital and I was not sure how he was taking to the food while I was gone. I had to make sure two friends got to the airport because the flight was not until dinner time on Monday. I just could not wait that long considering all we did all weekend was linger from one bar and winery and brewery to another one. (When I got home late AM on Monday, I was pleasantly psyched about how Ocy ate and how he looked...the Mount Laurel Hospital did wonders because he is rivitalized or something (he has a pep in his step)).
When I got to the Wintergreen Resort and then in turn to Day One at the Lockn Festival, I definitely felt run down but at the same time, I also felt great being way out in the country and on top of a mountain.
Day One at Lockn' was great for me though I only saw Lettuce into Umphrey's McGee back into Lettuce and back into Umphrey's McGee.
What I thought was really exciting was how the stages twirled around so there was no wait time in between bands. And, the way Lettuce exited was so exciting for some reason. Or, they seemed so excited.
As a matter of fact, the second time they all went into Umphrey's second set, they played whatever song Lettuce did as the outro as Umphrey's first song but with the members from Lettuce too.
They literally ran around the stage wall to get to the Umphrey's McGee side. It was so cool. I love people that love music. These guys love playing music and it shows.
Late night was JRAD (Joe Russo's Almost Dead band).
They were great but I had one foot out the door during Morning Dew. I will say that they had a ton of people at that show. I say way more than were at Brooklyn but I presume less than when I saw them at Red Rocks last year.
Day Two I spent at the Wintergarden Spa. My nose and lips were chapped and stuffed accordingly. I was trying to belt it out which I got close to doing for Day Two at Lockin'.
I got there during Toots and the Maytals.
And then came my highlight for the weekend when Jason Bonham joined Umphrey's (McGee). They railed off like 5 Led Zeppelin songs that were done sickly. It was so much fun.
I took the liberty of checking out the fairgrounds and checking out the things they have set up like the food and beer during the George Clinton and PFunk set.
I got a veggie burger that sucked. It was supposed to be a Bar-BQ Veggie Burger which I guess it was but it sucked. The beer selection was decent. No Porters though and now that I think of it, there were no Porters made at any of the places where I went to or tried in the area.
The headliner tonight on Day Three was Widespread Panic with this woman named Margo Price. They were excellent. I was way impressed with that Margo Price too. It was a lot of fun.
He just got out of the hospital and I was not sure how he was taking to the food while I was gone. I had to make sure two friends got to the airport because the flight was not until dinner time on Monday. I just could not wait that long considering all we did all weekend was linger from one bar and winery and brewery to another one. (When I got home late AM on Monday, I was pleasantly psyched about how Ocy ate and how he looked...the Mount Laurel Hospital did wonders because he is rivitalized or something (he has a pep in his step)).
When I got to the Wintergreen Resort and then in turn to Day One at the Lockn Festival, I definitely felt run down but at the same time, I also felt great being way out in the country and on top of a mountain.
As a matter of fact, the second time they all went into Umphrey's second set, they played whatever song Lettuce did as the outro as Umphrey's first song but with the members from Lettuce too.
They literally ran around the stage wall to get to the Umphrey's McGee side. It was so cool. I love people that love music. These guys love playing music and it shows.
Late night was JRAD (Joe Russo's Almost Dead band).
They were great but I had one foot out the door during Morning Dew. I will say that they had a ton of people at that show. I say way more than were at Brooklyn but I presume less than when I saw them at Red Rocks last year.
I got there during Toots and the Maytals.
The headliner tonight on Day Three was Widespread Panic with this woman named Margo Price. They were excellent. I was way impressed with that Margo Price too. It was a lot of fun.
Joe Russo's Almost Dead did the late night which they were amazing again.
On Saturday, I hiked 3.4 miles to the top of and above CrabTree Falls to get to the Appalachian Trail.
I got to the Festival late in the afternoon again on Day Three.
I saw and heard the end of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. They are good. I was impressed. I never heard a note of their music ever before. I really was NOT down low for it though. I was on my way down as the stage twirled around.
The Foundations of Funk is an ensemble that celebrates 50 Years of the Meters with George Porter Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Tony Hall, Ian Neville and the music really kicked into a higher gear when John Mayer and Bob Weir came out to play with everyone..
I saw and heard the end of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. They are good. I was impressed. I never heard a note of their music ever before. I really was NOT down low for it though. I was on my way down as the stage twirled around.
The Foundations of Funk is an ensemble that celebrates 50 Years of the Meters with George Porter Jr., Zigaboo Modeliste, Cyril Neville, Ivan Neville, Tony Hall, Ian Neville and the music really kicked into a higher gear when John Mayer and Bob Weir came out to play with everyone..
I cannot remember if I have ever seen the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
I have seen him (Derek Trucks). I am pretty sure I have seen him whenever he had a solo project and I have no doubt seen him play with other people (he did earlier today or yesterday too here at this festival). And I got the demos for her (Susan Tedeschi) back whenever she was shopping for a recording deal.
I hate to be a dick but overall about the band, I was not into it. I feel like he is her lead guitarist. I also feel that her songs are fine but they are just not for me. I see her likeability and her accessibility but I want intense shit happening around me and by that I mean a major guitar driven band. They had signs of it but there were too many lulls and lots of easy crescendos that are really just a waste time.
There were also so many Adult Contemporary types of songs that just bored me while I was anticipating the Dead & Co.
Especially when you consider that they had been off the road for a few weeks and again, slow or fast or I am not sure what people mean by it being slow. Some songs are slow but for me and considering it was day one, this show was perfectly great. They played whatever songs in a very solid way and John (Mayer) was playing with intricacy. It was a lot of fun and slow or not slow, they played well for the most part.
I have seen him (Derek Trucks). I am pretty sure I have seen him whenever he had a solo project and I have no doubt seen him play with other people (he did earlier today or yesterday too here at this festival). And I got the demos for her (Susan Tedeschi) back whenever she was shopping for a recording deal.
I hate to be a dick but overall about the band, I was not into it. I feel like he is her lead guitarist. I also feel that her songs are fine but they are just not for me. I see her likeability and her accessibility but I want intense shit happening around me and by that I mean a major guitar driven band. They had signs of it but there were too many lulls and lots of easy crescendos that are really just a waste time.
There were also so many Adult Contemporary types of songs that just bored me while I was anticipating the Dead & Co.
After their set ended, everything came to a halt whereas I had thought the stage was going to twirl around again and we would be into the Dead & Co.'s first set. But no, it was like pulling teeth watching the stage hands reassemble everything on the stage. They had plastic dividers with drum sets on wheels and finally the final piece was set in place. I gasped out loud that 'jesus christ was that hard to watch.' Some people agreed with me I think laughing including this girl that reminds me of Natalie from The Challenge and from Big Brother whatever it was last year or two seasons ago (when she was on).
Then finally came the Dead & Co. I have been waiting all summer to see them again and though I think the general consensus in any reviews were that the band "slowly," I thought they played very well.
Then finally came the Dead & Co. I have been waiting all summer to see them again and though I think the general consensus in any reviews were that the band "slowly," I thought they played very well.
Especially when you consider that they had been off the road for a few weeks and again, slow or fast or I am not sure what people mean by it being slow. Some songs are slow but for me and considering it was day one, this show was perfectly great. They played whatever songs in a very solid way and John (Mayer) was playing with intricacy. It was a lot of fun and slow or not slow, they played well for the most part.
Especially when you consider the Dead & Co are going to be playing with Branford (Marsalis) tomorrow night or on the next night I should say. Anything was to be an upswing and actually, everything so far had an upswing of progression throughout the Festival.
The late night show was a great one. Lettuce with Eric Krasno back on guitar in his old band and they played all Jerry Garcia tunes. It was called a 'Celebration of Jerry Garcia' and the songs played were his and also some that Jerry popularized when he did his solo albums and solo tours. That set was another highlight. It was great hearing songs that I have not remotely heard in years.
That day, I had stopped at the Devil's Backbone Brewing company where they had dead stuffed animals hanging everywhere (They even had a Ram stuffed by a taxidermist for gods sakes which are we even allowed to shoot Rams?).
This place is more my speed. The ONLY stuffed animal is a stuffed toy placed on top of the television set.
Generally speaking about the people in this area and how they took to people like me (going to the festival), you have to definitely get through a layer to get some form niceness with the people I interacted with over the weekend. I was also looked at like I had five heads everywhere I went and no matter where I went, but in defense of the first place with the taxidermy animals is that I happen to have worn this shirt that day.
Not that it had anything to do with hunting or against hunting but I think I was lumped into that big time. The one woman that worked behind the bar at the Devil's Backbone when asked about what a Cidery was that I happened to have just past, her reply was that 'it is not theirs'.
The day before when I went to get my pool pass, the woman at the front desk was literally shaking her head no before my sentence was done with two words. Luckily, I have learned how to tame things and turn them around like when I was younger rather than escalating things to a bad level and so in both cases, they were great to me in the end. But like I said, as a generalization, I think the people in the western parts of Virginia have huge identity issues. I drove by some house with a Southern Flag hanging off their mailbox. And, then I think there is an element that wants to be known for it being open minded in this area but again, it is torn (Am I from the south or am I from the north because the state is north enough to be called a northern state, yet southern enough to almost be called a southern state). I sense the pull and push that is in the air. In one case when a group of kids came off a party bus, I did not even make eye contact with some of the guys. I can safely say that after saying however many sentences to and from each other that they would want to kick my ass after 1 minute. And, they had arms that were huge so I would have never had a chance there and again, I felt it was fair game whether they wanted to kick my ass or talk to me. The girls asked me question after question and then another set of them kept staring at me but not in a good way where they thought I was a good looking guy. I never felt in danger but I definitely made sure I only spoke when spoken to. Them leaving the bar area I was at was a good relief and it was still early on Sunday.
I had to get to the Fairgrounds by like mid afternoon to see Spafford.
I had to get to the Fairgrounds by like mid afternoon to see Spafford.
After that was done, is basically where it went all wrong for me and I am not sure why I am letting my time on Sunday, overrule how I felt about every day leading up to it.
I just realize that I cannot be doing Festivals.
I need to see my act that I want to see that night and that's it..
I have NOT been to overnight Festival with multiple acts since the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival way back 2004 which in part is why I wrote my first book (Three Weeks in June).
I think that I would rather sit around listening to music over the loudspeaker waiting for the band I want to see to come on stage. Rather than have to deal with watching support acts. Let alone ones that are Adult Contemporary acts as I am leading into seeing a Jam Band or the Dead & Co.
Matisyahu was high energy and a lot of fun.
I just realize that I cannot be doing Festivals.
I need to see my act that I want to see that night and that's it..
I have NOT been to overnight Festival with multiple acts since the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival way back 2004 which in part is why I wrote my first book (Three Weeks in June).
I think that I would rather sit around listening to music over the loudspeaker waiting for the band I want to see to come on stage. Rather than have to deal with watching support acts. Let alone ones that are Adult Contemporary acts as I am leading into seeing a Jam Band or the Dead & Co.
Matisyahu was high energy and a lot of fun.
Same goes with the Blues Traveller. I thought they did really well and moreover, John Popper looks great. He must have lost a shit ton of weight to get him to where he is at today. He played well too. His harmonica playing is still better than many lead guitar work.
Sheryl Crow was fine but again, not today. I am just so not in the mood to see any other music except for the Dead & Co. along with with Branford. I hate to say it but I went to the VIP tent to sit there waiting until the set ended. And then I waited until most of the Tedeschi Trucks Band thing was done before I went back down to find a space down low for the Dead & Co. set.
All that time did was to allow me to observe today's Dead Head.
They are a sad bunch of emboldened tools that would have their head spun if they had actually ever had to sit through the Grateful Dead when Jerry was alive. Holy shit do I feel bad for them but today, I am not sure what it is that annoys me so badly about how these people act or yes I do.
These people have no clue how hard it was being a Dead Head before Touch of Grey broke. It was not fun. When the music started it was great fun but leading up to it and dealing with things afterward was hard back in the early 80's. Our cars would break down on a minute to minute basis all over America. We would have to use things like Food Stamps to eat and Phone cards to be able to live while being on the road every day. The cops and townspeople in every town and in many cities hated us. I tell the Chuck and Gayle story in it and remember Adam Katz?
(From Three Weeks In June: "I begin to tell the Chuck and Gayle story because I am pretty sure Chuck was eventually killed by a cop in a questionable circumstance in Chicago. That was the summer tour in 1983 after the car broke down in Ohio en route to my fiftieth show in St. Paul. I take for granted how young were in high school. They evidently left a bunch of sheets, in some hiding space in a ceiling fixture at their hotel room in Minnesota. They both may have thought each other had grabbed the sheets that previous night after my 50th show. That was the day after the Madison show and the day before the final three shows at the Poplar Creek in Hoffman Estates. There were evidently, hundreds of busts at the first of the three Poplar Creek shows which ended the early part of that summer tour. It was like an After School Special when the local news in this area alerted its’ viewers by interrupting the shows on television and by reporting it on their news casts. They were warning the kids to stay away from stamps laced with LSD. I never saw a report like that on any news before that day, and nor have I ever seen a report like it to this day. They were warning kids not to lick the Mickey Mouse and Sunshine stamps warning viewers to stay away from all stamps as they would refer to the designs on the blotter acid. We continue to wait at the automobile rental agency sitting in the chairs across from the counter. I was staying at the Grand Hyatt back in 1983. I look through the large windows that are built to the left of the counter inside the agency noticing the cars going by up the street. No one had seen either Chuck or Gail since being at my 50th show. Cell phones were not made yet so we had no real way to communicate in the same ways we do today. It was in the middle of the night after the first Poplar Creek show at about 3AM or 4AM. All of us in the room were asleep when FBI agents and local policemen unlock that hotel door. They push open that door barging in the room without knocking and without giving us any notification except, at the drop of a dime, the hotel room went from being pitch dark inside it, to the lights going on scaring the shit out of everyone in the room. They woke us up in the most abrupt way telling us to gather our belongings to leave the room. They escort us into the elevator taking us down to the first floor to an empty part of the lobby towards the back of the hotel. They had us aligned up next to each other with our backs against that wall. I can remember us being near the main parking lot and near some ballrooms. An FBI agent made the threat to throw Tom from Moorestown down a flight of stairs. The agent had a hold of the back of Tom’s neck pushing him to the very edge of the carpeted set of stairs. Tom from Morristown replied to the agent saying that his last name was Jones. I never saw any of those people after that run of shows and the story ends with Chuck evidently getting killed somehow by on off duty cop, or maybe it was by an undercover cop. Gayle designed my favorite New Year’s shirt from the run in 82/83 and I assume she stopped seeing shows after that summer. I ask if he is familiar with Adam Katz who died at a show at the Brendan Byrne Arena. I tell him the story about the dead head that was killed by a few LAPD. I had read about them finding welts the shape of the butt end of a billy club, many inches deep into this one dead guys body, after the released they autopsy report."
I am sure I wrote about how at the Zoo Amphitheatre in Oklahoma City, the cop wanted to take me out line and I am sure what he wanted from me because of my long hair. He did not like it and made no bones about it.
A cop threatened to throw people down stairs in a hotel room and hell, Chuck ended up dead because of all of that happening that summer in 1983.
I went to the Rainbow gathering in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for gods sakes because I had to hitch from show to show since the car I was in broke down. I also went to the Winnipeg Folk Festival that summer and after I was in Iowa for a week or so (I saw Willie Nelson play live there at some minor league baseball stadium) which is where i learned how to juggle pins and everything (4 balls too) mind you, I ended up at Ventura before calling on Roz and Mark (parents) to please help pull me back home for the rest of the summer. I had a layover in Kansas City for a day and so I went to ride the first stand up roller coaster in America at that time in 83. I then walked over to watch a Royals baseball game to check out that Stadium with the water falls out in center field.
They are a sad bunch of emboldened tools that would have their head spun if they had actually ever had to sit through the Grateful Dead when Jerry was alive. Holy shit do I feel bad for them but today, I am not sure what it is that annoys me so badly about how these people act or yes I do.
These people have no clue how hard it was being a Dead Head before Touch of Grey broke. It was not fun. When the music started it was great fun but leading up to it and dealing with things afterward was hard back in the early 80's. Our cars would break down on a minute to minute basis all over America. We would have to use things like Food Stamps to eat and Phone cards to be able to live while being on the road every day. The cops and townspeople in every town and in many cities hated us. I tell the Chuck and Gayle story in it and remember Adam Katz?
(From Three Weeks In June: "I begin to tell the Chuck and Gayle story because I am pretty sure Chuck was eventually killed by a cop in a questionable circumstance in Chicago. That was the summer tour in 1983 after the car broke down in Ohio en route to my fiftieth show in St. Paul. I take for granted how young were in high school. They evidently left a bunch of sheets, in some hiding space in a ceiling fixture at their hotel room in Minnesota. They both may have thought each other had grabbed the sheets that previous night after my 50th show. That was the day after the Madison show and the day before the final three shows at the Poplar Creek in Hoffman Estates. There were evidently, hundreds of busts at the first of the three Poplar Creek shows which ended the early part of that summer tour. It was like an After School Special when the local news in this area alerted its’ viewers by interrupting the shows on television and by reporting it on their news casts. They were warning the kids to stay away from stamps laced with LSD. I never saw a report like that on any news before that day, and nor have I ever seen a report like it to this day. They were warning kids not to lick the Mickey Mouse and Sunshine stamps warning viewers to stay away from all stamps as they would refer to the designs on the blotter acid. We continue to wait at the automobile rental agency sitting in the chairs across from the counter. I was staying at the Grand Hyatt back in 1983. I look through the large windows that are built to the left of the counter inside the agency noticing the cars going by up the street. No one had seen either Chuck or Gail since being at my 50th show. Cell phones were not made yet so we had no real way to communicate in the same ways we do today. It was in the middle of the night after the first Poplar Creek show at about 3AM or 4AM. All of us in the room were asleep when FBI agents and local policemen unlock that hotel door. They push open that door barging in the room without knocking and without giving us any notification except, at the drop of a dime, the hotel room went from being pitch dark inside it, to the lights going on scaring the shit out of everyone in the room. They woke us up in the most abrupt way telling us to gather our belongings to leave the room. They escort us into the elevator taking us down to the first floor to an empty part of the lobby towards the back of the hotel. They had us aligned up next to each other with our backs against that wall. I can remember us being near the main parking lot and near some ballrooms. An FBI agent made the threat to throw Tom from Moorestown down a flight of stairs. The agent had a hold of the back of Tom’s neck pushing him to the very edge of the carpeted set of stairs. Tom from Morristown replied to the agent saying that his last name was Jones. I never saw any of those people after that run of shows and the story ends with Chuck evidently getting killed somehow by on off duty cop, or maybe it was by an undercover cop. Gayle designed my favorite New Year’s shirt from the run in 82/83 and I assume she stopped seeing shows after that summer. I ask if he is familiar with Adam Katz who died at a show at the Brendan Byrne Arena. I tell him the story about the dead head that was killed by a few LAPD. I had read about them finding welts the shape of the butt end of a billy club, many inches deep into this one dead guys body, after the released they autopsy report."
I am sure I wrote about how at the Zoo Amphitheatre in Oklahoma City, the cop wanted to take me out line and I am sure what he wanted from me because of my long hair. He did not like it and made no bones about it.
A cop threatened to throw people down stairs in a hotel room and hell, Chuck ended up dead because of all of that happening that summer in 1983.
I went to the Rainbow gathering in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for gods sakes because I had to hitch from show to show since the car I was in broke down. I also went to the Winnipeg Folk Festival that summer and after I was in Iowa for a week or so (I saw Willie Nelson play live there at some minor league baseball stadium) which is where i learned how to juggle pins and everything (4 balls too) mind you, I ended up at Ventura before calling on Roz and Mark (parents) to please help pull me back home for the rest of the summer. I had a layover in Kansas City for a day and so I went to ride the first stand up roller coaster in America at that time in 83. I then walked over to watch a Royals baseball game to check out that Stadium with the water falls out in center field.
And, that was just like 3 weeks by the way and I saw the Dead with Jerry 381 times in my lifetime.
Again, I think about these people today and I just cannot take them serious at all.
Again, I think about these people today and I just cannot take them serious at all.
Hell, I was a so called Go To Heaven Dead Head. The older Dead Heads that really went through major sub culture changes and progressions, those Dead Heads from the 60's and 70's really did our dirty work. The 60's were hellish in general. Add to that being a true hippie and one that is helping manifest things like thinking freely, acting freely and even things like LSD, yeah, I am sure that did not fare well in most of America.
They were literally changing an entire sub culture along the way. That is NOT easy to do.
They were literally changing an entire sub culture along the way. That is NOT easy to do.
If I felt that having long hair turned heads in the 80's, the 60's and 70's being in that world must have been extra hard.
Now remember with going through tough issues that are gratifying in the long run or in the end, that breeds magic and complete bonds in natural ways amongst people.
And, it happened that way at Dead shows naturally. Think about finding a friend back then in 1983, it was magic because we did not have cell phones. Or, GPS's.
When I called Will Lee to get us on the (David) Letterman set when Bob (Weir) and Jerry (Garcia) were on in 1989, I called using a coin operated pay phone stuck to the Giants Stadium wall (I literally had to trek from Brendan Byrne Arena to Giants Stadium over that walk way to make a call to NYC).
And, it happened that way at Dead shows naturally. Think about finding a friend back then in 1983, it was magic because we did not have cell phones. Or, GPS's.
When I called Will Lee to get us on the (David) Letterman set when Bob (Weir) and Jerry (Garcia) were on in 1989, I called using a coin operated pay phone stuck to the Giants Stadium wall (I literally had to trek from Brendan Byrne Arena to Giants Stadium over that walk way to make a call to NYC).
Now people form bonds in Mexico on a beach watching these bands on Xtacy today (while also spending thousands of dollars) and I am sorry but that bond is just not deep. Now, are they real. There is no way that many of these people that I saw swaying back n' forth to the music at these shows are ultra deep.
Most of them do NOT even move. They stand there with folded arms backing up into other people (namely me). Some literally do not move. Or, the most they do when the actually move to the music is when they sway left and right a few inches each way during the entirety of the song.
I had to leave this one area that I was in because it miserable down there.
I have been in the trenches at festivals with 50K, 60K, 88K people and down low on the rail at Lemon Wheel and at many Festivals Phish has done but people move so you can deal in a very free and easy way. If you stand there doing nothing, whomever is going to hit you or vise versa and it also backs one up which has that trickle outward or domino effect.
I have been in the trenches at festivals with 50K, 60K, 88K people and down low on the rail at Lemon Wheel and at many Festivals Phish has done but people move so you can deal in a very free and easy way. If you stand there doing nothing, whomever is going to hit you or vise versa and it also backs one up which has that trickle outward or domino effect.
Even when I went out for clearer grounds to rock out in a more free manner, I was still stomped on and nailed a few times. It was mind boggling and maybe it was because the music was indeed slow. If the music was maybe over the top than people can have no time or reason to stand still or to walk the hell around in between other people during when music is playing.
Maybe the fans were correct because I was absolutely disappointed. I thought the second set and the encore was absolutely fine but like I am alluding to here, I was so over It. I wanted out. I could not wait until the music ended so I could get back up to my house rental on the hill, and then in turn get back home after driving 5 1/2 hours the next AM.
I also cannot wait to get back into kickboxing. I have not kicked anything in over a week and a half or in two weeks maybe (I think I went to use the bag in between Watkins Glen and Lockin but it was literally only for one hour tops).
Other than that, my company is rolling like a machine. I have a few more major things to tie up this quarter and then I will roll into the fourth quarter to end the year.
We are also charting on the JUNO Download Jazz charts.
They are of an amazing act I put out this summer before I left town so that's working a bit.
And, the Sunset Music International Group has done well over a million in sales of downloads and whatnot.
We got the theme song for the Ohio State Buckeyes ('Thee Anthem' by Kapital A) and the OBP (Original Black Pantah) is playing Disney's Animal Kingdom. A Mister Sir track is being picked up to be used in some movie being deemed as some Metallica sound alike.
It is very exciting these days and for me to say that about this godforsaken music division, you know it is rolling like a machine now.
I just need to get this done so I can deal with getting a major motion film made at the Sunset Film Co.
And, I am revamping and growing the Sunset Vending Co. and the Vending Lot along with growing the Sunset Home Visual Entertainment company and Live Jam 107 (new shows coming soon).
Talk to ya guys...Thanks!
We are also charting on the JUNO Download Jazz charts.
They are of an amazing act I put out this summer before I left town so that's working a bit.
And, the Sunset Music International Group has done well over a million in sales of downloads and whatnot.
We got the theme song for the Ohio State Buckeyes ('Thee Anthem' by Kapital A) and the OBP (Original Black Pantah) is playing Disney's Animal Kingdom. A Mister Sir track is being picked up to be used in some movie being deemed as some Metallica sound alike.
It is very exciting these days and for me to say that about this godforsaken music division, you know it is rolling like a machine now.
I just need to get this done so I can deal with getting a major motion film made at the Sunset Film Co.
And, I am revamping and growing the Sunset Vending Co. and the Vending Lot along with growing the Sunset Home Visual Entertainment company and Live Jam 107 (new shows coming soon).
Talk to ya guys...Thanks!