Look at that , almost three weeks since the last post. Sorry folks, been crazy crazy busy interrupted by significant upsets to my sanity. Maybe a cause and effect going here? We are on our way to the Tristan Miller Music Festival, put on by the parents of Tristan Miller, a 17!year old student at … Continue reading On the way to the gig…
So, there's been a lot of stuff going on the past few months and it's stuff that I don't have any direct personal experience with. So a lot of it has been made up on the fly using best judgment. For instance, booking a show at a decent sized venue with a well known name … Continue reading How To Overcome The Unknown
Another banner week in the annals of holding down a few different jobs... So much good stuff going on for a band I'm managing. TV Interview with local news station - found here. Sold out first headline show - found here. Made contacts with a potential large partner that loves what the band is doing … Continue reading What a week …
What you are looking at it in this picture was my view this past Friday night. The gym is the same gym President Trump was in less than one week previous as mentioned in this previous post. These kids, freshmen to seniors, have just spent one week at band camp about an hour away from … Continue reading Friday Night Lights!!
I'm at home on a workday because I just didn't get enough sleep last night, feel a cold or something catching up to me ... It's been a busy few days on top of all that. Monday . . .back from festival in Pennsylvania - Tuesday ... Coordinating a bunch of last minutes details for … Continue reading Well, that caught up with me …
So the travel day caught up with me yesterday. By the time it had all been shut down, it didn’t leave much time to catch a few zzz’s. Still had some other commitments and didn’t get to bed until around 11pm and a whole other full time job mixed in there. Ah well... Still … Continue reading Not Enough Sleep!!! Oh well, oh well.
The day mostly ended seeing two Goodyear blimps cruising over the skies of Akron. The other passengers in my car joked that they must be racing each other. I thought it reminded me of watching the submarine races from the TV show "Happy Days". There, I've dated myself. We immediately started looking for couples … Continue reading Well, that was a good day…
"I'll find out in a few hours if I'm part of the greeting committee", read the text from a friend of mine. This friend is also a director of a summer festival where I am the music director. He's also involved in public service. So the backstory is that President Trump is coming to … Continue reading Hello Mr. President … Pleased to meet you(?), Hope you guess my name…
This is just a post of me griping about me and why I havne’t been posting each day... 5 days between posts isn’t gonna get it done! For some reason, it’s like I have to make the perfect post, or have an awesome witty thing to say, or life lesson to pass on. Here’s … Continue reading What happened to document and deliver?
So I'm on most of the well known social media platforms and try to post out as much as I can, I think. I'm still feeling my way around the cadence and timing of posting and what to post and when .. but that's for another time. Facebook recently reminded me of a really cool … Continue reading Anniversaries and memories . . remember that time when? Or Wolf Alice’s Joff Oddie is the next great sound architect …
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