Greetings all, another week has come and gone in a year that seems to be disappearing by the day. (Probably because it is) A mere six months from today another Christmas will have come and gone. See, now you'll start appreciating summer by the time you finish reading this week’s Blog
With the holiday weekend rapidly approaching we only have one event booked this week. We will be appearing for a single outdoor show this Sunday at the infamous “Central Hotel" in Nineveh. The Show starts at 3:00pm under the pavilion. As always, pack along a beach chair in your car just in case.. And bring the sun block (think positive)
Backing up a bit, let’s review last week’s shows. Last Thursday night we were once again scheduled to play Up to the Hitchin' post for “Bike Night” - "Cans and Clams" and once again we were rained out. It’s such a shame as we love outdoor shows and come next year’s booking season one of our goals are to explore more of them in our summer series.
Friday evening was another scheduled outside show that had to be moved indoors, this time at Dino's on Conklin Road in Binghamton. The indoor show went well but the issue that we have with these summer shows is that we tend to bring the "Big Guns" (equipment wise) for the outdoor shows and when the venues take a different curve and we play indoors, it becomes a bit of overkill in many senses.
We do try our best not to blow you all away with our sound and in those cases and we do put extra effort into delivering a fine quality musical experience for all. Sounds convincing doesn't it?
Then on to Saturday, the weekend being graduation weekend which held so many different events for so many different people. Everything from golf at the “Dicks Open” to “Crusin' Pallooza” makes it very difficult to go up against that format and then throw in graduation weekend, you got a cluster group going on there for sure.
I also conducted a graduation party up to the ranch this weekend and also celebrating my first year of martial bliss as well. The weather was less than perfect but that didn't stop the fifty or so hardy partiers that showed up anyway. The barbeque and Catering by "Patrick" himself was phenomenal. There are no finer array of Garlic knots and homemade Carrot cake to be had anywhere in the kingdom. Thanks Pat, also Cindy for that awesome lemon pudding.
As the day wore on the sun did make an appearance and by early evening the fire-pit was set a roaring. (It was kind of difficult to start with two inches of water all around the base of the pit, but the boys endured) With everything as wet as it was we were all forced to park roadside and that's a first for the fest in six years. Oh well it all worked out fine. We had some pickin' and grinnin’ going on that day and it was good to see many of the returners - return and we also made some new friends as well. And as quickly as it began, it was over by midnight. Yes, “All my Rowdy friends have indeed have settled down" It still has Little Stevie jumping for joy as we announced the 2012 party date. But we're already planning 2012 and we're going back to the original week date once again, and that date will be June 16th, so mark it on your calendar now so you can make next year’s.
And as we close another weekend of events I've had numerous folks ask about the new album "Back To Basics" and what's happening with it. Here's the deal, we have cover art and pictures that need to be done yet and some of the track work still needs to be completed and quite frankly we ran out of cash to finish it.
So at this point it looks like our release date will be sometime this fall. Look at it this way you will be able to give a copy or two to all of your friends and family come Christmas Time.
I would also like to wish a very Special Congratulations to Matt as his finishes High School and now heads off to college. On to phase two. Best of luck from the Short Change Band!
Have a safe holiday weekend and we hope to see you folks while we are out on the road this summer.
Be well, peace and love,
Mikee Dee^^
No comments:
Post a Comment