Jake runs the night ( and has been for the last 6 or so years) , and it was is birthday, so a heap of people rocked up to rock it out and celebrate with him, and that they did, musicians as well as punters.
Unfortunately I couldn't hang around after midnight as I had my Friday morning music therapy session to run, the clients were great, they were in a singing dancing, participating mood, so it was really enjoyable seeing them have such a great time and hopefully (fingers crossed) there is another respite organization interested in employing my services for some midweek sessions which would work out really well at the moment.
Friday afternoon Jennifer and I did our now regular cafe gig, and this time instead of playing to a spattering of clientele, there were two full groups booked plus a few friends which we invited to pop in, so it turned out to be a good night. The highlight was that a friend of ours Col turned up with his fiddle, and played along with us, it really sounded great. so I hope that he decides to join us more often, it was really great to have him there, he is an awesome musician.
On Saturday, Jen and I were asked to play at a charity gig for a cancer group who were organising a fundraiser to buy a transport bus, we weren't too sure what to expect, but it was a good function with a really good audience. There were a few other musicians asked as well so we had a little impromptu band happening, so it worked out real well.
The fundraiser was held in a private backyard with stage, dance area and seating, so it was a good little set up, and the weather was absolutely magnificent. The function was booked ticket sales only, so I was surprised when Dave and Robina (a few muso friends who regularly turn up here for a jam and recording sessions), showed up. Funny thing was they were walking down the side of the house and recognised my keyboard playing... well there you go, they were quite surprised when he saw Jennifer and myself on stage.
After around 5 hours of playing and singing, both Jen and I had pretty well had it, but we still had one more thing to attend to, Jake had his official party at 'the farm' where he lives, so were rocked up there for a few hours, caught up with some friends we had not seen for some time, but unfortunately had to leave early as he were totally buggered.
Jen spent Sunday relaxing whilst I spent it making wall plaques of some of my musician friends from photo's I had taken to put up on the studio wall. I ended up with around 25 plaques, and am now I just need to put the rest of them them up.
Today I had the gang over for a improv session, Wayne, Billy, Dave, Robina and Col all rocked up with instruments in hand, we had a great time, but unfortunately no finished product. We started on a tune Dave and Robina had been working on over the last few days, but got bogged down a bit with the technicalities of it and ran out of time. But it will definitely be an ongoing project.
Well that just about wraps up this interzone report but I am going to leave you with something real special, Dave told me about a TV special that Alice Cooper had filmed back in 1975 for the release of Welcome to my Nightmare, apparently it has never been released on DVD. I Love the Nightmare album, so I searched the web for this TV special, and it was well worth it. The links for the are below... enjoy, I did.
Cheers Ecca.
Part 1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5T93X2VW
Part 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VZ1DQZV5
Part 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G6VL5G75
