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JANUARY 2010

Happy New Year! Thank you for all your support and love. I almost made my goal of 150 gigs in 2009. I met so many wonderful people and musicians. Rekindled some old friendships, and solidified new ones. I proved to myself that I AM a solo player, I fell in love with my Martin. ZiGZaG is really cookin now, and the band got an agent...the time has come for Outta State Plates. I got a feelin 2010 is gonna rock!

New Year's Day...I watched movies ALL DAY and RELAXED for the first time in MONTHS...it was great. I look forward to time off...and get so antsy when I am not playin...so two days later, I played at the Circle-A Cafe for the Sunday Alive at 8 music series. Bill the Fan brought Rosettes to share...with seven shots....good times.

Lookin at some time off in January but a few things are goin on....the band recorded twelve songs for a demo, mp3s should be ready at the end of the month. Still singing every Sunday at SLGM with Whitebird. Rehearsals with the band every week, and once a month with Randy and Mambo.

I am playing solo at the Bella Caffe on Friday January 15th...it's Gallery Night in Milwaukee and the weather is supposed to be good so I am really lookin forward to tryin out some new tunes there.

ZiGZaG is gonna be a the Redstone Pub and Grill on the 22nd...it's in downtown Waukesha...a new place for us....we would love to see you there. I happily return to the Nice Ash on January 30th. What a fun place...HUGE room, cigars, hookahs, cocktails and great people!

Check the Calendar for more information. Coming in February ZiGZaG is gonna rock the Latest Edtion on the 5th, I am playing a solo matinee at Joyce Parker Productions on the 6th, and return again to The Nice Ash on the 20th...ciao!

DECEMBER 2009

Behind again with the journal...holidays depress the hell outta me...Scrooge, no...Bohemian, yes...enough about the holly jolly crap.

Randy and I started December with a ZiGZaG private party gig. The year before when we played on that date, we battled blizzard conditions on the ride home from Watertown, this year...we were in 'Tosa and it was almost sixty degrees...now that was darn nice! We had a great time playin for the folks and their party...

I caught a bad cold right after Thanksgiving...thought I had it beat and then WHAM...cough, hack, cough...the bronchitis took hold...brutal. I had to cancel four gigs cause I absolutely could not SING...bum me out. Finally, after lotsa rest, chicken noodle soup, Jagermeister and Emergen-C...oy.....I started comin outta the woods after three weeks of croakin and hackin...yeesh!

I played the Bella Caffe and boy did it feel good to sing...still a little weak but a good warm up for the band gig the next night. The Outta State Plates blew the doors off of Conway's. Packed house....Our other singer, Tom Charney, had the ladies swoonin' with his rendition of All My Only Dreams. Hell I needed a cigarette when he was done...the boy was HOT! I think our version of White Rabbit was pretty well received too....we encourage you to feed your head. Keep an eye out for more gigs with the OSPlates...We are recording a demo in January and have an agent...we are ready to RAWK!

I performed for T.Lee's Art Show Reception at the Fixx Coffeehouse in St Francis...wonderful crowd...we weren't sure because this is Packer country and there was a big game on, but a lot of folks showed up...T.Lee sold a couple of pieces of art...I had an audience...and got my portrait painted by Milwaukee poet/artist Tim Kloss...how effin cool is that?

Later in the month, Doctor Mambo and I played a ZiGZaG gig together at Sprizzo without the Reverend Randy...(schedule conflict). We had a special guest opener Roxie Beane with her cool soulful tunes (damn that girl is good). A fun night although don't think some of those other folks in the scene quite know how to take me. Well here's a little message for ya'll... I don't abide drama so you don't have to worry about me goin off...but in the future, you might wanna think twice about toyin with somebody's mixing board without askin...especially somebody you don't even know...I'm just sayin.....

Celebrated the Winter Solstice at Seven Seas and their Solstice Party. Hung out with Roxie, Stormy and Ms. Cream...Had some good chow...mmmmm...Had a cocktail and sat alone at a table listening to the other performers and watching everyone else texting....it was trippy, real trippy.

ZiGZaG took home December with a party for Doctor Mambo...yes there was a blizzard...yes there was ice...yes we got "mambosized" and had a BLAST! Happy Birthday Mambo! Night of nights! Food, booze and pup dogs everywhere...and generous folks who were ready to party and really appreciated the music!

T.Lee and I played the Christmas Eve Candle Lighting Service for SLGM. I did a solo version of "I Don't Know How To Love Him". Never played that to such a receptive crowd before. We also played New Years Eve for the annual Release Ceremony...then we went out for New Year's Eve dinner with some really dear friends...we had a great time (it was sooooo COLD). We got home before midnight....I spent New Year's Eve with my Facebook friends...it was really cool...maybe you think that sounds pathetic...but it was one of the best New Year's Eve I ever had...LOL!

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