Welcome, welcome, welcome!
OK, well, I started this blog MUCH earlier today, but kept letting myself get sidetracked with reading teenage vampire books, hockey playoffs, kids coming and going, reading. I need to get this done before midnight tonight! No, not because of vampires, but...you'll see in another couple sentences.
Well, I am very excited about having a website! Elisa (my better half) has been cracking the whip, yet again (I LOVE it when she does that...oh, beHAVE!), for me to get more exposure here in the cyber-world. I'm down with it, so, here we go.
First order of business, and the reason to get this done before midnight tonight, is that today is my sister Peg's birthday, and I want to wish her a happy b'day here while it IS still her birthday. She was the brains in our family; graduated valedictorian from her high school, was a chemistry major in college and she MARRIED a rocket scientist! Well, almost. He's a professor of chemistry, a professor of research and associate Vice-Chancellor at East Carolina University. Happy Birthday, sis!
Today, I am still VERY proud of my 11 yr old, Kaylie, for her successful gymnastics meet yesterday. It was just a mock meet with the girls at her gym, but she came in 1st Place in 2 out of only 4 events for girls in her level (4)! I thought she was good, and I AM biased, so this was reassuring. Nice work kiddo.
And 'Thanks' to those who have been helping support her to stay in the program. She really IS applying herself. By the way, Elisa has posted some pictures of Kaylie at the meet on her Facebook site.
I have received a couple song demos in the last few days to consider for myself that I am pretty excited about in my search for some new material, and I am considering some of my favorites from one of my old friends, Chris Pelcer. He's the Australian writer who's songs I was involved in putting together a band around some years ago, after my tour with Chicago. One of the songs we used to do was "Whatever Gets You Through", which ultimately (for Chris) ended up on one of my brother's CD's. I recently dug out the original demo Chris and I recorded with me singing and one of these days I'm giong to post it for you on MySpace or here, or somewhere, so you can check it out. The sound of the recording is a little rough, and Chris could never keep his guitar in tune!
I have been in touch with other songwriters who's demos I loved, and have them posted on my MySpace site, Jeff Silverman and Mark LeVang, and hope to have something new in the works very soon. Along with this, I'm working on putting together a new band.
Finally, I'm done for tonight! Peace.
