South By Southwest
Wednesday - the first official day of South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, TX. I met up with Juli Newton Griffith, my plugger at Magic Mustang and Shannan Neece & John Mullins of SESAC. We ate at Kenishi on Colorado - wonderful sushi and we all shared the tempura fried ice cream for dessert. Yum.
After dinner, John and I went over to 6th Street to the center of the action. While we were walking around deciding what shows to see - Trevor Gale from the New York office of SESAC sent me a text message asking me to come over to Antone's to see an artist he was working with who was playing there.
John and I jumped into a cart pulled by a guy on a bicycle. The one we chose was special because the operator had an iPod hooked into the speakers in the canopy over the passenger cart and played wonderful music as he pedaled down alleys to avoid the closed 6th Street. We made it to Antone's just as the band was playing their final chords. Darn!
I told Trevor that he is good for my heart - seeing him genuinely excited about the artists he represents. He was taking photos and rocking out at the shows. He actually listens - and even more remarkably - he actually gets it.
Thursday, I went to the SESAC showcase at Gibson. I got to meet Don, the head of coach operations and he gave me a tour of the Gibson bus. It was the coolest. There is a room inside with amps set up and an SG velcro-ed to the wall. I was rocking out in there when a camera crew came in shooting a promotional video.
The showcase was great - very talented guys.
After, Melody, Nicki and I went back to the hotel to wait for my sound man, John Napier to arrive. We worked on my promo packages until he got there with his sister, Audrey. She gave him a hair cut while we finished the assembly.
Later, we went down to the hotel lobby where people were sitting around playing guitar and hanging out. It was a good night.
Friday, the film crew showed up around 10. We got started and everybody was acting like fish in a bowl. We started getting more relaxed as the day went on.
Matthew Burgess, my percussionist took me to the music store to get a green strap for St. Patty's Day (which turned out to be a disaster! It was so tight it ate my pickup plug!).
The show went great!! Everyone was wonderful. I met lots of new people and played my butt off. I even broke a string as the last chord of my set sounded! What a finale! Al Anderson was wonderful as usual as was Jon Nicholson. I really appreciate the opportunity to play with such wonderful musicians.
Angela & Stephen got 7 hours of HD footage which we will use for various purposes including a Music Video!! Whee doggie.
I can't wait to see what happens next! Thanks to everyone who made the show possible: Kristen Jackson for printing our beautiful packages & business cards, Juli Newton Griffith for printing all the CDs, Shannan Neece & John Mullins at the Nashville office of SESAC, Jim Yerger, Benny Brown & Paul Brown from BBR for helping me get out there to Austin, Matthew Burgess for driving all the way there by himself, John Napier for being the best sound man ever, Audrey Napier for keeping John in line ;), Melody Guy for being my friend & cowriter, Nicki Hayford - my assistant in training & Mr Jack for executive producing our video project, Angela & Stephen for making filming so foxxxy, Windswept for helping organize the show, & of course - Trevor Gale for everything.
After dinner, John and I went over to 6th Street to the center of the action. While we were walking around deciding what shows to see - Trevor Gale from the New York office of SESAC sent me a text message asking me to come over to Antone's to see an artist he was working with who was playing there.
John and I jumped into a cart pulled by a guy on a bicycle. The one we chose was special because the operator had an iPod hooked into the speakers in the canopy over the passenger cart and played wonderful music as he pedaled down alleys to avoid the closed 6th Street. We made it to Antone's just as the band was playing their final chords. Darn!
I told Trevor that he is good for my heart - seeing him genuinely excited about the artists he represents. He was taking photos and rocking out at the shows. He actually listens - and even more remarkably - he actually gets it.
Thursday, I went to the SESAC showcase at Gibson. I got to meet Don, the head of coach operations and he gave me a tour of the Gibson bus. It was the coolest. There is a room inside with amps set up and an SG velcro-ed to the wall. I was rocking out in there when a camera crew came in shooting a promotional video.
The showcase was great - very talented guys.
After, Melody, Nicki and I went back to the hotel to wait for my sound man, John Napier to arrive. We worked on my promo packages until he got there with his sister, Audrey. She gave him a hair cut while we finished the assembly.
Later, we went down to the hotel lobby where people were sitting around playing guitar and hanging out. It was a good night.
Friday, the film crew showed up around 10. We got started and everybody was acting like fish in a bowl. We started getting more relaxed as the day went on.
Matthew Burgess, my percussionist took me to the music store to get a green strap for St. Patty's Day (which turned out to be a disaster! It was so tight it ate my pickup plug!).
The show went great!! Everyone was wonderful. I met lots of new people and played my butt off. I even broke a string as the last chord of my set sounded! What a finale! Al Anderson was wonderful as usual as was Jon Nicholson. I really appreciate the opportunity to play with such wonderful musicians.
Angela & Stephen got 7 hours of HD footage which we will use for various purposes including a Music Video!! Whee doggie.
I can't wait to see what happens next! Thanks to everyone who made the show possible: Kristen Jackson for printing our beautiful packages & business cards, Juli Newton Griffith for printing all the CDs, Shannan Neece & John Mullins at the Nashville office of SESAC, Jim Yerger, Benny Brown & Paul Brown from BBR for helping me get out there to Austin, Matthew Burgess for driving all the way there by himself, John Napier for being the best sound man ever, Audrey Napier for keeping John in line ;), Melody Guy for being my friend & cowriter, Nicki Hayford - my assistant in training & Mr Jack for executive producing our video project, Angela & Stephen for making filming so foxxxy, Windswept for helping organize the show, & of course - Trevor Gale for everything.
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