Well we had a great time at the benefit and I hope all of you who were there enjoyed the show. A gigantic thanks to all the performers, Susana who organized it, and Cozmic for donating the space to make it happen. We raised more than our goal amount, the raffle and silent auction were huge successes. And our belly dancers were just awesome!
Wow, the past couple of weeks have just been crazy as we’ve continued auditions for Psychanaut plus getting our acoustic/electric set ready for the Cozmic Pizza benefit July 29. Tonight we’re trying out some congas and hand drums which will be an alternate to our normal trap kit for this show.
We’ve just confirmed a benefit to help raise funds for wildlife and bird rescue in the BP Gulf Oil Disaster. As you know, I’ve been doing all I can to help out, and what I do best is music…so here it is.
July 29th Thursday night at Cosmic Pizza, Psychanaut will be playing, there will be performances by belly dancers (and we’re working on having dancers to some of our songs too, thanks to the fabulous Barbie Gregg), And another performer or band will be added to the lineup soon. Luckily, Susana Romatz is organizing the event, and I’ve heard that there are wonderful goodies being donated from local stores for lucky people to win in a raffle.
It just feels so great to be able to join together with other caring, talented people in working together to help out. I’m looking forward to meeting more wonderful people as we network together to make a great show!
Please mark your calendars early and PLEASE bring as many people as you can. We’ll have a lot of fun while helping our precious wildlife in this time of dire need. Rockin the Rescue!
Yes, I’m getting all your emails and messages on myspace and facebook asking “when is the next show?” Some of you are worried, some of you are a bit annoyed, and some of you are just really wanting the music and miss us. We miss you too. I love hearing from you, it really touches me that so many of you care enough to write…
This Saturday “not yet Psychanaut” will be playing at Happy Hours from 8-12! Brian, Daemon and I will be performing with rhythm section provided by Axel Fleming and Joel Root.
We’ll perform some stuff on acoustic guitars, some on electric, and some blended tunes with a bit of both. Brian will do some slide guitar work as well.
The collection of players for this show is a rather loose confederation brought together by synchronicity rather than design! There may eventually be a keyboardist, and backing members may change as we find the right fit. Axel and Joel don’t know all of the original material, so just for this show we’ll be playing some extra covers/remakes, including some stuff you’ve requested over the years.
That means that I’ll sing a Heart tune and a Stevie Nicks song, and maybe even a bit of Tina Turner, as well as some Van Halen and other rock stuff that we’ve done in Rock Scarlet. Daemon and I will do a duet on Battle of Evermore and a unique presentation of Breathe by Pink Floyd… and more.
Due to the newness factor and holiday season minimal rehearsal time, we did not make fliers or advertise this show (we’re still pondering whether to send out an email to the list) so for those of you who happen to come out, this should be a rather unique show…a “secret show” of sorts.
Let’s see what happens and have some fun!
Last Friday, we had that show booked at Goodfellas. That day, Richie called and said that he’d booked a flight leaving at 5AM, and couldn’t do the show since we’d be playing till 2AM. Uh oh!
Well, we wouldn’t cancel a show with that short of notice (unless we were deathly ill or worse). No matter where the venue, we wouldn’t leave our fans hanging, or the venue without a band; so we had to do some quick thinking.
Brian spoke with Richie and it appeared for a while that Richie would play drums with us till midnight… but somehow communication got confused. Mike came and picked up the band’s house drum set (so Richie wouldn’t have to set anything up). But then later he talked to Richie who had decided he couldn’t make it at all – so Mike didn’t bring the drum set to Goodfellas and assumed the band simply would not play – and he disappeared with the drum set in his car.
Here’s the poster for Friday’s show… hope to see you there! We’ve had to cancel the Nov 21st show, so this is our only November show. We’ll be looking for YOU.
Oh, and check out the previous post if you’re interested in Friday the13th original tradition of good luck and love!
I’ve begun updating the lyrics page at scarletjinn.com/lyrics.html – having added some songs such as Circus that we don’t do often enough at the live shows. I have been quite remiss in adding to that page and I’m attempting to correct that. There are probably 5-6 songs that weren’t posted there before, and more to come.
Some of you have been asking about new songs, and YES! – we are writing/arranging a bunch of new tunes – some of which we’ve started tossing into live shows, such as Seven Wonders. As we play the clubs/bars, we realize that some people want to hear some familiar tunes to dance to, and we’ve added a few more remakes to meet these requests. (It also keeps the bars happy, since dancers buy a lot of beer!) But it’s a delicate line that we tread, and our balancing act is not without stumbles.
Rock Scarlet will be playing Happy Hours in Eugene this Saturday. Happy Hours has changed their music schedule, so we’ll start at 8PM instead of 9PM.
We’re looking forward to seeing you there…four sets of rockin fun 