Check out our band

[chickenlittle]

Hey you guys check out our myspace music page yeah!
Go to myspace and type smokinjoesrbshow and laugh if ya want hahaha
we even have some live video
cheers

[Swamp Gas]

Who's Gonna Fill Dem Shoes?

Nice R & B, and I played in 1970 in a similar band called "Boneyard" back in NJ. We were doing R & B, rock, and Jazz, but I would add synthesizer to the music, and the bass player was from a big band.

Noble Gas joined as friends, but here is our myspace page:

www.mypace.com/noblegas2

[chickenlittle]

Thanks Swamp that means a lot coming from you.
I wish we had a keyboard for that great Hammond Leslie sound ,that is really missing.
But it is mainly for fun, I am just so happy that after playing for some 20 odd years FINALLY am doing a song by the ever great Judy Roderick and really I am quite unhappy with that particular performance.
we had other songs on up till last night and changed to these because of a different drummer, I think that made him happy
take care
chicky

[Swamp Gas]

What the heck...Get a good live mix, send it to me, and I'll add a Hammond to a song of yours...

I thought the playing was good, and Theta was impressed by your singing, as she like myself, have R & B influences among the many other types that have inspired us over 50+ years of playing and composing. I know it is hard not to be critical on yourself, as Stravinsky himself was never 100% satisfied, and thought he could have done something better. However, for 40 - 70 year olds like ourselves and friends, it is ultimately important to keep playing. The art and music is a life force, and I guess in some people, just hang it up. Could be children, finances, inconfidence, wrong reasons initially, whatever. But to keep playing actually stimulates oxygen uptake to the brain. Like reading and writing, music activates the mathematical/spatial part of the brain that goes dormant in most of the population. Now combine that with Ginseng, Gingko Biloba, Gotu Koal, Lecithin, and Hydergine, and we can still be totally functioning into our 90s and beyond.

On a sort of side note, We always liked Michael Jackson, and was listening to some of his more obscure tunes as well as the pop things. I have to say again, he combined Funk, Soul, R & B, Rap, Reggae, Rock, Metal, New Wave, Techno, Classical, Soundtrack, and Jazz into one collective entity. He was a gentle soul that was used by slimy people of all types...lawyers, gold-diggers, accountants, doctors, promoters, an scam artists. I do not believe he molested anyone, and the time is not to mourn, but be influenced by his wonderful synthesis of multi-art forms.

[chickenlittle]

That would be very cool ,will do when I get it together.
chicky