Year Three – Day 165 – August 20th 2011
Boston, Massachusetts
I wake up in the morning and I'm pretty pumped. Why? Cause tonight we're gonna play in Boston.
If you've been reading this blog over the past two plus years you'd know how important this particular city is to me. From the concert tour I didn't get to do in 8th Grade to ending up there as a singer for Bang Camaro, to our first show there a few months back. I have a special relationship with this particular place, mainly because it has treated us so well since I've started playing there.
Kyle's behind the wheel we go pick up Jake and off we go. I had some concerns about leaving so late but at this point I;m figuring as long as we get there on time to play none of the other stuff matters. The ride up was quiet, peaceful. Being able to deal with silence is such an important thing out here especially with solitude in such short supply.
According to Steve Marchion, the plans for Boston were drawn by a Drunken Toddler with Crayons on an Applebee's place mat. I'm startign tot hink he's right. When we got to the street that the club is on we drove around in circles for like half an hour before finding out it was actually down an alley.
The alley way had several bars lined up inside of it. It sort of reminded me of a mini olde city. Lots of scantly clad women out looking for some dancing and a good time. Something that I full intend to provide. We load into the bar and I run into an old friend Allie Carroll. She's someone that I flat out dig but I rarely see. It's her birthday today and she spends a lot of time up here, I didn't put two and two together to figure out that she would be up here this weekend. She had a bunch of friends with her...score.
Alex (Bang Camaro/Township) was the next person I saw, that dude can't really escape his rock starness, he has that intangible, that rock and roll spirit most of us wish we had. Star quality exudes from him even when he's sitting on a stool. I'm always happy to see him, my memories of him from Camaro and beyond always come rushing back, it's a relationship I'm glad I've maintained.
Mayte would be the last (but definitely not least) we're pretty tight and I'm glad she lives in Boston and not San Diego. That girls like 15 kinds of awesome. She's one of those people that if she says she's comin...she'll be there. Something that is always appreciated.
Danielle Ashley was playing when we arrived. It was hard to hear her over the noise but I can think of a few rooms at home she'd go over pretty well in. She does a good job at drawing you in once you start to pay attention, her cover of blackbird was especially striking. She stopped around 11 and it was time for us to set up. By 11:15 we were on
Set List
Slowdance
Get Me To California
Body
Baby One More Time
Ex-Girlfriend
Wasted
Private School Girl
Happy Birthday
Never Gonna Give You Up
Surrender
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Feels So Good
Billie Jean
(I Think We Should) Breakup
Hoochie Coochie Man
Psycho
By the time we hit the Funk part of the set the bar was PACKED and I was seeing Dance Moves from people I had never seen before. People were into it, I was a little afraid but a bunch of girl shakin their asses never hurt any one...especially the one who grabbed my mic stand, bent down and popped her but...this was very comical. For a moment in time we had whipped the crowd into a frenzy. When we were done being Funky a lot of the crowd left and we finished the set.
Then we were given shots by the bar tender and asked to play a few more songs...Sure.
Encore
The Way You Make Me Feel
Walking on The Moon
300 Miles Away
Everyone at the club seemed to like us a lot, they want us to come back and play regularly, which is awesome. There was an attempt to go to Bryn's birthday but that attempt failed epically.
Our adventures on the road are really giving me a sense of what people like and don't like depending on what we're playing. Suggesting a musical direction that I had not yet thought about. We've got one more run before I shut the caravan down for a month or two to write new songs. We've got some heat so I would love to use that creatively in the studio. I'll keep you posted.
I have two downstairs shows at World Cafe Live this week so I have to gear up and get ready for them should be an interesting close to the summer .
Monday, August 29, 2011
Boy Wonder: Professional Musician 281
Year Three – Day 163 – Thursday August 18th 2011
New York
Man we've been on the road a lot this summer. Tonight is New York and it's just like old times. Rob's behind the wheel and we're traveling three hours to get to a gig.
New York's always been tough. I have friends but historically hadn't been able to get them out but this year has seen a change of fortunes, finding venues and bookers that like us, pay us, and promote our shows. But New York is a major market and I can't completely ignore it. Playing regularly in New York if nothing else helps with perception.
Tonight's the Shrine in Harlem. We've played here before, we like it and generally there's a built in crowd to supplement the draw that we have here. So going up there and rocking is usually no problem. I look around the big blue van and marvel at how this has become old hat in the past few years. We've toured enough period and have toured enough together where every one's used to gettign in the car and going somewhere, playing great, and then going home.
We arrived and kicked it with the clientele. There was a girl next to me at the bar, Anya, not bad looking but I was completely turned off once she started talking. She was an actor you see, one of the bitter ones, New York does that to folks of the thespian persuasion. New York's and acting mecca and there just isn't enough work out there and that would make a person bitter.
Soundcheck, which didn't help, happened about five minutes before the show started. We played about an Hour
Slowdance
Get Me To California
How Can This Be Love
Ex-Girlfriend
Surrender
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Feels So Good
Hoochie Coochie Man
Psycho
We had a nice little crowd at the front by the time we were done, the last show was better but The Shrine is still one of my favorite places to play in New York other than Santo's which I'm dying to get into.
We drove home shortly after and all I can think about is the Saturday show in Boston, who would be there and how hard I intend to rock it.
New York
Man we've been on the road a lot this summer. Tonight is New York and it's just like old times. Rob's behind the wheel and we're traveling three hours to get to a gig.
New York's always been tough. I have friends but historically hadn't been able to get them out but this year has seen a change of fortunes, finding venues and bookers that like us, pay us, and promote our shows. But New York is a major market and I can't completely ignore it. Playing regularly in New York if nothing else helps with perception.
Tonight's the Shrine in Harlem. We've played here before, we like it and generally there's a built in crowd to supplement the draw that we have here. So going up there and rocking is usually no problem. I look around the big blue van and marvel at how this has become old hat in the past few years. We've toured enough period and have toured enough together where every one's used to gettign in the car and going somewhere, playing great, and then going home.
We arrived and kicked it with the clientele. There was a girl next to me at the bar, Anya, not bad looking but I was completely turned off once she started talking. She was an actor you see, one of the bitter ones, New York does that to folks of the thespian persuasion. New York's and acting mecca and there just isn't enough work out there and that would make a person bitter.
Soundcheck, which didn't help, happened about five minutes before the show started. We played about an Hour
Slowdance
Get Me To California
How Can This Be Love
Ex-Girlfriend
Surrender
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Feels So Good
Hoochie Coochie Man
Psycho
We had a nice little crowd at the front by the time we were done, the last show was better but The Shrine is still one of my favorite places to play in New York other than Santo's which I'm dying to get into.
We drove home shortly after and all I can think about is the Saturday show in Boston, who would be there and how hard I intend to rock it.
Boy Wonder: Professional Musician 280
Year Three Day 150 – August 5th 2011
It's 4 am and I must be lonely...I think that's right...the time at least. This reminds me of our first tour through the mid west; get up early, drive 9 hours, play a show, find a hotel room, sleep, get up, and do it all over again.
10 Hours to DC. The most focused Drive ever, constantly looking at Tom Tom hoping that the arrival time is the actual arrival time. I'd panic everytime one of us had to pee.
We got there around 5 and went up one flight of stairs...this place is too small for us to do a full on show. I remember back to the emails exchanged with the booker for the room asking if there was room for a band of my size and her responding oh yes of course. I immediately decided we'd play a quieter Set tonight.
Steve Marchion Got a Chance to Open...Dude's getting better and better and if I have anything to do with that I'm glad.
Set List
SlowDance
How Can This Be Love
Get Me To California
Surrender
Ex-Girlfriend
Wasn't Supposed to Be This Way
(I Think We Should) Breakup
We Definitely Cut the Set Short as to not wear out our welcome...all the people at the venue were super cool and we wanted to get out of their way. Casey was there, He and Julie just moved to DC it was like we still lived in the same city. A few hours later we left headed towards home.
As we drove we realized the headlights were out, the first real problem we've had with the van since we started using it for the tours. I'm aware that it isn't exactly the lap of luxury, but it runs, I'm thankful to have it. Someday maybe we'll get a sweet vehicle with a trailer which would be amazing.
Steve decided to drive with the blinkers on, we hit a bump and the lights come back on.
As Steve and I are talking in the car approaching Philly I settle into my seat and reflect. This particular tour was hard. I've grown comfortable touring the midwest, people like us there and come see us when we're in town or at least people are out when we go places and we can win them over and it just wasn't as strong in any of the three cities we played. I need to do a better job of getting us in front of people.
I laugh to myself because I look around and all of this is as routine as getting up and pooping in the morning. I started this journey almost three years ago and the question then was “Do I have what it takes?” and once I answered that question so many more popped up some stupid like “ Should I get a pair of red jeans?” and more profound stuff like “Will I ever get that break or opportunity that would really put me and the boys over the hump?”
One thing's for sure, I'm dying to write new songs.
It's 4 am and I must be lonely...I think that's right...the time at least. This reminds me of our first tour through the mid west; get up early, drive 9 hours, play a show, find a hotel room, sleep, get up, and do it all over again.
10 Hours to DC. The most focused Drive ever, constantly looking at Tom Tom hoping that the arrival time is the actual arrival time. I'd panic everytime one of us had to pee.
We got there around 5 and went up one flight of stairs...this place is too small for us to do a full on show. I remember back to the emails exchanged with the booker for the room asking if there was room for a band of my size and her responding oh yes of course. I immediately decided we'd play a quieter Set tonight.
Steve Marchion Got a Chance to Open...Dude's getting better and better and if I have anything to do with that I'm glad.
Set List
SlowDance
How Can This Be Love
Get Me To California
Surrender
Ex-Girlfriend
Wasn't Supposed to Be This Way
(I Think We Should) Breakup
We Definitely Cut the Set Short as to not wear out our welcome...all the people at the venue were super cool and we wanted to get out of their way. Casey was there, He and Julie just moved to DC it was like we still lived in the same city. A few hours later we left headed towards home.
As we drove we realized the headlights were out, the first real problem we've had with the van since we started using it for the tours. I'm aware that it isn't exactly the lap of luxury, but it runs, I'm thankful to have it. Someday maybe we'll get a sweet vehicle with a trailer which would be amazing.
Steve decided to drive with the blinkers on, we hit a bump and the lights come back on.
As Steve and I are talking in the car approaching Philly I settle into my seat and reflect. This particular tour was hard. I've grown comfortable touring the midwest, people like us there and come see us when we're in town or at least people are out when we go places and we can win them over and it just wasn't as strong in any of the three cities we played. I need to do a better job of getting us in front of people.
I laugh to myself because I look around and all of this is as routine as getting up and pooping in the morning. I started this journey almost three years ago and the question then was “Do I have what it takes?” and once I answered that question so many more popped up some stupid like “ Should I get a pair of red jeans?” and more profound stuff like “Will I ever get that break or opportunity that would really put me and the boys over the hump?”
One thing's for sure, I'm dying to write new songs.
Boy Wonder: Professional Musician 279
Year Three – Day 149 – August 4th 2011
I woke up in a car
I look around
Steve's to my left awake and driving (Good Thing) Jake and Rob are asleep in the back. Laughter is abound as we wake up and head to a Waffle House in the Carolinas for breakfast. One of the things that I've always thought was essential to making this thing work is that we have a core group of people that genuinely like each other.
I'm still blown away by the owner of Mojo Main's reception to our show, not because he thought we we're good (cause I think we're good) but that he would walk through the rain to tell us that. That's a place we might play again.
After a meal and several off color jokes we head toward Atlanta a place I haven't seen in over two years. The last time was with Camaro, and it wasn't pretty, Tequila, Cougars, Old Strippers, and the like. I remember feeling off about the city itself, but I also remember Atlanta as a musical hotbed, at least it was ten years ago. This is where John Mayer came to make it among so many others that used to call Atlanta home. I was happy that my friend Elizabeth lives down here, finally a connection.
We arrived at the Masters Inn around 3 and truthfully it looks a little sketchy but as long as the rooms are clean and I don't see anyone carrying out a corpse in a trash bag I'm cool. I need rest and I can feel my voice slipping away from me. I turn on pardon the interruption and I let those guys put me to sleep for an hour at least.
I wake up around 7 and shower, my phone is ringing off the hook because along with the pressure of performing in a new market for the first time the HYPE! has a show at World Cafe Live Tonight and for the first time I'm not there to run the show. As far as booking and hosting go it's probably my favorite venue to do shows at. But I left Man Wonder (The Nickname That Someone Gave My Father) in charge of the proceedings. It's the closest thing to me being there, we are definitely similar people and most of the things I learned about managing people and performances I learned from him. But as many parents can tell you, you can leave the best babysitter in the world with your child and you are still gonna worry, but once I got the call from Chris telling me the show was running on schedule I was able to shift focus to the work here in the ATL.
We arrived at The Music Room at Vesuvius around 7:30, loaded in, ate pizza and sat around for a bit waiting on word when to start. I hugged Elizabeth cause she got me the gig and she rules pretty hard on a 24/7 basis. Jake suggests we tune to E flat (he's been especially good with the ideas on this tour) so that's what happens. When we're given the cue we start
Set List
Ex-Girlfriend
Superhero
Get Me To California
Slowdance
Surrender
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Baby One More Time
Psycho
I spend most of the show lost at sea, there's no monitor so I can't hear if I'm singing properly, the guitar was out of tune most of the time and to tell you the truth I spent most of the gig just not really being all that comfortable on-stage. The boys were amazing and the last three songs I had finally gotten my bearings. I was greeted by the few of the members of the audience, good show I was told. It's almost harder to be gracious when someone tells you you've done well when you think you haven't than the other way around.
After the show we were treated to a set by The Swear. I can't say enough about Elizabeth Elkins as a vocalist and songwriter. To do Folk/Coutnry and then turn around and hit you with the Heavy Rock, it's not an easy thing to do. I really love her and Vanessa (Olivarez) a lot, the fact that musicians and songwriters of that caliber have anything to do with me is pretty awesome. During the set I got a phone call basically sayign that The World Cafe Live show was a smashing success so good feelings all around.
As we get in the car and head for the hotel I reassess. The crowds haven't been great like they are in the Midwest but that's to be expected. This is my first trip through and I have to start somewhere. Next time things will be better and we'll find some cities to play in that work and add them to the ATL where we'll build off of what we had last night.
Next time I'll take the boys to Claremont
I woke up in a car
I look around
Steve's to my left awake and driving (Good Thing) Jake and Rob are asleep in the back. Laughter is abound as we wake up and head to a Waffle House in the Carolinas for breakfast. One of the things that I've always thought was essential to making this thing work is that we have a core group of people that genuinely like each other.
I'm still blown away by the owner of Mojo Main's reception to our show, not because he thought we we're good (cause I think we're good) but that he would walk through the rain to tell us that. That's a place we might play again.
After a meal and several off color jokes we head toward Atlanta a place I haven't seen in over two years. The last time was with Camaro, and it wasn't pretty, Tequila, Cougars, Old Strippers, and the like. I remember feeling off about the city itself, but I also remember Atlanta as a musical hotbed, at least it was ten years ago. This is where John Mayer came to make it among so many others that used to call Atlanta home. I was happy that my friend Elizabeth lives down here, finally a connection.
We arrived at the Masters Inn around 3 and truthfully it looks a little sketchy but as long as the rooms are clean and I don't see anyone carrying out a corpse in a trash bag I'm cool. I need rest and I can feel my voice slipping away from me. I turn on pardon the interruption and I let those guys put me to sleep for an hour at least.
I wake up around 7 and shower, my phone is ringing off the hook because along with the pressure of performing in a new market for the first time the HYPE! has a show at World Cafe Live Tonight and for the first time I'm not there to run the show. As far as booking and hosting go it's probably my favorite venue to do shows at. But I left Man Wonder (The Nickname That Someone Gave My Father) in charge of the proceedings. It's the closest thing to me being there, we are definitely similar people and most of the things I learned about managing people and performances I learned from him. But as many parents can tell you, you can leave the best babysitter in the world with your child and you are still gonna worry, but once I got the call from Chris telling me the show was running on schedule I was able to shift focus to the work here in the ATL.
We arrived at The Music Room at Vesuvius around 7:30, loaded in, ate pizza and sat around for a bit waiting on word when to start. I hugged Elizabeth cause she got me the gig and she rules pretty hard on a 24/7 basis. Jake suggests we tune to E flat (he's been especially good with the ideas on this tour) so that's what happens. When we're given the cue we start
Set List
Ex-Girlfriend
Superhero
Get Me To California
Slowdance
Surrender
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Baby One More Time
Psycho
I spend most of the show lost at sea, there's no monitor so I can't hear if I'm singing properly, the guitar was out of tune most of the time and to tell you the truth I spent most of the gig just not really being all that comfortable on-stage. The boys were amazing and the last three songs I had finally gotten my bearings. I was greeted by the few of the members of the audience, good show I was told. It's almost harder to be gracious when someone tells you you've done well when you think you haven't than the other way around.
After the show we were treated to a set by The Swear. I can't say enough about Elizabeth Elkins as a vocalist and songwriter. To do Folk/Coutnry and then turn around and hit you with the Heavy Rock, it's not an easy thing to do. I really love her and Vanessa (Olivarez) a lot, the fact that musicians and songwriters of that caliber have anything to do with me is pretty awesome. During the set I got a phone call basically sayign that The World Cafe Live show was a smashing success so good feelings all around.
As we get in the car and head for the hotel I reassess. The crowds haven't been great like they are in the Midwest but that's to be expected. This is my first trip through and I have to start somewhere. Next time things will be better and we'll find some cities to play in that work and add them to the ATL where we'll build off of what we had last night.
Next time I'll take the boys to Claremont
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Boy Wonder: Professional Musician 278
Year 3 Day 148 – August 3rd 2011
Back on the Road Again...The First Tour of The South...Second If You Count The SXSW Tour in 2010.
It's a Four Day run with the big show happening in Atlanta and it seems that leaving Philadelphia is (logistically) the hardest thing to do when I'm trying to hit the road. There are so many things to take care of before leaving that I often forget something, this time it was toll money and the AC Converter for the Laptop. Oy!
Jake, Rob, Steve (Marchion), and I left around 9:30 on our way to Mojo Main In Newark Delaware. With the Van working we got there, albeit a lot later than we would normally arrive someplace. I bolt into the venue and look frantically for the sound guy. I find him.
Me: Hello I'm in the last band...I'm just wondering where we would load in at
Sound Guy: Excuse Me?
Me: Hello -
Sound Guy: First Introduce Yourself
Me: Hello I'm in Boy Wonder...
I Shake his Hand
Me: I'm just wondering where we would load in at
Sound Guy: Oh just go in the middle door
Me: Sorry we're late
Sound Guy: Oh don't worry about it.
We waited about an hour and we played.
Set List
Ex-Girlfriend
Wasn't Supposed To Be This Way
The Way You Make Me Feel
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Feels So Good
(I Think We Should) Breakup
Psycho
I could feel a cold coming on. The room was practically empty and dwindling by the minute, we were left with an older gentlemen who thought we were the bees knees. Although we were killer I chalked the gig up to a loss and was ready to pack up and leave Newark with the little confidence I had left.
As we were pulling out a gentlemen in a green shirt walks through the rain and I rolled down the window. Turns out he owned the place. Said he loved the set and how we put on a good show despite the fact that no one was there, he was gushing, I was floored. It was a good thing Jake was quick enough to hand the guy a CD...I was too busy being shocked. He wants to bring us back during the school year for a paying gig with a crowd. So the show's not a total loss.
We leave under the cover of night on our way to ATL, when we get to the hotel I plan on taking a bunch of Cold Medicine and going to bed, the rocking out with The Swear
Back on the Road Again...The First Tour of The South...Second If You Count The SXSW Tour in 2010.
It's a Four Day run with the big show happening in Atlanta and it seems that leaving Philadelphia is (logistically) the hardest thing to do when I'm trying to hit the road. There are so many things to take care of before leaving that I often forget something, this time it was toll money and the AC Converter for the Laptop. Oy!
Jake, Rob, Steve (Marchion), and I left around 9:30 on our way to Mojo Main In Newark Delaware. With the Van working we got there, albeit a lot later than we would normally arrive someplace. I bolt into the venue and look frantically for the sound guy. I find him.
Me: Hello I'm in the last band...I'm just wondering where we would load in at
Sound Guy: Excuse Me?
Me: Hello -
Sound Guy: First Introduce Yourself
Me: Hello I'm in Boy Wonder...
I Shake his Hand
Me: I'm just wondering where we would load in at
Sound Guy: Oh just go in the middle door
Me: Sorry we're late
Sound Guy: Oh don't worry about it.
We waited about an hour and we played.
Set List
Ex-Girlfriend
Wasn't Supposed To Be This Way
The Way You Make Me Feel
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Feels So Good
(I Think We Should) Breakup
Psycho
I could feel a cold coming on. The room was practically empty and dwindling by the minute, we were left with an older gentlemen who thought we were the bees knees. Although we were killer I chalked the gig up to a loss and was ready to pack up and leave Newark with the little confidence I had left.
As we were pulling out a gentlemen in a green shirt walks through the rain and I rolled down the window. Turns out he owned the place. Said he loved the set and how we put on a good show despite the fact that no one was there, he was gushing, I was floored. It was a good thing Jake was quick enough to hand the guy a CD...I was too busy being shocked. He wants to bring us back during the school year for a paying gig with a crowd. So the show's not a total loss.
We leave under the cover of night on our way to ATL, when we get to the hotel I plan on taking a bunch of Cold Medicine and going to bed, the rocking out with The Swear
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Boy Wonder: Professional Musician 277
Year 3 - Day 99 – June 15th 2011 – Philadelphia PA
Let me preface this list with a quick story then we'll get into it straight away
I have a twitter page http://twitter.com/boywonderocks
I've never really used it for much other than show promotion and the occasional Random ass thought. I never got why people tweeted so compulsively until I came across the trending topic #NameAsongAndAddWithMyPenis. For some reason I found this funny probably because inside I'm still around 10. I was floored at how easy it was to come up with some really funny ones that kind of made sense. So in between all my work stuff yesterday I kinda went nuts. So for your viewing pleasure here is my complete list of
Name A Song And Add With My Penis
Oops I did it again With My Penis
Pleasure Pleasure With My Penis
Slow Dancing In a Burning Room With My Penis
"Let's Do It" (Right This Time) With My Penis
Ten Years Gone With My Penis
Finally Got It Right With My Penis
Tea In The Sahara With My Penis
No Sleep Til Brooklyn With My Penis
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) With My Penis
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin With My Penis
A Moment Like This With My Penis
U Can't Touch This With My Penis
Play That Funky Music With my Penis
Let's Go Crazy With My Penis
I Kissed a Girl With My Penis
She Will be Loved With My Penis
Massive Attack With My Penis
Heal The World With My Penis
Sittin on The Dock of the Bay With My Penis
Ain't Too Proud To Beg With My Penis
Who's That Girl With My Penis
Come out and Play With My Penis
Dj got us Fallin In Love With My Penis
Party and Bullshit With My Penis
Wind Cries Mary With My Penis
Under The Bridge With My Penis
I Hope You Dance With My Penis
Kung Fu Fighting With My Penis
Rolling In The Deep With My Penis
Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely With My Penis
Under The Sea With My Penis
Ease On Down The Road With My Penis
A Whole New World With My Penis
What a Feeling With My Penis
Back In Time With My Penis
Walking On The Moon With My Penis
She Came in Through The Bathroom Window With My Penis
Across The Universe With My Penis
Bad Romance With My Penis
I Saw Her Standing There With My Penis
It wasn't long till others joined in the fun here are some of my favs from others
Karley Cohen
Learn To Fly With My Penis
Take It Easy With My Penis
Hand In My Pocket With My Penis
Wild World With My Penis
8 Days A Week With My Penis
Since You've Been Gone With My Penis
Hella Good With My Penis
Jake Dean
I Don't Dance With My Penis
I Drink Alone With My Penis
The Way You Make Me Feel With My Penis
Lay Down Sally With My Penis
Uncontrollable Urge with My Penis
Whip It With My Penis
Satisfaction With My Penis
Give Me Shelter With My Penis
Street Fighting Man With My Penis
Zach Dean
Norweigan Wood With My Penis
Keep The Car Running With My Penis
Mean Mr. Mustard With My Penis
Simple Kind Of Man With My Penis
Twist and Shout With MyPenis
Hard Days Night With My Penis
I'm Only Sleeping With My Penis
P.Y.T. With My Penis
Joe Bisirri
Come Together with My Penis
You Can't Always Get What You Want with My Penis
Salute Your Solution with My Penis
Brian Fitzgearld
Yah Mo B There With My Penis
It's Not Easy Bein Green With My Penis
Bad Moon Rising WIth My Penis
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic With My Penis
And Finally Some New Ones
Mama Said Knock You Out With My Penis
Fur Elise With My Penis
Beautiful Day With My Penis
On The Floor With My Penis
The Show Goes On With My Penis
Endless Love With My Penis
Dancing on the Ceiling With My Penis
Hard To Say I'm Sorry With My Penis
Say Say Say With My Penis
We Built This City With My Penis
How Do You Talk To An Angel With My Penis
One Sweet Day With My Penis
Truly Madly Deeply With My Penis
Livin La Vida Loca With My Penis
Say It Right With My Penis
Love The Way You Lie With My Penis
The Lady In My Life With My Penis
A Long Walk With My Penis
Heard Em Say With My Penis
Something's Missing With My Penis
The Space Between With My Penis
Don't Speak With My Penis
Simple Kind of Life With My Penis
That's What You Get With My Penis
Brick By Boring Brick With My Penis
The Harder They Come With My Penis
Everybody Hurts With My Penis
Ain't No Stoppin Us Now With My Penis
Killing Me Softly With My Penis
Walk On The Ocean With My Penis
Be Good To Yourself With My Penis
Keep On Loving You With My Penis
I'll Be There With My Penis
I Wanna Be Where You Are With My Penis
Sittin Up In My Room With My Penis
It's Gonna Be Me With My Penis
This I Promise You With My Penis
Smooth Operator With My Penis
Separate Ways With my Penis
Bittersweet Symphony With My Penis
What More Can I Say With My Penis
Anyways I had a lot of fun, just taking a day to get a little silly so I don't go a lot crazy. Maybe we'll do this again sometime with something else...I promise I'll be serious tomorrow
Let me preface this list with a quick story then we'll get into it straight away
I have a twitter page http://twitter.com/boywonderocks
I've never really used it for much other than show promotion and the occasional Random ass thought. I never got why people tweeted so compulsively until I came across the trending topic #NameAsongAndAddWithMyPenis. For some reason I found this funny probably because inside I'm still around 10. I was floored at how easy it was to come up with some really funny ones that kind of made sense. So in between all my work stuff yesterday I kinda went nuts. So for your viewing pleasure here is my complete list of
Oops I did it again With My Penis
Pleasure Pleasure With My Penis
Slow Dancing In a Burning Room With My Penis
"Let's Do It" (Right This Time) With My Penis
Ten Years Gone With My Penis
Finally Got It Right With My Penis
Tea In The Sahara With My Penis
No Sleep Til Brooklyn With My Penis
(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) With My Penis
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin With My Penis
A Moment Like This With My Penis
U Can't Touch This With My Penis
Play That Funky Music With my Penis
Let's Go Crazy With My Penis
I Kissed a Girl With My Penis
She Will be Loved With My Penis
Massive Attack With My Penis
Heal The World With My Penis
Sittin on The Dock of the Bay With My Penis
Ain't Too Proud To Beg With My Penis
Who's That Girl With My Penis
Come out and Play With My Penis
Dj got us Fallin In Love With My Penis
Party and Bullshit With My Penis
Wind Cries Mary With My Penis
Under The Bridge With My Penis
I Hope You Dance With My Penis
Kung Fu Fighting With My Penis
Rolling In The Deep With My Penis
Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely With My Penis
Under The Sea With My Penis
Ease On Down The Road With My Penis
A Whole New World With My Penis
What a Feeling With My Penis
Back In Time With My Penis
Walking On The Moon With My Penis
She Came in Through The Bathroom Window With My Penis
Across The Universe With My Penis
Bad Romance With My Penis
I Saw Her Standing There With My Penis
It wasn't long till others joined in the fun here are some of my favs from others
Karley Cohen
Learn To Fly With My Penis
Take It Easy With My Penis
Hand In My Pocket With My Penis
Wild World With My Penis
8 Days A Week With My Penis
Since You've Been Gone With My Penis
Hella Good With My Penis
Jake Dean
I Don't Dance With My Penis
I Drink Alone With My Penis
The Way You Make Me Feel With My Penis
Lay Down Sally With My Penis
Uncontrollable Urge with My Penis
Whip It With My Penis
Satisfaction With My Penis
Give Me Shelter With My Penis
Street Fighting Man With My Penis
Zach Dean
Norweigan Wood With My Penis
Keep The Car Running With My Penis
Mean Mr. Mustard With My Penis
Simple Kind Of Man With My Penis
Twist and Shout With MyPenis
Hard Days Night With My Penis
I'm Only Sleeping With My Penis
P.Y.T. With My Penis
Joe Bisirri
Come Together with My Penis
You Can't Always Get What You Want with My Penis
Salute Your Solution with My Penis
Brian Fitzgearld
Yah Mo B There With My Penis
It's Not Easy Bein Green With My Penis
Bad Moon Rising WIth My Penis
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic With My Penis
And Finally Some New Ones
Mama Said Knock You Out With My Penis
Fur Elise With My Penis
Beautiful Day With My Penis
On The Floor With My Penis
The Show Goes On With My Penis
Endless Love With My Penis
Dancing on the Ceiling With My Penis
Hard To Say I'm Sorry With My Penis
Say Say Say With My Penis
We Built This City With My Penis
How Do You Talk To An Angel With My Penis
One Sweet Day With My Penis
Truly Madly Deeply With My Penis
Livin La Vida Loca With My Penis
Say It Right With My Penis
Love The Way You Lie With My Penis
The Lady In My Life With My Penis
A Long Walk With My Penis
Heard Em Say With My Penis
Something's Missing With My Penis
The Space Between With My Penis
Don't Speak With My Penis
Simple Kind of Life With My Penis
That's What You Get With My Penis
Brick By Boring Brick With My Penis
The Harder They Come With My Penis
Everybody Hurts With My Penis
Ain't No Stoppin Us Now With My Penis
Killing Me Softly With My Penis
Walk On The Ocean With My Penis
Be Good To Yourself With My Penis
Keep On Loving You With My Penis
I'll Be There With My Penis
I Wanna Be Where You Are With My Penis
Sittin Up In My Room With My Penis
It's Gonna Be Me With My Penis
This I Promise You With My Penis
Smooth Operator With My Penis
Separate Ways With my Penis
Bittersweet Symphony With My Penis
What More Can I Say With My Penis
Anyways I had a lot of fun, just taking a day to get a little silly so I don't go a lot crazy. Maybe we'll do this again sometime with something else...I promise I'll be serious tomorrow
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Boy Wonder: Professional Musician 276
Year 3 – Day 88 – June 4th 2011 – Chicago, Illinois
I wake up in a hotel in Minneapolis, I'm exhausted.
This isn't the way I normally do things
This thing has grown to the point where I can't possibly do everything myself, I need help so I have to develop a new muscle...knowing the right people and surrounding myself with them. In this business you encounter a lot of mouth runners, folk that talk a good game and may even mean well but they can't get anything done. Unfortunately it's often too late before you realize who's just talking smack.
As we journeyed to Chicago I find myself still trying to call the guy that booked me for the show tonight. I've been furiously emailing him all week long and still nothing. Tis of course makes me nervous, I have a hotel booked, a van full of gear, and possibly no gig. I confirmed before I left but never heard anything about set times, opening acts, etc. and as we inch closer and closer to the Windy City I'm sweating bullets like a semi-automatic.
So finally I get the booker on the phone.
Me: Hey
Booker: What's up?
Me: We're on our way to Chicago and I'm just wondering when load in is and all that.
Booker: Oh! I've been meaning to call you and talk to you. I don't work at The Tonic Room anymore.
Me: Excuse me?
Booker: Yeah, but I handed off your information to the new guy
Hangs up
I call Booker #2
Booker 2: Yeah
Me: Hello?
Booker 2: I'm at a street festival what's up?
Me: Boy Wonder from Philadelphia, wondering about load in tonight.
Booker 2: Oh yeah man call the owner he'll be able to tell you when load in is and all that.
Me: Don't you know?
Booker 2: Nah not really.
My opinion of myself as a booking agent back home has increased exponentially after these two conversations. I may not be the best booker on earth (or even in Philly) but compared to these two I could teach a college course
I was able to get in touch with the owner and we were able to load in. He informed me that we were the only act scheduled to play tonight...Ugh. There were no other bands on the bill meaning there would be no one there outside of the few friends and fans I have in Chicago if they can even make it. Apparently the guy booked me in the room and quit the next day never informing me and basically hanging me out to dry. Who does that?
We set up the gear and a few people walked in and as I looked around I remember words that Bryn told me on my very first tour “Whether it's 3 or 300, you rock the show just as hard!” I basically decided that we were going to play lights out for the people that turned up.
Set List
Batman Theme
Superhero
God May Forgive You But I Never Will
Ex Girlfriend
New/Untitled Song
Surrender
How Can This Be Love
Always Givin Me The Blues
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Feels So Good
(I Think We Should) Breakup
Psycho
Encore
Walking on The Moon
Wasn't Supposed To Be This Way
Billie Jean
Ain't No Way
Baby One More Time
And much like the rest of these dates on tour (aside from Minneapolis) the place was packed as we were wrapping up our intended set. We end up playing for 30 extra minutes or so and by then end the crowd was dancing and when we were done they pretty much left.
I'm realizing more and more how good this act in it's current form actually is. I thought my playing and singing tonight was pretty strong (Jake and Rob are always good) I need to get it more exposed in these different markets. If I can get more people there I know we can deliver a great show and get a buzz going. I just need to find the right person to partner up with in each city. This is something I will be going over in my head for quite sometime upon my return home
We ended the night dancing the night away at a few clubs in Chicago. It was a great opportunity to meet some of the natives and see what it was all about. We had a great time and Mexican food for the 3rd day in a row.
Indianapolis is tomorrow, last stop, we'll finish strong.
I wake up in a hotel in Minneapolis, I'm exhausted.
This isn't the way I normally do things
This thing has grown to the point where I can't possibly do everything myself, I need help so I have to develop a new muscle...knowing the right people and surrounding myself with them. In this business you encounter a lot of mouth runners, folk that talk a good game and may even mean well but they can't get anything done. Unfortunately it's often too late before you realize who's just talking smack.
As we journeyed to Chicago I find myself still trying to call the guy that booked me for the show tonight. I've been furiously emailing him all week long and still nothing. Tis of course makes me nervous, I have a hotel booked, a van full of gear, and possibly no gig. I confirmed before I left but never heard anything about set times, opening acts, etc. and as we inch closer and closer to the Windy City I'm sweating bullets like a semi-automatic.
So finally I get the booker on the phone.
Me: Hey
Booker: What's up?
Me: We're on our way to Chicago and I'm just wondering when load in is and all that.
Booker: Oh! I've been meaning to call you and talk to you. I don't work at The Tonic Room anymore.
Me: Excuse me?
Booker: Yeah, but I handed off your information to the new guy
Hangs up
I call Booker #2
Booker 2: Yeah
Me: Hello?
Booker 2: I'm at a street festival what's up?
Me: Boy Wonder from Philadelphia, wondering about load in tonight.
Booker 2: Oh yeah man call the owner he'll be able to tell you when load in is and all that.
Me: Don't you know?
Booker 2: Nah not really.
My opinion of myself as a booking agent back home has increased exponentially after these two conversations. I may not be the best booker on earth (or even in Philly) but compared to these two I could teach a college course
I was able to get in touch with the owner and we were able to load in. He informed me that we were the only act scheduled to play tonight...Ugh. There were no other bands on the bill meaning there would be no one there outside of the few friends and fans I have in Chicago if they can even make it. Apparently the guy booked me in the room and quit the next day never informing me and basically hanging me out to dry. Who does that?
We set up the gear and a few people walked in and as I looked around I remember words that Bryn told me on my very first tour “Whether it's 3 or 300, you rock the show just as hard!” I basically decided that we were going to play lights out for the people that turned up.
Set List
Batman Theme
Superhero
God May Forgive You But I Never Will
Ex Girlfriend
New/Untitled Song
Surrender
How Can This Be Love
Always Givin Me The Blues
Sexy Machine
I Don't Dance
Feels So Good
(I Think We Should) Breakup
Psycho
Encore
Walking on The Moon
Wasn't Supposed To Be This Way
Billie Jean
Ain't No Way
Baby One More Time
And much like the rest of these dates on tour (aside from Minneapolis) the place was packed as we were wrapping up our intended set. We end up playing for 30 extra minutes or so and by then end the crowd was dancing and when we were done they pretty much left.
I'm realizing more and more how good this act in it's current form actually is. I thought my playing and singing tonight was pretty strong (Jake and Rob are always good) I need to get it more exposed in these different markets. If I can get more people there I know we can deliver a great show and get a buzz going. I just need to find the right person to partner up with in each city. This is something I will be going over in my head for quite sometime upon my return home
We ended the night dancing the night away at a few clubs in Chicago. It was a great opportunity to meet some of the natives and see what it was all about. We had a great time and Mexican food for the 3rd day in a row.
Indianapolis is tomorrow, last stop, we'll finish strong.
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