saint frinatra, kulcha far i, stoney bass
caught saint frinatra at fred's last friday and noticed the fiery young cat on 6-string bass. his fellow instrumentalist lee allen informed me that his name is jozef bobula and he's from slovakia. further research revealed that jozef is a product of saxophonist tim ishii's jazz program at texas wesleyan, and specifically lou carfa's instruction. (he also plays in a christian rock band called, um, destination known.) i now have a whole new perspective on twu as a music school. hopefully tim will be able to get something similar happening at uta now that he's there (although he regrettably was unable to keep joey carter on his faculty).
kulcha far i _to' it up_ at the black dog that night. these guys are sounding better and more profoundly groovin' every time i hear 'em, and they gave the confusatron crowd ample opportunity to get their dance on. they're currently taking seven weeks off for bassist john shook to go explore europe (using amsterdam as his home base, go fig) and roots 'n' kulcha frontguy chris hakata to visit family and perform at some zimbabwean festivals over in the merrie olde. (hmmm, perhaps their absence will give ron geida and jeffrey williams motivation to show up at the wreck room jam on a few wednesdays? we live in hope.) after that, they plan to _finally_ release their long-anticipated new c.d. safe travels to john and chris.
because i suck, i missed the alan show at the moon last saturday. one of my nieces from new jersey was in town and i was having too much fun listening to her, my dtr and her friends kick it at our house to wanna go anyplace else.
sunday we briefly fell by the stoney bass memorial tribute (coincidentally, it also woulda been stoney's birthday) at the keys lounge, where stoney's experimystics bandmates johnny mack, james hinkle, gunzi trevino, and a cast of thousands were holding forth. as the little keys was pretty packed, we only stayed long enough to shove some money in the jar to help stoney's family out with his med expenses and give johnny mack a pic of stoney that kat took at hinkle's mardi gras bash last year. only thing i could really say is that stoney sure had a lot of friends.
kulcha far i _to' it up_ at the black dog that night. these guys are sounding better and more profoundly groovin' every time i hear 'em, and they gave the confusatron crowd ample opportunity to get their dance on. they're currently taking seven weeks off for bassist john shook to go explore europe (using amsterdam as his home base, go fig) and roots 'n' kulcha frontguy chris hakata to visit family and perform at some zimbabwean festivals over in the merrie olde. (hmmm, perhaps their absence will give ron geida and jeffrey williams motivation to show up at the wreck room jam on a few wednesdays? we live in hope.) after that, they plan to _finally_ release their long-anticipated new c.d. safe travels to john and chris.
because i suck, i missed the alan show at the moon last saturday. one of my nieces from new jersey was in town and i was having too much fun listening to her, my dtr and her friends kick it at our house to wanna go anyplace else.
sunday we briefly fell by the stoney bass memorial tribute (coincidentally, it also woulda been stoney's birthday) at the keys lounge, where stoney's experimystics bandmates johnny mack, james hinkle, gunzi trevino, and a cast of thousands were holding forth. as the little keys was pretty packed, we only stayed long enough to shove some money in the jar to help stoney's family out with his med expenses and give johnny mack a pic of stoney that kat took at hinkle's mardi gras bash last year. only thing i could really say is that stoney sure had a lot of friends.
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