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  After my partner Kelly left the trio for reasons of LOVE and home improvement (he got a beautiful new house but it's kinda unfinished on the inside, and a beautiful new girlfriend who is quite nicely finished inside and out) Bob, seeing the chance to greatly expand his role in the band,  insisted on playing just the two of us.  So we started making tracks and learning songs.  But I did enjoy taking last year off to have some fun,  stop and look around.  Actually,  moving kinda slowly towards playing this year too,  still having problems with my finger from last year's little biking accident,  depicted authentically below:

OK, i put the bears in there in Photoshop.  And the guy on the bike isn't really me (how could he be a hot shot biker with those skinny little legs),  but EVERYTHING else is totally accurate.  I collided with my dog in the woods, went over the top of the bike and tore a ligament in my middle finger, still having trouble using it.   Don't care,  trail biking with Riley is a blast,  eventually I'll learn to play with 3 fingers. The dog was miraculously uninjured, by the way.

 

 

 

 

Bob and i are working (slowly) on arrangements from The Rolling Stones,  Emerson Lake and Palmer,  Tom Petty,  Peter Gabriel,  The Beatles,  Radiohead,  Joni Mitchell,  805,  Foo Fighters,  Jesus Jones,   R.E.M,  Bob Dylan, Nick Kershaw,  Matchbox 20,  Simon and Garfunkel,  Eric Clapton,  Neil Young / C.S.N.,  Sting, Todd Rundgren,  and of course a medley of Sarah Palin's moose hunting songs.   If you have a tune you'd like to hear this year,  just write and let us know,  we might do it maybe.  SOME OF THE ABOVE MUSIC WAS SUGGESTED BY YOUR EMAILS.   Everyone on  the 805/KDB email list and all my 805 Facebook friends, will be informed of upcoming dates.  If you are not on the list and would like to be,  just email the 805 website at  805@twcny.rr.com  and you'll be on  it.  

Farewell to two old friends who passed away in 2010:

Ronnie James Dio  -  singer and rocker extraordinaire.  5'1"  with a 25' voice.  When we were kids we used to play poker every Monday night at our booking agent's house in Cortland,  NY.  He had a band called "The Elves,"  mine was "The Magic Dog."

Greg Italiano  -  owner of The Lost Horizon,  Syracuse's premiere live rock club for years . . . 805's last Syracuse show was there in '89.  Kelly and I opened for Tony Levin there last year.  Greg helped hundreds of musicians get started and keep growing.   He was loved by all,  the local rock scene has lost one of its elite.

 

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Gig Report  -  Lost Horizon with Tony Levin and 'Stickmen'
 
It was almost 20 years to the day since i last played the Lost Horizon.  It was 805's last show in CNY in 1989.  We had a farewell cake that my wife had baked and i think about a third of that cake was still stuck in a corner of the dressing room this past June 19th.  And the mens' room smelled exactly as i remembered it.  BAD.  Yes it was wonderful being back at the Lost.  Tony Levin and his band were great to us,  moved all their pedals and mike stands so we could set up,  all the while I'm thinking of the "we are not worthy" scene from 'Wayne's World'.  We only did 5 songs,  3 originals, 'Young Boys', 'The Circus', and 'Still Life',  and 2 Gabriel tunes,  'Solsbury Hill' with the ending of 'Musical Box',  and a weird conglomeration of 'In Your Eyes' and 'Mercy Street'.  The crowd was great to us,  thank you to all that were there.  After that i sat at the bar,  yakked with old friends,  drank  American beer,  and listened to some amazing,  really out-there music.
 
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