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
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.
GO to theKDB MySpace Site for Music and Photos: CLICK HERE
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