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My partner Kelly decided not to play this year.  He bought a really great house in the country . . . except that it's kinda not finished . . . like no furnace,  no kitchen,  no floors,  and a door off his bedroom that opens to a 40' drop to the side lawn.   I said "No problem,  I'll take this year off too."  But Bob, seeing the chance to greatly expand his role in the band,  insisted on playing just the two of us.  So we've started making tracks and learning songs . . . but we're going to take the summer off and have some fun.  Stop,  look around.

A N D   T H E N . . .

OK,  i put the bears in there in Photoshop.  And the guy on the bike isn't really me,  but EVERYTHING else is totally accurate.  I went over the top in the middle of nowhere and tore a ligament in my finger.  Can't play for a couple months.  Don't care,  trail biking with Riley is a blast,  music will have to wait till October.  Or maybe March.

 

 

 

 

Bob and i are working (eventually) on arrangements from Peter Gabriel,  Rolling Stones,  Emerson Lake and Palmer,  Tom Petty,  The Beatles,  Joni Mitchell,  805,  Foo Fighters,  Jesus Jones,   R.E.M,  Bob Dylan, Nick Kershaw,  Matchbox 20,  Simon and Garfunkel,  Eric Clapton,  Neil Young and/or C.S.N.,  Sting, Todd Rundgren,  and of course a medley of Barack Obama's broken campaign promises.   If you have a song 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 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 this spring:

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 "ELF,"  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'  June 19th,  2009
 
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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