APRIL 22, 2008, Just got back very early Monday morning from my "2008 New England FlashTour", a weekend affair in Worcester, Massachusetts from 4/17-21. I traveled 750 miles - yes, I know about gas prices!! - to make improvised and composed music with friends, eat well, dig into some 10-year old missed fellowship, and perform at a CD release party at a club called Vincent's.
There were six acts at Vincent's and about 15 more spread out at two other Worcester clubs at the same time. Somewhere in Worcester, every band on the CD was gigging. My set was broken into three parts: 3 songs ('Soldier's Joy', 'Workin' on a Batteau', & 'Very Old Gator') with my dear friend Bob Jordan on 2nd guitar; 2 songs ('Pull Over and Write That Down' & 'Marcel Duchamp') with Jaws of Glee [BHH: guitar, Steve Blake-bass, Pete Zolli-drums, Greg Sullivan-slide guitar]; and 3 songs ('Build a Bridge', 'Want What You Have', & 'Monkey at My Door') by HipBone [BHH: guitar; PZ:bass, Keith Prescott: drumming], who reunited for the gig. HipBone worked like the devil to legitimize odd-lyrical music in Massachusetts between its genesis in 1992 and acrimonious break-up in 1996. It was simply excellent to gig again with Pete and Keith, two of my oldest music pals, who can intuit my idiosyncratic songwriting instantly. Awesome people.
"WANT WHAT YOU HAVE" is from our afternoon HipBone rehearsal (BHH-guitar/voice, Pete Zolli-bass, Keith Prescott-drumming) did at Toad Hall getting ready for the April 19th gig at Vincent's in Worcester, MA. Engineer, Steve Blake, videotaped the HipBone rehearsal at his Toad Hall Studio on Saturday afternoon (the audio of which was also grabbed through discrete mic'ing into a digital hard-drive) and the gig that night.
The synchrony of Pete's 'haircut' riff (during our performing days, Peter VERY OFTEN ended my songs with this riff) and my cough at the very end was accidental, and cool. I'll be giving y'all heads-ups as more of this stuff becomes available. In particular, the live version of 'Monkey at My Door' is something I'm very anxious to see and hear. It was blistering. These videos will eventually all be collectively embedded on my MySpace music page as well. http://www.myspace.com/brethhart
Peace now,
Bret
| :) |  |
Smile | :( |  |
Sad | :D |  |
Big Grin | :o |  |
Oh | :-x |  |
Love |
| =)) |  |
Laugh | ;) |  |
Wink | x( |  |
Grrr | I-) |  |
Sleep |
