woot

Audition was last night, I met the guys, they are all cool dudes.
Just got the thumbs up today and i am in. The band is called "Working man"

They have a singer/keyboardist, drummer and guitarist, the guitarist has a packed large furman pedal board...probably 2x as many as i had back home, which is a lot.
He has a sampler for the nifty sounds in new world man opening, and a few other tunes.

Plus he just bought a really rare moog pedal board for 3k, now that's dedication to sound like rush! pretty cool to watch him play guitar and the pedal board at the same time hehe

I bought a pigtronix distortion/fuzz pedal, gonna try to get the nasty/gnarly ric sound with it for some of the tunes.

Anyway here's our setlist, gig on the 28th of dec

A Passage to Bangkok
Red Sector A
Anthem
Xanadu
Marathon
Show Don't Tell
Freewill
The Trees
The Enemy Within
Natural Science
Digital Man
Vital Signs
Hemispheres: Prelude
Working Man
Limelight
Red Barchetta
Tom Sawyer
Jacob's Ladder
New World Man
Subdivisions
Distant Early Warning
The Spirit of Radio

More auditions!

Yes more auditions....stumbled upon craigslist ads within the last few weeks that sound promising.
A rush cover band covering my favorite era late 70's-mid 80s rush!! 2112/Hemispheres/p-waves/movepictures/signals/graceunderpressure

They have a pretty long songlist, but i played many of these tunes with Paul/Alex many years ago.

Also got in contact with a guitarist who wants to form a dream theater cover band, so i get the joy of learning hard stuff like this. Dream theater Bassline

My Musical goals for playing out here in NY were twofold:
1) get into a regular gigging band
2) get into a challenging band w/good musicians (even if not to play just to learn more be it jazz/improv/progmetalshiznit etc etc...)

Unfortunately the last band i was in broke up because the Guitarist wanted to play traditional jazz standards. The door is open to do another Jam authority gig though, who knows..

Back from SF

Headed out to SF over the past 4 days, for my bro Paul's wedding. Congrats again Paul & Jennafer, Very happy for you guys!
It was cool see'ing old friends once again, and new family and friends on Jennafer's side. The trip back from SF to NY only took 4.5 hours it almost felt like i just took a short drive home, very fast and beat the dreaded holliday rush.


Oh yeah forgot to post a video from halloween, i went to see zappa plays zappa at the beacon theater.
Zappa

Went to the village after, lots of freako costumes, but too many people...i think i'll skip that next year