Magician and Sleight of Hand Artist
Musical Pursuits
Playing guitar
Aug 19th
Guitar playing is something I find very enjoyable and particularly like the fact that guitar music can communicate a sense of easy going gentility which I belive is an essential quality for coping with the stresses of our modern life style.
This piece I composed, “Imagination” is easy going Jazz/Rock fusion with a funky beat.
This is me performing at the Variety Collective, 313 Sydney Road, Brunswick (Brunswick Green)
We did it!
May 24th
We got a gig where I performed my “Chicago Tommy” act and also got ourselves booked as the band.
We packed up the van with so much stuff, we could not have added much more gear. 4 guitars, sound system, including two huge speakers. It is now apparent that once we add drums we will have to have a trailer. I saw one on Ebay, for $1395. Looked pretty good, but I didn’t feel ready to buy it at this point in time.
I filmed the show, but the noise of the audience makes the footage unusable for a promo.
Here is a screen capture from the footage.
The Stevens Family Band
Band names
May 21st
I’ve temporarily named our family band “the Stevens band”. Since that’s what it is. The band name has been endlessly debated and we must have considered and rejected 120,000 ideas so far, since this has been going on for the last few months, maybe a year by now.
Here’s what is limiting us: Opinions. Someone thinks an idea sounds too much like something they dislike.
So this is the challenge: Find a name that we all like and is easy to remember, and hasn’t already been used.
I told a friend about this a few weeks ago and she said that she’d been in a band with the same problem. Finally the self appointed leader just decided for everyone. And ended up using a name that everyone really hated. I wouldn’t be surprised that they hated it even more because they hadn’t been consulted.
Why is such a simple thing taking us so long. I look through the titles of CD’s and titles of songs, and it seems like all these random names are the work of an instant. But then there are lots of pretty stupid song and band names. see http://progressiveboink.com/archive/worstbandnames.html
