Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. The year is short and before long we will be staring right at 2012.
I have a quick blog this week, and it goes like this:
Wednesday night we played at the Hitchin Post. It was a great show. The place was packed with standing room only. It was nice, as we had friends from as far away as the state of Illinois attend our show. (Sweet)
Thursday was Thanksgiving and I worked at a local Food Kitchen with my charming wife to feed the people of our community. (125 dinners were served) What a great feeling that was for me to help our community.
Friday night was Black Friday and we played at Davy's in Chenango Forks. It was a light crowd early on but a great show. We welcomed aboard Chris our new bar master.
Saturday I took a trip down to Pennsylvania to hook up with some friends I hadn't seen in twenty years. It was an awesome day as we had some lunch and did some gambling.
Sunday I had Thanksgiving at my house with the family. KW and DD went to Goble Studios to continue work on the new album "Back to Basics". KW says it’s our best material to date. The bad news though it that we're only in about 80% complete. But we will keep at it. Now we’re looking more to 2012 for a release. Oh well, it’ll be worth the wait I'm sure.
Shows: This Week – Saturday, December 5th we’re back at the "Central Hotel and Tavern" for our final 2011 Hotel Show. The Show begins at 6pm. We’ll see you then.
Have a great week. Peace and love,
Mikee^^Dee
Monday, November 28, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Short Change Band - Thanksgiving Week 2001
Greetings once again. The weeks just keep flying by and before long this year will become history and then on 2012. (Wow!)
I just checked our event calendar for the year and we didn't perform 80 times like last year, but we're on target for over 70. That's not bad for a band that along with playing music and shows almost every week of the year, we maintain a pretty active social life with family and friends as well. The time spent internally is very important, so we do it wisely.
We played one show last weekend - Saturday night at the Central Hotel & Tavern as part on the "Encore" series of music. It was “Hunters Weekend” with great food and a great group of people to play for the entire evening.
We left everything set up and plugged in from the week before, so it made it very easy to take the show up another level from even last week. Hey if you missed it, you missed another "Stellar Performance” as Little Stevie would say, and we felt it too. Nice job again goes out to my band brothers - we were smokin'.
This week we have two shows: - one mid-week- and another on Friday.:
Show #1- Wednesday Evening at the Hitchin' Post - top of Belden Hill – The show begins around 8pm. (Get there early as this is premiere evening for a party night before Turkey Day)
Show # 2- Friday Evening {Black Friday} back up to Davy's Last Chance Saloon in downtown Chenango Forks. The show starts at 9pm.
So there you have it. We hope to see you all out and about this week. Come and share some holiday cheer with the band. Black Friday (you know) what that is the start of? (Oh Boy!)
Hey, get this - we are back in the Goble’s Studio this weekend to continue the final work on the “Back To Basics” CD. Santa may slide down your chimney with a copy before Christmas - but ya never know. (shhhh... let's keep it our secret)
In closing, have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. On a sad note, our deepest condolences go out with the passing of Doris from the Afton Inn. 25 years of parties and events for the whole community has come to an end. It’s the end of an era as we knew it.
God Bless Doris! We will see you on the other side.
- Mikey Dee^^
I just checked our event calendar for the year and we didn't perform 80 times like last year, but we're on target for over 70. That's not bad for a band that along with playing music and shows almost every week of the year, we maintain a pretty active social life with family and friends as well. The time spent internally is very important, so we do it wisely.
We played one show last weekend - Saturday night at the Central Hotel & Tavern as part on the "Encore" series of music. It was “Hunters Weekend” with great food and a great group of people to play for the entire evening.
We left everything set up and plugged in from the week before, so it made it very easy to take the show up another level from even last week. Hey if you missed it, you missed another "Stellar Performance” as Little Stevie would say, and we felt it too. Nice job again goes out to my band brothers - we were smokin'.
This week we have two shows: - one mid-week- and another on Friday.:
Show #1- Wednesday Evening at the Hitchin' Post - top of Belden Hill – The show begins around 8pm. (Get there early as this is premiere evening for a party night before Turkey Day)
Show # 2- Friday Evening {Black Friday} back up to Davy's Last Chance Saloon in downtown Chenango Forks. The show starts at 9pm.
So there you have it. We hope to see you all out and about this week. Come and share some holiday cheer with the band. Black Friday (you know) what that is the start of? (Oh Boy!)
Hey, get this - we are back in the Goble’s Studio this weekend to continue the final work on the “Back To Basics” CD. Santa may slide down your chimney with a copy before Christmas - but ya never know. (shhhh... let's keep it our secret)
In closing, have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. On a sad note, our deepest condolences go out with the passing of Doris from the Afton Inn. 25 years of parties and events for the whole community has come to an end. It’s the end of an era as we knew it.
God Bless Doris! We will see you on the other side.
- Mikey Dee^^
Monday, November 14, 2011
Short Change Band - November Hunter's Week, 2011
Greetings everyone. I have a quick installation this week. Can you believe it is going on the third week of November already? Wow! This weekend marks the opening of Big Game Gun Hunting season in New York as well. So with that being said – let’s move along.
We had gorgeous weather over the weekend with 55 degree temperatures and sunshine both Saturday and Sunday. With all the nice weather many people had plans for the weekend and our crowd on Saturday evening was a bit light, but fun just the same.
Most people turn out the first weekend of the month at the Hotel as that is when we traditionally play there. So possibly the change in date threw them off a bit too.
Anyway we put on a smokin' good show with many of the people in the crowd paying particular attention to K.W. Winters as he attacked that Telecaster as only he can. Leads were hot, D.D. was in the groove and myself - I'm just lovin’ it back there on the kit.
We got to switch it up a bit with Dominick on the drums and myself on the 5 string bass and DD moved over on the keys. There was some fun stuff there, and we didn't suck - that's always a good thing!
Now because we again repeat shows at the Central Hotel this Saturday, we choose an entirely different set of music as not to repeat any songs for this week’s presentation. Cool huh? How many bands do you know that can play 8 hours worth of music with no repeats? Not too many I would think. So this Saturday we will once again be back at the Central Hotel and Tavern for the annual “Hunters Party" weekend. The show begins around 5:00pm. Give time for the hunters to gather from the fields.
We hope to see you all there. Bobby puts on a great spread of food and it is offered to the crowd who come for the evening of music and mayhem supplied by yours truly “The Short Change Band”. We’re looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday.
So in closing, if you came out to see us last weekend - come on' back for an entirely different show - or if you didn't come out last week - you have a second this week to get off your dead ass and come down and support the band as well as have a bite to eat. Always a great spread, so we’ll see you all there.
And, I had someone come up to me last week and ask me what the Wine Vineyards in Southern California were like. I told her how they made the different wines and she thought they stored it all in bottles in a cellar somewhere. Now I'm no Julio Gallo, but from what they told us on the wine tour, the majority of it is stored in barrels until it is bottled and shipped off to the market.
So folks have a great week and safe hunting this season and we hope to see you all at the Central Hotel Saturday night {5:00pm – 9:00pm}
Peace and Love,
Mikee^^Dee
We had gorgeous weather over the weekend with 55 degree temperatures and sunshine both Saturday and Sunday. With all the nice weather many people had plans for the weekend and our crowd on Saturday evening was a bit light, but fun just the same.
Most people turn out the first weekend of the month at the Hotel as that is when we traditionally play there. So possibly the change in date threw them off a bit too.
Anyway we put on a smokin' good show with many of the people in the crowd paying particular attention to K.W. Winters as he attacked that Telecaster as only he can. Leads were hot, D.D. was in the groove and myself - I'm just lovin’ it back there on the kit.
We got to switch it up a bit with Dominick on the drums and myself on the 5 string bass and DD moved over on the keys. There was some fun stuff there, and we didn't suck - that's always a good thing!
Now because we again repeat shows at the Central Hotel this Saturday, we choose an entirely different set of music as not to repeat any songs for this week’s presentation. Cool huh? How many bands do you know that can play 8 hours worth of music with no repeats? Not too many I would think. So this Saturday we will once again be back at the Central Hotel and Tavern for the annual “Hunters Party" weekend. The show begins around 5:00pm. Give time for the hunters to gather from the fields.
We hope to see you all there. Bobby puts on a great spread of food and it is offered to the crowd who come for the evening of music and mayhem supplied by yours truly “The Short Change Band”. We’re looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday.
So in closing, if you came out to see us last weekend - come on' back for an entirely different show - or if you didn't come out last week - you have a second this week to get off your dead ass and come down and support the band as well as have a bite to eat. Always a great spread, so we’ll see you all there.
And, I had someone come up to me last week and ask me what the Wine Vineyards in Southern California were like. I told her how they made the different wines and she thought they stored it all in bottles in a cellar somewhere. Now I'm no Julio Gallo, but from what they told us on the wine tour, the majority of it is stored in barrels until it is bottled and shipped off to the market.
So folks have a great week and safe hunting this season and we hope to see you all at the Central Hotel Saturday night {5:00pm – 9:00pm}
Peace and Love,
Mikee^^Dee
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Short Change Band - Beginning of November, 2011
Well greetings everyone. I hope it's all good in your world this week.
We had another crazy week for the band. We were all scattered in different directions once again. Due to the recent flood our band venues were once again cancelled so when this happens it's like when your parents left the kids in charge while they went away for the weekend. We raise some hell and have some fun. Not much sittin' and grinin' for this group.
Saturday morning was our First annual Veterans Day Breakfast at the Afton Fire House. The attendance was good as we served over 100 people in three hours.l There were many Veterans that attended in full dress medals, hats, and patches. It was a good feeling giving back to them and offering them some thanks for serving our great nation. A free breakfast is the least someone can do, and we did.
Saturday evening was the Kris Kristofferson show along with Joan Baez in Ithaca. Now two thirds of the band attended that show - K.W.and D.D. and it was indeed a great show of couple legends displaying their talents in a small theater venue. (Nice) Myself, I'm not much of "solo artist" show guy- I like the shows with whole band behind the artist so I bowed out.
I thought I would spend the night at home with my charming wife, but that didn't happen. Andrea took a load of her friends- {7 girls in all} and went up to Lumpy's to see the Partridge Family and myself - I took a gig up to Babcock's playing a show with some friends called the "Wild Ones”.My role was the second drummer. Now I don't know if you've ever seen a venue with two drummers playing in full sync, but it’s quite a site. The first drummer plays lead and the second drummer keeps the beat. I haven't done this in about five years. It takes a few minutes to find your place but once you’re in - it rocks. We had a full line of people on the dance floor just staring at our performances. You go through the night taking turns playing lead and actually it's a great drill - for your timing. Thanks to Chucky and the “Wild Ones” for letting me play the entire show with them. These guys are really good. Check them out sometime. I love their musical choices - nothing new, but many classics - done nicely.
And finally- This weekends show:
SATURDAY NIGHT: 11/12/11 THE CENTRAL HOTEL AND TAVERN 6-10PM and never a cover.... Hope to see you all there!
Rock on. Also Friday is Veterans Day, so be sure to give thanks to our national protectors of our fine nation.
Peace and love baby,
Mikee Dee
We had another crazy week for the band. We were all scattered in different directions once again. Due to the recent flood our band venues were once again cancelled so when this happens it's like when your parents left the kids in charge while they went away for the weekend. We raise some hell and have some fun. Not much sittin' and grinin' for this group.
Saturday morning was our First annual Veterans Day Breakfast at the Afton Fire House. The attendance was good as we served over 100 people in three hours.l There were many Veterans that attended in full dress medals, hats, and patches. It was a good feeling giving back to them and offering them some thanks for serving our great nation. A free breakfast is the least someone can do, and we did.
Saturday evening was the Kris Kristofferson show along with Joan Baez in Ithaca. Now two thirds of the band attended that show - K.W.and D.D. and it was indeed a great show of couple legends displaying their talents in a small theater venue. (Nice) Myself, I'm not much of "solo artist" show guy- I like the shows with whole band behind the artist so I bowed out.
I thought I would spend the night at home with my charming wife, but that didn't happen. Andrea took a load of her friends- {7 girls in all} and went up to Lumpy's to see the Partridge Family and myself - I took a gig up to Babcock's playing a show with some friends called the "Wild Ones”.My role was the second drummer. Now I don't know if you've ever seen a venue with two drummers playing in full sync, but it’s quite a site. The first drummer plays lead and the second drummer keeps the beat. I haven't done this in about five years. It takes a few minutes to find your place but once you’re in - it rocks. We had a full line of people on the dance floor just staring at our performances. You go through the night taking turns playing lead and actually it's a great drill - for your timing. Thanks to Chucky and the “Wild Ones” for letting me play the entire show with them. These guys are really good. Check them out sometime. I love their musical choices - nothing new, but many classics - done nicely.
And finally- This weekends show:
SATURDAY NIGHT: 11/12/11 THE CENTRAL HOTEL AND TAVERN 6-10PM and never a cover.... Hope to see you all there!
Rock on. Also Friday is Veterans Day, so be sure to give thanks to our national protectors of our fine nation.
Peace and love baby,
Mikee Dee
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