When you hear “Batter up” you know what season it is..It’s “Ball” season. Softball, baseball, Little league, T-Ball all kinds of ball games with lots of people playing and having fun in the sun. Well, since it’s Oregon it’s not Read more…
The record Representative, Nate Jackson, from Warner Brothers Records arrived and introduced himself to all of us at Duffys to get the audition started. He’d checked in to a hotel downtown and after auditioning us was flying back to Los Read more…
We Rocked the Molly Brown Tavern and Bozeman, Montana and every other rock club on the GMA circuit for the next few months while working on our own original songs. Our goal was to work our way West and hit Read more…
Molly Browns was the name of the club we were booked to play in Bozeman, Montana. Another great club in a college town, Bozeman is the home of Montana State and it rocks! After our first set we could feel Read more…
Our first stop playing on the GMA circuit after Missoula was The Red Barn in Great Falls, Montana. The Barn, as it was affectionately called was a big wide open club, It was a great place to play and the Read more…
A blast from the past in these crazy days. I usually write about current events but this week I’m going back to a more innocent time, hope you get a kick out of it! Back before cell phones and the Read more…
So you’ve got your band of friends together to start a band. To test the waters with your talent you have to play somewhere besides in the garage. You know, get a job. The first bands I was a member Read more…
The Agent He or she that facilitates a deal that benefits both the seller and the buyers. Here we are talking about the band that is for sale and the club owner or promoter that is buying the band. Done Read more…
So our band had progressed to working now and then in small bars. We had secured an agent who was trying to push us into what we thought was the “big time”. To us that was steady work in one Read more…
For our band that had been playing part time suddenly to become became full time and it was definitely different Going from playing two nights a week to five nights a week was a big change. Since all of us Read more…
Being in a rock and roll band is like riding the tide. It’s always moving and changing. One minute you’re coming in and the next minute you’re going out! For us the tide had been in our favor, we’d Read more…
We landed in Rock & Roll heaven when we hit The Middle Earth Tavern in Sandpoint Idaho. Drinking was legal at eighteen, the town was on the shores of a beautiful lake, full of tourists, and they all wanted to Read more…
We bid Sandpoint, Idaho the Middle Earth Tavern a fond farewell and hit the highway for Kalispell, Montana for our first job for The Good Music agency. We were set to work there then head for Missoula, the home of Read more…