SARASOTA SLIM: News

Funny little cars, old buildings, hangin' with Ten Years After in Poland, etc. A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Mark Olbrich for making this trip possible and playing some great bass guitar at the gigs.
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Here's a big shout out to my new friend Randle who started a new blues Club in good ol' Winter Haven on Saturday nights. (On Fridays it's a hippity-hoppity dance club)
We had a great time playing to some old fans and made some new fans too. Check out the BLUES EDGE.
http://www.bluesedge.net/

Here's the latest news from Slimville...

Guitars guitars and more guitars!

That's the lineup for the Cotee River Seafood Festival & Bright House Networks Boat Show in New Port Richey, Florida.

The headliner this year is Jimmy Thackery. We'll be bringing our guitar army too. Young blood Josh Nelms just keeps getting better all the time and we have a special guest sitting in with us for this show. Larry "RHINO" Reinhardt will bring his legendary blues-rock guitar too. RHINO was a member of the pre-Allman Brothers band The Second Coming with Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks and Dickey Betts. Later he joined Iron Butterfly then after that helped start one of the first super groups with ex Johnny Winter drummer Bobby Caldwell - Iron Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman - and “Hush”-era Deep Purple shouter Rod Evans: Captain Beyond. So he's a bonnafide rock legend and still plays great and has fun doing it.

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http://www.vintageguitar.com/artists/details.asp?ID=163
(ALSO - I've been practicing my Polkas for the big blues bash in Poland with my buddy Mark Olbrich and his band coming up in late May - Ten Years After will be there too!)

Thank you Englewood Rotory Club for adding a mini "Blues Fest" to the 24th annual arts and crafts festival on Saturday, March 19th. We had a blast! Performers included local song siren "Twinkle" and many of her old hippy band friends who seemed to be having a great time. Festival promoter Leslie Gift also included visiting folk singer songwriter MJ Bishop and she was an interesting artsy addition to the whole art fest thing. Check MJ out at...
http://www.mjbishopband.com/

Just added a few pics of some of the things that don't get used anymore. They're in the "Photos" section - check back once in a while 'cause I'll be adding to the list as I get around to taking pics of some of the PA speakers and things buried in the trailer. Also - I'm OK with trading certain things too.

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Vidar's gig at the Tavern at Baybro was FANTASTIC! He has turned into one of the finest guitar players I've ever seen anywhere. The players were old buddies - Rev. Bone Shaker on bass, Glenn "Drum Stooge" Evans, a young harp slinger from Norway named "Spanky" that came with Vidar, and of course I horned my way in on it too. I felt like a fish out of water and you may get a chance to judge for yourself one day if the ADAT recording of the event turns out to be a BOOTLEG Vidar CD. So far - preleminary mixes of the mobile Possum Phono-Graphics recording get down machine sound pretty good.

Vidar Busk is in town from Norway
http://www.warnermusic.no/artister/vidarbusk/ and will be at USF's Bayboro tavern (formally tavern on the green) in St. Petersburg. Vidar is a Grammy Award winning guitarist and singer on Warner Bros./Norway. Direct from San Francisco recording a new project called "Guitarmaggedon", this will be Vidar's only local gig. Some folks might remember him as the fantastic teenage guitar player that used to play with Rock Bottom wearing a leopard suit with matching shoes! Come see what he'll be wearing this time!

The show starts at 7:30 PM.

Howdy folks!

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