Well It is a beautiful thursday afternoon and another week is almost over. They seem to just fly by. The gig is tomorrow and my confidence level is less than abundant. I seems our loved trombonist may not be able to make the show, due to extenuating circumstances. We havn't practiced nearly enough, but I hope it will still be fun.

I walked into the house today after class, and I thought to myself, "I miss having an answering machine to check" theres something exciting about coming home and hear a digital voice say, "you have 2 new messages and 3 saved messages, message one, thursday, eleven ,twenty three, am."

I have a cell phone with voice mail but thats like instant gratification theres no surprise. The closest thing to an answering machine is comments on the website and don't post enough to merrit frequent traffic these days, (every saturday is the goal). Lord knows I'l never recieve a letter in the mail. Who does that? In a world of IM and Cell Phones communicational surprizes are hard to come by.

I have no solution, I just really love people.
j.

"The Skratch"

Here is a link to the demo tracks.
Our Next Gig Will Be @ Cafe' mi' aroma on the 24th.
Hope to see you there

Making The Band

"Down Town Symphony" is what he said on that day in late october. The women at the coffe shop asked, "Whats your name, the name of your band?" It's funny how fifteen min. and an open mic can effect your life.

Here we are in early nov. and DTS has now compleated it's first "scratch demo" which is on the bottom of the musical recording pedastool. It's purpose is to "just get a couple of gigs".
Who is DTS? and what do they do?

Justin Gross, plays trombone and sings, hitting those basement notes like no one else.

Mike Petrillo, is a creative singer song writer with a paul mcartney esque feal on Ac. Guit.

Eric Philips is a rennisance man thubbing away on the bass, and eloquently improving on the viola, you might even catch him on the keys doing a little keene / coldplayish ditty.

J. "Byrd" Morris fills in here and there with some percussion, keys, or guitar and some lead vocals now and again, every once and a while he even writes a catchy tune.

Keep an eye and hear out for some pics and a sample of "the scratch".
j.

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