Finn and I were leaving the movie theatre when we ran into a incredibly colorful and textured sunset. Even this picture does not do what was much more colorful justice. I wish my camerphone was a little better for quality.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Lions and boys choir
Walked past a sidewalk display during CMJ in late October. while in NYC Spent a week in the city with eMusic, Ed Chritsman, and the yep roc and redeye gang throwing three parties at Mo Pitkins.
Friday, October 12, 2007
The Donnas in the Redeye House
The Donnas stopped by our NC warehouse and offices to say hello to the awesome Redeye staff and sign lots of goodies for our customers. Donnas rock tonight at the Cat's Cradle along with Donita Sparks.
Monday, October 8, 2007
John Doe - Continental Club - 3.17.05
So, I just created a flickr group and invited folks at Redeye and Yep Roc to join in. Someone (I think Emily) posted some photos up to the group. Look what I found! John Doe rockin the clover shades at our St. Patrick's Day show at the Continental Club at SXSW in 2005! Older photos, and evidence that there is plenty of history hidden in the cameras and phones out there that need more than one home.
Blog Study and Prep for Yep Roc blog
This morning I sat with Jenny to go over ideas for a future blog for yep roc. I think it will be a fun community to get rolling. Let's see what happens.
The Morning Cup at Cup A Joe back door
Sat outside this Hillsborough NC joint for a coffee this morning. Good way to start the week.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Ron Sexsmith at The Fine Line in Minneapolis
My final Nick Lowe Ron Sexsmith show on this trip was at the Fine Line. Nick had to be driven from PHC to play this show. Here is a pick Met up with Electric Fetus folks and said good bye to Nick Ron and Neil.
Mickey's Diner St. Paul
If you saw the PHC movie you will see the cast sitting in this diner in St. Paul. Stopped in for a bite.
Prairie Home Companion = garrison is cool. PHC
Flew from Chicago to Minneapolis to see a couple shows on Saturday. Drove to St. Paul to see Nick Lowe perform on Prairie Home Companion. What a show!! Here is a pick of Garison with BR549. Guests were martin Sheen Nick Lowe and BR549. This pic was taken from a primo box seat in the old theatre build in 1920s.
Manequin Men at Logen Auditorium Chicago
Chicago day 2. Hooked with Steve Dixon for meetings during the day. Later that night I hopped over to Logan Square area for a record release show of Redeye Distributed Manequin men. The club is a huge old theatre lots of echo and boom sound. They killled!!! After them the Black Lips played a punked up pubrock show.
Pere ubu @ the empty bottle chicago
After the Nick Lowe concert I hopped over to the Empty Bottle to see Per Ubu. The band consumes massive quanties of beer during the show. they drink out of Pitcher. Each of them have a pitcher as a glass. Quite rocking though.
Park West Nick Lowe Show
Park West is an awesome club. It was built in the 20's but has been outfitted with top notch sound system and cool leather booth seating. Outside it looks a bit like Camelot with a Star Wars storm trooper bar flair. hmmm.
Great show!! Nick encores were awesome. Nick and Ron have been performing Louvin Brothers in the encore.
Landed in CHICAGO
Next stop was to spend a couple days in Chicago for Nick Lowe show at Park West. Also taking time to meet up with Steve Dixon and Greg Horne and some local record friends. Took this pic walking to the hotel. There are structures going up all over the city... BIG ONES. the one being built (far right) in this pic is a Trump building.
Doin' It Old School
Drove up to Ferndale to visit with Record Time. LPs CDs Tees and movies. Picked up some local music and chatted with the staff.
The Zebleys
One of the great bonus opportunities in going out on the road to visit stores is I run into long time non music biz friends. Here are old classmates and pals Denise and Gareth Zebley. They live in outside of Ann Arbor and drove into for visit. Good times.
The Ark . Ann Arbor Nick Lowe & Ron Sexsmith
The Ark is Ann Arbors songwriters club. It is a good room for listening.. they won't put up with any chit chat. The cops came in a took a particularly rowdy fella and ejected him. I heard him hit the ground mid set. I sat with the George Jones, (Borders CEO) Andy Sibray (Music Buyer Borders), Chris Richards (WEA), Pat (DVD buyer for Borders) .
Nick Lowe and a tour of the upper Midwest
Flew into Detroit to visit with Borders HQ and then hitch onto the Nick Lowe tour this week. The first show was in Ann Arbor MI. Here's a picture of one of the Flagship store in downtown Ann Arbor.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Glenn & me
Hey! Had a business lunch with my business partner Glenn. Fancy that. .. it was at a sweet bar. Ideas are afoot.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Liam Finn in Atlanta
On Wednesday I flew down to Atlanta from NYC to witness in person the young and talented songwriter/ film maker/ rocker/ photographer/ multitasking music master LIAM FINN play at the Tabernacle in downtown Atalanta. We invited a great cast of customers and music biz folks out to check him out. Some of them made it back stage after the show to meet Liam. (he's the bearded boy in the middle)
Liam Finn opened the show taking the stage before Pete Yorn, and the main event Crowded House. Liam also sits in with Crowded House playing guitar and singing Harmony with pappa Neil Finn.
Good times! Back home today!!
Sunday, September 9, 2007
NYC from top the Empire State Building
Left Boston this afternoon and spent Sunday late afternoon checking into NYC and taking a walk down to Madison Ave. There was no line at the Empire State Building so I went up top and took in the views N E S W. Here a pic looking North. You can see the GE building just in front of central park. It was a very clear day and close to dusk so the views were long and very nice.
BOSTON MA
After the cruise night I packed up and drove with a new music distribution friend Lou Mansdorf. Lou works for Fontana Distribution and travels the Mass Pike on a regular basis out to Albany for a TWEC sales call. It did not take much convincing to bag the flight from Albany to Boston via JFK for a 3 hour drive from Albany with Lou. Lou Dropped me off at Newbury Comics just in time to meet with the Newbury Comics buying honchos Dave Bluestein, and Larry Mansdorf (no relation to Lou)
I took Larry and Lou out to dinner and we hung out in Inman Square area of Somerville * my old neighborhood when I lived in Boston. The next day I visited the stores and had an awesome time strolling Boston. Here is a picture of Newbury Comics on Newbury Street.
Shaggy entertains on Lake George.
Shaggy hooked everyone up with a energy driven performance on the boat. Here Kate Shaggy and I are feeling good vibrations.
TWEC FYE cruise on Lake George
All the suppliers to Trans World Entertainment hopped on a boat for a 4 hour cruise out on Lake George. It was an awesome time to meet other distributors and label sales representatives.
Jake Guralnick Los Straitjackets at TWEC party.
Los Straitjackets manager Jake Guralnick standing in front of the jumbotron! It was quite a show! Great sound, stage, and a good audiance of people rocking out.
Transworld Convention
I left Seattle on Wednesday morning and flew into Albany NY. Kate Dockins, our Redeye FYE sales rep. picked me up at the airport and we drove up to Saratoga Springs to set up our booth Thursday. Los Straitjackets played at the TWEC party, rocked the house.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Freemont Seattle!!
Just got into the state of Washington to vist our fine customers and labels in the great Northwest. Hooking soon with our new label friends Light In The Attic while staying at my highschool pal from glory glory days Peter Grote and family. More news as it comes!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
My Pics On My Way To The Office
Hopefully with this post I will learn to insert a picture into the body of the post. so here goes..
MY WAY TO THE OFFICE
So I leave my house with my boy Brint who I drop off a Cedar Ridge High School on the way.
Here he is joyfully wagging his tail as we are ready to board my car.
Next we drive past a some low fog in the early AM on the NC back roads ... and some old farm house fixer upper charm.
So here I arrive at Redeye HQ Haw River NC. Walkin' up.
what is Redeye?
Like our fax machine? Complete and powered on by a John Doe overlord pictorial (you know the famed LA punk rocker of X). Very nice.
Now our foyer memorabilia case below: Chuck D autograph of Public Enemy pics + Flavor Flav signed clock, Australian garage rockers Radio Birdman signed disc, original cartooned Robyn Hitchcock LP jacket, 6 NARM award bowls (proud), and you can see the top of Casey Kasum's head. ... on and on.
And last but not least, a quick pit stop into the sales office and a chat with indie sales manager Rusty King (key'n in the early morn orders)... Then off to my den of work place.
The End. Ta dah!!!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Keep it Up
So.. I continue to try my blog. Yesterday I added Twitter to my blog. I am going to try to make use of it on my road trip across the country visiting records stores and customers later this month. I tested it a few times to see how it works and found it pretty easy to use. I leave on Friday. The plan is to Twitter and Flickr throughout the trip. I've tried a couple of Flickr uploads and it's pretty easy too. I hope to blog post the pictures of the stores and the shows as I travel from City to city. First stop is a flight to Portland OR to hook up with with Terry Currier and friends to see Liam Finn open for Crowded House. More on that later.
Oh, I also took some pictures of my two boys. You can see them in the flicker widget to the right. The older boy is Brint (whimsical thinker) and Finn (action packed).
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Sunday Milltown Pressure Wash
Milltown cleanup: Today was supposed to be an an early wake up call. My early rise was meant power wash the the grease and grime off the kitchen area outdoor drains, walls, and wash down the outdoor storage shed and beer coolers at our bar and restaurant in Carrboro NC, Milltown. I got up late. Kim and Josh did get to the bar early and and stained the outdoor patio picnic tables. We just received two new medium sized picnic table to accompany the two already out on the patio. They also rearranged the aluminum four top tables and chairs to make room for these two new larger tables that hold up to 12 people per table. I did make it to the bar an hour later at 10AM. It was very hot today so it made for a very sweaty pressure. I had head out to Lowes to get things started as the pressure washer valve sprung a leak and needed a replacement. While at Lowes I picked up some outdoor plants for the three large flower box benches. Kim will plant them in tomorrow. Anyway, all was cleaned up thanks to the heavy duty grease removal detergent. I blasted the crud off the walls for about and hour and one half.
Milltown new games: Kim picked up Brint and Finn and went shopping for board games Toys R Us while I powerwashed. Our Milltown customers like to play the board games while enjoying the bar and restaurant. They brought them back to Milltown and unwrapped them and stacked them in the front room shelves. New games I saw come in. Uno, Shoots and Ladders, Cribbage, 20 Questions, 80's Trivia Pursuit, Touble, Etch A Sketch, and a couple decks of cards.
We played one of the games after the cleaning session. We sat at one of the front tables and played Trouble. I think everyone at my age remembers Trouble from the Pop O Matic and the plastic board. What I did not remember is that it is nearly impossible to complete this game with four players. You are destined to get bonked back to "home" and never end the game. I also was surprise at how loud the Pop O Matic is. The Pop O Matic is the plastic bubble that is situated in the middle of the board and you press it to bounce the die inside the bubble. We played for a long time but eventually had to call it quits as we would have been days for a winner to get his pieces into the finish line.
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