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.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
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!
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