That’s right. The minute many of you read the title, you immediately began to think of those little blue and red medals. Some of you even tried to think of where they are stored away and may spend some time looking for them later on. Mine are in a box that my folks brought me …
Category Archive: Gigs Long Gone
Sharing the many stories from on the road with music, and some of the little life lessons that found their way in.
Gigs Long Gone: Telluride
The summer of 1996 was looking to be quite interesting. I had just finished up my first year at Lansing Community College, and was looking forward to spending a week in June at the Aquinas College Jazz Camp. I had gone to the camp two years prior, and was looking forward to learning some new …
Gigs Long Gone: the Pete VanderWaals Orchestra
This was a gig that I got strictly on the “It’s not what you know, but WHO,” meaning that I got the gig because my dad played trumpet in the group. I’d play a handful of gigs with them over the years as their regular bassist couldn’t do it. The Pete VanderWaals Orchestra was a …
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