1985 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Broken Wings," Mr. Mister. The song is written in 20 minutes by band members Richard Page and Steve George and their friend John Lang.
1975 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Fly, Robin, Fly," Silver Convention. Producer Michael Kunze originally calls the song "Run, Rabbit, Run."
1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The Byrds. Songwriter Pete Seeger adapted the lyrics from the Book of Ecclesiastes.
jeeze its December already?
been very busy:
starting work with a wonderful guitarist Phil Brown , more E sessions for Gina Fant-Saez, did another record for Abra Moore a few weeks ago, did a gig with the Trey Gunn / Joe Mendelson Quodia project (no rehearsal but it took me a week to write cues and build a drum kit to play em. . .wish i had a foto), in mid November we had a Percussive Arts Society week here in Austin and saw old pals and got a major drum injection .. . yesterday I was a judge for the Paul Green school of rock battle of the Kid band and tomorrow I am involved in an E session panel discussion,
i started work on the the Metamorphous trio and Tuner sessions we did in Sweden. . . .but still need to get the Tunisia stuff mixed and hope to do that later this week or next . Had a couple good days working in the garden (but then the Deer came and ate most of my labors). made Thanksgiving day chow for a house full of friendly human guests.
Had Trey Gunn here in my studio for a couple days of song writing for KTU.. . looking like KTU will do a few gigs in North America this coming March, but as a trio (because Samuli has other gigs booked with MUM) so i have been preparing to cover his parts, KTU just booked a few Finlandish gigs in January to test the KTU trio water.
lots and lots to do. . . so it seems i'm always walking around a bit sleepy. . . . but in reality I must confess most my time has actualy been spent watching this damm video clip over and over (ahhh the days when men were men, in suits, and drums were drums) www.glumbert.com/media/drums
Oct 20
Halmstad , Sweden.
Having a great time working with the largest ensemble i can recall. . .there are 12 of us. . .sometimes all on stage together!!
We are Thraking and Vrooming and Ba Booming and Absinthing and much much more!
The drumming is led by Kjell Severinsson on trap kit and Klas Assarsson on orchestral percussion ala Jamie Muir.
In the past few days we have prepared lots of material but of course the random improvisation is what I am most looking forward too. As we learned each other material this week i found the Italians , The Metamorfosi Trio, only improvise. . .this is not exactly accurate since they are amazing sight readers and are playing some ridiculous charts put in front of them. Check here for more info and following the links to the blogs of Thomas for fotos.
The 12 Apostles of the IB Expo:
Bjorn J:son Lindh - Flute/recorder/keys
Mats Johansson - Keyboards
Luca Calabrese - Trumpet
Franco Feruglio - Double Bass
Fredrik Johansson - Bass
Christian Saggese - Classical guitar
Jonas Christophs - Electric guitar
Markus Reuter- Touch guitar and laptop
My self- Bashing and Bleeping
Klas Assarsson - Percussion
Kjell Severinsson - Drums & percussion
Linnea Olsson - Cello/vocals (she just escaped from the
conservatory in Stockholm)
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Janne Severinsson at the mixing desk
Thomas Olsson on Tea kettle
Back from Cock Robin gigs and TUNER mixing.
Some Cock Robin soundcheck photos:
cock-robin.awcreation.com/medias/photos/chalons.php
Later this week please check our TUNER myspace to read a little behind the scenes mixing blog.
This week cutting a track for one of Austin most outstanding and beloved guitarists, David Grissom.
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Home!
Kind of strange to be home for more than a week. The KTU gigs in Spain and Portugal were fantastic and I really enjoyed taking a few extra days to soak in both cultures, met some wonderful students and saw lots of great art and music, even met one of my favorite bands "The Bad Plus" and then spent an hour standing with David King and Tony Alan watching Trilok Gurtu.
Leaving for France next week to do more Cock Robin gigs (festivals) and then to Germany to meet Markus and Fabio Trentini and begin mixing the next Tuner record.
Last week I went to Portland and at the airport ran into The Tubes with ex Cock Robin drummer Lou Molino chasing his lost luggage (small world!).
While home I have been preparing Tuner vocal tracks and got even more vocal contributions from Peter Kingsbery when he dropped into Texas last week. Sadly i also found a hard drive has died. . .big drag since it contains lots of valuable data including the Crimson 04 rehearsals that BPMM had been tweaking (tomorrow I meet a friend who might be able to revive the drive).
Trey Gunn and I play on the new release from Azam Ali, check it out- she is fantastic.
In October i will spend a week in Sweden working with Markus Reuter and Isildurs Bane .
Aug 25 2006
Belgium Festival Hannut, Belgium
Aug 29 2006
Chalon en Champagne Paris, France
Oct 16-21 2006
IB expo -Kulturhuet Halmstad, Sweden
**Last spring after the KTU show in Denmark a genuinely excited David Fricke (legendary Rolling stone writer) came to met the band. I read now that he has posted:
David Fricke's column "Fricke's Picks" in the current issue of Rolling Stone:
KTU (pronounced "K2") are a quartet of devilishly intergrated halves: avant-accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen and digital manipulator Samuli Kosminen from Finland, and drummer Pat Mastelotto and guitarist Trey Gunn from King Crimson. Their debut, Eight Armed Monkey (Thirsty Ear), recorded live in 2004, is a robust tumult of Northern Lights sparkle, white-wolf guitar wail and rolling, knotted thunder. Pohjonen is a wonder unto himself: animating his wind song with pedals and processing; attacking the bellows with the ecstatic fury of Jimi Hendrix. When I saw KTU play in Europe recently, they were as powerful and transgressive as the current killer Crimson (without, of course, Robert Fripp). But I was stunned to discover, after the show, that KTU have yet to get an American gig because, Gunn said, "Promoters are afraid of the word 'accordion.' " People, look at it this way: Pohjonen plays the ultimate in air guitar. Now hit the phone.