Once again, I had the pleasure of playing at Summerfest and once again it was a blast! We’re rounding out the rest of July with a double header in Green Bay and then a little swing out west to Wyoming for the Oyster Ridge Music Festival for two dates, and then Colorado and Kansas on the way back home.
Dates are available here: http://mikemangione.com/tour
Come on out and say hi!
Oh yeah! It’s my favorite event of the year and it’s this weekend: Johnny Rabb, Daniel Glass, JR Robinson, Clayton Cameron and more!
I’ll be tweeting up a storm tomorrow and I’ll surely do a quick recap with photos and video too.
The Chicago Drum Show: http://rebeats.com/drumshows_start_page.html
I did a little tweeting today from the Cascio Interstate Music clinic featuring Todd Sucherman (Styx, Brian Wilson), Hannah Ford (Bellevue Suite) and Pearl Drums Corps’ Raymond Massey. Think Drums and Perc Up Live picked up on it and were kind enough to share it with all of their followers and I hope everyone enjoyed the snippets and pics.
AND as promised, here’s a video snippet of Todd doing a seriously cool reinterpretation of Jimi Hendrix’s “Manic Depression.” I hope you like it!
WOW! It was so much fun playing on WGN TV and the folks there were amazing. Growing up in the Chicago area, WGN was THE TVchannel – Bozo, Ray Reiner, Frazier Thomas classics on the weekend, Lester Fisher from the Lincoln Park Zoo. Man, it was just great to walk through the studio and watch them do the news and then get a chance to play them in and out of the breaks. Plus a full song at the end of the hour which you can see here:
Starting to get a little busy now with Mike Mangione & The Union, in support of the upcoming official release of “Offering”, and the ever expanding list of dates can be found here:
http://mikemangione.com/tour/
Come on out for a show and say hi!
WOW. I had a blast. Got to hang out with some old friends and made some new ones too. For some reason, I spent a lot of time looking at stuf but not really taking many pics. I did upload a few to my flickr site (you can see the pics in the sidebar) and I uploaded a great set of videos from Stanton Moore demoing his new LP pandeiro and a “steam powered” drumset from Trick. Those are up at my YouTube site. Take a look and let me know what you think!
(Oh yeah, and I got to meet one of my favorite drummers of all time, Abe Laboriel Jr. He was the coolest guy and totally worth waiting in line to talk to!)
Wow – 24 hours till I leave and I still have so much to do; packing alone will probably take all day.
I think the first day will be slightly overwhelming but I will have my earplugs and a plan of action for visiting all the people and vendors in some sensible way.
(who am I kidding? I’m gonna wander around with a permagrin like a kid in the worlds biggest candy store!)
See you there!
I am extremely excited to be going to the 2011 NAMM show this coming year in Anaheim. I am probably going to be completely overwhelmed by all the gear and meeting/catching up with all my drumigos (drummer pals) from around the country but I am going to try and post things as they happen. Lots of pics and short posts and then maybe a few bigger recaps.
Thanks so much to my friends at Taye drums and Sabian cymbals for their help in making this trip possible.
(only 29 days until the show woo hoo!)
Oh Dear Internet,
that Black Dub show at Lincoln Hall was amazing. I was right up front, 5 feet away from the man himself, just soaking up the heavenly drumming that Brian had flowing. It’s one thing to hear a recording, or watch some YouTube, but to see him in person was a celebration. There are few drummers I can think of that can effortlessly play any style of music from bop to pop (Gadd, Steve Smith, Steve Jordan, Vinnie, anyone else?) but Mr. Blade does it all, and looks cool doing it. He plays from this place of joy, smiling away, while just killing the drums. I need more of that please!?!?!
LLRLRR 