Tales of the Road

Crazy, crazy weekend(s).  The Chapel Hill journey went smooth as glass and the Burlington trip was a pretty cool afternoon overall.  CWF packed out Hargrave Community Center and had a vocal crowd from bell to bell.  Only problem was parking, as Carolina and Duke both graduated that afternoon.  Returned to Gibsonville this past Saturday to record 3 episodes of #CWFWorldwide and then to Burlington for Benefit Championship Wrestling on Sunday.  Sunday was a fun one that raised $1630.00 for Relay For Life's fight against cancer.  Matter of fact, on preview photos, I captioned them as "This is what raising $1630.00 in three hours looks like!"

This past Saturday night after the CWF event, I loaded the sound system into my car behind the building.  In the dark.  Carried a small rubber-covered flashlight in and out with me, sticking it in whatever pocket was available when I didn't need it.  Beat the storm and got home to realize I'd lost some cash, probably pulled out of my pocket by the aforementioned flashlight.  Sunday evening after the BCW event, I went behind the Sportatorium and took a look around.  Found my money.  Clean, dry, flat and perfect bills about 5' from the bottom of the stairs.  Right where I was parked when I loaded out.  Yeah.  I'd rather have stupid luck than just be stupid...

On the music side, today was the first day I sat down to try to pen some lyrics for the new "industrial" tune Tommy sent me almost 2 weeks ago.  Every time I'd messed with it before, "City of Misery" in a Manson-like sound was what I thought would come from this one.  But no.  I'm so contrary.  Sat down with the headphones and notepad and suddenly, I'm writing a story of Egyptian gods and the Eye of Horus.  You know what that is.  It's on the top of the pyramid on the back of one dollar bills.

Guess I should buy the t-shirt I saw today on Facebook.  It says "I'm not condonscending (that means someone who talks down to people)"...

Bits & Pieces

→ Received the first complete rough mix for the eleven minute unreleased RoxX original "Fly With Me" from Tommy and it is incredible.  So let me try to describe the almost finished epic to you...It's got a deep Pink Floyd vibe with Beatles overtones and a run-in attack by Yes/Styx/Kansas before returning to the Pink Floyd vibe with Beatles overtones.  Tommy's additional vocals create a great feel for this one and the backing vocals are indeed epic.  This one will turn a few heads when released, I'm betting. 

→ After feeling under the weather for several days, my new malady has exposed itself to me and is NOTHING more than a momentary discomfort, not some crazy painful ailment that would require surgery or such...  How do I spell relief?  W-H-E-W!  Pretty confident that I'll be 100% again in a day or so at the most.

→ Road trips abound this month in a spanning only a couple of weekends.  The scheduled CWF-RGL event over Memorial Day weekend has been cancelled to allow for family vacations.  So Saturday I'm rolling in with the CWF Mid Atlantic crew to Hargraves Community Center in Chapel Hill NC for CWF DOUBLE OR NOTHING!  The following Saturday, the 20th, CWF Mid Atlantic returns to their home base of Gibsonville NC for MADNESS IN ANY DIRECTION 2017!  On Sunday, May 21st, I'll be handling the sound duties at Benefit Championship Wrestling's CAGE UP CANCER in Burlington NC's Positive Attitude Youth Center!  Stacked cards all around, BCW includes FOUR bouts inside of a steel cage on a Sunday afternoon matinee!

→ Had a strange happening at 5am yesterday morning.  I walked downstairs to the kitchen to feed Pip Rocket and stepped on something on the floor in the living room in the dark.  Several somethings.  Turned on a light to discover a full package of Extra Peppermint gum from the bowels of Karen's suitcase-sized purse ripped open and most of the individual pieces of gum bitten through by cat teeth.  So after a good fifteen minutes of uncontrollable laughter, I went back to bed...At least now I know why the cat burrows in Karen's pocketbook.

Messin' With Gypsies

Totally freaking out at the kind words and the number of "likes" on SoundCloud from last weekend's release of "Gypsy Girl".  Gypsy is a tribute to the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughan, an artist that both Tommy and I enjoy even today.  It's upbeat and it's bluesy, it's kind of like Texas Swing with a little North Cackylacky Cheerwine flavor thrown in for good measure!

RoxX's Gypsy Girl on SoundCloud

Both releases from 2017 are doing rather well, getting positive reviews as well as shares and likes like mad.  Thanks again for listening and sharing!

We still have the 11+ minute epic "Fly With Me" in production, our idea of hanging out with Pink Floyd and several others in the can awaiting release.  Possible new releases upcoming include "Life Is Good", "We Will Not Fail" and perhaps even a re-mixed "Eleven Or Bust".  Not sure what we're going after next, but I'm eagerly awaiting our next adventure!