Out With The Old...

Our wrestling company had a bit of an upheaval early in January when we parted company with our main booker for the past few years.  The waves of cause and effect rolled my direction, too, and I had to make the decision to replace my long-time partners on my wrestling website, IndyInsiders.Com.  One of the fellows that left was the center of the company issue and the other is a very close friend of his, who has decided to take some time off to reconsider what he wants to do.

Two trusted friends have stepped up to join the madness that is IndyInsiders, the Artist Formerly Known as CWF Fancam, Steve Zeban and the critical eye of graphics guru Scott Neese, a.k.a. IWC Fancam on the interwebs.  Two guys that I have nothing but admiration for have helped insure that the website continues forward.  I'm also throwing this one out there, with the addition of Steve, our frequent contributor Taylor Zeban is firmly on deck for a spot in the show too!

The "new" Insiders crew will present the 2017 IndyInsiders Awards on Saturday February 10th at Gibsonville NC's Mid Atlantic Sportatorium during CWF STRONG!  Tickets, directions and everything CWF can be found at CWF247.COM!

The day after my last update here, I did receive the first mix of "If I Fell" from Tommy and it brought back another wave of warm and fuzzy feelings.  We had discussed moving forward with more originals, but this morning I awake to an email with the finished music track for another Beatles classic, "And Your Bird Can Sing".  I'm jacked.  This is one of my absolute favorites, which I always thought was the highlight of the 25+ minute long Beatles Medley by Stars on 45.  Can't wait to tackle it.  I can see us doing this until we have enough tracks to release a "Beatles" album before it's over.  

So, my current mood has elevated into the "zone" again for the first time in years.  I'm excited about CWF Mid Atlantic and our plans for the future ensure many more years of high-impact pro wrestling fun and action for the fans.  My thoughts of retirement are officially on the back burner and I'm ready for whatever CWF requests.  Tommy must be seeing a weekend off in his near future or he wouldn't be sending new tunes, and I'm extremely honored that he continues to want to record with me on our various musical projects.  The future looks bright for both CWF and RoxX and I'm wired by the prospects offered to me by both.  Excuse my grin, but I'm feeling great.

A Damn Cold Beginning

2018 kicks off with record cold temperatures here in God's Country and I guess it's ok to say that Mr. Trump has fixed Global Warming in his first year in office.  First time my water here has frozen up in 17 years.  At least it was stupid.  Yeah, stupid.  Water frozen solid, maintenance puts in an electric heater in the utility room and tells me to call them when the water starts running.  It didn't.  Got a hotel room at the Marriott next door and wore out their huge Euro-style shower.  Checked out, came home and maintenance comes back asking if I have water yet.  Nope.  Well, let's go take a look!

Out to the utility room, he opens it.  The heater is running and the light is on.  It's cold as &@^# in there!  He walks around the building to the vacant apartment next door's side and the door is standing wide open.  Which explains why my water froze up in the first place.  Ten to twelve minutes later my water returned with a roar.  Kept it dripping since, but I'm hearing frozen water stories everywhere.

Very successful weekend in the studio.  Finished Beatles tracks "If I Fell", "Anytime At All" and "Yes It Is" as well as new original "Unwavering Light".  I've got demos and rough mixes of all of these except "If I Fell" and am freaking out kind of hard.  The new original shows off a lot of what we've learned learning and performing these complex Beatles tunes.  Wait until Tommy releases "Yes It Is".  I still can't believe that is US singing these songs!  We still #RoxX!

I imagine we'll focus on new originals as soon as we have more to concentrate on, Tommy's still on mad overtime working six days a week.  Figures he won't have another week-long break until April.  We've knocked around doing some other covers down the road and the next one may be "I Got The Fire" by Montrose.  Or it may even be a Judas Priest tune.  I dunno, with the release of "It Won't Be Long", we still have three Beatles tunes unreleased as well as five originals.