| Greetings and best wishes for a great 2009! Can't say that enough! 2008 had some really cool high points, but eventually sucked an extremely big one. It started out great, with a CD release and a killer birthday party. BluesGuy's Birthday Jam was in February, where Big Al Bettis, T.C. and the Cannonballs and The New Jack Hippies (with horns) all rocked out loud, with Austin's Mandy Mercier sitting in on fiddle with everybody. Good sounds! The party was fun and the video looked great. March brought the best SOUTH BY DUE EAST yet, spawning two new TV series ('SOUTH BY DUE EAST Television' & 'MusicEveryMarch'), and a bunch of great volunteer editors and mixers. Big Ups to John Moran, Rock Romano, Chris Rogers, Al Bahmani, Koo Rod and especially to Roger Tausz! All of the help resulted in a lot of cool audio and video for the deserving musicians! Tonight's episode (on comcast cable 17 at 10:30pm or www.hippies.tv) featuresThe Big Sticks, Giancarlo Cafferena, Chaz Nadege & Mundo Tribe (right after 'Guy Schwartz' Road Journal' at 10pm with Gurf Morlix and I pickin' & grinnin'on top of a big boulder in the land of 30,000 islands)! After a couple months of editing the new series, it was time to book the summer/fall tour, but the doctor put me on blood pressure medicine and insulin which kicked my butt during June, leaving half the tour schedule unbooked. Deciding to do the tour anyway, MArlo and I figured we'd do it partly as a tour, partly as a vacation, and partly as a guerilla tour, finding musicians in each town (on google and myspace) and making spontaeneous music video as we go. We met cool musicians and raided restaurants, schools, venues and made stuff happen! This was a blast, and resulted in my cool new musical reality TV series, but the lack of income from the guerilla dates, combined with the high cost of everything (motels,food,420) and over $4 a gallon gas ($1.39 a liter in Canada), put us behind on everything financial. The tour ended, and we arrived back home on the eve of Hurricane Ike. BAM! No power for a month, broken/stuffed drain lines stinking up the house, and then the economy crashed. We were on margin. Our margin was called. We went broke! Recorded a suprise solo CD on the laptop while the power was out. Just me and my guitar, like I do 'em live when solo, without the band. Stayed at Roger & Kerri's house. Thanks! Why a solo CD? After the tour, during which I played mostly acoustic singer/songwriter style, it was probably the best I'll ever have these songs down this way, and I've always been asked, "which of these (43 top secret CDs) have the music you did tonight?" Now I have a CD like that! Yay! So, we've carried on, finishing a sucky year that was full of cool stuff, as well. Now it's time for another birthday jam in the back yard. The 9th annual birthday jam! It'll be held on Sunday afternoon, February 15th, the day after Valentine's Day. I'll be 57 this year. You're invited, of course! Besides The New Jack Hippies, this year's house party will feature a performance by Chango Man, and BBQ by Jim Settles! There's also a rumoured appearance by the Valentine's Day Birthday Boy - Rock 'Dr. Rockit' Romano! I'll let Rock tell you how old he's gonna be! And yes, we'll be making a film and carrying it live on the internet as it goes down! I love that we can do this stuff! Let me know if you want to participate at MUSICeveryMARCH (SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2009), too. The dates are 20-23MAR2009, and the line-up is getting good. It'll be held at Dan Electro's again, as well. I'll tell you more when I write next. ---------- WEEKEND MUSIC CALENDAR Courtesy of The BluesHound & Baby Girl and KPFT-FM90.1 (kpft.org) ---------- FRIDAY January 9
SATURDAY January 10
See you where the live music is! Guy Schwartz - owner/creator of one of the longest email sigs ever! Texaans muzikant, songwriter, bandleader, Producer, filmmaker, auteur, bassist, guitarist Guy Schwartz & The New Jack Hippies SOUTH BY DUE EAST TELEVISION www.Hippies.TV myspace.com/guyschwartz myspace.com/southbydueeast myspace.com/newjackhippies myspace.com/hippiestv www.stickam.com/bluesguy www.youtube.com/siriushippies www.newjackhippies.com www.hippies.tv www.southbydueeast.com www.bluesguy.co.uk www.guyschwartz.com Box 31324, Houston, Texas, USA 77231 001-713-721-0093 HIPPIES TV - Gratis webvideo's op http://www.hippies.tv/ Some of them may regret saying it now, but they said it... - "Texas Premiere Blues Rock Hippie Jam Band" - -Billy Block, Western Beat Entertainment, Nashville - "Guy Schwartz... The indefatigable Guy Schwartz... - He'll just knock 'em dead! He'll put 'em down and play10 in-between... - and record it all and put it on the satellite! What can I say..." - -Rock 'Dr.Rockit' Romano, Texas Music Icon - "That Guy Schwartz knows how to do music!" - -Rusty Young, Nashville (founding member of Poco) - "Guy Schwartz & los New Jack Hippies son, realamente muy buenos. - Casi como los Rolling Stones, minimo. Suenan claro & preciso!" - -D. Durantes, Canamo Magazine, Madrid - "Bon vivant guitarist-producer GuySchwartz has been an integral part - of our music scene so long he should be called the Godfather" - -William Michael Smith, The Houston Press - "That's a moderately pretentious email sig...!" - -Roger Tausz, New Jack Hippies - "Guy Schwartz and the New Jack Hippies showcased an easy, - effortless vibe peppered with rock and blues licks (and) - attracted one of the early day's largest crowds." - -Joey Guerra, The Houston Chronicle - "Guy Schwartz is the Pol Pot of Texas blues. He rules the scene with an iron fist!" - -Omar Afra, Free Press Houston - "A mover and shaker, 100 proof P.T. Barnum and Houston's - answer to the Brill building" - -Opie Hendrix, Maximum C&W Artist - "The Hippies were the surprise of the show. Everyone grooved!" - -Darren Fisher, WonderJam, Amsterdam - "Guy Schwartz loves Houston music!" - -Tony Loya, chron.com |
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