| Hi, ya'll! So - I'm wondering if and how I'm going to adjust to being a normal human being. I know I haven't written since SOUTH BY DUE EAST 2009. Sorry about that! Part of the reason I haven't written in a while is explained herein. Tonight I want to write, to tell you that Season 7 of Hippies.TV premieres tonight with an episode shot at THE FREE PRESS HOUSTON Westhiemer Block Party in late March. It features a lot of bands I had never met or heard of until that day. New music! Way to go, Omar! I'm excited about the shows lined up for this season. Birthday Jam with Chango Man, Little Joe Washington & Rock Romano, The Cellar Club 50th Reunion with Bugs Henderson, Point Plank, Dead Pyrates Society and more, and The New Jack Hippies 4-day adventure at SOUTH BY DUE EAST (to name a few). I'm finishing a short film as I write, about Carolyn Wonderland and The Mighty Orq playing at Discovery Green yesterday. That was fun and the video looks great! I'll have it on YouTube by tomorrow (www.youtube.com/siriushippies), maybe tonight I've got my own new music - and the reviews have been great - but I'll tell you about that next time. Part of the reason I always gave, when asked how or why I was soooo prolific, was that I am a damaged man with post traumatic stress who only gets an hour or two of sleep per night, and therefore, I had an extra 40 hours or so every week to give to my art. 2200 extra hours per year. I love my work, so I work a lot! And that's how I became a guy with 2000 songs, 44 (top secret) albums and CDs, 5 feature length films and over 100 short films & TV episodes in my catalog. Well - I'm not superman any more. The blood pressure medicine seems to work, and will probably add years to my life, but I've begun sleeping 7-9 hours each night. I've NEVER done that before. I started taking the medicine right before my summer tour last year. Touring has a schedule and routine all it's own, and doesn't necessarily include much production work, so I never noticed the change. As I began to produce stuff upon my return, and also began to get behind on personal music projects in leiu of the projects I was taking on, and I figured it was due to other things. The tour had been tough and expensive with gas over $4, we got home on the day of Hurricane Ike and had no power and lost a month, we lost everything in the stock market and didn't have our own internet access or the bucks to keep up our computers when they went frozzy... Now I know that it was something else, too. I'm not superman any more. IT appears that I will be sleeping like a normal person, 7-9 hours a night. Those 2200 hundred extra hours per year are probably gone forever. I'll have to prioritize my projects a bit differently, perhaps giving up some of the things I love to do, or doing less of all of them. I've already quit spending time booking myself and the band, which has resulted in playing live a lot less. Maybe I need to find a booking agent - but that takes time, too. Finding more volunteers to mix and edit SOUTH BY DUE EAST would help. Finding sponsorship for our projects would help afford assistance/employees, but that takes time to find and manage, too. Something's gotta give, and I don't know what it is (do I, Mr. Jones). I'll keep you posted... Hippies.TV airs at 10pm Friday nights on Houston Comcast CAble Channel 17 and is available at www.hippies.tv Tonight's Hippies.TV Season 7 Episode 1 may be found at - www.hippies.tv/HTV0901TheFreePressHoustonBlockParty.Spring2009.wmv Next Friday on TV, But online in only a few days - Hippies.TV Season 7 Episode 2 www.hippies.tv/HTV0902HoustonNORML420Benefit2009.wmv 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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