End of summer, beginning of Autum. It's been a busy month. Will need to catch up over several posts - not enough time for it all right now.

 

Genele and I saw Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein, the Musical on it's official opening night here in Seattle. It was a warm up run before it goes to Broadway. Very good production - I highly recommend it! Funny. Especially if you are a fan of the movie. Genele was aquainted with Mel when she lived in LA, and we got a chance to say hi during the intermission. Very nice man. And he wrote 18 songs - all but one - for the show in his typical Mel Brooks style with with his signauture humor. I hadn't realized he was a songwriter, but he said that's where he started. Wow. So that was on a Thursday night, and Genele gets a call from Mel on Friday to say how great it was to see her again and to meet me and to stay in touch. Then Sunday morning at 8:30am, the phone rings - I say "who the hell is calling this early on Sunday morning?" It was Mel, saying he was leaving the next day and didn't want to leave town without saying goodbye. I think he likes Genele.. :)

 

Over the Labor Day holiday, we went to Park City, Utah for the wedding of some good friends of ours. One night in Park City and two nights at the Sundance Resort, owned by Robert Redford. Beautiful place, just beautiful. I ended up playing a couple of songs with the band in the Owl Bar the night before the wedding and again with the band who played the wedding. Everyone had a great time - I hope to write more about it later.....

 

Then a few days after coming home from Park City, we took a family vacation to one of our favorite spots on earth, San Juan Island. Nine days. Ahhhh. Great house on the water, with a dock, and one of our friends offered to loan us his new skiff for the week. So we were out on the water almost every day. Got to spend some time with some of our good friends up there. One of the highlights was the seafood feast we do most every time we go up to the islands. Fresh crab, clams, oysters, prawns, salmon and more. Man was that great! Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.....

 

Now, back into the fray. The band will be getting together again sometime next month to play a song or two at an event called Woodstick. Us and about 500 drummers - that should prove interesting! Some new music is starting to float around, and Paul Secord and I are getting together this evening to discuss and/or plan some changes to the band website. Time to freshen things up!