Light

I received some. Tonight while practicing, I suddenly began playing as if doing a set. I knew the order,

the venue, and it was a webcast esp. hooked via FB where it was as if I was seeing Arlo Hennings,

(possibly Shawn Phillips), Mon Capitaine and Steve, Michael Mlazger, Jill and Phyllis

Johnson + other friends watching via their PC's! It was no daydream, that's all I can say, and it of

course was not really happening. Yet I've not had such an experience before, very odd.

This came at the end of practicing. Practice, practice, practice. It's working, I'm getting better.

I'm writing (2 songs) and just as importantly, discovering old ones. There was no filler in that set.

Laundry, working out, Mom-chores-after-the-children's-bedtime wha who? I was gone, man. Many

experiences over the years of getting lost in the work...maybe that's our meditation. Which makes

me an expert of personal experiences like that - tonight was unique.

Thank you, Lord God!

Because now I can begin believing in the solo thing. All at once, I knew it is VERY possible. Once is good

enough for me now, to know even once! That I can go from being experienced on one axe, not only to

2nd axe, but to a solo artist because believe-you-me, since the Storm video, I had been seriously

reflecting upon and acknowledging that of all many musical challenges contemplated or realized, this

solo-artist scenario is singular. I can't really imagine a more difficult "hat", except scoring orchestral music,

and finally, conducting.

Reflecting enabled me to process the bizarre and hyper-detached /necessity the Mother of Invention path which

brought me to having this first music vid: I'd become a solo artist by DEFAULT!! (Via having been in baby exile

for years, with no one to help me musically). Now...it's not about default, it's about choice. What is mine?

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Phyllis

She found me via FB. Keyboardist/lead singer in the outfit I was put in charge of running rehearsals for,

in the 80's (band's name was initially The True - then became The Untrue). Curiously that band was 4/5's women.

Phyllis I don't think recalls me being "(one of the) drummer(s)" - for Holly Chumas was the main drummer. I'd played

various stuff, not well, but the others proficient thus they covered me). Holly played wicked bass, too, and Larry

Preston played that funk and screaming guitar. Yolanda percussion. Most of us sang lead. V. good band.

So she gives me her myspace and the sucka has almost 70 THOUSAND views! Heh. Her demo's have thousands of plays.

It's so cool, I'm very proud of her. In the "About" section the band when she was 19, that's The Untrue. Anyway Phyllis

since been playing guitar, too and writing a gazillion songs. She was NOT vocal about being into Bowie and all that cool

stuff at age 19, but jazz, fusion, gospel, choral, headier stuff w/ a very smooth jazz-ish, powerhouse voice - scales,

nuance. A vocal injury cut her career while in her 20's (but like I wrote her, who would KNOW? Only those who'd heard

her before the injury).

Her husband is Stephen Johnson, also a composer (and works at Willie's American Guitars which brings its

own respect and fame). Phyllis Johnson Myspace

2nd link also choice, imo: 7 yr old Winston Johnson (w/ mom Phyllis and dad Stephen) - Little Drummer Boy

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Yes, the studio will be returned to....hence Practice x's 3.