MUSIC MUSIC AUDIO SONG LIST MUSIC VIDEOS SHEET MUSIC GIGS AND BANDSSun Lakes 1/18/2020 Called up Al Mcconnel to find out about this gig on Monday on Fairway Blvd. Didn't drink yesterday and I guess I won't today.
Sun Lakes 2/8/2020 Wrote on the Cottonwoods and the instrumental westerns as big as the west itself. No one has emailed back of the three bars who asked me to send my link for a gig.Sun Lakes 2/7/2020 Slept six hours without budging and then got up. Wrote the Kokopelli story and translated it to Spanish. Finished the prized possession box page and diddled around. Still on a diet. That damned coffee creamer was costing me god alone knows how many calories. I mean maybe 500. No more for me. Dieting big time. Today, I drove to Craft 64 and saw Roger Carpenter. I couldn't drink so I left. I went down and there was a place soon to open called the Pedal House Brewery and I talked to the cook in Spanish cause he was from Veracruz and mentioned I wanted a gig and he sent me inside and I talked to the owners and they seemed interested and gave me a card and I sent them my link to the Singing with the Birds album.
Sun Lakes 2/5/2020 Slept 8 hours straight. Talked to Roberto. Wrote and did web page. I want to go over to the peach and mention I played there 27 weeks straight and try to get a gig. Or to other places.
Generic Place Anywhere 4/7/2019 Rock Lobster Bar Gig 11:00 to 2:00 Sid, Cuca, Charlie and Marie and friend, Steve, Steve Ramos anSun Lakes 3/2/2020 Finishing up Escrituras y locuras. Talked to Roberto today. Got 745.82 royalty check today for Dad's book. Will do taxes tomorrow I hope. Need to go down to the beach one last time and clean out what we want. Don't look forward to it. Then I want to go to England. I want a gig but I haven't been able to get one.
Sun Lakes 2/8/2020 Wrote on the Cottonwoods and the instrumental westerns as big as the west itself. No one has emailed back of the three bars who asked me to send my link for a gig.AND THEN THE TRUMP/PENCE VIRUS CAME.
Two people wanted me to play Margaritaville last night. That seems to be the one they ask for. No one even asks for Bobby McGee or Brown-eyed Girl. I used to have a swing version of Bobby McGee and perhaps I could make a medley of the three. One old slightly toasted patron wrote out the following list of country singers including "Merral Haggard," whom I never have forgiven for his "Okie" song. I sang Jimmy Dean's "Old Rivers" for him just for laughs. Broke into tears as Walter Brennan did at the last words. Nice crack in my voice. Har!
aTracy Clarke
Brown eyed girl is my song, would love to hear you sing it!
Sally Cole
New Orleans musicians HATE French Quarter gigs because people always request When the Saints Come Marching In and Brown-Eyed Girl!
Tom Cole
Well, I can understand the Saints because you want to say you had the New Orleans experience. But Brown-eyed Girl?
Sally Cole
It's just become a cliche.
Tracy Clarke
Doesn't make much snese, does it?
Tracy Clarke
sense...
8y
Tom Cole
I steer clear of the 60s and 70s songbook mostly except for the odd Beatle tune. It's great but really worn out. I avoid that slight marijuana flavor by doing other tunes. My latest is Mr. Blue!
8y
Kurt Alderson
I have forgiven Merle after learning that song was a satire of his arrest for smoking pot in Muskogee. He and Neil Young were fishing buddies and often sang together on outings. Sing Long May You Run next chance you get.
SUPERIOR BAR GIG THAT CARLOS
TOLD ME ABOUT
SEE MUCH THE SAME ON THE... SUPERIOR BAR PAGE I HAD THE CD BELOW TO SELL. HOMEMADE Sixteen First Takes Early CD.jpg I GAVE ONE TO THE BLUEGRASS FAMILY BAND THERE IN 2008 AND THEY GAVE ME THEIRS. WHISTLE STOP BLUEGRASS BAND ARIZONA Whistlestop Bluegrass SmallerB.jpg Whistlestop Bluegrass Smaller.jpg I TALK ABOUT THIS WHISTLE STOP BLUEGRASS BAND IN MY BOOK THE RED HOT ROOSTER. CLICK TO READ CHAPTER NINE (9). Bar and I have a gig TOMORROW. Boyce Thompson Arboretum 02/11/2008 This is when I went for the first gig at the superior bar I stopped here first. Well I sang 49 times. The bluegrass band was hired first so there was a Boyce Thompson Arboretum 02/17/2008 Stopped here before my second gig at the Superior Bar. There was a birthday there for one "Bear," a girl who had turned fifty. One dollar in tips. No CDs sold. They weren't big tippers. Alan had me play a long time. I had a steak at the picnic. An old cowboy wanted to sing "Cattle Call" and I did. He sang along. Actually he croaked along. He could only croak. He smelled like cigarettes. Boyce Thompson Arboretum 02/24/2008 Third gig at the Superior Bar. GOT THE HYBRID HUMMER at last. Right at the feeder there. Nice House Wren. Alan booked three bands and didn't tell any of them. Two bluegrass and me. I finally got to play for 45 minutes or so. I was tired and didn't do such a good job and I want my variax back! Boyce Thompson Arboretum 11/30/2008 Eleven measly birds and I was there a long time. I went to the SUPERIOR BAR. It was closed. Saw some leaves around the door. I went to a bar with a bunch of motorcycles in front of it. I went in and asked the guys at the bar what happened to the bar. They said he hadn't officially closed it, but that he hadn't been open in about eight months. Damn! There was a walking stick by the door of the Superior Bar, wasn't there? I took a picture. Boyce Thompson Arboretum 02/26/2009 I took my furlough day and went here. Plumbeous Vireo and Green-tailed Towhee and Red-naped Sapsucker were the highlights. I went to the Superior Bar, and it was closed. I guess them days is gone.
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2/28/2008 I played after work at the superior bar. I played two hours. a group of photographers from glendale com college or something were there. I sold two cds. alan gave me fifty bucks. I've played there four times February 9, 17, 24, 28, 2008 One guy named cliff or clint sat there and listened. He bought a cd. (It is nov 30 2008 now and i remember 75 bucks. Oh, well I went there today and the bar seems closed. )
EMAILS RE THIS GIG
Superior Bar Superior Bar 2/2/08 http://www.140copper.net/superbar1.htm From: Alan G. Benoit <alan@thesuperiorbar.com> Subject: Re: Music at the Superior Bar / Hi Tom! Date: January 24, 2008 5:57:02 AM MST To: Tom Cole <tom.cole@asu.edu> Hi Tom, Sorry for the delay! Thank you for forwarding your info to me. I would love to have you come up & play at the bar sometime. Please give me a call @ 602-526-1800 (cell) or the bar @ 520-689-5400. Or better yet come up and let me show you around and see what you think. My wife & I really enjoy Caji & Salome and if they are fond of you I'm sure we will be too! Best, Alan Benoit -----Original Message----- From: Tom Cole [mailto:tom.cole@asu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 05:21 PM To: 'Alan G. Benoit' Subject: Music at the Superior Bar Alan, Caji carbon copied me on the message he sent you and I wanted to know if you had any use for a swing guitar player sometime at your bar. I can send you a little demo that Caji recorded of me just strumming in his livingroom without my sound system so you can get an idea of the style and type of songs. They're western swing tunes and some jazz standards from way back that are fun and easy for people to understand. Tom Cole Hi Tom, Sorry for the delay! Thank you for forwarding your info to me. I would love to have you come up & play at the bar sometime. Please give me a call @ 602-526-1800 (cell) or the bar @ 520-689-5400. Or better yet come up and let me show you around and see what you think. My wife & I really enjoy Caji & Salome and if they are fond of you I'm sure we will be too! Best, Alan Benoit -----Original Message----- From: Tom Cole [mailto:tom.cole@asu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 05:21 PM To: 'Alan G. Benoit' Subject: Music at the Superior Bar Alan, Caji carbon copied me on the message he sent you and I wanted to know if you had any use for a swing guitar player sometime at your bar. I can send you a little demo that Caji recorded of me just strumming in his livingroom without my sound system so you can get an idea of the style and type of songs. They're western swing tunes and some jazz standards from way back that are fun and easy for people to understand. Tom Cole |
831 South Sidney Avenue Tucson Arizona 6/15/2012 Went down to see Davy play. Jeff and I went to the riders in the sky concert at the Tucson Fox Theater. We met and greeted the singers afterwards. On Saturday we went to the Congress Hotel. On Sunday, Davy's gig was a bust because there was no electricity so it fell through. We all went to an organic pizza place and ate like pigs. The watiress came out complaining about her tip.
I think this note is
about the above picture of the Taylor guitar.
Drank only near beer today and not much of
that.
Thus, I will wait until a week has passed and check my weight. I have a gig to play at Marie and Charlie's on Nov 11, 2016.
journal entry: 4/5/2013 I
decided not to walk. Didn't feel like it. I read El
Naufragio del Stefano. Some guy was there taking
pictures.
He was a computer programmer guy with a card. Knew
nothing about birds. He went to the Water Ranch
afterwards.
I played last night at the Downunder,
and Brandon came with some girl who was young but knew
all the old songs and was into swing dancing.
Sally is here today because we're going hiking
in the Superstitions tomorrow. She's at the library.
Nice, sunny weather. Beer night tonight.
I finished the first draft of the transformation of
the screenplay The Reluctant Cowboy to a short story.
It's 69 pages long. Not that short.
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