Changing Up the Beat...

A few post back I was thinking about influences on life and earlier today I got a pleasant surprise that echoed just that.  The website had a special visitor today and he left a note, saying his mother was John Bartee's youngest sister. He briefly wrote of a memory as a 4 year old child in Burbank, California, and John visiting having with him a guitar & a box of sheet music.  Now John's nephew can't remember how his uncle looked at that young age but to this day he remembers how he was taken by the Guitar and the music STUFF.  He went on to start playing a guitar at age 8, and playing Upright & Electric Bass at 12.  He will say Music was a gift, as will my own nephew who has also received that natural gift.  We may watch and listen to them play the different instruments and enjoy their talents... But I feel the Music is so much deeper in them than what we witness outwardly.  A gift which they may not even have words for... A love & A life.

With that said I'd I like to change up the Jazz beat a little with some sounds that would have no problem being in the same room with those which came before.

I had only seen pictures of Johnny Alexander playing Bass,  we have never met personally.  Yet a few hours ago I got to see & hear him perform thanks to the technology of the Internet.

                                Dave Crimmen & his Band



   Dave Crimmen - Lead Vocals,Guitar 
  Johnny   Alexander - Bass Guitar 
  Greg Windust - Drums



    "Just Plain Old Rock & Roll Sounds"
                       by Jonathan Farrell  September 17, 2010



Yeah... I think these guys really Love the MUSIC.

If you are near the San Mateo - San Francisco Area of California you need to check out Dave Crimmen & his Band live. Get their schedule and If you enjoyed the above tunes, they are burning things up at Myspace.