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Archive for the 'Independent Artists' Category

The 1st gig of the rest of our lives….

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

After our last show in Columbus, OH - The National Catholic Youth Conference - (11/09/07) - which is our 1st full band show since the health recovery of one of our bandmates I felt it necessary for me and the guys from REV21 to keep a proper perspective on life with a good old […]

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It ain’t like an Elvis movie…

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Our label mate, David Levi just got back from a mini-tour of Florida.
He was testing out some of the songs from his new CD. Thank God he had safe travels and was well received… but, the trip was not without
trials. To our mutual amusement we agreed that the life of an indie
artist ain’t […]

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Summitt & Gingrich = fuel

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

So I was at a conference today with about 900 other people and the Keynote speakers were Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summit - (all-time winningest coach in the NCAA – man or woman), and former Speaker/”walking think tank” Newt Gingrich. Talk about inspiring…
Ms. Summit shared about how important building relationships were to building a […]

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Hi REVer’s, two things on my mind as I write: 1)This last Sunday our drummer, Donald aka GQ, came and played with our praise band at church. I was just reminded how much I LOVE playing with him. We’ve played together since he was 13 years old and it gets better & more fulfilling as […]

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The 80’s were about learning the top-40/rock bar band trade in SC. My brother, my band and myself spent time learning several hundred cover songs and moving up the income ladder in local bars. After getting some local radio airplay with some of our original songs we sort of became big fish in a little […]

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