I’m finally going to unplug the Guestbook. There were a few really fun entries
in there, mostly by the demented Tequila Pete ! There WERE a number of really
nice comments too, but it’s been totally taken over by loser Eastern Europeans
cyber a-holes who seem to extract much pleasure in using the old Commodore 64s
we shipped over there to write gibberish or sell (certainly fake) Viagra and
Cialis all up and down our guestbook. What a blight.o solo / vocal shows … al
the way down to Club Med in Turks and Caicos !!! Sweet gig. You might also see
her around occasionally duo-ing with legendary music-maker, John McGale. A Loose
Change ‘news’ update …
We played an
awesome New Year’s Eve party at Clint’s a while ago. Lots and lots of fun, great
food, great people, great venue. Special thanks to Tom Labelle, an ex-colleague
and Clint’s patron, who put in a good word for us. Karine and Adam did the first
part of the NYE show and did an amazing job. Look Karine up on MySpace. She is
very talented AND a sweetheart as well.
Of course, a
number of Clint’s dates ensued and they were all special for one reason or
another.
Somewhere in
there Loose Change played a new venue over at Le Skratch Billiards in
Pierrefonds. We had a blast at that gig also. A lot of friends turned out and
there were an awful lot of shooters flying around the place that night… Look for
us to be playing / partying there very soon.
Of course
there were a bunch of super fun Kelly’s Pub dates in there, with a lot of great
guest players / singers as well as Pete Fox ;-) etc…
Our last
weekend through, we had the amazing and talented multi-instrumentalist, Jason
Graveley (Retro Crush, Jason and Andre, ex-Miranda Rocks and ex-S
UPERSTONE)
who super-graciously zoomed up from Cornwall both nights to sit in on bass with
us because our own wonderful Michel Careau couldn’t be there. What can you say
about this guy ? We just emailed him a list of songs and he just ploughed
through the performance, like 99% flawlessly. (He screwed up less than I did !!
) He even nailed both the Beatles and Stones medleys we do, even though he
had never even heard us play them before ! What a privilege it is to play with
this guy.
We were
fortunate enough to have Rachel Kapasi from Darling Nikki sit in with us too
when we had a date slip out to a weekend where Sherry had an out of town
commitment already lined up. We practically did whole new sets for that gig and
even called ourselves The Nom Nom Noms instead of Loose Change. What a great job
she did. That was special and went off great too !
Thanks so
much to both of them and we feel very lucky to be surrounded by talented,
musical friends !
Of course,
we’re always swapping in and out some new (classic) tunes into the set lists.
Lately, you can expect to hear stuff like Band on the Run, or Boys of Summer or
Like The Way I Do or Can’t Stand Losing You or Just What I Needed or The Ocean
or… the list goes on and on. Of course, Roller and Tie Your Mother Down and Keep
On Loving Me Baby and all the ‘staple’ hits that our friends / guests like to
hear make an appearance as well.
We’ll be
updating the Playlist on this site within the next few weeks. Keeping it
‘real’.
If you want
to reconnect with some of your best Classic Rock and Pop favorites, check our
upcoming dates and drop in to check out Loose Change 2009 soon !
Peace,
Garry
Garry@loosechangeband.ca
