Non Stop Action!!!!!!!

February 22, 2005

After the Vegas run, it was time to get some stuff done in town…ya know…oil changes, banking, doctors, dentists, gym visits…I rocked out for 2 days for Keith Follese’s Midas Music Company. We knocked out 15 new tunes for folks like Keith, Chris Cavanaugh, Victoria Shaw, Adrienne Follese and many others…The band is always top notch-Spady B., Jimmy Nichols, Gary Barnette, Scotty Sanders, Kerry Marx, Mike Durham and myself. I also played on some cool demos for Lizzy McGuire’s Nickelodeon sidekicks new project that is being produced by Rob Cavallo. Cavallo just produced GreenDay’s Grammy winner ‘American Idiot’…Roger Nichols played guitar and Allison Prestwood played bass…killer rhythm section…Back on the bus to visit Greenville,SC, Orlando, and Fort Myers, Fla. I will say this: “All arenas look and feel alike. It’s like you are in a time and space warp”. Awesome show in Greenville. My folks came to see me play at the Orlando show and we did some catching up. They got to meet all of the tour personnel and had some great seats. The Amber Dotson bus dropped off my ‘Dream Team’ rhythm section at the Raddison in Orlando and the Jason Aldean bus picked us up at 4:30 in the morning! Jason rocked as the opener for Pat Green to a packed house at Ricochet’s in Ft. Myers. The all-star band was on fire. Jason Mowery of Keith Urban fame and Jack Sizemore of Lonestar/BrittonJack fame rounded out the band. My parents also came to this show and had a few cocktails…The next day was Jason’s video shoot for his first single- “Hicktown”. I was surrounded by drunk rednecks, monster trucks and hot models for hours at a time. I played for hours! It was quite the workout! The end result should be fabulous…music, trucks, girls and a giant party…I now have 24 hours in Nashville. I knocked out a session for my friend Chip at Chip Martin Productions…I am leaving at 8 pm tommorrow after I see youth rocker Ryan Follese rock out at his first show at THE END in Nashville…Two more weeks left on the 2005 George Strait Tour and it will be freelance city after that…

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