So I left off with the dynamics of stage sharing, who gigs with whom and whatnot. I'll Start with the bene at Iota because it is fresh in my mind. Can I just tell you the biggest most pleasant surprise of the Alejandro Benefit was Karl Straub singing harmony with Mary Batiata on a new song of hers. Whoa, harmony is an understatement, they sound great together! Karl has played guitar live with Little Pink on more than one occasion and I think he produced her first album, oi vay, why did it take so long to discover how great they sound together?

Other funzies at the bene, hearing the band June Star. They had opened for LTH, like over a year ago at The State - I remember them as being interesting. They totally hung together at this benefit, even with what was a sit in drummer (I think?). And this sit in drummer, he rocks - he played electric and sang a number of lead vocals with Lee Wilhoit & Phoebus in a band that is yet unamed, or so they joke. Anyway, gotta find out what this talented youngster's name is. Another treat was Bill Kirchen, rockin solo with some old bluesy stuff then sitting in on Jumpin' Jupiter's set. These are really fun things that just don't get a chance to happen day to day-yay for benefit show mentality!

Hello, so it's been a good old fashioned groupiegirldc kind of week. We'll have been to Iota 3 times in 7 days by Sunday. There are good shows at Velvet Lounge and Staccato this weekend. Check out Mr. Joel's calendar, it's got most of what I have not had time to add to mine.

Especially take note of the Alejandro Escovedo Benefit little promos for this show have been popping up everywhere. It's my kind of line up-LTH, Little Pink, Bill Kirchen, Jumpin Jupiter, Bill Kirchen, Brandon (whose last name I can't remember, from Canyon, Karl Straub, Lee Wilhoit (hmmm that's now all the members of the former Graverobbers? Reunion anyone?) It will be a lot switchin' around, but it should rock! I'm sure there may be other players I've missed to so come on out. If you have not heard of Alejandro Escovedo, search him on the net you will find gracious tribute to this still living artist who needs a lot of help with medical bills.

Now the super groupie thing to do is always keep tabs on 'developments', like who shares stage with whom and who gets posted on what message board or list serve etc. I am going to try and map out some of these new developments next as I did make it to the Holden/Rotoscope show and got visuals now on some of the AMS postersand Brandon whats-his-face from Canyon is playing at this benefit Sunday....hmmm, must digest

this is a post for me only, remember this name, Malcolm Holcombe, from North Carolina. wow. real. very very real.

Hi people. Well the least I could do is update the calendar for November, right? Well, I have a number of times, but the template doesn't want to save or publish, which is maddening. My life has really gone to hell in a handbasket lately, I don't feel like half the groupie I used to be, only time will tell. Let's hope I can at least get back to posting the dates of shows I would like to see, if Blogger cooperates.