I probably say the word “gig” more often each day than any other – with the exception of the word “awesome” and possibly an iconic profanity I won’t memorialize here. But what IS a gig anyway? Why do we even call it that? A “gig” started life as a kind of carriage – here’s a wonderful picture of that two-seat bucket with big wheels. It would be hard to fit a band in [...]
Top to Bottom: Band, Old Roman Road (Celje); Audience in underground Celeia Ruins (Celje); GH & Klemmen Kotar, sax (Divaca); Marko Crncec in the snow; Jazzy al fresco (Postojna); GH in a classroom (Koper). Croatia, Italy, Austria. Czech Republic - we got to all of them. But my home will always be tiny Slovenia - read on... Fun Fact No. 1- Underground Jazz...I mean, ACTUALLY Underground... CELJE The current city [...]
Fun Fact No. 1- Dance Floor Inspiration 1) We played this beautiful room called THE CLUB in Birmingham, AL. Film director John Badham ‘s family is from Birmingham, AL. THE CLUB has a big poster of Badham’s classic film, “Saturday Night Fever” on their wall. The story goes John B. was visiting THE CLUB and was inspired by the incredible dance floor for his own film. Fun Fact No. 2- A [...]
“What gets you out of bed in the morning?” I asked my friend who had a corporate job. She answered: “Uhm… I don’t know. Probably planning my vacation.” I mulled on her reply then and I mull on it still. It brings up a couple of thoughts for me: 1) every day, I want to get out of bed excited about my work and 2) I never take vacations. Being a career musician is [...]
Can I get a show of hands? Love it? Hate it? Who can’t imagine doing anything else, even though it would be so great to just lie on the couch sometimes and channel -surf. Last night, I fell asleep thinking about set lists and stage plots. And the input list that I am sure missed somebody. And then the suitcase I needed to dig out because I kept forgetting I was leaving for Louisville [...]
