Aiden hit the big two year mark had his birthday party at the daycare. He received many nice gifts including many toys, books and candy from the families of the other children at his day care. The day care always goes all out for the children’s birthdays, always making their special days a fun day for everyone. A big ‘thank you’ from Aiden and his family goes out to everyone for making his party and playtime very special for him. As you can see in the pictures below, he was pretty excited opening his gifts!
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Well, its been a couple months since we’ve reorganized ‘the band’ and started auditioning for a new guitar player, new bass player, new singer and a name for the band!!! After a lot of time and energy, we’ve found some amazingly talented and nice people. And, they’re not just any old players!
“Blue Lou” Marini and Lou Marini Jr.
Is that James Dean? No! It’s Lou Marini!
First off, I somehow managed to get in touch with Lou Marini via one of the Internet musician boards. Lou is a remarkable singer that has grown up around the music industry with his father ‘Blue Lou’ Marini. You may remember his dad as the sax player from the Blues Brothers or Blood Sweat and Tears. Lou came in and tried out with us and within the first few notes I realized we’d found our guy! Lou is an old soul with lots of front-man personality. We’re all honored to have him involved with our project. You can listen to some of Lou’s past work with his band ‘LongHouse’ here.
Last but not least, we found an amazing bassist. His name is Bill Hammon and he was truly a find. After auditioning lots of really good players that included GIT and BIT grads, Bill literally blew us away with his rhythm section grooves. The first night Bill joined in, we were able to blaze through almost every song we do with no mistakes. I consider that one heck of an audition. Bill’s former projects include Dallas cover band, “One Bad Habit”.
I want to go ahead and mention our drummer in this post since I have not yet mentioned Robb Perez on my blog (for some unknown reason). Robb is a great pro drummer with several original and cover projects under his belt that range over the last 20 years. Robb is truly a nice guy and a very dedicated drummer and band member.
….and then there is me 
