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28 August 2010 SNUG played at the Just Dance Ballroom in Oakland on Saturday, August 28. This was the band's East Bay debut.
25 August 2010 I will be playing in the Friday night jazz combo at Turtle Bay Grill & Seafood in Foster City on Friday, September 17 and Friday, October 1. Check the Calendar page for more details.
28 July 2010 Some news about some of the local jams, none of it particularly good, but not all totally grim either:
- The Old Princeton Landing over on the coast just north of Half Moon Bay is now under new ownership. It will be closed for several weeks as the new owners spruce it up. Word is that Stan Erhart's Sunday night jam session will resume soon... hopefully that will turn out to be the case.
- The Little Fox in Redwood City, now called the Club Fox, has reopened officially for a one-off show the evening prior to the Redwood City PAL Blues Festival, but whether or not the Wednesday night blues jam is going to be reinstated, and when, has yet to be announced...
- The jazz jam at Angelica's Bistro in Redwood City that I mentioned below was killed off after a mere two weeks, and restarted under new direction. I have not been back yet, so no word on whether it's worthwhile or not...
- Finally, to end this somewhat dreary litany of not-so-great news, I'll end on a positive note - the Wednesday night jazz jam at the Milan Pizza Restaurant in Mountain View has really been going strong, with a healthy crowd, an excellent house trio, and some good players sitting in - hats off to Marty Honda for pulling it off.
23 July 2010 SNUG played at Murf's Broadway Lounge in Redwood City on Friday, July 23rd.
18 June 2010 I played in the Friday night jazz combo at Turtle Bay Grill & Seafood in Foster City.
9 June 2010 There are a couple of new jazz jams happening in the area. The first one, on Wednesdays from 7-10pm, takes place at the Milan Pizza Restaurant in Mountain View, and has been going on for approximately a month now. The second one starts next week (June 15) and will be happening on Tuesdays from 7-10pm at Angelica's Bistro in Redwood City. I continue to attend Stan Erhart's Sunday night jam at the Old Princeton Landing on the coast most weeks, and have put in one appearance each in recent months at three other blues jams: Tuesday nights at Neto's Market & Grill in Santa Clara, Monday nights at Murphy's Law in Sunnyvale, and Thursday nights at the Grand Dell Saloon in Campbell. I will have to return when I can to each of those. And I still have not been to the Monday jam at JJ's Blues in San Jose... and there are several others happening, on the Peninsula, in the City, in Marin and over in the East Bay... definitely no shortage of places to go and drag a guitar along. Finally, heard the good news that the much-missed Golden Gate Blues Society jam at the the Little Fox in Redwood City (which went out of business late last year), is returning soon at the same digs, soon to be reopened and revitalized. More on this as soon as soon as I learn further details.
26 May 2010 I filled in for guitar player Mike Schwartz in the jazz combo at Turtle Bay Grill & Seafood in Foster City.
7 April 2010 After losing Mike Vargo after the February gig, SNUG has found a new bass player, Mark Cvitkovich, and we've begun rehearsing. Hopefully I'll have some SNUG gigs to announce here soon...
5 February 2010 I played a short gig in Redwood City at Angelica's Bistro with SNUG.
19 January 2010 The SNUG website has a new demo recording consisting of excerpts from four tunes in our playlist. You can find it here. Click on the play button on the little embedded QuickTime player that appears near the upper right on the page to hear it.
5 December 2009 A few more videos from the Golden Gate Blues Society jam at the Little Fox on Wednesday, 12/2 were uploaded to YouTube; in two I play my "new" Fender Telecaster and in the other two I play Vince Caminiti's black Les Paul while he plays my Tele; see this YouTube playlist.
8 November 2009 I filled in for Jeff Kamil in Stan Erhart's usual Sunday Night Jam house band at The Old Princeton Landing on Sunday, November 8. There's three videos from the afternoon here on my YouTube "jams" playlist.
7 November 2009 I played in Redwood City at The Shougun House Restaurant Saturday, November 7 with the GNUS (the quasi-acoustic version of SNUG).
1 November 2009 SNUG has filled the bass chair that's been vacant since September, so hopefully we'll be playing out again soon. More later...
26 September 2009 I played in San Jose at Santana Row with Marty Honda (violin), Jordi Cirera (bass), Aaron Hipschman (drums), and Kevin Gorey (piano).
9 September 2009 I filled in for guitarist Mike Schwartz with the Wednesday night jazz combo at Turtle Bay Seafood & Grill in Foster City. There's a video of us playing "Fly Me To the Moon" on YouTube thanks to Bobbi Goodman, local music fan extraordinaire.
3 September 2009 A couple more videos from the Little Fox and Old Princeton Landing jams have popped up recently on YouTube; see this YouTube playlist.
19 July 2009 I posted a couple of tunes I recorded last week accompanying vocalist Janna Osborne at The Shougun House Restaurant in Redwood City.
11 July 2009 I accompanied the terrific jazz vocalist Janna Osborne at The Shougun House Restaurant in Redwood City. I did a few gigs back in early 2007 with Janna and it was wonderful to be doing it again.
6 July 2009 There is a SNUG Facebook page... if you use Facebook, check it out and Become a Fan.
28 June 2009 SNUG entertained the crowd at an afternoon benefit for breast cancer at Winters Tavern in Pacifica.
27 June 2009 SNUG bravely performed in the baking heat at Murf's Broadway Lounge in Redwood City.
22 June 2009 SNUG had their debut performance at Shougun House Restaurant in Redwood City.
1 June 2009 I joined a band and have been rehearsing with them for a number of weeks now. The band's name is SNUG.
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