Category Archives: Tales From The Road

Gene at Carnegie Hall, continuing rest of tour with Audra McDonald

October 31, 2011 – 5:11 pm

Gene writes: “I am loving touring with Audra … the music is wonderful and the hang is great.  This photo is the trio backstage at Carnegie Hall on 10/22: l-r it’s me, Andy Einhorn (piano, musical director), and Mark Vanderpoel (bass).  It was such a thrill to play a full concert there with Audra, Ted [...]

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Gene piped in via satellite (sort of)

December 10, 2010 – 3:48 pm

In honor of the fact that we’re all three going to be there in just a few weeks for Striking 12, here are a few photos from the GrooveLily performance at Theatreworks’s 40th anniversary gala, back in May of this year. Gene videotaped himself playing the drums and singing backup for “No Room In Your [...]

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Microphones and Wires and Instruments and Songs…

October 7, 2010 – 11:49 am

First things first: a BIG thank-you to all you righteous people who came to see us on our East Coast jaunt last weekend. It was such a pleasure to see you and share the new Wheelhouse stuff with you. Back in the day, when we drove from gig to gig all the time and brought [...]

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Good News and Bad News

October 13, 2009 – 8:44 am

Eddie Garcia (sound engineer extraordinaire) and I drove together from our lovely Doubletree hotel in El Segundo to the Pepperdine campus in Malibu.  We were running a little late, and when we phoned Val and Brendan, they told us that there was a bit of a surprise for us when we arrived.  I was driving; [...]

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Tell Me What’s On Your Soap Opera

September 2, 2009 – 2:53 pm

One of the first songs I wrote for GrooveLily is “Tell Me What’s On Your Mind.” It’s very sweet, very straightforward, and (in my humble opinion) memorable — so much so that we actually recorded it three times over the course of four years in an effort to get it on the radio. (To wit: [...]

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