J.J. Vicars

I've just learned that Link Wray passed earlier this month.Link was one of the greats.He raised primal simplicity to an art form.Every Rock'n'Roll guitarist out there has a debt to him.No music collection is complete without him.If you don't have any of his stuff yet start with RUMBLE:THE BEST OF LINK WRAY on Rhino Records.The man is gone,but the spirit and the music live on.Here's to you,Link.

After much delay,about four years,SCI-Fi DINER will finally be released on Thanksgiving Day.It will be sold directly to the public exclusively during the first few weeks.Thereafter it will also be available online.More details on that will follow the release.

Seven new MP3s totaling 30 minutes worth of music have been added to the MUSIC page.The first four are listed as LIVE IN JAPAN and are from a gig in Tokyo earlier this year.Two of them are Blues classics,one is a full band version of a SCI-FI DINER acoustic track,and the other is a not-yet-available-on-CD track.The next three,listed as LIVE IN JAPAN PART 2,are from another gig in Tokyo at a different venue last year.The second in this set is a markedly different version of a song that appears on the 2nd…

SCI-FI DINER is finally in production.After several setbacks and delays the CD is now being pressed by the good folks over at Oasis.For all you other musicians reading this that's www.oasiscd.com and they're great people to work with.Currently we're looking at a release date sometime at the end of this month.In the meantime you can wet your appetite on the MUSIC page.Click the menu button on your left right now.

A big THANK YOU to Glenn Davis and the staff of The Press Club www.fccj.or.jp for putting on an excellent event.Also,a big THANK YOU to Pamela MacCarthy and band whom I had the pleasure of filling in on bass with.That rendition of WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN was smokin'!Anybody have any recordings of it?Of course,a big THANKS to The Hipswingers and all the bands that played.Most of all,an extra big THANKS to all of the people in the audience that came out and donated to the recovery effort.New Orleans…