hey,

this is from my zappa cover band "dangerous kitchen" where i play drums "only" (unfortunatley)
i like the vibes solo of michael (founder of the band) a lot. i´m also pretty excited because we play at the Zappanale, a festival a whole week end with international zappa bands. hopefully i will meet there ex memebrs of frank´s groups like ed mann and ike willis, who will play there too.

the line up of this band is:

Holger Auer - vocals
Martin Lelgemann - keyboards
Jörg Eschrig - guitar
Daniel Neustadt - bass
Michael Koball - vibes & marimba, backing vocals

Hi everyone,
This link to a YouTube video will set you wise to many of Led Zeppelin's biggest hits and from whom they stole them, without giving credit on their albums. I post this here because I know Tony has recorded "Kashmir" with The Jost Project on their new CD. Although "Kashmir" is not included on the video, this is labeled by its producer, Juan Carlos Hernandez, as Part I.
http://sco.lt/5F4OSf

This one is part III which I just found and haven't watched yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5uMQDlKn8g

Hi to everybody:

Hey everyone,
I've been listening and practising blue in Green this week. I tried to play it simple. not fancy things just work on the melody and harmony!
Hope you like it!

Hi everyone,

Next week, we enter the month of July, time for a clean, new start on a Tune of the Month.

I've spoken with Tony, and we've decided that it may be a good idea to have 2 tunes to study for next month, each of varying difficulty.

Everyone is welcome to study whichever one they see fit, or both, doesn't matter, but be assured that there will be lessons on both tunes. I suggested Autumn Leaves to Tony awhile back as a nice, simple one, but forgot that we did that one a couple of years ago (isn't that crazy? We've been doing TOTMs that long now!)

It's great to be at this workshop in Patagonia.

Yesterday I saw Everisto Aguilar's ensemble from UAT in Mexico. That made the whole trip so worthwhile. They gave an incredibly moving concert at the festival. Eversito seems like such an amazing teacher. Improvisation is very important in his teaching it seems. You guys would have been blown away by this concert!

I'm in Patagonia right now at a percussion festival. I realized something when I was doing my workshop and talking to people about the vibraphone. I had a lot of confidence talking about this instrument. I actually felt proud about the instrument.

Being proud of the instrument for me comes from having a strong knowledge of the instrument. Now think about this. I've probably read about 90-95 percent of everything on this site. Do you realize how much information that is? How much I've learned? Unbelievable.

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