Last Saturday night, we were at the Riviera to see Connie Stevens and John Byner in the newly renamed Starlite Theatre. Veteran comic/impressionist, Byner, opened the show doing some old favorites, including a very funny John Wayne bit. We wish that clever Byner had had a little more stage time. Connie’s band was made up [...]
L.A. Musical Artists Uniting to HELP JAPAN – Benefit Concert

YouTube – L.A. Musical Artists Uniting to HELP JAPAN – Benefit Concert. [EVENT] L.A. Musical Artists Uniting to Help Japan Los Angeles in the Heart of Little Tokyo @ the Blue Whale March 19, 2011 [MUSICIANS] Goh Kurosawa Mon David Alan Paul (The Manhattan Transfer) Dr. Bobby Rodriguez JP Maramba Charmaine Clamor Ric Ickard Vinny [...]
Conducting training with Jack Feierman
Today I am participating in a video shoot as a student providing questions about conducting technique to legendary conductor and trumpeter Jack Feierman. I have prepared the following short list of questions to ask him. Can you suggest more? Please leave in the comments. Patterns for odd meters: ie. 7/4, 5/4 How important is it to [...]
HostBaby refused to update from MySQL 4.1.2 for me
I recently moved the hosting of this site from HostBaby.com to GoDaddy.com. The reason being that as much as I like HostBaby.com they simply refused to update MySQL (4.1.2) to the latest version that would support the latest versions of WordPress which I have used for years to run this site. I sent them request [...]
GoDaddy and Preview DNS… AVOID!
I recently moved the hosting of this site from another host to GoDaddy.com. Before making your site live on GoDaddy.com, they provide you a test url (only with dedicated IP accounts) which is simply something like “http://your-new-site.com.previewdns.com.” What GoDaddy fails to mention about Preview DNS is that Google and other search engines will crawl your [...]





