A Stroke of Luck!

I spend a fair amount of time looking for opportunities to play music.  I’ve even given “busking” some consideration, but I figured I’d have to get dark sunglasses, a hat and write some kind of starving musician’s plea on a stinky, worn piece of cardboard…  Probably would have to rummage a dumpster for that cardboard and an empty soup can for collecting donations.  No way would I let anyone I didn’t know throw bacteria laced pennies, nickels and dimes into my guitar case…and I’m not going to provide face masks and bacteria killing hand soaps and insist that people use them. Not really my way… but anyone that knows me, knows that I love to digress….

Anyway, I get updates from BandMix.com that provides listings of bands looking for musicians, musicians looking for bands, and in an obscure section of the site, RuPaul advertises for up and coming trannys. :-)

So this morning I was looking on Bandmix and saw that there’s a band called “Abbey Rhode” from Portsmouth, RI.  The profile looked interesting, but since I’m not a premium (read “paying”) member of Bandmix, there was no way to contact them.  I did the obligatory web search and found a go-daddy style web page with a single ad for an out-of-date show they had done over the holidays, but no contact info for the band.  There was an email address of a person you could contact for info on the show.  I thought, ‘maybe this person wouldn’t mind if I asked them to forward my contact info to the band’.  So that’s what I did.

The amazing thing was that almost immediately I received a reply from that person saying that they’d be glad to help.

Next thing, a person from the Abbey Rhode band sent me an email and asked me to give him a call.  I did that.  It looks like something good could come out of this.  The members of the band are all about my age, and all have the same musical interests.  So provided these guys are not the persons who the movie, “The Silence of the Lambs”, is based on, I should be getting back into a happy musical groove soon.

I’ll update as I get more info.

Click the image above for the Abbey Rhode web page.  You can subscribe to their mailing list.  Please do it…  I implore you!!!