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Carl
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We played under the fire-sky sun, ran off about 10 songs. Brian sang amazing, Bobbyji on Tablas pushed the groove to new levels, and Carl mixed it up playing guitar on a few songs adding a piano on some tunes. John made the grade and closed out the set with slick bass lines on "Some of Us... Want Freedom". Check out these pictures. The Ananda Fest weekend was great, right on Lake Simcoe, we all had a chance to take a dip in the lake, and take in David Hickey's set after ours.

We have a new (our 1st) bass player. We've been jamming with John for a few weeks now, so far he's brought a ton of ideas to the songs, and we're one step closer to adding a drummer. We are hoping to get a tabla drummer to take the sound in a slightly different direction once again. We've got some gigs in the works around Toronto/Hamilton (dates to be announced soon) and will be releasing more songs in 2011.

The whole 'band' is starting to come together, the songs are sounding great as we keep working them out, and the live set is sounding sharp. I sampled some cool sounds for song intro's, things like wolves, whale songs and pieces from our favorite movies.

"Mother" is next on our list to record, we've got a lot of invitations from various studio's that want to work with us just because they like our songs, which is always good to hear. And my home studio is going to get fired up again as John lays down some bass. It always sounds awkward saying how great we think we are, but after playing music all these years with tons of different bands all the guys in Big Blue X are sounding like music fans the way we talk, the excitement and passion is there! Something we see most bands lacking in favour of fame, glory and fortune. As always, time will tell, we just need to make it happen, and that's the plan!

- Carl

We had an informal gig booked last Sunday afternoon, Brian caught a heavy fever so Carl played & sung a few of his own songs solo.

Hi,

New Big Blue X song, Prepare For War (live recording), download it for free, it you like it forward this email to all your friends. And we have a gig scheduled for August 8th (details below).

It took a few weeks to write Prepare For War, it's one of our favorite songs to play, it's got a lot of melody. Initially we had about 3 songs worth of lyrics, Brian tossed most of them out and added some new ideas.

As you may know, we've been talking like idiots about recording - it's been a slow climb, the best we could do right now is to release a live recording straight off the mixing board. Prepare For War is from a gig we did in early June in a small pub in Toronto, it's a FREE download so don't be shy.

The mix is super rough but for now this should give you a good idea of where we're at - I did some mastering magic to even it out. The goal is to still get some better studio recordings.

We've got a gig scheduled for August 8th, Toronto (Dundas & 427) - it's an all ages gig, we go on at 2:30pm.

Date:
Sunday, August 8, 2010
2:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:
The Rockpile an ALL AGES venue
5555a Dundas Street West (427&Dundas)
Etobicoke, ON

- Cheers, Carl

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Prepare For War: It took a while to get this written, initially I had about 3 songs worth of lyrics. Brian tossed most of them in the trash and added some of his own ideas. As you may know, we've been talking like idiots about recording - we'll it's been a slow climb, and the best we could do right now is release a live recording straight off the mixing board. The Prepare For War is from a gig we did in early June in a small pub in Toronto, it's a FREE download so don't be shy.

The mix is super rough but for now this should give you a real good idea of where we're at - I did some mastering majic to even it out. The goal is to still get some better studio recordings. Hopefully the next song we release will be one of our sunnier sides, to balance out things.

In the meantime we've been messing around with some cover songs, a couple of Beatles songs here and there, The Rooster by Alice in Chains.

- Cheers, Carl

We're working on a new song "War Song" - jammed with a drummer last week, it gave us a different perspective on our songs after playing acoustically for so long, although the main focus is still getting back into the studio to release more songs acoustically.

Hi,

Big Blue X is playing live @ West7 Nightclub & Lounge on Friday Feb. 26 - going on at 9pm.

The club is on the edge of Georgetown/Brampton (Ont, Canada). We're adding 2 or 3 cover songs into the mix, including a little Bob Marley. We've developed loads since releasing Escapism nine months ago, we actually sound like we know what we're doing now :-)  Gig details and a status update are below:

When: Feb 26, 2010 9:00 PM

Where:
West7 Nightclub & Lounge
530 Guelph Street
Norval, Ontario L0P 1K0
Canada

Directions: www.west7entertainment.com/West_7/Contact_Us.html

• Songs & Studio Update: Brian 1/2 turned his garage into a sound proofed rehearsal room and bought a piano, which we use as a beer table. We're heading back into the studio in the spring to finish "One Step (Closer to the Sun)". Then we're going to work on a 4-6 song EP. We've also got another new song on the go, "The Ocean (is My Woman)" which we'll be playing live from now on. 
   
• More Gigs: We're going to start doing 2 sets, with a 50/50 split of our own songs and some covers, so we can play around the pubs. 
   
• You can still download the "Escapism Generation Waste" single for FREE.  If you're a Torrent junky you can find the MP3, FLAC and the 16bit WAV files on most Torrent sites. For anyone that feels compelled to pay for it you can visit iTunes or Amazon:

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 What a night thanks to the crowd that stuck around and made us feel at home. Thanks, until next time. 

I've added a seperate page with my top 10 lists. Songs, music videos. Below is a sample, my musical tastes vary a lot, these songs are a blast from the past. Brian's working on some of his own top 10 lists. Visit Carl's Top 10 List.