I’ve written in this forum many times about my affinity for New York, and at the risk of boring you, dear reader, I am compelled to do it again.  With my ears still ringing from the chanting of the Faithful at the Bowery, my legs sore from all the walking around Uptown and Little Italy, and my taste buds still perked from a dose of Lombardi’s Pizza and Enchiladas from Mexican Radio, I have to say that the world’s greatest city never disappoints. That said, I would have preferred that my first visit to a Rangers game at Madison Square Gardens might have yielded a different result. 

I flew down to NY a day early, you see, to catch the Habs play the Rangers.  My buddy Brendan got us seats against the glass for the Saturday night event and it was a dandy experience to see my favourite sport played in one of its most hallowed halls.  Too bad the Habs had such a poor showing and got trounced 4-1 by the home team.  It was good for the legions of local Rangers fans who make for a most entertaining night at the Rink.

Most of the kind folks who paid to see us at the Bowery would have no idea that the gig was, in part, a showcase event for a conference that was on going in the Big Apple.  The delegates of this conference are all buyers for the major theatres and concert venues in North America, and the Sunday night show was a chance for GBS to get in front of a bunch of them at once.  Smart planning by manager Louis and US agent Brian, I figure.  Hope they were all impressed and hire us to play all over the place.

I’d like to say thanks to everyone who attended the GBXmas gig and help to raise around 50k for Daffodil Place.  On behalf of the band and the fundraising committee, I am very grateful for your support for such a worthy cause.

All hands looking forward to the BNL Cruise in a couple of weeks.  I’ve never been on a cruise and honestly never thought I’d ever go on one.  But the thoughts of a floating music festival where we’ll get the chance to do our own stuff but more importantly, jam with everyone else, tickled my fancy, for sure.  I hope to join some of the other band members for foolish 80’s cover in the bar, shanties on the deck, or drinking songs in the pub.  According to Ed, from BNL, pretty much anything goes.  Yeha.

The plane just tipped its nose ever so slightly which tells me we are about to land.  I’ve been running ahead of the bad weather all day and had some serious doubts that I’d get to see the little fella before his bed time for the third night in a row. It’s funny how that kind of simple thing matters so much when you’ve got a small kid.  Don’t want to miss a thing.

GBS has a private gig in Whistler next weekend before heading for the Sunny South.  Ski Hills and SCUBA gear all in the same week.  I love my job.

Rock On.

Cheers,
Alan