Brian Wilson and the Feral Katz
OH Yeah, the Feral Katz is the name of the band. Mickey's idea! He even showed up yesterday with "Feral Katz" T shirts that he had his buddy make on the fly so we could wear them for the big show on Monday night!! How cool is that??
So, on Day 2 we got a visit from the one and only Brain Wilson from the Beach Boys!!
WOW! You know this guy is yet another living legend!! We played Surfin' USA for him (badly), he smiled and clapped and said it was great. He posed for some pictures, signed stuff and left......but not before stealing my silver sharpie!!! So, Brian Wilson STOLE my Sharpie!!! Please rememer that, my dear readers, it will be important later.
We got back to the books for a while and practiced our songs: Gimme Some Lovin'....I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (how cool is THAT to play with a real live monkee!) and a few others....Runaway.. and I can't remember what else at this point. I only have a few minutes to write this as I have to catch my shuttle soon to get the the House of Blues for the Battle of the Bands!!! YES, they brought the Battle back!!! For a while they were doing this "everyone wins" T ball crap!!!
Anyway, all the days are mashed into one at this point so i'm not really sure when this next thing happened, but I'll tell you about it anyway:
One of the councilors is David Ryan Harris from John Mayers band. He went up and played some songs for us and one of them really touched me....deeply. He told a story about how he had to quit drinking for about 3 years. He had to take those 3 years to just do work on himself because of a number of issues. Well he wrote a song about it...Boy could I relate to THAT! Most of you all know I quit drinking for 6 years for the very same reason. It was touching to hear someone put my feelings into such a wonderful song.....I can't remember what it is called right now casue my brain is pretty fried. I will try and hunt him down later tonight.
Later on, Brian Wilson did a show for us. Now remember that there was only MAYBE 75 people in the room. He had a 6 or 7 piece band including Jeff Foskett from the Beach Boys. ALL of them could sing and they just BLEW ME AWAY!!! Grown men were weeping...You know to see the guy that actually WROTE all of that good time surfing music perform them (from the front row no less) was just indescribable!!! I mean he was so reclusive he didn't leave his house or perform for decades and here I was sitting in front of him....and he's singing "In My Room" and "Surfer Girl" etc...WOW!!! I'm not going to get over that for a VERY long time! I can't remember what the encores were except that "Fun,Fun,Fun" was last. I waled out of there with my jaw litterally on the floor. It was so obvious that later that night Alan White (drummer for the band YES...AND he is the drummer that played on "Imagine" with John Lennon) said something to me about it.
Then Nick Mason came by. I need to write that later though cause I have to get ready to go! I really have SO many stories, just no time to write right now!!!!
So, on Day 2 we got a visit from the one and only Brain Wilson from the Beach Boys!!
WOW! You know this guy is yet another living legend!! We played Surfin' USA for him (badly), he smiled and clapped and said it was great. He posed for some pictures, signed stuff and left......but not before stealing my silver sharpie!!! So, Brian Wilson STOLE my Sharpie!!! Please rememer that, my dear readers, it will be important later.
We got back to the books for a while and practiced our songs: Gimme Some Lovin'....I'm Not Your Stepping Stone (how cool is THAT to play with a real live monkee!) and a few others....Runaway.. and I can't remember what else at this point. I only have a few minutes to write this as I have to catch my shuttle soon to get the the House of Blues for the Battle of the Bands!!! YES, they brought the Battle back!!! For a while they were doing this "everyone wins" T ball crap!!!
Anyway, all the days are mashed into one at this point so i'm not really sure when this next thing happened, but I'll tell you about it anyway:
One of the councilors is David Ryan Harris from John Mayers band. He went up and played some songs for us and one of them really touched me....deeply. He told a story about how he had to quit drinking for about 3 years. He had to take those 3 years to just do work on himself because of a number of issues. Well he wrote a song about it...Boy could I relate to THAT! Most of you all know I quit drinking for 6 years for the very same reason. It was touching to hear someone put my feelings into such a wonderful song.....I can't remember what it is called right now casue my brain is pretty fried. I will try and hunt him down later tonight.
Later on, Brian Wilson did a show for us. Now remember that there was only MAYBE 75 people in the room. He had a 6 or 7 piece band including Jeff Foskett from the Beach Boys. ALL of them could sing and they just BLEW ME AWAY!!! Grown men were weeping...You know to see the guy that actually WROTE all of that good time surfing music perform them (from the front row no less) was just indescribable!!! I mean he was so reclusive he didn't leave his house or perform for decades and here I was sitting in front of him....and he's singing "In My Room" and "Surfer Girl" etc...WOW!!! I'm not going to get over that for a VERY long time! I can't remember what the encores were except that "Fun,Fun,Fun" was last. I waled out of there with my jaw litterally on the floor. It was so obvious that later that night Alan White (drummer for the band YES...AND he is the drummer that played on "Imagine" with John Lennon) said something to me about it.
Then Nick Mason came by. I need to write that later though cause I have to get ready to go! I really have SO many stories, just no time to write right now!!!!
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