I have noticed as I grow older and visit government, retail or local restaurants, many look at my credit card or info and say something like, “thank you Mr. Kennedy”.
Or, “Here you go, Mr Kennedy”.
Very few ‘public servants’ call me by my first name these days.
It would be rare for someone to call me that when I was in my twenties. Too common in my seventies! It just feels great for a young person to call me Michael, as a friend would. I probably visit their establishments more (like Northwood Cider Company not to mention names) than the others if you are listening………
I always say, “it is the simple things in life that are the most important”.
Here is the 2nd installment of my live recording of Crash Landing back in 2002. I played with them for a number of years. First as a sound guy. I knew the singer Gary Jefferson and he pulled me into the group. Gary and I go back a few years. He knows everyone and has played all over town. I have helped him with outside projects and you can hear his vocals on a lot of my original songs. Great people are hard to come by, but they will be there for you when you need.
I wish I had more video to share. I have a call out to other band members and friends to send me copies of anything they have. I have created videos for years but never really did much during this time. Again, I wish I had. Here is the next section of an evening with Crash Landing. This is still the first set and we are getting warmed up. Settling into the sound. That is the toughest thing about one-night-gigs; everything sounds so strange for the first 3 or four songs at the minimum. Depending on the sound guy/gal, this could take up to an entire first set to get comfortable.
I don’t have records of who was running sound this night. With this band I USED to run sound from the audience, then became a band member and ran sound and played/sang from out in the crowd using our own equipment! In many ways that was very cool. After a while we hired sound companies and I just don’t know who was at the board.
I hope you enjoy a night out – to hear a live band – without leaving your home. It’s like you are at the show, but you can still have one more drink and not have to drive home!
MidiMike 