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"The Shakedown Newsletter" #10

Well, well, well, WELL.... I just don’t believe the changes and developments that have been taking place as of late. The "Shakedown Band" pushed on through Thursday night at The Cactus Studios Mar. 07th and still managed a smile when all was all said and done.

Stevie-Keys managed to grab his buddy’s bass in time to fill in that important portion of our music but again the guys couldn’t practice as a complete band effort and therefore the efforts put fort that night were of no other consequence but to limber up with. As for Steve I’m sure he walked away with the most benefits as I think he was very much into that bass playing thingy. Thanks again Stevie-Keys. We still missed hearing those keyboards of yours.

On a saddening note we say good-bye and good-luck to Peter Szekeres and wish him well in his future. It was found to be unanimous amongst all the band members. Each felt Peter’s interests in the bands project and the required commitments needed from him towards the band's and other member’s efforts for our practices were just not up to what was needed. Good luck Peter. We wish you well in your future.

Meanwhile you guys… CHECK out that web site… Whoa!… Wassuupppiiieee! That is so neat J-Man… Really pleased… don’t you know.

Believe me when I say that we are lucky to have J’s talents working for us on the sidelines guys. We now have the perfect place to display and promote "The Shakedown Band".

"The Shakedown Band" will be rehearsing at, "THE ART ZONE STUDIO" on Broadview Ave. @ Danforth Ave. in Toronto on WEDNESDAY evenings from 7:00pm–10:00pm for the next 4 weeks and that has now been rebooked solidly and officially guys. We will be moving to Wednesdays in order to accommodate the tryout auditions from several bass players and it turns out that Wednesdays were actually best for them all. We’ll be inviting Sam Paonessa first this Wednesday evening. Sam is a talented bass player who is very comfortable with harmonies and with Steve. Sam, Steve and myself have all played before together. Kind of aaaah… "Reunion Thingy".

The MP3 thingy will demo to date some of our best takes during rehearsals and help to communicate when trying to get across a sound or a part that needs to be incorporated into a song on a consistent basis by a player. Here is a short list that we all should at least have loaded now onto our PC: "Thinking About You #2"… Refugee"…"I’m Coming Home #2"… "Disco Nights #2… "Pop Shop #1…"Not Today" #1… "I’m A Man #1

Please put these on your PC as they contain good things that we will be needed to be consistent with from now on. Or if you want go ahead and load them all. Make sure that your MP3 titles are included as you see them on the Site with the ( -1, -2, etc.) It is important that the ID numbers are associated with each file. I attached the file numbers to have for future references and changes. They will be updated time to time as we go.

News Updates:

The band will continue to look towards altering its locations for its rehearsal locations after Apr 3rd.
I have completed now officially rebooking a 4-week booked commitment at "The Art Zone" which will run Mar.13th, 20th, 27th and Apr.03rd . After which we will move onto another location and plus other "tested" studios and possibly some more "new" locations in the near future.

Don’t forget to download the songs from "The Official Shakedown Band" web site so that we can remove them soon and move along with other things and tunes that will need to be placed there instead.

Watch out for our "The Official Shakedown Band" web site and check on it each week because it will have new song releases and other change features as the site continues to develop along as we do too. Pictures, bios, letters, MP3, etc.
You guys will each need to forward to J-man the info’s that he needs for our ‘BIOS’. Plus, pictures will start coming into the works soon. SMILE…

Ok you’s Guys... that’s a wrap.

Yours truly,

Madcowjack