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November 29, 1998
Today's Gig: Andi and Dean's Wedding Managed to get out of bed around 10:30AM this morning, and quickly jumped into the shower and spent a good part of the morning getting ready for our gig at Andi and Dean's Wedding. I was very tired from the Croce's gig last night as always. Somehow, a gig at Croce's always wears me out because I end up playing my ass off because of the energy of the crowd. It's a great place to play, but it has it's price!  Andi and Dean's Wedding Ceremony Arrived at the La Mesa Community Center before 1:00PM. As I was going up the hill to the center, I caught the name 'MacArthur Park' on a signpost. I said 'hmmm', and started singing the song to myself, 'someone left a cake out in the rain'.... I had set up my drums in the reception hall before 1:30PM and decided to bring my snare drum, hi-hats and drummer's seat over to the place where the wedding ceremony was to be held. Andi had asked Dick (sax), Tom(bass) and I(drums) to play the wedding march in a jazzy, swing style. I loved the idea and looked forward to doing this. Around 2:05PM, the wedding ceremony had begun, which was outside in a courtyard setting of flowers and trellises of vines and some hedges. It was beautiful today with the sky very blue, and a few cumulus clouds up ahead. The ceremony was short and sweet, and a DJ played the rest of the ceremony's music, a collection of lovely instrumental jazz ballads, very tastfully played. It was a blessing that the weather was so nice, considering that it rained heavily the day before! Because Andi had been active on Royal Crown Revue's Barflies mailing list, she had a lot of friends from the list in attendance. Jen, Courtney and Toni came down from L.A., and Regina came down from San Fransisco! Jessica, Jamie and I were the ones from San Diego. The reception was an intimate setting, mostly relatives and a few close friends, along with the band. Dean (the groom) is from Australia, and Andi and Dean met online somehow through the Internet! Andi is a radio DJ on 1360 KPOP, running a show called "Jump, Jive and Wail", so there were some friends in the radio business as well. It was a lovely reception, and the highlight was when Andi dedicated one of Shannon's songs (Wonderful Day) to her grandmother, giving her a plaque that had the lyrics to the song! I found that very touching. I was chatting with Jen and Courtney for
a while, along with Jessica. Jen brought up the fact
that Warner Bros. was laying off a lot of employees.
She knew a lot about the recording industry and it was nice to chat with
her regarding the music business.
I came home from the reception around 7:00PM and just relaxed, knowing that the band was finally getting a few days off from this busy week and the two week November tour that took us all over the country! I played Sony Playstation games with my two sons, played Star Wars re-enactments with them, and told them a long bedtime story carrying on the Star Wars theme. In my bedtime story, my two sons had awoken from bed to hear the sounds of an X-wing fighter outside the house. They both went outside and saw that it was Luke and R2-D2 inviting them for an adventure. To make a long story short, they came back victorious and parked their X-wing and Y-wing fighters in the backyard. But when they had awoken from their 'dream', they checked out the backyard only to find a smaller version of the X-wing and Y-wing fighters for them to play with. Well, it was a rather silly story, but the boys loved it, being that they are somehow getting back into this Star Wars obsession. They had watched the entire Trilogy earlier today! After I tucked the boys into bed, I updated my journal page and read a few emails, then retired to bed where my wife was reading a novel, and I reading The Great Jazz Drummers, then somehow drifted off to sleep...
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