Saturday ~ July 10, 1999 

Living Under A Rock
 

I don't know what I'd been doing...    it's as if I had been living under a rock or something!   I realized that I had been spinning my wheels for the past month and a half.   Now I know better!

Well,  I had been very busy working on the new website and rehearsing with the new band,  plus networking and trying to contact the clubs and venues.   I shouldn't be too hard on myself.
 
 

Tonight my wife and I went downtown and checked out all the clubs in the Gaslamp Quarter.   I finally decided it was time to network "big time" with all the musicians I knew.  And since Saturday is one of the biggest nights of the week for going out,  what better night to network with other musicians than tonight.

All I can say is...   mission accomplished!   I met a lot of the great local jazz musicians...  there was Hollis Gentry and Glen Fisher at Croce's Jazz Bar,  and Gilbert Castellanos at The Juke Joint.   I got a chance to sit in on the drummer's kit,  and back at Croce's,  I got a chance to have a heart to heart with Glen Fisher's drummer,  the elderly yet energetic and incredible Carlos Vasquez.   Carlos gave me his number and we're going to get together so he can teach me some Latin rhythms and secrets of his kit.

I dropped some promo packages at some of those same jazz clubs,  and I'm really going to push and promote my jazz quartet appropriately named,  "The Carlos Rull Quartet".

I got home feeling satisfied that I had caught up with some of the jazz musicians I already knew,  was able to chat with all of them,  and just make myself known to the jazz community again. 

It was great to finally get out there.   I'd been feeling as if I was becoming agoraphobic or something.

I'm feeling much better tonight than I was a few days ago!