I miss Lost Vegas !

It's been exactly nine months since I last blogged about 'The Lost Vegas Art Project'.  'No $ignal' was preparing to play their annual January concert at Clinton's once again. The show was a blast. The place was packed the band had improved a lot since our first Live performance. We had some legendary Toronto musicians get up and play with us which was very cool of them to do. I have been thinking quite a bit about what direction to take the project from here? The combination of Live music and photography/film makes sense to me right now. I spoke with my friend and legendary rock promoter Dan Burke last week during our annual tennis game and mentioned that I wanted to play a new venue this year for the show and thought that the "Silver Dollar Room" would be a great place to present "No $ignal Live-III-The Lost Vegas Show".  Dates for the show will be posted soon but the plan is to do a Live performance of 4 or 5 of the Lost Vegas songs composed so far combined with an exhibit of the original 11 images at the bar. I will have it recorded and videotaped and then edit a sample of a show I would like to present in Old Las Vegas within the next year. What are the odds ?

No SIGNAL LIVE - II

I am very excited about the second Annual 'NO $IGNAL' show on Januaty 19th, 2012 at Clinton's Bar in Toronto. The boys and I have been working hard on a great new set list and some really cool special guests. The more my interest in music continues to develop, the more I try to figure out how to blend the film/art/music project. I actually have been working on a concept that I think I can execute before 'NO $IGNAL-III'. If you can make it please come by ...it's FREE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lady Luck - Lucky Lady

The new song playing underneath the Lost Vegas images this week is an original song written by "No Signal" band mate Andrew 'The Rocket' Sprachman. It was recorded in Andrew's basement a few weeks ago during one of our monthly band jams. When I first joined the guys a couple of years ago I asked Andrew if he would consider writing a song for the Project. The result is what I think has the potential to be a great song. The boys will kill me for putting the song out there because it isn't perfect but I couldn't wait. When this project started and the music side began to take shape I never thought that I would be singing and playing harmonica to one of the songs that will be part of the Album/Film...whatever this evolves to - in the future. Thanks also to my other band mates Phil Presnal (Bass) , Pete Vamos (Rythm guitar) , Bryce McNaughton (Electric guitar) and Ben Bradshaw (Drums) for all their help and input. Ben was actually sick when we taped this version of the song. Gregor Beresford who was the drummer for the indy band "The Burbon Tabernacle Choir" played the skins on this one with one practice under his belt. Amazing?

Oh well it's out there...be kind !!!

PS- The band is planning their second live show in July this year. Stay tuned.

Happy New Year...2011.

Where did 2010 go? I am getting real close to finishing the music for the project. My band "No Signal" have been working hard on "Lady Luck" for a while now. We will be performing it live on January the 14th at Clinton's Tavern for the first time ever. I picture a 'concert film' shot in Las Vegas with all the performers who have contributed to the project. I think that would be so cool.
I have reposted Dale Clark's song "Welcome To Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas Nevada", which was the first piece of music done for the images, and such a great song.

No Signal - Live

My garage band 'No Signal' will be playing live for the first time ever on January 14th, 2011 at Clinton's Bar in Toronto. Clinton's is a great tavern and will be a cool place to play at. The majority of our songs are covers of musicians we like (Wilco/Old 97's/Neil Young/etc...) but I will be singing our one original song (written by bandmate Andrew Sprachman ) called "Lucky Lady". It is an amazing song in my opinion and I hope that I can do it justice ? Once we have it down we will record it and then I hope to start stage three of the 'Lost Vegas Art Project'. If you are in town and can come by , please do.

Free Snow White in Las Vegas download....

Hope everyone is having a great summer. Lost Vegas contributing musician Chris W. James is giving away a free download of his song "Snow White in Las Vegas" for a week. It is a great song and be sure to buy his album. Great music.

Download MP3

www.chriswjames.com

GM gives a little and gets ALOT !

So GM "gives" Armando Galaraga a FREE -Vette valued at $ 60,000.00 in honor of the No-Hitter he had been robbed of. Nice gesture. In response ... over the following four days the company/car was talked about on 714 TV programs and mentioned in over 151,000 print and internet publications. The estimated value of that exposure is estimated at $ 7,900.000.00 !

GM=Great Marketing.

Keep givin' .