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wow! That's awsome. Looking forward to checking it out!

iclips will stream the weir/hart/lesh & friends show on monday night at 7:30 pm. www.iclips.net at approximately 7:30 PM PST. Last minute show. After Phil's epic run of shows last week, this should be really good.

Joe Craven will be in western canada for a bunch of dates..... 28 Mar 2008 Capilano College Vancouver, British Columbia 29 Mar 2008 Festival Place Edmonton, Alberta 30 Mar 2008 Grand Praire Grand Praire, Alberta 3 Apr 2008 Red Deer Red Deer, Alberta 4 Apr 2008 Calgary Folk Club Calgary, Alberta 5 Apr 2008 Saturday Night Special Folk Club Calgary, Alberta http://www.myspace.com/joebobcraven

I was just in Canmore, and it blows me away that there is absolutely no advertising for the show. I'm sure the show will do great, but put up a poster or something. I saw an ad in the paper about the music store. It says you can buy new years tix for the Can. Ho and it doesn't even say who's playing! Oh well. Unfortunately I'm not gonna make it. Rock on!

That's right! The Relentless Couchmen at the Cumberland Hotel! Saturday Dec. 15 Party Time!

I don't think anything fun is ever happenning in Cambell River. I'll be in the Comox this weekend and if I hear anything around there, I'll let you know. If the weather keeps up, you should definetely do some skiing @ Mount. Washington. (It'll be a gong show busy though) I'm sure you may be temped to head to Van. for a Flowmotion show or two?

Lots of bitching and agreeing going on around here. No arguing. How 'bout this..... There's way more people in the East which makes for a way bigger and crazier music scene, but the bands and the music from the west is way better!

Get ready for about a month of "Happy Chanukah". It always makes me laugh when Chanukah falls early, then throughout the Christmas season the Christmas celebraters feel guilty for saying merry Christmas to the Jews and say something like, "oh yeah.... Happy Chunukah". Either way, 'tis the season. Happy Chanukah and merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Great news! I was waiting for that announcement. I may be there!

Oddly enough, I'm in Ottawa right now, so maybe. Starts at 10:00 and ends at? Where's the bar again? If I'm close it's more likely.

Hey Friendly: Although you didn't get to celebrate with all the Ontarians that you probably would have, had you been there, I feel honoured to have celebrated the evening into the morning of your B-day with you. You havn't lived until you've experinced the birthday song/ shoutout from "Brickhouse"! Hope your drive is going well. And sorry for being there to encourage such an irrisponsibly late start to the drive! See ya probably next week.

I just saw him playing in Courtenay, BC, and he blew me away. Ususally I'm not into the spoken word thing so much, but this guy is freakin good! Spoken word, beat box, blues, folk, awsome harmonica player and he does his beat box thing throught the harmonica. Here's his dates: November 21st - L'inspecteur Epingle, Montreal, Que 22nd - The Blacksheep Inn, Wakefield, Que 23rd - House concert, Kingston, Ont 26th - Strega, St. Catherine's, Ont 27th - Carden Steet Cafe, Guelph, Ont 28th - The Lion's Den, Hamilton, Ont 29th - Dominion pub, Toronto, Ont 30th - the Spill, Peterborough, Ont DECEMBER 1st - The Mercury Lounge, Ottawa, Ont 5th - Winnipeg Folk Festival Store (@ 4:30 pm), Winnipeg, Man 5th - The Cyrk, Winnipeg, Man 6th - the Refinery, Saskatoon, Sk 8th - Solstice Cafe, Victoria, BC 17th-22nd - Rime, BC Here's some links: www.cravery.com/ www.myspace.com/cravery

"Gavin, Jeremy, Gavin and I"? Nice one buddy! Just erase me from the past.... I have that show somewhere. I got it from Ben a couple years ago.

Community Artists Presents Halloween 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUNITY ARTISTS (AKA: The New Hipstar Productions) Presents OUR FIRST SHOW: HALLOWEEN 2007 with JACKFRUIT at THE FAIRVIEW PUB wed oct 31 Special guests include: MEGA SETH (a spectacular Rock N Roll Magic Show for big kids...seriously though, there's like... fire and stuff!) and FRASER MACLEAN (the half shaven man and his shitty keyboard) www.jackfruitmusic.com 10pm-2am See ya'll there. Pass on the good word and as always, support live music!

I've got a couple shows on CD, as well a few still on tape that I taped with my big stereo back in Thunder Bay, and I've got the studio albums. On topic.... Andy Scott is definetely still in action. Here's his web site and myspace. http://andrewjacobscott.com/ http://www.myspace.com/andrewscottjazz He seems to still play a lot in Toronto and I think he teaches at Humber. The other day while watching hockey on tv here in Vancouver, there was a commercial for some album of a singer or something, and they showed a bunch of footage of recording. Every time they passed by the guitarist, I thaught it was Andy, then finally they showed his face and it was him.

I'll buy a shirt if they're up for grabs.

I'm a little late on the draw, but Happy B-Day to you buddy! (BC time is about 4 days behind right?)

Cool! Saturday September 29th is also my 33rd anniversary! Unfortunately, I won't be there.

The Relentless Couchmen will be playing at Joe's Garage in downtown Courtenay, BC on Saturday, Sept. 22. The Relentless Couchmen are: Sean Sullivan - from "Six Gun Budda" Jim Guthrie - from "Vitamine L" & "Slammin Jack" Johnny Egan - from "Vitamine L" & perma-guests: Tyler Gibson - formerly of "The Fat Cats" Jeffrey Kornblum - from "Slammin Jack"

"If you dig Blue Quarter, as many do, a bunch of those guys are in JF, too." I guess 1 out of 3 = a bunch (especially when it's the bass). They are awsome!

UK: Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas US: I Honestly Love You - Olivia Newton-John AUS: The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace

Zappa Plays Zappa internet presale info start: Wed, September 12 @ 10:00am end: Thu, September 13 @ 10:00pm password: drums

I completely enjoy them for about 5 or 6 songs, once every bunch of months, then I'm done.

Coming from an Ontarian who's been to tonnes of the early years of CTMF, and a bunch of Evolve Festivals, I'd say that asside from skiing, Bonfire Festival is the greatest excuse to come take a trip out west. I'm sure they're gonna pull it together for next year, so try to make it out!

Bonfire was amazing. I've probably got tonnes to say, but not going to right now. If you want to see other reviews, definetely check out the review section in the upstreamentertainment.com message board and in the bonfirepresents.com message board. Here's what I could piece together from the Slammin Jack setlest. I may edit this if I ever hear the show or find the piece of paper. It definetely was a real big treat to have the band together again for the practicing and the show. I'll have my fingers crossed in hopes that we do it again next year. Slammin Jack - Bonfire 2007 Setlist Migration > Odd Man Rush Harbinger of Harbingers The Whirl Eat More Pie Lucy *The Big Red Van **Two Deers Buckin’ #Black Creek > Drums > Black Creek Beaver A Hole Jugo Puerco Lando ##I Was Made For Loving You * Acoustic Sean song with Sean singing and on Guitar. As well with Jay Guthrie on Mandolin. First time played. ** Acoustic Jay song with Jay singing and Sean back on the drums. # Acoustic beginning, still with Jay on mandolin, then after drums, electric ending. ## Kiss cover. First time played.