My Woodwind Quintet is done. It only took me 18 years to write it. And it's only 12 minutes long. That's...what...1 1/2 years for each minute of the piece?
Go to my music page to hear it. Let me know what you think.
Love,
Adam
Now that you've seen Adam Cole produce an album in a single month...
It's time to see your favorite cover band once more, the Wipes, this time doin' music FOR THE GROWNUPS!
Yes, the Wipes are performing to benefit the Grant Park Cooperative Preschool, and this time we're takin' no prisoners. Eurythmics, Police, Jayhawks, James, Springsteen, all the tunes you never thought you'd hear us do.
The event is free and open to the public. Lots of amazing items to see and bid on, lots of great things to eat and drink.
You won't see the Wipes like this again, so check us out while we're still ADULTS!!!
Go to
http://www.gpcp.org for all the details!
Love,
Adam
Dear friends and Adam Cole Watchers,
Round about 3 PM they started arriving. Billy Rossbottom with his bass. Alan Connor, Brad Kaegi, Philippe Bout with their guitars, my fellow Feldenkraiser Louise Runyon, old friends Mark and Sylvia Davis, and synagogue companion Gil Grodzinsky with their voices, my daughter's cello teacher Marie Pantina with her cello, fellow elementary music teacher Craig Gendreau with his Djembe and recording equipment, and the formidable William Rossoto with his video gear, capturing the whole thing on film!
A couple of them were seasoned musicians, a few were amateur players . Some didn't even consider themselves to be musicians at all, or even musical! They just came to sing the best they could...what bravery!!! Gil, Craig and Marie hadn't even rehearsed last week, but came and dove right in.
And so we rehearsed about 30 seconds of each song, took a break for me to get my vocal mike, and then we did it. One take per song. Straight through.
It was great. [...]
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Pretty well!!!
We had 3 guitarists, 5 vocalists, 1 bass-player, 1 man from Prague who was a friend of a vocalist taking pictures, and 1 videographer who was another friend of a vocalist videoing everything! All along, we had the children running around playing, making a joyful noise.
We learned all ten songs in about an hour and a half, and then we all sat down for some delicious homemade soup, with wine or beer or what-have-you.
I'm very excited about next week. It was such a kick to sing my songs with people! I can't wait for you to hear it, and to add your own voices and hands.
Adam
Nah, it can't be about me.
However well-meaning my good friend David's comments are, he isn't coming from my head. Yes, it's good to be selfish sometimes, but not when your regular outlook is selfish. I don't wake up thinking what I can do for other people. I wake up thinking what I can do for myself. It's my struggle against this notion that makes me capable of doing good things.
I take care of myself. But I also tend to think that I need to take care of myself because no one else will. That isn't accurate. It takes events like this one to wake me up to the reality that not everything I do needs to be about me, and that not everything other people do that conflict with my ideas are attacks.
I have some major trances going on, and I want to use this event to snap out of it.
Oh...look...I'm using the event to take care of myself! It is about me!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Well, maybe that's the first trance to go.
Adam