No more shopping days til Moon Song!

I've looked forward toward tonight since Danny Moon booked us at Moon Song Songwriter's Cafe'. No rehearsal - no net - just three guise getting together to play songs they used to play together twenty years ago. We're going to throw in some new songs too. Much of tonight will be a jam session of sorts - letting the music have it's way with us.

When Michael, Brook, and I started playing together as The Guise, we talked about the kind of music we wanted to sing. We knew we were going to be singing each others songs, but we wanted to sing songs of friends of ours. Arnie Sanford for one. Arnie was still living at the time, suffering from M.S.. Arnie couldn't play and sing anymore. One of the last songs Arnie was able to pen was a song called 'With Your Help'. It's a beautiful and simple piece that was one of the first songs that The Guise added to our repertoire. You see, we wanted to sing songs that our friends wrote that we didn't want forgotten. We used to sing 'Jesus Knows All About It' that Barry Goss wrote. I have a blues version of that song that we may do - or we might just play it old school (or both). Dan Noojin once wrote a song called 'Insane Man' - another great song that The Guise took to a new level. There was always plenty of material - great old songs written by old friends.

It's not just the material that made The Guise - The Guise. We are friends that play well together. We are like chocolate, caramel and chewy nugget. Like I mentioned in a previous post, I've never been in a group before or since that had a chemistry. I have no idea what tonight will be like. I'm always curious as to what will happen when the individual elements are combined.