To all of my family and friends, may all of your dreams and wishes come true in 2015! Happy New Year and the best of health to all!
Thursday, January 1, 2015
2015 CELEBRITY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
It's that time of year again where we look ahead to a new year with new thoughts and ideas and hopes for a better year! As in the the past, I've asked some of my celebrity friends for their resolutions and here's what they wished for this year!
Famed actress and Academy Award nominee SALLY KIRKLAND simply said ""No sugar or gluten". Short and sweet..no pun intended!
GERI REISCHL, who was Jan on the Brady Bunch , says "My resolution this year is to put a smile on at least one person's face every single day ...make them feel loved, wanted and appreciated. Spread love - happiness and peace to all. A simple smile can go a long way and it's free! "
BOBBY WHITLOCK, legendary musician who was in Derek and the Dominoes, played on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, and has a best selling book out "Bobby Whitlock: A Rock 'n' Roll Autobiography", says "Each new year I resolve to not make myself any promises that I cannot keep."
When I asked comedian SAL RICHARDS if he had a resolution he said " Yes my resolution this year is to stop making resolutions!"
Legendary singer TRINI LOPEZ says " Care Deeply, Think kindly, act gently and be at peace with the world."
FRED CLAIRE, former major league baseball executive who served in numerous roles for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1969–1998 including the role of general manager from 1987–1998, says " My resolution doesn't change--it is to enjoy each day and to be the best that you can be."
Famed actress KATHERINE KRAMER was asked if she had any resolutions. "Yes. It sounds corny but "Peace on Earth" and to FINALLY put a stop to Ivory poaching and bullying. To screen three important films for "Kat Kramer's Films That Change The World" And to fully launch my new solo show "MY DUET WITH MICK" which I previewed in September. And that some of my secret dreams come true. And to make my Netflix debut on "GRACE AND FRANKIE" for Season 2! (Hoping there is a Season 2) I THINK THERE WILL BE!!!!!"
Former NY Yankee pitcher FRITZ PETERSON also has high hopes! " I'm not really into New Years resolutions. I've broken them so often that it's almost not worth it. If you can call it a New Year's resolution, I'd love to do two more books next year, the first one "Pinstripe Pranks" and I'm not sure now what the next one will be but It will probably be about Hall of Famers and how they treat their "fans" off camera. I will be doing that one with a sports agent I've know for years. The name may be called, "Due to Circumstances Beyond Belief". Sounds like a hit Fritz!
Legendary gossip columnist LIZ SMITH shared her resolution "My resolution is to concentrate on real news and happenings and to pay little attention to the insanity of the so-called media!" Well said Liz!
The gorgeous CORI RIST, Associate Producer/ Beauty & Fashion Correspondent "Live It Up!" TV Show WLNY CBS-10, says "I do have a resolution for the New Year. I actually have two. One I'm doing on the show which is a weight loss challenge. And the other is to replace my negative thoughts with positive ones. no more negative self talk! Lol". Words to live by!
BRANDON CRUZ, American actor best known for his role as Eddie Corbett, son of widower Tom Corbett (played by Bill Bixby) on the comedy-drama "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", says simply says "To be more selfless than last year".
Actor MICHAEL O'KEEFE, best known from "Caddyshack" and currently on TV's "Homeland" resolves "To be of greater service to my family, friends, and enemies."
Actress, singer and producer LUCIE ARNAZ LUCKINBILL doesn't make resolutions. "I don't really do it. I resolve every day." A daily resolver!
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD is the author of 25 bestselling novels, including "Playing the Game", "Breaking the Rules", and "The Ravenscar Dynasty" says says " For 2015, I resolve to uphold all my deadlines, and to get an early start on writing my next novel to ensure on-time delivery. Due to a year of upheaval, which including moving to a new home, I certainly pushed right up to the limit of extra time this year in completing my latest book. This will not be repeated in 2015."
To all of my family and friends, may all of your dreams and wishes come true in 2015! Happy New Year and the best of health to all!
To all of my family and friends, may all of your dreams and wishes come true in 2015! Happy New Year and the best of health to all!
Thursday, January 2, 2014
PREDICTIONS FOR 2014 from our Favorite Psychics!
For the fourth year in a row, I've asked some of our favorite celebrity psychics for their predictions for 2014. Their uncanny ability to see into the future is truly astounding and you will be thrilled to see what is coming in the new year!
Celebrity Seer John Cohan is world famous and his career has spanned more than four decades as the Psychic to the Stars. He started as a child and today is known worldwide as a respected,well loved man. John was the Boyfriend/Lover of screen Legend Sandra Dee up until her death. He is in 8 books to date. Has been in Cindy Adams New York Post column with his Exclusives and Yearly Predictions for the last 27 years in a row. His Past and Present Pals/clients reads like Who's Who in the Entertainment Industry/World.Natalie Wood,River Phoenix,Elizabeth Taylor,Tony Curtis,Ruby Dee,Lana Wood,Michael Jackson and Nicole Brown Simpson to name just a few. Now right here he makes his 2014 Predictions....
1. Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton will continue their war towards each other and it has a bad ending to it. Lindsay and Paris come to blows with each other. Lindsay will be the winner in this mess.
2. Cabaret Singer Michael Feinstein and Entertainer Jim Caruso from the famous Birdland Nightclub in NYC will make headlines when their brawl turns into a media frenzy.
3.Tracey Bregman of the Soap Oepra "Young and the Restless" will finally get the Pink Slip that has been long overdue.
4. Corey Monteith's untimely death will be reopened and it will be discovered it wasn't an overdose from his own hands but other hands involved that caused his demise.
5.Victoria Principal the Beautiful and talented businesswoman will have a Fab comeback. An Emmy nomination around the corner.
6. The late Celeste Holm's husband Singer Frank Basile will find a comforting shoulder to rest on. Kathryn Crosby and he will become an item.
7. Miley Cyrus and Lenny Kravitz discover each other in the most close way.
8. Radio Host Rita Crosby comes face to face with her "Karma" now in effect. Rita's past comes back to haunt her.She realizes that what one gives out,comes back in other forms. She will face her inner demons.
9. Soap Star beauty Brenda Dickson and her new book "My True Hidden Hollywood" gets thumbs up and great new ventures for her,
10. Renee Taylor's house in Beverly Hills is haunted by unsettled,mean spirits. A Medium is need asap.
Reality TV Star Michelle Whitedove was crowned "America's #1 Psychic" by Lifetime TV. She proved her supernatural abilities on the competitive reality show "America's Psychic Challenge" where she was awarded this title of distinction. Worldwide the Psychic Challenge Franchise has achieved great success because of the ever increasing interest in psychic phenomena, authentic spirit communication, and the paranormal.
As an expert in her field, Whitedove has been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX, WGN, PBS-TV, Telemundo, City TV, and NPR. For more than ten years she has worked as a professional psychic medium, and spiritual teacher. There's a series of books that she's written about her adventures, and her insights into the journey of the soul to help you the spiritual seeker expand your personal truth.
Currently Whitedove is working on her next book and she continues to conduct readings on TV Shows, Radio Programs, and Psychic Readings by Telephone. She works as a Medical Intuitive, Spiritual Life Coach, Business Consultant, Psychic Investigator, and Futurist.
Predictions by Celebrity Psychic Michelle 2014 and beyond written on Dec 17, 2013:
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson - It’s so wonderful to see a man that is openly grateful for his blessings. He honors God, his family and his fans every step of the way. He has transformed from a football star to a mega wrestling star – soon he will be recognized as the next big action hero. Warning; The Rock needs to let the professional stunt men do their job- if not, I see a back injury that could hinder his action star abilities.
Reality TV Royalty Willie Robertson CEO of Duck Dynasty has undiagnosed health issues looming. As a health intuitive I see diabetes and heart issues that are manifesting. Willie and Korie are soul mates so I pray that Willie will catch this in time to derail a heart attack. His big Christian family depends on him. They are good souls.
Pope Francis will give new life to the church and he will make great strides for the poor. I see him as The Bridge – for those people that lost faith in Catholicism, they can return to the fold. He will build up the church congregations especially with Latinos. Francis will remain the Pope until his death and he will be remembered for his good works.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk will one day successfully colonize Mars. I see a launch fatality: one of the rockets will blow up if precautions aren’t taken. It would be sad if a SpaceX ship became our modern day Titanic since the tickets will be affordable only to the super wealthy. I predict that Mars will be colonized before the moon. 2016 will be a key year for SpaceX. I wonder when they will disclose what is already on Mars?
Jennifer Lawrence who plays Katniss in The Hunger Game is career driven, she is on fire and headed for super stardom. I see nothing but success. Marriage is off in the distant future although when she does marry it will be a very private event, no paparazzi. She will marry an unknown.
It will be a miracle if Edward Snowden survives; he’s a moving target. I don’t know who has more real threats on their life Snowden or President Obama.
Diva Gwyneth Paltrow’s marriage will be in jeopardy - the many affairs of both wife and her husband Chis Martin of Cold Play will be exposed and I don’t believe that their union can survive the public scrutiny. Gwyneth’s good girl image is a part that she plays for her fans.
Miley Cyrus will go to rehab although she will continue to sow her wild oats.
Kate and Prince William are currently trying to conceive their second heir and give baby George a playmate. I see that Prince William will be the next King of England and Kate will be loved by the people much like Princess Diana.
Diva Gwyneth Paltrow’s marriage will be in jeopardy - the many affairs of both wife and her husband Chis Martin of Cold Play will be exposed and I don’t believe that their union can survive the public scrutiny. Gwyneth’s good girl image is a part that she plays for her fan
THE CELEBRITIES PSYCHIC NANCY BRADLEY IS THE FOREMOST PSYCHIC OF OUR TIME. SHE IS ON GOOD DAY SACRAMENTO CW#31 CBS, the TRAVEL CHANNEL’S HAUNTED HOTELS, and the SYFY CHANNEL’S HAUNTED HIGHWAYS among many other National Television shows. She is an award winning author of 5 books on the paranormal, and she Reads for at least 12 clients most days, is a Life Coach, Hypnotist, does Past Life Regressions, and helps supports many animal rights organizations. More about Nancy can be found on her web: WWW.NANCYBRADLEY.ORG
PREDICTIONS 2014 -
1. Expect more rhetoric and threats from No Korea and China.
2. Iran will violate some terms of the treaty causing tension with Israel.
3. There will be the death of a celebrity icon, actress, singer, dancer, putting an end to the era of Old Hollywood.
4. Deaths eminent for a superstar songstress, also an older sexy star that appeared to all more lovely with each passing year,
also leaving us will be a beloved television actress, also an icon, and several well-known sports heroes.
5. More school shootings, and terrorist sympathies harming innocent people at public events. Be very careful at large events.
6. Much problems with the airline industry, financially and airline accidents at record numbers.
7. It will be exposed that all nuclear power plants across the world, are leaking, especially those on or around earthquake faults, and
this will force talks of finding safer energy sources and shutting down these plants. HOPEFULLY NOT TOO LATE!
8. It will be found that over 35% of all sea creatures and sea life is affected because of exposure to nuclear and oil contamination,
causing people to stand up and fight to save the worlds’ oceans.
9. Either 6 pt. or better earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, draught, explosions or volcanic earth eruptions will affect the following
countries and places: Japan, Mexico (BAHA in particular,) the Philippines, Columbia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Mideast, Nicaragua,
Fiji, Peru, No. and So. Korea, Canada, Australia, the Cayman Islands, many of the small islands, Pakistan, Africa, Russia,
Taiwan, Turkey, Greece, Guam, England, China, Spain Venezuela, Indonesia, New Zealand, El Salvador, Ecuador, Chili, Iran,
Argentina, Panama, and New Guinea for just some. In THE U.S, California heavy hit, Eureka area, near San Francisco,
San Simeon, Southern Ca, and there will be many cluster quakes, some sizeable all across the US. Be aware of some VERY
HEAVY OFF SHORE earthquakes in the Pacific, Atlantic and other Oceans. There will be tsunami warnings for across the
world, including the U.S. If you want a detailed list of sizeable quakes across the U.S., (over 4. pts.), NOT including
California, they could be in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Arkansas, Nebraska,
Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Virginia, New Mexico, Delaware, Kentucky, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska and Washington
State. All of New England should be on alert. Puerto Rico could especially be in trouble.
10. GOOD NEWS (except for Real Estate agents) ~ Real Estate will go down again this winter and spring, DO NOT BUY HIGH!
11. Coldest winter in a long time for the U.S. Bundle up!
12. More political pain for President Obama as his opposition creates worse and worse headlines in an attempt to control voters.
BEYOND 2014
IF her health and Bill’s holds, Hillary Clinton WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT in the next election with a positive outlook.
Long Island's own JANET RUSSELL is a psychic/medium/spiritual advisor and a TV Host on one of New York's top cable access shows, the psychic program "Beyond the Unexplained". Janet has been featured on shows such as A&E Paranormal State, as well as, PIX Channel 11 Haunted NY which was nominated for an “Emmy” award and PIX CH11 Psychic to the Stars. She has been mentioned in several books and worked with police on the infamous Katie Beers kidnapping case where a 9 year old girl was miraculously found alive 17 days later. She has also worked with New York police on several murder cases during her career. Janet's predictions for 2014 are:
WEATHER FOR 2014
More changes in the weather I am hoping I am wrong but I do feel that we will get a big blast of winter weather and we will be snowed in for days, with no electric/phone or heat. But this will open up more
togetherness for families to interact.
Hurricanes yes one more big one, but hopefully we have learned from the past one that we had that totally destroyed so many homes out here in Long Island. I also feel that we will be depending more on alternative
types of heating and cooling such as weather vanes and solar. As well as coal stoves. We will be regressing in a way but we need to become more connected instead of always on the computer, cell phones and the like
POLITICS I personally like our president, I do feel that he has the best for the people its just taking some time for us to see that, I am concerned about his health I do feel that he may have some back issues, that he
needs to take care of I am hoping that he goes the holistic way of acupuncture or reiki instead of being operated on, but again that is up to him and his family.
WOMENS ISSUES This I truly love because I see and know of so many powerful women that want to promote great things, this is going to be the year of the WOMEN yea we raise families, become breadwinners, do all the same things that our counter part men can do ( and I do admire and love men)
But guys we are going to surpass you in so many endeavors this year. So just go with it, and yes HILLARY CLINTON will be the next president. I so admire her in so many ways of her insight, and her trials and tribulations that she has endured.
MOVIE STARS Lots of changes coming there way ok lets start with
GEORGE CLOONEY one of my favorite stars feel he will take the plung and get married but to someone from another country and he may become a daddy. He is a solid Taurean and family will become very important to him this year , he will be named as one of the great actors as well so check out some of the
Awards that will be coming his way I see him doing more directing as well and hey we may even see him doing some work here in long island you never know
BRAD PITT I like him love that he takes care of so many children very important to him but I feel that he will be going thru a very confused time, he wants to make the right decisions but feel he is being pulled in many directions now.
ANGELINA JOLIE I predicted a few years ago that she and her dad would make up and they did, I do admire her work with the children and her connections with those in need. But I also feel that she constantly needs assurance and gets bored very easily, hope that boredom doesn't affect her marriage
TYLER PERRY He has paid his dues and this upcoming year should be free of sacrifices, Nice energy around him.
JAMIE FOX Love this guy he is so funny, I feel that he will be doing a lot of out of country events, lots of giving back, home is extremely important to him, But he will be there for many he is a gift to many Thank God, he likes to do things annonoumously that and this year he will help many .
DENZEL WASHINGTON Another favorite of mine, I feel he will start a fundraising group to help many underprivelaged and special needs children, I do feel that it will start in another country and become very big here in the United States.
For our Beloved Animals, we need to take care of them because they give us unconditional love and we need to give it back.
So for now that is my 2014 Predictions to contact Janet you can call at 631 654 3353 email rosebudsjanet@msn.com or check out my website it will be updated soon http://janetrussellpresents.com
For me I will be doing many great things in 2014 of course my Fundraisers ( very important to give back)
I have been approached to do a Reality Show, as well as a Documentary and Two new TV series. So time will tell and we shall see Till Next Year Stay Positive with Positive People Remember we can be successful in all of our endeavors, Just be there help the unfortunate, it could be one of us, Keep God in your life, And know that you are Loved Many Blessings Janet Russell Intutive/Spiritual Medium
Nikki Rogers- Psychic To The Stars- has been clairvoyant all her life. She is an audient clairvoyant - the ability to see and hear and come up with specifics. Nikki's father had the gift as well.
Nikki is known all over the world. Some of her clients include well-known movie stars, politicians, people from the sports world and business world, as well as the world of entertainment. Here are some of Nikki's predictions for 2014:
Mathew Mcconaughey will be nominated for an Oscar.
Pregnancy for Rhianna. Another pregnancy for Kim Kardashian.
Sex scandal around a celebrity tv judge. Downfall of another celebrity chef.
Another royal pregnancy for William and Kate. Scandal around Prince Edward.
A split between Celine Dion and husband. A split between Annette Bening and Warren Beatty. A split between Barbra Streiisand and James Brolin. A split between Kelley Ripa and Mark Consuela. Miley Cyrus in a full body cast.
"12 Years A Slave" winning numerous awards.
Angelina Jolie has to watch health.
A giant sinkhole in Egypt. Corruption around a major us bank. Empire State Building tipping.
Power blackout worldwide. Explosion and riots in Detroit, Michigan. A riot at a sports stadium Brazil.
A tight rope walker will walk above an expansion bridge. Stands collapsing at a sorting event.
A tradgedy in the swiss alps. A shark kills someone in Coney Island, New York. Another terrorist attack new york. A causeway will collapse in florida. Major earthquake in Lima, Peru and volcano.
President Obama in danger.
I hope everybody has a fantastic New Year!
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Celebrity Seer John Cohan is world famous and his career has spanned more than four decades as the Psychic to the Stars. He started as a child and today is known worldwide as a respected,well loved man. John was the Boyfriend/Lover of screen Legend Sandra Dee up until her death. He is in 8 books to date. Has been in Cindy Adams New York Post column with his Exclusives and Yearly Predictions for the last 27 years in a row. His Past and Present Pals/clients reads like Who's Who in the Entertainment Industry/World.Natalie Wood,River Phoenix,Elizabeth Taylor,Tony Curtis,Ruby Dee,Lana Wood,Michael Jackson and Nicole Brown Simpson to name just a few. Now right here he makes his 2014 Predictions....
1. Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton will continue their war towards each other and it has a bad ending to it. Lindsay and Paris come to blows with each other. Lindsay will be the winner in this mess.
2. Cabaret Singer Michael Feinstein and Entertainer Jim Caruso from the famous Birdland Nightclub in NYC will make headlines when their brawl turns into a media frenzy.
3.Tracey Bregman of the Soap Oepra "Young and the Restless" will finally get the Pink Slip that has been long overdue.
4. Corey Monteith's untimely death will be reopened and it will be discovered it wasn't an overdose from his own hands but other hands involved that caused his demise.
5.Victoria Principal the Beautiful and talented businesswoman will have a Fab comeback. An Emmy nomination around the corner.
6. The late Celeste Holm's husband Singer Frank Basile will find a comforting shoulder to rest on. Kathryn Crosby and he will become an item.
7. Miley Cyrus and Lenny Kravitz discover each other in the most close way.
8. Radio Host Rita Crosby comes face to face with her "Karma" now in effect. Rita's past comes back to haunt her.She realizes that what one gives out,comes back in other forms. She will face her inner demons.
9. Soap Star beauty Brenda Dickson and her new book "My True Hidden Hollywood" gets thumbs up and great new ventures for her,
10. Renee Taylor's house in Beverly Hills is haunted by unsettled,mean spirits. A Medium is need asap.
As an expert in her field, Whitedove has been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX, WGN, PBS-TV, Telemundo, City TV, and NPR. For more than ten years she has worked as a professional psychic medium, and spiritual teacher. There's a series of books that she's written about her adventures, and her insights into the journey of the soul to help you the spiritual seeker expand your personal truth.
Currently Whitedove is working on her next book and she continues to conduct readings on TV Shows, Radio Programs, and Psychic Readings by Telephone. She works as a Medical Intuitive, Spiritual Life Coach, Business Consultant, Psychic Investigator, and Futurist.
Predictions by Celebrity Psychic Michelle 2014 and beyond written on Dec 17, 2013:
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson - It’s so wonderful to see a man that is openly grateful for his blessings. He honors God, his family and his fans every step of the way. He has transformed from a football star to a mega wrestling star – soon he will be recognized as the next big action hero. Warning; The Rock needs to let the professional stunt men do their job- if not, I see a back injury that could hinder his action star abilities.
Reality TV Royalty Willie Robertson CEO of Duck Dynasty has undiagnosed health issues looming. As a health intuitive I see diabetes and heart issues that are manifesting. Willie and Korie are soul mates so I pray that Willie will catch this in time to derail a heart attack. His big Christian family depends on him. They are good souls.
Pope Francis will give new life to the church and he will make great strides for the poor. I see him as The Bridge – for those people that lost faith in Catholicism, they can return to the fold. He will build up the church congregations especially with Latinos. Francis will remain the Pope until his death and he will be remembered for his good works.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk will one day successfully colonize Mars. I see a launch fatality: one of the rockets will blow up if precautions aren’t taken. It would be sad if a SpaceX ship became our modern day Titanic since the tickets will be affordable only to the super wealthy. I predict that Mars will be colonized before the moon. 2016 will be a key year for SpaceX. I wonder when they will disclose what is already on Mars?
Jennifer Lawrence who plays Katniss in The Hunger Game is career driven, she is on fire and headed for super stardom. I see nothing but success. Marriage is off in the distant future although when she does marry it will be a very private event, no paparazzi. She will marry an unknown.
It will be a miracle if Edward Snowden survives; he’s a moving target. I don’t know who has more real threats on their life Snowden or President Obama.
Diva Gwyneth Paltrow’s marriage will be in jeopardy - the many affairs of both wife and her husband Chis Martin of Cold Play will be exposed and I don’t believe that their union can survive the public scrutiny. Gwyneth’s good girl image is a part that she plays for her fans.
Miley Cyrus will go to rehab although she will continue to sow her wild oats.
Kate and Prince William are currently trying to conceive their second heir and give baby George a playmate. I see that Prince William will be the next King of England and Kate will be loved by the people much like Princess Diana.
Diva Gwyneth Paltrow’s marriage will be in jeopardy - the many affairs of both wife and her husband Chis Martin of Cold Play will be exposed and I don’t believe that their union can survive the public scrutiny. Gwyneth’s good girl image is a part that she plays for her fan
PREDICTIONS 2014 -
1. Expect more rhetoric and threats from No Korea and China.
2. Iran will violate some terms of the treaty causing tension with Israel.
3. There will be the death of a celebrity icon, actress, singer, dancer, putting an end to the era of Old Hollywood.
4. Deaths eminent for a superstar songstress, also an older sexy star that appeared to all more lovely with each passing year,
also leaving us will be a beloved television actress, also an icon, and several well-known sports heroes.
5. More school shootings, and terrorist sympathies harming innocent people at public events. Be very careful at large events.
6. Much problems with the airline industry, financially and airline accidents at record numbers.
7. It will be exposed that all nuclear power plants across the world, are leaking, especially those on or around earthquake faults, and
this will force talks of finding safer energy sources and shutting down these plants. HOPEFULLY NOT TOO LATE!
8. It will be found that over 35% of all sea creatures and sea life is affected because of exposure to nuclear and oil contamination,
causing people to stand up and fight to save the worlds’ oceans.
9. Either 6 pt. or better earthquakes, flooding, tornadoes, draught, explosions or volcanic earth eruptions will affect the following
countries and places: Japan, Mexico (BAHA in particular,) the Philippines, Columbia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Mideast, Nicaragua,
Fiji, Peru, No. and So. Korea, Canada, Australia, the Cayman Islands, many of the small islands, Pakistan, Africa, Russia,
Taiwan, Turkey, Greece, Guam, England, China, Spain Venezuela, Indonesia, New Zealand, El Salvador, Ecuador, Chili, Iran,
Argentina, Panama, and New Guinea for just some. In THE U.S, California heavy hit, Eureka area, near San Francisco,
San Simeon, Southern Ca, and there will be many cluster quakes, some sizeable all across the US. Be aware of some VERY
HEAVY OFF SHORE earthquakes in the Pacific, Atlantic and other Oceans. There will be tsunami warnings for across the
world, including the U.S. If you want a detailed list of sizeable quakes across the U.S., (over 4. pts.), NOT including
California, they could be in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Arkansas, Nebraska,
Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Virginia, New Mexico, Delaware, Kentucky, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska and Washington
State. All of New England should be on alert. Puerto Rico could especially be in trouble.
10. GOOD NEWS (except for Real Estate agents) ~ Real Estate will go down again this winter and spring, DO NOT BUY HIGH!
11. Coldest winter in a long time for the U.S. Bundle up!
12. More political pain for President Obama as his opposition creates worse and worse headlines in an attempt to control voters.
BEYOND 2014
IF her health and Bill’s holds, Hillary Clinton WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT in the next election with a positive outlook.
WEATHER FOR 2014
More changes in the weather I am hoping I am wrong but I do feel that we will get a big blast of winter weather and we will be snowed in for days, with no electric/phone or heat. But this will open up more
togetherness for families to interact.
Hurricanes yes one more big one, but hopefully we have learned from the past one that we had that totally destroyed so many homes out here in Long Island. I also feel that we will be depending more on alternative
types of heating and cooling such as weather vanes and solar. As well as coal stoves. We will be regressing in a way but we need to become more connected instead of always on the computer, cell phones and the like
POLITICS I personally like our president, I do feel that he has the best for the people its just taking some time for us to see that, I am concerned about his health I do feel that he may have some back issues, that he
needs to take care of I am hoping that he goes the holistic way of acupuncture or reiki instead of being operated on, but again that is up to him and his family.
WOMENS ISSUES This I truly love because I see and know of so many powerful women that want to promote great things, this is going to be the year of the WOMEN yea we raise families, become breadwinners, do all the same things that our counter part men can do ( and I do admire and love men)
But guys we are going to surpass you in so many endeavors this year. So just go with it, and yes HILLARY CLINTON will be the next president. I so admire her in so many ways of her insight, and her trials and tribulations that she has endured.
MOVIE STARS Lots of changes coming there way ok lets start with
GEORGE CLOONEY one of my favorite stars feel he will take the plung and get married but to someone from another country and he may become a daddy. He is a solid Taurean and family will become very important to him this year , he will be named as one of the great actors as well so check out some of the
Awards that will be coming his way I see him doing more directing as well and hey we may even see him doing some work here in long island you never know
BRAD PITT I like him love that he takes care of so many children very important to him but I feel that he will be going thru a very confused time, he wants to make the right decisions but feel he is being pulled in many directions now.
ANGELINA JOLIE I predicted a few years ago that she and her dad would make up and they did, I do admire her work with the children and her connections with those in need. But I also feel that she constantly needs assurance and gets bored very easily, hope that boredom doesn't affect her marriage
TYLER PERRY He has paid his dues and this upcoming year should be free of sacrifices, Nice energy around him.
JAMIE FOX Love this guy he is so funny, I feel that he will be doing a lot of out of country events, lots of giving back, home is extremely important to him, But he will be there for many he is a gift to many Thank God, he likes to do things annonoumously that and this year he will help many .
DENZEL WASHINGTON Another favorite of mine, I feel he will start a fundraising group to help many underprivelaged and special needs children, I do feel that it will start in another country and become very big here in the United States.
For our Beloved Animals, we need to take care of them because they give us unconditional love and we need to give it back.
So for now that is my 2014 Predictions to contact Janet you can call at 631 654 3353 email rosebudsjanet@msn.com or check out my website it will be updated soon http://janetrussellpresents.com
For me I will be doing many great things in 2014 of course my Fundraisers ( very important to give back)
I have been approached to do a Reality Show, as well as a Documentary and Two new TV series. So time will tell and we shall see Till Next Year Stay Positive with Positive People Remember we can be successful in all of our endeavors, Just be there help the unfortunate, it could be one of us, Keep God in your life, And know that you are Loved Many Blessings Janet Russell Intutive/Spiritual Medium
Nikki Rogers- Psychic To The Stars- has been clairvoyant all her life. She is an audient clairvoyant - the ability to see and hear and come up with specifics. Nikki's father had the gift as well.
Nikki is known all over the world. Some of her clients include well-known movie stars, politicians, people from the sports world and business world, as well as the world of entertainment. Here are some of Nikki's predictions for 2014:
Mathew Mcconaughey will be nominated for an Oscar.
Pregnancy for Rhianna. Another pregnancy for Kim Kardashian.
Sex scandal around a celebrity tv judge. Downfall of another celebrity chef.
Another royal pregnancy for William and Kate. Scandal around Prince Edward.
A split between Celine Dion and husband. A split between Annette Bening and Warren Beatty. A split between Barbra Streiisand and James Brolin. A split between Kelley Ripa and Mark Consuela. Miley Cyrus in a full body cast.
"12 Years A Slave" winning numerous awards.
Angelina Jolie has to watch health.
A giant sinkhole in Egypt. Corruption around a major us bank. Empire State Building tipping.
Power blackout worldwide. Explosion and riots in Detroit, Michigan. A riot at a sports stadium Brazil.
A tight rope walker will walk above an expansion bridge. Stands collapsing at a sorting event.
A tradgedy in the swiss alps. A shark kills someone in Coney Island, New York. Another terrorist attack new york. A causeway will collapse in florida. Major earthquake in Lima, Peru and volcano.
President Obama in danger.
I hope everybody has a fantastic New Year!
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
BOBBY CALDWELL RETURNS TO LONG ISLAND!
It's been many years since the legendary BOBBY CALDWELL performed on Long Island but that will change this weekend when he returns for a one night appearance at The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead. Caldwell is also back with a brand new album of original songs “HOUSE OF CARDS” and it demonstrates Bobby’s prowess as a vocalist, composer, musician, arranger and producer. I spoke with Bobby from nis New Jersey home just prior to this very limited engagement...
MICK: First of all, I want to wish you a belated Happy Birthday
MICK: How's your family doing?
BOBBY: Everybody is doing great thanks. Everybody is off into their lives and it's madness here in this house! My stepdaughter did an internship at Fox News in New York City and now she's working there full time. My other is teaching drama here in New Jersey!
MICK: I know last year you got a bulldog for Christmas. How's he doing?
BOBBY: You know what they say about a dog's life! This dog must sleep 16 out of 24 hours a day! Amazing!
MICK: Now that 2013 is winding down, what's coming up for you in 2014?
BOBBY: I will have another album coming out. It's just in the writing stages right now. The new year is filling up real quick so we will be out on the road a lot. It should be another great year ahead!
Catch Bobby Caldwell this Saturday evening 8/24/2013
Suffolk Theater
Riverhead, NY
Doors open 90 minutes prior to the show
Showtime: 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: (631) 727-4343
www.suffolktheater.com
http://bobbycaldwell.com/
BOBBY: Thank you! No I didn't do anything special. After 50 it's all down hill from now on!!
MICK: It's been many years since you've been out here on Long Island. Are you excited about the Suffolk Theater gig?
BOBBY: Yes I am! I'm real excited about it. I've heard the theater has been redone real nicely and I'm very anxious to see it!
MICK: What can your fans expect to hear on Saturday night in Riverhead?
BOBBY: We have a brand new album out now "House Of Cards" and we are now on our second single from the album. We will be doing stuff from the new album, not too much but just enough to get a taste. And we will be doing a discography representing the last 30 years of my career, whatever we can squeeze into 90 minutes.
MICK: Are you bringing the big band with you?
BOBBY: No I'm bringing the R&B band with me for this gig.
MICK: How long did it take you to record "House of Cards"?
BOBBY: About 5 months from start to finish.
MICK: I see that you play a lot of guitar and bass in this album.
BOBBY: Yes more so than usual. It's something I did a lot of years ago and for the last three albums too. But for this new album I play more than ever before.
MICK: How many different instruments do you play?
BOBBY: Keyboards, bass and guitar. When I write a song I usually do it on keyboard.
MICK: Have you ever recorded a song where you play all the instruments?
BOBBY: Yes I have! On my first album and my second album too!
BOBBY: Everybody is doing great thanks. Everybody is off into their lives and it's madness here in this house! My stepdaughter did an internship at Fox News in New York City and now she's working there full time. My other is teaching drama here in New Jersey!
MICK: I know last year you got a bulldog for Christmas. How's he doing?
BOBBY: You know what they say about a dog's life! This dog must sleep 16 out of 24 hours a day! Amazing!
MICK: Now that 2013 is winding down, what's coming up for you in 2014?
BOBBY: I will have another album coming out. It's just in the writing stages right now. The new year is filling up real quick so we will be out on the road a lot. It should be another great year ahead!
Catch Bobby Caldwell this Saturday evening 8/24/2013
Suffolk Theater
Riverhead, NY
Doors open 90 minutes prior to the show
Showtime: 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: (631) 727-4343
www.suffolktheater.com
http://bobbycaldwell.com/
Thursday, June 6, 2013
BELMONT BUGLER RYAN RESKY!
If you've ever been to a horse racing track, the one thing that you never forget the the sound of the bugles that heralds the start of the race! One of the more esteemed buglers in our area is RYAN RESKY and he is one of the Belmont Buglers. On a regular basis, Ryan entertainers thousands of racing fans along with his partner Sam Grossman. This Saturday is the Belmont Stakes. I spoke to Ryan recently just prior to this big race!
MICK: How long have you been one of the Belmont buglers?
RYAN: I started subbing there in 2005, right after the Breeders Cup was the last time it was at Belmont. I also subbed at Aqueduct. In 2006, I played another Belmont. There were 4 of us for that. They had a group of buglers there for a few years and they wanted to give Sam Grossman a solo shot. I joined him back in 2009 so I've done every year since then.
MICK: How many buglers are there now?
RYAN: There's usually just Sam and myself. In the past, they've had three or four depending on what the needs of the track are and who is in charge. of the Racing Association.
MICK: You work other race tracks also?
RYAN: I work at around 20 tracks right now. I've had a regular gig in the Fall that is down in Maryland since 2009. Sam and I also do events when asked. We've played at Saratoga together, The Whitney, The Travers. I've done two Travers and three Whitney's in three years. I done basically every track on the East Coast or pretty close to it. Some tracks out in the midwest. I play a lot of good events for the racing community!
MICK: Do you go as far west as California?
RYAN: Not that far! A mutual friend of ours is Jay Cohen is the bugler out there. He's been out there for 25 years. He has his own gig out there plus he brings local buglers out to play when they have the Breeders Cup. That seems to be the trend now. There were buglers that were traveling across the country playing, including playing at Belmont, Santa Anita, Gulf Stream. With the economy and everything else, it got too expensive to be flying people all over the country. Most places are now asking for local guys. It brings more work for us. We are able to do what they want and we get paid pretty well for what we do. Not only do we do the race, we are playing for the fans! Our main thing is going out and playing for the Stakes races and big fan fairs. Sometimes the music is themed for the particular day. The Belmont Stakes theme used to be "The Sidewalks of New York". Now they play a recording or have a live singer come out and sing Frank Sinatra's "New
York, New York". Sometimes we do patriotic songs like "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America". Other times we throw some jazz in there. I do most of the arrangements. Others we just come up with it on the spot. I'm really beefed up the book with our music the last few years. People often come up to us and ask us to play at special occasions. Sam started doing this a few years ago.
MICK: How did you originally get the job?
RYAN: I started as an assistant in 2005. I was playing previously to that with a bugle group that was touring the country. We would do different races as a trio or a quartet. We were very excited when we got called for the Breeders Cup. Sam and I met at the rehearsal and starting talking. He told me how busy he was and I asked him if he ever took a day off. I told him I live locally and to call me if he needed any help. I figured I would never hear from him. Three days later, he calls me. He said "I'm playing the opening week at Aqueduct and I'm going on vacation. Can you cover for me the next two weeks?" I came down and met him at the track. He showed me the locker room, where to sign in, what to watch for. I pretty much knew the ropes by then anyway. Each track was different though. So that was my two week audition to be his fill in guy. He started calling me very often.
When the 2006 Belmont Stakes came, my bugle group was called to do it. Sam saw that I was going to be there. We started doing more after that. By 2009, they wanted both us us to do the Belmont. I've been doing it ever since!
MICK: What's your favorite memory of Belmont so far?
RYAN: There's a couple. There's at least one good one for every year I've been there. For the Belmont Stakes, they have a singer come out and do "New York New York". My first year there, we were standing in the winners circle and I see this lady, all dressed in red, coming over. As she got closer, I knew who is was. It was Linda Eder! That was a thrill. Just being out there playing in front of 60,000 people at the Belmont is awesome. The following year, I'm out there playing and I see Charlie Hayward upstairs. He was one of the chief operator bosses at that time. I thought I would go up there to say hi and thank him again for hiring me. I saw a very familiar looking lady with him. So I went upstairs and asked one of the valets if theres anyone important that we should know about. He told me yes, in the Trustees Room. I walked in and there she was..Sarah Palin! I asked her if there's any particular song she wanted to hear. She saw my red, white and blue tie and said something patriotic would be great! I went downstairs and we played "America the Beautiful" for her. After the race, Sam and I went upstairs to entertain Sarah and her family. She's the nicest person you could meet! Another time, I also got to meet Marylou Whitney. She and her husband are the reason the Whitney Handicap exists. She still looks great! Another time, Adam Rodriguez from "CSI Miami" showed up in the winner's circle. Really nice guy, down to earth, no attitude. Local politicians often show up. Last year, because we were going to have a possible triple crown, we were invited to a promotional event at the Empire State Building. We were all the way up on the observation deck. Then they took us over to 30 Rock, which is Rockefeller Center, and went up on topfor a NYRA event. That was nice to be included in that.
MICK: Does weather affect your bugling?
RYAN: Yes! if it's nice weather, say between May and September, we're doing really well. It can be pretty unpredictable. We have weather gear that we use when we play. Sometimes races even get canceled. It all depends upon the jockeys. If the weather is bad, they all get together and make the call. But once you're out there and the weather is funky, you have to be dressed warm and brave the elements. If it's really cold out, we play with either plastic mouthpieces or plastic rimmed mouthpieces that helps keep the cold away but it's still very hard in that weather. I've been out in 20 degree weather with 20 MPH winds. It's not fun but you have to go out and do your job!
MICK: Can people meet you at the racetrack?
RYAN: All the time! Aqueduct is a little more difficult unless I'm right in front of the racetrack. The place where we most often meet people is Belmont. I play right above the winners circle. There's a gate right there so people walk right up to us. Saratoga is even more so because we are walking right through the grandstands.
MICK: Do you have an off season?
RYAN: The busiest time of year for us is anytime after Easter till around a month after Labor Day. Racing is all year. It starts around January and runs all the way up to The Kentucky Derby. That's when the triple crown starts. The summer races lean towards the Breeders Cup. That's usually the first week of November. That's just the thoroughbred racing. There's four different types of racing. Thoroughbred racing, harness racing ( which tends to run all year and has it's own triple crown), trotters and pacers, steeplechase..they have their own triple crown too.
MICK: When you're not bugling, what do you like to do?
RYAN: When my wife is not working (she's a teacher), we like to do different things. We are trying to plan a vacation for the first time in many years. We try to see our family as often as we can. Some of my family is still out on Long Island. I'm originally from Lindenhurst. My wife's family is from Bay Shore.
MICK: So you live in the city?
RYAN: Yes we do. My work is here so it makes it easier. I just want to keep getting more work! My hope one day is to play every race in the Triple Crown and the Breeders Cup in one year. I'd be like the Tiger Woods of bugling!
MICK: How long would you like to do this?
RYAN: For as long as I can! I am trying to get more regular work in the city as far as playing. That takes me more indoors. Last year I played in Radio City as one of the orchestra members. Hoping to do more of that and Broadway too. As long as I can make a sound out of the horn I will be happy!
Catch Ryan this Saturday, June 8th 2013 for the 145th running of the Belmont Stakes,
6:40pm ET on NBC
Location: Belmont Park, New York
MICK: How long have you been one of the Belmont buglers?
RYAN: I started subbing there in 2005, right after the Breeders Cup was the last time it was at Belmont. I also subbed at Aqueduct. In 2006, I played another Belmont. There were 4 of us for that. They had a group of buglers there for a few years and they wanted to give Sam Grossman a solo shot. I joined him back in 2009 so I've done every year since then.
MICK: How many buglers are there now?
RYAN: There's usually just Sam and myself. In the past, they've had three or four depending on what the needs of the track are and who is in charge. of the Racing Association.
MICK: You work other race tracks also?
RYAN: I work at around 20 tracks right now. I've had a regular gig in the Fall that is down in Maryland since 2009. Sam and I also do events when asked. We've played at Saratoga together, The Whitney, The Travers. I've done two Travers and three Whitney's in three years. I done basically every track on the East Coast or pretty close to it. Some tracks out in the midwest. I play a lot of good events for the racing community!
MICK: Do you go as far west as California?
RYAN: Not that far! A mutual friend of ours is Jay Cohen is the bugler out there. He's been out there for 25 years. He has his own gig out there plus he brings local buglers out to play when they have the Breeders Cup. That seems to be the trend now. There were buglers that were traveling across the country playing, including playing at Belmont, Santa Anita, Gulf Stream. With the economy and everything else, it got too expensive to be flying people all over the country. Most places are now asking for local guys. It brings more work for us. We are able to do what they want and we get paid pretty well for what we do. Not only do we do the race, we are playing for the fans! Our main thing is going out and playing for the Stakes races and big fan fairs. Sometimes the music is themed for the particular day. The Belmont Stakes theme used to be "The Sidewalks of New York". Now they play a recording or have a live singer come out and sing Frank Sinatra's "New
York, New York". Sometimes we do patriotic songs like "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America". Other times we throw some jazz in there. I do most of the arrangements. Others we just come up with it on the spot. I'm really beefed up the book with our music the last few years. People often come up to us and ask us to play at special occasions. Sam started doing this a few years ago.
MICK: How did you originally get the job?
RYAN: I started as an assistant in 2005. I was playing previously to that with a bugle group that was touring the country. We would do different races as a trio or a quartet. We were very excited when we got called for the Breeders Cup. Sam and I met at the rehearsal and starting talking. He told me how busy he was and I asked him if he ever took a day off. I told him I live locally and to call me if he needed any help. I figured I would never hear from him. Three days later, he calls me. He said "I'm playing the opening week at Aqueduct and I'm going on vacation. Can you cover for me the next two weeks?" I came down and met him at the track. He showed me the locker room, where to sign in, what to watch for. I pretty much knew the ropes by then anyway. Each track was different though. So that was my two week audition to be his fill in guy. He started calling me very often.
When the 2006 Belmont Stakes came, my bugle group was called to do it. Sam saw that I was going to be there. We started doing more after that. By 2009, they wanted both us us to do the Belmont. I've been doing it ever since!
MICK: What's your favorite memory of Belmont so far?
RYAN: There's a couple. There's at least one good one for every year I've been there. For the Belmont Stakes, they have a singer come out and do "New York New York". My first year there, we were standing in the winners circle and I see this lady, all dressed in red, coming over. As she got closer, I knew who is was. It was Linda Eder! That was a thrill. Just being out there playing in front of 60,000 people at the Belmont is awesome. The following year, I'm out there playing and I see Charlie Hayward upstairs. He was one of the chief operator bosses at that time. I thought I would go up there to say hi and thank him again for hiring me. I saw a very familiar looking lady with him. So I went upstairs and asked one of the valets if theres anyone important that we should know about. He told me yes, in the Trustees Room. I walked in and there she was..Sarah Palin! I asked her if there's any particular song she wanted to hear. She saw my red, white and blue tie and said something patriotic would be great! I went downstairs and we played "America the Beautiful" for her. After the race, Sam and I went upstairs to entertain Sarah and her family. She's the nicest person you could meet! Another time, I also got to meet Marylou Whitney. She and her husband are the reason the Whitney Handicap exists. She still looks great! Another time, Adam Rodriguez from "CSI Miami" showed up in the winner's circle. Really nice guy, down to earth, no attitude. Local politicians often show up. Last year, because we were going to have a possible triple crown, we were invited to a promotional event at the Empire State Building. We were all the way up on the observation deck. Then they took us over to 30 Rock, which is Rockefeller Center, and went up on topfor a NYRA event. That was nice to be included in that.
MICK: Does weather affect your bugling?
RYAN: Yes! if it's nice weather, say between May and September, we're doing really well. It can be pretty unpredictable. We have weather gear that we use when we play. Sometimes races even get canceled. It all depends upon the jockeys. If the weather is bad, they all get together and make the call. But once you're out there and the weather is funky, you have to be dressed warm and brave the elements. If it's really cold out, we play with either plastic mouthpieces or plastic rimmed mouthpieces that helps keep the cold away but it's still very hard in that weather. I've been out in 20 degree weather with 20 MPH winds. It's not fun but you have to go out and do your job!
MICK: Can people meet you at the racetrack?
RYAN: All the time! Aqueduct is a little more difficult unless I'm right in front of the racetrack. The place where we most often meet people is Belmont. I play right above the winners circle. There's a gate right there so people walk right up to us. Saratoga is even more so because we are walking right through the grandstands.
MICK: Do you have an off season?
RYAN: The busiest time of year for us is anytime after Easter till around a month after Labor Day. Racing is all year. It starts around January and runs all the way up to The Kentucky Derby. That's when the triple crown starts. The summer races lean towards the Breeders Cup. That's usually the first week of November. That's just the thoroughbred racing. There's four different types of racing. Thoroughbred racing, harness racing ( which tends to run all year and has it's own triple crown), trotters and pacers, steeplechase..they have their own triple crown too.
MICK: When you're not bugling, what do you like to do?
RYAN: When my wife is not working (she's a teacher), we like to do different things. We are trying to plan a vacation for the first time in many years. We try to see our family as often as we can. Some of my family is still out on Long Island. I'm originally from Lindenhurst. My wife's family is from Bay Shore.
MICK: So you live in the city?
RYAN: Yes we do. My work is here so it makes it easier. I just want to keep getting more work! My hope one day is to play every race in the Triple Crown and the Breeders Cup in one year. I'd be like the Tiger Woods of bugling!
MICK: How long would you like to do this?
RYAN: For as long as I can! I am trying to get more regular work in the city as far as playing. That takes me more indoors. Last year I played in Radio City as one of the orchestra members. Hoping to do more of that and Broadway too. As long as I can make a sound out of the horn I will be happy!
Catch Ryan this Saturday, June 8th 2013 for the 145th running of the Belmont Stakes,
6:40pm ET on NBC
Location: Belmont Park, New York
Sunday, June 2, 2013
EDDIE MONEY RETURNS TO LONG ISLAND!
With a string of top 40 hits and million selling albums, EDDIE MONEY has carved himself a nice place in rock and roll history and continues to tour the world to the amazement of his fans. He is more than just a rock and roll icon. Eddie Money is one of us! Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, he has never been far from his roots. He returns to Long Island on Friday June 7th and The Paramount in Huntington! I spoke to Eddie from his California home recently and he can't wait to get back to NY!
MICK: How's your tour going this year?
EDDIE: I've got my health, I've got my weight down, I've still got all my hair! I had 14 songs in the top 100 so it's easy to write a set list! "Baby Hold On", "Two Tickets To Paradise", "Think I'm In Love", "I Wanna Go Back", "Shakin", the list goes on! The show at the Paramount in Huntington is going to be a lot of fun.
MICK: I know everybody is very excited about you coming back to Long Island!
EDDIE: The Paramount is a great theater. I have a bigger guest list than the Rolling Stones! You know in New York everybody wants to get in for nothing! The last time we played Eisenhower Park, the parks promoter said "What is this Woodstock? There's not enough toilets, there's not enough parking. Who's this guy Eddie Money?"
MICK: And you're coming back again later this year to Eisenhower Park?
EDDIE: Yes we are doing that later this year but the Paramount show is going to be great. We open up with "Baby Hold On", we have the new song "One More Soldier Coming Home" and we are donating 100% of the proceeds from the release to Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. I'm also supporting these kids who are HIV positive. We are making money for the kids, money for the troops, taking care of my family. Everything is good!
MICK: How often do you get back to Long Island?
EDDIE: I'm back there all the time! I was just back there for a week. I have an apartment in NYC next to Mickey Mantle's. My wife likes to go there for $400-$500 lunch and goes back once every other month to jog in Central Park. I should have married a blind woman! But when I'm in New York, I don't stay in the apartment. I go out to Long Island where all my friends are. I think the pizza is better out there, the Italian food is better. I stay in my sister's basement in Levittown. I can tell who's at the door by what kind of shoes they have on!
MICK: I've read that your longtime drummer Glenn Symmonds was recently operated on for bladder cancer. How is he doing?
EDDIE: He went in too late. He had a tumor the size of a golf ball on the wall of his bladder. I pay my band good but he never had health insurance.
He had insurance for his family but he didn't have it for himself. He's been with me since 1973. You have to take care of your own!
MICK: What's happening with your play "Two Tickets To Paradise"?
EDDIE: I'm working with John Blenn. He's a teacher at Five Towns College. He produced and directed the play and it was very successful for me three years ago. We had great dancers and great actors. We are going to proceed to go at it again, get a lot of the same cast and see if we can get it on Broadway somehow. I wrote a lot of great Broadway songs for the play. We have Eddie Money's greatest hits and some great Broadway type songs in there. Growing up, my parents used to take us to the city to see plays like "Damn Yankees", "Carousel, "Oklahoma". We used to get the records and act out the plays. So I wrote some really good Broadway type songs for the play. "The Train Don't Stop Here Anymore" is about becoming successful and then losing the old lady. "I Only Want The World For You" is a song my mother sings to me in the play. "California Here We Come" is another great one. I'm very happy with the songs. The play is not like a "Rock Of Ages". So we will see what happens.
MICK: People recently saw you in the Gieco commercials on TV. How did that come about?
EDDIE: My wife is a lot like Lucy Mcgillicuddy on "I Love Lucy". And I'm like Desi playing The Copacabana. My wife wanted to get back on TV. She hooked up with this Geico commercial, which I didn't know anything about. We went down there to do it and they had had these veteran actors that I've seen in many other commercials. An old lady was going to be pushing the CD button and I was going to sing "Two Tickets To Paradise". My wife wanted to be in this commercial so I had to fire this little old lady who was in lots of legendary Broadway shows. I felt terrible. The look she gave me was like when I would leave my car in the driveway and got in trouble. There's my wife getting all dressed up, changing shoes and shirts. Pedicures and manicures. So the last commercial we did was acapella, without the CD player. That's the one they choose to use! So my wife ended up on the cutting room floor!
MICK: What's your favorite venue to play in?
EDDIE: I love Madison Square Garden. I played the US Festival and there were 650,000 people attending in 1981. Steve Wozniak and Bill Graham were the promoters and that was completely amazing. I played Budokan in Japan twice with Santana. That was a lot of fun! I used to like My Father's Place in Roslyn, Long Island. And I like playing Westbury Music Fair but the thing is I can never find the stage when I'm coming back from shaking hands. All of a sudden I'm getting ready to jump back on stage and I'm looking at a bunch of amplifiers! I also played Eisenhower Park and lots of people came to that. People on Long Island are very frugle and they bring their lawn chairs and get to see Eddie Money for nothing! It was a very successful show that I did a few years ago. People in New York are very fussy people and if you get a good review in New York, you've got it made! New York has always been very good to me!
MICK: You were a NYC cop for two years. Do you keep in touch with any of your former coworkers?
EDDIE: That was over thirty years ago. Most of the guys have retired. My father was patrolman of the year when I was on the job. He would always say, when I was coming off the stage all sweating, "Just think, you could be retired now instead of being so damn tired!" I've got two nephews on the job too. My grandfather was a cop and my brother was a deputy inspector for 25 years. The NYC cops are really nice to me. A lot of people used to think I worked for the Department of Sanitation and I'd tell them I wasn't a garbageman, I wasn't a fireman, I was a cop!
MICK: What would you consider the high point of your career up to this point?
EDDIE: I guess doing "Saturday Night Live" was pretty big. Doing the "Midnight Special" with Wolfman Jack was great. Of course, doing a lot of great shows all the time. Having the opportunity to sell tee shirts for The Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation and also the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund for the troops and the kids. I played The Winery in NYC and I had some people coming in from Long Island. I asked them why so and so didn't show up. They said they saw me at the gas station!
MICK: Which of today's music artists do you admire the most?
EDDIE: I really like this kid Bruno Mars. I really think he has something there. And I think Nickelback is a pretty good band. But outside of that, I'm from the 70's so I listen to Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, the Eagles. I love the music I've always listened to. I get in the car with the kids and I listen to all this new garbage. I feel like I'm in another world! I've toured with the Stones, I've toured with the Who, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Miller, I've toured with the best!
MICK: Do you have any regrets?
EDDIE: Back in the 80's, I was drinking one day and thought I was snorting cocaine but it was a synthetic barbiturate and it knocked out my kidneys. I blew out the sciatic nerve in my left leg and I couldn't even walk for about a year. Then I came back and made my best record "No Control" which was about you don't have to be rich and famous to get drunk and drive a car, get arrested or put something up your nose and die. The "No Control" album was the best thing I got out of it. People would say "How did you overdose?". "It was fucking free! How did you think I overdosed?"
MICK: What's a typical day for Eddie Money like?
EDDIE: I get up in the morning, walk the dogs. I go to the gym 2-3 days a week. I like to play golf. I go to work in the studio, help my kids out. I'm making a Christmas album right now. Wendy Dio, Ronnie Dio's wife, has a label and she has connections with Sony so I will be back with my old friends at Sony. I also have a new record with some new songs, my kid's careers are taking off, I'm raising money for my drummer. I'm really looking forward to the show at the Paramount on June 13. We open up with "Baby Hold On To Me", then we do "Endless Nights" which I just put back into the set. Then we do "Wanna Be A Rock and Rock Star" which is all about how it all happened for me. We go into "Walk On Water" and then we do "One More Soldier Coming Home". It's a great show! I even put in "Call On Me" from the first album! People are really loving it! Lots of encores each night! So tell everybody I've got two tickets and I'm taking everybody to do some shakin with
the Money Man at the Paramount!!
See Eddie Money this Fri, Jun 7, 2013 08:00 PM at The Paramount, Huntington, NY. Doors open at 7:00PM.
The Paramount 370 New York Ave, Huntington, NY 11743 (631) 673-7300
www.eddiemoney.com
MICK: How's your tour going this year?
EDDIE: I've got my health, I've got my weight down, I've still got all my hair! I had 14 songs in the top 100 so it's easy to write a set list! "Baby Hold On", "Two Tickets To Paradise", "Think I'm In Love", "I Wanna Go Back", "Shakin", the list goes on! The show at the Paramount in Huntington is going to be a lot of fun.
MICK: I know everybody is very excited about you coming back to Long Island!
EDDIE: The Paramount is a great theater. I have a bigger guest list than the Rolling Stones! You know in New York everybody wants to get in for nothing! The last time we played Eisenhower Park, the parks promoter said "What is this Woodstock? There's not enough toilets, there's not enough parking. Who's this guy Eddie Money?"
MICK: And you're coming back again later this year to Eisenhower Park?
EDDIE: Yes we are doing that later this year but the Paramount show is going to be great. We open up with "Baby Hold On", we have the new song "One More Soldier Coming Home" and we are donating 100% of the proceeds from the release to Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. I'm also supporting these kids who are HIV positive. We are making money for the kids, money for the troops, taking care of my family. Everything is good!
MICK: How often do you get back to Long Island?
EDDIE: I'm back there all the time! I was just back there for a week. I have an apartment in NYC next to Mickey Mantle's. My wife likes to go there for $400-$500 lunch and goes back once every other month to jog in Central Park. I should have married a blind woman! But when I'm in New York, I don't stay in the apartment. I go out to Long Island where all my friends are. I think the pizza is better out there, the Italian food is better. I stay in my sister's basement in Levittown. I can tell who's at the door by what kind of shoes they have on!
MICK: I've read that your longtime drummer Glenn Symmonds was recently operated on for bladder cancer. How is he doing?
EDDIE: He went in too late. He had a tumor the size of a golf ball on the wall of his bladder. I pay my band good but he never had health insurance.
He had insurance for his family but he didn't have it for himself. He's been with me since 1973. You have to take care of your own!
MICK: What's happening with your play "Two Tickets To Paradise"?
EDDIE: I'm working with John Blenn. He's a teacher at Five Towns College. He produced and directed the play and it was very successful for me three years ago. We had great dancers and great actors. We are going to proceed to go at it again, get a lot of the same cast and see if we can get it on Broadway somehow. I wrote a lot of great Broadway songs for the play. We have Eddie Money's greatest hits and some great Broadway type songs in there. Growing up, my parents used to take us to the city to see plays like "Damn Yankees", "Carousel, "Oklahoma". We used to get the records and act out the plays. So I wrote some really good Broadway type songs for the play. "The Train Don't Stop Here Anymore" is about becoming successful and then losing the old lady. "I Only Want The World For You" is a song my mother sings to me in the play. "California Here We Come" is another great one. I'm very happy with the songs. The play is not like a "Rock Of Ages". So we will see what happens.
MICK: People recently saw you in the Gieco commercials on TV. How did that come about?
EDDIE: My wife is a lot like Lucy Mcgillicuddy on "I Love Lucy". And I'm like Desi playing The Copacabana. My wife wanted to get back on TV. She hooked up with this Geico commercial, which I didn't know anything about. We went down there to do it and they had had these veteran actors that I've seen in many other commercials. An old lady was going to be pushing the CD button and I was going to sing "Two Tickets To Paradise". My wife wanted to be in this commercial so I had to fire this little old lady who was in lots of legendary Broadway shows. I felt terrible. The look she gave me was like when I would leave my car in the driveway and got in trouble. There's my wife getting all dressed up, changing shoes and shirts. Pedicures and manicures. So the last commercial we did was acapella, without the CD player. That's the one they choose to use! So my wife ended up on the cutting room floor!
MICK: What's your favorite venue to play in?
EDDIE: I love Madison Square Garden. I played the US Festival and there were 650,000 people attending in 1981. Steve Wozniak and Bill Graham were the promoters and that was completely amazing. I played Budokan in Japan twice with Santana. That was a lot of fun! I used to like My Father's Place in Roslyn, Long Island. And I like playing Westbury Music Fair but the thing is I can never find the stage when I'm coming back from shaking hands. All of a sudden I'm getting ready to jump back on stage and I'm looking at a bunch of amplifiers! I also played Eisenhower Park and lots of people came to that. People on Long Island are very frugle and they bring their lawn chairs and get to see Eddie Money for nothing! It was a very successful show that I did a few years ago. People in New York are very fussy people and if you get a good review in New York, you've got it made! New York has always been very good to me!
MICK: You were a NYC cop for two years. Do you keep in touch with any of your former coworkers?
EDDIE: That was over thirty years ago. Most of the guys have retired. My father was patrolman of the year when I was on the job. He would always say, when I was coming off the stage all sweating, "Just think, you could be retired now instead of being so damn tired!" I've got two nephews on the job too. My grandfather was a cop and my brother was a deputy inspector for 25 years. The NYC cops are really nice to me. A lot of people used to think I worked for the Department of Sanitation and I'd tell them I wasn't a garbageman, I wasn't a fireman, I was a cop!
MICK: What would you consider the high point of your career up to this point?
EDDIE: I guess doing "Saturday Night Live" was pretty big. Doing the "Midnight Special" with Wolfman Jack was great. Of course, doing a lot of great shows all the time. Having the opportunity to sell tee shirts for The Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation and also the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund for the troops and the kids. I played The Winery in NYC and I had some people coming in from Long Island. I asked them why so and so didn't show up. They said they saw me at the gas station!
MICK: Which of today's music artists do you admire the most?
EDDIE: I really like this kid Bruno Mars. I really think he has something there. And I think Nickelback is a pretty good band. But outside of that, I'm from the 70's so I listen to Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, the Eagles. I love the music I've always listened to. I get in the car with the kids and I listen to all this new garbage. I feel like I'm in another world! I've toured with the Stones, I've toured with the Who, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Miller, I've toured with the best!
MICK: Do you have any regrets?
EDDIE: Back in the 80's, I was drinking one day and thought I was snorting cocaine but it was a synthetic barbiturate and it knocked out my kidneys. I blew out the sciatic nerve in my left leg and I couldn't even walk for about a year. Then I came back and made my best record "No Control" which was about you don't have to be rich and famous to get drunk and drive a car, get arrested or put something up your nose and die. The "No Control" album was the best thing I got out of it. People would say "How did you overdose?". "It was fucking free! How did you think I overdosed?"
MICK: What's a typical day for Eddie Money like?
EDDIE: I get up in the morning, walk the dogs. I go to the gym 2-3 days a week. I like to play golf. I go to work in the studio, help my kids out. I'm making a Christmas album right now. Wendy Dio, Ronnie Dio's wife, has a label and she has connections with Sony so I will be back with my old friends at Sony. I also have a new record with some new songs, my kid's careers are taking off, I'm raising money for my drummer. I'm really looking forward to the show at the Paramount on June 13. We open up with "Baby Hold On To Me", then we do "Endless Nights" which I just put back into the set. Then we do "Wanna Be A Rock and Rock Star" which is all about how it all happened for me. We go into "Walk On Water" and then we do "One More Soldier Coming Home". It's a great show! I even put in "Call On Me" from the first album! People are really loving it! Lots of encores each night! So tell everybody I've got two tickets and I'm taking everybody to do some shakin with
the Money Man at the Paramount!!
See Eddie Money this Fri, Jun 7, 2013 08:00 PM at The Paramount, Huntington, NY. Doors open at 7:00PM.
The Paramount 370 New York Ave, Huntington, NY 11743 (631) 673-7300
www.eddiemoney.com
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
AMBROSIA Comes to the SUFFOLK THEATER! A Chat with BURLEIGH DRUMMOND
When I first heard AMBROSIA in the 70's, I was captured by their superb songwriting and crisp musicianship that rode the radio waves of pop and progressive rock into the early 80's. More than 40 years after they first hit the scene, AMBROSIA continues to thrill it's fans, still touring with three of the original four members. BURLEIGH DRUMMOND is the original drummer and is very excited to bring the band back to Long Island. On Thursday, April 18, they will be appearing at the new SUFFOLK THEATER in Riverhead. I had a real nice chat with Burleigh recently as he told me about the band today....
MICK: I first became aware of Ambrosia when I heard "Nice Nice Very Nice" on the radio back in the mid 70's. It's always been one of my favorite songs. That was originally a poem by famed writer Kurt Vonnegut. How did you go about making that a song?
BURLEIGH: We were writing for our first album and we had this song with a totally different name but the music was the same. Joe Puerta, our bass player, was reading Vonnegut's book "Cat's Cradle" and he came across the "Song of Bokonon" and he brought it in one day and tried singing it to the music we had for the other song and it fit perfectly. He went ahead and wrote a second verse to go with the first verse. We called it 'Nice Nice Very Nice". We really liked it and were very content with the new song. Then a few weeks before the album was coming out, somebody said "Did anybody ask Kurt Vonnegut if this was ok?" This panic ensued and we immediately got in touch with him and got the papers to him. We were pretty nervous. He loved it! He wrote us a great letter saying "The only art form that is worth a damn". Later we got to meet him and that was a mind blowing experience. To meet an artist of that depth! We met him while he was writing and he was
deep into the character he was writing about. It was pretty mind opening!
MICK: Did Ambrosia ever take another poem from another writer and make a song out of it?
BURLEIGH: We were inspired by the e.e. cummings in "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled" and we wrote our own lyrics to it. We did steal the line!
MICK: I know in the beginning you guys worked with Alan Parsons. What was that like working with him?
BURLEIGH: It was amazing! He came over to the Grammy Awards for "The Dark Side of the Moon" and we had been in contact with him before that. He heard our rough stuff for our first album and he said he would love to mix it! During the course of mixing our first album, we recorded some tracks on his first album. It was a big secret as we weren't allowed to know what we were recording. The album was "The Tales of Mystery and Imagination". We did the opening track "The Raven" and he told us it was called "The Raver". They were afraid the secret of their album would get out! Alan is a great guy! He really opened us up sonically to what was possible. When you think rock and roll or pop, you think volume to some extent. I would come into the control room when he was mixing something and it would literally take me a few seconds to realize there was music playing because it was so soft. He would say "If I can hear music at that level, then I know it's fine".
MICK: In Ambrosia, who were the principle songwriters?
BURLEIGH: Everybody contributed on every song as everybody's input was vital. A lot of things would come out of jam sessions. I would say Joe Puerta and Dave Pack were like our Lennon and McCartney and I was kind of the George Harrison!
MICK: What is your favorite Ambrosia song?
BURLEIGH: There's a lot of them but I would say one of my favorites is "Heart To Heart"[from the 3rd album "Life Beyond L.A."]. I love that song!
MICK: Why did Dave Pack leave the band?
BURLEIGH: In 1989 when Ambrosia reunited, Dave started to get a fair amount of producing jobs so he wasn't able to make a lot of the gigs. That was kind of leaving us in a lurch. There was starting to be a little seperation. So it just became a better situation to go on without him. We still really wanted to play. In a sense, Ambrosia was kind of unfinished business. We felt that we never really got the live statement out as much as we wanted to. Dave was not quite as eager to go out on tour. I think the road was a little harder on him than on us. Right now, I feel that Ambrosia is the best and as strong as it's ever been!
MICK: Are you and Dave still friends?
BURLEIGH: Yes I'd say we are friends. We have a relationship that's copasetic and understood and we are all good!
MICK: Who is in the current Ambrosia?
BURLEIGH: We have three of the original four members Joe Puerta, Chris North and myself. When we are a five piece band, it's Rick Cowling on keyboards and vocals and Doug Jackson on guitar and vocals. When we are a six piece, we add my wife Mary Harris to the mix. That's when we do most of our progressive music. That's mostly the first two albums for instance.
MICK: Will you be coming with a six piece to the Suffolk Theater on April 18?
BURLEIGH: No we will be a five piece for this show. It will probably be a combination show. We have our version of melodic progressive and we have the hits. Now it gels better than before. We can play "Mama Frog" in the same set as "How Much I Feel" where as in the 70s, it felt like mixing arsenic and peach! Now people seem to roll with everything a lot more now. We have fun mixing it up!
MICK: For over 20 years, you and your wife have had a group called Tin Drum. How did that come about?
BURLEIGH: When my wife and I found each other and got married, she was touring with Jimmy Buffett and flying around doing background sessions for Pink Floyd in "Animal Logic". I was doing a lot of drumming for other people like Dave Mason, Jim Messina and doing a lot of album projects. It got to be like we were handing our infant son off to each other in the airport. She would be leaving or I would be coming. It got to the point where we said "Hey, let's try to work together!" Otherwise we would be always passing each other in airports! So that was our effort to spend more time together and be creative together. After about three albums, we built a studio here and all of sudden we started producing other artists like Mighty Mo Rogers. Now we are making an effort to back recording with just the two of us again.
MICK: Does Tin Drum ever perform outside of California?
BURLEIGH: Yes we've played outside of California. It's not a heavy touring schedule but probably about 10 times a year we travel outside of oir community!
MICK: As a drummer, which drummers do you admire?
BURLEIGH: Gosh which drummers don't I admire! I do have my super influences like Elvin Jones. He changed my life. Jim Keltner was a profound influence. I see a kid playing thats only been playing for a month in a band and something he will do will knock me out. Anything and everything means something to me like the patter of rain or the rhythym of traffic. It's everywhere! I did a session last night with Bill Champlin from The Sons Of Champlin. I don't think I've ever seen so much talent in one person! He's not a drummer but he's a drummer! I had some valuable lessons last night!
MICK: When you play The Suffolk Theater, will the band be signing autographs after the show?
BURLEIGH: For sure! We will have our CDs and DVDs with us!
MICK: What's on the radar for Ambrosia?
BURLEIGH: We just got off two cruises that were amazing! A progressive cruise and a more commercial cruise. We had the Moody Blues cruise and then we did the Yes cruise. They were both amazing! We want to do as much live playing as possible. We are trying to do a new record bit by bit. We also want to get out to some places that we haven't been to in a long time. We haven't been to Asia in a long time so we want to get over there. We want to develop Europe a little more and South America too. These are all on the wish list! We will continue to play a lot in the United States!
AMBROSIA 8:00PM Thursday, April 18, 2013
Suffolk Theater - Home (631) 727-4343 118 E Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901
For tickets: http://www.suffolktheater.com/suffolk-theater/ambrosia
http://www.ambrosiaweb.com/
MICK: I first became aware of Ambrosia when I heard "Nice Nice Very Nice" on the radio back in the mid 70's. It's always been one of my favorite songs. That was originally a poem by famed writer Kurt Vonnegut. How did you go about making that a song?
BURLEIGH: We were writing for our first album and we had this song with a totally different name but the music was the same. Joe Puerta, our bass player, was reading Vonnegut's book "Cat's Cradle" and he came across the "Song of Bokonon" and he brought it in one day and tried singing it to the music we had for the other song and it fit perfectly. He went ahead and wrote a second verse to go with the first verse. We called it 'Nice Nice Very Nice". We really liked it and were very content with the new song. Then a few weeks before the album was coming out, somebody said "Did anybody ask Kurt Vonnegut if this was ok?" This panic ensued and we immediately got in touch with him and got the papers to him. We were pretty nervous. He loved it! He wrote us a great letter saying "The only art form that is worth a damn". Later we got to meet him and that was a mind blowing experience. To meet an artist of that depth! We met him while he was writing and he was
deep into the character he was writing about. It was pretty mind opening!
MICK: Did Ambrosia ever take another poem from another writer and make a song out of it?
BURLEIGH: We were inspired by the e.e. cummings in "Somewhere I Have Never Traveled" and we wrote our own lyrics to it. We did steal the line!
MICK: I know in the beginning you guys worked with Alan Parsons. What was that like working with him?
BURLEIGH: It was amazing! He came over to the Grammy Awards for "The Dark Side of the Moon" and we had been in contact with him before that. He heard our rough stuff for our first album and he said he would love to mix it! During the course of mixing our first album, we recorded some tracks on his first album. It was a big secret as we weren't allowed to know what we were recording. The album was "The Tales of Mystery and Imagination". We did the opening track "The Raven" and he told us it was called "The Raver". They were afraid the secret of their album would get out! Alan is a great guy! He really opened us up sonically to what was possible. When you think rock and roll or pop, you think volume to some extent. I would come into the control room when he was mixing something and it would literally take me a few seconds to realize there was music playing because it was so soft. He would say "If I can hear music at that level, then I know it's fine".
MICK: In Ambrosia, who were the principle songwriters?
BURLEIGH: Everybody contributed on every song as everybody's input was vital. A lot of things would come out of jam sessions. I would say Joe Puerta and Dave Pack were like our Lennon and McCartney and I was kind of the George Harrison!
MICK: What is your favorite Ambrosia song?
BURLEIGH: There's a lot of them but I would say one of my favorites is "Heart To Heart"[from the 3rd album "Life Beyond L.A."]. I love that song!
MICK: Why did Dave Pack leave the band?
BURLEIGH: In 1989 when Ambrosia reunited, Dave started to get a fair amount of producing jobs so he wasn't able to make a lot of the gigs. That was kind of leaving us in a lurch. There was starting to be a little seperation. So it just became a better situation to go on without him. We still really wanted to play. In a sense, Ambrosia was kind of unfinished business. We felt that we never really got the live statement out as much as we wanted to. Dave was not quite as eager to go out on tour. I think the road was a little harder on him than on us. Right now, I feel that Ambrosia is the best and as strong as it's ever been!
MICK: Are you and Dave still friends?
BURLEIGH: Yes I'd say we are friends. We have a relationship that's copasetic and understood and we are all good!
MICK: Who is in the current Ambrosia?
BURLEIGH: We have three of the original four members Joe Puerta, Chris North and myself. When we are a five piece band, it's Rick Cowling on keyboards and vocals and Doug Jackson on guitar and vocals. When we are a six piece, we add my wife Mary Harris to the mix. That's when we do most of our progressive music. That's mostly the first two albums for instance.
MICK: Will you be coming with a six piece to the Suffolk Theater on April 18?
BURLEIGH: No we will be a five piece for this show. It will probably be a combination show. We have our version of melodic progressive and we have the hits. Now it gels better than before. We can play "Mama Frog" in the same set as "How Much I Feel" where as in the 70s, it felt like mixing arsenic and peach! Now people seem to roll with everything a lot more now. We have fun mixing it up!
MICK: For over 20 years, you and your wife have had a group called Tin Drum. How did that come about?
BURLEIGH: When my wife and I found each other and got married, she was touring with Jimmy Buffett and flying around doing background sessions for Pink Floyd in "Animal Logic". I was doing a lot of drumming for other people like Dave Mason, Jim Messina and doing a lot of album projects. It got to be like we were handing our infant son off to each other in the airport. She would be leaving or I would be coming. It got to the point where we said "Hey, let's try to work together!" Otherwise we would be always passing each other in airports! So that was our effort to spend more time together and be creative together. After about three albums, we built a studio here and all of sudden we started producing other artists like Mighty Mo Rogers. Now we are making an effort to back recording with just the two of us again.
MICK: Does Tin Drum ever perform outside of California?
BURLEIGH: Yes we've played outside of California. It's not a heavy touring schedule but probably about 10 times a year we travel outside of oir community!
MICK: As a drummer, which drummers do you admire?
BURLEIGH: Gosh which drummers don't I admire! I do have my super influences like Elvin Jones. He changed my life. Jim Keltner was a profound influence. I see a kid playing thats only been playing for a month in a band and something he will do will knock me out. Anything and everything means something to me like the patter of rain or the rhythym of traffic. It's everywhere! I did a session last night with Bill Champlin from The Sons Of Champlin. I don't think I've ever seen so much talent in one person! He's not a drummer but he's a drummer! I had some valuable lessons last night!
MICK: When you play The Suffolk Theater, will the band be signing autographs after the show?
BURLEIGH: For sure! We will have our CDs and DVDs with us!
MICK: What's on the radar for Ambrosia?
BURLEIGH: We just got off two cruises that were amazing! A progressive cruise and a more commercial cruise. We had the Moody Blues cruise and then we did the Yes cruise. They were both amazing! We want to do as much live playing as possible. We are trying to do a new record bit by bit. We also want to get out to some places that we haven't been to in a long time. We haven't been to Asia in a long time so we want to get over there. We want to develop Europe a little more and South America too. These are all on the wish list! We will continue to play a lot in the United States!
AMBROSIA 8:00PM Thursday, April 18, 2013
Suffolk Theater - Home (631) 727-4343 118 E Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901
For tickets: http://www.suffolktheater.com/suffolk-theater/ambrosia
http://www.ambrosiaweb.com/
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
A Chat With PATTI DAVIS about her new lesbian novel!
She has been in the limelight for most of her life and is the daughter of one of our nation's most beloved Presidents. Today, Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s daughter, has self-published a lesbian love novel called “Till Human Voices Wake Us.” It has already gained the attention of many and is getting rave reviews throughout the world! I connected with Patti recently on Facebook and was thrilled to speak with her about her new book!
MICK: Congratulations on the release of your new book "Till Human Voices Wake Us"!
PATTI: Thank you! I'm just being this obsessive author now! My ranking keeps going up and then down so I am just out here spreading the word about it!
MICK: I know that this book is a fiction but is it based on anybody that you know?
PATTI: No. Years ago I overheard a conversation between two people that I don't know and never met. They were talking about two sisters in law who fell in love with each other and simultaneously divorced their husbands. They had no history of being gay and no history in bisexuality. They just fell in love! I thought that was just wonderfully complicated! as a writer, I thought that was a great centerpiece for a novel. So when I was thinking about turning this into a novel, I had to figure a way into this. A woman just doesn't sit across a lunch table from her sister in law and all of sudden say "Oh my God, I just fell in love with you!". Another thing from my distant past was a woman I knew whose 3 year old son drowned in her swimming pool. I remember she said to me "I don't know who left the screen door open". That stayed with me. Those two things kind of came together and it made sense to me how shattered someone is with the loss of a child. In the
grief that follows, anything can happen. In my novel, the woman's husband sort of abandons her emotionally. Her sister in law is the one that is there for her. The story then took on a life of it's own as fiction does. The characters lead me in terms of where they wanted to go.
The question that does drive the story is who left the screen open! She does find out at the end. I didn't even know what the answer to that was going to be until I got there! I was even wondering who it was! I know there are writers who continually outline their stories and they know every point of the story. I'm not one of those writers. I'm one of those writers who is taking on an adventure by these characters and the story goes places that i did not anticipate. I did not know until I got close to that point and it kind of surprised me!
MICK: That sounds like an exciting way to write!
PATTI: It's the only way I know how! I remember hearing in an interview with Stephen King years ago about a TV mini series called "Storm of the Century". The lead character, a black-eyed, stocking-capped stranger, says throughout the movie "Give me what I want and I'll go away". In the interview, King said "When I was writing this, when the man kept saying "give me what you want and I'll go away", I was wondering what he wanted!"
It turned out he was a devil and he wanted one of the children. But that was late in the series by the time we found out. I loved that King had lead us into his process and I loved that at the point when the rest of us found out what the guy wanted was also the point in which King found out! There's something very organic about that!
MICK: Did you get the title of your book “Till Human Voices Wake Us” from a line in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a poem about drowning in memories?
PATTI: Yes I did! I love T.S. Eliot! I fell in love with that stanza and just thought it fit with this book.
MICK: Is this your first fiction book?
PATTI: No it's not. In fact, my first book in the 1980's "Homefront" was a novel. That's the book I got so much heat for. I did what every writer does. I culled from my life and I built a fictional story around it. There were obvious pieces of my life because I was the daughter of the newly elected President. It was totally a work of fiction. I thought so naively that it was obvious as I made the girl much older than me and old enough to be in the thick of things in the 60's. I was in high school in the 60's. I was so blasted for that novel! Then I wrote a second novel called "Deadfall" and it really didn't do well. Then in 1994, I wrote a novel called "Bondage" which was an erotic novel. These days it would be considered pretty tame. I've written several works of fiction and this is my latest! I have two other novels that I may self publish also. My literary agent never took my book around. A previous agent, who has since passed away, did take it around
a little bit years ago and there was interest in it but I think people were surprised that it was me and they are used to my nonfiction books. They couldn't get their heads around it.
I have a young adult fiction book called "The Blue Hour" coming also. Right now I'm liking swimming in these self publishing waters!
MICK: How long did it take you to write this particular book?
PATTI: I started this in the late 90's. I worked on it in pieces. I remember working on it after 9/11. The grief that we were all feeling brought me back to this novel. But I was doing a lot of magazine work and I did two other published books. I kept going back to this novel and after working on it for so long, I saw that there were some dated references that had to be updated. So I made the changes! I really love this book! I was watching Kindle Publishing and was reading up on it and decided to go in this direction. What's the worse that could happen?
MICK: How are sales doing so far?
PATTI: It's doing really well! Page Six in the NY Post wrote a little thing on it. They put a provocative title on it about a lesbian love story! I first thought when I saw the headline "Oh great! Now I'm never going to get a boyfriend now!" Fortunately the first line of the text was "Patti Davis is NOT a lesbian but she's written this novel..." There was a huge jump in sales then! People were emailing me saying they were trending me on Yahoo. It's slowed up a little bit now. I'm trying to so as much as I can in the social media. Facebook has been really helpful! Plus it's interesting that the timing right now has worked in my favor with the Supreme Court stuff going on. I did not plan that!
MICK: It's getting great revues on Amazon! Is it available on any other sites?
PATTI: No but I am going to do a Createspace actual paperback book with it. Kindle Direct Publishing has been so helpful with me. I really can't say enough about them. I am not a tech savy person and I was thinking that I would have to pay a computer person to sit with me and do it. But I listened to their video tutorial about how to self publish a book and I followed their steps. I did it! It got enough press that somebody from Kindle Direct Publishing contacted me about doing a Createspace book as a physical book. So I'm doing that now!
MICK: How is your mom doing these days?
PATTI: She's doing ok these days. She is 91 now. She is fragile. I see her on Sundays and she misses my father.
MICK: Is she aware of your new book?
PATTI: No she's not because she doesn't have a Kindle! I think I mentioned it to her years ago and she had sort of a negative reaction.
MICK: Do you keep in touch with your brother Ron?
PATTI: Yes all of the time!
MICK: You told me previously that you were going to an Alzheimer's support group a few nights a week. Did you start that group?
PATTI: I did start that group! I had this idea for an Alzheimer's support group for caregivers and family members of people suffering from Alzheimer's. I took the idea to UCLA and they said yes! Two nights a week I run this support group.I titled it "Beyond Alzheimer's" because in the ten years of my father's illness, I really learned to look beyond the disease. I learned to keep remembering that in my belief my father's soul could not have Alzheimer's.
It was a daily and constant exercise in looking beyond the walls of the disease. Not only as it affected him but as it affected me. Family members are sort of imprisoned as well.I'm really proud of it. I've been doing this for a couple years now and it's got a lot of attention. UCLA has been very good to me and very supportive of this. It doesn't cost people anything to come, just pay for parking! It's been very gratifying to see people make the changes that not only help their loved ones but also help them. I've also written a little book called 'Beyond Alzheimer's" that tells about the principles that I've brought to this group. There is a publisher interested in that so that will be an actual published book!
MICK: Are you involved politically at all?
PATTI: Not really. I really don't like politics. I'm very passionate about wolves and the environment. I am a democrat and I do speak out at times. I do support President Obama but I'm still disappointed environmentally. I would have never anticipated the horrible things that are going on, particularly with wolves, in this administration. I am disappointed. Politics is not on my front burner but certain issues are. Politics seems like the problem to everything! We are playing politics with this planet! we are playing politics with guns! I don't get it.
MICK: Were you a democrat when your dad was President?
PATTI: Yes I was! We disagreed on things. But my father did come out and support a ban on assault weapons. Not immediately after he was shot but he did! In the 70's when he was governor of California, he came out against an initiative that would ban gay teachers from a school. There were things we agreed on!
MICK: Are you doing any more acting?
PATTI: Oh my God no! That was many years ago. All I ever wanted to be was a writer. At some point at the end of high school, someone said to me that you have to have a backup career. They meant something where you get a degree, like a business degree, a law degree, etc... So my backup profession was acting! It doesn't make a lot of sense but that was it! I wasn't very good and I made a little money with it!
MICK: What is a typical day for you like?
PATTI: I have a pretty simple life. I get up at dawn, I walk my dog, I work out a lot. I may hang out with friends. There's the support group and things like lectures I do for that.
MICK: Do you have any hobbies besides writing?
PATTI: I love gardening. I'm a really good gardener. Maybe that should have been my backup profession! I spend a lot of time writing. I just love it! I'm always working on more than just one thing at a time. I love doing journalistic pieces. That's got to be more problematic than it used to be. I like doing it even though you don't get paid as much as you used to!
MICK: Will you be traveling the country to promote your new book?
PATTI: I don't think so. If "Beyond Alzheimer's" gets published, then I will have to be out there promoting that. For this book, I think social media and interviews takes care the promoting. The days of going to cities and doing book signings are scarce these days because there are not many book stores around anymore. Times have changed. Now we are connected through social media like Facebook and you can reach a lot more people. There are some annoying things about social media but for the most part, it's a really good thing! In the world right now, it does allow people to be connected. I'm very happy with it! You can do a lot right from your computer and you don't have to get on a plane!
MICK: What are your plans after this book?
PATTI: I think "Beyond Alzheimer's" is going to get published. I have these two novels that I may also self publish. I would really love if I could get film rights sold for "Till Human Voices Wake Us". I think it could be a really cool movie, along the lines of 'The Kids Are Alright".
I think all of the characters would be good vehicles for actors and actresses!
You can order Patti Davis's new book "Till Human Voices Wake Us" at:
http://www.amazon.com/Till-Human-Voices-Wake-ebook/dp/B00BWY33HU
MICK: Congratulations on the release of your new book "Till Human Voices Wake Us"!
PATTI: Thank you! I'm just being this obsessive author now! My ranking keeps going up and then down so I am just out here spreading the word about it!
MICK: I know that this book is a fiction but is it based on anybody that you know?
PATTI: No. Years ago I overheard a conversation between two people that I don't know and never met. They were talking about two sisters in law who fell in love with each other and simultaneously divorced their husbands. They had no history of being gay and no history in bisexuality. They just fell in love! I thought that was just wonderfully complicated! as a writer, I thought that was a great centerpiece for a novel. So when I was thinking about turning this into a novel, I had to figure a way into this. A woman just doesn't sit across a lunch table from her sister in law and all of sudden say "Oh my God, I just fell in love with you!". Another thing from my distant past was a woman I knew whose 3 year old son drowned in her swimming pool. I remember she said to me "I don't know who left the screen door open". That stayed with me. Those two things kind of came together and it made sense to me how shattered someone is with the loss of a child. In the
grief that follows, anything can happen. In my novel, the woman's husband sort of abandons her emotionally. Her sister in law is the one that is there for her. The story then took on a life of it's own as fiction does. The characters lead me in terms of where they wanted to go.
The question that does drive the story is who left the screen open! She does find out at the end. I didn't even know what the answer to that was going to be until I got there! I was even wondering who it was! I know there are writers who continually outline their stories and they know every point of the story. I'm not one of those writers. I'm one of those writers who is taking on an adventure by these characters and the story goes places that i did not anticipate. I did not know until I got close to that point and it kind of surprised me!
MICK: That sounds like an exciting way to write!
PATTI: It's the only way I know how! I remember hearing in an interview with Stephen King years ago about a TV mini series called "Storm of the Century". The lead character, a black-eyed, stocking-capped stranger, says throughout the movie "Give me what I want and I'll go away". In the interview, King said "When I was writing this, when the man kept saying "give me what you want and I'll go away", I was wondering what he wanted!"
It turned out he was a devil and he wanted one of the children. But that was late in the series by the time we found out. I loved that King had lead us into his process and I loved that at the point when the rest of us found out what the guy wanted was also the point in which King found out! There's something very organic about that!
MICK: Did you get the title of your book “Till Human Voices Wake Us” from a line in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, a poem about drowning in memories?
PATTI: Yes I did! I love T.S. Eliot! I fell in love with that stanza and just thought it fit with this book.
MICK: Is this your first fiction book?
PATTI: No it's not. In fact, my first book in the 1980's "Homefront" was a novel. That's the book I got so much heat for. I did what every writer does. I culled from my life and I built a fictional story around it. There were obvious pieces of my life because I was the daughter of the newly elected President. It was totally a work of fiction. I thought so naively that it was obvious as I made the girl much older than me and old enough to be in the thick of things in the 60's. I was in high school in the 60's. I was so blasted for that novel! Then I wrote a second novel called "Deadfall" and it really didn't do well. Then in 1994, I wrote a novel called "Bondage" which was an erotic novel. These days it would be considered pretty tame. I've written several works of fiction and this is my latest! I have two other novels that I may self publish also. My literary agent never took my book around. A previous agent, who has since passed away, did take it around
a little bit years ago and there was interest in it but I think people were surprised that it was me and they are used to my nonfiction books. They couldn't get their heads around it.
I have a young adult fiction book called "The Blue Hour" coming also. Right now I'm liking swimming in these self publishing waters!
MICK: How long did it take you to write this particular book?
PATTI: I started this in the late 90's. I worked on it in pieces. I remember working on it after 9/11. The grief that we were all feeling brought me back to this novel. But I was doing a lot of magazine work and I did two other published books. I kept going back to this novel and after working on it for so long, I saw that there were some dated references that had to be updated. So I made the changes! I really love this book! I was watching Kindle Publishing and was reading up on it and decided to go in this direction. What's the worse that could happen?
MICK: How are sales doing so far?
PATTI: It's doing really well! Page Six in the NY Post wrote a little thing on it. They put a provocative title on it about a lesbian love story! I first thought when I saw the headline "Oh great! Now I'm never going to get a boyfriend now!" Fortunately the first line of the text was "Patti Davis is NOT a lesbian but she's written this novel..." There was a huge jump in sales then! People were emailing me saying they were trending me on Yahoo. It's slowed up a little bit now. I'm trying to so as much as I can in the social media. Facebook has been really helpful! Plus it's interesting that the timing right now has worked in my favor with the Supreme Court stuff going on. I did not plan that!
MICK: It's getting great revues on Amazon! Is it available on any other sites?
PATTI: No but I am going to do a Createspace actual paperback book with it. Kindle Direct Publishing has been so helpful with me. I really can't say enough about them. I am not a tech savy person and I was thinking that I would have to pay a computer person to sit with me and do it. But I listened to their video tutorial about how to self publish a book and I followed their steps. I did it! It got enough press that somebody from Kindle Direct Publishing contacted me about doing a Createspace book as a physical book. So I'm doing that now!
MICK: How is your mom doing these days?
PATTI: She's doing ok these days. She is 91 now. She is fragile. I see her on Sundays and she misses my father.
MICK: Is she aware of your new book?
PATTI: No she's not because she doesn't have a Kindle! I think I mentioned it to her years ago and she had sort of a negative reaction.
MICK: Do you keep in touch with your brother Ron?
PATTI: Yes all of the time!
MICK: You told me previously that you were going to an Alzheimer's support group a few nights a week. Did you start that group?
PATTI: I did start that group! I had this idea for an Alzheimer's support group for caregivers and family members of people suffering from Alzheimer's. I took the idea to UCLA and they said yes! Two nights a week I run this support group.I titled it "Beyond Alzheimer's" because in the ten years of my father's illness, I really learned to look beyond the disease. I learned to keep remembering that in my belief my father's soul could not have Alzheimer's.
It was a daily and constant exercise in looking beyond the walls of the disease. Not only as it affected him but as it affected me. Family members are sort of imprisoned as well.I'm really proud of it. I've been doing this for a couple years now and it's got a lot of attention. UCLA has been very good to me and very supportive of this. It doesn't cost people anything to come, just pay for parking! It's been very gratifying to see people make the changes that not only help their loved ones but also help them. I've also written a little book called 'Beyond Alzheimer's" that tells about the principles that I've brought to this group. There is a publisher interested in that so that will be an actual published book!
MICK: Are you involved politically at all?
PATTI: Not really. I really don't like politics. I'm very passionate about wolves and the environment. I am a democrat and I do speak out at times. I do support President Obama but I'm still disappointed environmentally. I would have never anticipated the horrible things that are going on, particularly with wolves, in this administration. I am disappointed. Politics is not on my front burner but certain issues are. Politics seems like the problem to everything! We are playing politics with this planet! we are playing politics with guns! I don't get it.
MICK: Were you a democrat when your dad was President?
PATTI: Yes I was! We disagreed on things. But my father did come out and support a ban on assault weapons. Not immediately after he was shot but he did! In the 70's when he was governor of California, he came out against an initiative that would ban gay teachers from a school. There were things we agreed on!
MICK: Are you doing any more acting?
PATTI: Oh my God no! That was many years ago. All I ever wanted to be was a writer. At some point at the end of high school, someone said to me that you have to have a backup career. They meant something where you get a degree, like a business degree, a law degree, etc... So my backup profession was acting! It doesn't make a lot of sense but that was it! I wasn't very good and I made a little money with it!
MICK: What is a typical day for you like?
PATTI: I have a pretty simple life. I get up at dawn, I walk my dog, I work out a lot. I may hang out with friends. There's the support group and things like lectures I do for that.
MICK: Do you have any hobbies besides writing?
PATTI: I love gardening. I'm a really good gardener. Maybe that should have been my backup profession! I spend a lot of time writing. I just love it! I'm always working on more than just one thing at a time. I love doing journalistic pieces. That's got to be more problematic than it used to be. I like doing it even though you don't get paid as much as you used to!
MICK: Will you be traveling the country to promote your new book?
PATTI: I don't think so. If "Beyond Alzheimer's" gets published, then I will have to be out there promoting that. For this book, I think social media and interviews takes care the promoting. The days of going to cities and doing book signings are scarce these days because there are not many book stores around anymore. Times have changed. Now we are connected through social media like Facebook and you can reach a lot more people. There are some annoying things about social media but for the most part, it's a really good thing! In the world right now, it does allow people to be connected. I'm very happy with it! You can do a lot right from your computer and you don't have to get on a plane!
MICK: What are your plans after this book?
PATTI: I think "Beyond Alzheimer's" is going to get published. I have these two novels that I may also self publish. I would really love if I could get film rights sold for "Till Human Voices Wake Us". I think it could be a really cool movie, along the lines of 'The Kids Are Alright".
I think all of the characters would be good vehicles for actors and actresses!
You can order Patti Davis's new book "Till Human Voices Wake Us" at:
http://www.amazon.com/Till-Human-Voices-Wake-ebook/dp/B00BWY33HU
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