HAIR TODAY; GONE TOMORROW

Well, it's been a week already since all the past, represented in my hair, has just been swept away on the salon floor.  here are some pics, including last Saturday's gig at Gate 403 in Toronto with Ron Johnston, bass, John Deehan, sax, Tony Quarrington, guitar, and John Sheard dropped in and played a few tunes with us on the piano.  Am I lucky?  What great musicians.  I have some movie bits, but will post them next time.

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC

In any form.....
I found this poem, that I had taken from a very old copy of the British Punch Magazine (could date back to the 1800's, not sure).  I had it back in the seventies and saved these words; I love it:

Strike the strings and let there be

Little sounds that sing to me.

 

Flighting pigeons’ soft applause,

Unchecked moan of yawning jaws;

Thrusting needles pricking through

Nursery cotton stiff and new;

Whimpered ecstasy and grunt,

Sleeping spaniel dreams the hunt;

Taps that still the tuning notes,

Reedy songs in childish throats,

Country boots along the lane,

Wind-blown laughter in the rain.

 

Lift the pipe and softly blow

Music I shall always know.

 

can't read the copy, but it says (as in an epitaph) - The only proof he needed for the existence of God was MUSIC.

 

WHOOOSH!! ANOTHER TEN OR TWENTY YEARS GONE.

Just like that, they go.  And hey, I'm goin' with them; whooooshing my way through my life to that big noisy and fun gig in the sky.
But in the meantime, here's something from the first CD launch, 'way back in 2001 - Toronto's very first non-smoking blues night.  Kaf! kaf! I just couldn't take it any more, you know?
and then the rest of the world caught up.

and just in case people looking at this blog are not making it over to the official "decadance" one, here's the little promo I recently sent out for the ninth CD launch:
And I see that it's just a little empty box on the site.  I'll try facebook. Look for it there.  Technology. it just whoooshed by too.

DO JOIN US ALL FOR THE FUN
HUGH'S ROOM, TORONTO
www.hughsroom.com   for tickets and info