ok...just back from a few days and 7 shows in eureka springs, arkansas...had a blast

new record is almost done. a rough mix of 'lost in austin' was played on "mick martin's blues party" kxjz/npr  radio in sacramento. this show has been on the air for over 17 years. mick is a great bluescologist - an international treasure. now that his radio show is syndicated and streamed it's estimated he reaches from 2 million to 20 million folks every sat from noon to 5pm. xm/sirius have been playing about 6 trx daily from [the jimi project] - this recording has taken on a life of it's own - i'm grateful.

namm show this week in anaheim, california. over 6K vendors and only 2K registered vendors showed up. the musick business in retail has been hit hard/hard. 

have some new ideas about how to construct reality - putting the mind at the apex of creation proactively. the study of kabbalah has certainly helped. the geopolitical scene is just as immature now as it was when i was a boy. individually, we all make reality - consensual aggreements notwithstanding there is some kind of intel that makes everything work. me? i feel blessed.

autin is bitter cold

just back from rolling stone magazines 40th anniversay photo gallery show at the andrew davis gallerey featuring baron wolman's work - he shot 21 of the first rs covers. amazing weekend. played a concert at the santa fe college of music, then to the gallery where it was sro and i performed a solo acoustic show of some tunes from[the jimi project] and then to the after party finishing up the eve after the wailers...whew! what an incredible day. people from all over the world flew in to see the show ...many of baron's friends from the past. i saw a few long standing friends and family too.

santa fe has that magic - old world/new world charm - it's a fabulosa city. cosmopolitan and still with it's roots in the conquistadors who came from europa.

back to austin
and by the way go to


aimestreet.com


Cruel Inventions...the whole album is just $2.42 - a promotional thing - aha!

meanwhile, on the day after...

fyi - finishing my latest record. finishing up a final drum track on monday. what a blast this has been and a long one too. off to lost oasis here in austin to record on monday...adding cellos on "blessing in disguise" then a quick sketch mix of everything to put it all in perspective - THEN-then to springfield, mass to mix with warren amerman.

austin - the press says it's "the live music capitol of the world"...ok - lot's of musicians here but a quote from jim dickinson, a well known and respected music producer when asked by austin statesman newspaper...
What's austin really about?" - his response..."professional amateurs" - mmm...


what about NY, LA, Nashville, Paris, Barcelona, Beijing, London, Sydney, Hamburg, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo etc etc etc? - what about their status as music capitol centers?

austin - great people, great food - but, one can work at a low/no pay bar for so long and then the inevitable - "let's tuck this dream away for another rainy day.." -


everything's on hold with mptu. made the record - (think we better wait until tomorrow!)

new band together with jj from gateway church on bass and bryan austin on drums...the young turks!

anyway, got new songs, new gigs - looking to tour the us and euro markets - it's beautiful thang
let's be real and good to each other
peace
phil

got a great nod from gustavbertha.com...what a great podcast site. he's in zurich and we met thru a site called artistlaunch.com. there's evidently a "live" track from a show recorded several years ago in detroit that somehow rox everybody's world.
pollen count is so hi down here...made me kinda ill. how often i take my health for granted. symptons of cedar flu are like flu - very allegry kind. tough gettin over it.
had a few friends from my past relocate into my present. great to see and hear from them all.
got a new record that i'm almost done with...it's been several years in the making. i put a track up for sale on itunes called "good to be back" - interesting how many downloads on this one song have come forward. anyway...that's all my news for the moment.
my 1st "Phil Brown" show is at Saxon Pub on lamar in austin this next tues eve at 8pm jan 15th....mark andes and pat mastelotto join me.
until then....be good....it's the only way to fly!
pb

the game of life....ahhh....so sweet and bitter at the same time!
tonight 29th of Dec i perform with 2 members of MPTU...mark andes and pat mastelotto at momo's on 6th st with
will taylor and strgs attchd...this ought a be fun
tonight i play my heart out...bringing an old vintage 8x10 marshall cabinet with a marshall top and plug strait in - no extras people.
tomorrow nite the 30th Dec is antones with the entire MPTU band
hey..we got CD's for sale! waterloo records here in austin took on 25...(malford's the BIG star here.)
sold as few jimi projects too
austin's a funny place...unlike any other place in the world-full of music and so little of it ventures beyond texas....great talent here - to be continued...

it's june baby!
95 de-freakin-greez! and summer has barely started...so y'all c'mon down here,.
here's the latest...you can catch pat and mark and malfee at cedar st....on 4th street on fridays this month from 6 til 8...the happy hour.
tons of stuff goin on...austin is such a vibrant community. another update is on thursdays in july we start a residency at saxon pub on lamar....8pm til 10pm. the word has gotten out thanks to david cotton booking us there.
it's interesting how malfee and i and the boys have put this new thing together. it's a lot of challenge - the emotional intent is high along with the big wide ope in fun.
just added eminence spks to my endorsement list...thank you chris rose and beverly howell! ernie ball strings are the best...thank you brian ball.
for all you tonbe freaks out there go to tonequestreport.com and subscribe. david wilson IS the mission - insightful interviews.
thanks to charlie boswell at AMD. Nuendo rules
thank you Steinberg's Greg Ondo (and Yamaha)
my best to frank filipetti - (google this you guys!) we will have a big suprise for everybody soundscape-wise soon
barbara at KGSR - you blow my mind...and you are so gracious
special thanks to marshall amplifiers for the endorsement - they just sent me this "vintage/modern" head...100 watts of unbelievable - yea...cosmo watts...the best!
and of course
(i'm saving the best for last...)
my management/partner - brigitte handler....you kick ass for all of the right reasons.
i am lucky to have some one so brilliant and "with it" way out of the box
thank you angie and nuno at nuno's
come see us
and by the way tommy bolin's ex keyboardist tommy stephenson came down for a visit...what a remarkable player. got a track list 16 pages long. so he may be joing malfee, pat, mark and in this lifetime.
life is good....dream big and then let go of the wheel
it's all good
bb - i love you
;-)

I have a weekly soiree at Nuno's - a club on 6th street here in Austin every Wed eve at 10:30 til? with Malford Milligan - Pat Mastelotto and Mark Andes - of course we tear it up....doing tunes from [the jimi project], Cruel Inventions, Storyville, King Crimson and Spirit...
Last week Natalie Zoe came doe=wn to sing with us Charlie Boswell, Ray MacCarty, Bob Feldman and Allan Hanes sat in with us on guitar - it was wild! and a packed venue too!
The actor Jeff Fahey - you'll remember him from "The Lawnmower Man" was there along with the producers of "Grind House" - quite an evening.
Big fun to stretch reality....manipulate space - do the tango-fandango - hey - this IS Austin...."live" musical capital of the universe! Everything is the blues & swingola and guitar gunslinger/singer songwriter conscious "thing" here. The most original city in the world....people are soulful/unique....warm and open. Sleepy western town with the big idea - it's got no comparison to any other place on earth.
Yesterday Mick Martin (Mick Martin's Blues Party KXJZ NPR station from Northern California) played a tune off [the jimi project] that was remixed by Frank Filipetti in Nuendo (puts pro tools to shame) and another tune called "It's Too Hot" by Natalie Zoe/Phil Brown - Natalie singing - imagine a female bluesy Roger Daltry with a Robert Palmer rhythm section pilin' the groove UP on high...got some email about the sensational response to both....thank you Mick!
So, it's Sunday i'm listening to Miles Davis and stretching my head. My manager is off to Paris for personal and biz stuff this next week - (have a good flight Brigitte!)
ok- I'm gonna be writing more on this blog thang
My mind set today is....grateful...great to be alive and playing music.
See y'all Wednesday - until then
Be good!

Back from the NAMM Show in LA. What a surpise seeing old friends and
meeting new ones. Lorenzo Feliciati flew over from Rome, Italy - we met
thru a bass guitar site out of Germany last year and finally hooked up,
He suggested that Pat Mastelotto (Mr Mr and King Crimson's drummer now
living in Austin) and I come tour - so, about 3 weeks of shows are
being booked for Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania and then Rome,
Italy - ahh, the Coloseium!
Met with Allan Holdsworth - said he dug [the jimi project]
and met Leslie West - he went ballistic over the jimi thing too!
We traded email and in general laughed & screamed at each other.

Tony Franklin from Fender, thanks for the endorsement - we played
together years ago
Jim Marshall was there too albeit he was in a wheel  chair but still
rockin'! I gave him both my discs - he said he wasn't available for the
day to day endorsement thing....I told him that the discs were not
given to him for that reason. I thanked him for giving me such
incredible tools to use as a artiste. He was cool....

Did a show here in Austin featuring [the jimi project] in its entirety
with two additional Jimi tunes with Will Taylor's "Strings Attached - 2
shows and Buddy Miles showed up and....
On another subject - when this DVD from The Jimi project Strings
Attached thing is mixed, I can't WAIT for you to see the venerable
Buddy Miles hisownself gittin' up on the stage & basically ANNOINTING
Phil Brown's interpretations of Jimi.

Quite an evening. Chris Butler and his director with 5 camera crew
filmed the extravaganza in "high def" - Gregg Stegall and Kathryn Fineg
from 1st Stage Audio did the "live" mixing from the stage while Chet
Hines recorded  the live show to hard disc. Yes - there's gonna be a
DVD/CD release. KUT's John Ailley and staff recorded a 40 minute "live"
broadcast - a bit of interview stuff for radio. KLBJ's Jeff Caroll,
KGSR and thnaks to Duggan Flanikan for all their
"buh-ba-ba-buhm-ba-bah! Hawaii5-0' kicked some serious Tex-ass - Austin
IS a magical place.

Here are some cool places to visit

http://www.puremusic.com/72phil.html

http://www.kut.org/items/show/6934

http://www.austin.com/content/view/425/1/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6527803

I do this gig at Woody's every Thursday from 7PM to 9PM with Natalie
Zoe and friends. More and more folks are stoppin by and kickin it with
us. C'mon by and see us.
Everybody....be good
Phil

 

We played three dates -- Sacramento's infamous Torch Club, Armando's in Martinez (the drummer's hometown - nothing like seeing old friends from high school and earlier)...then onto Reno, Nevada for an outdoor venue concert at Wingfield Park sponsored by KTHX "The X"100.1 FM.  The trip was a special thing for all of us.  We drove thru some of the most beautiful countryside in the whole USA...believe me - "we got it all here in the states..."

 

The Sonora Blues Festival was quite an event Aug 12th... The boys and I performed as the closing act on the Sierra Stage.  We made quite a few new friends on this trip...special thanks to Mick Martin - blues-cologist DJ of NPR's KXJZ.  So many great bands - 6 to 7,000 screaming blues fans - it was hot, hot, hot but so much fun.  Great people, great food and the vibe was just so wide open for everyone to enjoy themselves.  The Sonora staff was exceptional with us...Richard Burleigh you are a gas!

 

Last weekend we opened the Pinedale Blues Festival in Pinedale, Wycoming.  Great people, fantastic venue - in the rodeo amphitheater, fabulous sound system and staff.  Blues Traveler, Koko Taylor and Delbert McClinton headlined - we knocked a few tunes back from [the jimi project] and Cruel Inventions.  Traditional blues is such a great language - it's been said that the blues is a story about good people who feel bad - well, everybody at this festival was up in arms with glee.  After the last set by the headliners, Blues Traveler, the boys and I were invited to a local watering hole to guest on a 20-minute set for the die-hards who wanted more music.  A few of the other acts joined in for a hellatious jam session which lasted until 3 in the AM.  Whoa...Everybody made the paint peel back a few inches.  Pinedale only has about 1800 local residents and this town had over 8,000 people so you can imagine what the club looked like.  Want to thank Jasco guitarist of the Shamman's and Carl Gustav, the promoter for the festival, for inviting us to play.  Dan Abernathy - you are the best.  Also, big kudos to Brigitte Handler and Associates, my great management team, for helping to organize this whole deal.  If you ever get an opportunity to go to a festival...go for it.  It's the real thing!  See ya all soon...