Time sure does have a way of cruising by during the summer,…and here we are staring September in the face once again. I’d like to tell you about some shows I have coming up as well as send a "shout out" to all my new email list buddies from San Diego. Thanks for making my band feel welcomed to your town when we opened for Alan Parsons on August 7th. I hope to get down to SD again soon!

I'd also like to share a cool new video with ya.

I want to help spread the word about some musical products that I used for my gigs with Alan Parsons as well as have a video answer to the age old question,….”what kind of gear do you use?”  A note to the hard core gear heads…my main guitar for the last 10 years has been a Gibson Les Paul with Seymour Duncan pickups (whose pickups I’ve been using in all my guitars for close to 20 years).

This is a short promo video shot by John Montagna who plays bass in the Alan Parsons Live Project. John and I met attending the Berklee College of Music back in the early 90s. Not only do we share a love of music but the same birthday (4/18) if you can believe that,…although I am a year older than him. :)

Check it out! AG GEAR PROMO VIDEO

You can find out more about this very talented friend of mine on his website at:

www.johnmontagna.com

I’ve been continuing to add more videos to my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/agbluesband including some really cool audience shot footage from the shows in Reno with the APLP. Here’s the outro solo to Prime Time!

Allrighty,….here’s some gigs for ya!

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

THE WATERMARK  

This is a great venue in downtown Ventura and should be a fun afternoon of blues and classic rock.

598 East Main Street,
Ventura CA

Alastair Greene Band 1-4pm
Jim Rankin on Bass and Pete Sharpe on Drums

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

COLD SPRING TAVERN

1:30pm

Stagecoach Rd
Santa Barbara CA

Price: Free

Alastair and Chris Chalk acoustic blues and classic rock till 4:30pm

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

THE BREWHOUSE

9pm-11pm

Alastair acoustic with Chris Chalk

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

PARADISE STORE

4pm

1 Paradise Rd
Santa Barbara CA

Price: free

AG Blues Band 4-7pm
AG- Guitars & Vox
Tom Lackner- Drums
Andrew Fleischmann- Bass

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Whiskey Richards

4pm

Price: Free

Line-Up TBA

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

COLD SPRING TAVERN

4:30pm

Stagecoach Rd
Santa Barbara CA

Price: Free

AG Blues Band plays till 7:30pm
AG- Guitars & Vox
Tom Lackner- Drums
Andrew Fleischmann- Bass

Later in September I will be joining forces with SoCal Bluesrock diva Shari Puorto for a trip up to the bay area for some shows. If you know anyone in the San Francisco and San Jose area let ‘em know we’re coming up to lay it down!!!

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

BISCUITS AND BLUES

8pm

401 Mason St. @ Geary St.
San Francisco CA

Price: $15

Shari Puorto and Alastair Greene co-headlining NorCal Tour

Friday, September 25th, 2009

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

6pm

91 S. Autumn Street
San Jose CA

Price: tba

Shari Puorto and Alastair Greene co-headlining NorCal Tour

I will also be teaching guitar at the Rock Shop Academy (aka Mike's Drum Shop) in Santa Barbara on Wednesday afternoons. If you'd like more info shoot me an email.

That’s it for now. Feel free to come by my website and listen to some tunes, watch some videos, check out some pictures, and visit some cool links. If you haven’t picked up a copy of my new blues CD WALKING IN CIRCLES you can order signed copies through my website.

or if you prefer you can hit up CD Baby as well as iTunes.  

Thanks for your support,….hope to see ya out there.

-AG