Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 44 Jillian Doty - 8-13-2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r92rYeLm88
Operation 365 presents "The Soulful Songstress," Jillian Doty from Joe and Jen Stevens' wedding on August 13, 2008. Jillian, now a mother of two/wife/roller derby queen in Arizona, is a wonderfully talented singer/songwriter. Here she sings a Gaelic jam to the bride Jen Stevens before busting into one of her own hits. She mentioned that she was a little under the weather but I love her spirit and the way she powers through it. Those skills must come in real handy at the Roller Derby rink. When I was young roller derby was fake, like wrestling. I heard it's real now. That's crazy. I don't know but that would be some pretty violent stuff.
This clip was filmed my deal pal Dylan Avery. These were great days and times. This is the 44th day of Operation 365. I am a big sports fan and #44 is powerful number in sports. Reggie Jackson, Yankee slugger of my childhood, and Hank Aaron, baseball's all-time home run king (until Bonds), both proudly wore 44. So having Jillian here at 44, is a testament to her power as a "hitter." Roller derby girls, look out!
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay (with Paul Ruiz) - Covers - 44 "Monkey In Your Soul" by Steely Dan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfGFepXPUTw
Not much work as a substitute teacher these days, he said both sadly and gladly. Instead, he sits doing what he loves with his friend (talented trumpeter Paul Ruiz), thinking about songs about monkeys. I believe as of today, monkeys have not yet been affected by the animals dropping to mass death everywhere fiasco, that Fox News said was nothing to be concerned about. Notice fair and balanced never mentions honesty or accuracy. Fair to who?
Anyway, there are a lot of great songs about monkeys and here, Paul and I played one and for tomorrow's jam, we've played another. Brass Monkey, that would be a cool one to do too. According to a friend on Facebook, Adam Yauch is cancer-free now. Congratulations Yauch. Now what are we going to do about all these dead birds, fish... and monkeys????
NOTE: I haven't gone on much about youtube's attempts to undermine Operation 365 by suggesting I add demeaning tags to my videos and then laughing at me endlessly as I repeatedly take their suggestions. But this one could not go any longer without something being said. youtube keeps suggesting I add "contralto vocals" to videos I sing on. Well, I had to look up what it meant and here's what I found out. It means "the lowest female singing voice" Listen up youtube, I'm a man. Get it straight. And yes, I'll keep "accepting" your "suggestions" but don't get any funny ideas that this makes us friends. We were friends. I trusted you and you betrayed that trust by calling my Asian friends Asian, by calling me a woman and by telling me to put christianity and fake words like "tenis" into the tags on my videos. So youtube, you're on alert. Grrrrrr....
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay (with Paul Ruiz) - Originals - 44 "Begin Belivin' Today"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGMppI6OOws
"Begin Belivin' Today" is another product of the Summer Songburst of 2010. I quite like this tune. it's real simple as many fine tunes are. It is upbeat, positive and it makes me happy. As does Paul Ruiz, the man playing trumpet beside me. Hail Schweebus and hail Ruiz!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Operation 365... Blog 37
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 43 "Dalai Lama..." with Paul Ruiz on trumpet - 8-31-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU-irItdjR0
The original name for this song was Dalai Lama, Cadillac and Rivers on the Radio. It is supposed to symbolize parts of what you might experience (on the the radio/CD player in part) if you took to the open road. I would like to be touring more and playing more gigs more different places. San Diego is basically a ghost town for music so if you want to do something professionally you simply need to leave town to get it done. It's not that I want to live anywhere else. I just want to work somewhere where I can paid to do what I do.
Anyway, this song was born out of that wanderlust that I was feeling at the start of my Summer Songburst this past August. This was one of the first tunes in that period of inspiration and I like it. I shortened the name to "Dalai Lama...' cause it's shorter.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 43 Destructo Bunny - Ocean Beach Road Show #2 - 3-28-10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5CD3UXF54
The Ocean Beach Road Show is a concept I came up with with Wes Davis to make a show that shows them many different colors and sounds of our community here in Ocean Beach, San Diego. This is the second Ocean Beach Road Show, held on March 28, 2010.
Although there were lots of fine artists that played that night, I was feeling like going with more Destructo Bunny. Like I said last time I posted my friend, The Rabbit. He is a force of nature. His words pack force and power and when he is on he can speak directly to the revolutionary deep within each of us, the purity deep inside us that wants everybody treat everybody else right. The part of us that wants to join together and rise.
I love DB because like me he is an idealist and an optimist and like me, he has in no way shape or form given up yet on the hope that we can make a major positive difference in this world despite all evidence to the contrary. The Bunny freestyles. I've brought friends in from out of town who are big hip-hop fans and they refuse to believe what they see when blasts out rhymes extemporaneously. To me, it would be just as astounding if he memorized it all, but he's wingin' it in the great tradition of American improvisation that goes back decades. Keep preaching DB. I will see you in Merced next week.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 43 "Pecan Pie" by Jeff Tweedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txUAbXHEqD8
I know this tune from I band I was in back in the late 90's called Elin Tea. The band was named after our friend Kirsten's baby daughter. I think she's like a teenager now. Well, this band was a three-piece acoustic group and we had many tunes, like 50 originals and a number of covers including Grand Funk Railroad's "I'm Your Captain, and jams by U2, The Bad Livers, Pavement and this jam, written by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco for his side project Golden Smog.
I would have to say that this tune had a pretty big influence on me although there was no way of knowing that at the time. First, my music, due to many factors, has gone more in this direction over time and secondly, Golden Smog's second CD "Weird Tales," I grew to love lots and lots. "Pecan Pie was on their first CD, "Tales From The Mainstream." So shout outs to my old Elin Tea bandmates and anyone else who likes this song about chow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU-irItdjR0
The original name for this song was Dalai Lama, Cadillac and Rivers on the Radio. It is supposed to symbolize parts of what you might experience (on the the radio/CD player in part) if you took to the open road. I would like to be touring more and playing more gigs more different places. San Diego is basically a ghost town for music so if you want to do something professionally you simply need to leave town to get it done. It's not that I want to live anywhere else. I just want to work somewhere where I can paid to do what I do.
Anyway, this song was born out of that wanderlust that I was feeling at the start of my Summer Songburst this past August. This was one of the first tunes in that period of inspiration and I like it. I shortened the name to "Dalai Lama...' cause it's shorter.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 43 Destructo Bunny - Ocean Beach Road Show #2 - 3-28-10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5CD3UXF54
The Ocean Beach Road Show is a concept I came up with with Wes Davis to make a show that shows them many different colors and sounds of our community here in Ocean Beach, San Diego. This is the second Ocean Beach Road Show, held on March 28, 2010.
Although there were lots of fine artists that played that night, I was feeling like going with more Destructo Bunny. Like I said last time I posted my friend, The Rabbit. He is a force of nature. His words pack force and power and when he is on he can speak directly to the revolutionary deep within each of us, the purity deep inside us that wants everybody treat everybody else right. The part of us that wants to join together and rise.
I love DB because like me he is an idealist and an optimist and like me, he has in no way shape or form given up yet on the hope that we can make a major positive difference in this world despite all evidence to the contrary. The Bunny freestyles. I've brought friends in from out of town who are big hip-hop fans and they refuse to believe what they see when blasts out rhymes extemporaneously. To me, it would be just as astounding if he memorized it all, but he's wingin' it in the great tradition of American improvisation that goes back decades. Keep preaching DB. I will see you in Merced next week.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 43 "Pecan Pie" by Jeff Tweedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txUAbXHEqD8
I know this tune from I band I was in back in the late 90's called Elin Tea. The band was named after our friend Kirsten's baby daughter. I think she's like a teenager now. Well, this band was a three-piece acoustic group and we had many tunes, like 50 originals and a number of covers including Grand Funk Railroad's "I'm Your Captain, and jams by U2, The Bad Livers, Pavement and this jam, written by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco for his side project Golden Smog.
I would have to say that this tune had a pretty big influence on me although there was no way of knowing that at the time. First, my music, due to many factors, has gone more in this direction over time and secondly, Golden Smog's second CD "Weird Tales," I grew to love lots and lots. "Pecan Pie was on their first CD, "Tales From The Mainstream." So shout outs to my old Elin Tea bandmates and anyone else who likes this song about chow.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Operation 365... Blog 36
Today is my 42nd day of doing Operation 365and yesterday 42 was the mega number in the mega millions. Now if anything were by chance to be random, that right there might be a solid candidate
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 42 "Sailor" by Jason Burleson w/Paul Ruiz - 9-28-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQEPZDlwA8w
This clip marks Operation 365 moving on from "Old Friends, New Faces" and welcoming back a couple familiar faces to this program. Two of my dearest friends Jason Burleson and Paul Ruiz (trumpet) rock out here on one of my favorite Burleson tunes, "Sailor." Call it double entendre, snarky, sexy or symbolic, "Sailor" tells a story you can listen to again and again. This "Sailor" was recorded at my Open Mic on September 28, 2010.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 42 "Hit The Road" with Paul Ruiz on trumpet and Adrianna Martin-Morningstar on vocals, co-written with Leanne Pearl and Adrianna Martin-Morningstar - 8-31-10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS_0WcVNYlI
This song is a little bit of a long story I don't feel like explaining right now, but never fear I explain it at the beginning of the clip. Whew. But to make a long story short, I presented Leanne Pearl and Adrianna Martin-Morningstar with the 20-minute Songwriting Challenge days before this recording. They accepted and 20 minutes later we had written, performed and recorded this pretty darn neat tune. So here is it's debut, recorded live at my Open Mic on 8-31-2010. Enjoy!
In retrospect, that was actually a pretty short story.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 42 "I've Been Working On The Railroad"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noic4ET6XNg
I had dirty tunes in the archives the last two days. I've been adding in more clips from my most recent Open Mic so to stay with the motif of having new motifs I will use the Covers category to provide another number of a traditional nature. This one is one I've always love, "I've Been Working On The Railroad," and while I've never worked on a railroad per se, I have fantasized about being one of those arch-villains from old movies who ties damsels in distress to the tracks and I have done other types of work on many occasions. In a similar vein, although I've never met a woman named Dinah, I have met women with a wide variety of other monikers. Thank you for reading.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 42 "Sailor" by Jason Burleson w/Paul Ruiz - 9-28-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQEPZDlwA8w
This clip marks Operation 365 moving on from "Old Friends, New Faces" and welcoming back a couple familiar faces to this program. Two of my dearest friends Jason Burleson and Paul Ruiz (trumpet) rock out here on one of my favorite Burleson tunes, "Sailor." Call it double entendre, snarky, sexy or symbolic, "Sailor" tells a story you can listen to again and again. This "Sailor" was recorded at my Open Mic on September 28, 2010.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 42 "Hit The Road" with Paul Ruiz on trumpet and Adrianna Martin-Morningstar on vocals, co-written with Leanne Pearl and Adrianna Martin-Morningstar - 8-31-10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS_0WcVNYlI
This song is a little bit of a long story I don't feel like explaining right now, but never fear I explain it at the beginning of the clip. Whew. But to make a long story short, I presented Leanne Pearl and Adrianna Martin-Morningstar with the 20-minute Songwriting Challenge days before this recording. They accepted and 20 minutes later we had written, performed and recorded this pretty darn neat tune. So here is it's debut, recorded live at my Open Mic on 8-31-2010. Enjoy!
In retrospect, that was actually a pretty short story.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 42 "I've Been Working On The Railroad"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noic4ET6XNg
I had dirty tunes in the archives the last two days. I've been adding in more clips from my most recent Open Mic so to stay with the motif of having new motifs I will use the Covers category to provide another number of a traditional nature. This one is one I've always love, "I've Been Working On The Railroad," and while I've never worked on a railroad per se, I have fantasized about being one of those arch-villains from old movies who ties damsels in distress to the tracks and I have done other types of work on many occasions. In a similar vein, although I've never met a woman named Dinah, I have met women with a wide variety of other monikers. Thank you for reading.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Operation 365... Blog 35
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 41 "I Know You Rider" - Traditional
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS4exA0d8L0
Was hanging out with my buddies Wes Davis and Blowski today rocking out to Grateful Dead, something we don't so all too often, but I was digging it. In fact I think a little San Francisco love is in the air today. I am planning a tour with Wes right now called The California Songwriter's Showcase. This will be the third time I'm doing that tour and today we just booked a radio appearance on KPOO 89.5 in San Francisco for April 8th at 7PM. FUN! Now we just need a few more gigs to fill it in.
"I Know You Rider" is a traditional tune but it was a staple of the Dead's and I know it through them. Having studied the hippie era in San Francisco some as a history student, I dig this bonus verse that I found on the chords online.
Here's one for the old folks:
I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log
I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log
Then stay here in 'Frisco, be treated like a dog
Very interesting. It's a really good long story. In fact I wrote it. 180 pages. It sits in a file on my desktop. SDSU was not down so I wrote another thesis instead. Two for the price of four and I'm the one who's paying. It's all good. I'm glad I know what I know. Anybody wanna book on media's handling of the Haight-Ashbury hippies in 1967... Cause if you do, I'll cut you a great deal.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 41 "Remember That Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8eWlGn8vA
My dear sweet friend Scott Baslaw is very funny. He lives in New York City so he complains a lot. Who wouldn't. It's winter and freezing. Anyway, He and I have been in a group called The Demarests for a very long time. We have three releases and have been writing songs together for many years, long before I started playing guitar. Today, he shoots me an email saying... "what I am chopped liver? now you only play Billy Joel covers? (paraphrased)"
The only of our tunes I have put up so far is Fricassee Junction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiA0vEfR-W8
I have been trying to get him on Skype with the idea that we can record some jams from our collection together online, but for some insane reason, he fears Skype. So if you know Scott, tell him Skype is safe and he should get on it so we can put more songs up here together and you can see his pretty face.
In the meantime, I offer "Remember That Day" as an offering of my good intentions in this endeavor. "Remember That Day" is the first song I ever wrote, or I should say co-wrote with Scotty. Years later I learned the guitar part for this song of puppy love from long ago that Scotty would play and I would sing way back in the day.
There was also a very memorable live performance that we did on someone's steps in the bottoms of Arcata years later. Scotty and I have had many good times over the years. Maybe that Demarests tour will happen yet. We shall see.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 41 "Mary Anne" by Carlos Soriano - 9-28-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xKKSaWV3E
This is my buddy Carlos Soriano. Fer years he was the cover-playing, San Diego Casanova featured at many of my Open Mics. In recent months he's come into his own, rejecting the allure of a corporate paycheck in favor of writing original tunes and taking the world down at Texas Hold 'Em. I am very heartened by Senor Soriano's progress as an artist and his ability to keep it "very real" in his lyrics.
I'd love to say I can't relate to his frustration expressed in the lyrics of "Mary Anne," but I think I'll have to accept taking solace in that I'm nowhere near any Mary-Anns right now. God bless you Carlos Soriano and MAY GOD BLESS OCEAN BEACH!!!!... and everywhere else too please, of course...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS4exA0d8L0
Was hanging out with my buddies Wes Davis and Blowski today rocking out to Grateful Dead, something we don't so all too often, but I was digging it. In fact I think a little San Francisco love is in the air today. I am planning a tour with Wes right now called The California Songwriter's Showcase. This will be the third time I'm doing that tour and today we just booked a radio appearance on KPOO 89.5 in San Francisco for April 8th at 7PM. FUN! Now we just need a few more gigs to fill it in.
"I Know You Rider" is a traditional tune but it was a staple of the Dead's and I know it through them. Having studied the hippie era in San Francisco some as a history student, I dig this bonus verse that I found on the chords online.
Here's one for the old folks:
I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log
I'd rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log
Then stay here in 'Frisco, be treated like a dog
Very interesting. It's a really good long story. In fact I wrote it. 180 pages. It sits in a file on my desktop. SDSU was not down so I wrote another thesis instead. Two for the price of four and I'm the one who's paying. It's all good. I'm glad I know what I know. Anybody wanna book on media's handling of the Haight-Ashbury hippies in 1967... Cause if you do, I'll cut you a great deal.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 41 "Remember That Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8eWlGn8vA
My dear sweet friend Scott Baslaw is very funny. He lives in New York City so he complains a lot. Who wouldn't. It's winter and freezing. Anyway, He and I have been in a group called The Demarests for a very long time. We have three releases and have been writing songs together for many years, long before I started playing guitar. Today, he shoots me an email saying... "what I am chopped liver? now you only play Billy Joel covers? (paraphrased)"
The only of our tunes I have put up so far is Fricassee Junction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiA0vEfR-W8
I have been trying to get him on Skype with the idea that we can record some jams from our collection together online, but for some insane reason, he fears Skype. So if you know Scott, tell him Skype is safe and he should get on it so we can put more songs up here together and you can see his pretty face.
In the meantime, I offer "Remember That Day" as an offering of my good intentions in this endeavor. "Remember That Day" is the first song I ever wrote, or I should say co-wrote with Scotty. Years later I learned the guitar part for this song of puppy love from long ago that Scotty would play and I would sing way back in the day.
There was also a very memorable live performance that we did on someone's steps in the bottoms of Arcata years later. Scotty and I have had many good times over the years. Maybe that Demarests tour will happen yet. We shall see.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 41 "Mary Anne" by Carlos Soriano - 9-28-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3xKKSaWV3E
This is my buddy Carlos Soriano. Fer years he was the cover-playing, San Diego Casanova featured at many of my Open Mics. In recent months he's come into his own, rejecting the allure of a corporate paycheck in favor of writing original tunes and taking the world down at Texas Hold 'Em. I am very heartened by Senor Soriano's progress as an artist and his ability to keep it "very real" in his lyrics.
I'd love to say I can't relate to his frustration expressed in the lyrics of "Mary Anne," but I think I'll have to accept taking solace in that I'm nowhere near any Mary-Anns right now. God bless you Carlos Soriano and MAY GOD BLESS OCEAN BEACH!!!!... and everywhere else too please, of course...
Monday, January 3, 2011
Operation 365... Blog 34
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 40 "Honesty" by Billy Joel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7YmR_UiqH0
I'll be honest with ya. I didn't know I'd be doing all these Billy Joel tunes either. When you grow up when I did, in New Jersey, it just happens. It's all right. Billy Joel is cool. Well, mostly, anyway... Somewhat. Just playing, Billy. You rock. Especially seventies and early eighties you.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 40 Beer Money - 1-26-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCeF-PsyXPk
Two folks and a baby. I left the comedy on at the beginning of the clip. Eventually, they get to their fine song "Another Song About The Rain". Joe and Jen Stevens, aka Beer Money, appear here on stage at my Open Mic with their super baby Morgan Riley Stevens. Enjoy family fun at the start of 2010 and have yourself a great 2011.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 40 "Every Day's Time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QLcktADR7E
Another newish number and one of my favorites. I asked my girlfriend Leanne if she wanted to write a song with me one night. She was hesitant, perhaps a little shy, so I busted out this one real quick (borderline lickety-split) while I uploaded 365 stuff, but never one to disappoint, she helped me pen the sequel to this jam, a number known as "Part Two."
This tune is called "Every Day's Time" and it's about how every day is the time to take care of one's business and do what's important to you in life. It is also about how important the love from our friends is and how if you forget that than you're acting like a big dummy. You're not a big dummy, so stop it. Come on. You know better than that. Seriously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7YmR_UiqH0
I'll be honest with ya. I didn't know I'd be doing all these Billy Joel tunes either. When you grow up when I did, in New Jersey, it just happens. It's all right. Billy Joel is cool. Well, mostly, anyway... Somewhat. Just playing, Billy. You rock. Especially seventies and early eighties you.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 40 Beer Money - 1-26-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCeF-PsyXPk
Two folks and a baby. I left the comedy on at the beginning of the clip. Eventually, they get to their fine song "Another Song About The Rain". Joe and Jen Stevens, aka Beer Money, appear here on stage at my Open Mic with their super baby Morgan Riley Stevens. Enjoy family fun at the start of 2010 and have yourself a great 2011.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 40 "Every Day's Time"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QLcktADR7E
Another newish number and one of my favorites. I asked my girlfriend Leanne if she wanted to write a song with me one night. She was hesitant, perhaps a little shy, so I busted out this one real quick (borderline lickety-split) while I uploaded 365 stuff, but never one to disappoint, she helped me pen the sequel to this jam, a number known as "Part Two."
This tune is called "Every Day's Time" and it's about how every day is the time to take care of one's business and do what's important to you in life. It is also about how important the love from our friends is and how if you forget that than you're acting like a big dummy. You're not a big dummy, so stop it. Come on. You know better than that. Seriously.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Operation 365... Blog 33
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 39 "It's Good To Be King" by Tom Petty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wal56R3bkYo
I've always liked this tune. It is off one of my all-time favorite albums Tom Petty's "Wildfowers." I played this tune live in concert once. It was an acoustic version and I believe it was the last time I played in San Francisco. I was wearing this funny plastic crown at the time and I'm pretty sure the San Franciscans didn't get it. Maybe it's the weather but for a chill place, people tend to be wound a little tightly in that place. Just one man's opinion. Well San Francisco, in case you didn't know it then, I was only kidding, but I do like this song a lot and that is no joke.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 39 "Down To My Last Cigarette" by Robin Lee with Jack Davidson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJ21bi3HZ4
Robin Lee, I love. I don't know where she is right now. She took off awhile back, but I love her very much. She taught me a lot and was always an appreciative, supportive and wise friend. Her birthday is this week and it's been about a year since I've seen her so she is on my mind. Love you Robin.
Here she is with Jack Davidson on guitar live from my Open Mic on December 29, 2009. This was during a brief period where the venue I was working at lost its right to have microphones for some cockamamie reason. My friends and I persevered though and the show went on more of less without a hitch, albeit at a much quieter level. So here they are, just the sweet sounds of their guitars and Robin's inimitable voice. This is her jam "Down To My Last Cigarette." Keep your head up Robin, wherever you are. You are loved.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 39 "Good Luck, All In"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFkY8cbcaYU
This is a new song I wrote the other night inspired in part by a little poker game my friends and I played. That is not all it's inspired by but I don't wish to elaborate further at this time. Enjoy my new number and Happy New Year!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wal56R3bkYo
I've always liked this tune. It is off one of my all-time favorite albums Tom Petty's "Wildfowers." I played this tune live in concert once. It was an acoustic version and I believe it was the last time I played in San Francisco. I was wearing this funny plastic crown at the time and I'm pretty sure the San Franciscans didn't get it. Maybe it's the weather but for a chill place, people tend to be wound a little tightly in that place. Just one man's opinion. Well San Francisco, in case you didn't know it then, I was only kidding, but I do like this song a lot and that is no joke.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 39 "Down To My Last Cigarette" by Robin Lee with Jack Davidson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJ21bi3HZ4
Robin Lee, I love. I don't know where she is right now. She took off awhile back, but I love her very much. She taught me a lot and was always an appreciative, supportive and wise friend. Her birthday is this week and it's been about a year since I've seen her so she is on my mind. Love you Robin.
Here she is with Jack Davidson on guitar live from my Open Mic on December 29, 2009. This was during a brief period where the venue I was working at lost its right to have microphones for some cockamamie reason. My friends and I persevered though and the show went on more of less without a hitch, albeit at a much quieter level. So here they are, just the sweet sounds of their guitars and Robin's inimitable voice. This is her jam "Down To My Last Cigarette." Keep your head up Robin, wherever you are. You are loved.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 39 "Good Luck, All In"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFkY8cbcaYU
This is a new song I wrote the other night inspired in part by a little poker game my friends and I played. That is not all it's inspired by but I don't wish to elaborate further at this time. Enjoy my new number and Happy New Year!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Operation 365... Blog 32
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 38 JAMP Jack Davidson - guitar, Paul Ruiz - trumpet, Amadou Fall - kora, Misha Borisovsky - violin - 2-12-10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PdqFGcB_04
One-time performance of four great musicians. Happy New Year!
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 38 "April"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JXwlm0-qSY
To me "April" represents two things. The start of something fresh and new and and the fact that memories hold whatever significance you attach to them. People cling to the Nee Year as a change to get a clean slate and make changes, do some things different in their lives. This song means you can do that any day. Things only mean what you say they mean, only bear what attachments of significance you allow them to.
Nature bursts fresh every year in Spring, another word with many meanings. We can make our own Spring any time we choose. It's just that many more do this with New Year's Resolutions than any other time of the year. Here's wishing everyone a year, better yet an existence, full of as many fresh starts and new beginnings as it takes to get you to be happy and feeling blessed to be alive all the time. That's what you deserve.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 38 "New Year's Day" by U2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1o3ltpzY0
I am posting this on January 1, 2011, 1/1/11. The reason why is I. Maybe I shoudl have done their tune "One" instead. Happy New Year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PdqFGcB_04
One-time performance of four great musicians. Happy New Year!
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 38 "April"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JXwlm0-qSY
To me "April" represents two things. The start of something fresh and new and and the fact that memories hold whatever significance you attach to them. People cling to the Nee Year as a change to get a clean slate and make changes, do some things different in their lives. This song means you can do that any day. Things only mean what you say they mean, only bear what attachments of significance you allow them to.
Nature bursts fresh every year in Spring, another word with many meanings. We can make our own Spring any time we choose. It's just that many more do this with New Year's Resolutions than any other time of the year. Here's wishing everyone a year, better yet an existence, full of as many fresh starts and new beginnings as it takes to get you to be happy and feeling blessed to be alive all the time. That's what you deserve.
Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 38 "New Year's Day" by U2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc1o3ltpzY0
I am posting this on January 1, 2011, 1/1/11. The reason why is I. Maybe I shoudl have done their tune "One" instead. Happy New Year
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