HIP video promotion looks good

Spent the day interviewing and talking with potential promotion companies for the Elisa Girlando CD. I think I'm liking HIP video promotion and the musebox. Will be meeting with them in the future to begin a marketing plan to work in conjunction with the SONY RED team.

Spent the evening rehearsing for Elisa's upcoming NYC debut. We are awaiting the date but it should be happening in June. The band is cooking and Elisa sounds terrific so don't miss that show!

Tiger Bill just sent me a slew of video snippets from the Boodles gig and they look great Ill try to get them onto the blog soon.

peace,

dave.hitplay

Elisa Girlando playing Boodles Opera House Chester,NY

We had a great weekend in the studio. Completed the drum tracks for 7 songs on the Jon George project. The songs are great catchy tunes and I cant wait until you get to hear some of it. Perhaps when they get further along Wayne George and Phil Garland will let me put a tune or two on-line???

We also recorded a new track for Elisa Girlando, and man is it good. We all felt very strong on this tune as a possible single for the new CD so much so we had to get in and record it immediately. I am here to tell you it will be a monster- remember you heard it hear first.

If you cant wait to hear the new tune "scheming", click over to E-Girls reverb nation page and check out "songbird". The song is rising up through the blues charts before the release and is now as of today number 20 on the reverb nation charts. Wow number twenty before we release it on SONY/RED music. Do you hear a buzz?? I do.

We are ready to start playing live and the first show will be at boodles opera house in Chester, NY. If you want to see a great artist backed by an awesome band them come to this show you will love it!

peace,

dave.hitplay

A Drummin Kinda Weekend

Hey there hitplay fans. This is gonna be a fun weekend for our hero (that's me). I get to go to the studio and play drums all weekend long. Boy this hitplay lifestyle is really tough on a boy!

First up is a new song for ELisa Girlando. The hitplay studios and E-Girl teamed up with talented songwriters Max Huber and Jav (his central American sidekick) to write an awesome song.Max, Elisa, and Jav are a great songwritting team and we cant wait for more. We at hitplay feel so strong about the song that we want it on the finished CD. SOOOOOOO its back t the studio I go. When you get that special feeling with a song you gotta run with it.

Next up is a great project and a possible future release at hitplay. The Jon George project. This is a tremendous project and I'm honored that Wayne George asked me to be a part of it. Once this gets a little further along I'll have more to say about it.

Well I need my beauty rest cause I'll be drumming all weekend long.

peace,

dave.hitplay

my tiger bill odyssey

I love to see great players hell you might just learn something so when I heard world famous drummer tiger bill was playing in PA this weekend well I just had to go. Well it didn't turn out exactly as I planned.

First the club was like 65-70 miles from my house and I was driving back roads out of the deliverance movie I could hear the banjos in the distance. Finally we arrive and after three songs we had to leave. It appears that the law in PA doesn't allow everyone into restaurant/clubs if they have smoking so we had to leave.

Three lousy songs no world famous tiger bill drum solos no thinking man I have to pick up a different instrument cause this guy is "sick", nothing just more back roads and highway.

Now I guess I was in a hurry to get home cause I got pulled over going a little over the speed limit. Now we at hitplay are law abiding folk but sometimes these speed limits seem like they were for cars built in the 1950's not today. At any rate I beat the rap because of my (I'm going to give you a trade secret here, one that keeps me out of tickets for 20 years) monopoly get out of jail free card the police love them.

Any way we have a lot of music to bring you and it really starts next week so I thought I'd just ramble a bit tonight. If you get a chance check out tiger bill he is the last of that buddy rich joe morello type monster drummer left.

peace 

dave.hitplay