Marc Bosserman

Wow! A lot Going On

There’s just too much to say here. I’ve  been to Sacramento and Mountian View and had a blast doing very successful fund raising and events!

And came back the same weekend and played two gigs on Valentine’s Day. Crazy!

I’ve had a blast playing at Vitello’s, The Parkway Grill, The Varnish, The Left Coast,  my Cool Church Gig and today…the Saddle Peak Lodge.

I’ve produced music for Tracey and Solomon and worked more with Marconi in the studio.

I’ve met amazing people. Evan, Billy, Kate, etc… : )

Life is hot and fast and full. : )

Gigs Gigs and More Gigs

Cool! Did the world all of a sudden start liking music more? Maybe I’m getting better. Maybe  both?

I have been working really steady at, of course, The Varnish Tues and The Parkway Grill on Monday. The Varnish is basically a transportation to a speak easy of the 20s. You have to know it’s there to find it. Unless the cocktail glass picture just grabs your interest.

The Parkway is just amazing-dining, atmosphere- very top notch.

The Left Coast has also been awesome. A few weeks ago we had a welcome party for Riita Valta and last week had a blast with a girls night out for some local gals in Glendale. I love the Left Coast because

1) the owners ( Tom and Rochelle) are some on the best people I know.

2) the regulars are awesome

3) it’s got an amazing vibe

4) the PA is very excellent

5) I get to sing my butt off

6) there is art all over the place, it’s beautiful.

7) my wife can often come and hang out and likes to get her buds from work there.

three other amazing things! : )

The trio has now auditioned successfully for the Steeple Peak Lodge. OK, this place is AMAZING we’re going to be playing there on the 18the of March. Really looking forward to it.

Braemar was oh, so fun on Valentines day… we’re negotiating for more days.

I’m working with the trio and really just working, working, working. I love it.

Gigs page is here to get the details and schedule!

People, Cool People!!
I’ve had a few singers sit in at the Varnish. Last week I even got a few very talented singers to sing. Including Heather Donaldson from the band Lady Katherine. We did some standards!! : )

I just played The Parkway last night Saturday in addition to my regular Monday, and actually last night I  met some really amazing people including Billy Childs! Can you believe it? (hint, he’s won several grammies) I think I’m in now part of a very large group of people who think he’s a really cool person.  I learned a new standard from him..He asked me to play ” It Never Enterered My Mind”  and I found it in a book I had. Great one.  I always love to learn new tunes.

At Vitello’s a few weeks ago this guy all tattooed-out sat right in front of the piano and basically started  singing along to every thing (really likable dude! ) ( my definition of cool) Anyway turns out he’s the lead singer of a really heavy metal band named Biohazard!! Very fun guy to hang out with. Named Evan!! : ) Life if exciting.

Oh I also met this absolute knock out singer named Kate Campbell! (Varnish)

She sat right next to the piano and sang!! Dang,  LA is amazing. My life is amazing. People are amazing!

And I just know I’m forgetting people that  I have met recently and have just loved!!

Production!

I’ve worked with Marconi and Soloman Melnick. Looking forward to working with both and  a lot more.  Beautiful product which I will be posting that Marconi and I got with Solomon. : )

Ok those are the highlights. There are way more details. I’m having a blast and learning and loving all of it.

New Photos here…

Music is here!!

And… I’m going to do a lot more production with Deuce and…more!

Can’t wait til tomorrow!! : )

Hope your weeks are fun and full.

Peace,

M

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This is no BS. I’m just cranking busy…

Let’s see…where to start? I’ve been trying to catch up on basic stuff around the house today.

Joe Fundraiser/Events Guy

After my nap and unpacking. I just got back from a fabulous trip to Sacramento to help with a fundraiser.A whirlwind I went up on Sat and got back in time for my Church gig on Sunday am. (I had to get up at 420am to make that hence, the nap!

It was absolutely a blast.  Great people a lot of fun and excitement.

I got to perform “On and On” and “Prison” and “These Things are Love” some of my originals ,which was a treat for all of us. : )

The theme was Piarates which somehow works for so many people it’s a little scary. : )

That was a blast!!

Beth Thornley commented on my post. I love her.

And I played at the Varnish and the Parkway on Thurs. We’re doing a little bit of a switcheroo on the schedule just to keep life fascinating for everyone. I’m going to update my schedule on my site to keep you all up to date. Check here.

Going out of town to play was fun. I’m going to go back in a couple of weeks. and I’m going to be in Mountian View the same weekend for an events. Wow, How exciting is my life?

Riitta Valta Night and More

So I also want to make sure you know that Feb 4th at Left Coast Wine Bar is going to be Riitta Valta Night.  If you don’t know her come and meet her. She’s my buddy from Facebook and just moved here from Scandinavia and we are going to welcome her here.  IF you know her stop by. If you don’t stop by and meet her.

As a note this is one of my best places to sing and I’d love to have people come and sing with me. The sound system is really good. If you like to sing come on down and you’ll meet Riitta as a bonus. : )

Joe Studio/Songwriting Guy!

I’m working on absolutly amazing songs with Tracy and Solomon and poor Valentino needs more attention. Songs here!

Mr. Blogger!!

Since I love what I do and meet people who would love to be doing thier art for a living I’m going to start blogging about how to make a living doing (what you love) art!! : )

I think people are going to love it.  It’s something the world need more… Happy people creating what they love for others and making thier living doing it. Look for it.

Else?

And I’ve got other songs that I need to get done and, I’m always looking for more work or in my case I could say…I’m always looking for more “play” ! : )

If you know of any…

What?

Oh I forgot to mention that Sara, my piano student  is amazing to teach and she’s having fun. She’s learning how to play jazz, improvised music, blues. Wow! : )

We’re both learning a lot.

Life is amazing. Thanks for sharing it with me.

M

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A few highlights worth mentioning from last week…

First I loved the comments that everyone sent back to me last week. That was encouraging. I  love  comments. Actually it made me think, hell I’d  love it if you would leave them on my web site on any post that would ROCK!!  In fact I’m about as close as you can get to being a  comment junkie. Although I’d never admit it…..I’m not a junkie..I’m not….

Anyway, I spend a large portion of my life trying to figure out how to get people  to my entertaining web site and want to make sure they’re entertained when they get there.  And my thought is that your comments are the indicator that you’re entertained although maybe…I’m ….wrong.

But, I digress….Last week I really  loved my Monday at the Parkway Grill. I actually had my best night ever in there. Which is encouraging. I guess I have to admit that I’m getting better and not just treading water. I’m….swimming. Great night!! Great people.

The rest of the week rocked too. But Friday…. Was AMAZING.

I played at Vitello’s. They’ve been upgrading it and changing out the green walls and put new hip decor and lighting in, better and cooler booths etc…

Well Friday was amazing. I met the coolest people. One was Beth Thornley and  her husband Rob. He’s a TV and Film Composer and produces her. She’s an amazing songwriter.

We had a blast. They were the nicest people, asking me to play all kinds of stuff and I got em to sing which was extra cool.

Then these 4 girls came in for a Girls Night Out/Birthday party. Wow! This chick Lisa Parade and her buds!! What a hoot. Her website says she’s happy and I’m saying she wasn’t lying! She and her buds  came to see the other band that was playing upstairs but ended up hanging with me til 11pm…We sang our butts off. We “traded 4s ” which means we traded solos on “Take the A Train.”  I played the piano and she played a killer drum solo on the table with her knife and fork. She taught me a new tune, sang with reckless abandon and generally carried on and it was great. I have played at Vitello’s many a time and usually the back room is empty by 10p or so and Friday we were still going strong at 11p.

Great new room. Great new decor. Fun. People hung out and had a great time.

It was like heaven…11pm and we’re singing Piano Man and these beautiful smiling happy people and wow!! Fun it was!

I’m such a nerd to not bust out my camera ( new phone 5 mega pixel camera, a whole nother blog….)

Ok, Friday was amazing.

And I have just been noticing lately that my playing and interaction with people is at a whole new level and FUN!

Then on the Saturday I played at a fundraiser and had a blast playing with the drummer Bob Sullivan and guitarist Chris Noel.

Gigs here http://www.marcbosserman.com/gigs.

Sunday was bliss. I spent the day after my church gig which went well ( great hymns-I love them) in the studio.

I mixed this amazing  song that  Solomon Melnick and I have been working on and then did some georgeous tracks for my bud Tracey for her amazing tune about DC.

I cannot tell you what a pleasure it really is to sit in my studio and create. I could do that 48/7 and not even think about anything but tea and music.

I do love my studio.  I have been using mostly “Ableton Live” which is basically a software studio to die for, and all kinds of software that I have, to create, create, create.

I have the best job imaginable. I love it.

As a matter of fact one guy in Vitello’s who was there celebrating a birthday with a bunch of his friends said he could tell by how I played that I loved what I do.

I love that guy!!

He’s right!

My life rocks.  What makes it rock more is more creation! : ) Let me know if I can help you put more life into your life! : )

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You know I could have just as easily said “…a Future Rock Star..” but….

I’m speaking in the present because you always speak in present and that makes it true today!

( I am a Rock Star, I am a Rock Star…. I am…)

Now! I guess the idea is to totally disagree with whatever else is there and just make it true.

Apparently that is the way it’s done. That’s what Muhamed Ali did and Julia Child and Julie Powell and Mother Theresa too for that matter… Michael Jordan anyone? You?

Well, here’s my List of Things to Do for today…

1) Practice and Do my Church gig.

I really love this gig. I’ve been doing it for about 2 months now and I have to admit I love almost everything spiritual and I love the pastor and all the people who show up. I love faith. And I love the challenge of Hymns. I don’t often have to read that much and this one I really have to read. And I think I’m doing better and better…. I have to practice more though!!

There are so many great Hymns too. And I’ve realized that… the ones that hang around are not by accident.They are great songs. They are simple, they communicate and they are frankly, art!

How could I have ever thought differently? (This was one of those recent  “ah ha” things for me!)

but…to continue..

2) Solomon’s song. I’m recording and mixing for Solomon Melnick. He’s quite a song writer. I love his songs. I won’t lie.

This one has a bunch of do-wop vocals and I’ve spent quite some time getting them recorded and then edited so that they all really sound and have great harmony.

There are amazing things one can do in a studio these days. Amazing. Last weekend we tracked a bunch of tracks and then I have to go through them all and find everything that works in them and patch it all together into a masterpiece.

Then I’m going to “pitch correct” it… you would not believe the miracle of “pitch correction”. It’s an amazing technology to bring the pitches all up to snuff. I guess not all of them as you have to maintain the beauty of a real person singing and keep it real. I’ve done a bunch of this but it is quite a trick to correct and make it beautiful and real at the same time.

By the way,this track is going to smoke! : )

I’ve taken some tracks that Soloman did with Mel and done some editing on them and I am really liking how it sounds now. Factually Mel’s tracks were inspiring to me as well. He’s quite a producer in his own right! : )

This is Where it All Happens

Next….

3) Exercise. I have to exercise. I like to run at least once a week. I’d love to do more If I could figure it out. That’s once a week, 40 mins of a good run. Love it! Gotta run today.

4) Valentino’s Bastard. I’m writing the “Mystics Tango” or ” The Tango of the Mystics”.

I’ve been working on this musical for weeks now as I can. I love this too. Kelley Reno wrote the book and her lyrics and asked me to do the music. I’ve been working on the lyrics quite a bit as I go just to try to make them all cohere. I have about 8 songs written for it so far… And I really do love it. I played one of them at a gig. That was cool because the people I played it for really dug it. The Varnish is perfect for it. I do only pre-50s music there. And this musical is going to be in a 30s style.  Which happens to be a style that I have a ton of affinity with. So “Everyone Loves Olives” went over big at the Varnish.

5) Nina Simone. I want, no, I have to learn more Nina Simone. I finally played “Wild as the Wind” at the Left Coast on Thurs.. It was awesome. I won’t say I played it “well” but I was surprised that it was close… and yes, Nina Simone!

Now there is an Artist. She could play any song and people would hear it and say it was a Nina Simone Song. Wow! A black woman who was Classically trained and sang in a mans range and talked about what ever she was absolutely passionate about. Wow! Wikipedia says she was BiPolar. I doubt that the person who wrote that is or was an artist. Only reason I say that is because she is an artist who is experiencing life and communicating it, amazingly. I love Nina. I would love to do 20 of her songs. But, I want to play them like Nina!! : ) That needs a bit of learning.

6) Monk…I play a few Monk tunes but, I’m amazed at how often people want to hear Monk. And he wrote so many classic “Jazz” tunes. Amazing man, outside the box. True to the muse.  I always freak out when people want to hear Monk…Because Monk is genius and you have to do Monk..like Monk… to do Monk…His chords and scales are inspirational and challenging.But I have to learn them. Reading Monk on the gig is dangerous. I’m not saying I won’t try it I’m just saying it’s on my list to run some Monk tunes.

7) Promote- My whole life I think about how to promote more. What can I do to get the word out there?  I’m writing this blog. I need to post photos and figure out how to use them and write and email and call clubs and find people to promote to.. . I know that promotion is essential and I am always working on it. I got a new phone that I can send email to lists out on. It has a decent camera. 5 megapixels..: ) I want to use that. I have websites.. but there are always new and better ones…It’s sometimes overwhelming to think about promoting. It’s potentially so vast. But I have a few things I do that work so I do them and then I’m always looking for more.

Don’t promote, don’t eat. I think that that’s a big missing link for many artists who never were known when they were alive. They didn’t promote.  Promoting can be really fun.

7) Figure out how to work more with Marconi- I want to work more with Marconi on my songs and I want to work with Marconi on anything.  This requires some paid work. I don’t really have time to just sit around noodling. I need to work! : 0! So to work with Marconi- the Maestro, the producing icon, I need to figure out how to get work we can both do.  Scheme, scheme. Ideas are appreciated. : )

Well that’s my day today. I got inspired by Julie Powell to write more or less a more sort of blog with more reality on my thought processes. Thanks for reading.

Let me know if you need help, music, a shoulder to cry on, whatever. Look around if you care to. Let me know if you have any questions.

M

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Recently a production of Emerald Man done by and amazing High School in Coventry Rhode Island! Here are some clips from it! : )

Here’s another one! This was a TV news cast that aired the opening day!

And more!!

This is “Superheros”! : )

This one has the cast at the curtain call. It has a good look at the set too. The guy that did the set design has done work for Disney. He was there the opening night as well.

Here’s the end sequence!

Well? What do you think? : )

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