I’m not so sure about broadcasting the shows live on the web. Diana did a great job, but man there was a lot of guitar tuning yesterday.

That being said, we’ll give it another try next week. Ted Hesson is going to get his feet wet and host for guitarist Gil Parris. Gil’s been nominated for a Grammy and has quite the rep as a session player and with his band Gil Paris and Friends.Ted was asking me for a contact for the show earlier today and I called up Kathy Horn — Gil’s rep — and got a weird message that she wasn’t accepting phone calls right now. Weird. I wish I could do that here at the office.

Anyway, we’ll see if we deliver a fine Listening Room program next week.

Also, I’m not sure what’s going on with the Holiday show anymore … I think it might be scrapped … but what isn’t scrapped is a show we are putting together at the Double Tree Hospital in Tarrytown for a Beer & Food show.

They asked the Big D and I to ask some LR alumni to perform and we got a few robust “Hell, yeah!”s and one I’ll be playing with Rob Thomas that weekend (Aug. 25 and 26).

Rob Thomas, Marc Von Em? or hanging with Big D, Ted 2.0 and Ms. Green? That’s a close one, but I can see why Von Em would want to party down with Thomas.
Actually, I just got off the phone with Marc and he say’s he’s really pumped about touring with Thomas (the former lead singer for Matchbox Twenty)— and if it works out blog on this site about the tour. Von Em already spent one stint in the Rob Thomas Band and I’m excited to hear what he’s got to contribute to Thomas’s new effort. That’d be really sweet. Here’s Von Em’s show:

Lastly,

Diana’s been cheating on the Listening Room blog by sounding off on her new love — 25 Sense — a blog for twentysomethings. She was going off this morning about cereal boxes … I don’t friggin’ get it being 35 and all … but it’s definitely a cool blog. Check it out.