History of my performances in Eugene, Oregon.

So, I want to post my performance log to sort of catch up on what I have been doing:

Poetry Readings Log:

Monday, 10/17/11: at Reality Kitchen: The Blaster w/Ray Lynch Music, Chair Dreams w/Clapton music, Shoot Another Rhyme w/synth-keyboard (all on CD on boombox).

Monday, 10/24/11: at Reality Kitchen: The Blaster w/Ray Lynch music (boombox & CD), Wildweed & Rhythm w/Bill and Brian backing me up live on guitars.

Monday, 10/31/11: at Reality Kitchen: Wildweed w/synth music (boombox & CD), Dragon Trilogy w/Danny Ingalls backing me up live on guitar.

Tuesday, 11/1/11: at Hot Mama's Wings: Wildweed w/synth music, Rhythm w/Bill's guitar music, Sunday Saturation w/Soul Ballet, Solitary Existance Of A Daisy w/synth music (all on boombox & CD).

Tuesday, 11/8/11: at Hot Mama's Wings: The Dragon Trilogy w/Joe and Danny backing me up live.

Tuesday, 11/15/11: At Hot Mama's Wings: The Blaster w/Ray Lynch music (boombox & CD), Wildweed w/djmembe drum, Razzled, Bedazzled - read from S.O.S. book.
Then, as a seperate act, live performance by The Sorry Ass Songwriters (Steven, Joe, Danny): Rhythm, Blue and Joe's song.

Tues. 11/22/11: Hot Mama's Wings: Numbolina Dances w/Turning, Turning Away-Alex de Grassi (boombox & CD), 24 Stations Of Modular Plate with djembe and scatting, Circle Of Life w/Jason (from MudPuppy) backing me up live on blues guitar in background.

Tues. 11/29/2011: Hot Mama's Wings: performance with Brian Henry (Burton) on guitar:Abstract Piccolo (also w/Moroccan Tam Tam), Oh Big Sky, The Outside Sadness Of Madness.

Tues. 12/6/11: Hot Mama's Wings: 3 pieces performed with Bill Logan on guitar: Little Toy Gun, Afterglow, and I sang a medley of Stand By Me / In My Life, with Bill on harmony also.

Tues. 12/13/2011: Hot Mama's Wings: 3 pieces performed with Danny Ingalls: 1 - Short Stories, with Danny on guitar. 2 - The 9 Class Structure, with Danny on my djembe. 3 - Danny on djembe & me on tam tam doing a drum jam. A guy named Conor got up and joined us (impromptu) on guitar.

Thurs. 12/16/2011: I did a poetry recording for the ongoing project: Oregon Poetic Voices, at the Eugene Public Library. I performed four poems: 1 - A Visit To Saunder's Meadow. 2 - Short Stories. 3 -  Wildweed. 4 - The Solitary Existence Of A Daisy.

Tues. 12/19/2011: The Axe & Fiddle, Cottage Grove. I performed with my digital box (minidisc): 1-  Short Stories, with Danny's guitar track. 2- Wildweed, with poem track. 3- Solitary Existence Of A Daisy, with poem track.

Tues. 1/3/2012: Hot Mama's Wings. Two pieces performed with Brook Adams on guitar: 1- Wildweed, 2- Solitary Existence Of A Daisy. My third performance was an impromptu jam with me on djembe, Chelsea on my tam tam, Brook on guitar and Conor on guitar (awesome!!!).

Tues. 1/10/2012: Hot Mama's Wings. 1- The Blaster, with music track (Ray Lynch). 2- Oh Big Sky, with music track (both w/minidisc digital box). 3- Blue, performed live with Joe Savage on guitar and both of us singing.
Sal, the host, still can't get my digital box to good sound levels, so performance did not go well, except for "Blue."

Sat. 1/14/2012. Tsunami Books. I went to my first open mic / poetry slam at Tsunami. I recited Wildweed & Solitary Existence Of A Daisy at the open mic (they give you a five minute limit). I only went for the open mic and wasn't intending to to the poetry slam, as I have never done one and am more interested in sharing than competition, but the manager of Tsunami, Scott, insisted I participate. I did Wildweed (they give you a one poem, three minute limit, with no props or music, just reciting or reading). I did good and got a judges' panel score of 92, but didn't make the finals.

Tues. 1/24/2012: Hot Mama's Wings. I performed three poems with djembe. 1- The Window Where You Look, 2- Like A Wet Rainbow and Numbolina Dances. Then I had a jam for my third performance with, drums: me, Carol, Jeff; also Jim on flute and Roscoe & Kim on guitars. Later in the night we did a jam with another guitar duo on their set, Josh and ?. They included drums: me, Carol on tamborine, Chelsea on Carol's conga, and another guy on my tam tams. We did four numbers (kind of reggea style).

Sat. 1/28/2012. I went to a poetry workshop at Tsunami Books given by local poets Ingrid Wendt and her husband Ralph Salisbury. After that they were hosting a birthday celebration for reknowned Oregon poet William Stafford. I got up and read one of Stafford's poems, "With Kit, Age7, At The Beach." Then I read one of the poems I created in the workshop, "He Spoke Truth To Power," which is about John Lennon.

Mon. 1/30/2012. Reality Kitchen. One song and one poem. 1- Joe Savage (guitar) & Danny Ingalls (djembe) and I performed "Blue." 2- Danny backed me on guitar as I recited Short Stories.

Tues. 1/31/2012. Hot Mama's Wings. Just me doing three poems, accompaning myself on djembe. 1- The Window Where You Look. 2- Wildweed. 3- Little Toy Gun.

Wed. 2/1/2012. Cozmic Pizza. 2 pieces. 1- Blue, w/ Danny (djembe) & Joe (guitar). 2- Short Stories, w/ Danny (guitar).

Tues. 2/14/2012. Hot Mama's Wings. I performed three pieces using my minidisc w/soundtracks. 1- Shadow Of The '60s...cont. 2- Thoughts On Poetry (1 & 2 with Political poems track 3 on minidisc). 3- Oh Big Sky, w/guitar and percussion track (I did not sing it, I recited it).
I left early and went to Cozmic Pizza to hear Joe Savage play his set w/Danny Ingalls backing him up. At the end of his set, I got up and we did "Blue."

Tues. 2/21/2012. Hot Mama's Wings. Two w/djembe: 1- Wildweed, 2- Little Toy Gun. One with minidisc: 3- Chair Dreams w/Eric Clapton_Rush_Kristen & Jim.

Tues. 2/28/2012. The Axe & Fiddle, Cottage Grove. I did three pieces: 1- Wildweed, w/djembe; 2- Little Toy Gun, w/tam tam; 3- Oh Big Sky (spoken), w/song track. I video-taped the whole evening. I posted my performance on Youtube.

Fri. 3/2/2012. No Shame. I performed Wildweed with my djembe at the No Shame Eugene 5 minute theatre project. It will be posted by them on Youtube.

This pretty much has me up to date. As far as publishing, I have been self-publishing handmade books of my first two titles, Wordsongs and S.O.S. (Songs Of Sobriety): A Personal Journey Of Recovery.