Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Local, underappreciated, talent. . .

. . . my old friend Jay (a musical force still to be reckoned with) has been making music in the Baltimore area for over forty years now. He is truly a talent, and a character as well. Check out one of his latest projects right here:




which features his son, Matt, a vintage composition from his long-time band and project-object OHO, with state-of-the-art technological enhancements to the basis of the original recording from way-back-when.

Anyway, briefly and happily, Jay and myself were involved in a musical endeavor about 35 years ago and it happened this way.
I played in a cover/standards/top40/wedding-type combo. This after many years of accordion lessons, family affairs and private parties. And we actually made real money doing this. (WIll wonders never cease?) Our guitarist was leaving the combo to join the ranks of a more well-established outfit and was leaving a hole in the group. Our drummer Jeff, who recently joined our group after the departure of our regular drummer, had a brother who had been involved in original, art/prog-rock music for several years (oh, how that word appears and reappears). Jeff's brother Jay, just (we were told) might be interested in joining our little combo in order to make some money. (You see, original music making in the Baltimore area was about as lucrative then as it is today.) So after an 'audition' of sorts (I don't think we really auditioned anyone else), Jay to Keith's place and "Ful Treatment" arose from the hackneyed, Baltimore wedding-band ashes. And arose we did indeed. Jay brought chops, life, energy, rock, exuberance and humor to our music, as well as to our 'backstage' existence. And it was good. Well, as good as a wedding band could be. We plied our trade doggedly between '76 and '79 when in anticipation of my forthcoming wedding and my increasing distaste for the wedding/bull roast/American Legion circuit, I retired from active performance. But not without a fond memory of the many wild and wooly nights playing with Ful Treatment, and my friend Jay.

More Later.


(hear my music at http://www.rayjozwiak.com/)

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Fred and Ginger

They dance together
Just watch their feet in flight
They're Fred and Ginger
But only when the music's right

The wedding was a big event
The champagne flowed
and so many dollars were spent
The social season now complete
He picked her up and
Swept her right off of her feet
They looked so sweet

Dance just dance the night away
Tomorrow brings a new day
Tomorrow brings a new day
That's their only chance to play
Tomorrow brings a new day
Tomorrow brings a new day

Everything was going right
The truth won't see the daylight
The truth won't see the daylight
Now they can't avoid the fights
The truth won't see the daylight
The truth won't see the daylight

Something's gone awry
They dance together
Never look into each other's eyes
The feeling isn't quite the same
But was it ever
Which of the two is to blame
It's such a shame
Such a shame

They dance together
Just watch their feet in flight
They're Fred and Ginger
But only when the music's right

(from ANOTHER SHOT
Copyright 2010 Raymond M. Jozwiak)


(Hear my music at http://www.rayjozwiak.com)