http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad Dispatches from the road from our wayfaring travelers. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:12:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We spent the morning preparing for our set tonight at the Key Club, then headed to the hotel for a few hours of R & R. The energy at the Key Club was peaking as camp bands ruled the stage one by one. Literally every band had performed ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2010/03/02/rock-camp-day-six/ Rehearsals resumed all morning for our recording session later in the evening. Rami then treated us to an amazing sushi lunch, followed by a tour of his amazing studio. After dinner, the band loaded onto the Gibson tour bus and headed to EASTWEST Studios for our original song recording. ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2010/03/02/rock-camp-day-five/ We spent the day at AMP Studios rehearsing our original song for the recording session tomorrow and jamming to various songs so we can fill out our set at the Key Club. We got a chance to jam with Ace Frehley from KISS, and I sat in on a Q ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2010/02/27/rock-camp-day-four/ The band rehearsed today in preparation for an acoustic performance at the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Beverly Hills. As we were deciding what song to perform, Rami suggested “No Rain” by Blind Melon. When the song came out in 1992, I listened to it thousands of times in my car ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2010/02/26/rock-camp-day-three/ Campers arrive at the AMP studios via a Gibson Tour Bus at 10 am. Everyone's still tired from the night before, but we quickly head to the practice rooms and crank up the amps. We rehearse for a few hours before various rock stars show up to hang with the ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2010/02/25/rock-camp-day-two/ Thanks to a fellowship grant from The Chicago Community Trust, I am here in Hollywood as one of about 60 campers spending six days with an incredible array of rock star counselors to live “the dream.” Today I was assigned to a band featuring Rami Jaffee (the Wallflowers and Foo ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2010/02/25/a-rock-%e2%80%93n-roll-crusade-first-day-at-rock-%e2%80%93n-roll-fantasy-camp/ Here at the southern tip of Asia, the beaches shelve off precipitously into the Arabian Sea. Waves that have traveled from Africa are almost right on the sand before they break. It makes for treacherous swimming, and every year a few tourists venture too far and are washed ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2009/11/06/thiruvananthapuram-kerala-india/ Colleen's report from the wonderful Festivals Acadiens in Lafayette. For a full line-up check www.festivalsacadiens.com and for some cell phone vid's, check www.youtube.com/mikecolleenvideos Big thanks to Sandy Wilson and Pamela Toler for their support of the Louisiana Music and Culture Exchange! Thursday night- it's a balmy 85 degrees as we head to ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2009/10/14/festivals-acadiens/ We trekked out of Rajasthan, a long two days of driving punctuated by stops at Mt Abu, the Indian honeymooners equivalent of Niagra Falls, this one in a high mountain retreat in the middle of a tiger preserve; Rani-Tki-Vav, an enormous eight or nine storey well, carved out of solid ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2009/10/12/musical-exchange-in-ahmedabad/ A few days ago we landed in Jaisalmer, a town in far western Rajasthan near the border with Pakistan. It is known as the "golden city" because all of the buildings and temples are made of yellow sandstone that positively glows in the desert sun. To our surprise and ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/ontheroad/2009/10/09/a-wedding-in-rajasthan/