Sons of Champlin Exclusive Performance - Part II

I post some pictures of Sons of Champlin in-store live at Tower Rercords San Mateo, CA.

They did the autographs before their performance and of course I got their autographs on my CD!!



Johnny Bamont and former Tower of Power member Mic Gillette.


Bill Champlin (left), Mark "Fenny" Fenichel (right)
James Preston

The original member, Geoff Palmer.


I'm sorry that I couldn't get a good picture of the base player, David Schallock.

It's hard for me to identify their music genre. If someone says their music ic ROCK, I can agree with that, but it sounds like blues or soul. Their music has multi-music ganre flavers. Only I can say is that their music is SUPER!

Sons of Champlin Exclusive Performance - Part I

There was a Exclusive Performance at local Tower Records in San Mateo, CA on Sep. 20 and I went there to see the wonderful performers, Sons of Champlin.

They performed in-store live at the Tower Records to celebrate the release of the brand new CD, "Hip Li'l Dreams" on Aug. 23.
The performers are Bill Champlin, Geoff Palmer, David Schallock and James Preston, plus Carmen Grillo, member Mic Gillette, former Tower of Power and Johnny Bamont and they are so FUNKY!!

I'll put their pictures later. Stay tuned!

Brian McKinght Concert

Damn, it's been 2 months since my last post here..... What have I done without posting for a long time....???

I went to Brian McKinght concert last night (9/16) at Montalvo Garden Theatre, CA.
That was HOT HOT HOT! I really like him!!
He is so talented – sings very well with soft and smooth falsetto voice, which is so sexy, plays keyboard and guitar (both electric and acoustic). Also his talk is so funny.
Every time I go to concerts, I sometimes have difficulties to hear artists' talking through microphone, expecially at theatres with bad sound system, I could hardly hear and understand what they are talking about. But I could clearly hear his talk at the theatre, so I really enjoyed his entire show including his talk.

During his show, he pulled one lady up on the stage from the audience, took her hand and let her sit right next to him. He sang "Everything I Do" for her playing keyboard, and danced with her at the last part of the song, putting his body close to her, moving his hips.....
Everyone got excited to see that. I screamed like people did. Probably the lady was the one who was excied the most. I don't know how the lucky lady was picked up, but I really wanted to be the one.

Anyway, his performance was awesome and I almost cried while listening to the song "Everytime You Go Away," which was an emotional song with its lyrics.
Oh, he got my attention when he sang "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" with acoustic and up-tempo version cause it was like completely new song though it was difficult to identify the song and I wasn't able to recognize the song at the beginning.

Here's the picture from the show. I took it anyway although photo was prohibited at the show. hehehe (Don't tell anybody! LOL)