Gogo on the Road with Trooper

• July 24 Deerfoot Casino Calgary, AB
• July 26:  Rock 104 Anniversary, Olds, AB
• July 30:  Canal Days, Port Colborne, ON
• July 31:  Little Lake Music Festival, Peterborough, ON
• August 1:  Summer in the Park, North Bay, ON
• August 6:  Arts Centre, Brockville, ON
• August 7: Waterfront Festival, Pembroke, ON
• August 12: Sound Academy, Q107, Toronto, ON
• August 13:  Navan Fair, Navan, ON
• August 14:  Summerfest, Cochrane, ON
• September 6:  Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, BC

"The Butterfly Song" by The Candy Explosion

Gogo with Crystal and Samantha Cashmore

aka The Candy Explosion

April 2010

So, last night I was all set to paint silver angels on the hood of the new car,
but the big theatre opened up to us for a video shoot.

I have made 10 or 20 different recordings of the Butterfly Song, and they are not all
very good.........well, one was, and it was ‘cos Crystal Cashmore sang it, rather than me.....

I like this song a lot, it has a big diminished chord, like George Harrison always had,
and a nice high vocal like Chilliwack does....but I think it is its own thing.

So we pulled out the 9' Steinway grand piano and I wore my best purple jacket.
It was my huge idea to have the camera walk around the piano, and we did about
5 takes....each one lowering the stage lights a bit so the whole thing
didn't white out....as it was........

Then we took some promo shots, and neither the video nor the promo
got any touch-ups at all. I like the idea of a song with no edits like this.
I think it is actually kinda radical in this age when most acts lip-sync on stage.

So this is the perfect act: if you play a theatre, the piano is already there,
I just have to bring a decent jacket and keep the snacks off of the Steinway.

The video shoot went really well, nobody freaked out, except for me when I heard
how good the camera mic was. I thought I would drown the girls out, but I just played
not too thumpy, and the girls aways faced the camera.

Ok I am having fun, hope you are too.....have 2 salmon in the oven here
and I think they are pretty happy too..........and the rice is ready.............................

thank you!
love,
gogo

Got Some New Stuff Going On!

Trooper concert dates are taking shape for this summer

Updates on the Facebook Fan Page

Sunporch Studios has been busy with veteran songwriter Keith Phillips
Check it out on YouTube

Band stories are always being updated.  What had started out to be a few words about each of the bands I've been in through the years, has turned out to be a historical account of the Vancouver rock scene of the 1980s.  Nobody has ever written about this, as if it had never even happened.  It is something I always wanted to do, to write about these bands, before they fade in the last place that they exist (my mind and a few others).  It has been tricky because you have to put your memory back into that time and try to figure out what it was all about.

And you think about things - even feelings that have not affected you in 20 years.  

I think it is very cleansing, and could even be interesting to some, who knows?  Check them out!


Love,

Gogo