If we build it, will you come???

Years ago, Sabrina and Gypsybleu set a foot print in the city of Plano.  The club was called, "Bullwinkles".  We played there on a regular rotation and got to know a lot of people and thoroughly enjoyed playing there.  It just seemed like home for us.  In recent weeks, the club has been re-opened under a new name called "Local Public House Bar & Grill".  It's been re-vamped on the inside and we'll be coming back on March 9, 2013.  I'm personally looking forward to it.  I know every square inch of that place.  I'm looking forward to filling it with sound... good sound.  So, will you come?  Will you partake in a reunion gig?  Come and share in this experience with me, with us.

On to new things...uncharted waters

I've written some songs that are based on experiences in my life in recent years.  I'm beginning to work with the band to prepare them for recording and distribution to those will will come.  The songs will be built, Lord willing.  Will you come?  I've decided that many folks write songs in their youth.  They say things like, "Money can't buy me love", "Only the good die young", "I can't get no satisfaction".  I could go on and on.  But, I've been wondering.  Why aren't their more song writers that are in their 50's, 60's and so on?  I mean, when the Rolling Stones said, "I can't get no satisfaction", we understood it in a way when we were kids, but, if it came out today, and it's main audience was teenagers to young adults, would it even appear on our radar?   Is there a space/room for a voice that would say something like, I've been through several marriages and I'm tired of being lonely, but, I'm too scared to trust yet another person?  Or, I gave my kids all the love I could, and today, they despise me when I offer advice.  Or, I've given this company the best years of my life and they let me go like I'm a sac of dirt.  It's not just the generic package of a lost love, or a love gone cold, but, where are the songs that are written by the gray heads having a perspective of life in the moment with specific stories?  I'm sure they exist. 

I mention the above because, that's what I want to write about.  I want to provide original songs that tell a story.  A true story that will have had a basis in victory, or in pain, or some other collective emotion.  Many people go through life holding their personality close to the vest.  I am choosing to bring it to the stage, to share it and take whatever comes my way. 

And so, I ask you in conclusion.  When you see that we begin to distribute music..  It'll be very reasonably priced.  Like, 99 cents a song.  I'm not asking for you to purchase something you don't like.  I am asking you to listen to it.  I'll be exposing like 30 seconds of the song for your testing.  If you like it, please "vote" by purchasing it, tell a friend.  Hey, I can live with the possibility that I've produced music that may not have a mass appeal, I can live with failing, and falling. It won't hurt my feelings because I'm trying.  And without trying, I'd never know.  I want to live my life fearlessly.  For, if we fear while we live, we're already as good as dead.

So, if I build em, will you come?  Will you listen?  Please, if you've never responded to a blog of mine, please do, I'd love to hear from you!

Marino Stathakis
Co-Leader, Lead Guitarist - Sabrina & Gypsybleu