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Mike Keneally, Marco Minnemann and friend at Slab City, CA on May 27, 2010.
Mike's Satriani Tour, Vai Piano Shows
& Evidence of Humanity CD/DVD!
Careful with that! It's inky!
It's Wednesday afternoon and I'm back. Back in the land of devising new Vai piano arrangements, inch by inch. It's not easy living in this land, but what I'm hearing is crazy. This week is devoted to "Under It All." Intense. I'll be playing three new piano arrangements, and four older ones, at the Steve Vai festival in Groningen in October. It'll be the first time I've ever done live performances of these arrangements. I'll be in fighting trim as a keyboardist, because in order to do those two performances for the Vai festival, I have to take a break for three days from the Joe Satriani European tour that I'll be playing keyboards on.
The Satriani tour. In response to a lot of questions: yeb, I'll be touring with the Satriani band late this year and early next. I'm extremely excited to tour with this group, as I had such an amazingly good time making Joe's new album (the mixes for it are just finished, and the release date is scheduled for just before the tour starts in October).
The two shows I won't be able to play with Joe, because of the Vai solo piano gigs, are the ones in Glasgow and Birmingham - sorry not to be able to make those, but Jem Godfrey will be subbing for me at those gigs and he is superb.
You will find the relevant data, as it currently exists, regarding the Satriani tour and the Vai festival performances, elsewhere in this cunningly designed newsletter!
Mike Keneally/Marco Minnemann
Evidence of Humanity CD/DVD
Pre-sale coming soon to MooseMart.com!
And! We are nearing completion of the video-editing phase on the DVD which will accompany the new CD Evidence of Humanity, by me and Marco Minnemann. This album is my entry in the Marco Minnemann Normalizer 2 series, in which a variety of artists create an album's worth of music to accompany the same 51-minute improvised drum solo. Already released have been albums by John Czajkowski, Trey Gunn, Kerry Chicoine, Alex Machacek and Marco's own take on it. All completely different albums, which all use the same drum track in wildly divergent ways. Now, a bit later than I'd expected to finish it, here comes my version...
...and since it took a while for me to finish, and it's been two years already since the music on Disc 1 (the CD) was recorded, we decided a more current collaboration would round out the package nicely. We videotaped a 54-minute live duo improv that Marco and I did a few weeks ago (and also videotaped a bass overdub I did a few days later), and this additional album-length musical performance appears on Disc 2 (the DVD), Elements Of A Manatee. The DVD also features interview footage with Marco and me talking about the making of Evidence of Humanity, about the entire Normalizer 2 concept, and an oodle of additional topics, conducted in the car on the way to the album cover photo shoot at the Salton Sea.
Mike
Keneally Concert Calendar
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Mike Keneally Band
with special guest
The Bryan Beller Band
THEY'RE BOTH THE SAME BAND
Mike Keneally - guitar/keys/vocals
Bryan Beller - bass
Rick Musallam - guitar/backing vocals
Griff Peters - guitar
Joe Travers - drums
The Baked Potato
3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West
Studio City, CA 91604
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Shows: 9:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Tickets $20
Info: 818-980-1615
Mike on keyboards with Joe Satriani in Europe*
* Mike won't be performing at these two Satriani shows; he'll be in Holland with Steve Vai (see below)
thats it, im sure when i hit post it will be formated all arseways, hopefully its ok
