MANCIE and Level 5 News

MANCIE has two upcoming shows:

1) This coming Thursday night–Thursday April 2nd–at Arlene’s Grocery, a long-time stomping ground for us. The show starts at 9pm.

One really cool thing about this show — one of my drum students, Brian Petersen, is drumming on the same bill with his band, Scale of Six. Brian and I have been working on his drumming together for over three years and I’ve watched with excitement as he’s continued to get better. It is a special night to be on the same bill with him. Pretty cool stuff.

In the photo above, from left to right:
Lily Maase, guitar; Andrea Montgomery, guitar and lead vox; yours truly :-); Yuka Tadano, bass.
I continue to somehow manage to be the only guy in this band and I like it this way! The band keeps getting better. I can’t wait for you to hear Lily’s guitar solo when we play “I Just Want To Make Love To You.”

2) We also will be playing at The Bowery Electric on May 11th, opening for a cool glam rock band from LA called Hammered Satin.

They are a fun band; totally ’70s. It’s a good fit with MANCIE. Check out this video of theirs for a better idea.


Big News for My Band, “Level 5”

The really exciting news about Level 5, my very own band, is that I finally have a significant amount of amazing material to begin the band’s march toward instrumental music greatness.

I can’t tell you who wrote the material — yet.

But I can tell you that the writer of these tunes for Level 5 has played with pretty much all of the musicians I have idolized in my drumming life. So when it was agreed that this music was to be written, I was–and still am–ecstatic! The music is killer and I can’t wait to announce more.

That’s all for now. Come say “hi” at a show. We’ll talk, eat cake, no big whoop!!

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