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"A song is like a lifetime;

a lifetime's like a song.

Don't have to understand it, just to sing along."

 

from "Harder" 

(Heartbreak Sampler)

The Band(s)

 

 

 

Glenn Saari on drums

Ted O'Connell on bass

and

Stephen Silver (Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson) sits in on pedal steel

 

Sonoma County Fair

--Santa Rosa, CA

... and Larry Otis on guitar.

 

Sonoma County Fair

--Santa Rosa, CA

Norman Famous on drums

Rob McCloskey on bass and

Jeff Zittrain sits in on guitar

 

The Starry Plough

--Berkeley, CA

 

Chris & Larry

 

San Ramon Farmer's Market

--San Ramon, CA

Chris & Larry

 

Silo's in The Napa River Inn

--Napa, CA

 

Veteran harp-man, Will Scarlett (Hot Tuna, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Dave Bromberg) sits in.

 

The Starry Plough

--Berkeley, CA

 

 

Larry rips it up.

 

The Hotel Utah

--San Francisco

Peter Siegel: soulful and inventive on the pedal steel.

 

The Hotel Utah

--San Francisco

 

Chris at the 2008 Dylan Tribute.

 

Rockit Room

--San Francisco, CA

 

 

Live on KPIG Radio:

"Please Stand By"

 

 

 

 

Chris sings as well as humanly possible at 10 in the morning

 

 

 

Ted's cool as a cuke for his live radio debut
           
Also on hand were PJ Medina, JP Murphy, and Mark English. After the show, Murph had a Santa gig, then a rodeo to attend.  
           

Recording CD # 3:

Put Your Faith in Me

Drums and bass got laid down on good old fashioned 2-inch tape, just like grandma used to make.

Randy Burk, of Stout Recording in Oakland, operator of said tape machine and proud owner of a rotary telephone

Glenn likes recording.

Always tune before recording or you will never go far in this business!
Old Pals:

Heartbreak Sampler

CD Release at

The Hotel Utah:

Dylan Orlando, mandolin

PJ Medina, drums

Leslie Bailey, harmonies

JP Murphy III, pedal steel

Andy Kong Knight on fiddle, Dylan Orlando on banjo, & Ted on bass.

--Missouri Lounge in Berkeley

Chris Erbacher

 

--Ace-in-the-Hole Cider Pub in Sebastopol

 

 

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