How much would you pay?

Today, we ordered 2nd Wave shirts.  Though we won’t have them in time for Saturday’s gig, we will be taking pre-orders, so please give us a shout if you want one.

 

Speaking of which, 2nd Wave will be playing at 1pm this Saturday at Forsyth County’s Christmas in Central Park.

 

Then, on Dec. 4th, we’re throwing a Second Wave Christmas block party in Cumming called Christmas in the Cul-de-sac, the sequel to last year’s Concert in the Cul-de-sac.  We plan to have hot cocoa, hot dogs, and such.  There are also rumors of an opening band containing Second Wave parents.  More info forthcoming.

 

So, how should we price these shirts?  How much would you pay?

 

 

Part of the Plan.

 

My buddy Chad Jarnagin works with a great fellowship in Nashville called The People’s Church. I want to point you to this great entry on Chad’s blog, because it so lines up with the idea behind ONE Atlanta Music.

 

The core of guys who started this organization, this “brand” called ONE Atlanta, want to cultivate, encourage, and develop some of the young talent in this town that needs experienced hands guiding them. That’s not at all to brag on my experiences as an artist/agent/manager. But I will brag on guys like Dan Hannon, a guy who continues to get face time with major labels all over the place who are excited about the artists he’s developing and producing (several such discussions this past week). I’m proud to be affiliated with him, specifically in regard to those artists who will be working under our 1ATL moniker.

 

The first of those, in terms of us actually developing, producing and recording an artist under the ONE Atlanta brand is Rudy Vaughn. We hope there are many more.

 

Of course, there’s plenty more young talent out there that we’re getting to pour into, in different ways.  I love being one of the band dads helping with the development of Second Wave.  I love helping other young musicians and singers in different ways, from helping them find gigs to connecting them to other musicians.  I can only do so much of that, of course, but I’ve really been blessed this year to spend a lot of time “pouring into” different artists in different ways.  Again, I don’t mean to talk about myself as if I think I’m something great.  But there’s something very exciting about knowing you’re wired a certain way, and that God is asking you to use that wiring for Him, and then actually having opportunities to do it!

 

Are you doing what you’re passionate about?

 

 

Oh, what a night.

Not sure where to even start.  Thursday’s night’s final Buckhead Music Project at Velvet Underground rocked.  Rudy Vaughn, James David Carter, and Jamie JAMM Portee all killed.

 

Rudy had a new bass player onstage with him, a good dude/good player named Wes Flowers, who plays for Butch Walker as well.  

 

(Sidenote: Butch Walker has a new record coming out and is playing at The Loft in Atlanta on November 10.  Read all about it here.  Many of you remember the Atlanta band he fronted, The Marvelous Three.  The other two-thirds of the Three (Jayce and Slug) are buddies of ours.  And my son is in the band Second Wave with bassist Holden Fincher; his dad is Jayce, Marvelous Three’s bassist.)

 

Rudy’s set ranged from Michael Jackson’s Beat It to original songs; also, for the first time, I saw Rudy play sax and he destroyed it - in a good way.  James David Carter was excellent, as usual.  Dude has insane falsetto.  JAMM and his band, complete with horns, capped the night off with some great funk/jazz/r&b fusion, or whatever they call it.  Chantae Cann joined him; she’s a background singer for India Arie and is an amazing, new voice on the Atlanta scene.  JAMM also brought both his wife Joni (also known as INOJ) and James David up on stage to do some guest vocals.  

 

Other friends of ONE Atlanta that were there: Michael Johnston of Smalltown Poets, a surprise attendance by original Smalltown Poets drummer Byron Goggin who lives in North Carolina, Moxie Davis with wife Clarissa, Big Snow (on turntables in between bands, doing his thang), Ryan Fitzgerald of theAMP, Casey Darnell, too many amazing musician friends to name, and a bunch of Buckhead Church staff - not the least of which is ‘Los Whittaker (thanks for the pics dude!)

 

 

Upcoming Waves.

Many of you have asked me when 2nd Wave will end their extended summer hiatus, and get back to gigging. Good news. They have a couple of concerts coming up that you won’t want to miss.  Of course, many of you will also be getting Facebooked with this info.

 

Wednesday Oct. 29th, Bridgeway Academy, Alpharetta GA, 6pm-8pm

The band will be doing a mix of mainstream cover songs, recognizable worship tunes, and original material.  

 

Saturday Nov. 22nd, Christmas in Central Park, Forsyth County GA 1pm

They’ll be mixing in some Christmas tunes for this indoor event.  And, of course, Santa himself will be there!

 

Who’s coming?

 

 

R.U.N.

It was an honor for Second Wave to be asked recently to appear in a music video with our friend Ashley Appling as part of the 252 Basics children’s curriculum.  From the 252 Basics website: 252Basics is a unique approach to curriculum for churches and Christian schools. It is built around three Basic Truths every child should embrace according to what Jesus modeled in Luke 2:52.

 

(Please forgive the fact that the audio and video don’t quite match up; I’m working on it.)

Little rock stars.

Thought some of you might enjoy a few pics of the video shoot 2nd Wave did today for Reggie Joiner’s reThink organization.  Our buddy Ashley Appling was there rocking the lead mic, and our little rock stars appeared as his backup band for a music video to be used by reThink in October; I hope to post the final video here with their permission.   The guy with the camera is another good friend of ours, Steve Thomason of DueSouth Productions.

Internet…finally!

I’m in China.  This is my third day here, and I’ve finally had a chance to get online.  I have to make the most of my time, so I’ll be brief, which I should probably do a better job of all the time, actually.  

 

This is completely unrelated to my trip, but please go to http://www.ugclocal.com/wvfj/25136019.html and show 2nd Wave some love.  They’ve entered a contest held by J93.3, but I think they’re going to be disqualified because they’re too young.  

 

I know this is not my strongest post.  I’m still jetlagged!  More later.

The 20 second version of rehearsal

Here’s tonight’s 3 hour 2nd Wave rehearsal in about 20 seconds.  This video was created with Gawker, which is loads of fun.

Visiting Safehouse

     Tonight’s visit to Safehouse Outreach in downtown Atlanta will not be our last.  My Iphone took blurrier pics than usual, but take a look anyway.  We took a group of about a dozen people including  Joni “INOJ” Portee, some Second Wave members and parents (including my wife and son and the Woffords) and other friends (like Adam, Bill, Will, and Nancy).  Also ran into (recent Dove winner) Seth Condrey there.

     We first walked into a worship service geared towards Atlanta’s homeless.  The band 1-A-Chord was playing and they were ridiculous - tight vocals and nasty funk; these guys were for real and were great to hang out with as well.  Then we took the Safehouse tour and learned about opportunities to serve, in ways both musical and non-musical.  One of these ways is the Convoy of Hope event August 9th in the World Congress Center parking lot.  Safehouse needs 3000 volunteers to help pass out groceries, among other things.  We will be there!  Will you?

 

Capitol Gains

2nd Wave sounded great today at the Georgia State Capitol, playing for a National Day of Prayer rally.  Below is a bit of a montage for those who couldn’t make it.  Please drop a comment of encouragement for the band here.  I’m sure they’ll be checking in!
 

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