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Caught a lot of compliments and an equal amount of flack for my writing in this week’s Movie Review in our local rag, the New Times. That was fun.
(If link goes dead I reproduced it here)

Damon Castillo’s brand new album is coming back from mastering this week. That should be pretty damn good, they sure spent enough time on it!

Been trying to promote the Tipsy Gypsies on that dumb website they call “MySpace“, and working up new material with Hillary. We’ve got some brand new songs we’re going to demo soon so there will be something for ya’ll outside of CA to listen to.

Working hard (or hardly working) at Grand Central Music, running the lesson program and trying to stay busy. Our online ebay sales are really taking off, which is good in this stupid economy.

A couple of gigs comin up that I’m looking forward to :

Damon Castillo - Farmers Market in SLO - Thurs, 9-25

Jazz at the Inn At Morro Bay - Fri, 9-26 (upright bass)

Damon Castillo Acoustic - Linnea’s - Sat, 9-27 (upright bass)

It’ll be good to dust off the old upright for a change….

Tipsy Gypsies Minor Swing - trading fours from junk_funky on Vimeo.

Here’s us at The Clubhouse in San Luis Obispo playing Minor Swing. Mr. Abe Perlstein caught the tail end of our version right as we started trading fours and even caught a great little bass solo at the end!

Enjoy

http://www.thetipsygypsies.com

We had a great show at Linnea’s cafe. Our fourth show ever, and we were still a bit nervous at the beginning, but we started feeling our groove pretty damn quick. Everyone played great, Hilary sang excellently, Toan played some great solos, Matt was thumping away and had a really nice solo moment.

The place was nice and packed and we even sold some CDs to boot!

My friend Abe Perlstein only caught two short clips using his snapshot digital camera, so don’t blame me for the shortness of the vid!

The Tipsy Gypsies performing “The Queen of Araby” from junk_funky on Vimeo.

The Tipsy Gypsies feat. Forrestt Williams from junk_funky on Vimeo.