J. Patricks still Rocking

| November 25, 2009

 J. Patricks club/restaurant/bar is located in the Holiday Inn Perrysburg. I hadn’t been there on a Friday evening  for 20 years .. maybe longer .. at least not after I got married.    Anyway I saw in the paper they had entertainment and thought I check out if there was any keyboard action.   I was surprised to [...]

Degage Jazz Cafe

| November 13, 2009

I must be very lucky.  I have a great jazz club just a few miles from my residence.   The Degage venue is a smallish room that can hold maybe a 100 people so it’s a very intimate setting.  I like setting at a high table along the wall by river road so I can get a [...]

“This Is It”

| November 6, 2009

My wife and I went to the Michael Jackson “This is It” movie and enjoyed it greatly.   Though I’m not an MJ fan per say I doubt there is anyone who doesn’t like moving their feet to his good old pop songs like “Billy Jean”.   The music sounded great in the theater I was in.    I [...]

Blues Battle

| October 18, 2009

The Black Swamp Blues Society of NW Ohio/SE Michigan organized a Blues Battle and the bands portion of the fight took place at the Maumee Indoor Theater Saturday Oct 17, 2009 from 7 to 11.   The Maumee theater is only 4 miles from me so I had no excuse not to check it out.    The winner of the battle [...]

Johnny Rod – one man band

| October 11, 2009

I had a chance recently to hear the first set of Johnny Rodriguez  at  Shawn’s Back Door which is located just off Heatherdowns near Eastgate.    I’m always interested in hearing one man band shows and Johnny’s been doing it for over a decade.  He’s been playing Friday evenings starting around 9:30 at Shawn’s for quite some time.      I believe this was the [...]