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Happy Mother's Day. Yes, it's a tradition over here in Blainville to do something special on Mother's Day. One of the first songs I ever wrote was called "Don't Forget Your Mother" and it got my foot into the Big Door of big-time show business - Big recording sessions with world-renown musicians, a nice place to live, a road manager who drove me around in a white Mercedes, opening big concerts for Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, touring with April Wine....an allowance from the record company! Anyway, it all disappeared as fast as it happened and I've always believed that was for the best and that I was protected by the Buddhist Gods on that one.
But the Mother thing stuck, as a bit of a "brand". And when I got to Toronto in 1990, I always did a big show on Mother's Day, with guests and a little promotion.
Six months ago, we were sure we'd be back to live music in Toronto and I had hoped for a big show, especially considering I was celebrating not one, but TWO mothers!
That's right, last year I sent in a DNA test and after a lot of detective work (thank you, Marg Stowe) I discovered my birth mom. and now I have a bunch of new relatives. I'll be jamming with one of them later tonight!
Speaking of jamming, regular Blainreaders will know already that I'm the guy who is always looking to jam and I have had my eye out for a way to do it in real-time over the internet. They said it couldn't be done, but one fellow in Ottawa is doing it and I had a dry run and it's pretty amazing - but it does require a fast internet connection, you have to be within a couple of hundred miles of each other and there are lots of other factors, including a fast computer - and I'm going to be upgrading real soon. It's called syncspace.live and with the next Blaincast I might just surprise you with some real-time jamming.
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