We Made the Top 5!!! on NBC’s StarTomorrow.com

1 LAST WEEK of Voting!! Week 14 is it!! There can be only One…One LAST voting opens at 10pm ET (Monday/tonight)

More Tomorrow…but blogging a quickie THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!

Wow….I mean WOW. I only have a second…I have to run out to go play a hockey game now!…did I mention WOW?

Another Monday…you know what this means…. I cross my fingers and hope to make it to the next round of StarTomorrow. They close the voting for Week 13 at 3pm Pacific Time…we hope to be in the FINAL Week 14…that would be DANDY! If not, you will not escape my emails…  heheh. I’ve gotten so used to campaigning for votes, I’ll need to run for some other contest or something just so you all can get my weekly emails and text messages [KIDDING]

We shall see tonight what the outcome is…I wish good luck to the performers involved [It's really been quite a bit of work for us all, but GOOD work]. And as always…I send "thanks" to you voters [I'll be playing hockey tonight so I don't think I'll know the outcome until late tonight.]

I’m sure you guys have noticed this new little Ticketmaster plug for the upcoming show on November 14th at the Key Club’s VIP Room "The Plush Lounge"…Come out to the show!

Tickets are just $7. We’ll be joined with another NBC StarTomorrow’er Brooke Ramel, and Flagship Recording Artist Eugene Edwards. Doors open at 7:30pm and you will be home before you turn into a pumpkin. The club has food too.

I’m excited and can’t wait to perform! We also have a violin player joining us for our set. You can win a car too!! (JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE CAR!–I was just having fun with the sales pitch).

Hope to meet ya’s in the flesh on the 14th! More to come Re: StarTomorrow.

Wow, I’ve been SLAMMED these last few weeks….and looking ahead at my calendar, it’s not going to be letting up any, but this is GOOD. Being busy is FANTASTIC…especially when it’s busy with music stuff.

I heard some super exciting news the other day and I’m jumping out of my skin wanting to talk about it but I need to wait until I know a little more about it before I start tattooing the news on my arm or blogging about it. For now, let me just say I’m happy. More to come!

Tonight I’m going to pop out to show support to fellow NBC StarTomorrow‘ers. They have a show out in Tarzana at a club called Paladinos…here’s more info on it. I was sort of hoping to have the tickets for my show on November 14th in hand by today so I could go there and hand out some of those… but it looks like they’re not ready yet. :-[ I’m looking forward to meeting the people I’ve only seen on the web tonight…It should be good fun!

Over the last few days, we’ve been rehearsing for the upcoming showcase on the 14th…last night sounded the best yet. We picked up this really great Violinist to play the show with us…it’s going to ROCK my own socks off! It’s a good thing I’m able to play the piano without socks But seriously, the strings really bring a whole new dimension to the songs. It makes songs that seem old to me feel new again..and THAT makes me happy.

Ok…I need to run and grab lunch. Have a great weekend!!!

Well…out of the 50,000 performers who auditioned for NBC’s StarTomorrow …and the 100 acts picked by music legend David Foster to compete…we’re now down to just 8 of us!!! We’re now posted in "Week 13" and..as always…we need your vote to make it to the Final Week 14. One of the acts below will walk away with the Prize!

We hope you’ll take a minute to register(if you haven’t already) and send a vote our way. Your one minute could make a lifetime of difference for us and we would be ever-so grateful!  [Hey, I sound like Sally Struthers LOL]

[UPDATE: I've been getting TONS of email from everyone saying they are having a hard time registering a name...So I tried to do it myself...it WAS NOT EASY...I kept getting some errors.....if you get an error...just try to log in under the name you tried to register and see if that works..it should]—if you have any trouble…I will help the best I can. Feel free to ask!

Anyone who has been reading my blog already knows how to vote but just in case…here’s a link to a step-by-step.

As I said in a Text Message I sent out to people on the Text Mailing List…"The Easy Way" is posted again…for the 4th week in a row. So don’t be fooled into thinking "Hey, I already voted for this song". The Slate is Wiped Clean so if you don’t see a little Red Thumbs Up, it’s not a counted vote. You guys know the drill eh?

Thanks for getting us this far…we are truly grateful and if we win this thing, it will be because of you!

Tomorrow, my blog won’t be such a "StarTomorow Commercial" …now if you’ll excuse me…I have this weird voice in my head telling me to go out and buy a Nissan Versa. I can’t control myself…I’m going out to buy one right now!!!

"We’re sorry. Voting for Week Thirteen doesn’t begin until Monday, October 23 2006 at 11:00 pm ET. Be sure to come back and cast your vote!"

Now the real question is…will we be in Week 13? Hmm. I dunno.

UPDATE: I see us in WEEK 13…so now we’re in the Top 8?

If we can just make it through this week….Week 14 is the END…Either way…there will be a winner…wow…we’re close.

VOTE FOR US SO WE CAN WIN THIS NBC CONTEST (pretty please)

It’s been a tough Week 12 and I’m not really sure how many bands get the axe tonight. I do hope we’re not one of them, but if we are….[and I'm not just saying this to cushion a fall or anything]…. it’s been great to have the support that we’ve had from you guys! The word THANKS can’t be said enough. I’ll update if find anything out.

Off subject…I played my very best ever hockey game last night. I’d never had a Hat Trick before…that felt great! I walked away from the game with about 5 points. We win 7 to 5 but I’m sure you guys don’t care about hockey scores LOL. It was pretty SWEET though.

Well… I STILL have not finished getting to piled up email…if you emailed me last week and I’ve yet to reply…I’m doing all I can to get caught up.

I spent today at the Dentist getting my teeth cleaned….there’s nothing like having your teeth scraped! Nice and smooth feeling teeth now though.

The Key Club’s "Plush Lounge" showcase is now CONFIRMED! So if you find yourself in Hollywood on November 14th at 7:30pm, stop in and enjoy the show. Come early and hang out with the band…have dinner… drink, be merry, eat food off of our naked bodies with chop-sticks. [You may need to bring your own chop-sticks]

As I plugged yesterday, 3 playa’s are scheduled…

Us, Brooke Ramel, and Eugene Edwards. [And maybe some extra surprises at the end of the night...like maybe we might saw someone in half]

I’ll be posting flyers and more updates as the days go on. I might even try a little blog-hypnosis to get people to show up. Subliminal messages hidden in the HTML & Text Messages will work just dandy! You’ll show up and not even know why [evil grin].

I’m excited about the show and I have some folks flying in for it …and what better reason to fly to Hollywood?

I’m silly… I Know…Actually, I’ve decided that I need to remain silly and not take everything so seriously. These last 12 weeks of hustling for votes on StarTomorrow has been pretty exhausting for everyone involved but we all know it’s almost over. We all certainly have put in quite a bit of work to be here…hopefully it pays off for each band involved.

Actually, November is a super busy music-month for me. The ST show should be over by then…Then Nov. 4th I have the JPF Awards show…Nov. 9th I have the LA Music Awards…[My 1st year being nominated for 2 awards shows! Woo Hoo!]..and then the showcase on the 14th. I’m going to think of the showcase as my own celebration of everything that’s been happening.

The funny thing about doing Music…and I think this happens with any sort of entertainment business, but everything seems to come in waves. One second, absolutely NOTHING is going on…and then the next, EVERYTHING AT ONCE. Everything at Once is the better place to be eh?

I’m going to try to get to some email and phone calls today. I’m really behind on that and I need to take a moment to answer those.

Speaking of calls….I just got a call from some friends of mine back in Michigan. They’re having their Halloween festivities this weekend and the next…I really wish I could be part of it. October is my favorite Michigan Month and I usually try to get back there for Halloween.

People in Michigan go CRAZY with Halloween…not that they don’t here in CA…but driving along in the suburbs of Detroit…  every other house’s front lawn looks like a graveyard. It’s really crazy-cool! LOL

It’s a MUST-SEE!

Oh, in case anyone missed my Pop Garden Radio phone interview last Saturday night, Adam posted it here. Be prepared/warned though…it’s filled with StarTomorrow plugs :-) 

We’re almost set with this upcoming live show…and the details are close to being posted as "official". Right now…it’s looking like it’s going to be at The Key Club’s super swanky "Plush Lounge" on November 14th. It’ll be an early show and Brooke Ramel (another ST’er)will also be performing that night as well as Eugene Edwards. We’re VERY excited! More details to come…

There will also be a super-secret handshake and password that’ll get you into the club… but only those signed up to the text mailing list will get all that info

More soon! Have a great Friday!

Not too shabby to say we made the Top 10 of NBC’s StarTomorrow.com! I seriously had my doubts and thought we might have been out that 1st Round. But now…here we are WEEKS later…and it really is because of you all…for spreading the word and sticking with us and voting week after week. It’s nice to know that out of all the bands that auditioned and have been on the show that we are still hanging in there.

Before I get all "I’d like to thank the members of the Academy" on everyone… Don’t Forget We Need Your Vote This Week <<click here to vote…you know you wanna do it! . As always, log in….vote….and then feel free to drop a comment there. Details on Voting can be found a few entries back …it’s easy stuff though. Now that we’re down to just 10 bands, we really do need every vote we can get and are prepared to offer our first born children to get them.

Ok…back to being all humbled…

This NBC contest just goes to show what a powerful tool blogging has been. Thanks to the fellow bloggers out there for lending a helpful hand as well. We’d sure love to win this thing…and with your help, we can!

This is our 1st time doing 3 weeks in a row… We’re hoping to make it 4 and 5.

Thanks Everyone!

…WE WON (again!)!

Looks like they’re messing with the site now…but it shows us as moving on to Week 12 …not sure what song they’ll post…but this look like it’ll be the link. I’m on my way out the door right now..but I thought I’d check the StarTomorrow.com site..and BANG! We Move On!

More Thank You’s to come!

Time to Vote Again! You guys RULE!

Monday’s are the day when we wait to see if we make it to the Next Round of StarTomorow…[although last week they didn't have the results posted until Tuesday]. I’ll be sure to update if we move on to "Week 12" and require more votes. It’d be GREAT to make it to the Final "Week 14" but if it all ends tonight…it’s been a fun ride and the exposure has been great. Thanks to all who’ve voted and who’ve been voting!

Enough about that for now…

Last night while playing hockey, I was hit with a puck on the inner part of my leg and it just happened to sneak in a little spot where there was no padding. I now have this nice little Puck-Shaped Bruise on my leg. Man that hurt when it happened…when it hit me, It vibrated my entire leg and it went dead for about 10 seconds…freaky. It’s fine today…just a  little sore is all. It felt good to play again after a week off.

Thanks for the nice comments about the Test Shot Picture I posted yesterday…here’s one more with a different background that I like. [Don't worry, I'm not going to keep posting pictures of me every day-just these two]. I know, I need to smile more

I got a kick out of the comment left saying that I have the Wolverine thing going on with the new sideburns. I just wish I had the CLAWS! THAT WOULD ROCK!

Maybe I’ll pull out the video cam and do some fun little live video feed from my blog this week? I haven’t done that in a while.