dann russo: News

just added a show Friday night! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145989938747280&index=1 East Boston, MA. 

so it appears that the blog Americana Daily picked up my video! kinda awesome. http://www.americanadaily.com/2010/07/dann-russo-waiting-for-dawn.html check out their other links to some damn good musicians...but it leads me to the next question. WHAT SONG TO DO NEXT? any ideas?

 

I'm thinking either...Cafe en San Juan; Fortunes, Forecasts & Lucky Charms; Parking Lot Kings; or Her Majesty Cry...tell me your opinion!

my newest review: "Don't you dare expect to fall asleep during this set because amphetamines have NOTHING on Dann! Dann is 100% talent and 150% energy." I kinda like it.

I think of it as using "naptime" usefully.

I took my first attempt at using iMovie and setting it up in my basement (aka "Broken Strings Studio") and seeing what happened.

As an actual review, I think I could have placed the computer better and maybe played with the sound a little more...but as a raw first try, I'm impressed with myself!

The song is "Waiting For The Dawn"

the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqD-5JqcdI 

I think it's cool.

peace.

so with all this hype this individual basically took over basketball. I haven't seen this kind of narcissistic behavior since Narcissus himself. And I am not happy with ESPN catering to his ridiculous whim. And I think the Knicks will finish better than the Heat this upcoming year. :-)

http://www.parttimerockers.com/

 

it's ME!

 

check it out - share with your friends :-)

damn fine way to start sunday morning. the set list: Little Lion Man (Mumford & Sons cover), Dreaming Without You, Year, Run Out of Reach, EAB, I Don't Want To Be (Gavin DeGraw cover), Fortunes, Forecasts, And Lucky Charms, Yellow (Coldplay cover), Ruby Red Hair, Believe, The Fly (U2 cover), Changes, Don't Say That, Black Sails. THANK YOU

thank YOU so much for listening everyone...tonight's set list: It Seems Just Like a Dream (What a Day), Footsteps, Capture My Heart, Come Undone (Duran Duran cover), Café en San Juan, Domestic, Greensleeves, Dirge, Changes, Good Morning Chelsea, The Locksmith, Lemonade.

step two: just uploaded two "fan" videos (my friend took them on his phone) from the CANE conference -

1. "etc" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJIPEBq7pc

2. "black sails" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9IfQSaI-oc

(pretty good quality for a phone! thank you Emil!)

check them out! let me know what you think

:-P

peace, Dann

yay my first two show night in a while!

1. The Ruins:

Rockstar,

Dreaming without you,

Paris,

Black (Pearl Jam cover),

Parking lot kings,

It seems just like a dream (what a day),

On the floor,

Fix you (Coldplay cover),

Mona (Antonio's Crush cover),

Capture my heart

 

2. Bay Vista:

Ruby red hair;

How do you spell L.O.V.E;

Changes;

Fortunes, forecasts, and lucky charms;

Para que no tengas sed;

Norwegian wood (Beatles cover);

Her Majesty cry;

Means justify the ends;

Café en San Juan;

Falling slowly (Glen Hansard cover);

Waiting for the dawn;

MLK (U2 cover)

 

thank you so much to everyone who came out and/or listened!

Sunday shows are always fun - you should totally listen in next week! click on this link: http://jas.slstreaming.de:8504 right around 8am eastern standard time/5am pacific/ noon GMT and rock out!

 

Today's set list:

Did you ever have; Fortunes, forecasts and lucky charms; Zebra (John Butler Trio cover); Don’t say that; Gone; Dice;  Café en San Juan; Ruby red hair; Greensleeves; Parking lot kings; Rockstar

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms, grandmas, godmothers, nanas, mimis, nonnies, mas, stepmoms, great-grans...

 

aw hell yeah. I like when a show that starts off with kinda a sore throat turns into a really good rock show. thank you to everyone who listened! peace.

he he

 

so, second life totally cut out with three songs left in my set. So, if you were listening on iTunes or winamp you were all set. Second Life, however, missed the last three songs. Which means you'll just have to come back and ask me to play them for you! (I totally will, too). Here's the setlist: Don’t say that; Dreaming without you; Falling slowly (Glen Hansard cover); Frank advice; Parking lot kings; Lessons learned; On the floor; Black (Pearl Jam cover); Year; Capture my heart

brushing away the cobwebs

getting everything back in working order

 

it's been almost two weeks since my last show! (and it seems like months) but I think it turned out ok...

 

thank you to Lisa Hughes for setting me up and Virginia Gallino for making me sound good.

 

and the set list: Dice; Fortunes, Forecasts and lucky charms; Did you ever have; Ruby red hair; Parking lot kings; It seems just like a dream (what a day); Mona; No Pain; I’m goin’ down (Bruce Springsteen cover); St Christopher medal; Her Majesty cry; Dreaming without you; Yellow (Coldplay cover); Believe

aw that was a lot of fun! (granted my alarm woke me up with THREE minutes to go before the show started omg I'm so embarrassed) thank you so much to http://treet.tv for having me. the songs, in case you missed it: RockStar; Fortunes, Forecasts & Lucky Charms; Parking Lot Kings; Black Sails; Her Majesty Cry; Cafe en San Juan; No Pain :-)

http://delindasdiary.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/dann-numbers-at-filthys-joint-april-6-on-live-n-kickin/

9pm slt/pacific; midnight EST

If you can’t make it to the live taping in SL you can still watch live on “in world”  Tv’s  or on  the internet at   http://treet.tv/live(now with live Fan Chat) or later on itunes or  the Treet TV  Archives.

“Live n Kickin” is a  Live Music Weekly TV Show broadcast on the Web on Treet TV and Produced by Perfect World Productions, is now available to be viewed on the Treet.tv website, in world TV’s  and now  on Itunes!

on first avenue between 89th and 90th is a non-descript door leading down a set of stairs to a fantastically cool space to have a show...

The Brooklyn Beer and Stella Artois were delicious and twice the pizza delivery guy came through...I think it sounded pretty good - but you decide for yourself! Some live tracks will be up on http://www.dannrusso.com and http://www.reverbnation.com/dannrusso this afternoon.

thank you to everyone who came out - see y'all soon!

1. Fortunes, Forecasts & Lucky Charms
2. Dreaming Without You
3. Her Majesty Cry
4. Fire
5. Cafe en San Juan
6. No Pain

and Shannon McMahon was fantastic! She even asked me to come up on stage for "Big Yellow Taxi" :-)

peace,
Dann

what a friendly, warm, and inviting place. Thank you, Rob Walling, for asking me to play - any time you need someone in the future, let me know...The Masons are a great organization and deserving of praise. I started off the performance with a little cocktail music but quickly was encouraged to rock it out a little...I was joined by one of the members on two songs! I even got a tour of the building, but no insight into the "secrets"...alas, instead of the Holy Grail, though, I had some Smithwicks, a lovely dinner and single malt scotch, and met some fun and welcoming people...and played these songs:

1. Gone (instrumental version)
2. Her Majesty Cry
3. Cafe en San Juan
4. Paris
5. If I Had A Hammer (Peter Paul and Mary cover)
6. Fool on the Hill (Beatles cover)
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles cover)
8. Fortunes, Forecasts & Lucky Charms
9. Don't Say That
10. It Seems Just Like a Dream (What a Day)
11. Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon & Garfunkel cover)
12. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (U2 cover)
13. Rocket Man (Elton John cover)
14. No Pain

I had a great night - I hope everyone else did too...

peace,
Dann

That was a LOT of fun presenting (playing) at CANE yesterday - thank you to everyone who made it possible for me to play, to all the attendees, and to the long-ago writers of myth who put together some amazing material with which to write music.

For those of you who are wondering, the set list was:

1. Run Run Run (the story of Apollo and Daphne)
2. Paris (the story of Paris and the Trojan War)
3. Ulysses (the story of the Odyssey)
4. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (yes, the U2 song - it's a pretty good adaptation of Catullus 8)
5. Her Majesty Cry (the story of Orpheus and Euridice)
6. Fire ("Hephaestus's Lament")
7. Black Sails ("Ariadne's Lament")
8. Etc. (one of my songs not about myth, the last verse of which is in Latin)

the lyrics to the songs (and some of the recordings) can be found at http://www.dannrusso.com/cane_conference_2010.html
peace,
Dann

hey - just saw this on YouTube...it's me playing the Beatles' "Dear Prudence" and breaking a string at the Eggroll Cafe in Lowell, MA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUoft8a2UOw

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