Jimi Yamagishi: next gig

Amazing RAWKIN' gig as always! New friends to meet, great food & some truly memorable moments. HOpe to do it again in 2012!

Small crowd but electrifying performances & I git to jam with the Doc on a few songs!

Some of the best songwriting ever! Great artists, good beer & a whole lotta fun! Hope to share these nights with more of you!

Nice to be featured in front! Hopefully, this can turn into a booking in the BACK!

Well, the gig didn't happen because it literally got PIRATED.
Many of you know, my good friend James Potkey passed away recently.
His friends in the "Pirate community" decided to have a tribute that night so the gig was pre=empted. It was a great night of remembering him.

Truly amazing! Interesting that there was such a contrast between male & female artists!

Fun! Plan to be back!

Found out the venue 2 days before the event. It was well attended though & we RAWKED it.
Thanks to Mark Alee who sat in on drums. Nice to have a world class drummer around!

Well attended & sold a lot of CDs, proceeds donated to JEMS. One guy in another band reminded me of myself 30 years ago...

Gina venturini sings my sonmgs much better than I do. In fact I had people asking about songs I've been singing for years, but they sound SO much better with Gina, they thought they were new!

First gig w/ Gina. Fun stuff! her material this one, next is my stuff. Sounded good for first time out!

It was a RAWKIN' PARTY!

It was a great gig, & lotsa fun playing with Andy Katt!
We did Life is Just a Party & Paradigm as part of our set. Packed house & good vibe all around!

As always, Lowell's band RAWKS!
It was great tradin' licks with 'em

I had lotsa fun, & as I expected, it was a JAM!
:)
Amy Raasch is a new friend & she inspired me to write a song a week & post it to myspca, so I'm doing that now!
www.myspace.com/mtnbch

MAny of you now know, Lori & I are shiftin' gears & headin' off in different directions. No. it's not a split, but other opportunities have come up.
We will still do stuff together, & if there's a demand, we will gig together, but at this moment, it's not a top priority.
a LOT of new material was generated during the past 3 months though, so keep droppin' by my live gigs & myspace (www.myspace.com/mtnbch) to hear more

The gig went well, & Alberto works well with Lori

I posted it after the event because there are some of you who are SO supportive, I know you would have crashed the party t' say hello! (Annie, thanks for droppin' by!) Kudos to Jenn Sato for puttin' it all together & providing the op t' make a lil' noize!
:)

WOW!
Working with Lori is amazing! we played to a PACKED house, with lots of Lori's friends in attendance for the first set, & lots of MY friends there for the second half! If you were there you know what magical night it was! look forward to more from us soon!

TK promotions is a wonderfull company run by Toni Koch. She's all about helping indie artists find their way & making things happen. Although I was really scheuled to be the front-end buffer as people arrived for the "headliners" I got to play a short set of my own material too, & was well recieved.
The 'Stick was supposed to be closed over aa year ago, as the building wa sold, but with changes in the economy & all that, stuff got delayed, another deal wa made, & though the sign out back is no longer there, the venue is vibrant & thriving.
I will also be playing there May 25th with my new songwriting partner, Lori Steele!

Pastor Sunny Kang runs this place, but this night he was not present.
Although I was the featured artist, the response to the local teens doing their open mic was MUCH better.
Damn. I felt old.
What was cool though, is their PARENTS all came up & APOLOGIZED! WOW! I was expecting "I Sucked" but instead, wa greeted with U RAWK & more support than I normally would have had at a good gig!
I've been promised a more "adult" gig later this year.
:)

WOW! The restaurant out front says Tapatios, & where we played looks like a cannery/bottling facility!
I'm SURE this was it! Still smelled of peppers & vinegar. There was an excellent do-wop vocal group ahead of me, & a few other artists who really knew what they were doing, espceially the Latin guy after me. Everyone was shkin their thang. Way cool, PACKED even with no place to sit & limited munchies, poor lighting & limited sound, people were there to SUPPORT the cause.
It proved that if people really WANT to be somewhere, bare bones is fine.
Thanks Juan, U RAWK!

The venue was being sold, so this was the last one there.
It will be missed.
I had a good time seeing lots of friends, & for a change my wife came out with me! That was the best part!
:)

Thanks for coming!
Lunch was great too!

Well...
Soundcheck was great.
But my presets were lost so I played my ONE & ONLY SONG ACOUSTICALLY. All the way to Seattle for ONE SONG & NO PA for 600 people.
Of course, it got dialed in AFTER my song.
I backed up my friend Calvin Joe for that & was pissed off enough to SHRED on my guitar. AFterwards, I got a lot of new fans for that, so I guess it wans't a completely worthless gig.
PLus I got to hang with Jon & Den, & spend time with Jay, friends I haven't seen in over 20 years!
My wife got to see what was happening & realized I need to get out & play more.
:)
Thank You God.
:)

Cancelled!