Introducing Musician Walter Day

Walter Day

After grocery shopping late Saturday night, I went upstairs to Walter's office to pay my electric bill.   Coldest month ==>> highest bill.   When he asked what's new with me, I said "more attention to music lately" and told him about recent fluting and blogging.   I showed him my blog here and we listened to the Open Mic mp3 that I managed to upload.   His eyes kindled and he left the room for a moment and came back with his guitar.

Walter Day is winding down his celebrated season as the first and most famous referee in video gaming history by packing up his Twin Galaxies paraphernalia and sending it to its new home in New Jersey.   His new focus is music, specifically the 137 songs that he has been conducting in his head with orchestral strings and horns for decades.   He hears his songs with rich, multi-layered vocal harmonies and he wants to get them out of his head and onto recordings.   So he sang a few songs for me and I joined him with improvved harmonies.  

Maybe his extra focus on music lately has been boosting mine as well . . . like the coldest month was a pullback prepping to slingshot us through a warm spring tingle and a rocket-hot summer.

Backing at the Festino

Dick DeAngelis is a great friend of music in Fairfield and last December he hosted a party for musicians.   He said musicians support causes with free performances throughout the year, and this was his way to thank them for their generosity.   Dick cooked up some great Italian food, brought red wine, and collected the cool of Fairfield to evoke a special atmosphere for making music.   Several entertained us with solos and a few of us jammed with them as back-up players.   I did a few backing vocals.   Here's an 8-minute jam from that night ~ ~ ~



Players (left to right): Keith DeBoer, Christy, David Hurlin, Jon Estrin, Trina Neal, Tim Britton
Video posted by FairfieldRocksMe

Mike's Toon

Mike the guitarist

Mike's is the first caricature I made.   I like the transparent background and plan to do that to all the sketches.   Sketched so far:

     Christy's toon
     Mike's guitar

It'll take some time to climb the learning curve for the new software, GIMP, but I expect it to be worthwhile because it's in my budget (being free), plus being open-source appeals to my sense of amity and goodwill.

Christy's Toon

Christy the lead singer

Last March I created a caricature of my face to use in a poster for promoting the band.   I've been using as a facebook profile pic.   It includes my instrument, a microphone.   Haven't pixed a flute yet.

I gave Photoshop Elements a try-out for creating the sketches ~ Mike's guitar, my face, and Mike's face ~ and now I plan to use GIMP (free and open-source) to continue crafting the collection.