Worship lately

So, since I'm no longer at Kaman Music Corporation, I thought I might make this a place to talk about my drumming and what I've been up to lately.

Well last Friday (the 3rd) I got a call from my Worship Leader (aka WL) friend Derek Paulo to come play with him at his last go around at Magnolia Presbyterian. I said, "Sure! Love to!"

Saturday comes, I'm getting some laundry together for the what else, but to wash and I decide to turn my cell phone on. "I have a message?" It's from Magnolia Baptist's Contemporary Worship Leader......it's 4 p.m. he left me the message at 11 a.m......."can you come do Sunday? the guy that said he wasn't going to flake on us any more, flaked on us." Hmmmmmmmmmmm, what to do; what to do? I called him to tell him I was already committed at another church and he said, "oh we found someone for the first two services and you can use his kit at ll" Since my one at Mag Pres was at 9, then why not? "Sure, I'm there", I says to Mr. Steve Brown. So that weekend was a little busy.

At Mag Pres we did: (this is not in order, I don't really remember what all we did)

Hosanna by United (Not to be confused with Rosanna by Toto)
Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall
Beautiful by someone I don't know
I think we did another one or two, but it escapes me at the moment.

Then at the 11 a.m. service at Magnolia Baptist we did the following:

Here Is Our King (Crowder) this was cool...one of my favorites....odd to do off the cuff though
Let God Arise (tomlin) RAWK!!!
Trading My Sorrows - kind of cool, but a little goony, if you ask me
All creatures of our God and King - the illumination version of this Crowder tune. I have the version from "Can You Hear Us" Glad we went over that before service
We Fall Down - I don't think I played on this one
then we closed with Let God Arise....all in all it was fun.

This week, I again guested at Mag on Adams (aka Magnolia Baptist). It was pretty fun.

Let God Arise, Tomlin (not as Rawk, but close)
Friend of God X (goofy song, that I'm not a big fan of)
Gifted Response, Redman (love to play in the perfect time signature of 6/8, metric modulation is fun)
How Great Is Our God, Tomlin -(part of the "new hymnal")
Grace Flows Down, barely played on this one....Mellow (that's my style) (dinner for two a the wampus if you know where those lyrics came from)

So, I'm not playing next weekend as I have more catering gigs to handle and haven't been asked to play anywhere else any time soon.

P.S. If anyone knows a cool little coffee house type place myself and Mr. Paulo could play. Please let me know......or invite us....we're looking to do some stuff for "fun". He's not a bad writer or singer......c'mon people....let the love shine in.