September 24th was amazing!

Friday. Just like any other Friday. Working as much as you can to keep busy so you don't think about your excitement for the weekend. This particular Friday we had some awesome plans and by about 3:00 I was done.....but I had another hour to go. Sometimes that excitement to leave work makes it go WAY slower!
Backtrack.....
A few months ago, we attended an ASCAP music conference in LA. There were many great speakers and classes, and in the midst of all this amazing stuff, theres Sinbad, the comedian. Right in front of us. Ty says, 'Go get your pic with him' I looked over and people kept asking him for pics so I didn't want to bug him when he was there for the expo but I decided now or never and asked him politely for a picture. He was sooooo nice and smiled big for the camera. I was impressed that he was so polite even with people bugging him. I have not met many celebrities but I always told myself, 'Mel, if you want to be a successful musician, you have to understand that part of the job includes fans' (I guess I never REALLY said that but its in my mind) This is why its always dissapointing when you ask someone you look up to for their time, and they act like jerks and freak out or sigh like 'Ya I GUESS' even though I know sometimes that is a lot to ask. I immediately followed him on Twitter.

Fast Forward a few months. Ty helps a nice lady from The Sheridan Hotel with some carpet (He sells carpet in a flooring store you pervs lol) and she asks him 'since you're a musician do you know these types of bands that could play at this event we have at the Sheridan?' Ty knew one of the types she was looking for and refered them. She later contacted him and said, 'We'd love to have you and your girlfriend come be VIPs at this event we hold at The Sheridan on September 24th from 4-7 pm. Its all free and you get a free room for the night.' DONE
Suddenly we realize, well shit...We are playing in Idaho Fals the very next morning. We decided we would have to miss the free room but could attend part of the event and head to IF later.
One day, while on Twitter, I see that Mr. Sinbad himself is coming to SLC September 24th, 7:00 pm. We decide to set aside $$.
Fast forward a few weeks. In the time between ASCAP and now, I have had the privaledge to tweet back and forth with Sinbad. Hes very cool, has a daughter who is a very talented and looks like driven, musician, and is still funny as hell. I mentioned that I saw he was coming to SLC. He says 'Let me know'
Fast forward to somewhere around the 19th. As we look at finances to go to Idaho Falls for our shows, we realize we don't have $$ for Sinbad tix. I am so sad. I tell Sinbad, looks like we wont make it. He says...'I'll hook you up' WHAT!?!?
I have this guilt complex lol Im thinking 2 things. 1: What a generous offer. 2: I hope he doesn't think I was trying for that. lol
Friday, September 24th. Work. Gone most the day either to a lunch or cause I left early so we could hit up the Rediscovering The Sheridan before we go to Sinbad!! We decided to go ahead and stay the free night cause we dont often get a chance to stay in a Sheridan lol. We are given nametags, and told to attend each of the 6 rooms which represent different places. 1: India 2:Italy 3:Japan 4:North Pole 5:Ireland 6:Costa Rica. Each room is dressed, and themed to the place and they have food and drink according to the culture. You get your fake passport stamped,which could win you some sweet schwag including tv's) and you eat some food, and drink some alcohol, and hang out. We left there and headed for Kingsbury Hall. We take a chance and take the President's Drive circle around to check for very unlikely open spots and...Theres one! We put about $1.00 in the meter before realizing we dont need to and practically skip to the Will-Call booth. We ask for our tickets and head inside. Ty looks at them and looks at me with amazement. Section A, seats 24 and 25. 4 rows back, and center. I Tweet Sinbad to tell him he's amazing and very generous. He tweets back, Make sure you come backstage after the show. WHAT!?!?! I swear if the guy had looked out the curtain and seen us he'd have seen two people giggling and trying to hold it together. We couldn't believe this was happening.
If you take one thing from this blog, here it is.....Sinbad is HILLARIOUS. If you ever get a chance to see him live, DO IT! I laughed so hard I thought I was going to throw up. My stomach was in pain and I'm pretty sure I had a 6 pack of muscle on our way out at the end. See Sinbad live. Thats all.
After the show, we waited for a bit to let the guy relax and I direct messaged him 'How do we get back there'
Long story short, he tells me to call him and gives me his #. Um...Ya....I called Sinbad and he gave us directions lol. (If you read this man, you'll either think we're crazy people or laug ha ha) I want to add something. Im not telling you this because we are bragging, I'm telling you this because we never have things like this happen and we were so excited and wanted to tell you how much fun it was....so maybe bragging a little lol jk. We walk in and the guy asks what we need. Very unsure of myself I go 'Um....we're here to see Sinbad?' lol 'Names? Oh ya right this way.' Back we go.
There he is. Motha Effing Sinbad in the flesh sitting on a chair hangin out. We greet, tell him how awesome he is cause he is lol, then talk music, life, etc. I think I said 'It's true' like 50 times. Then its time to go. He's gonna go see a the Wayans Bros show at Wiseguys and we have a trip tomorrow and a free hotel room. He stops to take pics with his waiting fans one of which was FREAKING out. I thought it was sweet how much she loved him and how nice he was even though she was almost knocking him over with her jumping lol. Very cool.
We go back to our 4 star hotel room in awe. Both of us are just so amazed that this day has even happened I half expected a semi truck to hit us. It was almost too good.
We crawl into the bed at the hotel, and feel like a million bucks. I have never felt like a VIP QUITE like that.
In all the craziness of life, these amazing plusses happened on the same night. Honestly, I feel so fortunate to have such a beautiful day. I told Ty that someday, when we're fulltime musicians, more VIP moments are likely, and I only hope that we are always as excited for them as we were that night.
Someday, I hope that we can give someone the excitement and joy Sinbad gave us.
And someday, I hope we can hook HIM up with a great night with us somewhere.
This, made me feel successful. We may not be Katy Perry or Jack Johnson (Two TOTALLY different people I know) but we are successful people, successful musicians, we see good things and appreciate them for everything they are. I never expected to get tickets from Sinbad, but that's the point. We don't EXPECT anything. We do the best we can with what we have and sometimes super cool people come out of the woodwork and show us that good things happen for what ever reason.
September 24th was amazing.

Thanks for reading and keep watching for more. I blog about once every other week and try to post it on FB and Twitter. I will blog about recording but we are still mid adventure on that and I want to tell the whole story. Good things guys. Good things.

Inspiring Days Are The Best

Well, here I am sitting in my living room listening to our newest song (literally less than 1 hour old as I start to write this) on my phone over and over. I wish we could just release this shit like, now! LOL.
Today has been what I hope fulltime musicianhood would be like. Wake up a little later in the day, get ready, go play a show, go home, write a song, work on it, record a little, head out to a destination such as recording or in the future touring, and then play my little heart out. WHAT A GREAT LIFE!!!!!
Then theres writing songs. Sometimes I get inspiration at work and eventhough I write it down and do what I can with it, I always get home and the inspiration is gone. That, is, the, WORST.
But, does anyone else feel like they can't say what they want to say in a song for one reason or another. I mean, I personally don't like 'sharing feelings' and getting all mushy etc. It's just no my thing. So I sing about it. Its the only way to get it out and you HAVE to get it out SOMEHOW. So, sometimes, I have a super inspiring day and we write a song that I think contains all my current feelings with out wearing my heart on my sleeve. Yuck lol. Now I feel renewed. After you do anything you're proud of, its such a relief. This is why inspiring days are the best. Its like this renewal of yourself. You don't feel so tired, so exausted. You just feel better. I'd love to hear from you guys what inspires you, what you do with it, and how it makes you feel when you get it all out.
Tonight, we will be leaving to record in California and give a few of our songs the recording they deserve. This is such a great step for us and we are really excited to take it. Big things guys. Seriously, we may not be the first of our friends to live the dream, but we'll see you all soon :D
Side note, thank you to you who support us. We can't tell you how much it means to us and how special it is to share this journey with you. Some of you are such great friends and we can't imagine life with out you. Every time one of you leaves for greener pastures, we can feel the space you leave behind but are so excited for you and your new journeys and the fact that its one more couch in this country we can crash on later lol. Those who are here with us in the UT. We can't wait for more :D