Oh my gosh.. the close top ten thrill last night....
We were outside last night just before normal sundown... and I had walked to the west field to shoot a few pics of the wonderfully painted sky God provided... As I made my way back towards the swings where Ann and Isabella were, they had finished and were walking back towards me... when... get ready and softly, don't let the hunters know.... I looked past Ann and Isabella towards the east end of our family park.... there walking across it less than 120 feet from us were ..... get ready.. yelp.... 4 does. NOW that is cool. We have seen their tracks near and across our garden about 25 feet to the west of Jake and Trisha's home, and around other parts of the yard, but NEVER have I seen them except once when we were building our home here... so first time in 27 years!
What a neat site! Mother Nature adding to our park.. Waiting on a photo of H and her new prize she won at a meeting she and Paul attended few nights back. It will be worth the wait!!
Heard Austyn Lee Moffat won his 2nd ballgame last night 9-7 and all made it home before the bad storms made it overhead. Congrats Austyn!!
Flatland Entertainment, Tough Records, Flatland Recording Studio, MIU and GP Management are busting at the seams these days. I am very proud. We are now consulting with numerous artists who are in fact sending others to us, so we must be doing something right, haha. It is such an honor to help these young folks "find their wings". Some will make it some might not, but at least they won't end up cheated by some music business wannbees... It seems that about once a week now there is a call or two from east or west coast or Nashville... we are catching folks eyes, and ears. We now have our three signed artists and another we are in serious negotiations with at this time from Tulsa. It will be two and two hopefully.. rockers and country, and what is really funny, two are my discoverys and two are Gregs!
Our recording studio business is picking up. We have for us a huge milestone coming up - Our 100th project will be finished. I am very proud of this. More on this later.
but of all the things I am most proud of... (farmer in me) we have a real problem with our rest room at the studio, so we are making an effort to fix it as we can ... but for now.. drum roll please... no no BIG DRUM roll. PLEASE??? we have a porta pottie.... hahaha.. yelp you can imagine how bad that looks but how wonderful it is to use!!! and it is under contract, hahahahahaha....
for those of you who know Nick Gibson... he has GRADUATED from OSU with a degree in marketing and is now full time artist! now leaking info here... we are starting his next cd with a studio session Friday with band to get feel for what they want to do and songs to include, but they will be in studio working on it Friday. I am excited regarding this new cd as it will be all he and band and us.. at least at this writing.
Ryan's CD New One is in the completion stages for writing, now the producing starts. Casey Twist, who is now with Jack Ingrams band (bassiest from badwater ) is playing on it and probably bringing along a great guitarist. This CD will be rock... bluesy... with some van morrision/bob dylan style, even a little bonnie raitt'ish. Ryan is really evolving... not bad for an OU graduate! haha... Hopefully this will be completed and Ryan will be touring in the fall, to winter time period.
Chance Anderson has a new cd that is close to done but was done somewhere else and it is not quite finished. We are going to remaster it, I believe and release it, and he is fired up about getting started on his second one this fall.
Sweetwater Jam, a group previously know as Rustz Nuts, from SW OK are heading back into studio to work on their next cd with us. these guys do it all and been doing it for several years, without direction... but cool sound and look.
Casey Twist is wanting to find time to work on his first release in between gigs with Jack Ingram and Gavin DeGraw... with Gavin, Casey's been overseas, and on all the late night tv shows...
We finished up Clint Osman's new CD that was released last Tuesday.
Dominick McKlinney is working on his second CD with us and is about 1/2 finished.
and the list goes on and on... busy time at the studio.
Have I put you to sleep yet?? Did you know all this is happening in Stillwater in at an unmarked location... haha.... yes I am proud and bragging..so I will stop now... sigh....
Overheard this story on RFD-TV... when an old man hired a young man to work for him, he told him the best way to enjoy working for him and keeping his job was, when the old man ask him to go get something or go perform a task, the old man wanted to see his legs "spinning out" and when the lad returned the old man wanted to see him "sliding in". Now that is some great advice. Think about how it makes you feel to ask someone to do something and they mope off and back... sigh... Long and short.. the old man is 98 and started the biggest livestock sales auction in LA and today the young man at 58 owns and operates it after working his whole life for the old man, never missing a day and he said he passed on this knowledge to those who work this auction still today. And they have the longest retention of employees and are the biggest because of how they treat folks! and he said smiling... "we all spin out and slide in! That is the simple secret to our success!"
Enough 'bout me, now, how 'bout you??
have a great day..... enjoy the nice cool wet weather. I promise you, yelp, totally promise you it will change!
