Tag: David Reed Watson
Release
Yes… my band Electric Messiah has their first release. It’s called Tell Me.
You can download it at this link.
username: electricmessiah
password: freedownload
This is the first song off of our yet to be named album coming out soon. We’ve got a number of songs written and recorded already and we’re all in the studio polishing everything up. I’m excited because I wanted a release before I head out on the Monsters of Rock Cruise next week.
I had posted on facebook about all of the cool stuff coming down the pipe. Some people would call it luck, but if you know me I don’t believe in luck. Michael Bernard Beckwith calls it Living Under Cosmic Knowledge. I believe this.
More to come…..
Peace,
D
House of Blues – Las Vegas
We had our very first show together as Electric Messiah this past Saturday evening. I don’t think it could have been a better night. Everything aligned, mind you, we’ve never played on stage together. Jason and I once, but that was it. Little tweaks we need to make here and there but all in all it was a success.
To add to the evening my girl was right there in the front row. She’s a trooper. Seriously, she is. She had to leave for work right after our set, I wanted her to stay but I understand. I love her. I also saw out in the back of the audience Oz Fox from Stryper. Thank you Oz. That was cool of you to come downstairs to see us. See… he was upstairs at the Courtyard Stage for the Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp. I didn’t know that was going on at the same time and neither did the people who came to see us. What a pleasant surprise because I got to go up there with my all access pass and hang out with legends. People like; Oz Fox (Stryper), Lez Warner (The Cult), Rudy Sarzo & Frankie Banali (Quiet Riot), Eric Johnson, Tony Franklin (The Firm), Elliot Easton (The Cars), Gary Hoey, Phil Soussan (Ozzy) …. Whew. Talk about shivers. And then to add to the pot, I was chatting with Jason Ebs about him singing with Joe Perry on stage. Mind blowing. One of my heroes.
Anyway, enough with the name dropping. 🙂
To sum it up… we had a great night. After loading all of our gear at the loading dock we were greeted by Vinnie Paul and Carrot Top (friends of JP’s) before they headed inside for the festivities.
As I said in my last blog. I love my life.
I leave you with one of the songs we did at the House of Blues. It’s called, Norse Sword.
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I Love My Life
Every once in a while we all get down. It’s a part of life. If we never had our down days we would never appreciate the good days. It’s just the way it is, the Ying and Yang of it all. When we’re young we don’t quite understand this as much, the world is too chaotic and mysterious. I remember a lot of my youth and I remember how it sucked so bad or it was super awesome. There was no in between but as I’ve gotten older I look at the down times a little differently, now they are momentary pieces in time, knowing full well that the good times will soon come around.
It took years to get to this point though, and it wasn’t easy, not because its not easy but because I wouldn’t allow it. It was ‘impossible’. I have a much different attitude about that now. Anything is possible. Yes, ANYTHING. Don’t get me wrong… the Ego still trips me up from time to time. We’re only human.
I love my life. I love the ups and downs of it. It has made me who I am now and I am grateful for it. There are times when people are talking about their experiences and I just want to pipe in and tell them its going to be ok because I’ve experienced exactly what they have…. but I can’t. If I do I’ll sound like a know-it-all or a bit pompous. They need to figure it out themselves.
A little lesson for you know-it-alls out there…. nobody wants your advice unless they’ve asked for it. Believe me. I’ve been that guy. It only pisses them off and then they avoid you. Best to just smile and nod your head. 🙂
I write about this in one of the Electric Messiah songs. The song is called ‘Tell Me’. I’ll be singing it tonight at the House of Blues. The chorus goes like this…
‘You’ll come around when you can’.
Basically what it means is that you can’t come around until you’ve lived through it and you’ll probably go through it again and again and again if you ignore it and DON’T live through it. We tend to ignore a lot in our lives because we’re afraid. But if we just breath and let it flow through we’ll look back and say to ourselves, “I’m glad I went through that because now I know what I don’t want in my life and in the future I’ll recognize that.” Well, in theory I’m hoping you’re thinking that. A lot of people don’t. They ignore it and just play the victim instead of recognizing that they, in fact, created all of this themselves.
As a dear friend and mentor said to me one day, “Dave. Who’s always there when these things happen?”.
Peace,
D
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Live in Las Vegas
Last night we had a great show at Vamp’d in Las Vegas. I was extremely pleased at the turnout considering that most of our friends were either at the Great White show or at our friends birthday party at the Dive bar… I wasn’t expecting a good turnout. To my surprise there were quite a few people there and a few that made it back from Great White to catch us doing ‘Freebird’.
I met a couple at the end of the show that were going to get married but instead got distracted and ended up over at Count’s Customs. While they were there they saw that Danny and Kori owned a club and that a Skynyrd Tribute was playing there. Well, long story short, this guys brother in law was one of the people that lived through the plane crash so you can image the emotions. I’m glad that we did the band justice for him. I really am. That’s what its all about to me anyway. Connections. Bringing people together.
And to add to all of that, his girl got our card and wants to book us at the House of Blues in Anaheim.
I would call that a successful night.
Thank you everyone that could make it to the show. Thank you for those that couldn’t but were there in spirit.
Peace,
D
NAMM 2014
Now that I’m rested after an amazing week I can sit down and tell you a bit about what happened. I was trying to do all of this while in Anaheim, but it was impossible. There was spotty reception all week long in the convention center as well as at the hotel.
When I got to Anaheim I had to check in to the hotel and bust my butt to get over to get my pass before our interview with Brad Cohen of Buzz TV. Trina, our Manager, had her head down, texting, and walking a pattern like memorizing some grand maze in her head all the way to the Mike Lull Custom Guitar Booth where we were getting interviewed. I have no idea how she navigated her way there… I just followed and did what I was told. JP is endorsed by Mike Lull and he wanted to introduce our new band, Electric Messiah, to Mike and the rest of the world and we are grateful that Brad took the time to interview us. We felt like Rock Stars, especially after Brad just got done interviewing Dixie Dregs guitarist, Steve Morse. And the week just got better and better as it went along. Early mornings and late nights shmoozing with industry people and other musicians. Another highlight of the week was playing at the Calzone Cases booth. Our drummer, Michael Maysonet, couldn’t make it out this year so JP’s drummer from his band Kaos back in New York, Tommy Nagy, filled in for him.
So… in summary, it was amazing. I’m tired but satisfied with the results. I’d like to thank the following people for their support and friendship;
Clayton USA Guitar Picks
Spectraflex Cables
Epiphone Guitars
Chris DeLisa at Sabian Cymbals
Mike Lull from Mike Lull Custom Guitars
Brad Cohen and his film crew from Buzz TV
Joe Calzone and crew of Calzone Cases
The folks at McPherson Guitars.
George Kennedy at Rock-n-Roll GangStar Apparel
The guys at Temple Audio Design
Terry at Music & Musicians Magazine
Sennheiser Microphones
and all of the cool people I met throughout the week as well as my friends; Tommy Denander, Kori Koker, Stoney Curtis & Jackie, J. Boomer Crenier, Ron Robertson, John Fitzgerald McGill, Randall “R2” Bostick, Chris Eversoul, Eric Zaveta of J&E Guitars in Las Vegas, Gregg Fox, Kevin Wilson, Darren Simonian of Jewelry by ISIS, Paul Geary from Extreme, Todd La Torre from Queensryche, Lloyd Grant, Jeff Cohen, Gregg Fox, Rod Miller & Leslie Shields Hoen, Rick Martinez & Amy, Gus Griesinger, Jose Karose, Johnny Haro, Lez Warner, Margie DiBella, Roberto Quintanar, Cathy Alberts, Joel Steele, Kim Poudrier, Bob Vitti, Stephanie Quick, Vince Galante, Sylvana Hart, Leah Burlington, Stacy Blades & Paula Mauter, Ernesto Thunder, Freddy Stahmer, Whitney Wagoner, Michael Lardie of Great White, Reneé & Ron Keel, Scott Westbrook, Gee Silver & April Jones, Glenn Cannon, (the other) David Watson, Channing Heath, Steven G Knight, Kimberly Joy, Valerie Ince, Meytal Cohen….. whew!
And of course special thanks to my band Electric Messiah; JP Michaels & Trina, Jason Constantine & Brandy, Michael Maysonet and last but especially not least, Taylor Gedgaudas.
I’m sure I missed a ton of names. Please forgive me if you were excluded. It wasn’t intentional.
Peace,
D
Electric Messiah Biography
I’ve been scrambling around the house here trying to get everything done before we take off to NAMM on Wednesday. So, I’m sorry I haven’t written much. The boys and I (Electric Messiah) are doing our best at getting our promo packs in place to hand out. We were hoping to get a recording out before we took off, but unfortunately time wasn’t on our side. It’s tough when everybody is gigging. Hard to lock down recording time. Oh well, that’s Rock n’ Roll!
There is so much I want to do when I get there. I’m like a kid in a candy store. I can’t exclude my girlfriend in this… she and her friends are just as excited. We’re going to head to a traditional dinner at the Rainbow the evening before we head to Anaheim for NAMM. My buddy Jeff puts it on. It will be nice seeing the old crew in California. If I get a moment I’m going to head to the Marina to see some of my friends. Possibly sit on the pier with a cup of coffee from The Cow’s End. I miss the Marina a lot. I miss the water. Being with Taylor is a pretty good trade though.
If you have a moment take a look at our Press Kit and go to the links that are on it. This is going to be one hell of a line-up.
