{"id":57,"date":"2008-02-29T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2024-06-27T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T00:40:05","slug":"deception-the-bull-n-raven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2008\/deception-the-bull-n-raven\/","title":{"rendered":"Deception @ the Bull ‘N Raven"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 17, Deception played to a packed house at the new Bull ‘N Raven in downtown Abbotsford. The new owner of the former Yorkshire Rose did a good job of cleaning the place up, and from my perspective, fixing the stage as well. I’m glad I no longer have to worry about twisting an ankle or falling into the crack that ran up the centre of the stage…Especially now a days: the chances of that are way higher than they used to be.<\/p>\n

It was wonderful that night to have my good friend, and fellow sax player, Ray Myers come out with a table full of his friends from Vancouver.<\/p>\n

I met Ray a month or 2 after moving back to BC in fall of 2004, when I answered an ad looking for a baritone sax player for an R& B band. I auditioned and got the gig. Working with Ray was a great deal of fun.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never heard Ray play or sing, and you like R& B and soul, you really need to check out his band. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he was heavily influenced by blues, soul and jazz in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Ray is also one of the kindest souls I have ever met in my life. I am very fortunate to be able to call him my friend.<\/p>\n

Our bass player, Steve, was not able to play with us because a medical emergency landed him in the hospital that night, so we had a friend of Art’s sit in at the last minute. Charles, our sub bass player was star struck when Ray walked into the place. He didn’t know that Ray was there because I invited him, and he said to me, “Do you know who that is? That’s Ray Myers!” Ray joined the band on stage for a song, and blew the crowd away with his musical and personal stylings as he walked the bar while soloing.<\/p>\n

 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Photo by G. Kraft. \u00a9 2008<\/h6>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Photo by G. Kraft. \u00a9 2008<\/h6>\n
\n
…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span><\/div>\n
 <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 17, Deception played to a packed house at the new Bull ‘N Raven in downtown Abbotsford. The new owner of the former Yorkshire …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[617,43,620,627,631,630,643,31],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deception","tag-bands","tag-blues-band","tag-deception","tag-musical-friends","tag-soprano-saxophone","tag-tenor-saxophone","tag-vintage-horns","tag-vintage-sax"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t