FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW: My wife, Pamela and I perform together in our Pat Benatar tribute band, HeartBreaker. HeartBreaker started out as the first Pat Benatar tribute in 1998 and is the only tribute band linked to Pat Benatar's official website. We have played over 200 shows in front of thousands of people and are considered the best at what we do. HeartBreaker averages over 3000 hits per month on the band's website, www.benatartribute.com. HeartBreaker has been joined on stage numerous times by founding member and original bassist of the Benatar band, Roger Capps. This is a tremendous honor for any tribute band! Roger is also one of the co-writers of Benatar's hit song, 'Hell Is For Children' and 'My Clone Sleeps Alone'. In addition to that, Pam and I have met Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo (Benatar's husband, guitarist and producer) who gave us support for forming HeartBreaker! HeartBreaker has played shows at the world-famous House of Blues, Hollywood and Anaheim, B.B. Kings Blues Club, Galaxy Theatre, Pala, Normandie, Bicycle and Fantasy Springs Casinos in CALIFORNIA, River Cree Casino in CANADA and has performed in Japan, Arizona and Las Vegas. With a mailing list of over 1000 and counting, HeartBreaker takes promotions very seriously. For more information visit our website at www.benatartribute.com and for upcoming shows visit: www.benatartribute.com/upcomingshows ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Here are a few great quotes about music and guitar playing from famous people in music, literature, philosophy and the like... PLATO - "Music is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful." NICCOLO PAGINNINI - "I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet." MILES DAVIS' answer to the question, "What is Jazz?" - "If you have to ask, you'll never know." COLE PORTER - "My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer." LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - "The amount of money one needs is terrifying..." JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - "There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - "To play without passion is inexcusable!" HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON – “Where words fail, music speaks." FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE – “Without music, life would be a mistake." FRANZ SCHUBERT - "Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same." WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - "I write [music] as a sow piddles." GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL - "Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows." ALBERT EINSTEIN - “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music." PLATO – “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, and flight to the imagination." YEHUDI MENUHIN (classical violinist) – “Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous." FREDERIC CHOPIN – “Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two." LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN – “Music should strike fire from the heart of men, and bring tears from the eyes of women.†BB KING - "The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." OZZY OSBOURNE – “I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.†JEFF BECK – “I just didn't know what direction people want, you know music was going down a path, and I couldn't turn on a radio without being disgusted completely. And now it's just gotten to the point where I can't listen to anything, it's trashy. It's just a hundred channels of garbage all over. And not just here, it's in England as well. It's almost just like a global effort to knock the sense out of you if you're a musician (laughs). There's not any little morsel for musicians to latch on to. It's all glossy, lipstick shit. More tits and bare midriffs. Unless you go to a blues club, or some outrageous, hip dive somewhere that nobody knows about until the night before, the pickings are slim for inspiration... I still listen to Django Reinhardt, his catalog. I'm just catching up with that after several years of not really listening to him proper. You know he's the greatest... it's the fear thing. ... but now I’m getting used to it... He (Django Reinhardt) was God. Just amazing.†JOHN CHESSON – “An intellectual is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger." WARREN DIMARTINI (Ratt Guitarist) – “Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and tie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song." CHET ATKINS – “Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Some things you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.†LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN – “Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.†JOHN LENNON - "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." FRANK ZAPPA - INTERVIEWER: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?" FRANK'S RESPONSE: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?" Myspace Layouts
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