Entries by AlanPaul

"Beijing Blues"

“Beijing Blues” from the Star Live, Beijing, May 29, 2009. This is the biggest club in Beijing.. holds about 1,500 and we had a good crowd.. performance was part of the IDrummer show, featuring the city’s top drummers. Lu Wei was being honored.. He did a big solo before this tune and we did two […]

Twitter and Shenzhen gigs

This is my second email post and the first to try and include images.It is delayed because I sent to the wrong address. Trying again…And again.. Just got bounced back because size was too large.. I have now reduced to one photo… Pictures were trying to capture the atrocious hotel room we stayed at last […]

Dong

The more I thought about this trip to China in the weeks before undertaking it, the more convinced I became that I had to find a way to see Dong, my original Chinese teacher, whom many of you will remember dropped out, left Beijing and went to Huashan, a holy mountain near Xi’an, to become […]

On to Wuxi and laoshi (teacher) Dong

NOTE: UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN NOT POST PICTURES. BLOGSPOT IS BANNED IN CHINA NOW AND NOW THAT INCLUDES THE POSTING PAGE. I HAVE TO USE SOME OTHER WAYS OF GETTING ON HERE AND THAT SOMEHOW PRECLUDES PHOTO POSTING. I HAVE SOME GOOD ONES. WILL PUT SOME ON FACEBOOK IF I HAVE A CHANCE…AND LOAD THEM UP […]

Closure

A big part of the motivation for this return trip was the elusive goal of closure, a term I’ve always sort of hated and considered trite. I can already feel it coming in many respects. I have retraced so many steps of places I used to frequent and while they still look good and it’s […]

Day Two: Get the band together, boys

We had our first show last night, which became acoustic because of rain.. it was a lot of fun. We had a rehearsal yesterday afternoon and our first show last night. I was a little worried at first if one short rehearsal would be enough before welaunched into all these shows. I had some concerns […]