It was a great couple of month on the road with my BS&T Brothers and back home with the family on what little time I have off. I enjoyed the shows up north in Quakertown,PA and Barnstable, MA. It was a run of HOT SHOWS!! No really the crowds were awesome, plus it was HOT AS ALL GET OUT!!! We all braved the heat and rocked the night away on those two shows. Thanks for having us and I hope we meet again.

The kids all started back to school last week and Aidan move up to 6th grade and into middle school, he also got his first phone so he can keep up with Mom & Dad. Caroline turned 73 on August 3rd, while my spry son Caleb turned 9 on the 5th. What can I say I dig the older ladies! We had a Birthday week that was out of sight, Nan & Papa let us have a family get together over at their place so the kids could swim off all the sugar from the cake and ice cream we had. It was a fun week off with the family catching up from several months of burning the road candle down to a stumpy wick. 

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After a short break we headed back over to to Europe and visited our friends in Germany and Switzerland for a few days. The crowd in Germany was outrageous!! The venue was to capacity and there where fans outside the area we were playing. It was NUTS!!! At one point I had to tell them "We can't start playing the next song until you stop clapping" yet they clapped on!! We received 3 encores and gave all we had that night, then hopped on a flight home to the states 5 hours later. Then just as we were a few miles out from Newark our plane had to swerve to keep from hitting a drone that was flying in unauthorized air space above the airport. CRAZY!!!!!      

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/07/31/newark-airport-drone-2/

As I opened my bo@bobice.com email the first thing that his me was and email from Thomas in Germany telling me how much fun he had from the night before at our show. He and I have been emailing back and forth over the past few weeks and he is one heck of a nice guy with a beautiful wife Moni who was right beside him parting and jamming out to BB/BS&T, I've made a friend for life on the other side of the world. That's the power of MUSIC, it breaks down language barriers and allows us to be humans with the same love, compassion and appreciation for something bigger than any of us. Rock on my German Brother!!

Then back to Norway for the Silda Jazz Festival, it was really great! The food, the bands, the crowd was sold out and we were rocking from wall to wall. Our friend Ole Borud joined us again for another show and he really nailed it! I enjoy watching other performers do their thing with this diverse catalog of music. Ole knocked it out of the park on his songs and we even got to shared a performance of Vehicle again as an encore for the packed house. Great work Mr. Ole Borud!!

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Now I'm back at the house getting ready to go for a swim with the family at Nana & Papa's for a bit. It's fun to play Rockstar when I'm on stage folks... I'm grateful to be able to make a living doing now for over 25 years. But the joy I get from the past 14 years of being husband and father is what I live for. Because when the applause dies down, the venue clears, you sit alone in a room with yourself and the thoughts of the ones you hold dear, you better like what you see when you look in the mirror getting ready for your 5am flights home. Because family are their waiting to get a Dad and Husband, not a tired pretend to be Rockstar. I'm blessed beyond belief folks!

BB OUT!!

BS&T was in Visalia, CA last Sat. to raise money for "HANDS IN THE COMMUNITY" organization that helps people in the community by offering volunteers to help with different issues that their citizens experience but may not have the access to the funds to fix the problems at hand. We had one heck of a night and the crowd was AWESOME!!!!

We always have fun onstage performing from this amazing catalog of music each night. We are truly a "BAND OF BROTHERS" and a team of players who always leave everything out on the stage every night. Now that I have the bo@bobice.com email I've been getting more cool show shots than ever!!!! Kacey Lessley snapped a few shots of me on stage and I did some photoshop magic to them and turned 2 photos into 1. Thank you for sending the photos over to my email Kacey and for being a true BB/BS&T fan, we couldn't do it without you young lady. Here is an autographed copy of the photo I touched up, I appreciate you sending it over to me.

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After I got back to GA and spent some down time with my family and work on some new music, I got a surprise invitation to head over to Greenville, SC from my friend Bert Hesse who heads up the entertainment production company STUDIO SOUTH in CA. Bert was kind enough to introduce me to Mrs. Vivian A. Wong and her team who gave me a tour of their incredible facility and was nice enough to take time out of their busy schedule to met with me about some interesting projects they are working on. I look forward to bringing Caroline & The Kids to Greenville for a visit with them all again once I return from Germany & Norway in a few weeks. Thank you Mrs. Wong & Bert for having me and I can't wait till we do it again!!  

The Kongsburg Jazzfest in Kongsburg, Norway and our friend Rolf Bugge who brought us over treated Blood, Sweat & Tears wonderful last week, we won't forget that when we return next month for round 2 of our Norwegian “muzik-fest”. One of the coolest things about BS&T is how open our group is to having guests share the stage with us on certain tours, shows and festivals. This trip we had a guest vocalist  Mr. Ole Børud who is a native son of Norway and he made his country proud with his renditions of his favorite BS&T songs. I always enjoy watching other performers do their thing, especially when they have the chops to back up the incredible catalog of music that BS&T has. Ole is a true talent and meeting his family was a special treat too. He will be with us when we play next  month on Aug,10th  at the Sildajazz Jazz Fest Haugesund, Norway, so come on out and join in the fun