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The Trouble With Monkeys played it's first gig! Check out www.cyclesandsushi.com/music/ttwm.html for some cool pics from the show. Rumor has it the little buggers might find themselves in the studio in the near future. . . . The Simple Things are slowly but surely completing their debut album. Instrumental tracks are done and partly mixed, and some of the vox are already in place. Stay tuned for more details and the release date.

Part I of the interview is the cover story for the October issue; part II will appear in the pages of the November Keyboard magazine. An amazing experience, hands down. Check it out!

Michael is working with two new, utterly different but equally cool bands. Introducing: The Simple Things (aka the punk rock of easy listening). The band completed it's first journey into the recording studio and is preparing to finish up overdubs. Keep an eye out for an end of year release. The Trouble With Monkeys Power pop! More details on an early October gig coming soon....

The new original song, produced almost exclusively with musicians collaborating remotely through eSession.com, is signed, sealed, and delivered. You can hear it on the Listen page and read a four-page, behind-the-scenes making-of story in the August '07 issue of Keyboard. Michael wrote the cover story on Dave Brubeck, too:)

After hours at NAMM '07 in Anaheim, CA, Michael jammed with keyboard master Arlan Schierbaum and others in Arlan's Ice Cream Truck of Heavy Grooves. Check out the YouTube video:

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