Lead Connect Praise

Yesterday marked the clearing of the last hurdle in the completion of the new CD “Today”. We finally got the artwork proofs done after four edit revisions.  As I was standing at the bus stop waiting on my sons to arrive home this week, one of the neighbors asked me how the CD project was coming along. When the group began to discuss this long awaited CD, another good friend said that “the last 10% of any project is harder than the first 90!” After self producing this CD, I would have to agree with him.

The detail in adding the last tracks for sweetening the tunes, the edits in mixing, the proofreading and liner notes were the toughest parts. That being said, when those things are done well, they turn a good project into Great! Live in the big picture, execute with excellence, and dwell in the details long enough to make the project extraordinary. This is as true in making a CD as it is in remodeling a kitchen or baking a cake for a friends birthday.

Everyone have a great weekend!

My Top 20 Favorite One Hit Wonders (My research done through www.onehitwondercentral.com)
Sugar Hill Gang (Rappers Delight) 2. Lipps (Funkytown) 3. Bow Wow Wow (I Want Candy) 4. Taco (Puttin On The Ritz) 5. Thomas Dolby (She Blinded Me With Science) 6. Nena (99 Luft Balloons) 7. Autograph (Turn Up the Radio) 8. Georgia Satellites (Keep Your Hands To Yourself) 9. Bobby McFerrin (Don’t Worry Be Happy) 10. Crazy Elephant (Gimme Gimme Good Lovin) 11. Mountain (Mississippi Queen) 12. Free (All Right Now) 13. T. Rex (Bang a gong) 14. Carl Douglas (Kung Fu Fighting) 15. Thin Lizzy (The Boys Are Back In Town) 16. Wild Cherry (Play That Funky Music 17. Nick Gilder (Hot Child In The City) 18. The Buggles (Video Killed The Radio Star) 19. Mark Cohn (Walkin In Memphis) 20. Was Not Was (Walk The Dinosaur)

You know you love it!

In no particular order…

Top 20 Favorite Solo Acts

1. Billy Joel 2. Eric Clapton 3. Chris Tomlin 4. Brad Paisley 5. Phil Collins 6. Johnny Cash 7. Peter Gabriel 8. John Hiatt 9. John Mayer 10. Prince 11. Stevie Ray Vaughn 12. Leo Kottke 13. Rich Mullins 14. Sean McConnell 15. Sting 16. Thomas Dolby 17. Matt Maher 18. Wilson Pickett 19. Garth Brooks 20. Elton John 20.5. Van Morrison

In no particular order…1. The Eagles 2. Def Leppard 3. The David Crowder Band 4. Van Halen 5. Queen 6. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 7. The CBS Orchestra 8. Caedmon’s Call 9. Aerosmith 10. Bon Jovi 11. Green Day 12. Little Big Town 13. Mercy Me 14. The Myriad 15. Pink Floyd 16. Queen 17. REO Speedwagon 18. The Funk Brothers (Motown House Band) 19. Train 20. Sister Hazel

Tomorrow – Top 20 Solo Acts

Lk 24:1-12

At daybreak on the first day of the week
the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus
took the spices they had prepared
and went to the tomb.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb;
but when they entered,
they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
While they were puzzling over this, behold,
two men in dazzling garments appeared to them.
They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground.
They said to them,
“Why do you seek the living one among the dead?
He is not here, but he has been raised.
Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee,
that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners
and be crucified, and rise on the third day.”
And they remembered his words.
Then they returned from the tomb
and announced all these things to the eleven
and to all the others.
The women were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James;
the others who accompanied them also told this to the apostles,
but their story seemed like nonsense
and they did not believe them.
But Peter got up and ran to the tomb,
bent down, and saw the burial cloths alone;
then he went home amazed at what had happened.