Category: News

JP and I are driving the bus back from Atlanta. Josh and Henrik had to fly back early due to getting a gig playing for our troups over in Iraq. Josh hates flying with a passion so hopefully he’ll survive the trip.

We got a chance to stop by the Clear Channel radio headquarters yesterday. I had recently befriended Clayton Allen who runs a station out of the building and he invited me out for a tour of the facility since he likes the music from Practical Insanity so much. We had a great time and met a whole lot of people.

The really amazing thing was getting a chance to sit and chat with the programming director who listened to the CD and checked out every song. Even picked “Searching For You” as a single. I also got a chance to cut a couple of radio spots with their DJ Hank from The Outlaw. He was really cool too. I’ll do a much more in depth report on that later.

As for this morning, I woke up and made some breakfast. While I was chowing down I actually saw a Road-Runner bird go cruising by. I had never seen one before and where we’re at at this rest stop in the middle of nowhere Texas there were tons of them cruising around. I got some video and pictures of it. In the next few days I’ll get the rest of the video podcasts up as well as a nice version of the showcase posted as well. 🙂

We’re out here on the road beginning day four of the current leg and day one of the APCA Conference. The trip so far has been nothing short of an adventure. Here’s a brief rundown:

Over on the left you’ll see a new category under Motion Pictures called Video PodCasts. So far you’ll see Day One and Day Two, Day Three is coming later today. These are little video snippets of our trip as it has been going. PodCast ready but in a video format. Download and enjoy on your video iPod or Computer.

The video for “Falling In” is getting a lot of attention. Still working on talking to several distributors. Things are looking good for it to blow up big time, which is fantastic. As for the conference at APCA in Georgia, we’ve decided to drop “Hey Ya” and “Since U Been Gone”. Instead we’ve picked up “Harder To Breath” by Maroon 5 and resorted to adding one of my songs.

Stay tuned for more good news to come soon.

Ring, ring, ring…

It’s the phone waking me up from a very long night that went well into the morning. I was awoken by a call from Brian A. Whitney who runs the Just Plain Folks organization. He’s working on the latest issue of his JPF Notes newsletter. I’ll be featured in the next issue for the video of Falling In with a little story about my dad, Kim Whitesides, who did the artwork in the video. So, it’s kinda cool that I’ll be getting a little boost to over 40,000 readers and members.

I got the new thermostats into “Claire the Big Orange Crush”. So all should be good to go with making use of the veggie oil system. It wasn’t fast or fun, but it’s done. Woo Hoo.

I’m also in talks with a few distribution companies about getting the CD “Practical Insanity” into the retail locations where the video will be getting rotation. Its an exciting time and I hope to have news in a short time that I’m finally going to be breaking out nationally.

The band and I will be in Atlanta Georgia from March 1st through the 5th for the APCA convention. For the performance I’ve chosen to add “Since u been gone” by Kelly Clarkson and “Hey Ya” by Outkast to the setlist. Should prove to be a very fun performance for the crowd. I’ll be getting it taped as well, so we’ll have a new live video coming soon to the website with the new version of the band.

Have a great holiday!