CANADA

Hello all. Here we are in Canada... just over 72 hours in the country... And WOW IS IT EVER GOOD TO BE HOME. Might be better if we'd actually brought our traveller's checks with us... but hey, who really needs money right? So in the 72 hours that we've been here, we've managed about 15 hours of sleep... but today's our first day of crabbiness, and that was quickly surpassed - there's just too much to do and too many people to see to stay crabby for very long. Okay, I"m hungry - time to go find a multitude of wonderful Canadian snacks... mmmm crackers and sausage! More than 2 different kinds of chips and pop.... A&W rootbeer...so many good things.... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
See all of you "Koreans" in a couple more weeks, and as for everybody else, you'd better be visiting:)

The Jordan Emmans Band: First Official Gig

Hello Everyone! I realize that this is a little dated, but it took me time to create this post. Hopefully it will be done before we're back from Canada. Maybe not. We'll see. Anyway, last Saturday I finally got back on stage for real. For something other than a jam session planned at the last minute. This was pro man. We even had a set list. Anyway, Matt Amond, who is an adept songwriter in his own right, was kind enough to help fill out our sound on the electric guitar. He also did a set of his own by himself before the rest of the band filed in, just to give the rabid fans some relief.



After his solo set, Dan, Jordan and I joined in to complete the Matt Amond Band. We played a few covers and some of Matt's gems (like Spin, which is a funky little tune, and Shine, which is a catchy pop/rock song).

Then started the main event of the evening, The Jordan Emmans Band. We played most of Jordan's songs that we had worked on, with both Jordan and Matt playing electric guitar, and jammed on more than one of the songs. More than once we had spontaneous little sessions, where Dan would kick out a groove, and I'd play something over top, and all of a sudden heads are bobbing along. So we went with a couple of them and just had ourselves a little jam. Very fun and quite musical, too.





So this will, with any luck, be a regular thing for us, jamming and gigging, after Dawn and I get back from the Land of the Morning Tim Horton's. And hopefully we can get something recorded to remember it by. Or to sell to the throngs of fans lining up to hear us.
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Oh, they're there...



At least Laurel is...

Money is tough to get around here!

So apparently Canadian dollars don't exist in Mokpo, South Korea. I had a HELL of a time getting the Kookmin Bank downtown to exchange my Korean money for anything at all. I thought I had them when I pulled out my piece of paper on which I had scralled the definition for "cashier's check", and they said, "Oooooooh!". Thought I was golden. Nope. What we call a cashier's check they call a traveller's check. In American dollars. Why can they not just write a cashier's check for 2000000KRW? Who knows... At any rate, now we have American dollars to exchange. Yee haw! Guess this is what we get for living out in the sticks!

Gettin' Ready...

Just getting ready to hit the road and head out to Gwangju for the weekend! What's on the schedule you ask? Shopping, and playing the official first gig of the Jordan Emmans Band. Oughta be a good time. Pics and possibly video should be forthcoming, as well as first hand analysis of the show. Wish me luck!