Daddy’s Blog

This week Daddy’s gets 3 visits from the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus!  I personally can not wait for these events - I was on the bus a couple NAMM shows ago and was completely blown away by the inside of it.  It’s not your average tour bus

All 3 stops at Daddy’s are open to the public, so bring your friends and family down and take a tour - more details about the bus here www.lennonbus.org

We’ve got a lil’ something for everyone this month:

For you drummers - the weekend of May 8th & 9th, please join Daddy’s at our first SABIAN YARD SALE at Sabian’s Warehouse in Marshfield, MA!  We will be selling off marked, tarnished, demo, discontinued, prototype & experimental cymbals at ridiculous prices!  PLUS hardware, accessories, clothing and more!  Check it out!

And you metal fans - don’t forget that members of LAMB OF GOD will be at Daddy’s Boston on Tuesday, May 12th for a FREE in-store meet & greet!  Plus I will be giving away tickets to see them perform live that night at the House Of Blues in Boston - courtesy of our friends at Live Nation New England.

And for all of you HIGH SCHOOL guitar players, May 15th brings the return of the “Battle For Berklee”!  High School guitar players compete to win the grand prize of one week at Berklee College of Music’s summer Guitar Session’s program PLUS an  and tons of other prizes!  Keep checking www.daddys.com for details (coming soon!)

Let’s see - what else is cookin’….

Oh yeah, starting May 1st - you are going to see a WHOLE NEW www.daddys.com! Actually, we are going to have two sites - one site completely dedicated to shopping online and the other for events, repairs, DSS customers - basically everything “local”!  Our “web dudes” have been hard at work creating the shopping site to make it nice and easy for you - we hope you love it!

I have 3 meet & greet’s up my sleeve that I am hoping to be able to announce soon!  Here’s a hint - he’s been here many times and clearly you guys love him because you always tell him how its always been your DREAM to meet him and you come out of the woodwork when he’s here!  Any guesses

And as summer rolls around, so does concert season and you guys know what that means - CONCERT TICKETS!  As Daddy’s does every year - we will have LOTS and LOTS of concert tickets to give away, again - courtesy of our pals at Live Nation - so keep checking in and to see what the summer will bring!

Don’t forget to follow us on TWITTER - http://twitter.com/DaddysJunkyMusi

That’s about it for now - I’ll check back in with you folks soon….

Candi

Such a great night at Daddy’s Manchester last night for the Hartke sponsored John “JD” DeServio bass clinic! You guys came out of the woodwork to see him and on behalf of Daddy’s Junky Music and JD - thank you - we had a ball with you guys!

Poor JD was a bit under the weather last night with a bit of a cold that he has been nursing for a few days - which he quickly forgot about once he came out of the back room to see a full house He also brought along his buddy Troy who is an amazing keyboard player to jam with him - they sounded fantastic together didn’t they?! I’m sure many of you were surprised to hear JD performing lots funk & jazz last night (and performing it amazingly well).

After the clinic, we headed over to the Black Brimmer to have some dinner and catch a bit of Mama Kicks. He was called up on stage to jam for a bit and both he and drummer David Stefanelli clearly were having a blast playing off each other - especially when they decided to switch up gear - David playing bass and JD playing DRUMS! Very funny!

JD will be back for one more clinic on Monday, May 13th @ Daddy’s Boston. $5 tickets can be purchased either online here www.daddys.com or at ANY Daddy’s location. I will have 4 VIP Box ticket upgrades to see Black Label Society at the House of Blues to give away that night!

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Lot’s of other cool events coming up - so get ready:

For all of you recording junkie’s - this event is for you!  Check it out!

Ever wish you were the guitar player in your favorite band?  Well, now you CAN be - I give you JamVOX !  This should be a ton of fun!  We will have lots of stuff to give away that night and everyone who gets up to and uses the JamVOX will get a free gift!  Cool!

And check this out - we are thrilled to announced 3 stops with the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus!  www.lennonbus.org

 And all you metal fans - we have another killer event for you!  Meet members of LAMB OF GOD!  This event is FREE and I will also have tickets to give away to see Lamb Of God at the House of Blues in Boston!

The Battle For Berklee is coming back and this year will be bigger and better than last - so if you are a high school guitar player - get your chops ready!  Details coming soon…

In the mean time, check out Andrew Trongone of Richmond, VA, the 2008 Battle For Berklee winner…

So….that outta do it!  Phew…

Hope to see you all soon!!!!!!!!!!!

Candi

Coldplay have denied, in a US federal court, that they copied parts of rock guitarist Joe Satriani’s music for their hit song, Viva La Vida.

Lawyers for the band argue that any similarities between the song and Satriani’s If I Could Fly were not enough to warrant damages.

Mr Satriani sued Coldplay in December, claiming they had used “substantial, original portions” of his 2004 song.

He is seeking a jury trial, damages and “any and all profits” from the song.

Dates and locations coming soon…..

Big thanks to our friends over at the Hippo Press (www.hippopress.com) for a great interview with Black Label Society bassist John “JD” DeServio - check it out:

Heavy metal school
Black Label bassist to hold in-store clinic
By Dana Unger dunger@hippopress.com

Aspiring rockers are in for a crash course in hard-hitting metal when Black Label Society bassist and Cycle of Pain founder John “JD” DeServio appears on Wednesday, April 8, at Daddy’s Junky Music in Manchester. Currently, DeServio is touring with the Black Label Society, who will appear at Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena on Thursday, April 9 (tickets cost $29.50; see www.verizonwirelessarena.com).

“The tour has been going great,” DeServio said in a March 27 interview from Milwaukee, Wis. “All the shows are sold out. It’s a lot of work too, because we’re doing a lot of meet-and-greets before our shows. In fact, since we have a show tonight, that’s what I’m going to be doing today.”

Though he now lives in California, DeServio’s rocker roots run local. He briefly attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music, before leaving in 1989 to tour with Jodi Bongiovi (Jon Bon Jovi’s cousin). He later toured with Lita Ford, opening for Motley Crue on their ’89-’90 Doctor Feelgood tour.

Before DeServio joined Black Label Society, he had already had a long musical relationship with its founder, guitarist Zakk Wylde, who has been Ozzy Osbourne’s lead guitarist for 20 years.

“I knew Zakk even before he was with Ozzy,” DeServio said. “We’re both originally from Jersey, and we met because I had heard about this burning guitar player from a friend of mine. We got together and just started playing stuff together and got along really well.”

After playing with a New York band called Defunkt, he went back to New Jersey teaching music until Wylde brought DeServio in to play on his first solo project, Pride and Glory, touring Europe, Japan and the U.S., where they opened for Aerosmith. Wylde formed Black Label Society in 1998, and DeServio was brought into the band in 2000 for their first world tour, and then again in 2005.

But even during that time, DeServio continued to teach music.

“I love doing it,” he said. “I’m getting to educate and show kids there’s so much music out there. The more you know about music, the more likely you’re going to keep playing it.”

The clinics, which DeServio is conducting at several stops along the tour, are a way for aspiring musicians to learn more about the music process. “It’s pretty much me playing bass with one of my zoom pedals and just jamming over some chord jams, explaining what I’m doing and the techniques,” DeServio said. “I also play along to some Black Label tracks and Cycle of Pain tracks.”

Though DeServio said that he didn’t have one particular mentor when he was an aspiring musician, he did have influences who pushed him in his passion for music.

“I always loved music,” he said. “I had older brothers, so they introduced me to bands like The Doors, [Led] Zeppelin, [Black] Sabbath. Once my buddy brought in a poster of KISS and I pointed at Gene Simmons and asked what he did. My buddy said he plays bass, and I knew then that I wanted to be him.”

After the tour, DeServio said, Black Label will be done for the year but will be back to record another album, while his other project, Cycle of Pain will release its debut album on April 21.

“We’re going to be doing double duty, because the album drops the same day that Cycle of Pain jumps on the Black Label tour,” DeServio said. For musicians seeking the same kind of career he’s been able to cultivate over the years, DeServio said that the key to success is just to play.

“Play with as many people as you can, listen to as much music as you can, and practice and study as much as you can,” he said. “But I’d have to say that jamming with other musicians is the most important thing.”

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Don’t miss JD’s upcoming clinics at Daddy’s - $5 tix are available online here www.daddys.com

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