Tuesdays of the Lake on 16th September 2014 - Sam Hopkins

I have the rare privilege to participate in the Three Musicians collective bringing quality live music to the patients in St. Mary's of the Lake complex care ward in Kingston, Ontario. We're running a concert series Tuesday evenings, and last night we were pleased to present Sam Hopkins backed by Spencer Evans, Zak Colbert, and Mike Sakell, true Kingston A-list musicians.

The Three Musicians project is supported by the Kingston Arts Council, and by extension the City of Kingston. We're very happy to be in a position to bring the joy of music to the long and short term residents of the complex care ward at St. Mary's. It is a true pleasure.

My role has been helping deal with the production side of the series. After I got all the gear set up and mixed nicely last night, I took some videos with my phone. I'm a huge fan of all the musicians on this gig, and I'm happy to share some of these with you here.

Music up on my band's MySpace page.

If anyone wants to check it out, you can find them there. They're from a taping of one our shows at the Tir Nan Og, on Ontario St. in Kingston, Ontario.

Well, the old band's finished

and has been for a while. We had some, ah, personnel problems, which have been resolved for quite a while. The new band is called The Ones. The logo I made for the band is off to the right. I designed this one a couple of weeks ago; the previous incarnation had much suckage, so I don't think I'll bother putting it up here.

I think this one is ok, though. We're basically a bunch of old-school rockers, and I think it manages to get that idea across. I can hardly wait until I can get some music recorded with these guys that I can share with you.

I'm going to add a gratuitous gear shot, just because I can. This is my road rig in its packed up "between shows" version. I run the Marshall and the Fender in parallel, usually playing my Strat (in the black rectangle case). Don't worry; just because there's enough power between the two amps to completely rip your head off, I've never forgotten that with great power comes great responsibility... especially a responsibility not to injure my listener's hearing (let alone my own). That's not to say that the volume isn't, um, healthy, but ya know, it's rock and roll.