Welcome to all of you New Yorkers, and all of you in different parts of the country and different parts of the world.
Listen, I've updated this site nearly very single day for the past one million years.
But as you're reading this right now, I'm sharing my music and some laughs with a whole bunch of really beautiful people in The Turks & Caicos Islands.
But, that doesn't mean you have nothing to do here today. I'm serious.
All you have to do to occupy probably every single minute of the entire week I'm gone is to hit this ARCHIVE LINK and start working our way backward through the updates. It's actually kind of fun and a little bit nostalgic to see how different issues and events of the day have been addressed here at ThatGuitarMan as the years flew by.
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And there are FREE songs to download in many, many of the updates. There are songs that have never appeared on an album. There are original cartoons and Photoshop images, lots of video...
Hey listen...
All of you who've been coming around here, whether in met you in Central Park, or if you've been to any one of the sold-out shows in Merkin Concert Hall, or igf I met you at the Sunset Concert Series downtown, or if I met you in Germany or anywhere else I've played...
You all now how much I love doing what I do with my Life. I'm the kind of man who, even when I'm in a room by myself... I like the company.
It's wonderful feeling to know who you are and what you're meant to be doing in this world.
I'm completely comfortable being me.
And a lot of that has to do with all of you.
If you're new around here, you might wanna start wit this little gallery of photos from last summer which were shot my Laura Manske and others that lots of people have sent in to the website.
Yeah... winter in NYC can seem long. But, one more of the beautiful things about this amazing town is that it's right near the ocean, and it's in a place on this earth where we can see snow at Christmas and just a few months later we get to lose the laundry and start hangin' on the beach or in Central Park.
Man! I love this town!
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And here are a couple of songs to download for FREE. (They're from the latest album.)
I'm heading south to do an annual gig in the Caribbean. In the Turks & Caicos Islands.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
Got 10 minutes?
(Okay... 11 minutes.)
Wanna have a few smiles today for absolutely no reason at all?
Let me share a few moments with you from "The Something'th Annual Year-End Concert". This past December, I got to share a stage again with some of the most talented, generous, sweetest, open-hearted, genuinely coolest artists on the planet.... people I am also lucky enough to call "friends".
JUST CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO WATCH
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Do me a favor.
Help somebody shake the mid-winter blues. If you had a laugh or even a smile watching this video, wouldja pass it on to a friend or two?
As always... you guys know that most of the time, I'm in a state of constant amazement, wonder and gratitude.
Damn! I'm a fan.
I mean, seriously... Look at some of the artists I get to work with on a regular basis.
. . . . Teresa Reynolds, George Wurzbach, Christine Lavin, Nelson Montana, David Marcus, Ryan Cavan, Chris Tedescon, Cenovia Cummins... amazing...
Damn!
I write songs and I sing them for people. Sometimes to make a point.
In my own faltering and completely imperfect way I get to write songs about whatever is on my mind and in my heart. I try to write songs to let the next guy know he's not alone, to touch someone's heart, to make somebody think or to help someone laugh...
We like to laugh around here... A LOT!!!
Thank you all for the phenomenal time we had at Merkin Concert Hall this past December. Here's a little tiny clip from the "This Year's Question" section:
There's a lot more of this video. What a great time we had at that gig! I'll post some more laughs and some songs soon.
Be nice to each other today. I'LL BE BACK ON FEBRUARY 16TH
Love you all.
(no kiddin'.)
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PEACE
Closed for 2009! See you in 2010!
David is available for private parties and events. Please call 646-224-8162 for fees and availability.
As you may know I am producing a documentary about "That Guitar Man from Central Park". I would like to ask all David's fans out there to write me and tell me any stories you may have about David and his playing in Central Park and how it has affected you or what it has meant to you. I've already heard some great stories, but I know there are more that I haven't heard. So if you got a story to tell about David and his music, please briefly write it out and send it to stories@thatguitarman.com . I will be contacting people from the stories submitted to interview them for possible inclusion in the film. Thank you and I look forward to seeing everyone on the hill this summer. - Dean