Here we are in the middle of another HOT week here in town.

This past Friday night, we finally had an amazing sunset to play down in the West! If you were down there, THANKS again. Man! What a night. Roger Bartlett sat in and jammed on a bunch of songs. He's the original lead guitarist from Jimmy Buffet's Coral Reefer Band. We had a great time. Everybody sang. We laughed. The Pier was a very cool place on Friday night.

There are some photos from Friday night in Saturday's update.

Listen, after this week I'm gonna start getting a little more selective about the number of photos I'm posting on this site. It's getting to be more than a full time job, editing, re-sizing, uploading all the great shots that come in to this site from people like David Hayase, Laura Manske, Phil Caracci, Elodie Pauwels, Sean Friedman...

I'll think of something. Maybe a list of links to their individual websites. Or maybe I'll just post a small, selective sample of the photography from each of these wonderful people. It's just getting to take way to much time... time that I should be spending on... um.. um... MUSIC!

But this week, I'll post as many as I can!!!!!

Here's a bunch from Phil Caracci, Elodie Pauwels, and Sean Friedman.

These are from Phil

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These are from Sean

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These are from Elodie

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Thanks to everyone who's sending in photos.

(Although I'd kinda rather you take a few minutes to send a few thoughts to stories to filmmaker Dean Love about your own personal experiences or thoughts about what I've been doing in Central Park for the past 20 years. There's a link right over there on the right side of this page. If there's one thing this world doesn't need.... it's more photos of me playing the guitar!!!)

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HEY!!!!

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Keep your fingers crossed for good weather for both Friday night and Saturday. Yeah, we had a blast last Friday and I'm lookin' forward to seeing you all again down in The Village. But I really missed hangnin' with you guys in Central Park. This weekend, I'm gonna be joined again by Teresa Reynolds. In fact, I think she's makin' it a Facebook Event. So... I dunno... probably just gonna turn into another one of those typically amazing days.

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Y'know what?

I'm gonna make this song a FREE download again. As an independent artist I can make my music available for FREE to people all over the planet. I can create new music with other artist all over the world and we never have to be in the same room... or the same state or country. for example... I laid down the guitar and vocal for this new, funny song in my apartment on the upper West side of Manhattan. Then I began emailing the mp3 tracks to my fellow-artists. Nelson Montana recorded the bass track at home on West 43rd Street.The piano was recorded my George Wurzbach in Brooklyn. Chris Tedesco laid down the fiddle parts out in Far Rockaway, Queens... and then sent the song to his friend Dave in Texas to lay down the pedal steel guitar. It all came back to me to mix again on my computer here on Central Park West.

The result is a new "country" anti-Love song.

WITH ANYONE BUT YOU

It's amazing and useful in other ways, too. I can share thoughts and feelings about events going on in this country and in the world. (I guess I can piss off some people and make them uncomfortable on a global scale!!!) But I can also let other people know they're not alone. This new world of personal technology has made the entire planet a very small place. It offers such incredible, indescribable Independence.

And yet... it's all dependent upon the hardware and the connection. Dependence on the technology makes us independent. (So many things in life work in that kind of paradoxical way.)

All's good.

ROCK ON!

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If you're new you can always go back and browse through THE ARCHIVE as far back as you wanna go. I mean... thanks to my friend, my webmaster, and resident evil genius James Marino, you can historically go back through this website all the way back through the Bush years right up until the present. It's really kinda freaky how much content is here on this site.... cartoons, free songs, Photoshop images. Very cool.

And the Photo Galleries just keep growing. (Maybe you're in there!!!).

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AND HERE'S A REALLY FUN GALLERY FROM LAST SUMMER!!!

Click to visit last year's gallery

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BTW -- "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" is booked for Saturday night, December 10th. I know it's early, but I wanted to let you know if you're one of those people who travel down from Buffalo, or in from Pennsylvania, or Maryland, or Germany just for this gig.

The internet has made the world a very small campus and that's a really cool thing. Mostly, if you check back at this website every day, I hope you feel that... "It's Just Us" feeling. You're not alone.

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That "Broadway" thing...

Okay now you can find out how YOU can be a part of this new project here.

In a nutshell, we're putting together something that we hope is headed for Broadway or... Jupiter... or... I don't know. But it's gonna be done someplace. Broadway legend, TONY WALTON, a man who has more Tony Awards and Academy Awards than I have socks, is behind it 100%... so now it's just about getting the right team together and working it. I'll be inviting all of you to another one of those small, unplugged work sessions very soon, so keep checking back. The last 2 filled up in a matter of hours.

Here's a little 10-minute video from Tony and his wife... explaining the project.

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And here's a link to visit if YOU wanna be a real part of this process.

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VIDEO TIME

Here's another song that can't end up in the project 'cause I didn't write it. But it's a fun moment from last year's "Year End Concert".

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Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.

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HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!! (And be cool to each other, okay?)

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Thanks for everything.

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Peace ☮