Our wedding song, Beautiful

Sunday April 24th, 2011

I woke up in the center of the bed my dog cuddled at my knees, sunlight poured into my bed room. This is a good sign because whom ever said that rain on your wedding day is good luck was lying. I waited for my black berry to play its wake me up music and I jump out of bed. Today is the day the day I am going to get married.

Back in time........

October 2010 (in recording Studio)

The last song I recorded on my record "Richest Man In the Neighborhood" was a song I called "choose" it was a song that was written in the spirit of finding the RIGHT person. It was a song about choice, about not settling for the next person in the line up or the closet person to you at when you reach your mid twenties. (line up?) Also, I needed a song for my wedding that was coming up the next year and it fit but the lyric missed the mark slightly. The bottom line was the song needed to be changed so that it could be a song that my future wife would approve of.


Forward in time.........

April 24th, 2011

Whatever could go wrong usually does when you are talking about something important. My experience with Sunterra was that way. Tux picked up.. check, car full of all the stuff we will need for the guests of our wedding.. check, food for the wedding.. not check. Some jokester wrote down that I would pick up my catering at 4pm instead of 9 am like I said. But, in their defense it was ready I just had to drive downtown, which made me half hour late. OH, and I should send them a bill for the speeding ticket I received on my way out of the city because if it wasn't for the trip downtown I would have missed that stupid camera van.


Back in time.........

October 2010 (in recording studio)
I had some time before I had to drive to the studio and record the vocals for all the tracks on my CD. I still didn't have the right lyrics for my wedding song. I drove to what I call my "writing nook". My Nook is off a highway just enough to be out of sight and then its just me and a back drop of mountains. On occasion the horses come over to have a listen, that is when i know I am on to something good. It was like a rush of water and I finished the lyric in the first 5 minutes and then I just payed it over and over.


Forward in time...............

April 24th 2011

I arrived at the Banff Springs hotel and told the valet my name. Mr. Vass, Albert will take you up to the fifth floor for check in and don't worry about your stuff we will take care of it. Its no big deal when the valet says ill take your stuff up when you are spending a weekend away. However, my car was so full of stuff I was the only one that could fit in it and it took them three trips to bring it all. I highly recommend a wedding at the Banff Springs though, it was GREAT!

Back in time........

October 2010 (in recording Studio)

It took two hours to record the vocals on all 10 tracks of Richest Man in the Neighborhood. Only moments before I arrived at the studio I finished the song that would become the song "Beautiful" and the song that my wife would walk down the isle to.

Forward in time...............

April 24th 2011

This was a great day!

Our Wedding

LOve is....

What is love? There are many perspectives and many different experiences with the idea of love. Love could be the monster in your closet that at first just wants to scare you but, eventually realizes its much more powerful to make you laugh. Love could be a bond that never breaks between two friends that hardly see each other but, when ever they see each other it just clicks, and it seems like no time has passed. Love could be the respect of another person so deep that you spend your whole life trying to get them to realize the depth of that love and you never give up. Love can be whole, kind and messy. Love can be forever or five minutes. Love can be formed in an instant or developed over decades. Love just is...

John Lennon wrote a song (LISTEN HERE) about love and in his perspective"love is needing to be loved" (he said many other things I just choose to discuss this point) I chose this point because it shows the vulnerability of love; which in essence, I feel, is the beauty of love. The ability to risk it ALL for one shot at being able to give someone more than you give your self. Its a humbling moment when you look at love with an open mind because you never know where it will end up.

I can feel it coming in the air tonight.... Love can be awkward as things change just like this scene in an episode of Friends. "O" is for Oh wow your awkward. What makes it difficult is how hard it can be to move on with your life when you attach your identity to what you thought defined you. But, is it the moments that define you or is it the sum total of those moments?

Jay-Z said “He who does not feel me is not real to me, therefore he does not exist. So, poof... vamoose, son of a bitch.” I think that statement defines all relationships because it is always true no matter how much things change. As we grow we shift as we shift we grow and that growth is
painful but always worth it. So if you don't get my art or what I am trying to say...Poof vamoose!

If you go in go all in and run with it, why? I think the REAL question is why not? Find it, keep it, Love it.


Hit THE slide,

Danny

The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree by the group U2 was released March 9th, 1987. It went on to sell more than 25 million copies world wide and received critical acclaim.(That's why we make records so people can judge them) The album had many hit singles "with or with out you", Where the streets have no name" and the song Bono wrote about his missing keys "I still haven't found what I am looking for".

The album was steeped in angelic reference and life without strings tied to your metaphorical fingers. Bono sang "I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside" and "I want to take shelter from the poison rain where the streets have no name". This is obviously about heaven no question or could there be? What if Bono was watching TOP GUN and the acid rain he talks of is Mavericks, played by Tommy Cruise, bombs from his fighter jet? And maybe the streets with no name are from Ferris Buellers Day Off when they drive home backwards? (both films were released the year U2 recorded the record.. so its possible) Due to the backward driving they can't read the signs effectively unnaming them, some how? The statement about The Joshua Tree being about pop culture is ambiguous but all I'm saying that its definitely possible that it's not about religion, or is it?


The record went on to win the boys a couple Grammy's and I am sure caused a smile or two. I heard around the water cooler at the office recently that U2 has collected approximately 50 million pounds as a group, not to bad?! I will always be a fan of a group that ALWAYS works to prove they are better then we all think they are. You raise that bar U2!

Hit THE slide,

DC

Danny Cooper IS Fashionalbly Fashionable

The microphone squawks as I push my lips to the cold aluminum surface. Test Test Tess.... Can you hear me? Well I can hear me. "Play something!" yells the sound tech. I am sure the sound guy told me his name but all I remember is that he had wicked muttin' chops. (Ben?) I remember the outlandish facial scruff but he also made an off the cuff comment about a girl saying "I think I may have found my future EX wife" She later proved to be a perfect choice for such a comment; which only allowed his comment to reach a new level of amusement, for me. (not you) **singing** Baby, here I am I'm a man on your scene I can give you what you want but you've gotta come home with me....I'm gonna light your candle cause baby your sure hard to handle! Belting out a classic is always a fun way to test the sound of a room. As I tested the sound I realized how hard it was to unconcentrate. Unconcentrate? Yes! Clarity on stage is the first step to proper execution. Who would have thought, I know. But, I'll chalk it up to what yeah gonna do and just enjoy.



I was at "The BanK" on Stephen Ave in down town Calgary. What can I say about the venue? I will tell you this! the people behind the scenes are top notch!!! and the room is amazing. As the room filled I remember thinking how cool it is to be apart of charity events like "The Water Project" I thought about how people all over the world come together donating their, time their sweat and their money. It was a good time! I had the Heinekens and talked trash with my cuz, she is stylin'.



Danny Cooper came out and cut up a couple diddies, not to shabby I must say. One complaint! video cameras should have less bright lights in ur face..damn LCDs. It was a new experience for me on stage I could see all these people looking back at me strummin on the old side ways harp. From my perspective looking out was like I was part of the crowd but yet, beyond the measure of a mnute... Totally a cool experience.



Dionne Dionne by Anya Getzlaf showed her collection just after I was cheered off stage; a true highlight to see such a beautiful woman live her passion. So Brilliant! The highlights of the show were: The model wearing the red dress, the girl that has brown hair that is on www.dionnedionne.com , the lovely girls that held the event and well of course the dresses always get the most applause cause they're AWESOME. (I found this photo on line, but it's not from the event)

All in all not a bad night I even got to go for dinner at the V bar.. In a sea of lame Tuesday night drinking dudes, I was the only one with women at my table. OH and we ARE sorry for wrecking your clean floor, you know who you are.


HIT the Slide,

DC

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful and so are you

It was the bottom of the ninth and all bases were loaded, two strikes, one ball, tied 7-7 and the pitcher was tossing up salamanders. I was simply waiting on my moment and here's the ptich....

OKAY, I don't play baseball but I do like to talk music lingidy. **cough** throat clears*** The third and fourth line of the second track of The White Album is the meaning of life. It says " The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful and so are you" Again OKAY I like talking about music, maybe even offer an opinion or two about music. I write music of my own so I understand that the hidden meaning in songs are never intentionally inserted. The best lyric is ambiguously intertwined in your life's experiences that have yet to be discovered. It is very rare that you write a song knowing from where it has been traced. However, it worked this time! The meaning of life IS the third and fourth line of the white album. I enjoyed pulling that one from the thin air that surrounds my floppy ideas. So, lets give it another shot... How I feel in this moment is reflected in the fourth song on side two of "masters of reality' by Black Sabbath which is a song called Solitude...

"Oh where can I go to and what can I do?
Nothing can please me only thoughts are of you
You just laughed when I begged you to stay
I've not stopped crying since you went away"

Didn't work.... I am happier than that painful wining... please won't you **sniff** DON'T LEAVE ME... I say good riddance you smelly person! I think I currently feel more like the Usher song I here EVERY TIME I turn on the radio...DJ got us fallin in love line 14... Gonna burn this motherfucker down,down,down,down,down,down,down. That didn't work either but it was closer.

Next time I will write about something less random until then, you better hit the slide!