The final celebration of the Noise’s 30^th anniversary was a success at the Annie (1 Washington St.). Many thanks to Allen Estes, Chelsea Berry, Julie Dougherty, Salvatore Baglio, and Claire Paulsen (my story reader) for their wonderful performances. Thanks to Will Hunt for handling the sound and Henri Allen for watching the door. And much appreciation to Ray Dollard for taking the excellent photos of the event.

The Noise and GimmeSound.com continue to sponsor a string of shows in Gloucester. Thea Hopkins with Andy Hollinger play the Dog Bar (65 Main St.). I’ll (T Max) be performing also. We’re doing two shows, one at 9:00 and another at 10:30.

Then on Saturday, November 5, the Bandit Kings celebrate the release of their new CD. This is at The Rhumb Line (40 Railroad Ave.).

SHAKE—IN THE STUDIO

The recording end of this environmental music/story telling project is complete. The packing is currently being designed and the final product will be available soon. I’m printing up some T-shirts at QRST’s too. At our debut Gloucester performance of SHAKE we received a standing ovation from the first row.

NEXT UP IN THE STUDIO

The follow up project to SHAKE is already on its way. It’s called People of the Sun. Claire Paulsen is once again joining me at Project Sound with Jason Duguay at the board. She’s reading the story that goes way back into the past when the Sun was not a star, but a planet—a platinum planet, at that. What happened to the platinum planet? What happened to its inhabitants that loved to party and make a lot of money? How did the planet become a star? Well, I figured out the answers to all these question and will share them with you when the project is ready.

THE UPDATED CD—WHY WAR?

Well—I sold out of the first pressing of Why Do We Go to War and decided to edit the second pressing. So I added a couple of new tunes, change the ending, took some songs out and shortened some of the songs to make it a compact half-hour disc now titled Why War. This half–hour version is how I prefer to play the show live. So now the CD represents the live show well, but adds a lot of production. That added production is me layering more guitars, me singing all the choir parts (male and female—or should I say bass to soprano), and all fun extra stuff you can do with sound while you’re in the studio. Jason Duguay (at Project Sound) produced this CD with me and Mike Loce once again is the lone extra musician playing the jet engine electric guitar in the opening track. Although you can purchase this CD from me through email, tmax(at)thenoise-boston(dot)com, or at a live show ($10), the disc hasn’t been officially release yet. I may wait ’til October to do that.