MR. MAX’S MESSAGE – MAY 2010

By the time this is published I will have the CD Why Do We Go To War? in my hands. I went with Ken Cmar at Wonderdrug for the manufacturing of the disc. He has a brand spankin’ new CD duplicator and he’s spreading the word that his new hi-tech diskinator (my term, not his) does a higher quality job than the older ones. I’m already getting the promotion vehicle warmed up—checking the oil and filling up with high octane. I’ve dug out some of the press that I received in the past and it is very impressive. Ed Symkus wrote a wonderful cover story (Cambridge Chronical/ Cambridge Arts) when I gathered 44 vocalists and a star-studded 13-piece band to record “End War Now.” The color photo shows me in my American flag shirt in front of the vocalists in the project. One of the other pieces of press I’ll be re-using is Michael Marotta’s T Max Making Noise For Peace article that ran in the Herald on October 2, 2008. This was when “End War Now” went to the top of Neil Young’s Living with War chart (made up of over 2,800 songs).

TIME TO PLAY AGAIN

Now that the CD is ready, I’ll be switching gears from recording to playing live. I debuted the live performance of Why Do We Go to War? at Northeastern University. I’ll be playing at the Roast for Carmelita at the Magic Room (155 N. Beacon St., Brighton, MA) along with Asa Brebner & Friends. Asa did the artwork that is displayed on Why Do We Go to War? He also recently released his own CD Sueños De Los Muertos.