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well, it has nothing really to do with Christmas but it happened at the Caroling Party, so it does a little I guess...

The Caroling Party? You've never heard of the Caroling Party?

My parents got engaged on Dec 23rd, 1969. Ever since, at 6 PM every December 23rd they have a party. People get all trussed up and go out in the snow, rain, heat, monsoon, whatever, and carol for at least 20 minutes (this time in the monsoon) and sometimes as long as two hours, going around to unsuspecting houses, ringing doorbells and saying "we don't want donations, give it to the Church" and generally making people smile.

Afterwards, there is an insane party at my parent's little unattached Brooklyn row house, maxing out about four years ago at 200 people...it has been known to spawn both relationships for life and social anxiety disorders, and has at times ended at 2AM with people holding each other up around the piano. (By the way, invitiations are never sent out, so consider yourself invited)

Needless to say, there have been many favorite happenings and stories from this party, but my new favorite happened oh only two days ago.

It would seem that my brother's friend from college is getting to be kind of a big deal. Her music has been on 95.5 WPLJ (the 2nd biggest NYC radio station) pretty much in regular once-an-hour rotation, she has had three songs on Gray's Anatomy (one - Breathe - they actually requested she write specifically for the show) and her video is on VH1 now I'm told (you can check out http://www.myspace.com/ingridmichaelson ) and I overhear a random person friend of a friend of one of my sisters running out to the deck on the phone frantically calling his sister

"Ingrid Michaelson is here...I don't know...the Russos know her somehow"

I of course, walking by on my way to get more ice, insisted on interrupting

"Andrew, you know she has been here for the last ten years, right?"

he was in shock.

Only part of the story that's better than that is the "oh my God I really love your music" star-struck moment as people are trying to squeeze by the aforementioned Andrew and a tickled Ingrid because they were standing in front of the wine...

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

thank you all who braved the cold inside and out and the falling ceiling to rock out at TT's last night...

I had fun, hopefully you did too, and can convince everyone else to join you next time!

peace,
Dann

ok - so Frank is often questioning whether it is Virtual Dann or Real Dann at parties - so here - check out VD (oh wait, that sounds terrible) in a full half-hour concert! (filmed last night, 12/6/07

http://slcn.tv/node/849

Dann has been named co-Artist of the Month (with the fantastic Jeff Krantz) on Fuze.fm! check out the link: http://fuze.fm/PHP-Nuke/index.php

Dann started off December rocking the stage and roasting the beans at Gizzi's Coffeehouse in NYC on Saturday Dec 1st.

Right before he jumped on stage was the very cool, very talented (and very cute) Jennifer Richman (check out http://www.jenniferrichman.com or http://www.myspace.com/jenniferrichman )

The songs you would have missed if you weren't there are:

I Can't Imagine; Give It To Me Straight; She Asks; Good Morning, Chelsea; Don't Drink The Water (DMB cover); Fortunes, Forecasts & Lucky Charms; Come Undone (Duran Duran cover); Plain Jane; RockStar; Year; Dreaming Without You...

peace out y'all

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is a pretty sweet place and you all should come down to hang on every thursday in october...provided you are 21 of course

here, in no particular order, are the songs you would have heard last night:

Believe, RockStar, Fortunes, Forecasts and Lucky Charms, Nov 8th, Someday, No Pain, Ruby Red Hair, Domestic, She Asks, Fantasy, Year, Footsteps, Changes, Bittersweet Love, Again, Plain Jane, Gone, Memphis Ferry, Garden (Pearl Jam) Stay (U2) Give It To Me Straight, Memphis Ferry, and the real life debut of the song St Christopher Medal.

oh, and don't be afraid to offer Dann one of them black beers next time you see him.

and Jeff Conley rocks.

So I came home the other day to find three boxes on my doorstep - full of business cards, pamphlets and CD inserts.

a HUGE thank you to all the designers and especially to Chris at http://www.godigitalprinting.com

Ok I know for some of you this might seem weird, but Saturday's (7/7/07) show streaming into the Bay Vista Mall from my basement might have been one of the top five shows I have ever played in, including Antonio's Crush at The Elbow Room in 1997, Dann Russo & The Whisky @ The Middle East downstairs St Patrick's Day 2005, Dann Russo & The Whisky (featuring Zak Ward) @ The Paradise 2004 and one of those fantastic Brother Rabbitt shows at that place near Fenway....Copperfields - around 2001.

What might seem weird is that it was streaming into Second Life. People were totally digging every song, I was totally into every song, people were singing along, I felt good, I even rocked out Good Morning, Chelsea...

anyway, just wanted to share that

OH...and our efforts paid off - congratulations to Chichen Itza for being named on of the 7 Wonders of the World

thank you to everyone who came out to see John Christan and Dann play at the Baggott Inn on Sunday night as step one of the NYC comeback - more to follow :-)

for those of you who were asking, the set list:

Year; Plain Jane; Fortunes, Forecasts & Lucky Charms; Believe; She Asks; MLK (the U2 song); No Pain; Rockstar; Ruby Red Hair

the second life show schedule from now on will be posted on http://www.sonicbids.com/dannrusso
thanks!

for those of you not on second life, you missed an amazing two hour show last night to open the chichen itza sim (muchas gracias al oficina de turismo de Mexico) including shakira and enrique iglesias covers as well as two brand new Dann songs in Spanish. que bueno tiempo!

The recording continues...up now on the site are "Believe," "Someday," "Gone," and "Plain Jane" check it out! All are available for download from www.myspace.com/dannrusso

so - a very nice and generous fan just gave me 40 recordings of various Dann Russo songs and covers from the last week of shows in Second Life...the shows are real, the energy is real, the music is real...they will be appearing on this site in the near future - please check out PLAIN JANE as the first "release" in the music section...peace

so...it seems like its been years since getting on a RL stage in front of a microphone, and last night Frank and I played a great two hour set at the Sweetwater Cafe. We played a whole bunch of originals and only a few covers, and I wanted to thank everyone who came out and enjoyed it, everyone at The Sweetwater, especially Jeff Conley, and Second Life for keeping my performing in practice :-P

If you took the essence of Led Zeppelin, Guns N Roses, My Chemical Romance and Queen and mixed it all together, there is no way you could get a band better than The Fens. I am going to be honored to tell my grandchildren I once opened for The Fens.

Unreal.

Thank you guys (and gal)

check out http://www.myspace.com/thefensmusic

Dean Koontz is coming to SL on March 15th!

When: March 15th, 2007 at 6pm SLT

Location: Bantam Dell Book Shop on Sheep Island. Laguna
Beach Club is proud to serve as a listening venue for this
event.

LIVE music will start at 5 with Gavin Klees and the
incomparable DANN NUMBERS will bring the event home at the
conclusion of the reading.

This reading by Dean Koontz kicks off the premiere of
"Authors-In-Second-Life". Mr. Koontz will read from his
upcoming hardcover, "The Good Guy", followed by a Q&A.

To join the Q&A, residents need to join the group "The
Bantam Dell Book Cafe". It's open join so you just need to
type in "The Bantam" with no quotes in group search and it
should come up.

http://secure-web5.secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=500361&date=1174006800

Dann is all nervously anticipating the TT The Bear's show - Maybe it's just cause today is the Ides of March

It's Wednesday the 21st @ 9PM ($8) - and it's 18+!

check out the site for directions: http://www.ttthebears.com

OK...so it's almost February.

Dann has just found a very nice person with recording equipment, and "Paradiso Lluvioso" is in the works - the first full-length Dann Russo album ever!

So... Dann has gotten shows without leaving the basement. He has set up an account on the virtual reality Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com - tell them Dann Numbers sent you) and has started playing shows!

Check him out at Laguna Beach Club, Laguna, every Thursday at 10PM Eastern Standard Time (7PM game time) starting Oct. 26th and at Old Salt's Pub, Kokomo, Every Sunday at 7PM Eastern Standard Time (4PM game time) starting Nov 4th; and various other shows during the week.

Next year will only get better...

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets have just clenched the National League East!

hot dogs, green grass, all at shea

lets go mets all the way!!!

She's Here!

Liliana Maeve

anyone see the world cup? you should have!!!!

what an honor it was for Dann and Frank to share the stage with two amazing musicians and bandleaders Matt Maven and Matt Germak at Harpers Ferry last night. special thanks to Matt Germak for adding his piano to "Year"