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February 13, 2012

MUSIC MONDAY: Another Great Deceivers Gig This Saturday Feb. 18th!

Filed under: Music — Tags: , , , , , — paulayoo @ 5:13 pm

The Great Deceivers, a King Crimson Tribute Band!

Welcome to MUSIC MONDAY! Just a brief blog to remind everyone that my band, THE GREAT DECEIVERS (a King Crimson tribute band) has a gig this Saturday February 18th at Paladino’s in Reseda at 8 PM. For more info, go here: https://www.facebook.com/events/242043365878985/ and here: http://www.paladinosclub.com/Calendar.html#0218 We’re playing with a crazy lineup – bands include a Dio tribute band, a Black Sabbath tribute band, and a Motorhead tribute band. Hmmmm. Maybe you should bring some earplugs! :)

My February has been pretty busy with writing in the batcave. So this month is rather blog-lite. But some quick updates:

– WRITER OF THE MONTH: SARA WILSON ETIENNE: Don’t forget to check out my Q&A with Sara Wilson Etienne, debut YA novelist, whose YA novel HARBINGER was just published by Putnam. We’re featuring a signed galley contest with Sara – please comment on my blog here: http://paulayoo.com/blog/?p=1258 or email me at paula at paulayoo dot com to be included in the drawing. Winner will be announced in a Writer Wednesday blog on Wed. 2/29/12!

– NAPBIOWRIWEE: Yup, National Picture Book Writing Week is coming up in a few months. I’ll be making some huge announcements about this year’s event next month, so please stay tuned. To find out more about this fun event, go to my blog here: http://paulayoo.com/napi/ and check out this article from last year: http://paulayoo.com/napi/?p=11

Well, time to go back into the writing (and violin) batcave. Until the next blog, remember… HAPPY WRITING! WRITE LIKE YOU MEAN IT! :)

 

January 16, 2012

MUSIC MONDAY: Great Deceivers gig this Friday January 20th!

Filed under: Music — Tags: , , , , , , — paulayoo @ 11:02 am

My band, the Great Deceivers, is a King Crimson tribute band! (http://myspace.com/tgdkingcrimson)

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! And welcome to MUSIC MONDAY. Today’s blog is about my band, THE GREAT DECEIVERS. We’re a King Crimson tribute band. We have a few gigs lined up, including one this Friday January 20th at 10 PM at the Universal Bar & Grill.

(Keep reading after the jump for more details…)

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January 1, 2012

Happy New Year 2012!

Filed under: Writing — Tags: , , , , , , , , — paulayoo @ 11:15 am

Happy New Year 2012 from (L-R) Beethoven, Oreo & Charlotte!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year’s Eve. Best wishes for 2012! :) Stay tuned for some fun blogs that I’ll post for the month of January 2012! A brief schedule below of some of the blogs that are scheduled so far…

Jan. 5, 2012: TUNA THURSDAY blog featuring what adventures my cats Oreo, Beethoven & Charlotte had with our catsitters Ginger & Jessie while we were gone on our annual “Xmas in Vegas” trip!

Jan. 6, 2012: FOODIE FRIDAY blog about all the yummy food deals we had during our annual Xmas in Vegas trip 2011!

Jan. 11, 2012: WRITER WEDNESDAY featuring a Q&A with sci fi author Lev AC Rosen and also including a signed book contest for his latest novel, ALL MEN OF GENIUS (Tor 2012)!

Jan. 16, 2012: MUSIC MONDAY blog about my band, THE GREAT DECEIVERS (a King Crimson tribute band), and our first gig of 2012 on Friday 1/20/12 at Universal Bar & Grill!

Jan. 25, 2012: WRITER WEDNESDAY announcing the winner of our Lev AC Rosen signed book contest for ALL MEN OF GENIUS

Until the next blog, remember… HAPPY WRITING! WRITE LIKE  YOU MEAN IT! :)

November 14, 2011

Music Monday: Fun Gig Tonight!

Filed under: Music — Tags: , , — paulayoo @ 10:10 am

The band fun. live in concert! (Photo courtesy of Allison Taich of www.popmatters.com)

Welcome to MUSIC MONDAY! I’ve had a lot of music gigs lately. Last night, I played violin for a reality show that will air next year (let’s just say it involves some very lovely women who live in Hollywood). Tonight, I have a gig with the band fun. We’re playing a sold-out show at The Troubadour tonight.

The band is super nice and super talented. I can’t get their songs out of my head!

As a special treat, here are two links of video the band posted on their Twitter feed of the string quartet rehearsing this past Saturday night:

http://www.twitvid.com/ETMII

http://www.twitvid.com/OTOPL

And here’s a video of one of the band’s hits – ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIoaiTwLk6I

The gig should be a lot of fun. I’m in a string quartet with some amazing string players. I’ve actually gone on tour with the other violinist and violist in past gigs, including Love with Arthur Lee and Spiritualized. So I’m looking forward to rockin’ out tonight with everyone!

For more info on fun., check out their website here: http://www.ournameisfun.com/

Until the next blog, rock on! Happy Writing! WRITE LIKE YOU MEAN IT! :)

 

 

 

August 29, 2011

Music Monday: Post-Alva’s Gig Pix & Gear Geek Talk!

Filed under: Music — Tags: , , , , , — paulayoo @ 8:45 am

The Great Deceivers - a King Crimson Tribute band!

Welcome to another MUSIC MONDAY blog. I try to blog about music when I can, given my violin background! Today’s blog has photos from my last gig at Alva’s Showroom in San Pedro with the King Crimson tribute band, THE GREAT DECEIVERS.

For more info on my band, check out my last Music Monday blog here:

http://paulayoo.com/blog/?p=632

(Keep reading after the break for some photos of our gig!)

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July 25, 2011

Music Monday: The Great Deceivers/King Crimson Tribute Gig!

Filed under: Music — Tags: , , , , — paulayoo @ 8:45 am

The Great Deceivers, a King Crimson Tribute Band!

Welcome to Music Monday! I took a week vacation from blogging last week because I was busy at COMIC CON 2011 in San Diego for our show EUREKA (Mondays 8 PM SyFy). Stay tuned for a ComicCon wrap-up blog for tomorrow’s TV Tuesday blog. But now I’m back to our regularly scheduled programming of Music Monday, TV Tuesday, Writer Wednesday, Tuna Thursday, and Foodie Friday! :)

Today’s Music Monday blog is about my band, a King Crimson tribute band called THE GREAT DECEIVERS. We have a gig this Sunday July 31st at Alva’s Showroom in San Pedro at 4 PM.

(Keep reading after the break to find out more about our gig!)

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