Whaddup All,
Got a bit of free time here so I thought I’d give you another recap of one of my tour experiences. This one takes place in Austin @ SXSW. It was during a show me, dante, and chief did at Shiner’s Saloon compliments of www.stayindie.com. Of course we all did our thing (or in my mind we did. lol.). The phrase “Chance favors the prepared mind” comes to mind as well as the phrase “Always stay around to consume mass quantities of alcohol after you perform”. So I get done with my set and the owner of the bar, (I was drunk so the name doesn’t come to mind now), seems to have really enjoyed my performance. Therefore, he orders me a ton of shots and various beers so it would be remiss for me not to stick around so here’s where the chance comes in. Another act couldn’t make the show so they needed someone to fill the slot so here I come, but let me back track for a minute…
It’s the afternoon of the show and as we are able to meet up with other DJ’s in every city I realize I don’t have a DJ for this particular set and it is SXSW so I can’t come half ass on my performance. And although I can perform without a DJ, it is just very un hip hop to do so. Therefore, I find myself calling around to my fellow peeps to see what DJ’s are in Austin. After awhile, I discover Franki Banks is in town. We’ve known each other loosely for quite sometime as we share many mutual friends (Dial 81, Mobil, 2040, and the list goes on) and he also spins on Fridays at The Bosco where I bartend back in Detroit (Shameless plug but grab a drink here and you’ll have a good time). Thankfully I am able to get in touch with Franki and he was gracious enough to come out and hold me down on the 1′s and 2′s. Thank you so much Franki and you killed your set. Click on the photo of Franki to go to his myspace and see what he is doing because he is doing some amazing things. Ladies and gentlemen, Franki Bank$ (that’s how you really spell it cause son is Money).
this is Franki stretching before the show
Alright so back to the second set I get at Shiner’s. As I’m feelin’ real nice already I am already feeling the energy and since I’ve already had some practice in the venue it helps the performance. At SXSW people come and go so I got to play for a whole new crowd as well. And in the crowd I notice an Albino gentleman in a track jacket nodding his head so that could be none other than Brotha Ali. It was real dope to be able to perform in front of a man that I am personally a fan of and the added bonus was that he enjoyed the set. We got to chat for a bit after the show and that made my night. Hopefully, our paths will cross sooner than later. I would give you links to him but I’m sure you already know who this man is. Comment if you don’t and I’ll shoot you more than enough links to satisfy you. Moving along.
Later, I was doing my hustle game and ran across this gentleman here…
we share a similar addiction beyond the music.
He bought the cd and showed mad love, and then he gave me a flier with a free project download on it. It was an album by this artist named Dumhi called “Flowers”. As I already had this project because I frequent a site called www.potholesinmyblog.com (amazing Hip Hop site name) I was like “what you know about this?” (many street teams in Austin for SXSW) , and he’s like “That’s me”. He couldn’t believe I was quoting the joints on the LP and when all is said and done chances are we’ll keep in touch. Beyond that being a cool little anecdote depending on your cool compass, it taught me some things. I think he was surprised I knew the project for the same reason I’m surprised with the Internet. You put things out there on the net, but you’re not really sure if people are picking up on it. Sure, I get the occasional email and that (know that makes my day every time I get one), but for the most part I’m just putting stuff into this limitless world and hoping somebody hears my story. This is an example of when I heard somebody else’s so in turn it gave me hope that somebody is hearing mine. But back to the story at hand, like Franki and Brotha Ali, Dumhi is a cool as dude and I actually have done a blog on this project in the past. But for those of you just checking in download his project “Flowers” and find out more about him as WWW.DUMHI.COM. That’s all for now folks but I’ll keep you posted. There are also some more dope things going on in the present so there’s more to come. Until then…
Tags: Brotha Ali, D. Allie, Dumhi, Franki Bank$, Potholes In My Blog, Sweat Equity Tour
Cheers to that : )