What's Happening

Hello Everyone. I am just writing a quick note to all of you who sit home and wonder aloud, "I wonder what Jeff Archer has been up to?"

I have been working alot. I really hate it but it is better to be working alot then to not be working at all I guess. If anyone knows of a way that I can get up at 9:00 a.m. every morning and check email, then begin writing and recording music and watching "In Search Of" for the rest of the day, yet still bring in a steady income please email me and let me know what you know.

I haven't really listened to the shortwave in a while but I intend to do some listening tonight.

"House Music" played Friday night. I played drums and guitar but left early so I could work Saturday.

"Spooky Garcia" recorded Saturday night. We started a new recording with Rob playing 12-string acoustic guitar and mandolin and myself playing 6-string acoustic and banjo. I will add some lap steel hopefully this coming Saturday night.

No progress on my search for a cure of my "internetitis".

I feel the need to start writing short stories again. I haven't really written any in probably ten years or so. A couple of years ago Aaron Rivera and I discussed the possibility of writing stories via email. For instance I would write a couple pages of something and then stop in mid sentence, email what I have to Aaron, and then he would finish the sentence and write the next couple pages, stop in mid sentence and then the cycle would repeat itself. Perhaps I should bring this up to him again.

Congratulations to Matt and Jessica Mott on the birth of their first child, a little girl as yet unnamed. Matt and Jessica rock like Zeppelin at the Kingdome in '77.

That's all I have for now as my extremely wonderful wife would like to update her site as well.

This is the main corridor in the Grande Ballroom. The opening to the left here is the entrance to the dance floor.

This is the stage left corridor. At the end of this is the dressing room. 

This shot turned out kinda blurry but it shows how small the dance floor actually is. 

This is the view from the center of the stage looking out onto the dance floor. This what all of those artists saw. 

The Grande and other things

The past week was brutal but this weekend has been good. I really hope that the upcoming week is better.

Not much happened this past week other than work and fatigue. I worked at least two hours of overtime everynight. At least it will make for a good check.

Friday night I jammed with "House Music" but I only played about half the night due to being so tired.

Yesterday I went on a exploring/photographing expedition to the long abandoned Grande Ballroom in Detroit on Grand River and I-96. I had always read about the Grande as a kid but standing on the stage and looking out onto the dancefloor was really cool. Some of the artists who played there included The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Cream, The Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Moby Grape, Frank Zappa, The Byrds, and Jethro Tull among others. To be standing on the same stage as all of those people was incredibly surreal. I wish some of my pictures would have turned out better but I guess I can always go back. The building is in horrible shape. There are chunks of the ceiling that are long gone and others that are just waiting to come down.

I visited Aaron last night. We watched "Chappelle Show" and jammed for a couple minutes with Aaron playing his Epiphone acoustic stand up bass and I, my Martin D-15.

Today I am just relaxing, listening to the shortwave. I really want to do some recording but I don't think I am capable of doing any so I won't.