July 12, 2008

Hello everyone,  hope you all are in good health and spirits.  

        E St tour just finished Scandinavia and we're headed to Spain. Great, crazy shows. Bruce continues to be extraordinary! It was great to see so many Swedish cousins and friends in Gothenburg! Especially great to have Amy along this last two weeks of Europe.

    The photo of me and Neil inside the new CD was a Danny Clinch photo from the Vote For Change Tour after the Rising tour. I believe it was taken at a sound check in St Paul, Minnesota. Thanks for the feedback on the new CD. Neil's on tour here in Europe but unfortunately, schedules don't permit me to see his show, which I know would be inspiring.

     Lesson 6 of the Beginner's Guitar School should be avaliable soon. Be patient and kind with yourselves and keep playing!

    I was unaware we were coming up on a thousand list serves. Wow! Technology required Linda to make a change so hang in there with us! I'm still amazed I can send an e-mail as I'm a bit old school and grateful your interest in our website has dragged me into the computer age. After all, I played Computer Age by Neil on the Trans tour in '83 so I guess it's about time!

    Please keep spreading the word on the Guitar School for us. July 29th I'm scheduled to be on ABC's "THE VIEW" and teach three of their hosts how to play guitar in 3 minutes! Have no idea how that will go but I'm grateful for the challenge.

    Anyway, thanks to all of you for the continued interest. Oh yeah, by the way, ROLLING STONE may do a piece in their next issue on the STEADMAN STRAT that Amy asked Ralph Steadman (dear friend and artistic genius) to paint for her local AZ. Food Bank Charities. There's a link here to get the information. Please alert all your rich, philanthropic, art loving friends to check it out!
 
                                  Peace and Believe  -  Nils


PS-if you are interested in the pickup truck I have for sale, it's still on ebay, you can view it HERE.

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NILS UK 2005 TOUR VIDEO DIARY
Nils' videotaped a bit of the UK fall '05 tour--
thanks to guitar tech Roy Witte -- here's two installments!

TOUR VIDEO PART 1

TOUR VIDEO PART 2

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Follow the link to a few pages of
Chord Charts written by Nils
in response to some of the Digest requests!

Click on this link to view an illustration
of Nil's current Guitar Rig set up
courtesy of Guitar Tech Roy Witte



Nils and Steven Van Zandt with Paul Rodgers,
founder of of "Bad Company" and formerly "Free"
while touring in Canada (above)

For info on Paul visit his website:
www.PaulRodgers.com

REVIEW of THE LONER by Neal Butterworth  [view]
REVIEW of THE LONER on Glide Magazine [view]


2008 SCHEDULE
FOR DATES SCHEDULED
with the E STREET BAND
visit BruceSpringsteen.net
Greetings Nils Fans,
I am extremely happy to announce that the 'TRIBUTE TO NILS LOFGREN' DVD is now available! To order yours,  go to www.bandhousegigs.com

The Tribute to Nils was an unforgettable concert held at Strathmore, on August 22, 2004, and was attended by more than 5,000 fans. The DVD runs about 3 & 1/2 hours & features an 11 song (full band) set from Nils and includes the long awaited Grin reunion with Bob Berberich and Tom Lofgren along with Bob Gordons son, Billy on bass. There are terrific performances from Mary Ann Redmond, Tommy Lepson, Tommy Keene, Martha Hull, The Lofgren Brothers, Bobby Manriquez, Eric Ambel, Tom Lofgren,Tom Miller, Julie Sanderson, Bob Berberich, Rocky Roberts and Eric Brace all backed by various Nils band mates including Buck Brown, Timm Biery, Jeffrey "Skunk" Baxter, Mike Zack, Louie Newmyer, Chuck Sullivan, and myself. The show also featured one of the final performances by the late, great Wade Matthews.

At Nils request, dvd sales proceeds (after production expenses) will be donated to Hungry For Music, a wonderful D.C. based 501C organization that donates instruments and provides music education programs to children and schools that cannot afford them. It is a very worthy cause, near and dear to Nils and all of the performers who have agreed to its support, via dvd sales. We are forever grateful to all of the musicians for theirkindness & generosity

The show was filmed by John Collins and Happy Medium Productions, mixed by Tom Lofgren and recorded on 24 tracks by John Penovich.

Boomer, Jeremy and the rest of Nils crew made the whole show possible by donating their time and expertise to allow us to produce such a complicated show with band lineups changing on virtually every song.

The dvd, like the show, reflects the tremendous love and respect that performers and fans alike, have for Nils and his music. We are very pleased and proud to finally have this show on dvd and hope everyone will have as much fun seeing it as we had putting it together.

Thanks
Ronnie Newmyer & BANDHOUSE GIGS