tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:44:15 +0000A blog by Orange Julius Jackson, bass player for Stone Cold Fox. The Original Playa reflects on life, recent gigs, and just about anything he can think of. Special guest bloggers will include fellow members of Stone Cold Fox and members of Electric Boogaloo and The White Leppard Crue.http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)Blogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-5673506871461831212Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:19:00 +00002009-07-11T16:19:53.065-05:00Friday July 17th, Wild Wing Cafe – Alpharetta, GA will be Electric Boogaloo instead of Stone Cold Fox. http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/scf-schedule-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-256035160474000402Thu, 07 May 2009 16:03:00 +00002009-05-07T11:04:41.645-05:00Ok, This blog is mostly for the benefit of those on Facebook from my hometown that may be in the savannah area this weekend, or that may feel up to making a drive to hear fun music. I will be playing in Savannah this weekend. For those of you that haven't seen the band that I have been with the past 5 years or so, here goes......... Friday and Saturday we will be at the Wild WIng Cafe @ City http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/ok-this-blog-is-mostly-for-benefit-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-5222144852290567332Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:02:00 +00002009-03-03T23:02:39.096-05:00  It was March of 2001, we had just moved from the first AVP location on Old Alabama to the 2nd one on Old Milton Parkway. It was the first Monday after the weekend we moved, which was also the Monday after St. Patty's Day. I Was at my cube in the back of the office and I hear a knock on the door. I got up and opened it. In walked a lady that claimed she was the new accounting/shipping & http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/opened-doors-eye-drops-bell-bottoms.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-4391443172191704622Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:18:00 +00002009-01-21T11:13:38.651-05:00Today in History Here's a list of things that have happened on January 21st throughout the years...... 1793 King Louis XVI was guillotined for treason 1915 The first Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit 1954 the USS Nautilus, the 1st Nuclear-powered submarine was launched. 1950 George Orwell died in London. 1928 Jose Januario deSousa was born. That's right, today is my http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/today-in-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-4852645801946769226Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:37:00 +00002008-12-18T12:37:48.984-05:00Ok, time once again to catch due to my slack ass blogging habits. Actually, lately I have been trying to more of an effort to actually write in my journal. You  know, actual pen and paper...hahaha! For thos of you born in the past 20 years, that is what you had to use before computers. I actually write in two journals, one that is in real-time (in other words writing about what is going on now) http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/catch-up-time-my-lesson-gigs-65-sally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-6952638047516056300Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:35:00 +00002008-11-21T15:40:17.563-05:00In the past 26 of playing the bass, only the first couple of years was I ever really nervous playing in front of a crowd. Excited I have been many times. Big crowds, special events, New Years in a packed Greenville Wild Wing..... whatever the case may be, but I haven't felt nervous really since doing a recital in high school on the Double Bass (upright bass for those that not knowing what thehttp://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-lesson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-494796875273933312Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:31:00 +00002008-10-23T12:33:19.245-05:00Starting Wednesday October 29th, Rock Mafia will be adding a Wednesday night show at the Dixie Tavern in Marietta, GA.The show will run for four weeks on Wednesdays from 9:30 - 12:30 through November 19th, 2008. (Extensions will be decided at the end of the 4 weeks)Come out and eat, drink & sing.Check out Dixie's menu they have great food. In particular, try the Andoullie Sausgae Sammich......http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-mafia-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-6404977570380721966Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:36:00 +00002008-10-10T15:38:54.357-05:00First of all many thanks, to all the fine folks that came out last night especially those that sang. There was a lot of good talent last night. We did three new ones last night. Lit Up by Buck Cherry. Sean sang it and even though we weren't planning on playing any of the new DM ones, I thought it came out pretty darn good. I look forward to playing it tonight in the 90s show. Sober by Tool. http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/thursday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-8716361865611500238Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:21:00 +00002008-07-29T13:06:08.262-05:00OK, time for some more of Johnny's Random thoughts.........First of all, Happy belated Independence Day to all of you. The 4th is a special day for me (as, I'm sure it is to most of us) for the fact that my parents are naturalized citizens. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think their citizenship is anymore important than those of us that are citizens here by birth.....a citizen of the USA is a http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/random-thoughts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-2815462679583973793Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:50:00 +00002008-07-11T13:51:31.573-05:00Starting Wednesday July 16th, Rock Mafia will be adding a Wednesday night show at the Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar in Dunwoody, GA. The show will run every Wednesday from 9:30 - 12:30 through October 1st, 2008. Come out and sing. ***This doesn't affect the Thursday show at the Alpharetta Wild Wing Cafe.Also, starting Friday July 18th, Foxxy Cleopatra will be perfomring every Friday at the http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/rock-mafia-adds-new-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-2178199531375753982Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:59:00 +00002008-06-18T10:04:48.504-05:00As I have stated in previous blogs, during my musical career thus far, I have been very fortunate to play with very talented drummers. some from the past include Brent Cash, Pat McDonald, Scott Bachman, Matt Donaldson, and Brian Keaney And that certainly includes my current gig(s). Skelly, Chadwick, Rodney, Joey (when I get to play with him which is pretty much never.), all great drummers. http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/as-i-have-stated-in-previous-blogs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-564479821772749311Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:16:00 +00002008-12-10T07:35:26.339-05:00On Monday May 19th, 2008 I played at Smith's Olde Bar in midtown with Sean Thomason & The Halls Of Jupiter. We/they opened up for Jimmy's Chicken Shack. For those of you that don't know, Sean is the lead singer in my regular band(s), Stone Cold Fox, Electric Boogaloo, The Dock Martins, and Rock mafia. Unfortunately, his Bass Player, Mahlin, had a family emergency to tend to and was unable to http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/sean-and-halls-of-jamerson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-8230750687242486420Thu, 08 May 2008 19:10:00 +00002008-05-08T14:10:48.477-05:00Once again it seems that my thoughts are starting to back up in my head, so I need to unload them onto paper. Well, in this case, convert them into 1s and 0s. 1st things 1st, I would like to thank each and every one of you that made it out to the last Insatiable Stallion Brothers show at the One Star Ranch Sunday night. (Krista, Skelly, Brandi, Brandi's kids, Yoga-D, Metal Jenn, UndieT, Joeyhttp://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/stinkin-thinkin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-3632729865617047284Thu, 08 May 2008 16:01:00 +00002008-05-08T11:03:16.188-05:00When I was just a wee lad (Then they called me Tangerine Julius), I remember having a stack of record LP's (vinyl for those born in the 80s) that my dad let me play on his old record player pretty much when I wanted to. One of those was an album called Cattle Calls. It had a song on it called Cattle Call that I used to love to play and sing along with. The artist was Eddy Arnold. During his http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/richard-edward-arnold.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-2027803937284543777Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:53:00 +00002008-12-10T07:35:26.441-05:00Monday was the debut of The Insatiable Stallion Brothers Band. A 9 piece Band formerly known as Lou's Blues Review. Lou's Blues has been around for about 21 years or so playing old soul and R&B music in the Atlanta area. The original members include Lou Vandora (Guitar, Vocals), Michael Milsap (Keyboard, Vocals), LaRue Riccio (Drums), Wally Tirado (Tenor Saxophone). The new members are: Stevehttp://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/some-wild-horses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-1291970407763355562Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:25:00 +00002008-03-21T10:27:33.168-05:00Along with Rock Mafia, Stone Cold Fox, Electric Boogaloo and The Dock Martins, I also play in another band. A band not in the SCF Entertainment family. Kind of a side project. The Insatiable Stallion Brothers, is a 9 piece, Rhythm & Blues Review type band. We play songs from the Motown era, Stax, Old Soul and some Blues. The instrumentation is Bass, Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Tenor Sax, Alto http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/other-band.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-7289999272261850015Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:05:00 +00002008-03-06T17:14:49.884-05:00When I joined the jazz band late in my freshman year in High School, I met an incredible drummer by the name of Brent. This guy was ridiculous. I had only been playing bass a couple of years and I knew very little of what I know now. But I did know, that this guy could seriously play the drums like nothing I had ever seen. What I would learn later, lucky for me that it was not much later, http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-will-i-know-if-im-awake.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-7517688658870671668Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:50:00 +00002008-03-02T13:50:54.997-05:00Ok, once again I'm in the mood to blog, but have no subject matter. So here is another installment of Johnny's Random Thoughts/Blog First up, House Cleaning! While it is not so hard to get the house clean, why is it such task to actually get started. I woke up about 11 today and I really need to clean my garage, clean all the junk off my dining room table. gather all my stuff for my taxes, http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/cleaning-gatos-and-such.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-7494224104125881097Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:29:00 +00002008-02-13T21:41:52.206-05:00Just got home from having a couple of drinks with co-workers and our Hitachi Rep. I don't really have anything to talk about, but for some reason I just felt like blogging. I only had two drinks and I am not even buzzing. So here goes a blog on "nothing". Let's start with The Rocket. I was watching some of it in our lobby at work today. It was kind of gut-wrenching. My favorite baseball player http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/nothingness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-3919681610242143106Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:39:00 +00002008-02-08T08:40:38.232-05:00Ok, so I'm perusing through the morning online papers and I see that the State Of Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles is going to grant the University of Florida alumni in the state a vanity plate featuring the roadkill of a mascot! WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL?!?!?!?! It's bad enough they are already allowing Auburn University to the same. Now granted Auburn is just over the border, but it is http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/gator-tags.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-4083257116758180385Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:12:00 +00002008-01-29T15:18:23.765-05:00A while back I wrote a blog of my favorite sounds. I think it all started with a question on Inside The Actors Studio. I think James Lipton's survey at the end of the show asks the actor what their favorite sound might be. SO I asked myself and I realized that I have several favorite sounds........... Now I am updating that list and adding a couple of new sounds. ................ Here are myhttp://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/if-tree-falls-in-woods.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-4361643945106064577Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:12:00 +00002007-12-10T22:12:18.452-05:00Hi everybody. Yeah, I know, The blog has been MIA since June. The last thing I wrote about was seeing the Police in New Orleans. A lot has happened since then. Lot's of stuff. We'll get to that shortly. First let's talk about the main thing that has been keeping me from writing this blog. For the past two years or so I have had a bit of a sleeping disorder. For longer than that I have snored. http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/coming-up-for-air.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-3318396944268873046Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:05:00 +00002007-06-29T17:05:28.243-05:00OK, the band is playing in Columbia this weekend, but not with me. I, along with my good buddy Jeff, will be in New Orleans tomorrow to see my favorite band of all time -- The Police. I saw them once during the Amnesty tour in the late 80's. When they played in Atlanta, Sting brought Andy and Stewart out for his portion of the show for a short reunion. Otherwise, I have Sting many times in http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/la-policia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-4049896841715747442Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:21:00 +00002007-06-22T09:21:27.284-05:00Disclaimer: Before I state anything here, please understand that these are my opinions. Some of these were formed while under the influence of Rockstar & Vodka, some were formed with only 3 hours sleep, and some were even formed after sitting at work looking at .aspx code all afternoon. No matter how hungry you are, when going to the continental breakfast at a hotel, never trust: a). anything http://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/things-i-learned-in-recent-weeks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12512278.post-1375254186832458025Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:50:00 +00002007-06-20T10:50:05.449-05:00That's right, The Boogaloo will be making it's debut at Wild Bill's tonight for "Ladies 80s Night" Check out our homepage for more details. OJJhttp://ojjsblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/juicy-simon-adrian-dr-wild-bill-tonight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Orange Julius Jackson)0