A Message From Rich
Spring 2007
Are We Re-creating or Actually Creating Music?
Thoughts on our Elvis Show


When I first put the TLC Show Band together, I honestly wanted to re-create that
same Elvis Vegas show feel.  But something happened along the way.

You see the other day I found out that there are many TRIBUTE bands out there that
play Elvis music (or Grateful Dead, Beatles or whatever it is they do) and they play it
note for note. Exactly identical to the original or like a sound track-the same thing
every night.  With us, we have the CORE of the song the same every night, but we
really go out and try to add something or even take something away to make the
song fresh, original and US! I think it helps us keep the energy and freshness to
what we do.

Our show continues to build and mature.  We keep adding some the finest musicians
and singers that I have EVER worked with. We are adding new songs on a regular
basis. Our show has been called a traveling Branson/Las Vegas show.  What a
compliment.  As I watch this whole process it is amazing to me how much that we are
actually CREATING music and creating an updated version of not only the Elvis
music, but current and past favorites.  We are adding to what the original TCB band
and many artists in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s paved the way for us to do in this new
millennium.  

I am not so presumptuous to think that we are the only band out there doing a fresh
take on classic cover songs but, I will certainly say this…when our band covers Bon
Jovi, Sugarland, Johnny Cash, Elvis, or some of our original material-it has such a
fresh, contemporary sound, feel, and arrangement.

I am so proud of what we can do to keep ELVIS’ music and memory alive.  And I am
just as proud of the singers and musicians that I am working with in the TLC SHOW
Band that make what I do much more fun. It is becoming harder and harder to do the
smaller shows with tracks. I have truly gotten spoiled.  Of course, for two of my band
members-that was their goal all along! They secretly wanted me to get to a point to
where I WOULDN’T do shows with tracks.  But of course out of necessity, everyone’s
schedules, and budgets (and sometimes performing in a LIVING room) I still do some
shows with tracks and enjoy any chance to perform!

We have a long way to go at perfecting our show and what we do-but is a fun
journey along the way with some of the best PEOPLE I could ever know and call my
friends, let alone actually work with on stages, civic centers and arenas across the
country.

So, to Steve, Michael, Rich, Bubba (The Band), Tammy, April, Kristi, Patti, Greg and
Dennis (The Singers), Grant, Sheila, Bill, and Jon (Sound and Lights)…I just want to
say thanks for taking this wonderful journey!
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