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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 1, 2009.
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Video Updates on site.
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High quality MP3 of our flagship single, Stick Boy as well as our opening song, Say What You Want.
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Full Album Download (on Completion)
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"Official Bootleg" live recordings of the band from Special download website.
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Exclusive weekly updates of our progress in the studio as well as MP3s of the rough mixes of that week's work. (Off site) and a B&W Groove Duke T-Shirt.
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I call this the 2% solution, since $90 is 2% of the total budget. Send me an email with your phone number and your usual bedtime and I'll call and sing you a lullaby.
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Invitation to our VIP CD Release Party. Reserved table for 4. Signed Copy of the CD.
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This is the 5% solution. Send me your phone number and I'll tell you a bedtime story and sing a lullaby. Plus, I'll put your name in the CD booklet.
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Band member for a night. Play tamborine (or other suitably funky instrument) on stage for a full gig with the band.
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$500 VIP - Year long membership on our guest list any gig anywhere (you provide your own transportation) we'll either get you seats or get you backstage. Plus special private all you can eat cookout with the band.
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Mark will write a song on the topic of your choice to be featured on the album.
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Honorary Band member. We'll learn a song of your choice to sing on a gig. Plus VIP rewards.
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Credit on CD as a leading Backer. Daylong Studio Pass and VIP status
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Surrogate Father Package: Credit on CD. Spend the Day with Mark and his Boys. Craft project: We'll buy an instrument and make a lamp out of it for you to take home. The we'll play catch & Frisbee at a family cookout.
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Gypsy Moth package. Credit on CD. We drive as far as a tank of gas will take us in any direction (where we rehearse our selection of TV Theme songs) eat a picnic lunch wherever we land and sing the greatest TV Theme Songs in a local park. Fill the tank again and come home.
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Chemo Therapy Package. Credit on CD. Come on, you’re curious as to what it’s like to get chemo. Now you can experience it vicariously while keeping Mark company. Trip with Mark to a Chemo Therapy Infusion. (Date to be determined) Keep me company and we can talk about anything you like. Take Pictures and record a Video to post on You Tube.
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Executive Producer Package. Full Credit as Executive Producer of the Album. Open Door Studio Policy. And We’ll have a private release party at your house, just for you and your friends where we’ll play all the songs from the album. Lifetime VIP. Anytime We play just ask for tickets.
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Fishin’ Musician Package. We’ll take a fishing trip to Canada where we’ll write a song together and sing it to our largest catch before we dress it and fry it up. To be filmed and edited together as the promotional video for the said song.
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When I got lymphoma, I decided to suspend work on my thesis and form another band to record my original tunes. The tunes were mostly written while I was on the road with The Doctor Wu Rock and Soul Revue. I recorded that first album "Heavy Mariner" with funds raised here at Kickstarter!
Among the adventures we've had, at our first session to lay down rhythm tracks we followed Gin Blossoms drummer John Richardson into the studio. He was so cool, he let us borrow his drums to record our tracks. How cool is that?
Two of the tracks off that album "Three Speeds In Reverse" and "You Better Believe It" made the long Grammy Ballot in October. I won't know if I got a nomination until December.
Band membership has been fluid and daws from my many musical friends who were willing to work for free.
As far as the cancer goes, I've been on a clinical at MD Anderson for about 2 years and as long as the results are stable, I will maintain that Status Quo. I will eventually need a Bone Marrow transplant, so I am trying to do everything that is important to me before that day comes!
