Jared Levanway

The Jack Rabbit

2010-08-15T01:51:00.000-07:00

Harrys

2010-08-02T13:24:00.000-07:00

Played at Harrys last night with a flask full of Wiskey. Got done at 2 in the morning. Gonna do the same thing tonight after a Mud Thump Rehersal, and then tomorrow night at the Slo Down Pub. Thats alot of music. I'm enjoing though. Gonna go camping in a few weeks. Up at Big sur. I'm looking forward to it.

Blues Jam

2010-07-27T17:05:00.000-07:00

Been Jamming at the blues Jam for about 3 years now. Every Tuesday night at the Slo Down Pub in Arroyo Grande. Each week is a different experience though lately we have had a pretty steady crowd of swing dancer. Fun to watch while your playing a little music. Met somebody yesterday who plays a little fiddle. Gonna jam on wednesday, Im looking forward to it.

So much going on

2010-07-22T12:11:00.000-07:00

These days I need days off. With Two Bands, working full time and trying to find new Business ventures is tiring. I took a breather yesterday and I'm in a much better frame of mind about it today. Today I'm learing about URL tagging. Complicated. Gonna get back to it.

Jazz

2009-01-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

I Have been playing music for about 15 years now and have met a lot of great people threw music. My mentor has for the last few years has been Screaming Jimmy. Just a great musician. I have been threw my past sort of limited on my knowledge about Music, and have come to really admire and respect musicians who can play theory intense Jazz. So I have been asked to play bass in a Jazz band and am currently busting my ass bringing up my Jazz reading skills. It is not an easy thing. Jimmy is one of those guys that you can just put a piece of music in front of him and he will play it like he has been playing it for the last 20 years. I'd love to be able to do that some day. For now though its painful to listen. One thing I've realized as I've made it to my twenties is that you can do just about anything you want to in life, it just takes time, and dedication. I Believe in that. What's cool is the more you accomplish the easier it becomes to get things done. Theirs always gonna be good and bad days, but how we deal with the bad day is gonna determine how frequent they are. So I'm gonna go learn some more Jazz.

Phone calling

2009-01-05T19:56:00.001-08:00

I started today with calling leads. And at first I had a real hard time with it. I can see why so many people doing internet marketing don't want to call there applicants. I get real nervous, especially on those first few calls. But because so many people don't want to make phone calls there is big money in it. And just today I made enough money to make me want to get over my wories of talking on the phone. In fact after my first three closses I couldn't wait to get back on the phone. Well okay I wasn't that anctious, but it is really cool talking to people from all over the states and around the world, plus I make money doing it.
JA

My 21s year.

2009-01-03T17:17:00.000-08:00

Well it all started monday, My friend kim from san fransisco came down for a few days to visit her family and we hung out monday afternoon drinking JIN and juice. Whitch is a lovely drink. Then later on my brothers took me to the black sheep in san luis witch has the best ribs I've ever had. We wound up at frog and peach at around 11. There was a regge jam goin on and they all found out it was my birthday so around midnight they handed me a guitar and let me jam a few songs. It was fun. Everybody was dancing and getting into the music. On tuesday I drank while hosting a blues jam at the slo down pub. I've been playing there for a while but it was the first time they served me alchol. Then wed was new years eve and the Jim townsend bules band performed for a small wealthy croud. Probably the most boring crowd ever. But the band got tipsy and we made it fun. Thursday night I actually went to R And Ds by Myself and had a pritty cool talk with the bartender there, Jason, a really cool guy. Then friaday I went out with Anthony to Apple bees, we walked because we drank alot, and we talked and put our differences aside about a issue we had a week earlier. And now tonight I'm goin to los alomos and jaming with Mic. Scotch wiskey and water here I come.
JA

Saturday Evening rehersal

2008-12-22T03:39:00.000-08:00

On saturday nights I Go Down to los alomos about 45 minutes south of arroyo grande, And lately I've been kind of dreading going down there. But this last saturday was alot of fun. The whole group made it to rehersal with chip on bass, Don on drums, me on guitar, Amanda on keyboard, and mic on rythm guitar and vocals. And I don't think we have ever sounded better. and at the end of rehersal everybody was amped and we all danced for a while to some grateful dead tunes, then Mic made us all eggs and takitos, witch are fabulous.

ta ta tony

2008-11-17T09:38:00.000-08:00

So I went to my friend tonys house last night and played guitar for there daughter lilly who is 2 years old and I have never seen anyone dance quite like she does. Deffinatly a result of tonys intense dance training. After dancing herself dizzy she started to strum the guitar on beat so all I had to do was hold chords. It was pritty kool that she was strummin on beat. Shes gonna be my prize student. I wonder wat the youngest a child should get trained in music. I have had 5 year old students before and they generally have a hard time concentrating but if they stick with it in a year or so they just start to click. So maybe the youger the better if they don't get it right away thats ok cause later it will come together, just being exposed to music at a young age is proven to stimulate certain types of mental growth. Well today is monday, I had a great weekend but now its time to get down to buisness.

JA

Saturday night.

2008-11-16T13:29:00.000-08:00

yesterday I spent most of my day hanging out with randall. A friend of mine that goes back 4 years to my days at chevron. We worked there together right when I moved to pismo from saint george utah. Randall has been a really good friend and in recent times has been a little distant because he moved to santa maria for work and school while I remaind here in the five cities area. Together we have been working on a guitar project. It is an epiphone special guitar that I bought. My first electic ever. When I bought it it was all a clear blue finish very pritty guitar. In the last year I have striped down the guitar done alot of work on it in a effort to make my own custom guitar. Randall fits in because I painted the guitar white and white can be a bit dull but Randall does amazing black and white art. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6564117 This is a redirection to Randalls myspace. He has photos of his work and I believe photos of the gutiar we are working on together posted in his photo section. Yesterday was a specific talk about a small wood piece that I shaped out of a block of wood that attaches at the top of the neck to cover the trus rod bolt. Hes is going to put some form of art on the small piece. We talked for about four hours yesterday but did not come up with anything inparticular, but thats ok cause randall will handel that part. After our visit I went to the pismo peer and sat right behind the restrooms facing the peer and played some guitar. At first nobody was around so I was just goofing off a little bit, when all at once a group of people came up and sat in front of me hopeing to hear there favorite songs. So I played a coulpe tunes and they loved them. Folsom prison blues, and wish you were here. I wasn't able to play much more for them though as they posed in pictures with me and asked me if I cared to join them on an extacy trip down the beach. I said no thanku as I really wanted to continue playing music. shortly after a group of older gentlmen came up and started singing with me on my cover of trucking by gratful dead. The whole group loved grateful dead so I played friend of the devil and Ripple and they all sang along and proceded to tip me and say good night. Not long after this a police officer came up and told me I was unable to collect money but was alloud to continue playing, so I closed my case and called it a night after three hours and about five bucks, and change. Deffinatly a fun night for me and I toped it of with a mcchicken sandwitch from mcdonalds cause I love those things and then headed on home. I'm hoping that a girl named squirt from the first group will send me copies of the pictures that they took that night so that I may post them here.

JA