6/26/10
We are back up again finally!!!
Back on Memorial Day we had a storm come through and there was a
major lightening strike about 3 doors down from our house.
The result of that lightening strike was that we lost this Web
Server, a PC, 2 ports on our Wi-Fi router, 2 ports on our cable
modem, the Ethernet port on Nancy's laptop, the waterbed heater,
the garage door opener and our upright freezer! To top
things off I ordered parts to get the server back up and I
ordered a new CPU from one place and the motherboard and memory
from another place. Unfortunately the place I ordered the
motherboard from instead of shipping out the "In-Stock"
parts within "24 BUSINESS hours" it did not get shipped until 16
days after I placed the order. I was NOT to happy so if
anyone wants to know you should AVOID PCMarketUSA,
www.pcmarketusa.com as they have turned out to be THE
WORST COMPANY I have ever dealt with when is came to
ordering PC parts. But now everything is back up and running.
01/24/10
Happy New Year everyone. I finally have the recordings
posted from our Saturday Night Concert at the 50th Anniversary
Green Lake Bahá'í Conference. Posted are Hi and Low resolution
video and Audio only files. The Video are in Mpeg Format
and the Audio is in MP3 format. You will find the files on
the
Download page.
10/16/09
I was just sent a link reviewing Unity Bluegrass Band's Reunion
at the Green Lake Baha'i Conference. The title of it is "The
Unity Bluegrass Band - 'Getting Around Tuit' again". Guess
people liked us *G*.
9/19/09
Didn't start out this way but I ended up doing a bit of house
cleaning and while in the throes of it I ended up adding a
picture of one of the incarnations of the Unity Band. You will
find it on the
9 Years of Unity page. Also added my reminiscences of the
Green Lake Bahá'í Conference titled
The Reunion of Unity. Added pictures for
Dave Rohling and
Jackson Blanchard, made notes on photos and memorabilia.
Basically I've made a lot of changes
so look around and enjoy!
9/18/09
Just added a link to
SCHU-MAN Studios which
is David Bragman's Recording Studio.
9/8/09
If your have not had a chance to look around you will notice
that the website has had a slight makeover. I redesigned
the navigation so you can get everywhere from anywhere.
This should make getting around a great deal easier. Enjoy!
9/1/09
Posted a picture of the original
Unity Band
from back in 1973. The members in this photo include Mark
Harries, Janie Fryee, Cindi Crampton, John Woodall, and Haydn
Mohr.
8/30/09
I'm home from one of the best weekends I have had in MANY YEARS.
The Unity Bluegrass Reunion was a success and I had a wonderful
time seeing the guys. Those where were able to make it to
Green Lake was Doug and Pia Minard, Richard Staller (who became
a new Grand Dad last week), David Neidig, David Bragman, Janie
Fryee, her husband Vern Knapp, me and my best half Nancy (who was
like a giddy school girl, excited at our performing over the
weekend). We got to catch up on what we have been doing
and after this weekend there seems to be some interest in us
possibly getting together on other occasions to perform.
I'm not saying it will happen, but from the sound of things,
folks do seem to be interested in the possibilities. Stay tuned
for future details.
8/30/09
I had some correspondence (on Facebook) with a founding member
of the old Unity Band (the predecessor of Unity Bluegrass Band)
John Woodall. In our correspondence he gives the story how
they got started. I am going to post the messages now
titled
"The
Origin of Unity Band".
Enjoy!
8/23/09
If you check out the
Memorabilia Section you will find a lot more items
there thanks to David Neidig. He sent me all the papers,
posters, etc. that he had for my to scan and then post.
Enjoy!
7/29/09
I was at a
Bahá'í Summer School and in conversation with a
friend was told that
Haydn Mohr has a Web Site. The URL is
www.CowboyHay.com. In it he is a 19th Century
character from the gold rush in California. I recommend
visiting it.
7/4/09
Added a picture to
Doug
Minard's profile page. Added a picture to
Haydn Mohr's profile page. Added several pictures to
9 Years of Unity page illustrating the personnel changes
throughout the years.
GREEN
LAKE NEWS!!! 6/20/09
Because of old age and injuries of others, Richard Staller will
be joining Unity Bluegrass Band on guitar. The members who
are scheduled to perform are David Neidig, David Bragman, David
Rohling (Hmmm, maybe we WILL have to rename the band "THE DAVE
BAND"), Mark Harries, Doug Minard, Adrian McKee and Richard
Staller. Janie Frye will be joining us in the audience.
3/22/09
Added a link for
Arnold Shultz on the Afro-Bluegrass page. Arnold had quite
an influence on the music and guitar styles of Kentucky having
mentored Bill Monroe and influencing Merle Travis in developing
his style of guitar playing.
3/7/09a
Must be a slow day. To see the future home of Unity
Bluegrass click
here.
3/7/09
Its 60 degrees out and I got the Spring Cleaning Bug. Since I am
sitting at Starbucks in Charleston, Ill. about the only thing I
could clean was Unity, so I rewrote some of the text, changed
around some of the links on the Links Page. And while I was
there I decided to copy the link for David Neidig's band and for
Doug Minard's band to that page as well. Then while doing
that I added some text to several of the links that held special
meaning to me, which in turn started me adding a remembrance to
the
Guitar Works link, telling of the *GREAT* "Doc"
Terry. You should go check it out.
2/11/09
I FINALLY found the CD that Dave Bragman made for me of "Getting
Around TUIT" so I have now ripped it and it is available for
download at a higher sampling rate than the other copy that I
have. Both the high and low res. versions are available
for download.
1/30/09
Added a
photo of yours truly as he looked in 1976 when he was,
of all things, a Bluegrass Bassist (come on guys, send me your pics from the album shoot).
Also added a link in
Afro-Bluegrass to an Bulletin Board Post that referenced me.
(found it again after loosing track of it several years ago)
12/27/08
Finally updated the picture for
Dave Bragman (sorry it took so
long Dave). I also added in the Memorabilia section more
pictures of Dave performing around the Windy City.
11/30/08
Added Performance tracks from
Glenview 1976 performance,
including *groaners* to give you the feel of being in the
audience. So grab your tomatoes, oranges and other
throwing paraphernalia and be ready to listen to a performance
of the Unity Bluegrass Band.
6/14/08
Added Airtime information for Dave Bragman's Radio Shows on
WLUW
6/14/08
Am sitting at Janie Fryee's house right now. We are here for Karen's 50th Birthday party
and I decided to do some personnel updates on the site. You can
now find more
extensive information on what your favorite
UBB members
have been up to. I also saw
Mark Harries last night
and he brought along a collections of UBB pictures. I hope to
talk him out of several to add to the Web Site. Wish me
luck.
11/19/07
Added a few things today. With Help from
Dave Bragman I have
uploaded
music from UBB's tape "On Our Way" plus three tracks he
had from a couple of gigs. The first are 2 tracks from
Brookfield Zoo and 1 track from Charlotte's Web. Also if
you have your speakers on you should be hearing a sound bite
from Dave & Earl's Breakdown, the theme song from UBB.
11/21/07
Just uploaded the rest of
"Getting Around Tuit" and compressed
the intro music down to a little over 100k for faster
downloading. I also decided to add this part so you can
always be aware of changes to the Web Site.
11/4/07
In going through some things I discovered a paper
Dave Neidig
passed out that tells the story of the
first 9 years of UBB.
I have included it here (with a few minor changes, sorry Dave).
Also included with this package is a list of gigs the band did
over the years so I have included that up to 1980. I will
be adding the rest of it soon.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
The Unity
Bluegrass Band
is scheduled for a Reunion Weekend
at
the Green Lake Bahá'í Conference.
The dates are August 28
- 30, 2009 in Green Lake, Wis. The Unity Bluegrass Band
has not performed there since 1977. As of now it looks like
most of the members from that performance will be there (plus a
few additional folks). More to come!!!
GREEN LAKE NEWS!!! 7/29/09
Heard from the Green Lake Committee and received our performance
schedule. We will be performing twice while there, both on
Saturday. We will be playing the Coffee House at 1:30pm
and the Main Stage at 8:25pm on Saturday night.
FINAL ROLE CALL!!! 8/23/09
Haydn will not be there
because he'd rather play Grandpa at a family Gathering than to
come play Bluegrass. So far those who will be there will be
David Neidig, David Bragman, David Rohling (these 3 guys were
formerly known as the "Dave Band"), Doug Minard, and Richard
Staller (who is a new Grandpa as of yesterday). Janie Fryee will
be our *OFFICIAL GROUPIE* And I'm still thinking of whether I
will show up for this or not <LOL>.
