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Vance’sMondayAcousticPajamaParty #141 - MASHING UP SOME TUNES

Freestyling. Who knows what song will keep company with which song

When: Monday nite 1/2/23, 7:30ET (doors open @7 for community hang)

Where: https://youtu.be/wLvZ8r8PS9w

Who gets 10%: https://development.bmc.org/ It’s Web Management + Digital Design Genius Amy’s birthday today (https://www.amymalkoff.com), so I axed her who I should donate to. She didn’t drop a beat. I couldn’t get her off the phone about Boston Medical Center.

http://paypal.me/vancevancevance or
https://venmo.com/vancevancevance or
VanceFunder P.O. Box 17,
Arlington, MA 02476 for this web-groovery.
Pay or not, up to you. Let’s stay connected.

This week's pyjamas - yes

NEW ALBUM. ONLY 1 DAY TO DONATE AND BE IN THE LINER NOTES = JAN 7 2023
Donate any amount = name on the cover!
Same links above, note “VanceFunder”.
Any amount over $1 works, but $1000 -plus- makes you an exec producer, name in heavy black font.

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Hi.

I’ve been working on the liner notes for “The Mother Of Trouble”, and I just started to type in the names of each and every donator, names eventually arranged alphabetically and artistically on the inside CD cover as thanks for donations, when an overwhelming wave of something hit me. Something like gratitude mixed with disbelief stirred with humility and responsibility and joy, so I had to just stop and take stock of the folks that donated to this CD. They are:

Doctors,
Lawyers,
Jobless,
Millionaires,
Gay people,
Ultra-right-winged folks,
Radical leftist lesbians,
At least 2 trans folks that I know of,
Christians,
Black folks,
Jews,
People Ages 16 to 92,
Asians,
People I'm sure are angry at me for something,
Best Friends,
Cousins from both sides,
Hindus,
Mentally ill people claiming to be dead,
Musicians,
Managers,
Booking agents,
Mechanics,
Indigenous Native folks,
Muslims,
People who gave $1,
Someone who gave $2500,
Australians,
Canadians,
People who did jail time,
People who, in a lucid moment, donated though suffering with dementia,
Pilots,
Race car drivers,
Hospice nurses,
Survivors,
At least 2 people in wheelchairs,
Gun owners,
Neighbors,
Ex-girlfriends,
College friends,
High school friends,
Tenured professors,
Alcoholics,
People who don’t know me,
People who donated twice because they forgot about the first time,
Anti-Vaxx people,
Blind people,
Model airplane building people,
Tony Award nominees,
Grammy winners,
Veterinarians,
My accountant,
People who hoped I wouldn’t notice,
Someone actually in one of the songs,
Students,

…and they’ve entrusted me with me doing my art, my way, with their money, and it hit me how important this release really is, next thing i’m just a weepy mess, and still typing away.

Like I’ve said, critics will headscratch, but these people above know what they’re getting. And don’t know at the same time. It’s my best work yet.

No use putting the hubris cart before the brag horse, like Grammy-speak and all that, but this snotty, teary sleeve surely means that the cross section of peopleage above believing in my goods.

This music won’t let you down. It and I have a job to do. Thank you for your trust in me.