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 Tyketto frontman Danny Vaughn has confirmed that the band will be continuing but with a new guitarist.
He writes in his latest blog "Hello again to all those patient friends and fans out there. As I mentioned before I don't like clogging everyone's email up with lots of blogs every time I have a thought (it's up to you to decide how often that happens) so I've waited until there was a lot to talk about. Here goes......
FROM THE INSIDE: VISIONS was released on August 1st and I have been really grateful to so many of you that have been writing in and giving me your reviews and comments. It's been overwhelmingly favourable and that is a great reward for all of the people that put so much hard work into making it.
THE ILLEGAL EAGLES- Unfortunately, the entire Beamish Bash, which was due to start this coming weekend in the Newcastle area, has been cancelled! The weather has been so bad that Health and Safety officials would not give the go ahead to have any of the stage or PA structures built. So the whole thing is off! Some summer we're having, eh?
But, we are all set to get rolling on our autumn tour, the first date of which will be in the Cliff's Pavilion in Southend on September 19th. A great deal of the gigs, from September through the end of November, will be in the northern part of the UK so please check the web site www.illegaleagles.com or our myspace page for a show in your town!
NORTHERN LIGHTS ORCHESTRA- I was recently contacted by drummer and producer extra ordinaire, Ken Mary, who was kind enough to ask if I would sing a track on a very big project that is being done in Los Angeles. It is something of a rock opera, similar to what Trans Siberian Orchestra does, based on the life of Jesus and it has a very impressive roster of talent involved with it. The proceeds from cd sales will be going towards several charities and they will be looking to make a live touring production out of it as well.
The track I sang on had none other than George Lynch blazing away on guitar! A real thrill for me!
TYKETTO NEWS....
Our last gig at Firefest in the UK was a serious eye opener for everyone in the band.
Previously, we had announced that we weren't going to play any more gigs and Tyketto wasn't going to be a going concern any more.
However, well.............we just had so much fun!
Originally, the problem was that all the guys in the band have so many family commitments, job commitments, etc. that we just thought it would be impossible to attempt to carry on any kind of playing schedule.
But Firefest was such a great gig for us that we found ourselves rethinking. We could never go back to the way things were, but we could play here and there when time allowed. Why call it an end when it was just getting fun again?
So, with stars in our eyes, we happily agreed to play Firefest again this year in October. I'm pleased to see that nobody was disappointed to see us going on. This past month, though, things got difficult.
Despite trying a lot of different ways to make schedules sync up, Brooke has a major employment offer that he couldn't walk away from and it resulted in a schedule conflict.
With Tyketto being only an occasional thing we could hardly blame him for having to make what had to be a very difficult decision. The bottom line is that Brooke will not be able to appear with us at Firefest or continue with the band going forward.
We have been faced with a very difficult choice. Should we disband completely? It seemed like such a sad way to go out. Even though it was not what we intended when we got this whole thing started, Michael, Jimi, a nd I feel very strongly that we still want to get out there and play these songs that have kept Tyketto so strong in the hearts of our fans for 18 years. (Did I really just say 18 years???)
So we have decided that we want to keep on playing. Those of you that have been following me for a while will be no stranger to the name PJ Zitarosa. He's the monster guitarist that played on both Vaughn albums, "Soldiers and Sailors On Riverside" and "Fearless", and also accompanied me on those tours. He made a lot of friends and impressed a lot of fans as well as his fellow players. He's awesome on stage and a good friend off stage. So it makes perfect sense for him to step in and take care of business with us at Firefest!
We love Brooke and wish him every success in his new venture.
So that's the scoop, y'all. Tyketto are back on the road and PJ Zitarosa is going to be sharing the driving!
Thanks to all of you for keeping the emails coming, for your help, requests, and general good vibes. There is still strength in numbers. We'll see you in October!
Danny, Michael, Jimi, and PJ
A little extra footnote here to dispel the variety of rumours that have been flying out there.
Tyketto are putting the finishing touches on some European tour dates to take place in mid January or 2009. We are also looking to finalize a week's worth of shows in South America around May of 2009. We're talking with as many of the major festivals that we can for the summer as well. If you have any connections with festival web sites, please feel free to request us on their bills for 2009. It takes a lot to get the promoter's attention on some of these big shows and nothing does it better than when they hear from their audience.
At present time we are not in the studio recording. We have certainly talked about the possibility of making a new album but it's not going to happen until we are comfortable with our new line up. After that, we'll have to see what kind of songs we write together. But nothing has happened in that area so far.
DANNY VAUGHN SHOWS- and lastly, there's little ole me! With all that has been going on there hasn't been a sliver of time large enough to put anything new on the table from me and my band. But it was proposed that I do a couple of acoustic shows right around Christmas time this year. I've done the Christmas acoustic shows before and it has always been a lot of fun, so we've decided to do 2 of them in December. We will be playing JB's in Dudley on Friday, December 12, and The Cluny in Newcastle on December 13th.
As always, I wanted to do things just a touch differently so this time, instead of it being just myself, or only myself and Tony, we are going to have a 4 piece band playing on these shows.
Tony and I will be doing the guitar duties, Lee Morris will be doing the drum and percussion work (and he'll sing too) and a new friend, Mike Corfield will be joining us ..boards.
Our set list will have several of the Tyketto and Vaughn regulars, of course, but we're also going to present a decent amount of the songs that don't often get played live, and that will include a few tracks from both From The Inside cds. This is going to be a gathering of friends and is always really cool atmosphere. Bring your antlers your egg nog and your singing voices!"
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