Rev. JJ Vicars: News

Got the MySpace page up and running at www.myspace.com/jjvicars with all the usual photos,tunes,etc...with the Blog underway.

Markus Fischer-Kiepe has added SCI-FI DINER to his Blues radio show DOUBLE TROUBLE on Osnabruecker Radio 104,8 in Germany.Lookin' forward to playing Europe! www.osradio.de

Happy New Year from everyone at Annie Gator Records and Jindaiji Monkey Studios.2005 was a great year that saw this web site revamped into its current state and the release of SCI-FI DINER.2006 is continuing on that and there's lots of stuff coming up-live dates,the sophmore CD,side projects,etc...Much thanks to everyone that made '05 what it was and wishing all of you a happy and prosperous '06.

SCI-FI DINER is now available at CDMojo,the online source of independant Blues,Folk,and Roots music.Click on BUY on the menu bar or visit www.cdmojo.com and see it on the front page.

SCI-FI DINER is now available at CDBaby.Click BUY on the menu bar or visit www.cdbaby.com/cd/jjvicars to visit the page and listen to samples,read the story behind the making of it,buy it and write reviews.

Comedy LEGEND Richard Pryor has passed away.He was 65.Go to www.richardpryor.com if you're not already hip to the funniest motherf#@%er there was.I'm gonna go watch CAR WASH for the millionth and one time.

A new MP3 has been uploaded to the MUSIC page for the Holidaze.Need something fresh for your Xmas compilation CD/Podcast?This one will perk up that dull office party!Download it now and show 'em how cool you are!

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for.I am pleased to announce that SCI-FI DINER has arrived!Yes,the long awaited album is now here.If you're in Tokyo get it from me directly.If you're anywhere else in this big beautiful world online distribution is currently being set up with CDBaby and Amazon.com and the details will be announced as they are known.

It was a long wait,but it was worth it.

I've just learned that Link Wray passed earlier this month.Link was one of the greats.He raised primal simplicity to an art form.Every Rock'n'Roll guitarist out there has a debt to him.No music collection is complete without him.If you don't have any of his stuff yet start with RUMBLE:THE BEST OF LINK WRAY on Rhino Records.The man is gone,but the spirit and the music live on.Here's to you,Link.

After much delay,about four years,SCI-Fi DINER will finally be released on Thanksgiving Day.It will be sold directly to the public exclusively during the first few weeks.Thereafter it will also be available online.More details on that will follow the release.

Seven new MP3s totaling 30 minutes worth of music have been added to the MUSIC page.The first four are listed as LIVE IN JAPAN and are from a gig in Tokyo earlier this year.Two of them are Blues classics,one is a full band version of a SCI-FI DINER acoustic track,and the other is a not-yet-available-on-CD track.The next three,listed as LIVE IN JAPAN PART 2,are from another gig in Tokyo at a different venue last year.The second in this set is a markedly different version of a song that appears on the 2nd CD.The other two songs will be on the fourth disc.Click on the MUSIC button to your left to start downloading now.

SCI-FI DINER is finally in production.After several setbacks and delays the CD is now being pressed by the good folks over at Oasis.For all you other musicians reading this that's www.oasiscd.com and they're great people to work with.Currently we're looking at a release date sometime at the end of this month.In the meantime you can wet your appetite on the MUSIC page.Click the menu button on your left right now.

A big THANK YOU to Glenn Davis and the staff of The Press Club www.fccj.or.jp for putting on an excellent event.Also,a big THANK YOU to Pamela MacCarthy and band whom I had the pleasure of filling in on bass with.That rendition of WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN was smokin'!Anybody have any recordings of it?Of course,a big THANKS to The Hipswingers and all the bands that played.Most of all,an extra big THANKS to all of the people in the audience that came out and donated to the recovery effort.New Orleans will rise again,even better than before!