Positive Tools for the World - Take and Use

Here are some positive quotes to take with you out in the world....if you have a positive quote, please leave it on a comment...spread it around my friend...cheers T

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"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."


- John Wooden

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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr


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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

- Kahlil Gibran


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"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."

- Thomas Edison


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"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

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"When you're through changing, you're through."

-Bruce Barton


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"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

- Walt Disney


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"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- St. Francis of Assisi



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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson


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"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

- George Horace Lorimer

Missing (From the Radio) Music Blog

Thanks for the missing from radio music Blog my friend.
Link Here

New Web Site

TODDCECIL.COM

Wanted to Post a Note to check out the new Band Web Site in anticipation of the new CD.
We are introducing a little bit more of the rockin sound on this one since I have been playing a 1948 Ohua lapslide...hope you like.

Video from Utopia show

Here is a video from the outside (cold) night at Utopia.
Sound is rough on the video and that night we were having all kinds of sound issues...but still wanted to post it anyway because it was so much fun and the crowd was a blast...enjoy

TCB (tcband) at Bogarts 12-15-07

Wanted to thank everyone for coming out on a cold rainy night there at Bogarts....always have a great time there and an old friend Matthew Bahr showed up and played percussion back there....
Here is a little video of the night

Ocean Way Studios Video - TCB

Here is the video from the sessions at Ocean Way....Special thanks to PJ our engergetic engineer for all the work.....can't wait for everyone to hear the recordings

Recording at Ocean Way Studios

Me and Boys are set to record the new CD Project beginning this weekend.
We are laying down the tracks at the famous Ocean Way Studios here in Nashville..... A lot of great stuff has come out of that place....So it is definitely an honor.

How can YOU Help?

Truth is there is a lot to be done....if you are willing to help we would love to hear from you!!!!
Currently we, Todd Cecil, which is I and the TCBand are looking for individuals to help out with bookings or publicity.
It doesn't matter if this is something you have done in the past....sometimes the new attitude is the best.......So if you want to do it now is what counts!!

So Publicity consists of
****getting the word out about the shows and the music

-internet (myspace and Blogs)
-contacting those newspaper guys.....they are usually very nice and want to hear from you.
-and rallying people in areas to hand some flyers.....the street teams you know!!!

and Whatever creative ideas you could bring to the table.

and Booking
***Of course consists of helping us find the shows and scheduling a date

-Negotiating skills are good here.....but also I feel I am pretty good at the negotiations

Would Love to Hear From You......and oh yeah you gotta love the music....and of course be a positive hearted person!!!!

Cheers T

Radio Interview and CD Review

Red Band Bar and Grill with Uncle Gram
Interview from Oct 13 2007....was a 30 minute interview broken into 3 parts.
It might take a few minutes for these to load....but eventually you will see the little blue arrows to play....
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3


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Shortlight CD Review.....Thanks Jason

There seems to be a unique artist budding amongst the country music backdrop of Nashville. 'Sweet Cynthia and the Nashville Music Co.', the second CD from this artist, is a blend of music styles, slide guitar and soothing raspy vocals.
Digging a little deeper in the lyrics will prove to be a fruitful endeavor for the poetic minded.
...very promising, one not to be missed, and we look forward to hearing more.

Short Light Reviews
Jason Smith

Hope this isn't Superficial...is it?

Well I hope this isn't too superficial, but I am having a blast driving this car..so I thought I would post it.
I've had it about 3 months and for some reason seem to like it more the more I drive it.
Cars always seem to be good goals for people, benchmarks for success I guess....which in all honesty is good, as long as it doesn't lead to superficial-ality.
For me I think there is a wee bit of redneck in me that might shine through with my attraction to the shiny cars..the hotrods if you will. My Grandmothers brothers son is legendary drag racer Ronnie Sox, who won five National Hot Rod Association championships. He resently died of cancer....he was a great guy!!
Here he is tearing up the track in the glory days....and I remember seeing this car when I was a little kid.

.....so alittle family history to justify my indulgence.....thus it's not superficial.......must be somewhere embedded in the genes........oh yeah!!!!

Footnote from my Dad about this one
"In 1972 in his '72 Hemi Cuda he won all but one of the national events that year. I think there were about 12.
The one he lost he missed a shift for the ONLY time in his entire career. He also had many "0-0-0" reaction times on the lights at the start...unheard of even today...today, the comparable
class to what Ronnie was in back in the day don't have four speeds but rather have push button shifts...Ronnie told me just before he died that the driver had been taken out of the race
due to this."

Radio Play on Fox 102

Weird Beard, legendary DJ and staple in the Radio Rock Community of Columbia....and by the way a great guy....has been playing 'When the Levee Breaks' and 'Lady in the Moonshine'. So I must extend a huge thank you to the man, for this and for getting folks out to see the shows and for coming to the shows yourself....Cheers Weird Beard for the play and for not being one of the 'plastic personalities' out there.

Bogart's In Columbia, Sat Oct 13th

Bogart's In Columbia, Sat Oct 13th

Definitely a Magic Night...I had such a good time once again. This was in doors ( not as cold on the old guitars ) So we got to play in tune.....was a little bit of a hassel at Utopia....just because it was getting colder and the 43 gibson and 87 martin are alittle cranky when the weather changes.

Uncle Gram and the Red Bank Bar and Grill Radio Show

Uncle Gram and the Red Bank Bar and Grill Radio Show - Columbia

Oct 13th.....Morning show!!!

The Man behind the curtain....Gram you are the coolest

Too Much fun

big smily

back up on the perc...the magic Jackson

Matt the photographer (cameraman/egg shaker)

Utopia - Columbia SC Friday Oct. 12th

Utopia - Columbia SC Friday Oct. 12th

Great little outdoor room......the night was cool and southern.
I met so many new friends and so many old ones....here are some shots from the night.
This was the second time I have played with the band, and once again these guys were awesome.