9 Ways You Can Support Me, esilver20

1 – Follow this blog esilver20.wordpress.com… it’s super easy! Just click on a button somewhere nearby. It will be super appreciated and you’ll most definitely catch an artist or a post you’ll enjoy.

2 – Like esilver20 on the ‘ol facebook…also super easy and will be much appreciated. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Esilver20/1475412859351121

3 – Offer advice. Advice is what I’m looking for! I like to think of this club as our work in progress…your thoughts will help build a great and greater esilver20.

4 – Are you a musician! Let’s collab! Best way to reach me behind the scenes is through email eitansilverbooking@gmail.com

5 – Know a musician who is in town, or who will be in town? Let’s get hooked up! Feel free to pass along my contact information from point 4, or contact me and let me know about your awesome friends.

6 – Just know what I’m all about: being good to musicians and having a place that is a conduit for their greatness! If you arrive hungry? I’ll feed you. If you have a gig in town in two days, I’ll help promote it.

7 – Hugs.

8 – Spread the word in your own special, creative way.

9 – For the spiritual…keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Go ahead. Pick one! Pick two! Pick ’em all!

 

THANK YOU,

Sincerely,

 

Eitan

 

 

esilver20 0001 Emily Forst 11/26/13

Emily Forst – traveler, tourer, musician, dreamer and, I’m proud to say, friend for fourteen years, stopped by and got the club settled in for a test run. We jammed a bit, took some pics and vids…tried out the smog machine…Emily promised to return for some more rehearsed material. She did allow me to post this small clip featuring yours truly on the drums.

Keeping the Flame Going

http://youtube.com/theeitansilver

Resident Guitar Rig

esilver in its infancy

State of the Club 1

Here ye Here ye…

I’d like to announce that the club is in NEAR working order.  Major hurdles have been jumped, and enthusiasm abounds!

I’d like to report that the dropped ceiling has been removed and the ceiling height has been increased from 6 feet 5 inches to approximately 7 feet 3 inches.

Musical gear including drums, amps, axes, pedals has been added. A basic lighting rig has been purchased, assembled, and studied.

Prospects for esilver20? Overall good. Morale? High.

Thank you and God Bless this Club, America, the World and Beyond!

esilver20? A Club name? Like I told those two girls on the sidewalk when I cut my hair all funky…”why not?”

esilver20

The “e” stands for Eitan. That’s my name. It means strength in Hebrew. My mother Talma, born in Haifa, Israel/Palestine named me no doubt. My father, Fred, probably would have named me after a Marquette basketball great from the 70’s.  Or maybe Al, after Coach Al McGuire…so you can call me Eitan. You can’t call me Al, although the bassline from the aforementioned song reference is one of my absolute favorites.  A quick aside, I heard and saw Paul SImon’s Graceland concert in South Africa as a six year old on our black and white TV in our basement in Milwaukee. Sitting on a giant beanbag chair, I heard all I needed to turn me into an electric bassist some ten years later as a freshman at Nicolet High School.  Bakhiti Kumalo is his name. He, to me, was the coolest dude in the world…and he still is! I still air bass that solo from You Can Call Me Al every time I happen upon it.

The “Silver” is for my paternal last name. Unlike my first name, I’ve always LOVED having Silver as my last name. It is just so visual, so…metallic…so textural. It rolls off the tongue nicely. Simple. Elegant….it was probably “Silveroffski” when my Eastern European ancestors found themselves part of the huddled masses with a simple dream to live and prosper in America.

The “20” is the number I sported most as a soccer midfielder growing up. Soccer was, for awhile, my life, until music became my life around age 17 or 18.  I used to actually dream soccer sequences so intensely that I woke up not knowing quite what to do with myself.  It took until after breakfast sometimes to snap out of the soccer fixation.

So there you have it…esilver20.  A club. Music, lights, dancing…it’s now just a figment of my imagination…the gears are in play to turn those bits and pieces in my mind into a reality.

The location? My basement. Yep. My basement. I’m sick of driving in the cold Wisconsin weather to various OTHER locations for my dance and music fix.  It actually makes perfect sense! Let the club come to me…inspired by the great words in Field of Dreams, “if you build it, they will come.” I’d just like to add, “..and dance and have merriment.”