And We Opened An Air BnB!
September 2, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
Hi if you are ever in Los Angeles and looking to book Air BnB, come visit!
My Dodgers!
August 2, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
If you know me,I am an avid Dodgers fan,who are off to a record breaking season.
This one of sheer joy for the 11 year old in me.
There is talk of World Series for the the team with the best record in Baseball.
What can I say. I am thrilled, as every game (well almost every game) has something happen from a different player.
I see long time fans who left early at games now are saying put. I never leave early, and now it has been raised a notch at the trade deadline by the trade of the powerful right handed superstar Yu Darvish!
Yay sports team!
Want to everyone to say hello to
Nisha / Vegan / NYC Harvard lawyer who left law to travel the ? & pursue food • Recipes ?? or lawsofbliss.com She has over 166K followers!
Natural Energy Lab is branching out, welcome our representation of digital influencers:
July 4, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
Natural Energy Lab is branching out, We wanted you to be the first to know.
Welcome our representation of digital influencers:
Edgar Castrejon
Californian into wellness, plant based, chef, photographer, yogi, and traveler. Recipes written in the captions.
Laney Schwartz
Easy, tasty, approachable recipes. Teacher Cook Family Chocolate #lifeisbutadish
Sandra | Sandra’s Easy Cooking
?ood & p?o?ograp?y ?log: ?andra’? ea?y coo??ng • Mom, wife, foodie::love, laugh, live & rock n’ roll that’s all RECIPES
Alena Haurylik
Food Photographer and Stylist Magazines, restaurants, brands, cookbooks
BURGER RECORDS
A rock n roll philanthropic quasi-religious borderline-cultish propaganda spreading group of suburban perma-teen mutants!!!
instagram.com/burgerrecords4life
We will be representing many more mostly in the food world in the upcoming months.
“Baby Face” Nelson + Bonnie Parker + Ma Barker
May 30, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
Monty,Tiger Lily (The new kid on the block) and Poppy
If you know me at all you know how much we love our dogs!
This is the first photo and it was not easy to get, of all three! Monty is older and stays out of most of the action.
I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet – a relic from my childhood trip to the UK. It came to mind because of all the Sgt Pepper hoopla. They were known for their military jackets and many bands went there to grab some gear around that time.
Enjoy!
Danny
Nothing like hanging with friends …
May 3, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
Nothing like hanging with friends …
Last month my pal Ric Menck andI went to see our faves Teenage Fanclub. As expected it was the kind of night you wish happened all the time.
Afterwards since we both know the band we went back and hung out. Captured a drummer photo with the dapper Francis Macdonald.
Fast forward to May and my pal Ric, his lovely wife Laura and their pooch Cricket have moved to Hopkins Minneapolis. The quality of life will zoom as they are moving into a fancy house!
Ric is my pal, drummer in arms and record collector geek,working at Bob Say’s awesome record store Freakbeat records. I will miss Ric on my weekly hangs at the store, and our Movie, gig hangs.
He will visit and I do wish them the best, but i shed a tear – truth be told.
Big hugs go out to the Mencks! Be safe, and have fun in your new life!
Danny Benair
My Moment With Chuck Berry
April 3, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
I was in a LA band called The Falcons, we opened for Chuck Berry for his first concert post jail at his March 1980 Hollywood Palladium sold out concert. I was the drummer.
I believe our manager or agent landed the gig, which was a very high profile date.
The Falcons rehearsed his songs for a couple of weeks, with no idea what he would play.
Chuck showed up at soundcheck,laid his guitar next to my drum set.It stayed there all night.It was out of tune.
He said to me can you play (hits thigh and stomps foot.) I said yes. Chuck said “Play it all night.” He came with his own bass player who gave key signals and lifted his leg and dropped it for the starts and stops.
During the second song our piano player Mickey Mariano, who later joined me in The Three O’Clock was not seeing that Chuck wanted to bring the sound down, his head was staring into the grand piano. After the song Chuck’s bass player went up to him and said “Chuck would like you to leave the stage.”
The set was so weird, playing in front of 5000 people with no set list.
Around the third song, my head was down and I looked up Chuck was smiling at me between my cymbals. I was taken aback. Fe walked to the mike and said “DRUM SOLO!!!” (not a fan of drum solos), I did a few fills and back to the beat. Chuck said “MORE!!!” and that was what I did, a second solo. Somewhere I have the cassette of the gig.
Chuck said to Mickey after the set”Follow the Leader”, he did invite him back for the encore.
Below is a photo from the gig. He was quite nice to us, and it was a pretty amazing night. I think people forget, that Chuck came out of prison in 1964 and picked up where he left off, writing amazing songs Like Promised land, Nadine etc. And having more chart hits.
My Friend Jon Krop
March 1, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
Jon has been looking out for Natural Energy Lab’ s website since day one, and had our back,
Thanks to friends and strangers and the ACA, Jon has had many people come to his rescue.
It turned out that he had an acute pancreatitis attack and spent 4 days in critical care at Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley. CA.
Even with ACA, bills were rising, this page has helped and he has reached his goal!
I am so glad, Jon please stick around pal!
If you want to donate the link is above, or if you need help with any graphic / design / web projects – throw some work his way!
You can contact him thru his site: atomicpopmonkey.com
You can contact him thru his site: atomicpopmonkey.com
Thanks and goodnight.
Square One: the darker side of the Swinging Sixties
February 4, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
I need to get away from theAlternative truth. I like Facts but I do like Fiction when it comes to geeky UK 60’s books about fake rock bands. Ugly Things did a feature on Square One this obscure book, and I have to say i am enjoying it! Nothing like something to take my mind for a moment off the ugly in the US, this is not who we are.
Farewell 2016
January 4, 2017 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
Farewell 2016 You were a bummer in so many ways..was it the worst year? How do I know? I am sure the Salem Witchcraft trials were a bummer.
We did lose way too many Iconic people in various fields, some more shocking than others. Plus an election that was not pretty and does not look any prettier after the fact.
Thinking positive… there was good music and some truly wonderful films and books… Onward we go and HNY!
Danny Benair and by the way our new number is 818-429-4383
Today, Tomorrow, Next Week..
November 30, 2016 by DannyBenair Filed under Danny Benair's Gospels
I have never lived in a time like this. The fact that a over filled drain of Trump’s cronies will take office is beyond fathomable.
Social network is both sucking me in and making me ill.
Thoughts I have had:
We have a president elect who knows less about the constitution then immigrants studying to become citizens.
Clinton’s lawyer sums it up best: We are getting attacked for participating in a recount that we didn’t ask for by the man who won election but thinks there was massive fraud.
There have been some rays of sunshine – one of my all time favorite people was honored by President Obama with the Presidential Medal Of Freedom Honor, this made me smile. Here is Vin Scully’s Face The Nation interview.Thanks!!
