Thanks for the link Michele! ......but
Oh No!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by michelej1
He left for Hawaii last year, but he is moving back to Nashville this week because his wife and daughter miss the town. He was scheduled to play the Ryman Auditorium on Saturday as part of Muriel Anderson's All Star Guitar Night.
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What an unexpected thing to read! If Rick leaves Hawaii behind to go back to Nashville, is that the sudden end of his involvement in the Island Rumours Band? And worse, the end of his fronting Mick's Blues Band?
Mick always liked to say about the MFBB
'we all live on the island of Maui'..... and liked to point out that Rick moved his family there, and they had great musical plans for the coming years. So no new MFBB album to look forward to after all? It would be pretty hard to work on music from such opposite places!
And Rick even says, Nashville's a place where he hasn't exactly flourished....
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Could Nashville's country and Christian music industry be crushing innovation? It sounds like a ridiculous question, were it not for the musicians who think it might be true.
"It's very much a songwriters town, but it seemed like if you weren't country, they weren't interested," said Rick Vito, a former Fleetwood Mac lead guitarist who left Nashville a year ago to move to Hawaii. He said he even had trouble getting session work in Nashville.
Vito came to Nashville in the mid-1990s from Los Angeles and said he got a "mild" reception from audiences and record labels here."I'm optimistic there's renewed energy now,'' Vito said. "I'm open. And things change, and hopefully it has a little bit."
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Wow, he sounds so enthusiastic.
Yeah yeah, it's terrific he puts his family above his music...... But it's sure a
downer for those of us who were anticipating more great music from Mick & Rick and the Hawaii crowd.
End of rant.