I recently adopted a brilliant Pit Bull puppy from Luv-a-Bull Rescue in Eugene, OR. My wife and I have become volunteers & advocates of this wonderful shelter. And now is a crucial time for a shout out. I am reaching out to my Pit Bull fellowship, all of you who have kept me involved since the release of my Pit Bull Blues song/video. And all we need is a handful of mouse clicks:
Luv-a-Bull needs help in the form of votes. Cesar Millan filmed an episode of “The Dog Whisperer.” The subject was an aggressive little Chihuahua named “El Diablo.” If you saw the it, you know that the message was VERY PIT BULL POSITIVE! (Pitties were the good guys for once.)
After it aired, Luv-a-bull adoption numbers went up!
Now, there is a contest for Favorite Episode. We need your vote! (click here) If the “Luv-a-Bull” episode wins, they’ll get much-needed publicity and positive press for Pit Bulls!
Also, the Cesar Millan Foundation may be in a position to lend support, which is needed now more than ever.
You can vote as often as you like! Send this link to your friends and family! Mount a campaign for “Chihuahuas From Hell”
I get e-mails from all over the world asking for the lyrics and/or chords to “Pit Bull Blues.” So, I thought I’d post them here. (First the lyrics, then the chords.)
The start of 2009 found me in North San Diego County. In the middle of my Yellow House run, it seemed a mistake to up-and-leave headquarters just to get out of Northwest rain. Sure, we lived on the beach, and the sunny weather was awesome, but they don’t have much of an original singer/songwriter scene in that surfer strip between L. A. & S. D.
What they do have, however, is a great Irish scene. Irish bands and Irish pubs. (Gentlemen from Flogging Molly reside there.) I was lucky to fall in with these folks. Ned Giblin, of Brehon Law, invited me to play Wednesdays at his pubs, J.J. Landers and R. O’Sullivan’s. So, I had regular gigs and a close look at a timeless style of music. (The influence of Ned and his cohort David Lally is bound to show on my next album.)
In Oceanside, I befriended Doug Whorly and several of his showcases at McCabe’s, where I met the lovely and talented road warrioress Jacqui Foreman. She honored me by covering my “Faith in the Man.”
It was at a Whorly showcase where my wife, Amy Wray, filmed the video of me covering The Pretender’s “Brass in Pocket.”
I didn’t bother working the L.A. scene. Too big, and like different country. But at the urging of my publicist Leona, I played a couple times at The Gypsy Den in Orange County. (Once with Trevor Davis.)
We lived down the beach from football star Junior Seau, who has a beautiful blue Pit Bull named Rocky. I mention the dog, because it was about this time that my connection to the international Pit Bull community really deepened. I was getting daily e-mails from dog lovers about my song “Pit Bull Blues,” which I gave out freely to anyone engaged in canine care and rescue. Soon, videographer Jeff Fleiss contacted me with the idea of making a video. By spring, he had hauled me up to L.A., filming me in front of the Coliseum amidst 25 Pit Bulls and their trainer, Dogman. He put it together with some excellent footage taken by Amy, and boom… there was a sweet video… still getting legs on the web.
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August 22, 2010 9:57 am | 
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