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If you’re browsing this site, please help out one of the best bands to come out in a long time, JAH ROOTS from MO. They’ve played with Mundi several times and they are up for an award. You can vote HERE.
Come see JAH ROOTS November 30th at Bostons in Tulsa at 10PM.
PART ONE POSTED 11/23/07
Thanksgiving 2007 will turn out to be one of the most memorable Thanksgivings for me. I called my family back in Jersey to wish them all a Happy T Day, I got to speak to my 1 and a half year old nephew Luke on the phone who can now say “Hi Unca Vinnie”. I spoke to my bro Mike In Burbank and thanked him for the miracle of life. Mike donated a kidney to me 10 years ago and if it weren’t for him and my wonderful family, I may not be sitting here right now writing this blog post!
I spent the afternoon with some of my best friends, Bobby and Angela and then took Emma, my black pug to Bobby’s dads house so she could play with 8 other dogs.
Around 9PM I got together with one of my great friends, ‘The Dools’ and we went to Bostons for the Citizen Mundi Turkey Tour kickoff. Marc B, one of the bartenders at Bostons was working that night and kept the drinks cold. His fellow bartenders did what they always do well and kept the crowd happy.
D.J. Moody spun some great vinyl all night long mixing some vinatge 80’s in with some of todays best dance music with Guns and Roses thrown in as a side dish.
Mundi took to the stage at about 10:45, and played their hearts out till just after 1AM. This Thanksgiving show was a true Mundi fan fest - The guys and girls that follow Mundi from show to show were there - Flavia and her girlfriends were there and were dancing to the rhythms of Mundi. As usual PJ, the Mundi sound engineer mixed down a great show yet again.
Damien Banks from Swahill Studios (Tulsa) shot some video footage of the band and the crowd. (I am hoping he gets the video edited down soon so I can see how much of a fool I made of myself trying to dance.)
Citizen Mundi continues the Turkey Tour Friday November 23rd at The Continental (8PM) on 1st and Elgin in Tulsa and then on Saturday November 24th they wrap up the Turkey Tour at Fishbonz (9PM) at 61st and Sheridan, also in Tulsa.
PART TWO POSTED 11/24/07
The Mundi show at the Continental was a blast. The Continental is a small, intimate bar next door to Mc Nellie’s Pub on 1st Street in Tulsa. I got to The Continental a little early and watched as Citizen Mundi set up for the show. There are seven musicians in this ensemble and miraculously all seven of them were able to fit on a stage smaller than my home office. Mike Drummond said that the band has played in even smaller venues so the task of getting all seven Mundis on stage at The Continental was not as difficult as most people would think.
The Continental packed in a record crowd Friday night and Mundi made some new fans yet again, playing songs from their ‘No Translation’ CD release as well as a Mundi-ized cover of Manu Chao’s ‘Me Gustas Tu’.
Jason from Urban Tribe got on stage to perform a song with Mundi and told me that he has worked with Mundi before.
Tonight Mundi will be playing at Fishbonz to wrap up the Turkey Tour. See you there!
PART THREE POSTED 11/25/07
I have compeltely lost my voice. I made it to the third and final Turkey Tour show featuring Citizen Mundi live at Fishbonz in Tulsa.
I spoke to band members Wilfredo, Canuto and Mike about some sound eqipment I have that I’d like to give to the band for their upcoming 2008 season. JMB was mingling with fans while Wilfredo snuck away to work on the sound with Mundi sound man PJ.
By 10PM just before the band took stage, Fishbonz was full of Mundi fans and Fishbonz regulars. The managment and staff at Fishbonz run a great venue and they keep their customers happy. Two bars were open last night and several servers were also working tables on the floor. I brought along 6 friends last night and we met several other friends and claimed a table at the front of the stage just in front of Wilfredo’s keyboard stack. Ivy from Fishbonz was our server and though she had many other customers to take care of, she was still able to refresh our drinks in record time all throughout the night.
Mundi had more energy this weekend than the Energizer Bunny. A frenzy of fans and first time Mundi-ites took to the dance floor early into the first set. Fishbonz could have saved some money last night by turning off the heat because Citizen Mundi and their audience heated things up so well into the second set that you could have sold off the excess energy to power a small country.
Until you see Mundi at least once in a live setting, you can’t truly experience the type of energy this band has.
Find out more about Citzen Mundi:
Citizen Mundi Website
Citizen Mundi MySpace
Citizen Mundi on TulsaTonight.com
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All of the current coupons are for New York City based businesses at the moment, but if Landy and Wan’s dream comes true… we could see something like this here in Tulsa one day!
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This targeted form of advertising using electronic means to deliver text message coupons is genius to say the least.
I’d love to see this type of technology here in Tulsa where we are the test market for many franchise restaurant operators and also home to some great Mom and Pop dining establishments.
Now while Tulsa, Oklahoma is not as big or as populated as New York City, we do eat out a lot - probably just as much as our friends on Manhattan Island for sure. I mean just drive along 71st street in Tulsa between 4:30 and 7:00 and try to find a restaurant that isn’t full.
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I could go on and on about the Mom and Pop businesses here in Tulsa that so many Tulsans know nothing about… but perhaps if TulsaTonight.com’s readership continues to increase as it has for several months now, the word will get out to more people real soon. Of course Tulsa World and Urban Tulsa do a remarkable job of reviewing smaller businesses in Tulsa as well.
The Citizen Mundi HURT Video is here!
If you don’t already know, Mundi won the ‘Best None Of The Above’ award at the 2007 SPOT AWARDS.
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