Upcoming
UB shows...
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 '60s
Rock 'n' Roll New Years Eve Bash Rings In 201 2!
"The music was, as always, excellent"
David Andrews, New Year's Eve, December 2011
"We ALWAYS enjoy dancing to your wonderful group"
Steven Handel, New Year's Eve, December 2011
"We really enjoyed New Years Eve!"
Danette Bender of Santa Fe Springs, New Year's Eve, December 2011
Thanks to all who attended the
bash
and Happy New Year!
NEW!
Click here to "Like" Unfinished Business On Facebook!
2011 Electric Guitar Giveaway
sponsored by
Lightning
Joe's Guitar Heaven
2011 Winner is Mike Madden of Nipomo!
Mike
was excited to be the winner of his new guitar even though, ironically, he is a
drummer. Mike played drums with Columbia Records and Orange County California
based artists "Jamie
and The Jury" in the mid '60s. Jamie and The Jury had records on the
radio, toured the US, and hung out with rock royalty of the time (The Byrds,
Buffalo Springfield, Paul Revere and the Raiders, etc.), it all ending for Mike
when he was drafted. Mike later played with a very popular San Jose based '50s
and '60s band, "Shaboom",
for 26 years. Now retired from his real job and Shaboom being history, Mike may
start playing music again locally. Congratulations to Mike for winning the 2011
Unfinished Business Guitar Giveaway sponsored by Lightning Joe's Guitar Heaven
and best wishes for Mike getting back into playing music!
2012 Guitar Giveaway
Lightning
Joe's Guitar Heaven at 100 East Branch in the Village of Arroyo
Grande will again sponsor the Unfinished Business Guitar Giveaway. In 2012
we'll be giving away a new Fender Squire Stratocaster, black with maple neck,
like the one picture below. Some
lucky person will win by just filling out an entry slip with their name and
email address at any Unfinished Business show in 2012. The drawing is free and you can
enter as often as you like. However, the email address of each entrant will be
added to the Unfinished Business mailing list and must remain an active
recipient of Unfinished Business newsletters throughout 2012 to win. The winning
entry slip will be drawn at the big '60s Rock 'n' Roll New Year's Eve Bash on 12
/31/12.
Winner need not be present at the bash, but it's always nice if the winner is
there.
Thanks again to Joe, Marelene, Joseph, and Savannah
at Lightning Joe's Guitar Heaven for their sponsorship.
Home
to over 1,200 vintage, used, and new guitars and many other string instruments,
Lightning Joe's Guitar Heaven
has been family owned and operated since 1983. Lightning Joe's is a dealer for Fender amps and guitars,
as well as guitars made by Taylor, Martin, Gretsch, Rickenbacker, and so many
more. Also Marshall and Vox amps. You have to visit Lightning Joe's to see why it's called
"guitar heaven". It really is something else!
Business hours: Tuesday
- Saturday, 11am - 5 pm, closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays
100 East Branch in the Village of Arroyo
Grande
phone:
805-481-2226
"Pic
long & prosper" - Lightning Joe
Like All Things Guitar?
If you like all things guitar, mark your calendars for the first annual
Central Coast Guitar Show, presented by Unfinished Business Productions.
The show will take place March 24 & 25, 2012, at the Santa Maria
Fairpark.
Click here for
more info.
Click here
if you are
interested in being a sponsor or exhibitor.
*purchase not necessary to win guitar
UB CD Currently Sold Out!
Yes,
Unfinished Business released its first CD in April 2010. It was recorded at Painted Sky
Studio in Cambria and mixed by UB's own Terry Lawless at Lawless Studio Services
in Santa Maria. Songs on the CD:
1. Ain’t Too
Proud To Beg (Holland/Whitfield)
2. Drive
My Car (Lennon/McCartney)
3. Wild Night (Morrison)
4. My Girl (Robinson/White)
5. Vehicle (Jim Peterik)
6. She’s Not There (Argent)
7. Here Comes The Sun (Harrison)
8. Devil With A Blue Dress On/
Good Golly
Miss Molly
(Long/Stevenson/Blackwell/Marascalco)
9.
Mustang Sally
(Rice)
10. Something
(Harrison)
11. Fun Fun Fun (Love/Wilson)
12. Brown Sugar (Jagger/Richards)
13. Green River (Fogerty)
~~ All songs used under license ~~
"Lovin' the new CD, great
job!" Dudley
"It's really good. The band is so tight" Rick
"Your CD turned out great!" Rhonda
"Congratulations on your band's first CD. I love it!"
Lori
"WOW!!! GREAT CD!!! It is hard to sit still when
listening to it.
GOOD JOB - very professional" Barb
CDs
may be available again in 2012. If interested in buying a CD
when they are available again, click
here
Ivy's Fight To Get Back!
Ivy Update
April 2011
Ivy is still coming to Unfinished Business gigs whenever she can get in
(she can't wait
until she turns 21!) and we hear she is making tremendous progress "Getting
Back" to where she once was before she experienced heart failure back in
2008 at age 16. Ivy and her Mom, Melinda, have been sending out emails
about the significant progress Ivy has been making on the treadmill, staying on
for as long as 15 minutes! She is on the treadmill now 3 times a week gaining
more endurance each time. You go girl!
Ivy Graduated from San Luis Obispo High June 18, 2010!
“The entire stadium
cheered as one student walked across the stage to receive her diploma.
Ivy Alvarado, who suffered cardiac arrest in the summer of 2008,
graduated after studying with a home-hospital teacher during more than
a year of physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy to
regain her ability to speak and walk.
She was meant to graduate a
year ago but was convalescing from the cardiac arrest that doctors
originally thought would leave her with severe brain damage.
On Friday, the senior class
cheered for her as if she were always with them.”
San Luis Obispo Tribune, June 19, 2010
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See article below regarding the benefit held for Ivy Alvarado on January 30,
2010.
It is estimated that more than $40,000 has been collected to date to help
Ivy with her
needs that are necessary to help her recover from the heart attack that struck her
at
age 16.
Ivy returned from getting aggressive physical therapy treatment at the
Brucker
Biofeedback Center in Miami, Florida.
Click
here to check out the Brucker Biofeedback Center.
This treatment was
made possible by the benefit and all who contributed.
Thank you to everyone who supported the benefit for Ivy. The proceeds from the
benefit have enabled Ivy to be treated at Brucker and will enable her to receive
further
treatments that we all hope and pray will enable Ivy to "get
back" to where she was
before her heart attack, when she was a healthy,
fully functional young lady with much
life to live and much to accomplish. We
also want to see her dancing her shoes off
at future Unfinished Business gigs
like she did before.
Please keep Ivy in your thoughts and
prayers. If anyone would like to
follow Ivy's progress on her blog, click
here .
Ivy in therapy at Brucker Biofeedback Center in
Miami.
Nice t-shirt!
~~~~~~~
Ivy
Alvarado Benefit HUGE Success!
Thank You!!!
Amount of money raised
was more than $40,000!!!
Click Here to see
photos of event
Click
here for more photos
Click
here for even more photos
Check out an article about
Ivy in the SLO New Times: Click
Here
Check out an article about
Ivy in the SLO Tribune: Click
Here
Check out an article about
Ivy in the 5 Cities TPR: Click
Here
'60s
Rock 'n' Roll New Years Eve Bash Rings In 2011!
"It was great!"
Q104.5 listener who attended
the 2010 New Years Eve Bash, December 2010
"(Unfinished Business) was something else!"
Adam Montiel, Q104.5 radio DJ, who introduced the band
at the 2010 New Years Eve Bash, December 2010
Thanks to all who attended the
bash
and Happy New Year!
Click here to see
photos taken during the event.
Larry Royal won the "grand door prize", a Fender Squire Strat,
at the 2010 New Years Eve Bash
Unfinished Business Meets...
Rock & Roll Hall of Famers
The Lovin' Spoonful
Click
here to see photos of all Unfinished
Business shows!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Edd Byrnes
"Kookie" of 77 Sunset
Strip, Grease, and #4 hit in 1959 with Connie Stevens,
"Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb"
at
2010 Lompoc Police Car Show
benefiting
Special Olympics
Click
here to see photos of all Unfinished
Business shows!
"Did you see our smilin' faces,
On the cover of Journal Plus?"
Yes,
UB makes the cover of San Luis Obispo area magazine, Journal Plus!
Search out a free copy of the December issue at numerous locations
throughout the county.
Click Here To See
2010
Electric
Guitar Giveaway Winner!
All during 2010, Unfinished Business collected entry
forms from '60s rock 'n' roll fans at our shows who wanted to win a fantastic
Sterling by Music Man AX40 electric guitar.
The drawing was finally held at our New Years Eve Bash and the lucky
winner was Eddie Hamel of Oceano. Eddie, a 17 year old
Arroyo Grande High School senior, has an interest in becoming a screenwriter
after he graduates from college. Eddie is very interested in learning
to play the guitar, citing his favorite artists as being Cold Play, Simple
Plan, and 3 Days Grace. He says he also likes Unfinished Business, having
seen the band at the Grover Beach Summer Concert last July when he bought a UB
CD (thanks Eddie!) and entered the guitar giveaway by filling out a single entry
slip.
Thanks one more time to our 2010 guitar sponsor, Praxis
Musical Instruments, Inc., of
Orange,
California,
and special thanks again to the Ernie Ball Company of San
Luis Obispo for arranging for the sponsorship.
Congratulations Eddie!
Guitar courtesy of Praxis Musical Instruments, Inc
Orange, California
Click here to visit the
Sterling by Music Man website
2009
Electric
Guitar Giveaway Winner!
The
winner of the Squire by
Fender Telecaster model electric guitar was 8 year old Epic Scudder of Oceano.
Epic says his favorite
musical group is Unfinished Business (love that kid!) and he will be starting
guitar lessons offered by the Guitars Not Guns program in April.
Here is Epic with his new guitar.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
2008
Electric Guitar Giveaway Winner!
Rich Paulich won a Gibson Epiphone Les Paul model electric
guitar.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
2007
Electric Guitar Giveaway Winner!
Susan Fontes won a Fender Squire Stratocaster electric
guitar.
Unfinished
Business Apparel Prices Slashed
The Unfinished Business line of
apparel is available at most UB shows and online. The selection with
new pricing includes t-shirts
($10; XXL $12), ladies tops, in black and canary yellow ($15), hats ($12), and visors
(sold out)- all with a
distinctive Unfinished Business design.
~~~ News Flash ~~~
We have a limited number of new
ladies tops in the popular CANARY yellow color.
Check them out at our upcoming shows!
All prices
include sales tax. Any of these items would be
a groovy addition to any
wardrobe! Check out the design on the back of the T-shirt:
And if you want to order an apparel item online, click
here
.
Send an email if you want the ladies top in canary.
Visit The Unfinished Business Web Store!
The new Unfinished Business web
store is officially open!! Yes, you can now purchase any of
the groovy items in our apparel shop as well as our CD and tickets to the
upcoming UB-hosted events. This is a fast and easy way to
snap up some of that great line of Unfinished Business logo shirts,
tops, hats and visors that you have seen at our shows and around the Central
Coast. Not to mention a guarantee that you won't be standing outside
one of our upcoming events, wishing you had bought tickets earlier.
You can always access our store by clicking the "Cool
Stuff to Buy" tab in our header bar.
Be Among The First To Add To The New Unfinished Business Guestbook
Unfinished Business has just added a new guestbook
to this website. You can be among the first to add comments to let the authentic '60s rockers
know what is on your mind the band.
We want to listen to our fans -- and (maybe
more importantly) listen to those of you that aren't fans of the band - yet.
Take a few minutes and please put your two cents in here.
We will listen!
posted 10/7/08
 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame - A UB Close Encounter
With A Music Industry Icon
Unfinished Business congratulates The Ventures (Bob
Bogle, Nokie Edwards, Gerry McGee, Mel Taylor, Don Wilson) on their recent selection to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Unfinished Business was the support act for the legendary surf instrumental group at The Clark Center in October, 2006 - a true brush with greatness for the local '60s rock and roll band. Check out the collection of photos from that inspiring evening. The Ventures
were inducted along with Madonna, John
Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, and The Dave Clark Five in New York on March 10, 2008, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NY City. The Museum is located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Their induction was long overdue for the largest selling instrumental group of all time.
Posted 5/19/08
 Unfinished Business Flattered in a Recent News Article
The Foxen News, which is distributed among the neighbors of Foxenwood Estates, is featuring Unfinished Business on the front page of the Jan - Feb, 2008 edition. The flattering article, penned by the publication's editor, James Pepper, was the result of Mr. Pepper seeing the band at the January 25 performance at the Loading Dock in Old
Orcutt. This rare Santa Barbara County club appearance for the '60s tribute band was a
fulfilled evening for everyone in attendance and, evidently, inspiring enough to get the editor to write his unsolicited review.
As the band's fan base takes them out of the area more and more, Unfinished Business has always
maintained that it is their recognition in the community and the support of the fans on the Central Coast that make it all worthwhile. Thank you, James, for helping us always remember that fact.
Read the complete article. (Adobe Acrobat PDF document)
posted 2/1/08
 San Luis Obispo Calendar
The city of San Luis Obispo and
the SLO Downtown Business Association honored Unfinished Business by including a photo of the band in their newly published 2008 Events Calendar. The picture, taken live during a main stage performance at
the SLO Farmer's Market graces the "April" page, reminding all of us that the music of Unfinished Business is a big part of this Central Coast community, a city renowned for its dedication to all the arts.
posted 12/29/07
 SLO Tribune honors Unfinished Business with a great article
The San Luis Obispo Tribune flatters Unfinished Business with an
article about the band in the December 27, 2007 edition. The Pulitzer
worthy article was penned by Tribune Journalist, Patrick Pemberton.
Pemberton visited an Unfinished Business rehearsal and had this to say:
"During The Beatles 'Get Back', (Terry) Lawless nailed Billy Preston's
famous organ solo while (Ed) Miller perfected the guitar riffs and (Jim) Witt
supplied the driving bass line on a vintage Hofner, like the one used by Paul
McCartney. The band was loud and tight, offering four-part harmonies that set it
apart from other cover bands, with the energy of a band of
20-somethings."
Check out the accompanying video on the Trib's website. Our mark of success is to be recognized in our own community. We are both honored and humbled. Thanks to the Tribune and Patrick.
Tips For Family of Janay
Bradley
Unfinished Business would like to thank
everyone in attendance at the Village of Arroyo Grande "Branch Street
Independence Day" Celebration on January 4, 2009, who contributed
"tips" to benefit the family of 6 month old Janay Bradley, who
tragically died at a day care facility in San Luis Obispo on Monday, December
29, 2008. Those tips, as well as the profits from the sale of Unfinished
Business t-shirts, totaled $213. Our thoughts and prayers are with Janay's
family.
 "Tips For April"
Thanks to everyone who attended the Unfinished Business concert on the Main Stage at the San Luis Obispo Farmers Market on Thursday, August 9th. And a special thanks to those who tipped the band because all tips, which totaled $773.89, were donated to April, a Central Coast woman who has inoperable cancer and is not expected to live more than another month or two. April is a single mother with a 14 year old daughter and they have no insurance. We are sure the money will go to very good use to help sustain April and her daughter during this very difficult time. Thanks again for your generosity and please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
posted 8/10/07
Note (Dec 18, 2007): April lost her courageous fight against cancer this morning. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family, especially her daughter, Destiny. We will miss you, April.
revision posted 12/18/07
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