It has been a great couple of days for my family. On Friday the 13th my sons both had activities--Alex started a track meet with his school team and Anton's band (Anton and the Ants) held a concert at the Harbour Tap and Grill. The concert was great, and we got a call early on that Alex had won a gold medal in the 400 meters and was on his way to join us. When he arrived, the band called him up to sit in on drums for two songs. Now my wife and I had been begging our kids to play together for the past couple of years and they just never have, so this was the very first time we ever saw them play music together! I wish I had recorded more of the songs, since so many of them were great.
The next day was Anton's 18th birthday, and Alex had the rest of his track meet to contend with. He was in four more events--the long jump, the 100 meters, the 200 meters, and the 4 x 400 meter relay--and he won silver in all of them!
In the evening after cake and presents, we watched some old video from when the boys were very young, and we cracked up over this little bit of Alex singing Beatles songs. It reminds me that I instilled a love of great music into the boys from their earliest days, and that is paying off beautifully with their musical talent nowadays!
I'm so very proud of my two sons. At their school's Battle of the Bands a few months ago my oldest son's group won first place while my younger son's band took second. Besides the school bands, my older son Anton has another group made up of teachers from the school. They call themselves Anton and the Ants. Yesterday they did a concert at the Sunset Cafe here in Baku, doing about twenty songs for an appreciative audience. It was fun watching all the kids dancing around.
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I didn't have anything to record with except my iPhone, so the quality of the couple songs I recorded isn't the best, especially since I was too close to the bass speaker and too far away from the guitar speaker, but I still think it sounds decent. Here is the group playing Iggy Pop's Real Wild Child.
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