Gary Owen's Blog

Well, well, well! It's been so long!  Hoping this message finds you all feeling groovy. With that in mind, take a meander at my new website. Yes, please do. :) Gary Owen - Musician

Thanks to everyone at CTV for helping me with this. :)

With Michael Nesmith (2015): Click here:  Grand Ennui - Michael Nesmith & The First National Band  Click here:  Grand Ennui - Gary Owen

My Facebook Artist page is now up and running. Click here:   Gary Owen Facebook Artist Page

Here is a video montage sample of some of the music I perform.

Another groovy weekend of gigging. The highlight being Saturday night at Killmeyers. Lots of familiar, happy faces on hand to sing along to the tunes. Wound up losing track of time (again) and went later than usual. Good. It was worth it.

A blast from the mullet-era-stage-frightened past.

By 1968, The Monkees TV show was winding down and the band began filming their first and only full length feature film "Head" . They had also abandoned the "group unity" approach to recording and resorted back to the early days of having session players lay down the recording tracks. This time, it would be under their own direction. Every so often they would add guitars and such but- essentially- they slipped back to being the same fake studio band they were in 1966. back then, this was common practice for many units but The Monkees are always the guys who get the short end of the stick with all that. The basic tracks for "If I Ever Get To Saginaw Again" were recorded in March, 1968 and remained unfinished until January and March of the following year when strings and a new electric lead guitar were added. Michael Nesmith was then ushered in to sing the lead vocal. The reason behind all this activity was that Glenn Campbell had been doing rather well w...

My repertoire consists mainly of music from the 1960's-1970's. This has always been my favorite era. This list is constantly being updated. Click here for my repertoire page: Gary Owen's Repertoire