Although plans change, we wanted to let you know what our live schedule is every week in case you wanted to tune in live, call or chat during the program. So this weeks schedule:

05-18-08 Cubworld will be joining us in studio.  Sorry it’s been so long but in a little over a week, we’ll be back. I would once again encourage you to get a twitter account and follow DocTrey to get notified if things should change.

Working with Mailani has already proven itself to be quite rewarding. Listening to her music before anyone else does is a treat. It was quite a night at the Willows a few Fridayʻs ago. The crowd watching Mailani and Jenn work it was filled with friendly faces and industry hot shots as well. John Heckathorn of the Honolulu Starbulletin was there interviewing Mailani, and the President (Leah Bernstein) of Mailani’s now record label and her husband, one of Hawaiʻi’s top music attorneys (Mark Bernstein,) were enjoying the music as well. We also had a surprise visit from Roxanne Darling and the Not-So-Secret Camera man. Well, here’s the article that John Heckathorn wrote.

Hereʻs your Links:
Beach Walks With Rox
The Mountain Apple Company
Mailani Makainai
Mighty J
Keahiwai
The Honolulu Starbulletin
The Willows

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Congratulations to all the finalists.  Personally I’d like to congratulate those who I’ve had the chance to work with this past year.  So, a special congrats to:  Mighty J, King Kekai, Hula Records for the Tribute to Gabby slack key compilation and the Hawai’i Falsetto Contest winners Vol. 8, and Darin Leong!

Heres the link.

Those of you in the industry are quite aware of one of the Hawaii music industry’s most influential cast members. He’s been on stage at the Hoku awards for many years presenting the people’s choice awards, He’s been the man behind keeping Hawaiian (and non Hawaiian) music alive and well at the live performances at his stores. We’ve even talked on occasion about him on our podcast. Les Honda of Borders Books and Music has announced today that his last day working for Borders will be on March 14th. Thank you Les for all that you have done for everyone, I know that I can represent everyone in saying that we all wish you the very best.

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Just days after the passing of Aunty Genoa, We say goodbye to another of Hawaii’s legends. This time it’s Slack Key Master, Uncle Ray Kane. I can still remember about 15 years ago when he would come down to Microphone Music (a music distribution company that I used to work for.) I’m gonna miss his passion for life and music. Uncle Ray would always tell me about his respect for traditional Hawaiian music. Hopefully this passion will carry on through the many guitarists he has influenced.

Honolulu Advertiser Article

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John Berger of the Honolulu Starbulletin has a review posted of Kanoa’s Album Makin Through the Breakthrough, and it’s a great review. I’d like to send a heartfelt congratulations to both Kanoa and Ipo. Thanks for recording it at The Doctor’s Office.

Links: The Review

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Hold on to your seats folks, the award for this years Best Hawaiian Music Album Grammy is quite a surprise. Yes folks who would have thought that a Slack Key Guitar album could possibly win a Grammy Award……….Again? When I saw the list I thought I was looking at last years winners because for the life of me I can’t tell them apart anymore. Legends of SKG, Masters of SKG, Treasures of SKG? It’s all the same to me. I guess it’s what the world expects of Hawaiian Music. I thought having a Hawaiian Grammy would be a blessing, but it’s become more of a curse hasn’t it? How is this helping the industry progress? I hope I read the list wrong, but I don’t think I did. I hate to complain about it especially because I want everyone from Hawaii to find success, but it’s either time for someone to break the Slack Key Curse or change the name of the Grammy to the Slack Key Guitar award.

Congratulations Winners:
Treasures Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
Various Artists
Daniel Ho, George Kahumoku, Jr., Paul Konwiser & Wayne Wong, producers

links:

List of Grammy Winners
Daniel Ho

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Congratulations to Hawai’i’s female supergroup Mighty J on winning the Hawai’i Music Award for Best Island Contemporary Album of the year. Did we ever doubt that they would deserve such an award? Mighty J’s album - Calling Out has already received huge critical acclaim and I believe this is just the beginning of the many awards and recognition they are due to receive. Who could expect less of a group that got it’s start on DoctorTrey.com.

Of course we’d like to congratulate all the other winners as well, most notably Rob Yamanoha for winning Adult Contemporary Category.

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The Band He Is Playing With In This Video Sucks Ass, But His Voice Is Amazing!

December 5, 2007 — After much speculation…the wait is finally over.

JOURNEY–Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory (bass), Deen Castronovo (drums)–is proud to introduce fans all over the world to their new lead singer, Arnel Pineda (“pin-eh-da”). He replaces Jeff Scott Soto, who parted ways with the band earlier this year after stepping in for Steve Augeri, who had to leave the band in 2006 for medical reasons.

Arnel hails from Quezon City in the Philippines and has been singing Journey songs–in addition to original material–with his band, The Zoo, for the past couple of years in clubs all over his homeland. Joining the legendary band is a dream come true for him.

“It’s so exciting to sing with one of the best bands in the world. It’ll be a lot of hard work on my part and I’m actually looking forward to the scrutiny I’ll get from the hardcore JOURNEY fans. I know they’ll expect me to sound exactly like ‘the voice’ (Steve Perry), but that will never happen. I know there’s only one Steve Perry in this world.”

When it was time for JOURNEY to look for a new lead singer, the internet came to their rescue. Guitarist Neal Schon wanted someone new to the music business, so he turned to YouTube. After finding Arnel singing “Faithfully,” he knew he had found the perfect frontman.
“I was frustrated about not having a singer,” explains guitarist Neal Schon, “so I went on YouTube for a couple of days and just sat on it for hours. I was starting to think I was never going to find anybody. But then I found The Zoo and I watched a bunch of different video clips that they had posted. After watching the videos over and over again, I had to walk away from the computer and let what I heard sink in because it sounded too good to be true. I thought, ‘he can’t be that good.’ But he is that good, he’s the real deal and so tremendously talented. Arnel doesn’t sound synthetic and he’s not emulating anyone. I tried to get a hold of him through YouTube and I finally heard from him that night, but it took some convincing to get him to believe that it really was me and not an imposter.”

Arnel Pineda picks up the story: “My friend Noel picked up the message on YouTube and told me it was from Neal. I thought it was a hoax so I ignored it. Noel said, ‘what if it really was Neal and he wanted to offer you the chance of a lifetime?’ So I e-mailed Neal back and the rest is history.”

“Arnel brings a soulful and passionate voice to JOURNEY,” continues keyboardist Jonathan Cain. “His personality is very well-suited to our music. He’s a sincere, authentic person with a great smile and a big heart. I think fans are really going to love him. With Arnel’s soaring tenor, Journey returns to our heritage sound.”

Schon agrees, “We feel reborn. I think there’s a lot of chemistry between the five of us. At first we were going to go into the studio and just write 4 songs, but now it’s escalated to a lot of great new and diverse material. The stuff sounds tremendous. Everyone’s so stoked about it. We feel very fortunate to have found Arnel.”

JOURNEY is currently working on a new album with legendary producer Kevin Shirley, which they hope to release by spring/summer 2008. Details will be announced early next year.

www.journeymusic.com