Guy Smiley Blues Exchange - Voyager Magazine


	In 1998 the band released their self-titled album to some nice critical acclaim. As an interesting move for a group with a single studio record, they have made the follow-up a live album.

	Spice says, "Its pretty expensive to record a studio CD. We had already tried. We had six tracks completed, but its been so long and so expensive to get that type of album out that we decided to record a live CD. We're more of a live band anyway, and we've been together for so long that hopefully we can lay down a whole CD in one night, and we did." The result is Guy Smiley Blues Exchange Live, recorded at Jackleg's in Nashville in December of 2000. "There are no overdubs or anything on that CD," Spice says proudly, "You can hear all the 'gotchas' on it all over the place: I break a string right in the middle of a big line on the last song. We're not hiding anything."

			While onstage the band breaks strings and the barriers of how many instruments one musician is supposed to be proficient at, Graham Spice is planning to break technological barriers in the way entertainment is distributed. "I'm working on some really exciting (computer) applications that will deliver live, dynamic information to the user. I think that's the way computers ought to be. Right now Web sites and enhanced CDs are like hair: You can grow it and then you hand it to someone and its dead. But if you can harness the fact that it can be dynamic and can present new information, whether its new music or new movie clips, text...That's something that I hope the band will be able to do." Good Gawd, me, too!

	Check out the Guy Smiley Blues Exchange at your local club, or on-line at www.GSBE.com.

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