Indian Drum Circle

"The more people present before us the more exciting things got.   But what really did it for us?  It's when we had enough practice together that each of our individual parts melded perfectly with the other so that we all instantaneously shared this joyous anticipation that tonight, perhaps unlike last night, we were 'in a groove' and we were 'feeling it'..."

Peace Drum Circles

"Entertaining the people - our fans, spreading joy, freedom, liberation via our ability to perform music in communion with one another, our commitment to be a show for one another, for the crowd..."

To Go Our Own Way

When The Titans! did their final show in 1992 my brothers had nearly 20 years of playing and performing music together.  Wow!  What a ride!  Rich and famous?  No.  Hit singles in circulation on the air waves or Internet?  No. 

Heck, I didn't even get to rejoin my brothers on stage for one last display of glory with a funky guitar rhythm or backing vocal harmony. 

I see now how people line up around buildings for auditions and I have got to shake my head; hundreds of people sometimes thousands, just to get maybe an hour of what my brothers and I struggled with during our lives.  Do you know that you guys are crazy?  Yes, I said struggle, the music business isn't easy.  It's easy to become misguided and prideful.  Now and days the odds of "making it" with your own music must be like those of winning the lottery and that's if you're really, really good.  Otherwise, you play for club owners or you're background music at some function or event; people telling you to turn it down all the time gets old too.

On the other hand…….despite the gazillion road trips, vehicular breakdowns, equipment failures, money shortages, and nameless other difficulties, The Titans! succeeded in spreading joy, happiness, and a sense of freedom to most all those who heard the live performances.   I don't think the band ever missed a show - that in itself is amazing.  I'll bet if you polled every musician who ever performed as a member of The Titans! and asked if they would do it all over again if they could, they would.   For this, we all are richly blessed.

But for now, like every musician that ever did a show or two or three with us, my brothers were faced once again with that ultimate, existential question of conscience: where does my life go from here?

Brothers (L to R) Daniel, Gary, Marc, and Ken Geraci (1983)