So last month I run into Trevor Hoffman from the Padres at Rubio’s in Solana Beach, CA and two days ago I go to Roberto’s in Solana Beach and I run into Dave Roberts from the Padres- These baseball players love Mexican food in Solana Beach! It was wierd because I had just watched a special featuring Dave Roberts on tv so I knew all about him. He was really nice in person and while we were both waiting in line for food I told him I had run into Trevor Hoffman and got to talk to him for a while as well. Roberts said he just finished working out with Trevor that morning and we both agreed that it was great to have Trevor on the team next year after all of that contract debating.
I’ll let you know next week if i have any more Padre or Charger sitings-
Oh yeah, and it’s my birthday on Jan 3rd, happy birthday to me-
I am getting old. damn. (still clinging to my twenties)
:-)Willie
Archive
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start reading from previous entries…
(I started this post two entries ago
to make sure that I didn’t lose what
I was writing because this computer
has been shutting down)
It’s been a great Christmas! I have
actually had 5 Christmisses (I just
invented a new word, cool)
I have 1 Christmas to go later today
giving me a six pack of Christmisses.
I actually had more fun giving than getting
this year for the first time, wierd. My
favorite gift I gave this year was a real
collectors addition Star Wars Light Saber
which I gave to my brave surfer brother-
It lit up the room with awesome sound effects and
a cool green glow- Jaime played with it all
day long!
ha ha
Merry Christmas and I’ll check back with new
adventures
Thanks for stopping by,
Willie
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The waves were huge!
Thousands of people hundreds of photographers News crews and probably 200
surfers were at Swamis in Cardiff, CA last Wednesday if you hadn’t heard-
It was crazy, being a surfer myself, it was a rush just watching from the
bluff. When I first got there it looked big, 12 foot sets were rolling in
and I thought about cruising out because I had been surfing before when
it was 12 to 15 feet one time before under more reasonable conditions with
a channel and warmer water. Then I saw a 20 foot set come through and that
sealed the deal- there was no way I was going out- as fun as it was and as
crazy as I may have thought I was, I thought to myself-you could seriously
die out there! I watched from the bluff as life guard jet skis towed out
surfers who were getting pounded by the big waves- it was an amazing day
to watch and it felt like a big day in Hawaii!!!
A number of surfers caught the waves of there life that day I’m sure-
Crazy enough, my brother Jaime Chambers reporter and Surf reporter on the KTLA News felt the pressure to uphold his surf reporter rep and paddled out up north
where it was at least 12 to 15 feet! his camera crew was there and he dropped
in on a couple of huge waves that they got on tape! (I’ll try and put a video
clip up of the footage soon) He got two huge waves and on his 3rd wave he
banged himself up and has a cut and bruise on his nose- he was alright and
did a cool surf report right after talking about the waves-
They aired his waves on KTLA later that night!
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Wow- lot’s of exciting stuff has happened in a short time I can barely keep up with talking about it- I already feel like I’ve forgotten to write about so many cool things that have gone by like a blur-
Well, these last few weeks have been a ton of fun
I found out there was a Sugarcult rock show at the
Disneyland House of Blues on December 18th and some
of my good friends from bands I’ve played with before
were opening up so I had to figure out how to go- I
called ticket master but the show ofcourse, was sold
out- I thought about calling Tim from Sugarcult but
because it was only hours before the show I didn’t
really feel like bothering him- so I took a chance
and drove from San Diego to Anaheim with hopes to sneak
in the sold out show- I got to the show about an hour
before the first band was supposed to start and I got
a call from my cousin Pat- He said: Willie! I’ve got an
extra 2nd row ticket to see the Lakers wanna go?(we would
get to sit next to Keanu Reeves and Brooke Burke)
Damnit, I thought, what do I do? I’m already in Anaheim
so that made it easy to get to the game- I told him I’d
call him back in 15 minutes- so I happened to sneak in
the House of Blues concert and a bunch of good friends
from the band Rock Kills Kid and Sugarcult were all
there back stage with dinner beers and smiles- After the
peer pressure oif old friends set in I decided to stay-
and skip the Lakers game- It was a great show and I got
a ton of cool pics. It was a bummer to have two great things
happen at the same time though. I would have loved to go to
both-
Tim Pagnotta, Marko 72, Airin and Kenny from Sugarcult were
all really nice and put on a great show. I talked to Marko 72
about his cool tour opening for Green Day and his new baby! &
found out that me and Airin (bassist from Sugarcult) actually
played soccer against eachother for many years even though we
didn’t know eachother back in the highschool and club soccer days-
He played for Arsenal and I played for the San Dieguito Surf Soccer
Club-
Great times traveling and tournaments etc.
Reed Calhoun and Shawn Dailey were great to connect with as well
they play for a band called Rock Kills Kid and I played in a band
with them when I was in Santa Barbara (continued scroll up!)
So it was kinda funny, The San Diego Union Tribune newspaper was doing a story on musicians and their day jobs and they picked me as one of the 4. I did the interview with this guy named Mike who was pretty cool and then they sent a photographer over to my house to take a profile shot with my guitar. This woman (the photographer) named Crissy set up this large black back drop at my house and then took about 100 pictures of me with my guitar! It felt cool because it made me feel like a rockstar but at the same time it felt kind of silly because I’m pretty sure that they are only going to use 1 picture for the paper out of the 100 taken-ha ha- the next shot she wants to get is my Dad and I because I work part time for him doing some accounting and management for him at his Construction Company called James P Chambers Construction. It’s been great working for my Dad because it’s really flexible and it allows me a great amount of time to work on writing and music. It will be interesting to see Crissy try to get a shot at the jobsite- I hope she doesn’t need 100 shots at the site!
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(I was bummed that Tookie died. An eye for an eye and the whole world is blind.)
So my brother Jaime Chambers called me up the other night and was thinking about running for Congress!
Wild, my little brother, the reporter, congress guy… President?
Naaa, don’t get your hopes up too soon.
He asked me to be his campaign manager and what I thought about him running.
I thought, if he was sincere and seriously thought he could make things better around here,
more power to him!
He’s got a lot of rich friends who would back him, and I think he would win.
Anyways, he just turned 26 so he qualifies because you have to be 25 years old to run for congress.
30 to run for senate and 35 to run for president. I’m pretty sure.
I played a great game of soccer today with friends in Encinitas
We thought we were playing to 5 and we were up 5 to 3. Then everyone wanted to play longer to 10.
We went down 9 to 6, and then, with some old trusty soccer magic, we came back and won 10 to 9!
Rock n’ roll. I have got the scrapes and bloody knee to prove we were playing hard!
As I always say: “It’s not that great to win, but it sucks to lose.”
:-)Willie
I’m going to the Chargers/Raiders game tomorrow with my friend Ignacio and the Pizza Port Crew!
(If you watch it on tv, look for me, I will be wearing a light blue Chargers headband in a sea of 60,000 people!)
ha ha
So, I was stopping in for an ordinary late lunch in Solana Beach at Rubio’s (one of my favorite places to eat) and I ran into the famous Padre baseball relief pitcher Trevor Hoffman. Before I said hi to him I walked outside and called up one of my best friend’s Jasen Carr who had taken me to a Padre game this past season and who knows everything about every sport. (He is even an expert on the WNBA! -yeah, this guy knows everything) So I asked Jasen about Trevor Hoffman and ofcourse he knew, and he told me that he was now a free agent and was deciding whether or not to come back to San Diego depending on his contract.
So now with a little extra knowledge, while we were waiting for our Rubio’s food, I went and said hi to Trevor and said that I hoped that he stays in San Diego. He was really nice and said that he really appreciated what I said and that he hopes to stay in San Diego too!
It was just a cool moment. I love crossing paths with celebrities.
This year started with running into Tom from the band Blink-182. I got to talk to him for a little and give him our new cd at The Naked Cafe. He was rocking out to it as he drove away. I was stoked.
Then we ran into Britney Spears at The La Costa Resort & Spa. She was very pregnant but flashed us a nice smile as she walked by, looking kinda lost actually.
Got to listen to Trump speak, after sneaking into a conference while my brother was doing a story for KTLA. Jaime got a personal interview.
Ofcourse, my brother Jaime meets a couple celebrities a week. I even saw him interview Arnold Schwartsanegger (I don’t know how to spell his name) That was hilarious.
We had dinner next to David Spade in Los Angeles while celebrating my brother’s birthday by accident, and now running into Trevor Hoffman was another pleasant surprise.
Well, I don’t know what it is about famous people that gets me excited- maybe it’s the energy they create from living such unique lives. They really put themselves on the line. I guess that’s what I like about meeting them. I know that they are the type of people who go for it.
Hope to talk to you all soon,
Thanks for checking in.
Thanks for your e-mails.
(I realize that even though it says that you can comment on these blogs- you really can’t until you sign up for an account yourself and it is definitely kind of a pain to sign up so I don’t expect anyone to.)
Just drop me e-mails like you’ve been doing all along, I love hearing from all of you!
Thanks!
& Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Hannuka, Happy Holidays, Happy New Years and all of those other holidays that are in there somewhere. If we keep adding Holidays, we won’t have any normal days left! (wouldn’t that be awesome!)
Willie
willie003@hotmail.com
willie1377@yahoo.com
Find Windsor on myspace.com
New songs coming and new pics! 2 Downloads available NOW!!!! (on myspace.com)
Search Windsor on myspace.com
Thanks to everyone for all of your awesome comments and questions,
We have new songs coming soon to our myspace site so we made 2 songs available for download before we change them off of the page-download them quick because they might not be there for much longer!
Down load the first two songs of our album Melting Highway now for your listening pleasure…
Miss You
&
El Mundo
We have new pics from the Key Club show in Hollywood on Friday November 11th and some live video footage that we’ll try to put up on the sites soon too!
(Special CD Release Avalable from Thanksgiving to Christmas)
For $10 you can help support Windsor’s new recordings by buying a special papercase 15 song Windsor cd right now until Christmas. The CD includes the entire Melting Highway Album (12 Tracks) along with 3 Brand New bonus tracks that will be featured on the upcoming Windsor album called Forever Endeavors to be released in 2006- it’s a great taste of what is to come and 2 of the new songs are already getting air play in San Diego!
e-mail us on myspace on how to get this special cd and with your order we’ll also throw in a “sweet ass” Windsor bumper sticker:-)w
Special 15 Song CD Track Listing
1) El Mundo
2) Miss You
3) Sell Yourself
4) As I Drown
5) Fall In Line
6) Love Song (acoustic)
7) Future
8) So Much
9) Some Dream
10) Washed Out
11) *secret song*
12) Unconditional
**BONUS TRACKS!**
13) You Should Know (you can check this song out at windsormusic.net/949)
14) Windows
15) The Tiger’s Back (Song inspired by 9/11 – Recorded on 9/11/05 – Debuted on the radio on 94.9FM in San Diego 9/11/05)
We can’t wait to show you all the new songs!
Thanks so much for your support, you guys are the people who inspire us and allow us to make the music as great as we possibly can. Each and every one of you guys have been great to us and thanks to everyone’s support, we have had enough money to finish these next few tracks with flying colors!!!
(All of our cd sales will go towards our new recordings so thanks so much for your support-we can’t say this enough!)
Love,
Windsor
(Willie, Jaime, Micah, & Ian)
Also thanks to our friend’s band 2nd Day Crush (check them out on myspace)
Windsor is now being played on KCLA college radio in Los Angeles!
more good news coming soon…
Amazing Unreal Incredible Party…
Kristen and I were invited to a party in Rancho that turned into yet another
unforgetable night.
This place was amazing!
Frank’s house (all 7 acres!) had
waterfalls
huge pools
fire pits
giraffes (yes two real live giraffes!)
aquariums
10 foot by ten foot screen mini theater
heat lamps
huge palm trees
huge chandeleares (sorry I don’t know how to spell that word)
a 26 person limo
golf carts
sports cars
private jet
private yachts
we had food, champagne, played games with the 20 other guests
(girls and guys) who were all around 25 years old
we played Mafia, a very cool game that you’ll have to ask me about sometime
Frank told me his secret to life, along with many of the other guests
Frank also showed me his remote control laptop like device which controlled
everything on the property that was all a touch screen system – everything
from activating waterfalls to changing the temperature in every room
there were also cameras recording 24/7 in each room that you could view
from this handy remote control device. it was wild.
hope to touch base with you all soon,
Willie
great times.
The Key Club show was one of the best weekends I’ve had in a long time.
Thanks to so many of our friends and family for traveling long and short distances
to join us for a very memorable night.
It was one of those nights where everything went right and I really think every single person had a great time.
That was probably Windsor’s biggest best show yet!
For those of you who couldn’t make it, we’ll try to have some video footage up on
the sites soon so you can check it out. Great club, great bands, and out of the Top Ten Best
Unsigned Bands that played that night, several A&R; reps said that Windsor was the highest rated band of the night!
Windsor has meetings with several labels during the next few weeks so we’ll keep you updated!
Talk soon!
:-)Willie