19 Jun
wow, what a weekend!
I started off recording at a great studio in Montecito, CA near Santa Barbara.
I called up one of my good friends and great guitarists Aaron Robinson and last minute he happened to have the day off to cruise up and add some of his guitar magic to the Windsor recordings.
Aaron was recently hired on to play in a band called Sea Wolf. Sea Wolf is one of my new favorite indie bands and they are going on their 3rd US tour this summer with a new popular band called The Silversun Pickups. Check out the Silversun Pickups song “Lazy Eye” if you get a chance.
Recording at Sjoerd Koppert’s went really well we tracked guitars in this world class studio next door to Oprah’s house and Christy Brinkley. It’s quite a celeb neighborhood. The Abercrombie family also lives nearby and it was funny because one of the Abercrobie daughters had a crush on Sjoerd.
I recorded new songs called “You Used To Tell Me”, “Never Never”, “The Enemy”, and acoustic song “Just Stay”.
My KTLA Reporter brother and lead guitarist for Windsor was stuck reporting at Paris Hilton’s jail cell for most of the day but he made it to the studio that evening just in time to finish his parts. I’m really excited to show everyone the new songs. I think that these will be the best recordings I have ever done in my life so far.
Look for them on myspace or iTunes in a couple months…
:-)willie
11 Jun
Willie’s upcoming events…
6/14/07-I’m recording with my band Windsor on Thursday June 14th near Santa Barbara CA at this really cool world class studio in Montecito next to Oprah’s house!
crazy, huh?!
(new songs to show on myspace.com/williechambers soon…)
6/15/07-6/18/07-I’m going with 15 hottie girls (including the hottest of them all, my wife Kristen) to Las Vegas for my wife’s sister Kelly’s 21st B-Day!!! We’re staying at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel from Friday June 15th to Monday- if you’re in Vegas come look for us getting drunk in our pool cabana by the pool! can’t wait!
6/21/07-On June 21st I’m going to see The Police with Sting and all of the original members at The Duck Pond in Anahiem, CA near Los Angeles.
That’s all for now… come find me at one of these places if you can
:-)w
28 May
So yesterday May 27th was my 1 year wedding anniversary with my wife Kristen Chambers! We made it! so far so good… :-)w
cool news, we got a 2003 Lincoln Navigator SUV!
now we can take 8 friends with us comfortably when we wanna go party, Padre Games, Chargers, road trips, wake-boarding at Lake Arrowwhead,etc
It even has a trailer hitch so we can tow Kristen’s Dad’s Mastercraft speed boat!
Schhaweeet!
It also comes in handy for my band Windsor because we can load the whole band and all of our equiptment in a trailer behind us for rock show road trips and mini tours-
It even has a DVD player in it with 2 cool screens on the driver and passenger seats so you can watch movies in the back- pretty sweet.
Kristen was a happy wife yesterday to get a new car!
The dealership guy was funny, he said- “It used to be that you got your wife paper (new stationary) for your one year anniversary, now it’s a Navigator! times have sure changed!”
Thanks for checking in,
:-)Willie
25 May
we pulled it off.
We had a HUGE suprise 50th Birthday Party for my Dad A.K.A. James P. Chambers A.K.A Jim A.K.A. Jimmy A.K.A. Grampa! and we totally suprised him!
He now has his first healthy grandson Thomas McLoughlin Chambers (Tommy) born two weeks ago and I am happy to say that he made it down from Los Angeles to make the party- My grandfather Stan Chambers also made it down which made the night extra special along with about 200 friends and family members to the Power House on the beach in Del Mar, CA near 15th street.
My good friend and great musician Christian Love, (son of legendary Beach Boy, Mike Love) brought his band 5-Alarm to play music for everyone and it turned out to be a great night! The band called me up and I ended up playing guitar with the band and singing the cover song “The Joker” by The Stevie Miller Band. I was feeling great from all of the excellent margaritas so I’m pretty sure it sounded great-we had everybody dancing! Las Olas mexican food catered the whole thing with excellent food and drinks and we even got to eat a tasty huge lined with strawberries dipped in chocolate chocolate cake from Isabelle Brien’s Pastry shop in Encinitas. She is my aunt “Isabelle Brien Chambers” one of the coolest eople I know I might add.
What else cool?!
recordings with Windsor in Montecito are coming along great! can’t wait to show you all some new songs soon!
oh yeah, for my 1 year wedding anniversary, we got tickets to go to see Sting and The Police! We’re also going to be staying at The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas for 3 nights to celebrate our anniversary and to celebrate Kristen Chambers sister Kelly Hogan’s 21st Birthday with about 20 of her beautiful close friends- hanging out with Kristen, Kelly, and all of those girls together at a kick ass suite at The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas definitely makes me feel like a rockstar!
Las Vegas watch out cuz here we come!
:-)w
(Windsor’s song Miss You was chosen as the main page daily download on iSound.com
go download it now for FREE today only-thanks for listening and checking in, :-)willie)
14 May
Hello all,
Pretty cool weekend…
I played soccer and scored 3 GOALS this Saturday!
woo hoo! I still get stoked like I was when I was
6 years old running around playing swarm ball…
We won 4 to 2! It was just one of those days where
everytime I kicked the ball, it seemed to go into
the net, what can I say? I totally rocked that game-
Our star player and my good friend Ignacio Cervantes
wasn’t feeling so well that game so I knew I had to
step it up-
I haven’t had a “Hat Trick” in a long while so that
game will keep me smiling for a nice long time-
(I love to play well infront of the girls)
It’s so wierd to me the kinds of things that really
make us feel great- What’s yours!? e-mail me some-thing
that makes you feel great!
willie1377@yahoo.com
Mother’s Day was a good time as well- we got flowers
and cards and a big picnic together and we all went
down to the beach near Cardiff By the Sea- we brought
our new puppy dog RUBY who is a little cutsy little
rascle that everyone loves to play and run and do all
those little things that make puppies so cool-
some fun things happening up ahead but I’m not aloud
to talk about them so check back and maybe I’ll tell
ya!
I have a ton of myspace sites up with new songs so try
to find them if you can- I can barely even remember them
all but they all have different songs on them-
myspace.com/williechambers
myspace.com/1318323
myspace.com/windsormusic
myspace.com/williewindsor
shoot, I forget
bye for now
w
oh yeah, and myspace.com/jimsbeachhouse
21 Apr
Hello all,
welcome to the world Tommy McLoughlin Chambers (the 65th Chambers member since my grandpa Stan!)
we went to the hospital in Los Angeles and I hung out with my niece Annabelle and her two granpa’s Jim & Tom-
Jaime, Julie, Kristen, my mom Jane, and Julie’s mom Diane were all in the room helping Julie and watching Tommy come into the world-Kristen said it was an amazing experience and a short and easy labor compared to most-
8 lbs 5 oz 19 inches and lots of dark hair-he’s a big boy with big feet and big hands
A NEW BOY woo hoo!!!!
other news…
We saw the Padres beat the Diamondbacks at Petco Park with some great Field Level seats given to us by my good friend Jay- (I went with Jay and my Dad and we had beers huge hotdogs, peanuts M&Ms; and I even had a frozen lemon thingy out in the sun-
It was a great day-
I had a sweet goal in our soccer game last Saturday-
check this out- (I was thinking about it all morning too, using The Secret!)
The whistle blew, my teammate Ignacio “Nacho” Cervantes passed me a two yard pass and I took a one touch shot from half court that went straight in the corner of the goal! (That was definitely the quickest goal I have ever scored) It must have been in the net in the first 3 seconds! I was pretty stoked. We went on to beat the second best team in the league with a win 3 to 0.
I played an acoustic solo show under the name “Willie Chambers from the band Windsor” at The Epicentre in San Diego and it was awesome because our friend Liz Cruz was having her wedding shower with a ton of hot girls about ten minutes away from the show- a bunch of them came over and that helped me to have a front row of beautiful girls cheering me on in a pretty crowded venue- I ended up playing the show and then playing another show back at the shower to a bunch of drunk wedding shower girls- it was a grand thing…
my wife Kristen, the hottest of the bunch!
the fun keeps on coming… we have a surprise party coming up, a Sean Lennon concert at The Belly Up, a Padres game on the 28th, and I just got Police reunoin tickets for my wife and I for our first wedding anniversary! woo hoo!!!
never stop the fun!!!
:-)Willie
13 Apr
lot’s of great things going on these days…
my cousin’s had a new baby!
welcome to the world Nathan Otto Viemeister!
my brother to have a new baby boy in the next couple days!
we went to watch the Theater Performance called Wicked- (an amazing spin off prequel to The Wizard of OZ- really amazing theatre/performance/show and great message
(I highly recommend seeing it in Hollywood at The Pantages Theater, so cool!)
We saw The Killers play at the UCSD Rimak Arena- great fun with 15,000 people!
I am playing a show at the Epicentre in San Diego infront of a bunch of record labels so send me good thoughts and hopefully I’ll get a great new record deal sometime soon…
We’ve been at work recording new songs next to Oprah’s House in this really cool studio (Tantrum Studio) -The guy we’re recording with recorded so many cool bands including Sting, Radiohead, Snoop Dogg, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, and tons more… we can’t wait to show you all the new songs!
(oh yeah, and we got a new puppy named “Ruby Tuesday”)
she’s pretty much perfect.
:-)w
30 Mar
Bjork Peppermint Patties…
Windsor in the studio…
Get ready for some more excellent noise
:-)willie
17 Mar
Windsor to record w/guy who worked on Radiohead’s OK Computer!
Windsor is very excited to be recording in Santa Barbara, CA with Sjoerd “Sjoko” starting March 28th who has worked with many great artists such as: The Who, Pink Floyd, ABBA, Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa, Beach Boys, Doobie’s, Lynnard Skinnard, Yes, Rod Stuart, Thelonious Monk. He even worked on mixing & mastering Radiohead’s OK Computer! (which is one of Willie’s favorite albums of all time!) Get ready for a bunch of new songs and a new album called Forever Endeavors to be released this year in 2007!
Thanks for checking in! We love all of your awesome comments and we’ll do our best to get back to everyone! Just keep bugging us!
Thanks!
Love,
Windsor
at windsormusic.net
click “myspace.com”
11 Mar
welcome to willie’s first drunk blog
crazy, fuzzy, warm, happy psycho bananas with whipped cream and a whipped cream fight in the kitchen jacuzzi smoothie groovy booty-licious superstitious bubble-ish-i-ous gum rum and coke joke shake n bake skinny dip in the lake wake board bored-not bored -exciting lightning frightening spill the beans please! geeze.
you guys rule (smiles) time to go play some acoustic guitar for friends…see ya!