On February 8th, 2016; I made a prophetic proclamation while holding for the very first time ever in my entire life an invitation to the 58th Recording Academy / GRAMMYs ceremony. Now, that prophetic proclamation has come to pass as I promised it would in the last sentence of the second paragraph in that fateful Facebook post. In my hands, I hold my personal invitation to The 59th Grammy Awards and After-Party Celebration as an official first year new member of The Recording Academy which will broadcast live on CBS Television (hosted by James Corden) February 12, 2017. Since making that post on my Facebook profile(on February 8, 2016), some of the most incredibly amazing events.
- May 24, 2016 – The Japanese commercial for the single, “Don’t Give A Damn”, by HAIQEEM was released in Japan (you can see me playing the bass at a very fast pace in the clip)
- May 28, 2016 - The release of the second single, “So Deep”, and the awesome promo poster of the band HAIQEEM posted up all around Manhattan, New York.
- June 3, 2016 – For the first time ever my life, I flew out to Hollywood California with my 33 Love Child bandmates Whiskey and Dave while Ricky was actually in China) to celebrate the exclusive red carpet premiere of “Part Two” to the hit music-movie documentary, Inside Inside L.A. Metal - Movie Documentary (metlrockfilms.com), which was written, produced, and directed by 33 Love Child’s very own the great Bob Nalbandian (THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, BOB, for including us as part of the movie sound track).
- June 28, 2016 – I was officially informed that I was now made a new member of The Recording Academy - Texas Chapter.
- December 18, 2016 – Hearing for the first time ever, on national US television (AXS TV), one of the songs that I had the privilege of helping to co-write with Ricky Stanberry, Whiskey Diamond, and Dave French as Inside Metal was featured on Reel To Real’s movie marathon on AXS TV
For this Rock & Roll bass-playing preacher from the Marshall Texas, I have so much to be truly grateful and thankful for coming into this 2017 New Year and I still have SO MUCH more in store for me later on as the year progresses which I will share in due time when they actually occur (I always like to keep things close to the vest). I said it in my last post 11 months ago and I’ll say it again: if you are reading this while feeling the flame of the fire from the calling deep down inside of you pulling you towards your God-given destiny yet you feel that it’s too late for you because you feel/think that the window of time & opportunity has past you by or that you’re too young or too old or the wrong skin color or too settled down late in your life to even consider trying to pursue after your lifelong dream for fear of being ridiculed or shunned away or laughed at because you think it won’t make any sense to others close to you in your social or family circle, look again in these photos at what Almighty Father God ordained for me to hold in my hands long before now. Remember, I am absolutely no greater or better than any one of you whatsoever because, after all, I’m simply just a bass player who is eternally thankful and grateful to have the anointed privilege of serving my Lord & Savior Christ Jesus (Yah'shua), my bandmates, the fans that The Lord blesses me to serve, and to serve The Music.
Bo Hutchinson