Mental Notes - Duo | Cocoa Beach, Florida

Show Description

We strive to be musically excellent, but, more importantly, we want to create happy memories for our audience to take home. We are the background for our audience..they are the "stars" in the show, we encourage our audience to participate and have had the most fun with them. It's most special when the children come up and play the shakers and the mom's come up to "belly dance" with us. To us, we want to send our guests home saying that they had a great time with us.
On the other hand, we can be very serious musicians and deliver an excellent show..from jazz to fine dining. We hope that you c ... an find a place for us to create happy memories for your guests. Read More

Set-List

A Change Is Gonna Come - Blues
Ball and Chain - Blues
Be Bop A Lula - Blues
Bell Bottom Blues - Blues
Born Under A Bad Sign - Blues
Green Onions - Blues
Hittin' the Jug - Blues
House of Broken Love - Blues
I'd Rather Go Blind - Blues
Loan Me A Dime - Blues
Red House - Blues
Rock Me Baby - Blues
That's Why I'm Crying - Blues
The Thrill Is Gone - Blues
La Dispute - Classical
La valse d'Amelie - Classical
Chain Breaker - Country
Crazy - Country
Crying - Country
Down to my last cigarette - Country
Girl Crush - Country
Gunpowder and Lead - Country
Walkin' After Midnight - Coun ... try
Too Hot - Disco
Stayin' Alive - Disco
A House Is Not A Home - Easy Listening
All By My Self - Easy Listening
At Seventeen - Easy Listening
Do You Want To Dance - Easy Listening
This Guy's In Love With You - Easy Listening
Fantasy - Funk
Feelin' Alright - Funk
Get Up/Sex Machine - funk
I Feel Good Live - Funk
Love The One You're With - Funk
Pickup the Pieces - Funk
Superstition - Funk
The Chicken - Funk
Use me - Funk
All Blues - Jazz
All Of Me - Jazz
All The Things You Are - Jazz
America - Jazz
As Time Goes By - Jazz
Autumn Leaves - Jazz
Black Coffee - Jazz
Black Orpheus - Jazz
Blue Bossa - Jazz
Bluesette - Jazz
Body and Soul - Jazz
Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jazz
Central Park West - Jazz
Countdown - Jazz
Fever - Jazz
Five Hundred Miles High - Jazz
Fly Me To The Moon - Jazz
Footprints - Jazz
Freddie Freeloader - Jazz
Georgia - Jazz
Giant Steps - Jazz
Got A Match - Jazz
Hello Dolly - Jazz
I Just Wanna Stop - Jazz
Joy Spring - Jazz
Lithium - Jazz
Mercy Mercy Mercy! - Jazz
Misty - Jazz
Moondance - Jazz
My Favorite Things - Jazz
My Funny Valentine - Jazz
Naima - Jazz
Nature Boy - Jazz
Ninth Avenue - Jazz
Nothing Personal - Jazz
One Note Samba - Jazz
Or So You Thought - Jazz
Over The Rainbow / If I Only Had A Brain - Jazz
Pure Imagination - Jazz
Quiet Girl - Jazz
Route 66 - Jazz
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Jazz
So What - Jazz
Solar Jazz
Someday my Prince will come - Jazz
Spain - Jazz
Stairway to Heaven - Jazz
Stella By Starlight - Jazz
Stolen Moments - Jazz
Summer Samba - Jazz
Summertime - Jazz
Take Five - Jazz
Tequila - Jazz
The Girl From Ipanema - Jazz
This Masquerade - Jazz
When Sunny Gets Blue - Jazz
You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark - Jazz
Besame Mucho - Latin
Black Magic Woman - Latin
Evil Ways - Latin
Fragile - Latin
I Need To Know - Latin
She`s Not There - Latin
All Day and All of the Night - Oldies
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Oldies
Bus Stop - Oldies
California Dreamin' - Oldies
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Oldies
Dancing in The Streets - Oldies
Doo Wah Diddy - Oldies
For Your Love - Oldies
Good Lovin' - Oldies
Hang On Sloopy - Oldies
Happy Together - Oldies
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Oldies
How Can I Be Sure - Oldies
Hush - Oldies
I Can't Get Next to You - Oldies
I Can't Help Myself - Oldies
I'm Losing You - Oldies
Itchycoo Park - Oldies
Just Dropped In - Oldies
Kansas City - Oldies
Kicks - Oldies
Knock On Wood - Oldies
Laugh Laugh - Oldies
Locomotion - Oldies
Louie Louie Oldies
Love Potion No. Nine - Oldies
Mony Mony - Oldies
Ninety Six Tears - Oldies
No Time - Oldies
Proud Mary - Oldies
Psychotic Reaction - Oldies
Shakin' All Over - Oldies
Somebody to Love - Oldies
Stand By Me - Oldies
Sugar Sugar - Oldies
Tears Of A Clown - Oldies
Tell Her No - Oldies
Time Of The Season - Oldies
Unchained Melody - Oldies
Under My Thumb - Oldies
Vehicle - Oldies
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Oldies
When a Man Loves a Woman - Oldies
White Rabbit - Oldies
Willie And The Hand Jive - Oldies
Wooly Bully - Oldies
You Keep Me Hanging On - Oldies
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Oldies
Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - Pop
Ain't Nobody - Pop
Attention - Pop
Believer - Pop
Billy Jean - Pop
Blame It On The Boogie - Pop
Broken Wings - Pop
Can't Feel My Face - Pop
Careless Whisper- Pop
Copacabana - Pop
Don't Get Me Wrong - Pop
Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing - Pop
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Pop
Eight Days a Week - Pop
enjoy the Silence - Pop
Everlong - Pop
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Pop
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Pop
Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover - Pop
Give Me One Reason - Pop
Golden Brown - Pop
Hallelujah - Pop
Happy Dance - Pop
Here There and Everywhere - Pop
Hotel California - Pop
How Deep Is Your Love - Pop
Hurt - Pop
I Can't Tell You Why- Pop
I Who Have Nothing - Pop
I'm On Fire - Pop
If You Ain't In It - Pop
Imagine - Pop
In My Life - Pop
Isn't She Lovely - Pop
Josie - Pop
Let It Be - Pop
Light My Fire- Pop
Lovergirl - Pop
Low Rider - Pop
Mad World - Pop
Maxwell's Silver Hammer- Pop
Michelle - Pop
Mirror In The Bathroom- Pop
More Than A Woman - Pop
My Cherie Amour - Pop
My Sweet Lord - Pop
Nights In White Satin - Pop
Norwegian Wood - Pop
One Of These Nights - Pop
Purple Rain - Pop
Renegade - Pop
Run Devil Run - Pop
Say Something - Pop
Since I fell for you - Pop
Something - Pop
Stay With Me - Pop
Superstar - Pop
Sweet Caroline - Pop
Sweet Child Of Mine- Pop
Tainted Love - Pop
The Boys Of Summer - Pop
The Letter - Pop
The Sound Of Silence - Pop
Thriller - Pop
Thunder - Pop
Ticket To Ride - Pop
To Love Somebody - Pop
Twenty 5 or 6 to 4 - Pop
Volare - Pop
Walk On By- Pop
Werewolves Of London - Pop
What if I Stumble - Pop
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Pop
Yesterday - Pop
You Won't See Me - Pop
You're So Vain - Pop
A Day in the Life - Pop
Ain't No Sunshine - R&B
Between The Sheets - R&B
Close the Door - R&B
Come On In My Kitchen - R&B
Hold On I'm Coming - R&B
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - R&B
I've Been Loving You Too Long - R&B
Just the two of us - R&B
Let's Stay Together - R&B
Me and Mrs. Jones - R&B
That's the Way of the World - R&B
What You Won't Do for Love - R&B
What's Goin' On -R&B
Is This Love - Reggae
Jamming - Reggae
No Wom- an, No Cry - Reggae
Santeria - Reggae
Smile Jamaica - Reggae
Time Bomb - Reggae
Welcome To Jamrock - Reggae
All Along The Watchtower - Rock
Beast of Burden - Rock
Bohemian Rhapsody - Rock
Breakdown - Rock
Comfortably Numb - Rock
Enter Sandman - Rock
Europa - Rock
Fool in the Rain - Rock
Green Eyed Lady - Rock
Hold the Line - Rock
I Just Want to Make Love To You - Rock
It's A Long Way To The Top - Rock
La Grange - Rock
Last Child - Rock
Layla - Rock
Little Wing - Rock
Living on a Prayer - Rock
Long Train Runnin' - Rock
Ripple - Rock
Runaway - Rock
Spill the Wine - Reggae
Start Me Up - Rock
Sweet Emotion - Rock
Sweet Home Alabama - Rock
Tush - Rock
Us And Them - Rock
Voodoo Child - Rock
War Pigs - Rock
Whipping Post - Rock
Wooden Ships- Rock
You Really Got Me - Rock
You Shook Me All Night Long - Rock
Baby It's You - Rock
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Rock
Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age - Special
Little Drummer Boy - Special
Monster Mash - Special
Ring of Fire - Special
The Irish Rover - Special
Misirlou - Surf
Surfin USA - Surf
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Biography

Guitarist, Johan Nilson, is of many first’s: First guitarist to perform the musical
Saturday Night Fever on Broadway in NYC; first guitarist to tour Hairspray The Musical; first guitarist to perform in the musical 101 Dalmatians with Dennis DeYoung from Styx; and first to play an instrument that is a guitar and bass melded together, using only six strings.
Johan Nilson, has performed with musical members of Sting, David Bowie, Rod
Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Maynard Ferguson, Bette Midler, and The Boston Pops.
Johan has performed musicals in venues throughout the world including Madison
S ... quare Garden and stadiums of 30,000 fans opening for Alanis Morissette and Bryan
Adams. Other musicals that Johan has played in include: Wicked, both on Broadway and Hollywood; Movin’ Out, a Billy Joel production; Cats; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; and Rent. He is on many cast albums.
Johan graduated with honors from Musician’s Institute (GIT) in Hollywood, where he
was awarded Best Stylist.
Locally, Johan plays as a soloist, with his duo Mental Notes and The R.A.N. Project.
He is an expert at “looping”, creating live rhythm and bass lines to which he adds his
lead guitar work, adding a drum looper and vocals creating the sound of an entire four-piece band.
Vocalist/percussionist, Trish Powers, has a wide variety of talents. In her "day" job working for NASA at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center, she meets/greets/helps thousands of people from all over the world, helping her develop exceptional people skills, she is loved "world-wide". Musically, she plays bass guitar, drums and keyboards. She has performed throughout Brevard County with different bands: Go Foot, vocalist and keyboardist performing all original songs, Vocalist with Dark House an original Blues band, Vocalist with Blues DeVille, a popular blues band, Vocalist with Jazztronauts, vocalist/keyboardist See4, and now performs with Mental Notes, locally and in Washington, DC.
She has performed in many theater productions as a singer/dancer/actress, winning Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Man With the Plastic Sandwich.
Trish, is also, an award winning visual artist showing her work locally and in Washington, DC.
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Previous Clients

Mambo's beachside restaurant for International Palms Hotel
Grille's beachside restaurant
Squid Lips beach and riverside restaurants
Sunset Cafe riverside restaurant
River Rocks riverside restaurant
Ale House
Casablanca

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