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07-22-2010, 08:15 AM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Catch The Electric Woodshed This Weekend!
We'll be part of the David Dehart Memorial Concert this Saturday, July 24th in Radford, VA at the Sunken Garden amphitheater at Nesselrod on the New River. Tix are $20 each, general admission.
Three bands are on the bill: Circus Elephant, Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers, and The Electric Woodshed. The concert starts at 5PM.
By some strange twist of fate, Jimmy Thackery (of The Nighthawks fame) is playing before us 7-9, so we're closing the show from 9-11. 
Come on out if you're in the area! It's a really nice place to see live music. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, etc., and chill out in the grass and shade trees...
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07-22-2010, 09:01 AM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Yea.......My Band is so Badazz Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers opened for US!
Bada Bing....Fughetaboudit.... 
Congrats man!
Take the Olympus with ya. 
God Bless, Ray
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07-22-2010, 01:59 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Awesome dude! |
07-26-2010, 10:26 AM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Wow, what a great place to play! The Sunken Garden Amphitheater at Nesselrod on the New (the New River, that is). It's a big hole in the hillside, down in the trees. Three broad sem-circular terraces that folks can setup lawn chairs, blankets, etc. A waterfall running down the middle, some really nice rock landscaping all over the place. Just a great vibe, and we had a ball playing for all the fine folks who came out (a suprisingly large crowd given that Floyd Fest was just a few miles away on the same night with acts like Levon Helm and Old Crow Medicine Show). Most of that, I'm sure, was due to David Dehart, the gent being memorialized, being a very well loved man. Lots of nice tributes to him that night.
Danny is always talking about The Nighthawks, but I didn't realize quite how big an influence Jimmy Thackery was on Danny until I heard Jimmy play. He's got the same broad range of guitar tastes that Danny has (anything from surf music to blues to rockabilly to rock, etc.). If it was played on guitar and it's good (OK, AND if it's NOT jazz or shred rock), chances are Jimmy and Danny both love it and can play it. Mix in a healthy dose of Bob Margolin (Muddy Water's last guitar player, who lived here in Blacksburg in the 80's and was/is a good buddy of Danny's), and you cover quite a bit of Danny's main influences...
Anyway, it was a pleasure to see Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers play. Jimmy is a heck of a guitar player, and his band is really good, too. I captured a couple tunes using my Olympus recorder. I was out in the crowd in a lawn chair, so this is all FOH. Pretty good mix, eh? Good sound guys. WARNING: the volume ramps up over the first 5-6 seconds on both of these clips: "Big Long Buick" "Instrumental" (Sorry, I don't know the name of the tune) |
07-26-2010, 11:19 AM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin 
Boy does he bring back memories for me. He used to play D/FW A LOT during the early 90's, and you're telling me he and Danny are buds.
Worlds gettin' smaller 
Where's the 'Shed tunes? 
God Bless, Ray
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07-26-2010, 11:28 AM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Ah, shed tunes - I was talking with the sound guy while Jimmy was playing, and he said they were recording the whole show digitally with individual tracks (just like Danny and I are gearing up to do). He'll give us the raw tracks for $50, so I'm working on getting them now. Hopefully I'll have some tunes to post by the end of the week.
Yeah, Bob basically showed Danny how to play slide. And Muddy showed Bob, so that's kinda cool. The Shed actually backed Bob up quite a few times back in the day, mainly for benefit sorts of gigs where Bob's usual band didn't feel the need to play (for free). Sadly, that was all before my time in the band   |
07-26-2010, 11:41 AM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Oh, man - funny story. If you listen around 2:38 in the "Instrumental"... that corresponds to when a group of 3-4 hot blondes walked right in front of the stage. Jimmy didn't miss a beat: mid-solo, he throws in a cat-call, then right back to soloing. |
07-26-2010, 11:48 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Thats how you know he's good! Song would totally have ended there for most! |
07-26-2010, 11:54 AM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Me? I might not have even noticed them if I had been playing. 
Goes to show you need to open up your ears and your eyes when you play. That'll let you react to changes in the... er, environment. |
07-26-2010, 12:14 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | True that, incentive to practice, for sure! |
07-26-2010, 12:19 PM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic  Me? I might not have even noticed them if I had been playing.
Goes to show you need to open up your ears and your eyes when you play. That'll let you react to changes in the... er, environment. | (Inside Ray's head 1..2..3.......DAYUM!  ....... umm 4. 1..2..3..4..  )
God Bless, Ray
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07-26-2010, 04:42 PM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic Ah, shed tunes - I was talking with the sound guy while Jimmy was playing, and he said they were recording the whole show digitally with individual tracks (just like Danny and I are gearing up to do). He'll give us the raw tracks for $50, so I'm working on getting them now. Hopefully I'll have some tunes to post by the end of the week.
Yeah, Bob basically showed Danny how to play slide. And Muddy showed Bob, so that's kinda cool. The Shed actually backed Bob up quite a few times back in the day, mainly for benefit sorts of gigs where Bob's usual band didn't feel the need to play (for free). Sadly, that was all before my time in the band | That is sooooo cool!  I'd say that Danny has some solid roots! 
The Olympus recorder did a great job! You and Jerry have me convinced that one of those portable jobs should be my next minor major purchase!
Definitely share the clips of the Shed when you get them. We promise not to steal licks or songs! ..... Dang it's hard to type with my fingers crossed! |
07-26-2010, 05:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: so california | | | Great audio Greg wow sounds great on my computer of course I run the Klipsch 2.1 thx system 65 watts to the sub and 35 watts each to the satellites so it rocks thanks for the email should arrive on Monday my 2 year anniversary woo hoo
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07-28-2010, 08:18 AM
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07-28-2010, 08:26 AM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic | Is tonight here yet????
I assume you're gonna Bumpify them before we get to hear 'em, right???? (seeing as you used raw)
God Bless, Ray
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07-28-2010, 08:40 AM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Yeah, it'll have to be mixed. And we didn't use any isolation screens, so I expect everything will be bleeding through every mic to some degree... I've never mixed with that sort of cross-talk before, so I don't really know what to expect. Honestly, I'm as excited by that anticipated mixing challenge as I am about finally hearing the Shed live. |
07-28-2010, 09:09 AM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Color me anxious. (I think that's a shade of red, but I'm not 100% sure.) Had a good laugh over the blonde action. In the group I play with most frequently, we have a similar thing...a little high note trill by whomever is soloing...as tribute to whichever lovelies may be walking by at the moment.
Anyway, have I mentioned that I'm anxious? I love recordings like this. Even if they end up a bit less than perfect from and engineering perspective, they truly capture the vibe and spirit of the band. |
07-28-2010, 02:26 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | I think I'm most excited about mixing George on drums... he's really a beast of a player, just a tremendous feel/pocket. And then to get to hear my weak sauce working right alongside that, I hope to be thrilled... |
07-29-2010, 12:16 AM
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07-29-2010, 04:56 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic | Keeping those late hours Greg? 
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