CWB 20: Babes and Barbarians

[etoncrow]

Originally Posted by BassGen

...Mostly I was scared I woul re-injure the knee but I got through it all right...

Would knee braces like offensive linemen in American football wear work to help protect you?

[etoncrow]

Practiced last night with my old friend Ron (guitar) and his daughter Allison (singer). Girl has some pipes. Nailed the Lisa Loeb song "Stay"; especially considering the little time she spent learning the song. Turns out her BF is a singer/songwriter type. He played some of his original material; I jumped in underneath him. He liked what I was doing so maybe a gig or two there for me. Regardless it was a great evening.

[DerTeufel]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Practiced last night with my old friend Ron (guitar) and his daughter Allison (singer). Girl has some pipes. Nailed the Lisa Loeb song "Stay"; especially considering the little time she spent learning the song. Turns out her BF is a singer/songwriter type. He played some of his original material; I jumped in underneath him. He liked what I was doing so maybe a gig or two there for me. Regardless it was a great evening.

That's pretty awesome stuff!

[drummer5359]

I spent all day yesterday painting and housecleaning. We have furniture being delivered right now. Tonight I have GRR practice. Then I'm driving to Richmond to pickup Jackie's parental units. I'll grab a few hours sleep and then drive them back up to Pittsburgh tomorrow. Wenesday the four of us are going to see BB King. Thursday is thanksgiving.

[JaamE]

Originally Posted by drummer5359

. Wenesday the four of us are going to see BB King.

I saw BB King, all i can find to say that's nice is "now i can cross that off my bucket list". But then didnt know any of his music, just him by name and i thought mom and i were buying $25 seats at the casino. Then a Prince show was announced right afterwards, mom wanted to go to that too, so right after i bought $90 (with all the fees) tix for Prince she tells me the only tix for BB King were $55. Luckily she was also disappointed enough in the show that she didn't make me pay her back for the tix.

[Mulebagger]

Recording originals with Aries Rising tonight! So excited to get our ideas down. I'll share as the mixes come in

[JaamE]

We've got to get back into the practice space, just found out we have at least one set to play on Dec 14th!!! :-)

[etoncrow]

Sounds like there is an underlying momentum to perform affecting our CWB and MoCWB; lots of folks getting gigs!!!

[BayStateBass]

Got a call today from the place we did our little show a month or so ago. Seems they want us to go back in on Sun/25th and play again. Short notice, but I think we can accommodate them.

Just trying to decide if we do the same old stuff or bring in the new material we've been working on.

New material is not 100% but where we just played there a couple weeks ago we might need to change it up some.

[DerTeufel]

Originally Posted by BayStateBass

Got a call today from the place we did our little show a month or so ago. Seems they want us to go back in on Sun/25th and play again. Short notice, but I think we can accommodate them.

Just trying to decide if we do the same old stuff or bring in the new material we've been working on.

New material is not 100% but where we just played there a couple weeks ago we might need to change it up some.

Go for it!

I'm still trying to find gigs where the weather won't be a concern. It doesn't rain all that often here, but it can be pretty damned chilly when the sun goes down. We can easily get in where we have been playing..but it's outside.

[Mulebagger]

Originally Posted by BayStateBass

Got a call today from the place we did our little show a month or so ago. Seems they want us to go back in on Sun/25th and play again. Short notice, but I think we can accommodate them.

Just trying to decide if we do the same old stuff or bring in the new material we've been working on.

New material is not 100% but where we just played there a couple weeks ago we might need to change it up some.

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Sounds like there is an underlying momentum to perform affecting our CWB and MoCWB; lots of folks getting gigs!!!

Originally Posted by JaamE

I saw BB King, all i can find to say that's nice is "now i can cross that off my bucket list". But then didnt know any of his music, just him by name and i thought mom and i were buying $25 seats at the casino. Then a Prince show was announced right afterwards, mom wanted to go to that too, so right after i bought $90 (with all the fees) tix for Prince she tells me the only tix for BB King were $55. Luckily she was also disappointed enough in the show that she didn't make me pay her back for the tix.

Like Crow said, nice that some gigs are coming everyone's way. Rock it peeps!!

[chuck3]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Sounds like there is an underlying momentum to perform affecting our CWB and MoCWB; lots of folks getting gigs!!!

yup, one last weekend and a completely different one coming up on Nov. 30. Two hour gig at a benefit dance at Vassar. Set list as of now:

Vassar 11/30/12

Set 1

Give It Up or Let It Go – A
Save It for a Rainy Day – A
I’ve Just Seen a Face – A
Look at Miss Ohio - A
Talk of the Town
Mystery Achievement
Message of Love
Crescent City
Big Road
Can’t Let Go
When I Go Away
Bowling Green
A Thing About You
I Need to Know
American Girl
Just as Long as You Love Me
Gone, Gone, Gone
House that Jack Built

Set 2

Mama Tried
All I Am
I’m Shakin’
Ten Cent Pistol
How'd You Learn to Shake It Like That
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
Green River
Daytripper
Bring it on Home to Me
Coming into Los Angeles – A
Whiskey and Beer – A
Girls Talk
Oh Well
Ruby

A = acoustic guitar for Kevin. All I Am and Whiskey and Beer are originals by Kevin. I'm Shakin' is dedicated to our own PA, and those last pics in particular!

[chuck3]

Originally Posted by Mulebagger

Recording originals with Aries Rising tonight! So excited to get our ideas down. I'll share as the mixes come in

that is exciting. I would love to get back in a studio and record some more originals.

[Mulebagger]

Originally Posted by chuck3

that is exciting. I would love to get back in a studio and record some more originals.

Thanks C3. We learned about 3 covers for every original we play, but decided that we needed to give our originals the focus and get them recorded. It's tricky out here to balance covers with originals. In NY I rarely had the need to learn covers unless we wanted to tweak a tune or two for fun in a set. But here I see people sneaking in originals where they can. Each one has it's place, but I prefer making music over just playing music.

I've decided to record with my line out of my DB750 using the pre signal rather than the post. I'll also have a mic on my BagEnd 15 with the coax speaker. We can blend them to see if it adds more color or body to the sound.

We will record live as a trio and dub vocals afterwards. We tossed back and forth the goal for the final product and decided that is should be something we could perform live, without extra instrument tracks. keeping it simple may be where the magic lives. I don't like when songs sound overly produced.

I was hoping that this recording would be with my Zon but we decided to record even though I don't have it yet. The Fodera is a spectacular instrument, so no worries there. I just wanted to have a 6 string for some different voicings and sound.

It will be what it is and not what it's not. Should be a fun time either way.

Glad you are getting some cool gigs C3. There are so many nice opportunities around where you are. There's also quite a lot of competition which speaks to the quality of your bands. Congrats on both.

[chuck3]

Originally Posted by Mulebagger

We tossed back and forth the goal for the final product and decided that is should be something we could perform live, without extra instrument tracks. keeping it simple may be where the magic lives.

Kevin's songs are easily done live because he writes them for himself to sing with guitar, so it's just a matter of adding bass and drums and whatever vocals Laura contributes. Mine, not so much, because I frequently "hear" two guitars and keyboards, whereas we've only got one guitar and no keys (although I can play them). I've tried to write a couple that the four of us can do live and I've got one tee'd up.

We are fine doing mainly covers because we only play what we like and (mainly) that Laura likes to sing. The set list above is unusual for us in that we've been asked to do mainly danceable rock for the evening. Normally we cover stuff that doesn't fall into that category, like a number of Gillian Welch tunes for example. We run the gamut from acoustic Americana like last weekend to what you see above. All fine with me, and it gets us gigs.

But it's definitely exciting doing originals, so I'm looking forward to hearing your stuff ...

[BassGen]

Originally Posted by etoncrow

Would knee braces like offensive linemen in American football wear work to help protect you?

No, they interfere with the pads too much. Back when I had a minor MCL tear I tried a brace and it bound up inside the pads.

[JaamE]

Hey, favor to ask.... anyone here play any holiday music (Xmas) that would be Public Domain (no royalties) that had a rock sound to it? I need a 30sec instrumental for a local Harley dealers radio ad. We don't have anything at my radio station that will work. I managed to find a ZZTop "sound alike" in the music bed library that works for their spots up until their Xmas add starts, but that means i need to find something my Nov 30 now. All i need is a 30sec mp3, it doesn't even have to be an amazing recording because it's just going behind the womans voice.

[PassivAggressiv]

Originally Posted by chuck3

I'm Shakin' is dedicated to our own PA, and those last pics in particular!

Woo Hoo!

[Vandy]

Originally Posted by BassGen

No, they interfere with the pads too much. Back when I had a minor MCL tear I tried a brace and it bound up inside the pads.

Plus, they smack your other knee and/or brace when you need some fancy crossover steps as you sli-i-ide through the fans . . .

[BayStateBass]

Originally Posted by Mulebagger

Like Crow said, nice that some gigs are coming everyone's way. Rock it peeps!!

Well, we've been very lucky and have gotten some help along the way from some good friends.

Once again, we are sharing the stage with another band who are friends of ours, and we have a relationship with them. They have asked us to open for them at some of their shows, it was more of a favor to us so we could get known in the local area better without having to bang on doors.

We also have a second band who have seen us and have asked if we would be openers for them as well.

The biggest challenge we have now is getting a demo done. While we have gotten shows as far out as next spring/summer, we haven't been able to nail down a couple shows we wanted because they are looking for a demo CD.

And the window to get into some of these shows for next year is dwindling.

Actually, I kind of enjoy doing the opening act thing. It's not a ton of pressure, and where we can throw down 15 songs, or basically one set, and have a lot of fun putting our best stuff out there while we still work on other stuff.

Now this one will be a little different. I recently was asked to take on more singing (other than just backup), so these are the songs I sing lead on;

Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)- Big-N-Rich
Friends In Low Places- Garth Brooks
CrazyTown- Jason Aldean
Ring Of Fire- (We kinda blend Cash and Social Distortion on that one)

And I carry the harmonies on;

Mama Tried- Merle Haggard
Fast As You- Dwight Yoakam
Hillbilly Rock- Marty Stuart
Play Something Country- Brooks And Dunn


I'm finding it easier to sing and play now that I'm doing it more, but honestly.....it's not all that easy.