...and they don't even have heaters on stage???

[bdplaid]

I'm in Florida, every damned gig is outside. Two of the coldest gigs I ever played were down here, both in the 20's F. One was so cold that the drummer went to his truck on break and put on his turkey hunting suit.

 

[J Wilson]

Maggie Bell, who had an entirely different voice(much like Janis Joplin), was from the Scottish band Stone The Crows and sang on Rid Stewart’s “Every Picture Tells A Story”.

Michedelic, my proof reader went to bed early. Sandy Denny was on the original, and Nancy wasn't in two places at once. I should stick to only posting from my desktop instead of my phone.

Thanks.

 

[jerry]

I'm just stoked to see Maggie Bell and Sandy Denny's names mentioned in TB thread.

 

[Michedelic]

Michedelic, my proof reader went to bed early. Sandy Denny was on the original, and Nancy wasn't in two places at once. I should stick to only posting from my desktop instead of my phone.

Thanks.

A lot of people(mainly in the US)don’t know of that band, let alone her. They never really caught on here(like a lot of worthy Brit/Scot/Irish bands), but they did tour. Jimmy McCulloch, who went on to Wings, was their teen whiz guitarist, replacing Les Harvey, who had been electrocuted on stage by faulty wiring. He was the brother of the iconic(but cult)Scottish singer Alex Harvey, and James Dewar(bass with Robin Trower)spent time in the band as well. Keyboardist Ronnie Leahy played with Jack Bruce.

 

[HardNHeavy]

mm they could never be cold...

 

[Altitude]

Agree and this is the same thing that happens to every vocalist that sings in the upper range. They all lose it over time. Just the way the body ages and the cleanest living and best technique can't stop it from happening. On the other hand, I saw Peter Gabriel the other day and he sounded pretty much like he did 40 years ago. But he doesn't sing in the upper register without going falsetto.

All that said, I give singers a lot of latitude when they perform live and don't expect it to be pitch perfect in a rock setting. Just give me a good show.

Peter Gabriel’s voice has always been about emotion and imperfection, versus quality. That pays off as you get older - he sounds the same as ever on this new album of his.

I doubt he would get a single chair spin on the Voice, for those who know what that is. Nevertheless a legend in his own time.

 

[MacGuffin]

A lot of people(mainly in the US)don’t know of that band, let alone her. They never really caught on here(like a lot of worthy Brit/Scot/Irish bands), but they did tour. Jimmy McCulloch, who went on to Wings, was their teen whiz guitarist, replacing Les Harvey, who had been electrocuted on stage by faulty wiring. He was the brother of the iconic(but cult)Scottish singer Alex Harvey, and James Dewar(bass with Robin Trower)spent time in the band as well. Keyboardist Ronnie Leahy played with Jack Bruce.

That reminds me of the story why Van Halen put a requirement in their contract of wanting only green M&Ms (or whatever the case was) in the dressing rooms. This requirement would have been place in among the requirements for electrical and mechanical specifications. It started when people in the band's crew would complain of poorly done wiring and weak parts in the staging floors. Nobody died but a few people were seriously injured.

By putting the odd request for candies in the dressing room, and the request filled as specified, told the band that there was a high probability that the venue was paying attention and all else was well. No candies, or the candies weren't the correct color, and they'd go looking around, sometimes knocking things over, and ripping things up, to take a better look or just prove a point. Van Halen didn't want to have any of their crew injured again, and the band was certainly looking out for their own personal safety. Minor issues may have been overlooked, bigger issues would have needed to be fixed on the spot, and if things were too bad then they'd cancel the show.

This make me think every band has their own variation on the green M&M story to tell.

 

[pcake]

i don't try and hit high notes when singing even if it's just chilly - if i'm chilly, so are my vocal chords.

the lowest temp i've played at was just under 40f, and my fingers weren't cooperating at all. to be fair, they are stiff and clumsy at 60 without a heat source.

 

[trevcda]

Beyond all that- How the heck did they get all those guitars to stay in tune? My strat goes out of tune going into the shade!

 

[mongo2]

That reminds me...(engage cheesy wavy sci-fi movie time travel image for 5 seconds)

The scene: A very cold Halloween night at a farmhouse with a large barn behind it. A Halloween party is in progress in front of the open barn door with bales of hay and tiki torches just outside the barndoor adding to the ambiance.

The players: costumed party goers and a four piece rock band also in costume.

The Voice Over: describing the action as a memory.

Action...

I remember I once played at a party at a farmhouse outside in front of their barn on a very cold Halloween night. My costume (only for practicality since it was so cold} was my Air Force surplus parka zipped up completely so all that could be seen of me were my eyes behind the fur collar trim. I used fingerless mittens (a knitted fingerless glove with a mitten top attached so I could flip it back when playing) on my hands. When asked I told people I was dressed as Nanook Of The North.

As we played the second set, party goers were imbibing, dancing and like us, freezing, but they may not have felt it as much as we did due to their aforementioned imbibing and dancing. The only heat that could be found came from several Tiki torches scattered around the area, that is until the end of the second set when the drummer stumbled getting from behind his kit and knocked over one of the torches onto a stack of hay bales. That warmed things up for a minute or two until the farmer extinguished the mini conflagration.

Fade to black

 

[devnulljp]

They’re from Canada and now are in Seattle. Just another day in paradise to them

They're from Seattle. Bailed to Canada to avoid getting drafted to Vietnam.

 

[Gluvhand]

That reminds me of the story why Van Halen put a requirement in their contract of wanting only green M&Ms (or whatever the case was) in the dressing rooms. This requirement would have been place in among the requirements for electrical and mechanical specifications. It started when people in the band's crew would complain of poorly done wiring and weak parts in the staging floors. Nobody died but a few people were seriously injured.

By putting the odd request for candies in the dressing room, and the request filled as specified, told the band that there was a high probability that the venue was paying attention and all else was well. No candies, or the candies weren't the correct color, and they'd go looking around, sometimes knocking things over, and ripping things up, to take a better look or just prove a point. Van Halen didn't want to have any of their crew injured again, and the band was certainly looking out for their own personal safety. Minor issues may have been overlooked, bigger issues would have needed to be fixed on the spot, and if things were too bad then they'd cancel the show.

This make me think every band has their own variation on the green M&M story to tell.

No brown M&Ms.

 

[TBird1958]

They're from Seattle. Bailed to Canada to avoid getting drafted to Vietnam.

Actually it was Roger Fisher's brother Mike that left the US because of the draft, no member of the band dodged the draft. The band did work out of Canada for a time because Nancy Wilson and Mike Fisher were in a relationship at the time. They played around Seattle quite a bit, even doing High School dances, roller rinks, etc.

 

[ashtray]

In college played an outdoor gig at some local pep rally type thing. I don’t even recall what it was for. They had a bonfire going, nowhere near the stage, and everyone was gathered around that - as it was freezing outside.

We had planned for the weather as best we could. We bought some women’s gloves- the kind that also cover your wrists - and cut the fingertips off so we could play guitar and bass. The gloves going up the arm a bit allowed for no exposed skin, except our faces, which were freezing.

It was night time. It might have been 40 that day but was about 20 degrees that night. Surprised we got through the 10 song set!

 

[SDC1-ClickClack]

Maggie Bell, who had an entirely different voice(much like Janis Joplin), was from the Scottish band Stone The Crows and sang on Rid Stewart’s “Every Picture Tells A Story”.

Rid Stewart? Was he a member of the Fices with Rinny Wiid on guitar before the latter joined the Rilling Stines?

 

[HardNHeavy]

played one gig like this 89 or 91 right when the berlin wall fell, outside in Germany, middle of winter, we only did 5 songs and it was brutal not feeling my fingertips. The funny part was we opened for a Bavarian schuhplattler group which we had no idea were performing

 

[Michedelic]

Rid Stewart? Was he a member of the Fices with Rinny Wiid on guitar before the latter joined the Rilling Stines?

Yeah, like you’ve never had a typo, huh?

 

[Michedelic]

Rid Stewart? Was he a member of the Fices with Rinny Wiid on guitar before the latter joined the Rilling Stines?

Actually, by the time of his Warner Brothers solo career, I’d gotten rid of him from my playlist. Like so many other of my 60’s/very early 70’s faves, as the decade wore on all I heard was a bunch of sad crap.

 

[5StringBlues]

Yeah, like you’ve never had a tipo, huh?

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

I played a NYE gig outside once. I did not feel my fingertips and played in auto-pilot mode.