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"Check In" here before and after your gigs, Set #2, the sequel!

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AWRIGHT!!! First check-in for those of us with NYE gigs tonight!! Are YOU ready to rock??

I'll be playing an Irish pub in Tempe 2 miles east of where the ABC TV cameras will be for the Doobie Brothers show, and we're making more money than we would have made if we were opening for the Doobies...and WE get to count down at midnight, too.
 
#302
Had a good gig last night. Crowd was decent despite snow, sleet and freezing rain. A quick pic of our band Secret Treaty and one of people dancing and enjoying NYE. A good time was had by all :)

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Lazylion said:
Next gig: with the country band, NYE at Addy's in Manassas VA.
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First the most important thing: we got to eat the buffet for free! :hyper:
Oh, and the gig was fun. We were rusty and every one of us made a few mistakes, but the crowd was fired up, so it didn't matter much. Also, the settings on my DigiTech BP50, which I had spent some time tweaking, worked fairly well. They amused me and didn't seem to annoy anyone else. :cool:

A guy came up to talk to me at the end of the night. At first I didn't recognise him, but finally I realised it was a guy from a band I played with 11 years ago. He's lost weight & looks different. So that was fun, we caught up a bit.

It was the last night for the keys/guitar guy. He left voluntarily, and got a good sendoff. We'll miss him. It was his relatives who started the band, way back in the 70s.

Next gig: tomorrow night, same place, with the new slimmer, trimmer lineup.
 
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Played the first gig with the band in about 4 months. we had locational issues for a while, with one guitarists being over seas making practise a little different. then he came back and our drummer went bush for a while for uni work. then our guitarist/vocalist went up to a mine site for a stint. all these set back took its toll but really kicked us in the asses.

so first gig back is on the 30th of december. new years eve eve, also happens to be steak night at the place we played. and from 7 onwards cheap booze. for a jug in in Perth WA we pay about $15 to $18, they had $10 jugs. usually a vodka and coke would be $8, they were $5, and they had $4 champagne. so the crowd was lubricated for 3 hours before we hit the stage.

first band were also quite lubricated. i think it could have been their first gig, but it was bad anyway. i heard a rumour that their singer didnt show, so mr bass player took over and destroyed it. set was horrible all i could hear was bass drums and bad vocals.

so next up was a band that has a guy me and our vocalst went to school with playing guitar. so we know these guys and so do more of our friends. for their set and ours we had the biggest crowd, of which about half was friends and siblings. these guys play a good set, nice sound mix and good songs.

everyone gets further lubricated, except me because i am driving. so after about 5 beers im ready for the stage. with another beer for the stage. we get up and bust into our set straight away, and play a killer gig. we all agreed it was the first time we actually played a show, we didnt just play songs.

unfortunaely for me it ended their and i missed out seeing the band that won the Next Big Thing award for 2009. aparently they didnt have a very big turnout.

i got home around midnight after leaving the gig and got up at 4:30 to go to work, finished at 2, got home had a NYE party and only got to sleep at 4am. got to work 2 minutes late this morning after another 4:30 wake up and i have another 13 days of work before a day off.

so to finish off heres a photo from the gig.
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Lazylion said:
Next gig: tomorrow night, same place, with the new slimmer, trimmer lineup.
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We'll miss the guy who left, but it was nice to have all that extra room onstage. We had a decent crowd, which unfortunately included a jerk who had tried to kiss the guitarist's girlfriend on NYE. He and the guitarist had words, the jerk stayed and danced in front of us all night, and the guitarist was PO'ed all night and made a bunch of mistakes he wouldn't normally have made. Oh, the drama. :rolleyes:

But, guitarist's mood aside, I think we will be OK with this reduction in personnel.

Next gig: with my brother and our originals band at the Potomac Grill in Rockville MD, 1/16.
 
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New years eve was a pretty boring gig. At midnight, they dropped hundreds of balloons and needless to say, we were knee deep in them pretty quickly. Then the help came and started popping them with pins. Not one worker popped in time, it was very distracting, to say the least.


This Saturday a double. 2 clubdates.

and coming back from the doctors this afternoon, I got a call for a Sunday wedding. Too bad the rest of the month won't be like that
 
#312
Tonight starts an 8-week stint of paid "rockaraoke" gigs that are a byproduct of a freebie that we did back ni November. We did another freebie last night that yielded a weekend stand for April. Of course, usually with the freebies, we drink for free, and the tip jar still works. Fun stuff.
 
#313
Thursday night gig with my "new" band, Lips! We're at Katie Jake's in Covina. This is our debut gig at this venue. - we did a short audition show and they booked us on the spot for the year, 2 nights a month.

Might also have a show on Saturday in Ventura - waiting for the confirmation call. It's a bit of a drive but pay is good!

Glad to finally be getting back in the game!
 
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new band had our first show last night. 45 minute set we were the headliners. 4th song in my straplock decided to come undone right after the last night. Landed right on its face on the floor, everyone started chanting 'oooooooh!!!!' and 'bass drop'. They ate it right up they thought it was pretty cool, I on the other hand was not impressed
 
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Okay people we had a gig sat night sorry I did not check before hand I was busy with a house project. Anyway the gig was one at a place we have always played on a Friday night, so Sat was uncharted for us in way of crowd? We always had a good crowd on Friday nights our followers and the built in packed the place to the gills every time. But playing on a Sat assuming the place was packed on Friday with another band playing made us mindful of getting the word out early to our fans and friends where we would be and when. So with fingers crossed we went there Sat night a bit early to kind of scope out what the night might be like. I had not mention early on, but this was our first show of 2010 having taking off all of the month of Dec., which we were not sure how this was going to work into the equation. The show starts at 9:30 so we all arrive around 8:00 and to our surprise and delight there is no where for us to park the parking lot is packed! We decide we will just show our faces before loading in and we open the door to fans and friends alike a sea of familiar faces.So now it's on! We go back out into the parking lot and start to get the stuff unloaded. As I have mentioned in other threads before we never see each other till the show no practice as a band so now the butterflies start rolling in and the self doubt. We have a packed house and haven't played together since Nov 27th 2009 what is this going to be like? LOL not to mention we just purchased a new Bose Pa system that we haven't even try yet. So anyway we set up everything tweak the PA as best we can and we are ready to go ( did I mention the Bose system we purchased has two sub woofers) yeah I knew you Tber's would like that ha, ha, ha anyway from the first couple chords it was full steam ahead the band was super tight, we did not miss a beat with the time off. The PA was amazing the subs rocked the place off the foundation and as some of you know I do not use a bass amp only a bass DI Sans amp or Berringer bdi21 to the board and monitors. When the show was over the crowd chanted for one more song which we fired up the equipment to make them happy. Then we again were getting ready to call it a night and the club owner asks us to end with a song we normally close the night with which we did not play that night Smoke on the water. So with one on chore under our belts we fire up the equipment again to the delight of the crowd and they all go crazy when the firsts chords ring out we killed it with the live in Japan ending and finally were done. As we were packing up everyone joined us on stage to tell us what a great show the lights the smoke machines like being at a big rock concert! They took cards, schedules it was a great night my head barely fit through the door lol. I was about 20 minutes from the house and got in at around 2:45AM. 2010 here we come! RTS
 
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I has a pickup gig this Thursday!

Venue: The Montague Arms, 289 Queens Rd, New Cross, London, SE15 2PA

Straightforward Rock Roll Rhythm & Blues with a bit of Jump thrown in for good measure. £3 on the door.

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The pub has a reputation for being rather "eccentric", post-match report to follow.

Pete.
 
#319
...& Bloody Good Fun.

OK, this was a hastily arranged gig - not confirmed until Tuesday afternoon - which left no time to organise any realistic publicity. Which meant that bugger all people turned up, & as we were playing for a cut of the door...

So I get a lift from the Guitarist (who deserves the capital G) - Dave Briggs - & we fetch up at 7:30 for "the soundcheck" that duly takes place at 9:00. The soundman then insists on miking the kit up - in a pub that can probably hold 100-odd people max - & takes ages :rollno:. We hit the stage about 10-ish to an audience of 1) The Staff, 2) a couple of studenty types 3) The drummers' gf & her mate & 4) two very drunk Lithuanian Builders - one of whom appeared to be dead (until he got up & left at closing time - & you don't want to know about the other one). Heigh-Ho, On with the Motley & that...

What a great couple of sets! Brilliant fun - a few fluffs but that's what comes of a dep gig (my last with these guys was back in October). Guitar sounded great (Strat > bit of wire > Fender Tweed Vibroverb), drummer laid it down good 'n' proper, Harp (Steve Matthews) blowing like a train &, even though I say it myself, THE best fretless bass sound I've had to date. Plenty of bottom end, but sufficient middlyness to poke thrugh so that (for once) I wasn't playing in Braille. I could feel it flapping me trousis and I could hear it even though I was right next to the rig. Superfly + Epi UL-110 + Flite 15 + SB-1000 = Win. Oh & I has a nice new blister from digging in.

So, why was it strange I hear you ask? Well... The Montague Arms has a reputation for being a bit odd & it's rightly deserved. In fact, I reckon that since the sale of the Potter Collection that used to be at the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, there may not be a pub in England that comes close to it for daftness. The decor can, at best, be described as eclectic & at worst bloody awful. Two stuffed Zebra heads (one in a stagecoach, naturally), misc other stuffed ungulates, a proper alchemical alligator over the bar (stuffed) & a couple of skeletons (one made up as a zombie in a coffin behind the fruit machine - as you do). Then there's the hardware... It's like someone's gone dumpster-diving in the kind of scrapyard that only exists in some kind of post-stilton fantasyland. Portholes, Ships' Telegraphs, an Anti-Aircraft spotlight, Diving Boots, a crossbow, two muskets, more broken clocks & oil lamps than can probably safely exist in one location, yet more assorted bits of dead animals fashioned into "objets d'art", a really crap 6' model of what I assumed to be HMS Victory (but wouldn't be prepared to bet on), another of either the Titanic (possibly) or the Lusitania (maybe) over the bar... Oh, and a really good selection of Proper Beer. I reckon the pub's worth more in scrap value than real-estate.

I made the princely sum of £8 (which covered my beer & tabs bill), had a whale of a time, & to top it all the guvnor's loved us and have offered a regular monthly Saturday night slot... Goldsmiths' College is just up the road... Blart, Beer, Blues & the potential for a spot of cash in the nuttiest pub in Christendom... My kinda gig.

Pete.
 
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my bands got a gig tonight supporting John otway my friends the promoter but her regular soundman isnt in the country,and shes not said if she has another one.
so fingers crossed if we actually get one,we should be getting free beer so ill update later when im drunk.
 
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